MrEpsYtown

Freaking Patriots. Cheating bastards

As many assumed, Toohill back

I dunno. I am ready for Kirk Cousins, New York Jet

I thought Bishop looked really good in run support, but still needs some work in coverage for sure. But his athleticism is a huge upgrade on what we typically have out there. Elam I thought was okay. He's like an enigma miscast in this defensive scheme. Bishop is 100% the guy next year. I let both Hamlin and Douglas walk in the off-season.

And won because of it.! That team was all about Brady, as we are all about Allen.

I pile on McDermott quite a bit for his in game decisions, but I will say that creating a culture in which guys just want to win and do what it takes is actually pretty amazing. The receiver room guys have stepped up when their number was called. Look at what happened in SF when Greenlaw came back and Campbell threw a fit. Milano came back and Williams got demoted and just kept on grinding. That's a testament to coach and the culture he created. Diggs was a culture killer. What you are seeing here, as many have said, is addition by subtraction. Credit goes to McDermott and Beane for making those moves, drafting and bringing in culture guys. We may be on the precipice of something special.

I feel like Brady will be offered that NO job because of his ability, familiarity and connections to Sean Payton. But, I will say that it would make sense for him to hang around Allen for a couple of more years and drive up the price for his services. The truth is that he has bounced around the league for awhile now and he was in the Trash heap after his time in Carolina. He is doing a tremendous job here. I could see him going the Ben Johnson way and being picky about opportunities out there. I hope he stays.

The counter-bash stuff they were running is just absolutely filthy and linebackers and DEs had their heads spinning.

This is a classic trap game. Bills struggled against the Pats last year and they are better this year. I feel good about it, but I think it is very difficult to play the same team twice in like 3 weeks, especially if it is a division opponent. That said, rookie QBs have no looked good against McDermott, so I think Maye could struggle.

I could see him wanting to return to the Rams for another ride with them. He knows the offense and playing with Puka and Kupp could make him effective again.

See for me it's that they aren't prepared for the moment. As a high school coach, we practice and walk through all scenarios throughout the year. So we know if we get the ball on the 1 yard line and time is of the essence, this is the play we are running. Again, I can't fathom how they are not prepared. They should NOT be stressed in those situations because they should be prepared for that situation all year. They get paid a lot of money to do this stuff. It's literally their livelihood. It's absurd that they aren't practicing in-game scenarios and specific game situations. Every person on that sideline should have been in lockstep in how they were going to handle the end of the game. They are not and it is a major problem. That's the difference between McDermott and great coaches who win Super Bowls.

I work with a person of authority who can not do his job. Once the powers that be saw how inept he was, instead of firing him, they hired a secretary to take a bunch of the job off his plate. Once that wasn't enough they hired an assistant to take more off his plate. Then finally they took some of his responsibilities off of him and moved it to another department. And you know the rest, he still sucks at his job and makes more money than most. The powers that be are clutching to the idea that they hired the right guy instead of admitting their failure. This can't be where we are headed. At a certain point, things are just not working. So for coach, he doesn't call offensive or defensive plays, he doesn't coach a position, he has a specialist up top who tells him when to challenge, so now let's add a specialist to help him make critical decisions with time management? Seriously? So what does he actually do and what is the point of having him? Shades of office space Bob meetings.

If I were optimistic this guy would change, this is a great outlook to have. I just don't see it. Two dud games this year, Rams and Ravens, and a game lost from boneheaded coaching, the Texans game. All three of those games are huge indictments on McDermott to go along with with his history of bad decision-making and his team showing up unprepared. The odds that this team will now lock-in and the coach will learn to make good decisions are very very low. He is who he is. Sometimes things get stale. Teams who make these mistakes and get out-physicaled weekly just do not win Super Bowls.

I could see the Jets doing this 100% and it's not going to matter because they don't have a quarterback to make him look good. I would not hate this either.

Probably the fiance too

Yeah I don't disagree. He made some bad decisions early on. But it's hard to play much better than he did. He needs some help.

Mesh under center with some play action out of a condensed formation is just so much better and always open. But I agree. That can't be your only bread and butter look.

It's sad to see Josh and how hard he takes the loss, takes responsibility, and takes it all on the chin. It's actually amazing the level of accountability there. I feel bad for him.

It's just the move that makes the most sense and it is right there to be made. Again I hate the guy, and he is a cheater, but I wanna win a super bowl. I don't care how we get there. I think he gives us the best chance. Also, he probably keeps Joe Brady as he is a Sean Payton guy and Belichick and Payton both come from that Parcells tree. Brady runs that E-P system that these guys follow and Parcells comes from the Ray Perkins-Ron Erhardt tree. There is continuity there. The parts are fine. We just need someone else driving the ship. Aside from that, the guy being super picky about a job in Ben Johnson would work as well, and I am sure he would be happy to come here and take over as HC. He also has some E-P influences along the way as well as some others. Those are the upgrades IMO.

In his mind he is "trusting his assistants" In reality, he is passing the buck because he does not have the fortitude to make the tough choices. The HC needs to make the tough choices. Perhaps he should have said "your best PASS play from the 1"...do not, under any circumstances run the ball here because we need to keep our timeouts if we have any shot to win this thing. That would have been pretty easy to say. Literally, conversations I have with my OC on my high school staff. We also practice those situations weekly.

I got my hopes up.

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. Against the Chiefs McDermott finally showed some cajones and trusted his team and played to win. I loved that and I thought he had ade a permanent change. I said something like if this is the new McDermott then the rest of the NFL is in trouble. For whatever reason, in this game he played not to lose and squirreled up again, shades of Dick Jauron. I'm definitely disappointed. He always says "gotta look at the tape and learn from this" but this is who he is. Not good enough. He clearly goes with his conservative instincts and that will never change. He likely needs to get fired and get another chance with another franchise to turn things around and actually change.

Or our rivals have a million injuries. With the way Mahomes is getting smacked around, it may actually end up happening.

It's probably a bit of both. But this has been a really long recovery for him. He looks like he is playing very slow, but I think that will get better with time. He played in the snow and then a team with a pretty good run game. The DL did a pretty awful job on gap integrity all game and that is part of the reason Milano and Bernard struggled IMO.

Douglas has not looked good. Elam scares me, but I would like to see what he can do here at some point.