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I go Seattle over New England in a revenge game.

My guess is goodwin comes on in 3rd and longs maybe to shift woods to slot. Salas maybe in the 3rd and short/middle stuff so he can use the size/quickness to get open near the sticks. I think they want to spread the ball around considerably.

Flacco outside of his insane 2012 playoffs has been largely middle of the road. Tyrod brings some more upside as a stand alone player, and may be a better fit for what we're trying to do. It's a toss-up to me.

I think they simplified a lot of it this year. Both Rob and Rex seemed like they looked at it that the substitutions need to be simplified, as do they pre-snap checks. Copycat league - and currently everyone is going with more pace.

We looked at TE's and apparently didn't like any enough to make a move there. So we brought in a receiver who can apparently catch vs. the crew of guys we paraded out who could not. Hopefully he doesn't see the field.

Not a ton - but he did win 4 in the division including a meaningless week 17 game when we were already eliminated... Against a trendy playoff pick this year. The Defense had some stinkers, but so did the Offense. Towards the end of the year they started to clean it up a bit - but were massively injured and the talent gap was occasionally very apparent.

EJ ya know... knows the playbook and can execute to a reasonable level should our starter get hurt. It's the hardest job in football, and we'd trade him for pennies just so we can say we got some pennies for him? We can then bring in sanchez, who will be woefully unprepared should something happen to our starter. Sounds like sound logic to me. As for Hardy - we have enough suspended guys as it stands now. I think they'll pass on the headache.

From what I can tell based on just my personal knowledge of football (fantasy and just generally reading too much) - they tried to get depth across the board after having a year destroyed by injuries. Really good on the o-line, They go 4 deep at receiver (all pretty solid choices), they have a few running backs they rotate in (kind of like us), and have a few TE options because of their oft injured star TE. Flacco is a solid if not spectacular QB. Rex is going to stack it up and not let them get anything going on the ground. For a team with no reliable deep threats this is probably a smart route to go. Will probably get caught blitzing a bit too much, but with a solid line like this we have to keep them guessing. Defensively - excellent linebacker group when healthy. Will be tough to run on. They don't have a ton of depth in their defensive backfield though so i would probably game plan to pass a bit more and get our speedier backs in space. It also makes it more difficult to keep all those linebackers on the field if we split clay out wide and roll with 3 receivers. Asking suggs/dumervil/upshaw to cover mccoy/clay would be a big problem. We will probably run some zone read concepts out of this formation to create running room. We are a lot faster, so we need to use that in this one to get the W.

He had 19 tackles as a hybrid DE/OLB. He was not doing his or anyone's job well... Per PFF: He managed only 37 combined pressures in 507 rushes, ranking fourth from bottom in pass-rushing productivity. Williams’ 42.5 pass-rush grade helped him to 93rd in our overall edge defender rankings.

Pretty sure we kept goodwin and hogan over him. I don't think he played teams, and isn't a returner so that hurt his options with us.

Do they even play the same position?

Gotta remember that zona is traveling east. Thats a tough road trip. They will lose games this year.... Typically those are the ones people target for good teams to lose.

Bierman looked absolutely terrible. I know it was a first game action, but he's gotta be bottom of the depth chart if hes on the 53. Only playing if literally... everyone else can't. Looked slow, weak, and just generally bad. If Kruger doesn't want to start - he's more than welcome to jump in and contribute.

Aikens pretty good, as is Steve smith. The key to that game is running the ball, and getting a lead. Flacco isn't a good enough qb to have to only rely on himself

Took a good bump there. I thought he'd be fine, gotta remember to tuck ur chin there j will. And they say pro wrestling is fake...

If the whistle blew when it should have Kroy may pull up. So that's on Ed again

It's a bang bang play so tough to penalize there. What they should do is fine then after the game. Best way to discourage behavior is cost players a lot of money

Rex resting his starters makes sense now. Wash has been very aggressive in this one

. They called holding on that one...

Jumping offsides on defense is just unacceptable. Wait for the snap...

Their backups miss tackles too...

Worthy and Washington were making some problems. They just gotta keep playing. Lot of mistakes. Clean it up

He was getting hit a bit too... Our o line has been the worst unit out there. They absolutely blew that first half more than anybody else

Ragland/IK this year... McCoy last year. Gets u off to a rough start.

Hopefully a decent guy gets cut somewhere. These guys aren't great