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Teams are playing a lot of press coverage against us. Bubble screens don't really work in that situation. Slants are tricky too since timing is off. Really have to attack the deep boundaries since its likely 1x1 coverage with the single high safety.

His main issues right now are throwing on the run, and pocket awareness. But he also has like rookie issues that every rookie has. The game needs to slow down, he needs to see more blitz packages and more schemes. He needs to get on the same page as is OL (and not roll into sacks), and his WRs (timing seems to be an issue and i personally doubt the blame falls just on the QB). Until that happens, we're going to see a ton of 8 man boxes and press man defenses with single high safeties. The best way to beat that is back shoulder throws on the boundary, and deep shots. We've struggled with both so far, and until we get it right its going to be rough seas ahead for the forseeable future. Having a mobile QB break contain also can help make some plays (thats where weve had some success).

Right - hes like a 3rd down deep threat WR who can't catch deep balls.

I think taking out the RPOs, and simplifying things helped a bit. The designed roll-outs helped limit the sacks and pass rush. He's still really struggling to throw accurately on the run though.

I personally think the goal is always to win. That strategy we just used to beat Tenn, is likely to only beat a team like them. Houston we could see something largely similar since its also a team with a young QB, who struggles to run the ball. Once you start running into teams like NE, you have to attack them - because you're unlikely to limit them to under 20 points (yes it can happen, but their success rate is what 90%). I would expect to run the ball against Houston, they have a really good defense and the goal will be to eek out a win again.

He can't catch back shoulder fades, and he seems to be slow out of his break on every route. He's slow and never open, and is struggling to catch contested passes. It's literally all you can do at this point with him since he's never open. I'd love to line him up inside, but he doesn't want to mix it up with LBs in the run game so that doesn't work either. I'd honestly just replace him at this point. If we go deep to him whenever he's on the field, the other team will never bite on the PA fakes. He needs to improve his route tree.

I thought maybe they anticipated a challenge and ran the sneak

We'd be on the hook for 2 and a half years of base salary. But shaq thompsons a beast in that role

Bah-hor-kez. Is that right?

I'd be interested in britt or mitchell. They both have some experience in a erhardt perkins system. Assuming theyre healthy...

That is a rather big mistake... Even if you leave yourself 10 seconds or something its still better. Tennessee had 2 timeouts as well. Why not make them use them? I probably wouldn't have opted for the squib kick either. Christies limited leg may have forced their hand though. Maybe have a high and short kick plan or something along those lines. It's that type of situational football that you need to think about. More food for thought... The clock starts as soon as the kickoff begins (in 1999), so if you had limited it to maybe 8-10 seconds, you can kick it out of bounds and leave them with only like 4 seconds from their 40. A FG is impossible

And you see teams that are built that way succeed a lot of the time. Strategy will only get you so far - at the end of the day its players executing that strategy, and trust in one another to do their jobs.

So we're going to pay a guy 100 million because he eats space? He was paid to be a top 3 playmaking DT in the NFL. To rush the passer, and to be a player you had to gameplan around. He was not any of those things. Good Riddance. They paid him 5 mil last year, and a little over 10 this year. Those are reasonable numbers for a space eating NT/DT. We traded him so that we could get half his dead money on the books for 2017 and eliminate his fully guaranteed 2018 base salary. Saves Pegula some 15 million in cash.

Yeah - there arent exaclty a ton of #1 receivers available at the moment. Having said that - i'd like to see them figure out a way to get kerley back on the 53.

I guess - 10 sacks in 2014 and first team all-pro. He has like 6 since. He missed half of 2016. The first game of 2015. And seemed to basically have a sore groin the entirety of his time here since 2014.

i was a little sick of the drama dareus brought with him. If he wasn't getting in trouble with the law, he was coming into camp out of shape.

I believe they already did.

Having said that - I'd move a late round pick for him but only if they took benjamin. They have to pay benjamin the rest of the year, we get more cap room this year to carry over into 2019. And when i say late i mean maybe give back the 5th we got from them.

Yeah - for a 1 year rental in 2019. His value here this year doesn't matter because we aren't good.

He's on the roster next year so the comp pick would be 2021 as he wouldn't hit free agency until 2020.

His salary jumps to 13 million next year which is easily navigated under the salary cap - especially considering benjamin will be 100% released. I'd be on board with it if the price were right. I assume they would want to get out of the 5th year option if they are considering moving him.

Yeah - bottom line is we're probably spinning a higher profit this year, and going into the next year with more cap space as well as actual dollars to spend.

Yeah - thriving to the tune of sub 200 yards passing, and 2 TDs and 3 picks through week 3. That teams been all defense. Less than a hundred on the ground every week, tons of sacks, takeaways, and even 2 defensive TDs. I assume Beane was there and they indicated a few things. 1 - we're rebuilding and a lot of this season will be based on evaluating players 2 - we have a massive dead cap number, and probably the worst roster in the league 3 - all of that dead money is money that was already paid to players, so we probably have the cheapest roster in the league 4 - we will likely turn a higher profit than the previous year due to paying out less in player salaries and signing bonuses 5 - we have a lot of draft picks, and a lot of cap space to make moves to address holes in 2019

This would be some sound logic TBH. If Mahomes had played at the senior bowl i think there would have been a better chance of us selecting him. The extended looks in practice, and the game film in more pro style offenses etc was important for McDermotts evaluation - based on the fact that we drafted 4 guys who played in the senior bowl (3 on offense). It's a tall task for McD to scout everyone himself based on the fact that he was coaching all season the previous year. I imagine he watched a ton of film, but at the end of the day it's clear he wanted to get guys he met and liked.

I thought we fired Whaley already... Also Alex Smith had the best qb rating in the NFL last year with this offense... And they added more to it. Mahomes is set up to succeed.