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I am not sure we need a 3-4 DE. Marcel can play that position no problem. KW is the question mark there, but I believe he can. We need a NT. Then let Jerry Hughes be a wild man, lining up all over the place, and just have him pin his ears back. 2 coverage LB's (maybe one?) and a big ol middle of the D MLB. This is a sad reality.

That is my most frustrating part of the this season. I just don't get it. His defenses has always been good. They upgraded lots of personnel from last year to this in NJ, but last years defensive starters were not good, and he got a lot out of them for the talent they had. Willing to criticize athlete management (ie leadership, captains, accountability), not getting plays in on both sides of the ball, penalties/discipline. These are things that come with Rex, but they also come with a tough strong defense. I am just so baffled as to where that is. As I type this, I posted about how my junior athletes handle things and approach their sport (rowing). I realized, I imply the need for a lot of accountability (can't preach, it becomes ingenuine and can create rifts on roster), and have for years. Success breeds success, my hard working athletes know this. It isn't me that makes those, who give half effort, feel uncomfortable or even unwelcome, it is the athletes that are putting in all the work and extra. While Rex needs to set the tone, that feeling has to be inbred already in professional athletes. You know who needed to instill work ethic and drive at the Olympic Training Center....NOBODY,we got coached, we wanted to be better so it was always up to us to get better. Professional money sports should be the same. Rex is responsible for giving out the directive, it is up to the players to follow through. Maybe because my sport wasn't riddled with cash, and we all worked while we trained full time, so obviously the desire was there already, but professional athletes should no better if they want to get better.

comes out to about .600 record, or 9.6 games per season. Dude wins 10 games more often than he doesn't

I thought the same. How the QB isn't leading players only meetings is baffling to me. QB puts in the most work on the roster, and is the leader of the huddle. I get he is getting his feet wet with the starting QB role, but the guy played with Ed Reed, Joe Flacco, and Ray Lewis. He's seen that type of leadership in action. I's be astounded if Flacco doesn't call offensive meetings. Astounded. I coached highschool kids who on off days or "rest" times during the offseason hold their own practices....granted those teenagers are national champions, and if they are not, are working their butts off to become one. It should be noted, that I have never ever been an enforcer of a coach. I don't force anything on anybody. I simply revolve my programs around those that put out the most effort and have the highest level of accountability. The rest I pay literally zero attention to. Pulling players for bad plays or ruling with a really heavy hand does not necassarily correlate with strong leadership.

I never understood the czar hysteria. Each team should have one, isn't that the point of the GM. If you as team owner find yourself incompetent of making te right football decisions for your franchise, hire a president to preside over it all. Either way the answer is to step aside and let the football people do football things. If they fail find a new one, hire a consultant with whome you trust to find a new GM and get out of the way again. Having a guy act as the pen optic for the GM, ony says we don't have the right GM. If they start over ruling said GM in the draft, FA, and re-signings, aren't they then just the GM? It comes back to, for Terry, the Ted Black role. What was his job? Why have him? I always hated Terry's quote saying something like "Ted isn't the only one in the room with a hockey iq" (paraphrasing). He's got to do a better job of letting the sports people do their sports thing. A Csar only muddies the waters, and becomes a sounding board for outside (owner) influence.

Pegulas know money because they have it. A little info, Pegula had a business partner that handled all the business/money things in an official manner. Terry was the scientist/geologist, Mullan is the man who organized the business and money. While a man does not accumulate that much wealth by accident, he by no means was brokering his own deals in the slightest.

Can be, and am. The leading research for high level physiology globally are coming out of the GIS, AIS, and Switzerland. The most astringent body in the USA to practice sports medicine is US Ski and Snowboard. They have some of the best sports medicine professionals in the world, let alone the nation.

Football isa high strength highly explosive sport. To be both of those things, you need to be tight to be that explosive at a high level in this sport. That said I think football/the NFL does a poor job. I've seen these guys lift in person. Technically it's poor, with really heavy weights. I know guys who work in high level physiology (international competition) who all pretty much agree the NFL is full of the B team guys in regard to sport, and are considered meatheads. Think rubber band. You want to flick one across the room, or use it for a "slingshot". What produces the greatest distance/speed/power. Brand new rubber band, out of the box, not the one that has been keeping together your mail or pencils. Conversely, being looser related to better endurance and aerobic capacity, but significantly lesser max power output and explosiveness.

