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Yeah, one thing to remember, while Rams have the best defensive player in football, and one of the best DB's in football...the rest of the D is not exactly scary. I live in LA, Rams are my second team, and they have several areas that can be exploited. Honestly, Bills offense is a matchup nightmare for the Rams. Allens ability to move and escape the pocket already neutralizes the Rams best defensive player. Not saying Donald wont still be a force or a disruptor, but Allen's escapability helps reduce his impact. Yes, Jalen Ramsey is likely going to be on Diggs, but end of the day, Diggs may be the best route runner in football and will still get his on Jalen. But with Jalen likely shadowing Diggs, guys like Brown and Cole are going to have a lot of opportunities because the other DB's for the Rams are going to struggle hanging with those 2 as they are also great route running WRs both twitchy and fast too. Rams run defense isn't great either, so I think Allen, Moss, and Singletary will have strong outings too. For me, its going to come down to whether or not we can slow the Rams passing attack down. And that will be a 2 fold question...will we get to Goff enough and will we have at least one, if not both, of Milano and Edmunds back. Rams have talent at TE and a very smart offensive coach who is going to watch the Miami game and see gold at attacking the middle of the field and using the talented TE's they have to move the chains. Plus, they have Henderson involved in the offense now, and he's an explosive fast 2nd year RB who can be a real weapon out of the back field too in the passing game. We are going to really need to get Edmunds and Milano back out there if possible.

Ah thanks, wasn’t sure if he was on IR or not

Well we had the 2019 version of the defense week 1, we dominated all facets of that game. Week 2, we were missing 2 of our best players, both at LB, both who excel in coverage and shutting down middle of field. Miami has a very good coaching staff now, I literally think the Dolphins have their own version of McD and Beane now and are about at the same spot we were during Allens rookie year. Great staff, pieces being added each year, on their way up. So that staff literally focused on exploiting the weakness of the D Sunday, and it worked as Gesicki had a career day because of it. This put a ton more pressure on the DB's too, and allowed them to exploit and abuse Levi as well who struggled all day. So, we still have that stingy 2019 version of the defense, we have just never before been forced to play without our 2 stud LB's in the same game before, not to mention, Norman is going to be a clear upgrade over Levi. Speaking of Levi, I don't know what happened to him. There was a stretch last year where he was our highest rated DB and playing great as teams tried to attack him and avoid Tre. But as the season wore on, he got more inconsistent. He is a guy that cn go out on a Sunday and have a great game, make great plays, etc...or he can go out and be a complete liability. I don't understand what it is that makes him like that. I know Milano and Edmunds being out didn't help at all, but still, he struggled a lot yesterday again. Hopefully he shakes it off and has a bounce back game. Anyone know the status of Norman and if he has a shot to play Sunday?

I get that, but McD doesn’t want 21. He’s literally said they want to average much higher points, same with Beane. That’s my point. He has no interest in scoring just 21 points, they want to average in the high twenties, always have.

Well they aren’t talking about the defense here, the conservative claims were him from an offensive approach, not defensive. Of course he’s gonna be pissed we have up those points to Miami. But he isn’t at all going to walk off field thinking we need to slow the offense down. This is what he’s literally said he wanted out of the offense...more points, more big plays, more passing yards. Him and Beane both said that multiple times.

Agreed, just saying Allen also made excellent play in pocket to extend play and put the ball in the only place Davis had a shot. Just amazing play from both players. I am loving Davis potential

Yeah, everyone was enamored with Davis catch and over looked that was the only place that ball could be placed and it was excellent movement in the pocket that kept that play alive. Both Allen and Davis made a huge play on that

I am right there with you, been screaming this until blue in the face. People cant get off that first season we had a pop Warner assortment of players on offense

He was actually 3-4 over 20 yards.

