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He is but any safety 1v1 against Garrett Wilson is a huge mismatch. That's a scheme issue IMO

Well we got lucky the pass was a bit wide... Not a fan of that defensive series at all but I'll take it

I know our defense usually settles in but we're a team built to play from ahead so we can't just keep digging ourselves a hole early... Way too easy for them so far

CJ Mosley is back as expected:

I'll trade Cook for Taron Johnson and Shakir. Easily. If we lose it won't be because we're missing a RB.

I'm also shocked by how lucky other teams get. Missed FGs, fumbles that happen to get smacked out of bounds. Must be nice.

This is my first time in a while watching a full game of Daniel Jones and it's shockingly bad. Bad accuracy at every level of the field, bad reads, bad pocket presence, middling arm strength. He has a $47.8 MILLION cap hit this year, for that?

They should bench him honestly

The FS watches Burrow start to run out of the pocket and immediately starts sprinting in the complete opposite direction leaving that entire half of the field wide open

Reality is setting in that the best player in franchise history may end his career without a Super Bowl and no one has any idea if the owner cares enough to make changes. It is depressing watching this regime continue to make the same poor decisions that have already failed them before.

First of all, the fanbase's desires don't apply to the process even a little bit. McDermott owns those decisions. It is a plain fact that Dorsey and Brady were handed their jobs without any kind of competition. Sham interview process is the exact right way to describe it. Second of all, just speaking for myself here but I did not agree with those hires. My thought process for years has been that you have an elite QB in his prime, so you should have no shortage of experienced proven offensive minds banging on the door trying to re-ignite their careers. It's possible McDermott could have struck gold with one of those hires and found his own version of Ben Johnson, but he didn't so now there is no reason to think he has an eye for offensive coaching acumen. Seems to me like he just made safe picks with people that he already knew he could work with, which kind of encapsulates his entire tenure here to be honest.

I've been saying you need two of three factors to be elite to have a championship level offense - QB, coaching, and supporting cast. Teams like the Vikings and 49ers are doing it without the QB but with elite coaching and talent. For some reason once we got the QB we stopped trying to become elite in either of the other two areas. It would be one thing if we had tried the right strategy but the process failed. That is a little more forgivable. But looking at the resources invested on offense and the OC hires we clearly did not follow the right strategy. Bad strategy, bad process. What do you know, we have a bad offense.

Yeah McDermott can't be allowed to just fire another OC and pick his replacement. Dorsey and Brady were his hires after sham interview processes in both cases. At some point the evidence is the evidence. If he can't get that side of the ball right, the league is brimming with coaches that can.

I've watched almost as much Chiefs football as I've watched Bills football the past couple years. On the whole their pass catchers and OTs definitely limit their offense, but every time they need a drive or a play they are able to manufacture one. Watching their scheme compared to ours is like watching a different sport. They also have the luxury of playing a very specific brand of football because their defense is always clutch when they need to be. I mean always. But of course I wish we had more talent. Talent wins out over scheme every time. Still I think in spite of that there are positive plays being left on the field because our coaching is below the top tier.

I remained skeptical after the Dolphins game when the common belief was that he had put on a clinic. I let myself be convinced after the Jags game but now we see that team for what it is and everything since then has confirmed my worst fears about him. It's not that he's awful but he's really lacking compared to the true championship contenders. I really don't understand the strategy the past few years. Underinvest in the offensive personnel and also hire green offensive coaches that have zero proof of concept at the NFL level.

The more analysis I've seen of the last game the more I come away thinking Brady is a larger problem than previously thought. Nothing about our offense is crisp and nothing is innovative. The WRs aren't being coached to execute on scramble drills. The run scheme is basic. The OL still regularly gets confused on exotic pressure looks. The play calling is predictable. We have no counterpunch when defenses figure out what we want to do. There is a lot of high level offensive coaching throughout the league right now and we just don't have that unfortunately. Not that I really blame Joe Brady. We intentionally did not invest much in the offense so the OC was always going to have his work cut out for him. And then we handed Brady the job without actively searching for better. The offense was set up to fail and now we see the entirely predictable result.

Washington/Baltimore has surprisingly become a defensive struggle.

