HappyDays

I don't know how well this will go over, but in a certain sense the local professional athletes are "essential workers." They're a huge boon to the culture and economy of the area. I'm not oblivious to the fact that professional athletes are afforded privileges the rest of us aren't. They got to go home and be with their families. Anyone upset about that is the worst kind of person. So the Bills players should have to suffer because other members of the community suffered? I've been trapped in my house and separated from half of my family since Friday. Should I also shut off my power and heat in solidarity with those unlucky households in Buffalo that have been without it?

On offense the Bengals are one dimensional. They're only averaging 3.9 yards per rush, 28th lowest in the league. Our defense thrives against one dimensional offenses. Their OL is still very vulnerable so that bodes well for us being able to get pressure with four which is what our scheme is based around. You can't play man against this group of receivers but we almost always play zone anyways. Burrow is smart and accurate so he will find windows in zone and make plays, we aren't going to shut them out. Just have to pressure him enough to affect him and keep them in 3rd and long situations while bracketing Chase. The goal on defense IMO is hold them under 24 points. On defense they have a very solid front four but Hubbard is unlikely to play and Hendrickson is playing with a broken wrist. Logan Wilson isn't a playmaker but he does a good job covering the middle. Their safeties are both very good. The weakness there is their outside CBs and luckily we are an offense that thrives throwing the ball to our WRs on the boundary so that's a great matchup. DJ Reader is arguably the best run stopper in the league so this is not a game where we will be able to lean on the run game as much. Since this is practically a playoff game Allen will not be shy about running the ball and that is a matchup problem for any defense we play. So for us the matchup advantages are outside WRs and Allen running as necessary. On special teams not too much to say but the Bengals kicker has really been struggling lately. In a likely close game that gives us another decided advantage.

Maybe there could be something to this?

Wow 3 in one season. Very scary.

Turns out they did offer it to the DC and he didn't take it. Which is even funnier somehow.

So instead of giving their DC Ejiro Evero an opportunity after an incredible year for his unit, they give it to this random guy that has been in the building for a couple months.

I can't imagine a worse job for a potential head coach. Stuck with little draft capital, the worst contract in the league, and no QB. And you have Mahomes and Herbert on the schedule twice a year each.

Okay I promise this is my last one.

Only 5 RBs managed that feat last year so that is not a realistic standard. I thought you didn't like offenses that over-utilized RBs as pass catchers. We would have to completely overhaul our offensive philosophy for him to get that much production. We drafted him to give us an explosive skill set that was missing from our RB room, not to become our primary offensive weapon. It was a low 2nd round pick that Beane only used after trading back several times presumably because he only had players with 3rd round grades left on the board. A RB taken in the 1st round needs to do what you're saying. Low 2nd round you are looking for meaningful contributors.

He doesn't break tackles the way we usually think of it but he does have quite a bit of yards after contact. He runs through a lot of arms before they have a chance to get a good hold on him. If he isn't given space to work with he won't churn out yards with power, but give him a lane with some space and he shoots through it fast enough that his power doesn't matter. Considering the number of light boxes we face, his is the more important skill set in this offense anyways IMO.

He has a long wind up release which leaves his ribs exposed to contact longer than the average QB. We saw the result of this firsthand. Most QBs in the situation he was in when Oliver and Milano got to him will have already gotten the ball out of their hands and their bodies back in position to absorb the hit better.

If he spends his rookie contract racking up explosive plays and TDs that's good enough for me to warrant the 2nd rounder. Allen hasn't had a teammate capable of creating explosive plays on his own since John Brown fell off a cliff.

He should have last year with his performance against the Raiders in Week 18. It was like Allen in the divisional round, near perfect QB play that was wasted by a poor defensive effort and overtime. That's the biggest difference between Herbert and Tua. Tua has wilted down the stretch over the last four games. In crunch time he comes up short. Herbert thrives in those situations. It's impossible to win a Super Bowl with a QB that can't handle a little bit of pressure.

Since Singletary isn't on this list, I believe this statistic is a product of Cook avoiding initial contact with his speed. His speed plus light boxes leads to very favorable rushing situations.

He has the same advantage that has always padded Singletary's stats, he is exclusively running into light boxes. With his speed and smooth change of direction he is maximizing the possible yardage from those gaps in the defense. These free yards have been there since 2020, we just haven't had the personnel or the offensive coaching to take full advantage of them. And I think we still haven't come close to seeing Cook's potential as a pass catcher. I'd like to see him featured several times a game on angle routes, get the ball in his hands while running at full speed and watch him go.

I think I found FilthyBeast's main account there.

Tua handing out gifts on Christmas

4 straight losses. Merry Christmas everybody!

That's why you kick the FG. Put all the pressure on Tua to have to drive for a TD. Every fan has gotten so 4th down happy. Play the game as it comes to you.

This has been the issue with Watson since training camp. All the talent in the world doesn't matter if you can't sustain NFL hits. Coming from a small school with that slight frame, it is a legitimate concern.

What I should have said is that you wouldn't know it watching Rodgers play. He looks completely checked out and unfocused, as he has all year.

If the Packers win today they'll be a half game out of a wildcard spot. Every team they needed to lose yesterday lost. So they are fighting for their playoff lives right now, not that you would know it watching the game.

His own blocker tells him to kneel it in the endzone, instead he hesitates for a tick and then runs it out from 5 yards deep. My god the Packers are bad at every level.