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This. He tried too hard to make his mark.

Same old Roman. There were at least 3 runs for more than 4 yard losses. Sacks and or protection breakdowns. Zero consistency from Tyrod. It's hard to get in a rhythm when you don't get on the field, but the fact that we didn't even take any chances in the 2nd half shows me they believe in this mess of an offense. How does it take 25 seconds to relay in a zone run? How are we going to do pre-snap motion, hard count, or audible when we can't get lined up. If you want to run - line up and run it. Our passing game was all max protect - and we don't call any plays that involve anyone other than watkins. If he's not open, we'll just dump it off. Call a slant to woods! Throw it to Clay up the seam! They had single high safety shading to watkins all game. 8 or 9 in the box with corners blowing up our running plays. If thats the case - send watkins deep every play and roll 3 wide. Put goodwin or salas on their own and take the free yards they're giving you (they usually won't bump goodwin without safety help, and salas is big enough to use his body to guard off on a slant or hitch). We did nothing to discourage them from doubling Watkins. In fact we played right into it. I honestly think Roman would benefit from calling in the booth, or simplifying his playbook.

All things considered... If there had been a gap where he was a coordinator for like 5 years. Would we still add his jets tenure to his buffalo one? Probably not. Is he a good coach? No - but let him fail in buffalo on his own merits, not what he did with the jets.

Their defense was most impressive. Jimmy g was fine. But not spectacular by any strectttch. If they have Brady I think they still win if he makes the field goal. 30 seconds, drive 40 or so yards. Seen him do it a million times. That's how much better he is than jimmy.

and we called a game designed not to let him be A qb... Pretty much a recipe for disaster

Just seemed completely out of sorts... Terrible performance. But I give the defense some credit, this should've been a blow out. We didn't move the ball at all

They have to know they've gotta be much better to have a shot. Need more forward running plays. That missed block on the Tyrod Taylor scramble play, missed plays all over the firle

The defense battled. The offense was stuck in the mud all day and never got out

Hughes missed several tackles and lost the edge a few times in the first half

Guy got killed today. Oline gets An f today

We gave up 13 points, and if we tackled better we might've given up fewer. Tyrod looked bad, but the oline looked worse. The preseason off may have been a bad choice. Baltimore might be better than we thought too. Sky isn't falling... Yet...

One team no one picks usually sneaks in every year, and one trendy pick usually bottoms out. It could be us - but the top 3/4 are usually set so were battling like 6 or 7 teams for 1 or 2 open spots. Its tough. Not to mention we're in a division with a powerhouse team- usually puts an extra 2 L's on your record, and takes away the possibility of winning the division. 2 extra AFC losses and a worse divisional record - all tiebreakers that get harmed by playing new england twice a year during their run of winning an average of 12 per year for 15 years. Certainly doesn't make it easy.

Decastro just signed his extension - so it's still possible. Why would he want to play out the 1 year deal?

Except that Albright was undrafted, and maybin was overdrafted. If Albright sucks - we cut him and replace him like that. Maybin can suck and we're on the hook for his whole deal. Guys got 0 job security, which tells me he practices like he plays and is smart in film study. As for adding weight - only if its functional strength. I don't care what someone weighs.

If it is for weed/depression i think in-patient rehab would be a bit much. He doesn't need round the clock care, doesnt seem to be a suicide risk, doesn't need detox - etc.

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.