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The Ram offense seems shallow but the tempo provides so much advantage.

Here's what we know (or at least think). Allen is an excellent QB and as long as they get excellent QB play, they're going to have a shot any given year. Some stuff has gone their way this year, with the team winning a lot of one-possession games. But the schedule has been really really tough, and breaks lighter the next few weeks with the Chargers and Broncos. On the Allen debate, I think he's probably in the top 5 on any list that doesn't consider age and isn't on any list when we are talking right now. Knowledge and experience take time, and it's fair to want Brady or Big Ben right now I've this before and I'll say it again: it's a good team missing some elements. Namely, they haven't been able to run effectively and the defense hasn't been healthy like the last 2 years. Somebody like McDermott and great QB play on the other side is the recipe for long term success, and if the defense can get healthy and right they'll have a shot. I don't know exactly where they sit. It's probably below KC and Pittsburgh, and probably above the other teams in the North. Buffalo, Tennessee and Indy are the three teams I see in the tier below KC and Pittsburgh at the moment, but they've all played clunkers and I like the QB play in Buffalo on the year better than the other 2 teams but I like Indy on both sides of the ball as of late.

That is poor defense by the safety. As long as you don't give up the TD, you don't lose there.

I don't like that call much either because he can just change directions so quickly.

KC got way too cute their.

I only watched the Colts game and felt the same! 🙂

Well no decision here now...

Agree

Fair, but both are good prospects.

It likely doesn't. Fitzpatrick has the third highest interception rate in the league and turns it over too much to get Miami in, so thinking here is that if That is better than Fitzpatrick they will get in anyway and if he's not or if he can't play, they'll explore options in and off season where they have tons of extra capital. Yeah we'd get the browns in the three-six matchup because Pittsburgh gets the bye there.

The Dolphins have another shot with Houston's pick so they have to see if Tua will work for them or not. So Tua is going to succeed or fail but will get starts. Benching him for Fitz on the final possession isn't exactly a ringing endorsement

What a disaster for the Colts.

I would run Lynn back one more time just to see if it's the random variance that it is before looking outside the organization there because . That team is already a prime candidate for improvement next year.

I think he has a better arm than tebow but I agree that this will work for a month with NO playing good defense and safe offense. But I think you'll see teams play more zone against him soon. He doesn't recognize where zone defenders are all the time.

There's a real issue with the skill position players in Philly and Wentz is trying to do way too much there and it hasn't been good for them.

I'd largely say yeah, the MVP TD percent wasn't sustainable, but Jackson has still been okay this year and is still pretty good. He is still on pace to complete 65 percent of his passes with a 3 to 1 TD to INT ratio. He's just going to be closer to a 5 percent td pass guy then 9 percent. It's never going to be conventional.

Yeah they're getting a good game from him here. I don't think he can recognize all the zone coverages but he's making quick decisions and isn't going to throw them out of games like Winston might.

I've said I like this policy as well.

I think reports of Jackson's demise are a little exaggerated here. Largely, the difference between him last year and this year is he isn't tossing TD's 9 percent of the time.

They've also played a TON of teams that are going to end up good.

Burrow is a high volume, low efficiency passer this year. He's 25th in rating and 27th in Y/A. The rookie that's impressing me this year is Herbert, but LAC is this years bad random variance team with 7 one possession losses.

Hill looks fairly good as a passer.

Yeah I watch the entire league basically so I'll be watching games.

Between injuries, change and covid, there's just too many guys getting too many snaps they shouldn't be getting. The last couple of years they've had pretty good luck with health and acquisitions, but that doesn't always happen. Functionally, they just don't have the bodies at defensive tackle. star and Jordan Phillips where the two players at the front of the rotation last year with Oliver, and neither of those two guys are here. Combine that with Phillips playing below expectation and not a lot of depth, and there's issues there, especially at one tech. It's hard to fault them when you expect star to be here and you expect Phillips to play better. This is the type of issue that takes an off season to fix. A defensive end I think they're okay. Hughes is getting a little older, but Addison has been good. Murphy clearly has to go and we will see what we get out of AJ who's a rookie, who by the way got injured yesterday. At linebacker the top two guys have been hurt pretty much all year. AJ Klein has played better with time. In the defensive backfield, they've been pretty much decimated at corner. White has been banged up, Wallace has missed a bunch of games, Norman has been injured, and yesterday they had to put a practice squad player on the field because even Dane Jackson got hurt. So there's a lot going on. It needs to get healthier, which hopefully the buy helps with. But there are also some positions where they need to retool the talent a little bit. This is largely why they didn't make a big trade and go all in this year.

Actually he has a pretty high floor. A lot of very good years with some mediocre QBs but what you get out of him is the best rushing attack in the league. His only below average year in points was 2014 with SFO.