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framed differently: if he was a lethal all pro still - I think almost no chance he’s gone now without the allegations but playing like he has been- I think he’s on the roster but legit fighting for his job in an open battle.

last year was the proverbial first 5 games with Fitzpatrick in regard to getting a lot of luck. Not something we are used to. But as you note, it usually normalizes. even with a very good unit, odds are we lose about 10 in the differential. do we have the horses to still maintain the point differential?

yup - scratch the dumb risky stuff that isn’t even much fun off the list, but still live big with the things that are actually worthwhile.

ive always said it with guys fighting at bars- sometimes even a minor shove lands with a stumble and fall and all of a sudden it’s a “tua” situation or worse. those dumb luck moments, like slipping out of a golf cart, turning severely life altering really are a perspective changer. I don’t wildly change my life to prevent every last trip/slip/fall… but there are definitely moments where I catch myself and tighten up behavior more quickly than once upon a time.

I think his departure was a not inconsequential piece of Josh going from turnover king to cleanest player in the league

yea, if he was a 30 year old all pro it might have been a football decision to weather the storm

at some point I’m pretty cool with pushing enough chips in that we may need a reset year after it but hopefully with a trophy in the case instead of just division banners let’s get our all pro pass catcher(s)

yea im not giving a pass on the drop but im hoping it explains the overall usage for the season. Was frustrating not to see him putting more pressure on defenses given what he was drafted to be. should’ve caught that pass but statistically they will happen sometimes. Hopefully no trend but a bad play.

likewise sometimes they do not, or even get worse. Who knows with him… but it’d be nice if we didn’t have to count on getting better to be what we need

they do have a couple of pass rushers kicking around still

The article say that it wasn’t negligent operation sounds like it’s very possibly the terrifying freak accident of banging your head on cement when you fall and just having terrible luck.

this has to be at least a portion of it. There is likely some “tie goes to the earned captain profile” in our room though if there are two closely ranked and ones iffy on leadership

come on - you don’t think that spreading the ball was a result of having 4 WR2-3 and no WR1? if we plopped a chase or Jefferson in, he just gets hollins targets?

I have a hard time reconciling this…. last year was a reset year where we overachieved. Some lucky bounces, relatively good health and an incredibly weak division. coming out of the reset our reloading includes Joey bosa, Josh Palmer and hoecht? Sounds like running it back with the reset team, no? I worry we may see more games like that early season ravens-Texans pair where the team really struggled. On offense.

We are in large part top scoring because we are taking a mortgage on Allen’s future to do it if he falters even slightly we are cooked