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I'm not thrilled with the price. Even if the Hopkins trade didn't happen (where a better WR went for significantly less) we overpaid here.

I get that there's a stigma to trading within the division, but is there really one for trading within the conference?

I don't think it can be over-stated just how bad this trade is for the Texans. David Johnson was an outstanding player.....in 2016. He's currently one of the worst contracts in the league. You get a cap dump + 2nd + swap 4ths. And you give up one of the best WR in the league. A 29 year old on a fair contract that will very likely make the HOF. I'm flabbergasted. How does Beane not offer substantially more than this?

I'll agree with Poyer as best and Lotulelei as worst. Lotulelei isn't a terrible player, but we gave him a pretty large contract that he hasn't come close to earning. HM worst: Vontae Davis. It's embarrassing that he retired at half time of a game. However, the Bills had only given him a 1 year deal, and were able to re-coup almost his entire salary. Charles Clay. Copy paste the Lotulelei comment. Bit of a toss up really which one is worse. Star has 3 years to go on his contract, if he manages to finish that without being cut Clay might pass him as worst.

I think the main idea is to slow down the spread of the virus. If too many people get sick at one time it'll overwhelm healthcare infrastructure, and people that would have lived with treatment end up dying instead.

From https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/2019-rules-changes-and-points-of-emphasis/ BLINDSIDE BLOCK Owners voted to expand protection of defenseless players by eliminating the blindside block. It is now prohibited for a blocker to initiate forcible contact with his head, shoulder or forearm when his path is toward or parallel to his own end line. The penalty for an illegal blindside block is a loss of 15 yards and an automatic first down. So its actually debatable if Ford's play was a penalty or not. I don't think it was because it not was FORCIBLE contact. KICKOFF The ball is dead if it is not touched by the receiving team and touches the ground in the end zone (touchback).

It's tough to not be optimistic about next year. I'll go for 10 wins, even with the more difficult schedule. We're not losing any big pieces (unless Phillips walks), have a ton of cap space, and can add through the draft. If Josh can take another step forward we should be a legitimate playoff threat. Even if he settles in to just be a game manager we could still get to 10 wins next year.

Singletary was an animal tonight breaking tackles left and right. Frank Gore had 1 good run and was trash the rest of the game. He managed to basically kill 2 crucial drives on his own Last drive of the first half: 1st and 10 from the Houston 23 with 30 seconds left and 1 timeout. We run the ball with Gore up the middle for 1 yard and then spike it. 2nd to last drive of second half: 2nd and 10 from Houston 25 with 2:15 remaining. Gore up the middle for -3 yards. Puts us behind on down/distance and Allen gets sacked consecutive plays. The player usage and playcalling is just mind boggling.

I can't believe so many people are trying to rationalize this trade and say it was good (at the time). This is a results based league. It doesn't matter if it was a good trade at the time it happened, you need to grade it based on the results. And the results undeniably show that Kelvin Benjamin was a god awful WR.

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I thought Peters got a hand on it.

We're counting Tyrod's time in Baltimore as a bench warmer as experience I guess? Tyrod has started 46 games in his career. The point is we ran Tyrod out of town for playing QB the way Allen has been playing. Allen has much more potential than Tyrod, but he has to start living up to it at some point.

I always enjoy reading your threads. Some fair and useful analysis. My thoughts 7) PI and the non-challenge - this was pretty clearly DPI, but it was the correct decision to not challenge it. For whatever reason it seems like refs are unwilling to change the call on the field in a PI challenge. Makes me wonder if there was a league wide memo stating that PI reversals should be saved for instances like the NFC Championship game (blatantly obvious AND huge impact to the outcome of the game).

I'll go with a B- Josh was a game manager today and nothing more. No turnovers, but we were lucky the Redskins didn't recover either fumble.

I didn't have much exposure to deadspin. I would read their "Why your team sucks" and get a laugh out of it, and maybe 1-2 articles per month that popped up in my news feed. I never viewed them as a political site, and certainly not a left leaning site. Their articles generally seemed to be humorous and filled with sarcasm (closer to the Onion than actual news). I'm looking at Deadspin's front page and I see one article that touches on political topics (article about a Palestinian soccer team). The article doesn't take any political sides. Am I missing something here? Do you guys have examples of Deadspin being overly political and left wing? Are they legitimately a left-leaning website? Or are the people claiming that the same that think Fox News is fair and balanced?

Let's ignore that 65 yard game changing run that Star got dominated 1v1 on b/c other defenders made mistakes on the play??? Had to jump through a few hoops to make that conclusion huh? Star is the 2nd highest cap hit on the team, and if the best you can say about him is "well, if you ignore these really bad plays that cost us the game, he's normally doing his job by being invisible and eating up blocks" then that's a major problem.

From my seats I saw him throw the flag prior to the snap (it was pretty close, and he picked it back up quickly). Very, very fortunate the refs didn't notice and blow the play dead

Is Star a liability? I don't think so. I think he's a JAG. He's not even remotely close to being worth his contract, but I don't think he's a "bad" player

Yes, without a second thought I would take Kelce over Knox. 38/541/1 with 5 drops on 57 targets or 12/178/1 with 4 drops on 23 targets Tough decision....

It's not a valid point. Fitz started in weeks 1+2 for the Fish this year and was an abject disaster.

Allen struggling was not surprising (at least he didn't have any turnovers). The Defense getting shredded by the Dolphins was very surprising. Without a couple of timely turnovers the Dolphins could've put 30+ points on us.

I'm fine with no deadline trades, I don't think we're in a "win-now" mode that would make sense to mortgage future picks away. Defensively - why fix what ain't broken? Maybe trade some late round picks for depth guys Offensively - we could use O-Line or WR or TE (pending on Kroft status), but there's not many guys on the trading block that would be upgrades over what we have. And those guys would probably cost way too much draft capital.

I voted B- Positives: He clearly motivates the players and has them playing hard His defense is championship caliber We made the playoffs 4-1 start this season Negatives: The Offense has never been better than mediocre during his tenure He stated Peterman (multiple times) and thought it was okay to go into a season with a QB depth of Peterman, Allen (some of that is on Beane) Terrible with challenges Poor clock management and situational awareness (looking at you, decision to punt in the Colts snow game) Lot of reasons to be excited, but I'm not even going to consider moving him into the "A" range until we win some playoff games.

I was never sold on Allen (being honest, I wanted Rosen). I really like how he's improved his accuracy on short throws this season (prior to the start of the Patriots game). I don't like how he keeps making the same mistakes over and over. How many times has he gotten sacked (or taken intentional grounding penalty) to knock us out of FG range this season? How many times has he thrown off his back foot? How many "hero ball" plays have blown up in his face? He needs to cut down on the mistakes to earn my faith.

1) It didn't take Peyton Manning 7 years to figure out how to score more than 10 points on the Patriots def 2) Saying that the INT's were basically punts might hold more water if all 3 INTs did not occur on 1st down 3) I'll agree the punting was atrocious