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I don't know that there was an angle there for hamlin. He's headed sideways as henry is getting speed going straight up. The key isn't tackling him 40 yards down field, its slowing him down before he gets there. To me that is a trio of misses by rapp, williams, and spector. The play design takes out oliver, but 3 on 3 and not one of those guys got a hand on him.

At least he's good at football?

He appears to have the outside gap. As 89 moves up to block rapp, he maintains his outside gap before trying to creep inside for cleanup. He was late, but no one got a hand on henry so he has a full head of steam while he's working his way back. Rousseau also was setting the edge on that side. They trapped oliver up field with Ricard (play tendency that is often used against penetrating DTs), Williams tries to shoot the A gap and gets trapped by the center, Jones doesn't get enough of the LG, and gets pinned by the RG, and spector is too slow to react and ends up late as well.

If your linebackers stink... and they stunk in week 4... it doesn't really matter. They were consistently out leveraged by motion, not slipping, not shedding, just getting blocked. Ability to shed usually comes from skill, but it also requires a superior processing capability to avoid getting out leveraged. These guys were thinking, not playing with speed.

He literally had the longest TD run of his career 6 games ago.

Might be time to dust off kareem jackson as well if rapps going to miss time.

Currently in a tie for 13th, but its probably rising.

It's just a funny little mess they made 🙂

Funnier still - the cap hit next year is 73M each of the next 2 years, he has a full no trade clause (so you couldn't even trade his base salary away with a high pick(s) to buy cap space like the osweiler deal), and the only way to lessen the cap burden is to convert to bonus and push it out essentially extending him. They already have a 2027 hit of 27M for him to not play there. https://overthecap.com/player/deshaun-watson/5596 Cooper, Wills and Chubb are free agents. Coopers void cap number is 22.5M for 2024, only way to manage it is to give him a contract but he has no benefit in signing it. You can tag chubb as RBs are usually affordable, but he probably won't play after missing time already, and you have no cap space so signing players will be a problem if you do that. Wills they picked up his 5th year option and restructured it for space, so they also need to extend him if they want to lessen the restructure cap burden. It's a mess over there. Oh and they extended the GM and HC so... heads probably don't even roll over there.

Ease him in more than bench either. I don't see a scenario where i can't find a way to get milano on the field. Guy is a playmaker at that position, and you want him for the playoffs.

On pace for 17 catches too 😄. He seems to actually enjoy the blocking parts of the position and has looked good doing it, no penalties either. Holds happen often on those alert swing passes, and we've so far done a good job getting space without penalties.

My thoughts exactly. Usually you do that because you owe a bookie/loan shark a bunch of money, and fixing a game can allow them to have guaranteed wins. When they legalized it my friend was like, oh man they put the bookies out of business. No, the bookies business has always been to float money so you can gamble before you get paid. It's the same reason fanduel can run all these promotions, it keeps you on the drip and they're making so much money every day.

Seems to be some level of rotation between him, keon, knox, and MVS. Samuel is only getting some of the gadgety snaps at the moment, but those plays have seemed to be pretty effective whether he has touched the ball or not. Interested to see if he gets some more love as the season goes on.

I don't think McD wants him back. Allen could probably get his way, but I don't see it. Ben Johnson, Slowik, brady are probably the "hot 3" at the moment. Vrabel, Carroll, and Belichick are out there. Evero, Glenn, and Flores are available as defensive guys as well. I wouldn't say its a given Brady is gone, especially since everyone knows he has josh allen and have seen how dorsey, daboll, and even brady looked when they didn't have josh allen. Interested to see where openings crop up though. If Taylor is let go in Cincy - that would be somewhere Brady wants to land for example.

Yes, and Daniel jones had 700 yards and a 5.9 YPC average. Barkleys 4.4 YPC was 25th (20th among backs).

Like... what are we doing here? They made the playoffs one time in 6 years with Barkley, and now you have to pay him more? IMO the issue is that Daboll is not a good run game caller, and tends to get pass happy. Look at the numbers when Jones was out last season, it's a bad rushing attack. Now he's running less because he can't stay healthy, and the run game still sucks. Not sure if its edge blocking by WRs and TEs, actual scheme, or weaknesses along the offensive line. But any good rushing attacks Daboll ever coached were propped up significantly by QB runs.

Realistically they kept the band together for 5 seasons, and likely 1 season too long.

It's a long season, there will be questionable playing surfaces, wind, rain, snow, cold... No one makes everything. At the same time, he's hit some absolute dud kicks in his most recent game film including a really ugly 27 yard FG attempt I'm also wondering if somethings on tape with the blocks (XP this past game, Pittsburgh last year). Trajectory issue? Slow kick tempo? Bad blocking in certain spots? I wonder if he's trying to change something to avoid blocks. I lierally know nothing about special teams.

He has by far the fewest snaps on the roster at WR. There also isn't anyone over 70% on the roster.

I would've lost my fantasy game and started 0-6 across two leagues so i was appreciative that he did not do that :-).

He breaks more tackles than most backs. In a single game, one or two of those can be the difference.

He did have his best statistical season the year Hopkins left, and somehow the team went 4-12.

Hollins, Keon, and MVS are all pretty big dudes fwiw.

He's only played 46 snaps which is last out of the WRs, so i can't really fault him for a lack of production. I'm not sure if its injury or script, but either way - nice to win with him not really needing to do much.

Yeah, over the course of a season i don't think it makes too much of a difference. In a single game, it can be amplified a bit more.