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Ceedee Lamb didn't exactly help his QB out there, you have to know on a scramble drill your job is to find grass and make yourself available. He just stood there tight to his man and gave Dak no chance.

After inputting the Colts and Texans losses today, NYT playoff calculator has us at 83% likely to be in as a wildcard if we end the season 10-7.

Yeah I agree, the 4th one is not assured at all. Next week the Colts play the Raiders and the Texans play the Titans. If Raiders and Titans both win, our 10-7 chances skyrocket. Tonight Broncos losing to the Patriots would be amazing but that's not expected. They them finish against the Chargers and Raiders... I think it's decently likely they slip up somewhere over those 3 games but no guarantee. Jaguars losing 2 of their last 3 against Bucs, Panthers, Titans, that is the least likely result IMO. Although the NYT playoff calculator really likes our chances. I input the current game results, and also put us beating the Pats and losing to the Dolphins. Their calculator gives us an 83% chance of being a wildcard in that situation.

Assuming the current results hold, we need 4 of the following 6 things to happen to make it in as a wildcard at 10-7: -Broncos lose 1 more -Bengals lose 1 more -Steelers lose 1 more -Colts lose 1 more -Texans lose 1 more -Jaguars lose 2 more The Colts and Texans still play so that's one automatic check for us.

A true #1 WR makes everything else look so easy

Lol Amari Cooper is playing out of his mind right now

I mean he had 3 INTs last week including a pick-6 and they still won... He is being propped up big time by surrounding talent. Not there's anything wrong with that.

I've already seen him catch two underthrown deep passes, one that just went for a 75 yard TD.

Broncos, Dolphins, and Jags too.

Amari Cooper is ridiculous. He's making Joe Flacco look like an elite QB.

It's a concern that since we started funneling a lot more of the offense through him, he has two lost fumbles with a couple more that the offense recovered, and two dropped TD passes. It is tough for a coaching staff to rely on a player like that in critical moments in the playoffs. But unfortunately we have no choice because the passing weapons aren't good enough. I hope someone puts a hot poker on Cook's ass this week because we need him as focused as can be over the next month. He almost lost us the season last night...

I thought both sides of the ball were rather vanilla. McDermott mentioned in his post game presser they saw plays from the Chargers that were not on film at all this season. I'm guessing because of the interim coach we had no clue what to expect so we called a generic game plan and hoped the talent discrepancy would be enough... Obviously as we saw, it almost wasn't.

It's a stark reminder that you can't rely on rookies to consistently produce. If you even get a good role player from a rookie season, that's a success. So next year we can't assume a WR that we draft in the 1st round will immediately be a major factor in our offense. If we want to immediately raise the level of the passing offense next year we will have to do something crazy like pay Michael Pittman in free agency. There are no shortcuts to getting a legitimate #2 receiving option.

Josh has ALWAYS bailed out of clean pockets. Mahomes does the same thing. It's a feature of their game, not a bug. Both QBs become about 10x more dangerous when they roll right. If you haven't learned to live with that part of his game yet, you never will... Like on Davis's TD I don't know if Josh needed to leave the pocket there but I'm sure glad he did.

I was struggling to remember the 2nd one. You're talking about the pass to Kincaid that was a bit too high? In real time I thought that play had no chance of picking up more than maybe 5 yards, there was a defender immediately bearing down on Kincaid who would have hit him right after the catch. I thought that throw was just Josh conceding the drive. That play was an example of what I mean, he is patting the ball looking downfield and no one is separating. I just don't understand how against a poor pass defense we were struggling to hold the line and separate all night.

It's Easton Stick throwing to the #3 and #4 WRs on the depth chart... It's an OL down to its 3rd center... We should expect total domination. Giving up even 1 TD, even on a short field, is inexcusable. Zero turnovers is inexcusable. Only creating one 3 and out is inexcusable. Giving up 4 FGs on drives that started at or before the 50 is inexcusable. Those 4 FG drives plus 7 points instead of 3 points after Harty's fumble, that is 16 points legitimately given up by the defense to Easton Stick and his cast of nobodies. You have to adjust your expectations higher against this opponent. I think any defense could have done what ours did last night. They didn't lose us the game but they probably should have made it an easy stress-free win, if they had played up to a championship standard like we expect.

Yes. His pass catchers had trouble separating all night. The OL lost the battle in the run and pass game. Blitzes weren't picked up, as usual. The run game was non-existent. Cook fumbled one drive away. Harty fumbled one drive away. So yes I believe the only reason we did anything on offense was because of several special plays from Josh. He was Superman and he was Clark Kent. The couple of missed throws were annoying and stuck out because the volume of passing plays was so low. On the whole though there was never any rhythm or consistency to the passing game, against a really poor passing defense. And a lot of that was caused by his teammates. Also Gunner I don't agree with your assessment of the defense. I know the stats are good. But it is Easton Stick missing his top 2 WRs and an OL down to their 3rd center. We should have totally dominated them... I'm talking several consecutive 3 and outs, that sort of thing. We should not have allowed a TD, even after the Harty fumble. Maybe the interim coach bump was real and we were unprepared for what they called. But on the whole I was underwhelmed by the defense. It felt like they did the bare minimum against a talent deficient offense featuring a backup QB, when a really good defense would have had the game won by the start of the 4th quarter.

I know he needs to be aggressive for us to have any chance. Our skill players are not going to make big plays happen all their own. Just in games against bad offenses he can afford to play more reserved, that's all. Still I recognize he was the only reason we scored points today and had to overcome a lot of bad play from the talent around him.

It's just annoying because of how unnecessary it was. Allen has definitely crossed the line of reckless versus aggressive too many times this year. This is the kind of game where the last thing you want is to gift Easton Stick any kind of momentum... I don't mind the INT he had against the Eagles for example, it's a shootout against a Super Bowl caliber opponent and he had over 50 pass attempts. Having a dumb INT on 20 pass attempts against a bad opponent is just poor awareness of the game situation. There was just no need for a cross the body deep throw in this game against this opponent. But then he totally redeemed himself by making several ridiculous throws on his clutch final drive to seal the game.

Also worth noting that this is now three consecutive games with poor pass protection... It's forgotten in the Cowboys game because one drive was extended by a questionable RTP and another by an amazing one handed catch from Diggs, but Allen was moved off his spot a lot in that one too. The run game was just so good it didn't matter. A lack of great skill players combined with poor pass protection, it's no wonder our passing offense has been maddeningly boom or bust the past few weeks. Nobody should use the interim head coach excuse or say we got caught in a trap game, this has been an ongoing trend.

1 of 1 QB play. There's no hot read open, the play is dead on arrival. But he just makes a ridiculous throw to single handedly keep the drive going.

Oliver - Best player on the field for both teams Allen - Too messy tonight, but that final TD drive was as clutch as he's ever been Davis - If Davis gets 1 reception, he gets 100 yards and a TD, he is all or nothing Johnson - He just keeps making plays in coverage while being asked to do everything and is probably the most underrated player on the team

Man I am not confident at all right now. I hate that we've turned this game into a knife fight. The entire season comes down to a defensive stand...

Wow! Josh came up clutch on that drive.

Again Allen and Diggs not on the same page downfield