Bleeding Bills Blue

I see the chargers trying to jump miami - they need fans and QBs are the best way to get them. If washington is sold on Chase Young at 2 - i could see them moving to 3 (and giving up a lot in the process). I think detroit will try and move down to either steal an extra first from miami, or grab a 2021 first and other picks from LAC. Defense needs help, and the offense is a lot better with stafford than... blough? This is all under the assumption his rehab goes well and workouts etc.

He was all-pro for a reason. His regular season stats were also really really good. Underrated part of a defense first team - and one that after saturday McBeane will definitely be looking to upgrade.

Yeah - long offseason though. I think he needs to get away from hiring the same people like philbin or mcadoo. It makes sense to bring along guys you have either worked with in the past etc. But sometimes *cough* juan castillo *cough* - that guy isn't a very good coach.

I don't know... but... yes.

I think part of it was issues with rodgers, and just a general complacency. I don't think he worked as hard as he could have in GB and it honestly showed. Playbook wasn't evolving, just a super stagnant predictable offense that worked because rodgers is really good, and had freedom at the LOS. He didn't have a hand in personnel, but i felt like him and the GM were a bit disconnected too. Jerry is not an easy man to work for, but i think time away from football and rodgers will help him. Maybe he turns back the clock and goes to his roots here with a marty ball style rush offense. Who knows - but i do think he realizes that he needs to adapt some.

If he keeps both hands on it and keeps the ball high (as awkward as it looks and sounds to move forward in the pocket with the ball like that) he probably doesn't fumble. It seems like the 2nd pat is when he loses grip on the ball, and mercilus hits him at basically the same time. He's moving around there like Favre used to... and Favre had the most fumbles like. ever.

Fumbling while rushing can absolutely be fixed - its the way he holds the ball lower and away from his chest. He needs to focus on that this offseason, too many guys seemed to be punching at it. He also needs to just slide more. As for just general fumbling - LJ had 12 in 7 starts in 2019 and 9 in 15 starts in 2018. For a running QB you're more likely to fumble than probably any other player - but Allens problems this year were more prevalent. Regarding the play in this one that turned the game - Holding the ball on your hip with 1 hand in the pocket... is not secure. I felt he was careless there. Keep the ball up high where you can throw or tuck it.

Brady 07 is pretty tough too. 4800 50 and 8 completing nearly 70% of passes. And they didn't lose til the super bowl. 2013 manning was ridiculous. Mahomes 2018 just started so ridiculous - 14 TDs and no picks through 4 weeks. 26 and 6 throgh 8 weeks. I don't know why they didn't do more to chase the 55.

Not the best season ever - a great season nonetheless.

i mean - even if this was the strategy (which i doubt) - its not like you're locked into it either

2 each against the jets and fins defenses kind of helped too. Both teams in free fall... but we also had 5 games before the jets game where buffalo scored under 10 so... it wasn't just the schedule softening up - there was some improvement for sure. Yes - also teach him to punt a little bit. Doesn't need to be great, but good enough that if its like 4th and 4 from midfield... we can put him out there and make them account for it.

Snow play makes the most sense... Joe Webb to Deonte Thompson was right up there though. 3rd and 6 - disaster snow conditions - on our own 39 with under 2 to play in OT. 3rd string QB in due to injuries to TT and NP... Probably leading towards a tie which wouldve been bad for playoff chances etc. I always say the same thing. Guys mostly there to be a special teams guy - and doesn't know the entire Offensive playbook necessarily. Some gadget plays maybe, and a limited playbook for QB. If things get to your emergency QB you need to just scale your O way back anyway - Lot of option and a fair amount of misdirection style passing.

That one appeared to be on Gilmore... Looked like cover-1 man with a single high safety. They both got beat since the safety let him behind him, and gilmore got beat on the double move. But speed will do that to you when you blitz like that.

Tannehill to bears confirmed.

I'm a total allen fanboy - but I'd feel a lot more comfortable with needing a big game out of watson vs. allen.

They fired Coughlin... this seems like one of the many issues he had with his players.

Eh - could end up being a hold out situation. I think they pick up the 5th year option and he becomes fairly expensive year 2 unless you can work out an extension.

I like henry - hes made strides. Paying a running back just never seems to work out though. If someone comes around that you like at a mark ingram type of price - I'm for it. Otherwise draft.

I'd say 53 - since there would be no like base salary changes based off of it. You would just have to take out contract things that factor in being active on gamedays. Practice squad players get a reduced salary, so exposing them to games for no additional money exposes them to possible injuries while being paid well below the league minimum and not actually accruing contract years. It's clearly said on here that it really isn't possible to just "not play your starters" - since 7 players can be made inactive... we only carry 9 Olinemen so someone has to play... we have 5 corners and 1 was inactive - someone has to play.

I find it very unlikely he would get the job there. Possible i guess? What about Pat Shurmur?

Stadium capacity was 80,024 back then. I know green bays is around there, but thats a lot for a smaller metro area.

Yeah - watching some of the highlights on that and it was like... a slant route had to be kind of on the money... a little behind the receiver so he didn't get lit up. You wanted them to kind of just catch it and stop right there. Same with deep posts and crossers... you couldn't lead your man into coverage or he'd get destroyed.

He lit it up with fitz and the jets.. then the next year that offense was just... a disaster. Decker got hurt, but they still had marshall, enunwa, and anderson. Forte and Powell. Fairly good o-line pieces. Defense didn't get as many takeaways, and the offense gave the ball away all the damn time. Recipe for switching from 10-6 to 5-11

Meh... Probably smart to move on from a guy who had never called plays before. 2nd stint in Miami - 3rd stint with Fitz... Lets be real guys, we all know how this is gonna go. 1 good year, 1 bad year and hes out.