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Lets force allen to his... right? That doesn't seem right...

I think that it's ok to change your mind and bring attention to something you disagree with. I think that it's ok to change your mind and bring attention to something you disagree with.

I would think the purpose would be to... play football instead of retire. He's going to be 37, and while im sure its tempting to get paid not to play - if he does that he'll likely never play again. I don't think he earns some big contract elsewhere, but i think he can get that 27.5M into like 35 on a 2 year deal - they can then spread the hit over 4 years (3 years when void years trigger).

It's actually not that bad for an acquiring team. Part of why the contract was structured the way it was. 27.5M base salary - 10M roster bonus that triggers on the 5th league day so i could see an acquiring team wanting that to come out of Atlanta's end. Atlanta eats 47.5 - split it over 2 years. That 27.5 base can have the cap hit moved around so the acquiring team can lessen the blow in year 1. I think teams with either plans for drafting a raw rookie, or teams with players on rookie contracts can do a lot worse. He probably came back too quickly from the achilles injury, and would look a lot less stiff once in better shape. Previously worked with Stefanski (who i think deserves a mulligan for this watson debacle, but we'll see if he's scapegoated). Whereven Kubiak/dennison potentially ends up could also have interest in bringing in a QB they worked with in the past.

Baylon Spector played 18 snaps and... i felt like he was targeted on half, and missed tackles... it was really bad.

After the 66 yard TD on 3rd and long - that being the play that really got them back into the game - i wasn't shocked to turn a bit more prevent. With 2 minutes left in a 2 score game, i'd also play prevent. A big play is the only way they get back into it.

Bishop missed a ton of practice. You don't get any 1st team reps after that, and then you come out in relief and play a pair of terrible games against baltimore and houston and... yeah you sort of missed your shot to push people down the depth chart. Communication was an issue in his time playing, and you usually create that chemistry in practice.

Yeah, those trap plays tend to require an aggressive linebacker and that ravens game had spector in that spot who.. we'll say was "not aggressive enough" .

He's having a pretty rough year this year. The splash plays are what you have him for - be it pressures, sacks, stops, TFLs, whatever. And he just isn't doing it enough. Will he occasionally blow up a play and get.. basically no credit for it? Yes. But I've watched every snap this year and he's not doing it consistently enough. They dont bring back phillips and jefferson if they're happy with his performance.

The splits in 2024 alone would say you are incorrect. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/2024_opp_splits.htm Yards per carry goes from 4.9 in the first half to 4.5 in the second. YPA passing goes from 7.4 to 6.5 in the 2nd half. 17 TDs given up in the first half to 11 in the 2nd. More INTs in the 2nd half. More sacks in the 2nd half. Fewer 1st downs in the 2nd half.

I don't understand why its all on Mcdermott here. Like questionable coaching and clock decisions i guess? But the defense playing like hot garbage is... on the dudes on the field. There aren't plays you can call that fix the teams performance. If anything, the blitzing and run blitzing in the 2nd half did cause some level of stress - and a few calls went their way. The punt block is because ferguson got absolutely blown up - how do you coach a player to not do that? I just... you're a professional football player. How do you touch that ball? If you don't see it touch one of their players, assume it didn't.

I feel like there's at least 2 examples of miller being mugged and held on long completions.

I'd say that... in spite of losing to KC in the playoffs in 3 of 4 years, and 1 year to cinci. They have by far the best record of any team against KC during Mahomes tenure. Someone needs to beat the guy in the playoffs, and so far the only team beating them at all seems to be buffalo. Does that mean they can win the big one? I don't know.

I'm not sure williams would have played well. His biggest issue is processing - and thats what killed our team in this one. All 3 linebackers were slow in processing the jet motion, we were tricked in play action all game long. I don't think plugging williams in helps in that regard.

I thought Oliver DQ and AJE probably played the worst on the defense, but i didn't think anyone played particularly well. Milano and Bernard were getting hammered up the middle in the first half and they didn't seem to need to double oliver or DQ to get linemen to the next level. Milano Bernard and Johnson were all also struggling with the motion all game long in one way or another. Either they were late to their run fits and got blocked, or they gave leverage to the outside for blocks on WR screens, or outside breaking routes. They started run blitzing, and just generally blitzing to pressure their offense, but that just leaves challenges on the back end, which... puts a lot of pressure on your safeties. Hamlin and Rapp did a lot of work keeping some of the big plays from being... really big plays. I thought benford covered and tackled fairly well. Groot was an afterthought, a lot of the play actions went away from his side. Miller was definitely held a few times, and made a couple plays. No one harrassed stafford all game so he played with quite a bit of confidence, and that is a group failure for the front 7.