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Week 11 starts tonight. Go Jets. Games around the league with big playoff implications. Jets vs Pats - Very unlikely Jets win, but its the NFL. Bills need win vs Bucs - Bills should win a tough one at home. Steelers vs Bengals - Another game with wild card and division implications. Steelers need win to fend of BAL. Chargers vs Jags - Wild card implications. Thinking Chargers to keep them above Chiefs. Hopefully we are not fighting with them for wild card. Browns vs Ravens - Ravens trying to climb back and should win this one. Combined with Steeler loss they would be even in the division at 5-5, CIN only one back at 4-6 with Burrow back soon. Chiefs vs Broncos - Go Broncos I guess. More wild card and division implications. Texans vs Titans - Texans win gets them to 5-5...

Tons of NFL players are whack jobs. Part of the job of the coach and the leaders of the team is to bring it all together. Hard to say if situations when it doesnt work out are on the player or the team culture. Likely somewhere in the middle. But it has been several years now where this team rarely shows a lot of emotion. There seems to be a lot of life is bigger than football culture in the building.

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And Bills were 0-3 in his games.

Well the Bills are undefeated in games Jackson does not play. We need to run the table to get the division so here is to hoping Jackson does not dress again this year.

The routes dont seem to be ones that generate separation. I dont have all 22 so cant speak for every play. But it seems most of the times our routes are not even run at full speed. They are hooks into zones and comebacks, they are short slow hitches. It seems like every play is designed for the ball to go to a primary target and everyone else is a safety valve just standing in a spot. Then you have the two and three guys in the same area. It looks like a mess. Would love to sit in on the meetings to see if this mess is by design or if there is something not translating. Because at this point our offense success comes from good running game by Cook, Allen scrambles and runs or Allen scrambles around and we hit the backyard football pass. Rarely do we see success in the passing game that looks in rhythm - Josh sees guy throws ball to open receiver (unless its the wr screen of course).

There was a time when we used to spread the field and run the ball. You put guys out wide and the D has to bring guys with them. Now we like to pack everyone in bunch formations. I don’t get it. And it’s not just in our run plays. How many times on passing plays do you see two or more guys running in the same area. It’s like Brady has no concept of space. Let’s send two guys the same space so not only do those defenders go with them but the safety has an easier job helping.

Too little too late.

Must win for sure. Hard to come back from an another loss here. And man to lose to TB at home after NE beats them on the road would be a really telling.

These extensions are starting to look bad - Milano, Knox, Bernard, Benford, Rousseau, Oliver, Johnson and even Shakir. The Cook deal is one of the best and they resisted doing it. Imagine this a O right now without Cook. They knew going into the season what the plan was and still treated Cook like an interchangeable piece. The cap mngt, free agents, trade deadlines make me wonder what beane is doing.

Maybe next we try someone with experience. Dorsey and Brady experiments have been all over the place. Learning on the job has hurt this team.

100% Landon Jackson. 0-3 now.

While true - look at who NE plays still compared to us.

If it is the trade deadline will be a huge milestone.

I know we are 0-3 now when he dresses.