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It's basically sweet and sour sauce in salad dressing form so I don't see that as that strange.

I'm here for it.

Just my observation. He seems to have shortened up.

That, and Bass seems to not be overswinging this year trying to kick every ball into the sun.

Bruce and the boys roughed their share of QBs under the new rules too.

There is no such thing as a forced resignation. You are given the choice, resign or be fired. You can choose to make them fire you. The Raiders did not fire Gruden for cause, they didn't void his contract. It's highly probable that he's being paid his full salary as a part of his agreement to resign. Being fired for cause is totally different and he wasn't. To your other point you still do not have to prove that his actions caused harm to others. He's not a protected class, nothing he lost his job over was protected speech. You don't have the freedom to say whatever you want over emails or over the greater internet or even out loud with impunity. Grudens emails, at least in part, were disparaging to the commissioner of the organization for whom he worked. The Raiders are under no obligation to tolerate that. Just as any of us would expect to lose our jobs if we referred to the CEO of our company that way over company email. Freedom from prosecution from the government is different from freedom from losing your job at a private business. If you really want to go down that road, which again would only be relevant if he were fired for cause which he was not, the Raiders could argue that his actions were harmful to the brand and would significantly impact their future ability to attract players and staff as well as negatively impact sales. It's not really that challenging. One sponsorship is pulled, case is made. Had Gruden stayed on at least one sponsorship would have been pulled. That's lost revenue and is by definition damaging. To my understanding, that's not even Grudens argument. His argument seems to be that he was singled out from a much larger group of people for discipline for similar actions, not that his own actions were justifiable or defensible, but that others should also have been punished but were not. The NFL made that case possible when they declined to release all the emails and nobody else lost their jobs.

No. You don't. Just like the person who flipped off the Presidential motorcade and lost their job. People love to throw around the First Amendment and apply it to situations it does not apply to. If Gruden were to win this it would because of the manner in which the emails were disclosed. FWIW it's not a small difference that he chose to resign rather than be fired. It's sematic but semantics matter.

Nope. Not how that works at all but thanks for playing.

Because it's one of those partnerships where one party shows up with a cease and desist in hand and says "You want to partner with us right?"

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Also known as the lies we tell ourselves. I'd take Dallas' offense lock stock and barrel tomorrow.

I'm just asking which good offense they actually stopped to demonstrate the vast defensive improvement you are touting.

I could not agree with you more. The arrogance going into this year was obvious and unacceptable.

And after this game they have 3 losses, against the real teams in front of us. Since you want to use rankings, here are the current points per game rankings of all the offenses we've played. They've played 1 well functioning offense so far and the defense got stomped in that game. Every other game the team we were playing had some level of dysfunction. I don't think you can argue that KC has been functioning up to KC standards this year and the other teams are pretty obvious. Houston - 32nd Jacksonville - 30th Miami x2 - 28th Pittsburgh - 26th Washington - 24th Kansas City - 15th Tennessee - 6th

Looked pretty much the same to me against Tennessee. If you could direct me to the functioning offense that they shut down this year I'd like to know. The Chiefs aren't the problem.

Where are they vastly improved?

We're on to 2022. I say that because it's clear that this group doesn't have what it needs to go the distance which makes this a wasted year.

I refuse to call it that. It's idiot mode. There's nothing heroic about it, it's just repetitive stupidity.

Did they get Derrick Henry's cleat marks off their faces yet? How about last year's? This entire team is vastly overrated.

Last week's first half was the time for this comment. They took that start against a pathetic team and turned it into today's debacle when it SHOULD have been the wake-up call. Today's game should have been the response to whatever their issue was last week but it wasn't. Next week's game SHOULD be the response to this embarrassment and if you are correct the Bills SHOULD win that game by 40 points. I don't think that will happen and I wouldn't be shocked if the Jets won the game outright.

Except it's not. This has been brewing for weeks. Even when they were scoring a lot Allen was under pressure a lot, they couldn't run the ball, and they were terrible in the red zone. Those problems haven't improved, they've only gotten worse. This week was the trade deadline and they doubled down on what they had in house. They were rewarded with this giant pile of garbage. Offensive line was terrible. Allen played like a rookie. WRs dropped passes for first downs. RBs essentially invisible. TE hugely ineffective but remained on the field as a receiver. Daboll did nothing from the offense that we haven't seen a million times. What the offense had done very well for a time last year was countering it's own tendencies and setting teams up to be exploited later in the game with complimentary play calling. This year it's disjointed and ugly and a lot of the time it looks like they have no answers at all. Last year there seemed to be something different every week, a different wrinkle, a new formation, something. This year it looks very stagnant and stale, like they are out of ideas. Whoever is calling the plays whether it's Daboll or Dorsey better get themselves straight or this is going to get sideways on them in a hurry because the schedule gets a lot harder really soon. This was supposed to be the easy part. Today was a must-win game simply because of the opponent and they blew it. Big time. Now instead of talking about getting back into the home field advantage conversation we are looking back at the Patriots closing up behind us.

They are sitting on all that which is why Beasley has 8 catches for 33 yards. Put an inline tight end and a FB on the field and act like you are having protection problems rather than continually spreading the field.

They dont give him the ball anyway. What difference does it make?

I said weeks ago that the offense was broken but nobody wanted to listen. The offense is broken.

Yes, and I agree with the defensive philosophy. We haven't shown that we can hold up on the line v. Cover 0 in order to make teams pay with the deep ball.