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Dart matches, too.

Plugging and playing is much easier to do with players who've been in the system multiple years and who know it well.

Yeah, it's obvious there's an issue with his hand. Won't be a problem as long as someone doesn't target that hand with a cheap shot, which has been known to happen at times in this league

Trepidicious. Three in a row on the road is a challenge regardless of the quality of the opponent, let alone the three good teams they'll be facing. I'm thrilled as hell with our impressive 3-0 start, but we've seen dominating starts in the past. As the saying goes, it's a week to week league. We need to go 1-0 next Sunday.

I was never concerned about his athleticism as he's always demonstrated that when healthy. My big concerns were his raw inexperience and health. This is the first time his back hasn't been an issue for him. And Kromer is the best coach for him as well

Correct. But little of that has to do with stadium construction.

Cry me a river, Jacksonville.

While stadiums didn't hurt development in Atlanta, they played little part in the city's development. Instead, it's the fact that Atlanta is headquarters for many large corporations, including over a dozen Fortune 500 companies that sparked it's boom over the last 50 years or so.

I'd go with the spider 2 Y banana instead.

If I'm Mayo I keep that kid as far away from this game as possible.

McD v McD In the battle of the Micks Opie beats the nerd

Can't forget Shula No wins in the seventies Jerry Bergman sucked

I think there was a fair amount of sandbagging yesterday by the coaches in looking towards Thursday. And because it's the first Thursday game of the season, I suspect they've spent time on game planning Miami already. I doubt they let the players in on the plan until last night.

Oliver was doubled a ton yesterday. He ate blockers and did his job.

We didn't have both starting safeties two years ago and other than the one long pass to Waddle late in the game, their O didn't do jack all day. I'm more worried about the loss of Taron going into this game. That and Williams needs to get a clue at LB position next to Bernard.

I agree entirely that Reid will scheme him into motion, bunched sets, etc. and that underscores my point which is that he is not an on ball receiver. Muscling little fast guys at the LOS is different than muscling little quick guys at the LOS. Worthy has world class straight line speed and he can take the top off a defense if allowed free releases, but we’ve seen for years how little guys can struggle vs. continuous contact for five yards vs press coverage. And I think that’s what DCs will do if he lines up on the ball with any frequency. If he were strong like Tyreek Hill, I’d think differently, but he’s just not.

Watch it again. Humphrey was three yards off the LOS and not playing press. Worthy had a free, three step release before Humphrey stepped up to bump him with that little shove to the side, which actually helped worthy get to the sideline. I just don’t think DCs are gonna give him that room very often. It also helps when your CBs know what the coverage assignments are because Humphrey was playing zone and clearly expecting help when he passed Worthy off.

Not necessarily. A good chuck at the line negates a ton of Worthy’s speed advantage. I’ll be surprised if he plays more on the ball than off the ball as the season progresses and defenses adjust. We shall see.

It’s only a matter of time before DCs play press coverage when Worthy is line up on the LOS, depending on the game situation. I haven’t changed my opinion one bit that he is an off ball receiver because he struggles against press coverage, especially against bigger, stronger CBs. Kudos to Mahomes for seeing the play, but it never would have happened if Worthy wasn’t allowed a free release.