Maine-iac

What everyone does time and time again is attribute wins and loses directly to Tyrod. We will most likely win or lose based on how well the defense plays. Typically Tyrod plays well enough to win almost every week. He doesn't play well enough to carry the team on his back with no defense and wide recievers dropping balls but he also doesn't lose winnable games by throwing picks and completely missing recievers all game like Stanton on Thursday night. So if the defense plays well and we don't have a ton of penalties and turnovers I'd give us an 80 percent chance of winning. Defense gets annahilated and we get a ton of drive killing penalties on offense I give us a 10 percent chance of winning. It's never really on Tyrod one way or the other. He's really just consistently good. Not great. Not bad. He needs a decent team effort. That is it.

the game is in the bag?

I've seen Taylor throw it up a few times. The throw to Hunter in the Titans game is a good example. I think trust and a demonstrated ability will go a long way. If KB looks like a ball catching monster and you just throw it near him I think Taylor will develop a trust throwing him a contested pass. I'm hoping we finally have someone who doesn't get out muscled on slants and can actually make a back shoulder catch. We've seen some pretty routine drops and a lot of difficult drops. It would be nice to see someone catch everything.

Please define fails miserably because there are a number of QB's that would do far worse then Taylor with no running game, banged up WR's, and a line that's taking the night off. They weren't rushing 5 because they aren't afraid of Taylor. They're rushing 5 because they aren't afraid of our WR's. Put a healthy* Sammy out there and they wouldn't rush 5 all night. That's why I'd like to see more of Thompson on the field. That is why he's producing when he gets a chance. If franchise is Brady or Rogers, you win, not arguing that. Most likely that is where people look with that reference so I get it if people say he's not "franchise". 0utside of that though, Rivers, Smith, Mariota, and a host of others all need a decent team effort to win and Taylor fits somewhere in that group. He definately is a capable starter and until we have someone better all the talk is just noise.

Look it up. 0utside of one year Kelly and the Bills had a top ten defense in scoring everytime they went to the SB. As do 80 percent of the teams that go to the SB. Kelly in his first three years had a better line and better weapons and put up worse numbers in many respect than Taylor. There's really no better way to win than play defense, don't get penalized, and don't turn the ball over. Most losses involve meltdowns on most or all of those categories and then everyone cries get rid of Taylor.

Should have been 10 to 10 at the half and the facemask on 2nd and 11 made it first and 10 on the 20 instead of 3rd and 20 at the 44. Three plays later they scored the TD to go ahead 17 to 7 when it should have still been 10 to 10. Minus the boneheaded plays Taylor throws for 300 and we win that game. People debate Taylor endlessly yet over and over when the defense plays well and we don't get boneheaded penalties we win more often than not. It's really that simple. It should be reasuring that winning is lagely on us. The problem is that we have made those mistakes and lost for the last 17 years. That needs to change.

As someone who lived through 4th qtr pick after 4th qtr pick, then he even came back with the Jets and gifted us with the same, I can't agree with this more.

Just saw Nigel Bradham with a sack in the box score for Philly. Best remember him getting toasted on that short pass against the Giants in one of many games we should have won.

Everyone said the same things before the Atlanta game. Yes, it could happen. That said if we don't turn the ball over and play defense like we have in just about every game except last Thurs. we can ball with anyone.

Is that a retired Zack Thomas?

0n a different note anyone else watching Eli .............. he can't hit the broad side of a barn some days.

I think he did get the rear naked choke locked in under the chin though.

bwaahaaa .............. just saw this. Looked like some saturday night ground and pound.

Giants show up about half the time. We start playing Thompson more I'll bet you'll see more downfield throws ala Watkins style.

I really think we are lucky in that we can play with the guys we have so we really can do BPA. The important thing is to not reach and get talent indicative of where they are picked. A QB worthy of pushing Taylor or an heir apparent would be great. A freak LB like Miller or Mack would be a nice addition. Another CB like White would be good. The CB spot sees a lot of injuries. Sure would be nice to have rookie year Karlos Williams right now as well.

I still think that while the play was off overall it was the mistakes that killed us. Tackling wasn't great and we got beat up in the run game a little but the face mask on the huge sack and Anderson blowing by White were plays that changed the game. Change those two plays and get rid of the fumbles and I bet the defense comes out with the typical giving up yards but keeping the score down type of performance.

All the debate about the sacks. Credit to the Jets with a good pass rush plan. They sold out coverage for pass rush. All that said I still say that with no fumbles and minus a few penalties, we throw for well over 300 yards and the score is much much different.

No Mathews fumble and no facemask that giftwrapped a Jets TD and the biggest reason we lost against the Jets is the long TD to Anderson and the lack of run defense. We made to many mistakes in the Jets game. That is the biggest difference from one week to another.

I truly think minus the fumbles we had a decent game on offense last week. Not great, especially rushing. We probably put put up 24 to 28 points and throw for 300 instead of 280 something. Much like last year if the defense just plays well we have a chance. We just can't have a bunch of mistakes like turnovers and penalties.

Supposedly he was signed because he could get separation and every time they've put him in the game he's responded. I think production should get recognized. That said it took them 2 seasons to recognize Stevie and about the same for Freddie.