Whose the backup there?

Well at least he's on the stat sheet this week...

Agreed. That was my first thought. Shouldn't have mattered catch or not. Dude shoved McKelvin. I've noticed more this year that networks aren't showing replays of penalties. It's pretty annoying

I'm I the only one who thought that was a push off?

I've been thinking about this. Not sure my plan works with part time refs. But I think there should be a base salary along with a "bonus": Each ref starts with 100k in their bonus at the start of the season. With each poor call, money is subtracted. So if there is a terrible call that is completely unfounded, said ref is withheld 20k at the end of the year. Each call is weighted depending on severity of the call and impact on the game.

I believe clay ran a post in the middle of the field and found a soft spot in the zone on that play. TT chose the McCoy throw. Or possibly didn't see Clay.

When he talks about the "timing" and "being late", I think he's referring to he isn't seeing Sammy beat his guy early. He releases the ball after the WR has steps of separation. It's just another way of pointing out TT's issue with progressions.

I also think part of the problem is Peyton no longer runs the offense. It's his greatest strength. At this point in his career, most if not all he has to offer is between the ears. Mean while Kubiak is calling for naked QB roll outs and taking away Peyton's control at the line. I don't think he would be the same Manning by any stretch but I think we'd get better performances from him.

Trent actually did have a tell. He would tap his helmet at the line every passing down

I like TT but he does need to be able to read te field a bit better/quicker. Even without the scramble he isn't seeing the field well and needs to do better looking for the intermediate routes. It seems it's one of 3 throws, check down, go route, or where ever Clay is.

This! Another poster with access to the premium stats on PFF, posted that TT has the longest TT throw in the league. Two things will/can happen with that. 1. OL holds, because 3+ seconds is a really long time to hold off a rusher 2. TT is scrambling which means the rusher now has his back to the play, giving him a free chase. OL holds or gives up the blocker. Hughes leads the team with penalties, 5, but Glenn is close behind with 4 holding calls.

Or say, when the first 5-10 years in the league were predicated on knowing exactly what the defenses are going to do. When a kid has all the test questions for the SAT in grade 8, don't be surprised when he aces the PSAT a few years later. This is the largest part f all the cheating for me. Would Brady have been great without all the help? We don't know, but imagine how quickly a TT or an EJ would have gone if they had the answers. Carson Palmer? Hell, Luck makes a ton of mistakes, how many would he be making if he knew the defense, and how great would he be at reading defenses given the "curve"

Wait and see how the Jags progress this season. I heard their OL coach used to be a HC. He might have the title as associate HC.

Terrorism?

Only if you put him below sea level. Above will take longer. Source: masters final paper on altitude training

I watch the all-22 every week. Your statement about wide open receivers is totally false. The dude stood in the pocket strong, and delivered a number of balls with a shoulder in the gut. Gander at the all-22 those "open" receivers generally aren't open, but in zone coverage/being closed in on or appear open because the defender pulled off the receiver to pursue the play as EJ is delivering the ball elsewhere. He doesn't get a pass for the game, but the guy played gutsy with some terrible protection. I'm an EJ fan. I'm happy with TT. Not calling for a switch at all. But he deserves lots of criticism for this game against the pats. Here's to TT progressing into our franchise guy. I'm pro bills not pro any guy on the roster, and we need a franchise guy bad! I agree with most of this in principle. I'm really just trying to take an honest inventory for improvement. I used to be a career coach, so I'm constantly looking for ways to improve, not trying to be critical if that makes sense. I'd agree with the defensive part against any other QB other than Brady. You go 3 and out 5 times in a row, and give him the ball on 3 turnovers, you're in a shoot out, and you'd be hard pressed to have even the 85 Bears help you stay dominant in a game like that. Now if we are playing Jax, that happens on offense, I expect the D to step up for us. Penalties cost us huge, right up there with the offensive play. But haven't the last few Super Bowl teams been really high up on the list of penalties taken...one can dream right? Ha. But in all seriousness we have to get those under control.

Watching the All-22 TT gets happy feet, takes off laterally, hanging his tackle out to dry, also means he can't look down field, or at least halves it. He needs to do a better job of climbing the pocket vertically, which many times he could have done, but chose not to too quickly.