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I'd be willing to bring in Dalton on a reasonable contract. I know what he is - and i think that is better than barkley.

I mean - Seattle made it at 7-9 and won a WC game: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sea/2010.htm Same with Denver in 2011: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/den/2011.htm. Denver wasn't even good - buffalo blew them out 2 weeks before. Ravens in 2012 actually won it all... nothing about that team screamed special. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/rav/2012.htm I guess the reasoning is - you can't win a playoff game if you don't make the playoffs. Win 1, and who knows what happens.

None of the teams they're playing are that bad. Their Defense is playing lights out at the moment, but as we've seen the last few weeks with our vaunted d... teams adjust. I could see anyone on that schedule other than cincy beat them. Just like anyone on our schedule can beat us. Neither team has enough O to be penciling in W's on their schedule. Colts, Titans, Jags, Raiders are all still in it too. All kind of flawed teams too, much like buffalo

I remember a fumbled snap against the jets, and i think he got blind side hit as he was throwing. One against the bengals he legit tripped, fumbled, picked it up and completed it... so that ones kind of just a mess.

Does anyone know what each was? Like how many are rushing vs. blindside vs. messed up snaps etc.

Clocks running too - He didn't panic, didn't burn a timeout, and got the ball to the boundary where his receiver should've made a play on it.

Yep - take that last play. I know if NE is there last year... the defense gives you that same look that ball is going to the guy in JB's spot - the difference? That guy is Rob Gronkowski and brady looks like a genius for throwing it.

We had 3 holding penalties on rushing plays, and 1 on an allen scramble FWIW.

Not having the extra timeout was crucial, and singletary needs to get out of bounds. Those are facts. 50+ is not an easy kick - but the guy can't make them at all. That's a tad alarming since ya know... every other kicker has shown the ability to make them. Even Vinateri has and he's like 50 years old. The mis-read on the last play sucks... but he also read JB properly and got a boundary pass to the 15 yard line that should've been complete. I thought he did a nice job at the end of both halves putting his team in position to score points.

I see what you're saying but its hard to tell who's blitzing there - and if you guess wrong you could be screwed. The fact that the clock was running (McD burning a timeout on D, and singletary not getting OOB) makes it worse because you just have to make a gut call.

I like the placement, brown had almost half the field to work over there - he didn't look for the ball until it was too late.

No way of knowing whats going to happen pre-snap at the LOS. 9 guys lined up there and 3 to the left. Blitz will most definitely come from the right. Can't set pass pro, can't hard count. If the blitzer on the left drops into coverage you lose the beasley play and you are trying to buy time - which he wouldn't have had.

The last play of the game they crowded the LOS with 9 guys in a pretty clear cover 0 look. Really smart when you think about it though - clocks running, no time to adjust anything like protections or try and hard count to slow rush/identify rusher. You know they're blitzing but with your bunch on the left you have to assume its coming right and people will drop into coverage in the passing lanes. Quick check to a deep throw to JB and it falls incomplete, but i honestly kind of blame JB. Its where it needs to be, he is not. 2 seconds was about as long as he had to get that ball up in the air - its at the sidelines and catchable.. he just didn't get there or have his head turned around quickly enough.

To be fair - rex fired him. He has no relationship with any of the coaches or GMs here so I'm not sure why anyone would expect us to have brought him in. I think the screen game issue has a lot to do with allens athleticism. Teams are employing spies, and adjusting rush angles to try and prevent him from breaking contain. By doing that they're also muddying up the screen game it seems. Look at the last play on 3rd and 4. Clock running, checks to a cover 0 beater with john brown and throws it towards the sideline and gives his guy a chance. Now take that same play and employ gronkowski... that's gotta be like a 90% completion/PI play. Talent would help tremendously.

We spread the field quite a bit and seemed to want to pass on first down for a lot of the game. Offense is just constantly hurting themselves. Penalties, Missed throws, drops. Everyone is making mistakes here or there. 9 new starters on O, but they are taking a long time to gel and its becoming more and more of a problem.

Off-season. At this point the kicker market is awful

Today there was the Knox drop and then the bad throw to brown that stuck out. I like a run on 3rd if u plan on going for it on 4th. Sack on a 3rd down in the 3rd quarter killed one. Offsetting penalties on another one, a failed swing pass to singletery and brown didn't pull in the contested slant. Seemed like they were blitzing on thirds too, had that one where he had to throw to Roberts and no one was open too.

9 guys along the LOS, no idea who's coming and who's dropping, clocks running, no chance at hard count/cadence, can't set protections... He said screw it, brown 1x1 and it's coming fast because rush is on. Yup. Walked right over em.

Yeah that one was rough. Would need to see the film. I don't hate the late game check he made. Clocks running and you gotta make a play

He's missing them for sure. I thought brown should've been on the sideline more for that fade considering the clock etc. Allen didn't have any time either. Brown needs to get that one.

I think it's to help with the screen game... Where we have struggled a lot lately.

Got rolled for 3 drives to open the game. Stops on the goalline make it better than it was. They struggled badly today.

Now that I think about it though, clocks running. The 2nd down play screwed them. That and McDermott calling a defensive timeout when the clock wasn't running Yeah. Can't fix it midseason tho. Off-season priority I would think

Read option on 3rd down might have been nice. Or an RPO. Keep the reads near the LOS and not throw the ball down the field

We used it trying to get them to jump offside