It’s by far been Murphy. And while it’s quieted this one week, all it will take is one game where he doesn’t do anything or misses a tackle for it to all come back. All his critics who are silent are just waiting for the next chance to say “See he sucks”. A case can be made for Ford, but have seen a lot less heat on him then people had for Murphy. I mean this board was obsessed with cutting Murphy, and even more silly was for “cap” reasons when it wouldn’t have done anything for our cap as we are not over the cap and it’s last year of his deal. It was utter nonsense to campaign for him to be cut. Now trading him had merit with our deep log jam at DE and Beanes ability to get great trade value I our favor, but the calls to cut him were pretty silly.

Every great QB in history has had turnovers lose them games, including anyone you would put in the top 10 all time, and some of them did it in playoffs and Super Bowl too. Sorry, this logic seems like you’re waiting for one play to say “See I told you so” when in reality it’s 100% guaranteed to happen to every QB in the league, including Josh.

Well if you want to go there, you should also add those earlier games he was working his way back from a serious injury recovery as well to be fair. I will take the more recent body of work more removed from that injury over those games he was still working his way into shape and trying to carve out a role for himself.

Is this where I get to say a collective "I told you so" to all those who were just focused on cutting him? I was never the guy claiming Murphy was a world beater, but I did keep telling people he's better than he's getting credit for here and was never in danger of being cut. I did think with the log jam at DE his future he was questionable as he did seem like a guy Beane thrives on flipping for good draft capital. But once Star opted out and Jefferson was moving more towards DT, it was no longer definitive we needed to move one of our DE's. And its also why I kept telling people the AJE no dress week 1 was a non story in terms of AJE career projection. Murphy and Hughes were no brainer starters given they are the only 2 DE's who knew the system here. And as GunnerBill and some others also pointed out, Murphy was getting a lot of buzz about having a very strong camp. Which meant AJE was going to need to leap frog Addison (that was never gonna happen before week 1 who is a better all around DE than Murphy too) or Darryl, which was also never going to happen given Darryl's immense ST value. Cant wait to watch this team unleash hell on both sides of the ball again this week and squish the fish.

If I could emphasize this post here 1000 times I would. Its not just about the stat sheet, its all about where Diggs is at as a player vs a rookie. Diggs is a beast, making tough grabs, taking big hits, and easily a top 3 route runner in the NFL. There is nothing any rookie can do this year that will make me wish we had not traded for Diggs.

I think it’s going to be this Sunday. Allen always feasts on the Fins. I bet it’s another 300 yard game and 4 to 5 total TDs

Ah, was not that familiar with their cap situation. Was just commenting on team needs and stuff. Thanks

Wrong. We didn’t have 4 rushing TDs. We had 22 rushing TDs, you just chose to remove Allen’s 18 rushing TDs because it doesn’t fit your narrative. It was already pointed out to you that Devin in limited snaps last year was among the league leaders in runs over 20 yards. You also see the league leader only had 5 more runs than Devin over 20 yards and that it’s NOT a very common play and doesn’t even happen on average of even once a game by the league leader. You keep ignoring Allen’s rushing TDs to say the RBs dont score enough...how are they supposed to score the TD if Allen already ran it in? All that matters is that the 6 points get on the board, doesn’t matter if the jersey number is from a RB, QB, TE, or WR. The fact is the issue is not our RBs, it’s been Allen vulturing the TDs from the RBs because teams have had no answer to stop Allen when he’s running for the score.

This again 🤦🏼‍♂️ This obsession for the one or two times an entire season a RB scores a 60+ yard TD is silly. Last year, Devin tied Henry for the league lead for yards per carry. Who cares about 1 to 3 plays a year that are long TD runs. Those don’t win you games...first downs where you keep the ball and keep moving towards the end zone win games. And once you there scoring TDs medium and short distances win games. And the reason the TD total looks low for the RBs is because we have a tank of a QB who vultured 18 rushing TDs the last two years. Our RBs are going to be just fine.

