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I understand not playing press all the time - but typically the coaches let the players decide where to line up. He should be doing it a little bit - it helps throw off timing on those back shoulder throws, and deep balls. He either thinks they're going deep on him all game, or he's worried about his safety help, or he's not comfortable playing press.

So your solution is to bench TT for Cardale to "see what you have". Then let Taylor walk. And... what? Draft someone? If I'm Rex, I feel like this is exactly what happened under Izdik. They nuked the roster, and he felt he got the raw end of the deal.

**I'd rather have a GOOD pocket passer TT is middle of the road - same with QBs across the league. The defense isn't good enough for this type of team. If we had the shut down defense that Rex preaches and talks about, we would probably have a winning record. Denver, Seattle, KC, Philly, Minnesota, Baltimore have all gotten by with their QB play, but are largely in the hunt because they play stingy defense. Until rex's team starts playing stingy defense again it doesn't really matter. He gets 1 last year to prove that he knows what he's doing. If Rex fails, TT would be set up to get a year to try with a new regime. If he flames out then he walks. I wouldn't wait too long to find his replacement, but I'd also give the guy a big enough window to see what he can do. Cardale should be able to compete, and TT's style lends itself to injury so he may get on the field sooner rather than later anyway. It isn't necessarily you. You're just one of many who share this opinion - so you get grouped in. And for me it isn't a right or wrong situation. It comes down to problem focus vs. solution focus. I think the problem focused people just see TT as a problem that needs to be fixed, and don't have realistic opinions on how to solve the problem. Is it coaching? Is it play calling? If he's not it, who is? Etc.

Ugh - that guy has to be praying that they fire fisher.

And even then its hard to know what people were supposed to be doing

Darby wasn't playing well, and hasn't really excelled all season. If White is playing well in practice, saying and doing the right things, then he has earned the right to play. It isn't a end all be all for either player. Darby can still play as many snaps as they want - can earn his job back - can still be a good football player. White can still get burned and lose his job as well.

If he sniffs 2000 and ends up with around 20 TDs... It'd be fairly difficult not to give him the award.

Tannehill is fine - but he has the same limitations that people here complain about TT having. Doesn't win you games, isn't particularly clutch. Both get sacked a fair amount - but Tannehill literally had double the sack yards as taylor and doesn't add as much as a rusher. Those number's aren't usually displayed on a traditional QB vs QB chart. Tyrod's probably standing right next to him near the top of that list.

Kiko doesn't bail them out and they're 4-5. Same as us. They're about as flawed as we are as a roster. Honestly - TT is a younger faster Tannehill type. Tannehill's probably more accurate, but they both don't throw to TEs, neither one uses the "middle of the field" all that much. I remember games where Tannehill barely throws the ball beyond the line of scrimmage. Having all 3 of his top receivers certainly helps the gap, but they're probably about the same IMO.

That rule is impossible for them to officiate. If tt rolls out and I can't touch the receiver, they'll use start blocking and he can take off. Works both ways. Sherman just bastardizes it to mean he can legally take a receiver out, which should be a call for something. Probably "unnecessary contact" 2which doesn't exist, but should.

They used some of the same things NE did to burn us. We're actually too predictable believe it or not. They know if they motion graham out and have NRC lined up across, then he's in that deep quarter of the field. So graham will go there. Not sure how you can really adjust for it unless you have NRC switch sides or something with gilmore - but at that point you may as well take him out. Not every team has the TE's to make this work either, we just happen to have played 2 of the best back to back... and we get another in a week assuming he's healthy. We're trying to go the route of "you know what we're doing but were still going to stop you" much like Schwartz, but it isn't working at all. In the 2nd half we probably worked in some different cover 3/cover 2 combination coverages and blitzes to confuse them more.

About time! they act like they're doing me a favor when they cut right to the action after a kickoff. NCAA football has fewer breaks/commercials and its a far better watch. I also like the big bands, and the drummers, the extra noise.

