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How much does that team rally around McDaniel in what could be his final game or a game that will factor into the offseason evaluation process of him. And while im not high on the possibilities of NE losing any of their two remaining divisional games… we also haven’t seen Maye in meaningful December football when it’s cold, guys are beat up and the pressure is real.

Will be interesting to see how they manage Kincaid and Bosa down the stretch. Palmer, once healthy, has to get out there to establish some chemistry with Allen and try to fine tune the WR rotation going into the playoffs. Kincaid, we know what he is.. more or less an extremely talented big slot who plays on passing downs. I’d be real careful with his usage in the final 4 games and make sure he’s as close to 100% as possible for the playoffs. Same with Bosa.. use him on some passing downs in high leverage moments, but I’m drastically reducing his snaps until the playoffs. Sidenote: I’d love if Oliver could make it back to get some snaps against the Jets, but it sounds like he’s progressing towards a “likely”, dare I say, return for the Wild Card Round.

They’re both not good, but I’d take Worthy over Coleman 10/10 times.

I think we’ll win, and maybe even comfortably, but to this point - it’s a bit hilarious that we just excuse the Defense allowing themselves to be dominated in first halves because “we need to get a look at what the opponent is doing” No other playoff teams have this issue and it puts insane stress on the offense right out the gate.

Pats are down Milton Williams - similar impact as Ed Oliver and they’re down Will Campbell - similar impact to Brown, if he doesn’t play. We’ve got to stop acting like Hoecht makes or breaks this team. What else are we missing? Palmer, Bernard, Rapp. Palmer hurts, but he isn’t some massive difference maker. We’re good at LB with Thompson & Milano. Getting Bernard healthy is a bonus at some point, but as of right now, we don’t need him. Same goes for Safety, where Poyer/Bishop are playing at a pretty high level together. Too many injury excuses right now. Everybody is playing hurt this time of the season. Guys get surgery after their season ends at an incredibly high clip. To say Shakir is banged up… I don’t care… either you can play or not. Everyone is banged up in December.

This week is massive for setting the stage. Chargers can end the Chiefs. We’ll see if the Colts have any chance or if their season all but ends against Seattle. Bills can keep the door open against New England and the Steelers/Ravens/Browns either becomes a race down to the wire or the Steelers could potentially put distance between them and Baltimore.

There’s 100% tension between them. They’re rarely ever together. And while I have legit criticisms of McDermott, this year has made it pretty clear to me that Beane is the bigger hindrance to us getting over the hump. Just look at McDermott’s post-trade deadline presser.. you could tell he was under the impression help was coming and Beane failed to pull the trigger. Beane isn’t terrible, but when the margins are so tight and we are paying a QB 50M, he’s got to be better .. and this isn’t isolated to Beane.. seems every team with an elite QB is now struggling with this issue and the Chiefs are finally coming back down to earth as their cheat codes in Kelce & Jones age out.

Yea. I’d tend to agree, and the Chargers beating Philly was huge, but they could easily go 0/4 in their final games.

Perhaps. They need to win out and they need the Chargers to lose 3/4.. one against them obviously and then one being Denver. So this seems entirely dependent upon the Broncos needing that game or not.

I’m sure this will change for me come Sunday, but I just don’t have the juice for this game that everyone else seems to have. If anyone can convince me that the Pats can lose to the Jets or Dolphins, I’d have a different tune, but it just seems like delaying the inevitable. And worst case scenario is us playing everyone Week 18 on the off chance Pats lose and it doesn’t matter. I don’t necessarily trust Vrabel against good teams in the playoffs. He’s also never had a Drake Maye.. and we’ll see what Maye looks like in Dec/Jan clutch football, but the closest they’ve come to remotely losing to a bad team is against the Flacco led/no Chase Bengals. And on the bright side, should the Pats eventually clinch the Division.. if the Chiefs manage to sneak in as the 7 seed, it just doesn’t seem right to have Bills/Chiefs in the Wild Card. Give me the 5 seed in that scenario & Bills/Chiefs at Highmark.. last game ever there, with a Super Bowl on the line. Absolute cinema.

Josh Allen James Cook Christian Benford Joey Bosa Spencer Brown Id put Brown over Dawkins because Van Demark is solid at LT, bit of a liability at RT. Honorable mentions: Ed Oliver and Dalton Kincaid, but I think the best we can hope for them is 80% - probably similar for Spencer Brown too.

What do the Colts have to lose? They went all in on the season and it blew up. Take a swing. Good for them. Worst thing that happens is they miss the playoffs, which was happening without Rivers anyway.

Taking a shot on 3rd and short to a tiny RB against DeJean is certainly a choice

Kinda tough to watch a dude with a broken hand just get beat up all night.

Some of these drives in the Modern NFL are crazy. Going on a 10 minute, likely to be Field Goal drive.