Personally, I think the Eagles make a lot of sense here. They have the cap room and an established QB which they badly need to get him more help at WR. Speaking of Philly, I would flip Ertz if I were them for some OL help too. Goedert is damn good and their OL is gonna just get Wentz hurt yet again. If I am the Browns, I am looking to trade both OBJ and Nick Chubb and hopefully get back two more 2nd round picks out of the trades. OBJ is not working there, and they still have guys who can play at WR. Chubb is a great talent, but they have a cheaper option in Hunt who is just as good, if not all around better. I mean literally they are both stud every down RB's, so trade Chubb and keep the cheaper Hunt. Plus given Hunts past, Chubb will have more trade value. I could see teams like Jags, Redskins, and Dolphins being very interested in Chubb. Then when the draft rolls around, if Baker has not had a light bulb come on by end of the year, they have extra assets to go make a move for a top QB, maybe even Trevor, depending on their final record. If Baker does turn a corner over the season, they have extra assets to keep building around the team and more cap flexibility too moving forward getting OBJ eventually off the books.

I respectfully disagree. Not about the QB talent, it was obviously not a great QB situation. I am talking about Woods feet. I complained about it regularly, he would hit the ground so many times when it was unnecessary. He would trip and fall on his routes, etc. It was uncanny how often he lost his feet when it was not because he had to.

Thank You! Its like people forget this...I can not remember a receiver in my lifetime who had worse feet here than him. Seemed like he was always on the ground. Kudos to him in LA, he is a very good WR, but when he was a FA here there was not a lot to be excited about with him. He had many chances to step up when Sammy was out, but rarely made an impact. But it was his tendency to hit the ground that drove me the most nuts. I would have been fine keeping him then, but not at the price he was gonna get from Rams. Today, he's developed into a good WR for the Rams. I like the Rams too as my second team, so like seeing him do well. But, for this team, I much prefer the combo of Diggs and Brown. Diggs is elite, and Brown is pretty damn good himself, but most importantly, Brown and Allen have great chemistry.

That was exactly my point.

I have some Browns fans saying the same thing. They want to trade OBJ and Chubb since they think they can get the most for them and still have good WR group and a top tier RB in Hunt. This way they get the extra assets needed to be in position to go get Trevor possibly as they don't expect to lose enough games to be able to outright draft him. Of course, this is still risky as it would still depend on whose at the top of the draft order anyway, as a QB needy team likely wont trade out of that spot and would just take Trevor outright. But for me, I would not want to give up on Baker and this roster after one loss against the 2nd best team in the NFL following an offseason with no preseason either and a brand new coaching staff. This staff will need time to put their stamp on that team, get their systems installed, and so forth before they really know what they can or cant do with the roster as its currently made up, especially Baker.

Im starting to wonder if OBJ can ever get his career back on track. 10 targets, only catches 2. With all those weapons there, why is it so hard to get him involved in the game? Its insane the talent on that offense and how inept it seems to always be. If Baker doesn't show them something to build on the rest of this season, they will be yet again drafting another QB next year. I was quite high on Baker coming out, even before everyone else was. His rookie year he looked the part. Terrible coaching last year seems to have really derailed his potential. A QB's psyche and confidence are critical to their success too. Wondering if he has the mental makeup to rise above the struggles and get back on track or not. Its also the first game of the season against a team expected to make the AFCC game and push for a SB title, so not ready to write them off, write off OBJ, or write off Baker. But if you are a Browns fan, you gotta be quite concerned that this treasure trove of weapons still isn't producing. I didn't watch the game, so wondering what the state of the OL is in and how they played yesterday against the Ravens.

Yeah, I am always puzzled by how he is so bad with it given his size and strength. But, I do think its very much about him not be a natural RB and his muscle memory isn't there yet on having a feel on keeping that ball high and tight. He is so competitive and I think his focus tends to lean on getting more yards and running away from people and that is when his ball security is sloppy. Josh is good at covering it up when he sees the contact coming, but he just doesn't seem to wrap it up fast enough when in traffic before he realizes he is about to get hit. Couple that with his reputation for fumbling, and defenders are focusing on punching that ball out every time too.