This seems to be throughout the league though. i think the lack of cohesion, makes it more difficult.

I think people are seeing that in our defense, motioning the 3rd receiver to the other side - if NRC stays on the side with the TE - he is the inside cover "man" there. So they'll exploit the matchup. We need to play more straight man.. especially with eifert coming to town. Gilmore want's to get paid like a top corner? I match him up with green all day. Yes there will be help over the top if we don't blitz, but you're on him all day.

I wonder if the cord cutting trend has hurt MNF in particular. You have to have ESPN unless you are in a local market. I think it was also available on twitter or snapchat or something, but i don't know how many people really want to watch football on their phones.

He does "seem" to be improving a bit. Less of the bluster and bragging that the media likes, but still the passion. Relinquishing play calls over to someone else so that he can get a pulse on the game. It's important. The game management aspect is underrated.

The contact on Powell should have been called unnecessary roughness. They probably lose the game because of it, and Sherman deservedly gets his comeuppance

I mean... Seattle and Denver aren't where they are without the great players on those teams. Was Rex good? Or were Lewis and Reed good? Probably a combination - as in neither happens without the other. My biggest thing ive noticed is that Rex is a players coach. This means the leadership element needs to come from the players. When A.will went down again, it seems to lack the same accountability.

Yeah - considering we lost yesterday.... and that was still his best 4th quarter 2 minute drill. Needed something on 3rd there to make 4th more manageable, and we didn't get it. 4th and 15 with only 25 yards to work with? Gross. You can't clear out with a deep route, you can't do an underneath route because you have to make it to the end zone. And I guess you can't buy time because then they can deck your receiver. Oh and they were on him in like 3 seconds with a 3 man rush.

Ron Rivera - 6-10, 7-9 his first 2 years. Carroll was 7-9 his first 2 years in Seattle. Lewis was 8-8 his first 2 years. Garrett was 8-8 for 3 years before finally making the playoffs. Not to say all are created equal, but sticking with a guy can have its benefits. Rex seems to be finding himself a bit more here as well. Not playcalling the D anymore, and having more of a say on the offense. Things a HC should do.

I believe its so you have less substitutions for the kick

Team sport - yadda yadda yadda. In either case - He's a fine QB. That isn't to be argued. We'd be better off with him than without him. But he was the 1st overall pick, and was and never will be available. Finding a similar player without 1st overall picks is difficult. Trading for top 5 picks can be risky. As much as everyone loves Wentz, and he has looked the part, he was sailing throws and had happy feet against the Giants. He threw a pretty brutal pick as well, and the team has lost 4 of 5.

And when have the Lions ever been lucky? OK, so the Vikings missed an extra point Sunday, and their coach called a late time-out that gave the Lions a little extra time, and their coach also gambled by ceding the middle of the field on the Lions’ final drive, because Matthew Stafford and Co. had no time-outs, and the Vikings bet the house that Stafford couldn’t complete a deep pass down the seam and get the clock stopped in time to attempt a field goal. Sounds more like the Vikings blew it Bills style... Sign me up! Where do we sign him? Honestly - i have an irrational hatred of Stafford because he looks like an old roommate who skipped out on rent... But he is an 8th year starter with the same team, and grew into this comeback role. His first 2 years didn't seem to put out the comeback kid vibe. He's turned out to be a pretty good player though - so good for him. His cap hit is also higher than TT's will be, and he's in line for a raise.

Honestly, the 2 graham TDs and the bomb were great plays. Great throws and catches. You can't cover everything on every play. If you cover deep stuff, they'll dink and dunk. If you try to prevent the dink/dunk then they can burn you over the top. When you look at what they did the rest of the way - they couldnt run the ball at all, and most of their passing attack was based on miscommunications on our defense. Graham/baldwin being wide open way too often.

I think go with the route that some other teams do.... use multiple players there. Why does it have to be one or the other?