HappyDays

We are just being sloppy on offense

It was zone, Tre did exactly what he was supposed to dropping Diggs off to Taron.

On a second look Taron did a good job coming down to force the throw to the outside shoulder and Maye was off target

Nice one Stef

Benford getting beat by a JAG receiver. What the hell happened to him this year

Wasn't a fan of that catch attempt on 2nd down

Two procedural mistakes so far, clean it up

Lol ok...

Knox has been a great blocker this year but whenever we try to get him the ball bad things are happening

Oh ffs...

Allen is a master in the pocket tonight

Nice throw and catch

Hey we called press coverage there! And look at that it works on 3rd down

KC is winning the AFCW again. I can't believe how poor the Chargers offense has looked the last 2 weeks. I know they are down Joe Alt but Washington hasn't stopped anyone this year.

Thank God they drafted a "run stuffer" in the top 10. The division continues to keep itself down.

Bo Nix just isn't it. Misses way too many throws and looks out of sorts in the pocket. They have a great roster but without a QB it doesn't matter.

Report came out yesterday that the Saints will be sellers at the deadline. Shaheed is a no brainer move for this team. Any kind of vertical passing threat at all would be welcome.

Must be healing slower than they hoped. On the short clips I've seen from practice this week he doesn't look entirely comfortable after drills.

Sucks about Dorian Strong, I wonder if the neck injury is a season ender. Our CB depth is suddenly very thin. Who is even the 4th guy in after Ingram, Cam Lewis I guess? Two DTs elevated makes me nervous that both Oliver and Sanders will miss the game. Another year with certain position groups on defense getting hit with multiple injuries. Just crazy.

After Burrow's injury I'd say the divisions are about equal this year. Steelers = Patriots Bengals < Dolphins Browns > Jets That's how I'd stack it. We should be big Steelers fans the rest of the season. They have no chance at the #1 seed but they have a real chance of keeping Baltimore out of the playoffs entirely. If they can beat Baltimore once they just need to go 7-5 in the rest of their games to end 11-6 and that is probably enough to take the division.

It's really difficult to tell exactly how good he is. Allen single handedly erases a lot of stalled drives and the only other time Brady was an NFL OC he failed and got fired. The best thing he has going for him is he knows what his players do well and he only asks them to do those things. Compared to Dorsey where for example he would ask Gabe Davis to read coverages and catch a lot of targets. As soon as Brady took over that kind of nonsense stopped. His play design and play calling is simple, for better or worse. He calls a few select formations and only has like 3-4 concepts he calls out of each of those formations. He basically tells the opposing defense I think I can call these plays even when you know they're coming and I dare you to stop it. We've seen that strategy falter a bit when defenses sell out to stop specific plays, but it's hard to argue with the results. Any given week we can put up 30+ points while barely breaking a sweat. Yes we have Allen as the ultimate force multiplier but that's been true since 2020 and we've only seen the week to week consistency show up since Brady took over. I don't think he's particularly creative and he can be a bit too conservative for my liking so I would say he both significantly raises our floor and slightly reduces our ceiling.

There actually are 5 rushing, it's hard to see because 1 of them is getting swallowed up in the middle. I have no problem with the blitz call. It worked as intended getting Taron as a free rusher. My issue is, to use Babich's own words, the pass rush is not married to the coverage. Leaving Benford in off coverage on an island against an elite route runner is not how you get Rattler to hold the ball. I mean that's a college level read and anticipation throw that any backup QB is going to hit. Rapp ends up sprinting backwards from the line to cover nobody while Benford is being hung out to dry. This is a 3rd and long that should have been converted and it is 100% on the play call.

They might as well keep all their questionable players out and try to re-group next week. No chance they are beating any team, even the lowly Texans, with Lamar out plus like half of their starting defense.

This play is a good example of our play calling issues on 3rd down. It technically counts as a 3rd down stop but only because Olave dropped the ball: This is exactly the kind of call that I hate. We bring an exotic blitz on 3rd down which I'm happy with. But Benford has no chance on this play. He's in off coverage and is back pedaling even before the ball is snapped. He's still back pedaling as Rattler gets into his throwing motion. Just way too easy against a route runner like Olave. I mean what is even the intent of this play design? The off coverage look invites Rattler to throw to his #1 target, so why even bother sending extra pressure when you know he'll get the ball out quick? If it were Spags he'd send the same pressure but Olave would be bracketed inside and out, which would give Taron the extra couple seconds he needs to get to the QB. This is just an utterly garbage play call that we got lucky on, and we've seen it on tape over and over again since last year.

Just crazy to me that they paid Brock Purdy. I don't want to overreact to one game but is the difference between Mac Jones in this system and Purdy in this system really worth $50M a year?