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I don't think I'm really in either camp at this point. I think McDermott is a good coach and did a good job this year, especially down the stretch when the defense returned to playing amazing football despite being severely depleted. This season could have so easily spiraled out of control and we ended up recovering beautifully instead. Don't really think tonight's loss is on him either; the main strategic thing that I hated is something that 99% of coaches do in that situation: milking the clock while we were losing and there was plenty of time left. I don't even really like milking the clock when we're losing under 2 minutes, but doing it with 5-7 minutes left in the game is just one of those dumb football things IMO that everyone does without really thinking about it. Any mistake (and we are a team that makes a lot of costly ones) ensures we lose the game with no real chance of getting the ball back, while scoring after milking the clock like that likely gives KC enough time to go down the field anyways. On the other hand, I don't think any QB-coach combo has ever gone this long without a Super Bowl and then gone on to break through together. McDermott has had plenty of chances at this point to get us over the hump and it just hasn't happened. I would totally understand if we decide to move on and try bringing a new voice in. TLDR: I don't think he's done anything this season to deserve being fired, but at the same time, sometimes you just have to change things and hope for the best when you come up short every year.

Winfield will almost certainly be Tampa's top priority this offseason, followed by Evans and Baker. Winfield will probably get the franchise tag if he's unwilling to sign long-term for Tampa. I'd be very surprised if either Winfield or Evans leave. Great player though obviously.

Cook’s ball security officially scares the ***** out of me. Hes gotten lucky several times lately now with near fumbles.

It’s the best style of pizza in the world IMO.

We may have already had it in the first half when he lofted a beautiful pass directly to Tampa in the end zone but they dropped it.

The same reason so many here are praying Miami re-signs Tua. Baker is an okay starter but you always have to pay these young QBs elite QB money and Baker is simply nowhere near that level of player. He’s good enough to start but leaves you always wanting to find an upgrade. Cleveland made the right decision to move on. They made the wrong decision on who to replace him with.

He is technically a free agent but I’ll be fairly surprised if Tampa doesn’t bring him back. He’s a legend there.

The UFL should try this

Looked like he dug his foot into the ground or something. The whole kicking motion looked wrong and it immediately looked bad off his foot. Was surprised it was as close to being good as it ultimately was.

If the other 31 starting QBs all threw 10 INTs and Mahomes threw 1, would you say he threw the 2nd highest total? Who has ever described anything this way? Lol that is being purposefully misleading and meaningless. Yes Buffalo would probably be bad without Allen just like Baltimore is bad without Lamar. MVP voting has already concluded and everyone knows Lamar won

How does he have the 4th most INTs if there are 6 QBs that had more INTs? That's not how math works.

Baltimore's offense averages roughly 15 fewer points per game with Huntley at the helm vs. Lamar and Baltimore's record with Huntley as the main guy is 4-8 (including the playoff loss) vs. their record with Lamar being 59-24. They are a ton worse with Huntley as the QB. Stumbling into the playoffs with him playing the last couple games does not mean it's not a huge downgrade.

I don’t really think this is a big deal. We’re talking about a 30-60 minute interview with probably like an hour of prep or something. I feel like most of us have probably interviewed for jobs while working another job; I’ve never felt that it impacted my work in any way. I promise you Brady is not literally coaching 24/7; he has time to have a conversation with other people in his schedule. Teams have to figure out their coaching staff earlier than later and banning playoff coaches from interviewing would just be stupid. Either forces teams to not hire the best coaches or forces the best coordinators to purposefully take worse jobs so that they don’t have to worry about not being able to interview when the call for a HC position comes up.

In addition to not playing the final week, Baltimore was also able to coast in a lot of their games this year. It bit them in the ass a couple times as they blew leads, but by the time you hit the second half or a couple minutes into the second half, they had a 90+% chance of winning basically every game this year and you could pretty clearly tell they took their foot off the gas in those situations a lot. Ultimately, I don’t think Lamar should win MVP. Don’t think Allen should this season either. But I think Lamar was better than his numbers indicate and Allen was worse than his numbers indicate (though I think his turnovers are overstated this season). Voting is done before the playoffs begin.

Even if you’re right about not going past two reads, why should he go past two reads before running if he can score 30+ doing that? The offense functioning well because of the fact that teams are terrified by him is a pro, not a con.

Seems like Houston caught Baltimore’s offense off guard by severely going against their own tendencies. 29th in the league in blitz rate this year and then they blitz Lamar more than basically anyone ever has before. Baltimore got to the locker room and figured it out and completely dominated the second half. Feels like a good trait for a team to me.

I’m pretty sure Coleman is near the best in the class in terms of drop %. Having said that, his contested catch % is pretty poor so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a case where passes aren’t being categorized as drops due to how contested they are.

Just finished up with Drake Maye this afternoon. He has my stamp of approval. There's definitely some stuff to clean up, but he checks most of the boxes teams are looking for and I think he has a few relatively easy things to fix that should help take his game to another level. Considering I've already finished Caleb and Daniels as well, I'm pretty confident Maye will ultimately be my #1 QB in the class.

At the end of the day, I don't think it's wise for people to treat PFF grades as "gospel" as I believe JJ Watt said it. As best as they try, grading football players is ultimately a subjective exercise, regardless of if it's a nerd or a coach doing the grading. If you're willing to pay for what IMO is a very expensive subscription, I believe you are able to get a somewhat detailed breakdown of what went into each player's grade in a given week but that's just not an additional expense that I need in my budget lol. Anecdotally, I feel like when there's occasional viral moments like this where they do come out and explain a specific rating, it generally makes sense. I'm sure there are plays that can be nitpicked but I appreciate when they show their work on stuff like Stroud vs. Love and that one game several years ago when Aaron Rodgers threw for like 400 yards and 5 TDs but received a pretty mediocre grade because it was basically all off of screen passes and busted coverages. I generally feel like I agree with or at least understand situations where a player has great box score stats but a relatively low grade (Jordan Phillips 9.5 sack season with us is one I remember off the top of my head). But obviously I'm only really looking at players that I care about; I can't say I have any idea if Peter Skoronski's run blocking grade is accurate or not.

They have done this several times over the years. Unsurprisingly, most of the people (not saying you, just the general people that go crazy on Twitter and such) that complain about them don't really care to invest time in reading/listening/watching. The link below includes guides as to how they grade the different position groups. It does not include answers regarding who is physically doing the grading, who reviews the graders, etc., but I believe that's been answered elsewhere as well. If I remember right there's like a three-level review process on every game. https://profootballfocussupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029567633-How-does-PFF-grade-each-position-

It’s just an easy way for them to get more clicks.

Finished up my scouting of Jayden Daniels...I don't really get it. His running ability is definitely in the realm of Lamar Jackson (not as good, but the comparison isn't crazy), but his passing ability just seems quite bad. Beyond hitting stationary targets squatting down against zone defense, he really struggled with ball placement and there isn't an easy explanation as to what is throwing his accuracy off aside from "he just doesn't have it". I ended up with a 4th round grade on him and a reasonable peak comp for him being our beloved Tyrod Taylor. https://draftqbs.wordpress.com/2024-draft/jayden-daniels/

Oregon (and Nix) did an amazing job making sure he got the ball out extremely quickly once he transferred there. I think he’d be a good fit with Miami, Denver, or the Shanahan disciples.

I definitely agree with the OP that fake slides should be a penalty. I don't really why this is a topic right now though. I don't remember seeing a fake slide since Pickett did it in college.

Murray's inarguably a better pass blocker, and more arguably, better at everything else.