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When is Stevenson potentially back?

On 3rd and 1 he was hit 3 yards behind the LOS... what is he gonna do there? That's been happening constantly regardless of the back out there. So not sure if its bad plays, bad calls, bad checks... whatever. We have an absurd amount of wasted plays that gain nothing.

We're gonna need Moss this season before its all said and done. Same with Cook. Right now its the singletary show, but its a long year and you want him healthy for the games that matter.

Multiple 3rd and 1s. Multiple completely blown up plays when we try and go jumbo/heavy. I don't know of a back who can make anything happen when his lineman is in his lap by the time he gets the ball. The big one in this one was... about as lucky a play as you will see. There was a 3rd and 8 blitz where I'm not sure what we were doing but almost half their team was open. Moss usage is so strange - they're starting to use motor more as an every down guy, but you really don't want that for a full season. On the road in a big game, sure - but whatever we're calling playcall wise with moss on the field is just dumb. I'm sure they are RPOs or something but shotgun runs up the middle are just wasted plays at this point. Gotta get away from the wasted run plays - and use the run game to get us into more manageable 3rd downs.

He was great with wilson scrambles and always seemed to make some clutch plays. Allen scrambles a lot and I'm looking for that guy who always finds the open grass and makes plays.

I'm hoping Shakir can be our version of Doug Baldwin.

Shady was a solid trade too.

Beasley wasn't a very effective player last year. He could still get open but there was just not much there from a YAC perspective. He started to see his snap counts go down as the year went on and they preferred using Mckenzie and Singletary as safety valves a bit more.

No watt is a killer to their pass rush defensively. Their last 3 games have been against NE, CLE, and NYJ - 3 of the worst passing offenses in football. I expect buffalo to put a hurting on this unit on Sunday. Offensively they'll have a rookie making his first start. They also have a pretty trash offensive line. We should cause some issues for him.

With Kumerow still out - and Davis banged up... i may call hodgins. Shakir and Mckenzie as the slot guys.

Honestly we've played a tough group of rush defenses. Baltimore was #1 a year ago and they're still pretty solid on that part of defense. Miami is 11th this year - but they played buffalo and Baltimore so you have the top 2 running QBs adding a ton of yards. Conventional running against them this year hasn't been successful. Tennessee was #2 last year, and had a bad game against the giants but they just held indy to 38 yards rushing LAR who was #6 a year ago Shuffling line didn't help in week 3. We know we're a passing team, but they need to figure out how to run more effectively against good defenses. The short passes and stuff are a run game extension, but we need to be able to hand the ball off and gain some easy yards. The RPO pass portion is why we're just walking down the field half the game though.

He had 6 snaps against Baltimore. Legit barely played. We're complaining about him gaining yards now? What are we doing?

Moss played 6 snaps. And Cook played 2.

Miami is tremendously fast - he definitely played a bit scared on a couple of deeper passes.

I'd say it was a combination. He lost a lot of the pocket presence after that. He either checked down or was sacked.

2021: Jonathan taylor led the league in rushing, and Chubb was 2nd. Their QBs were Wentz and Mayfield. Their Leading WRs were Pittman and Peoples-Jones.

Yeah, poor edge performance.

Barkley had sub 4 ypc last year with trash oline. Their LG, C, RG, and RT were all replaced and now he looks good again. Having a bell cow running back doesn't do anything for your offense other than add fantasy value. I'm not a huge moss fan, but to act like the offensive line is performing well is simply untrue.

Looked like he kicked it with the arch of his foot too - something went wrong there.

It's a strange spot to be in - you want to milk clock and score a TD. But if you don't score you need to have clock as well.

Tyrod was great in that game - we couldn't stop Jay Ajayi with Rex's patented 10 man defense.

Hydes looked literally like nothing.. like when he laid down after i thought maybe a stinger? Like the player stretched his neck too far to the side? Which apparently it did enough to tear some stuff.

He was also a lot better than the alternative at the time.

To me it looked like a bad kick that was tipped because it wasn't kicked clean. The problem was that everyone was down field already. If we could have gone down with closer to 15 seconds left you can theoretically collapse on the ground and get the 10 second runoff to attend to injury.

Sigh - they held on the play!! He had a nice fumble punch.