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Yes, if the ball hits the end zone now, it’s a touchback just like it is on punts. That’s why the Texans kick returner stopped catching the kicks after his mistake. If you don’t intend to return the kick, there’s no reason to even catch the ball anymore. Only bad things can come from it.

Yes. And ironically, they changed the rule after the fact so if we made that mistake again today, it would be a touchback.

An intentional forward moving fumble is an illegal forward pass and is dead the second it hits the ground so no TD.

I think it’s technically a safety rather than a TD, but yeah, the NFL just flat out chose not to enforce their rules there because they didn’t want people to complain about the officials letting Buffalo score on that.

I don’t think it’s a big deal that Lamar wasn’t a unanimous first team All Pro, but the opinion that Lamar should play WR will never be correct. That was always indefensible but is especially so after he won an MVP as a QB.

He threw 30 of them, so naturally, a lot of flukes and a lot of bad throws and a lot of throws that should have been INTs that were dropped. It was honestly pretty crazy watching him this year. He's also been a bit of a gunslinger but the pros always outweighed the cons. That is highly questionable this season. Still though, the Bucs have pretty much been a good to great offensive team ever since they got Jameis despite the fact that he's generally had horrible O-Line and RB play. Oddly enough, this season was probably the best that he's had from those two units.

That's not true. He's literally said almost every single week this year that he knows it's something he needs to fix to the point that fans are rolling their eyes because it's gotten so repetitive while nothing is really changing.

Unless the logic for choosing Allen is "He's the QB of the Bills and I'm a Bills fan", this shouldn't be a contest at all. I like Allen a lot but Watson was an MVP candidate for most of the season. Allen is still trying to prove that he's an average to above average starting QB.

Re: Tyler Johnson (obviously a lot of this will change as the process goes forward): Matt Miller: #33 WR in the class Mel Kiper: Outside the top 10 WRs Todd McShay: #22 WR in the class The Draft Network: #8 WR in the class WalterFootball: #12 WR in the class PFF: #15 WR in the class

There’s no chance Shenault is a sub 4.4 guy. I’d be pretty surprised if he’s sub 4.5. Still a good prospect regardless though.

To be fair, that’s been included in the expanded universe for awhile now and was canonized in Mandalorian if not earlier than that.

My overall thoughts on the trilogy:

I imagine he disagrees that his QB is questionable and he might view the lack of a GM as a positive. Likely means he either gets to bring in his own GM or he gets that power himself. It’s all ethnicity. The other stuff doesn’t matter. The legal language of the rule is “ethnic-minority”.

Ultimately I think Daboll is an interesting candidate but I’ll be shocked if he’s chosen to replace Kitchens. I think Daboll’s stint as OC for Cleveland along with looking like Kitchens will anger fans a lot if he’s hired. Could be a more serious candidate for someone else instead though, though I think it’s probably a year early for him. IMO, next year he either gets fired here or he impresses enough to land a HC gig.

My gut feel is that it’s still mainly Garrett standing in Moore’s way from being able to call the game he actually wants. I think the first few weeks of the wide open offense was Moore, but if we know that the play calling of the last few years overall is actually what both Garrett and Moore want, I’d stay away from both.

As far as potential OC replacements go, I would be far more interested in Kellen Moore than Jason Garrett. I’d prefer to just keep Daboll over anyone else though.

Re: the controversial calls: targeting: its fine if you want to argue the rule should be changed. But under the current rule, this isn’t remotely questionable. That hit was the very definition of targeting and there’s no argument against it. the fumble and TD: I don’t really understand how that wasn’t a catch and fumble. Caught the ball, never bobbled it, took 4 or 5 steps, and tucked it away. roughing the kicker: the rule is so open-ended you can pretty easily argue both running into and roughing. I never knew how unclear the rule is until last night.

Yeah. His pocket presence and ball placement look very good compared to NFL starters already. The way he moves in the pocket is Brady-esq and then he has actual mobility too.

I would guess they wait until next year for a QB or roll the dice on Herbert (who I’m not a big fan of)

Man Burrow is so incredibly impressive.

Here’s a couple https://thedraftnetwork.com/articles/a.j.-epenesa-is-unquestionably-edge1 https://www.bluechipscouting.com/articles/2019/9/3/prospect-vs-prospect-young-chasing-aj-epenesa

Before the season started, some people thought he was a better prospect than Chase Young.

Where did you see this?

I think I'd probably put Allen #2, but 2-4 is pretty debatable IMO. Lamar is clearly #1 and Rosen/Rudolph are clearly #5 and #6. It's kinda bizarre how much worse Baker has looked this season; seems like he desperately needs the offseason to begin so he can take some time away and just mentally regroup. He's still a very talented passer but he picked up some bad habits this season and it's really hurt his play. Still, Cleveland's offense has outproduced our own, though it's probably mostly due to the play of Chubb. I think Darnold has played very well this season on the whole. The Patriots game was an absolute disaster, but beyond that, he's been good and has flashed pretty routinely. Altogether, I remain pretty high on the top 4 with Lamar being a distant #1. I was never very high on Rosen/Rudolph and obviously they haven't done anything to this point to prove me wrong.

Yeah, I think Ben and Wentz are at least debatable, and obviously saying Ben is better right now is assuming he comes back and is the same guy he's been in recent years. I'm not sure consistency is really something Allen has in his favor compared to Wentz though.