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Yeah Drake Maye is for real. What I've seen from him the past 2 weeks reminds me of when Allen figured it all out in 2020. He has been great on schedule and then makes the athletic plays out of structure when he needs to.

They've leaned into letting Maye throw the ball downfield the last few weeks. They don't have a great WR corps by any means but the ones they do have have a downfield skill set and McDaniels of course is excellent at scheming them open. When all else fails Maye is creating out of structure and his pass catchers are doing a great job working open for him on those plays.

I think Olave caught that and then fumbled. Hopefully it gets overturned on replay overview. Not sure what happens if it was a fumble because they blew it dead before anyone recovered it.

They have their QB and they have their coaching staff. No sense trying to deny it anymore. The division is not automatic this year and I think it will come down to our game in New England.

This would be a huge mistake IMO. Rattler looks like he could be a good backup for years. Many regimes have written their own pink slips trying to make it work with a QB like that for too long.

Before the 2024 draft there were rumors that Xavier Legette was, uh, not an intelligent person. Scouts were reportedly giving him poor marks for his football IQ. Turns out that was probably true. He just did one of the dumbest things I've ever seen, attempting to lateral the ball to a teammate who very clearly was not ready and after a game of fumblerooski they end up almost out of FG range.

Their offense is built around their elite OT pair and they are currently down both of them. They should get Alt back at some point, until then that offense is hopeless.

Oh god Red Zone just flipped to the Chargers/Dolphins game and I heard BOBBY HART committing a false start for the Chargers. No wonder their offense has been moribund since Joe Alt went down.

Rams can probably win it like 12-6 if they need to. Baltimore's offense with Cooper Rush is possibly as bad as the Jets offense.

I'll use Robert Saleh as an example. Even I was asking myself "am I really going to put this name out there?" But then I considered. When Saleh was there the Jets had an elite defense. They managed to slow down and confound Josh Allen which is a feat in itself. As soon as Saleh got fired their defense fell apart and this year their defense has continued to be mostly bad. Meanwhile the 49ers defense has been quite good this year, despite being banged up, after having a disappointing season last year. All of that evidence to me is a lot more informative than the results he had with the Jets under awful ownership with awful QB play (or circus QB play). I don't need him to be Vince Lombardi. I just need him to coach a defense capable of performing at even an above average level in the playoffs, and Allen will do the rest. So when I say improvement is practically automatic that's what I mean.

Anthony Richardson really was that bad. Shane Steichen is proving that he just needs baseline level QB play to have an elite offense. The crazy thing is I saw several analysts say that giving Daniel Jones the job over Richardson was a mistake because they "didn't give him a chance to develop." I don't think people realized how hilariously bad he was.

So be clear, I'm not saying that literally any possible head coach/GM combo would be better. I'm saying that because we have Allen we would have our pick of the litter, and given that advantage it would be almost impossible to screw it up. Of the realistic and available selections I genuinely think improvement would be almost automatic. It's impossible to focus less on passing offense than this regime has. It's impossible for the defense to perform worse in the playoffs. I know you still don't agree but I hope you can understand where I'm coming from.

I think a lot of head coaches make dumb game management mistakes. Andy Reid was infamous for it with the Eagles. Game management just becomes a hell of a lot easier when you have an elite QB singlehandedly erasing mistakes in every game, so that's not really my deciding factor. What I want from a coach is one of two things (ideally both): 1) A new organizational philosophy towards building the team around Allen first and foremost 2) A better coached defense that also performs well in the playoffs KC has won Super Bowls both ways. The reason Stefanski with Schwartz is my top choice is that I think you get both. The other retreads I mentioned you at least get the defense that can perform and I'd like to think just about any regime other than McBeane would recognize that Allen has to be front an center in your team building philosophy. This regime has failed in such basic almost shocking ways that I sincerely think improvement would be almost automatic, which I know you don't agree with but that's where I'm at.

First play for the Saints agaist the Pats was a big downfield completion to Olave for 53 yards. Nothing fancy, he just beat his man and got open downfield. They did that on their first play. Our offense doesn't even have the option of completing a pass like that. "Everybody eats" is a lie. It creates the illusion that we have an offense that can do anything against our opponent. But that isn't true. There are basic plays that just about every other offense has on the menu, and we don't have them. All the more shameful with maybe the best arm in NFL history leading the offense.

Nope. Try again.

This is the second time you've brought up something that didn't happen.

He doesn't. He had one allegation when he was 18 years old and no charges were ever filed. Besides that he's known to be a great teammate, high energy, studious with a strong work ethic. You're seeing red because he suffered a non contact knee injury. Even if he hadn't it's week 6 of his NFL career. Let it play out.

Yeah 1st round picks should contribute early, except when they suffer non contact knee injuries in training camp. It royally sucks but it wasn't a failure of scouting. The value of the pick will be determined on the field.

This is just flat out wrong. It isn't for us to decide whether or not he is guilty. That's what the justice system is for. It isn't a perfect system but it is a system and that's a hell of a lot better than mob justice. Do I take allegations seriously? Absolutely. Do I automatically believe them wholesale? Absolutely not.

I actually think Strong would have been starting by now. They temporarily benched Tre in the Saints game and Strong looked good in the snaps he was taking. Unfortunately the neck injury screwed it all up. Nothing we can do now but hope that McDermott trusts Hairston ASAP. Can't say I'm overly optimistic that will happen based on history. I for one would much rather watch Hairston make rookie mistakes on the field than watch a player that cannot physically perform at the position. I'm not sure McDermott agrees. Fingers crossed that he sees the light and makes the necessary change.

Being investigated isn't a crime nor is it even evidence that one committed a crime. I thought as a society we had moved past that brief social endemic of guilty until proven innocent.

Bills 27 Falcons 23 I don't have a great feel for this one. Every year we enter an offensive slump that lasts at least 2 games and it feels like we're in the middle of that now. I think we can run on Atlanta though. They have a small DL. I'm not convinced this is the game our downfield passing offense is suddenly going to take off so we'll have to slowly and efficiently work our way down the field. Hopefully Penix throws at least one dumb INT to set us up with good field position. Penix has been awful throwing 10+ yards down the field this year. I don't trust our defense at all but McDermott's scheme has always worked better against one dimensional offenses. So I expect us to sell out to stop Bijan and that will probably be effective enough to keep them from out scoring us.

It's one thing that annoys me about Brady, he calls that exact play on critical downs way too frequently. It is just so predictable at this point and a simple zone defense beats it every time. Same thing happened on 4th down in the regular season KC game last year, Allen just put on the Superman cape. This time the Pats did a better job of contain so he couldn't run for it. The concept was DOA and his receivers didn't do a good job of uncovering in the scramble drill.

Hurts is the hardest QB in the league to evaluate. I was starting to buy in to the idea that he is a top 10 QB, but is it just as possible he's a bottom 10 QB? Whenever he's asked to just stand back and make normal reads it can look like a complete disaster. But also the two best games he's ever played both happened in the Super Bowl. He's a total enigma to me.