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Sometimes that's by design. I throw to ur back shoulder so you turn ur body away from contact or a possible INT.

Agreed. Allen missed Beasley on third but I may have tried to just... Get the 4 yards on 3rd, clock it to save the TO and try and get 10-15 yards so I can take a shot or something. Either way. Let's not forget the D giving up a 75 yard drive to basically lose it.

They called the one and got PI early. He can't find the trajectory it seems. I know he got drilled on the McKenzie one, but you just need to float that more.

Sure- they also passed up like 4 other fg chances. What's the deal with the other one he missed? Or the one against NE? Are we going to just pretend he's good?

I know he didn't expect blitz.. that's on him. But not a lot of coordinators are jailbreaking there.

I know he was hurt last year. But he cost us this game. And changed the NE game as well.. were also going for it on 4th down in lieu of 50+ yard field goals quite often..

I didnt like that call on 3rd and 3 to not have anyone near the sticks.

I dunno. Drove them down into makeable field goal range in under 2 minutes. Our kicker missed .. again... When Is 61.5 percent acceptable as a kicker?

The play design has him looking right...

Yuck. All day and every run was successful

... He broke his foot and injured his ankle already this year. I like him as a player, considering half the board was talking about cutting this guy before him ever seeing the field i don't think im wrong here.

I feel ya - its not like he's going to be the reason we win this game.. I just get nervous of a gameplan that can get thrown out with a kroft ankle injury or something like that.

They completely ignored the jet action receiver because they never hand him the ball, that was one of the main takeaways that I remembered. The switch calls were genius though, like - look at the play clock as soon as it hits X, run into position to blitz, switch to a single high safety look, crowd the LOS etc.. Either way, saints should've been there last year.. and probably would've won.

Kroft hasn't proven an ability to stay healthy and smith is still a better option than sweeney.

Yeah - He played less in this game as they made a commitment to running. Used more TEs etc.

With Denver's QB situation you're looking at a strategy similar to that of Washington. I think we're going to pound the rock that game a lot... In a game where you think the other team is likely incapable of big plays and execution in the red zone it makes somewhat of sense.

Cleveland i think the keys controlling the clock - and NOT shooting themselves in the foot with penalties/turnovers whatever... move the ball - get points. If they do that well they should do fine. Denver the key is getting on them early. Do what you need to do to score 20+ points against a pretty good defense. They're 0-4 when the opponent scores 20. They've lost 3 games by 3 points or less... so this isn't a bad 3-6 team - if anything its a good 3-6 team in need of a QB. Someone else said it earlier but the best way to stop chubb other than selling out? Just score a bunch of points ?

The bears like averaged more than two takeaways a game... Unsustainable.

They do this a lot already. The deep shots are really called because it creates a hi/lo read that is super quick, you know right off the bat whether you have the throw or not - and if you don't you know where else to go with the ball.

I think it does. He's still completing 65% of passes at about a 200 YPG clip... and adding 80 per game on the ground. He's a dynamic playmaker, who plays QB. It's just different. His numbers will never match up with other QBs - and that's OK. They're winning games, and scoring points.

He isn't just a passer

Have to agree with you. His stat lines aren't going to line up all the time. His Miami game is the outlier - The 100 yard rushing games are probably more frequent than that.

Yeah - Wentz had 170 yards passing the week before and maybe 2 completions that i remember that were down the field. They had a few good short passes that got lots of yardage. Stat line doesn't show that like all of his scrambles were first downs either.

Trubisky did have a game last year where he went for 350 and 6 TDs. After that people put him in the conversation with Watson and Mahomes etc. I think there's a few factors... their defense isn't getting takeaways at a ridiculous rate like last year. They also haven't had much of a run game all season, and he seems to be running less as a QB which is basically killing their O. Doesn't seem like they are finding ways to get Cohen involved as much either.

Raw passing numbers don't tell a whole story anyway. He put up that stat line.. in a losing effort... against the consensus worst team in football and worst defense in football. In 13 extra attempts Darnold threw for 1 more pick, 1 fewer TD and about 60 more yards against Miami...