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Kelly the Dog

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  1. 5 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

     

    I think Goff is a really good Quarterback in that style of offense. I'd take him over Jimmy G and I'd take him over Tannehill as two other guys playing in primarily Shanahan variants of the WCO off the stretch zone. It's a push between him and Kirk Cousins (operating in the Kubiak version of it) in my eyes. They are pretty similar. Obviously Green Bay run a fair bit of that stuff too but needless to say I wouldn't take him over Rodgers. I am not sure you could take Goff and put him in a lot of other schemes and have the same success, I think that is fair, but I think you could give him to LeFleur, or Shanahan, or Kubiak or Arthur Smith (who I expect to be a HC somewhere next year) and he would be successful. I don't think he needs McVay but I do think he needs that style of offense.

     

    I agree with all of that, but I don't think Jimmy G, or even Tannehill or Cousins are all that good. Tannehill is sometimes very good. I think JG and KC are average guys who put up big numbers in systems but I dont want any of them as my franchise QB.

     

    Agree that Goff is pretty good in that system, but most of the time he is throwing to open, good WR and TE.

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  2. Just now, GunnerBill said:

     

    Yes, to an extent. And they generally play close low scoring games. There was one high scorer end of last season but the others... 20-7, 24-16, 23-20.... Both teams have actually legitimate good defenses. They also have an advantage when they play each other. And as good of a coach as McVay is (and I do think he is a good coach though not the genius some labelled him as initially) the advantage when it comes to understanding the stretch zone is with Kyle Shanahan. He might know that scheme even better than his dad at this point.

    McVay is also very good IMO at game planning and tweaking his playbook week to week for specific opponents. You know as well as anyone a scheme is not a static thing. Sometimes, maybe often times, the Rams just humiliate teams with plays that have 3-4 guys wide open at the same time. I don't even think Goff is all that good. Middle of the pack at  best. McVay is the good one.

  3. I was just watching the all-22. On the miss to Lee Smith in the endzone he totally blew it. It was an easy score. He was wide open and should have just stopped in the middle of the endzone with no one really on him. But he waited forever and by the time he looked for the ball he was covered. Josh threw it to where he was hoping Smith would go but he never did. A normal TE has an easy TD. 

  4. 5 minutes ago, NewEra said:

    Interesting:  I thought I read this earlier.  
     

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/.amp/nfl/2020/09/08/nfl-schedule-week-17-sunday-night-football-flex-rankings

     

    Why would this article be in existence?

     

    I just looked it up. Apparently no games are scheduled originally for Sunday night on week 17. They leave it open and then flex one. There wasn’t one scheduled last year but they played one. There wasn’t one scheduled this year but there will be one. 

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:

    Both the Bills Offense and any opposing Defense ignore Lee Smith.

    And rightfully so. I remember on his first tenure with the Bills he caught a pass about 10 yards down the sideline and then ran out of bounds. And a Bills WR, maybe Robert Woods, was blocking for him and went up to him and said “Why didn’t you cut up field? There wasn’t anyone there.” And Lee Smith said, “I don’t cut.”

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  6. Just now, Simon said:

     

    He's certainly got some silk to work with, but Daboll is directly responsible for a sizeable chunk of points on the board this year.

    He's absolutely got a knack for drawing up particular route combinations that take advantage of opponents tendencies and and additional knack for calling them up at just the right down and distance where they're going to result in 6.

    That natural instinct is not an easy thing to replace.

    Agreed. The playbook and offensive scheme is one thing. But the game planning, tweaking the design of the play for a specific opponent and practicing it during the week as part of that plan is another, and setting plays up and calling the plays at opportune times is still another. All different talents. Daboll is good at all and getting better. Better even than earlier in the year. His progression mirrors Josh’s as much as it follows Josh’s. 

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  7. 2 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

    Florio has graduated to good. He is smart enough to do segments with Simms, and they are always pretty good. 

    Maybe. But I hate people that I hated for good reason and then have to begrudgingly like because they no longer possess the sucktitude that made me hate them in the first place.
     

    And you don’t get a touchdown just for aligning yourself next to someone who knows football 10x better than you. You get, like, a PAT. 

  8. Just because a guy was stuffed on one play (Moss in 4th Q) where DL blow two yards into the offensive backfield and he's tackled almost immediately does not in any way preclude that he would be stopped on a second, third, or fourth attempt. That is absurd. Moss is a better short yardage back than Singletary, who is not horrible, just not as good. The real issue with our short yardage game is the blocking. But Moss should be in there on short yardage.

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