Something I've noticed watching Washington/Baltimore - Washington is making it a point to shut down Derrick Henry first. They are telling Baltimore if they want to sustain drives it will have to come through the air. So far that strategy has forced 1 INT and one drive ending in a FG. It is counterintuitive to how most defenses are coached right now but you have to play them like the unique offense that they are.

They were both bad contracts. I'm annoyed that Beane didn't properly address the WR room. That doesn't mean overpaying for Davis would have been a good decision.

Great he caught 2 of the 4 TDs that hit him in the hands. Another classic 50% performance, in a blowout loss. In your opinion is he worth the contract that the Jags paid him?

Jags fans have been hating on Gabe Davis all season long on social media. They (correctly) believe that the team overpaid him and they're sick of his inconsistency. And what fanbase doesn't have some fun talking trash about players that leave the team? That's part of the fun of being a sports fan. It isn't that serious. Gabe Davis is still a millionaire. He doesn't need your support, he already won.

But why did the read need to be more difficult? That's the part I'm stuck on more. I mean I know it's fun breaking these plays down from overhead freeze frames, but realistically Josh actually has to make these reads in real time within 2 seconds. This year he isn't throwing to muddy reads, he's moving on. The coach's job is to make his job as easy as possible and eliminate the muddy reads. The minute details in the planning and the execution of the route spacing is below the level of other offenses. This should have been an easy read and an easy throw for a QB of Josh's caliber.

And again here's the play for anybody that wants to watch it for themselves: This is when Allen wants to be throwing to the wheel: Don't need to be Usain Bolt's twin to get off of Coleman as soon as Allen's arm moves forward and get in the path of the layered throw. I'm guessing Coleman is supposed to be running a pick but his defender has leverage behind him so that isn't getting it done. At this point Allen wants to wait for Cook to get level with Coleman before throwing over him but Edwards gets walked back in the pocket and at that point he goes into escape mode. I'm not trying to absolve Allen of his mistakes at all, it's just a lot more complicated than people want to admit. The spacing of the pick makes no sense and makes the play way harder than it needs to be. When you watch Travis Kelce end up so wide open no one else is even on the screen with him, it's because the Chiefs plan and execute their route spacing and timing to perfection. Little things like this that you don't notice live are what separate decent coaching from elite coaching. The one play Chris Simms breaks down that I do think Allen missed on was this one on 3rd and 13: Allen playing like his usual self would absolutely rip that out to Coleman and get us to 4th and short at worst. This is a good example of what I said earlier in the thread, that Allen's internal clock appeared to be moving a tick too fast in the 1st half. Probably over analyzing the game at this point, I just can't help myself when I see people on here actually say things like "Allen was the main reason we lost this game" or "Allen was the worst player on the field." He clearly was not the best version of himself, but he also got exactly zero help from his play caller and exactly one play where a pass catcher went above and beyond for him. All of our problems got exposed by well coached defenses two weeks in a row.

I have no idea what Coleman is doing on that route. It almost looks like he's trying to block the guy with his butt to free up the wheel. There's a ton of open space over the middle and if he just ran to that space he would have brought his man with him and the wheel would be wide open. Maybe Coleman didn't have the play call right? I mean later in the game a ball bounced off the back of his helmet so that's entirely possible. Otherwise the route spacing there makes no sense.

Bills 13 Jets 10 I would have had the score flipped until Saleh got fired. I don't see this as a "rally around the interim coach" kind of move. I see this as a "WTF is going on with my team and why should I keep trying" kind of move. Like most people I'm predicting an ugly ugly football game and I kind of just trust the mentality of our team more than theirs right now so I gave us the edge. I like our defense matched up against their offense. Our strength is outside CBs so I don't see Garrett Wilson having a big day. Breece Hall isn't the kind of RB we have trouble stopping. We don't have to worry about Rodgers moving around and should have no fear blitzing him. On offense, I don't like our matchup against anyone right now, let alone with Shakir and Cook possibly out, let alone against possibly the best defense in the league. But we're not going to be shut out. I'll trust Allen to make one or two more plays than Rodgers which will be just enough to get the win.