Allen2Moulds

You're not wrong, but there are still some counter arguments. I for one still think, that for the right price, BTJ could've been had. Beane has proven, that if he really likes a guy, he'll find a way to go get him, and I think that if serious efforts were made, we would've heard about it by now. Strictly my opinion. For those that always balk about the price, we ended up spending our 1st pick on Coleman, and then an in-season 3rd rounder for Cooper. Most on here would jump at the idea of trading for Olave, if he was realistically available (2nd round pick +). As it stands now, we still don't have a capable outside receiver, that can vertically stress opposing defenses. We have this one of a kind (WMD/Bazooka) but have failed in investing in ammo. We took the 2 2nd rounders, our own, and the one from the Diggs trade, and turned it into TJ Sanders and Landon Jackson. I for one, would like to see some serious draft capital, to land a difference maker or 2. In these post season showdowns against KC, where it always comes down to a couple plays a game, Josh has had very little help in those moments, outside of maybe Cook last year. Don't get me wrong, overall Beane has made a lot of good decisions and is considered one of the better GMs, but he is far from maximizing/unlocking what peak 17 could do. Lastly to your point about the defense allowing a subpar KC offense to score 32, I would say that for 2 years in a row, we had the ball with a chance to close, and we failed both times. Not arguing that our defense sucks, or has been poor, but we continue to spend.....spend..spend on defense, to the detriment of our offense. I would like us to balance that out a bit more.

You can never have enough pass rushers. Not to mention, Bosa is on a 1 year deal, and Rousseau is a #2. Upgrade your number 2 for a number 1.

Rousseau and a 1

The most severe lcl sprain is 8-12 weeks. Any more severe, and it would've been a full tear, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I agree that Hancock needs to be the answer for Rapp. Unfortunately I'm afraid that there's this ungodly amount of blind love for T-Rapp. I'm hoping they start to get him some work, like they were doing with Strong. Max also needs to take over for Tre White. Baptism by fire, live with the results. Better to figure this out sooner than later. We don't need another 3 year Elam experiment.

Haha...this video makes me want to sign him

I don't know if this particular thing has been discussed, at least not very much, but I feel like our pass pro has taken a huge step back this year. Jerry Ostroski was on WGR recently, and was asked about the offense's early struggles, he mentioned potential complacency with both Brady and the oline as at least one of the things. Our season ended last year, because our oline had no clue who to pick up on a blitz. If I'm not mistaken, I believe KC only sent one extra guy, but it confused us so badly, that there were 3 guys running free at the QB, and there were multiple olineman standing around blocking no one. I saw a similar thing happen against Atlanta Sunday. Another thing, was a great point a caller made on Monday. He said, we like to operate a lot out of condensed formations. In doing this, you bring a ton of guys into the box, and invite a lot more exotic blitzes. When you line up in a spread formation, it's much harder for a defense to disguise their blitzes, and in turn a lot easier to diagnose where the blitz is coming from. In my opinion, Josh is at his best, when we are spreading it out, and allowing him to do that. How often do you see KC get fooled this badly? When they lose, it's because their lineman lost the rep, not because they're lost and confused. I know Josh has to a better job with his pre-nap reads, to properly adjust the protection, but post snap there should also be a better plan by the oline.

Yes, agreed Josh played a poor game. That being said, it's the why that we have to look at. Every QB misses reads, and the better ones miss less. But as a whole, we had a poor game plan going in, and as Joe Marino points out, the Falcons have a small but fast front. You exploit that with power football, which we started to do in the second half. Just like in the Baltimore game last year, we try to get cute on a 3rd and short and give back all the momentum we had. We had an opportunity to really put them on their heels and get back on track, when we try a stupid end around with Moore. You beat speed with size and power, and you counter size/power with speed. They had no answers for the run. You either try power up the middle with Josh or Cook, and keep running until they stop you. Cook was getting some nice chunks when we started going to him, and once the Falcons over commit, than we hit them with the pass. With all the blitzing, I also don't understand why we didn't max protect more. If we're already using heavy sets to run, wouldn't we want to stay in that same set to max protect, to allow more time for our receivers to get open. Atlanta was getting instant pressure on Josh. When you can apply that kind of pressure on a QB, their internal clock gets totally messed up, and then all that what is being described is the end result. Fix the protection issues, and everything will fall into place.

Good OCs/DCs, maybe have small learning curves out the gates, but not after 26 games. That's more than enough time to sink or swim, and bobby is sinking. Brady didn't do much better this game, but he at least has a better track record of correcting his mishaps. I would classify Brady at this point as average - slightly above average, and Babich to somewhere between below average - terrible.

Until we start hitting on day 1 and day 2 picks, we should start shipping them away for proven talent. The Rams won them a Superbowl, and they had one down year, and are immediately right back in it. Beane does much better on day 3, for whatever reason. Problem solved.

The poster did miss a few things, but the fact remains that we have some very poor units, because of failed draft picks. No one is saying you have to hit every pick, but his day 1 and day 2 picks have been horrendous. There's been so many good young WRs come into the league the last few years, and finally when the move is overdue, we end up with the guy that every scouting report said that he fails to separate. That's like drafting a QB that can't throw, or a running back that can't run. Oh wait...we did that already, and previously drafted Singletary. It took 3 day 2 picks to get the RB right. We drafted a corner in the 1st round again, but who knows if this kid is any good. For the record, I wanted Hairston, because I was sick of our DBs, looking like they're running with cement boots.

It's our shift to a power run team, to the detriment of our passing offense. 3 TEs, but seriously undermanned At WR. Josh was at his best when we had Brown (vertical threat), Beasley (slot) and Diggs (X). We have Shakir, but have massively failed at both outside receiver spots, the X, and Y. Nothing stresses a defense more than speed, yet, we have very little of it. Combined that with the fact that we have a QB with a bazooka for an arm, and it makes this criminal. I'm done with Beane.

I forgot the total, but between London and Bijin, they had 376yds. Penix is a struggling QB, and those are three only 2 guys you need to worry about, yet, they were often left in space by themselves. It was mind blowing, and aggravating. Babich is lost.

Correct. I fully expect 2 full weeks of practice at the min, more likely McD uses the full 21 days.

I expect there to be a ramp up period. Maybe that 1st game he only comes in for certain situations. If you can't at least do that, and the defense is too complex, then we need a new defense. Wasn't the reason that Dorseys offense failed, was because it was too complex for the offense, but opposing defenses said it was very predictable and easy to read. I'm starting to get similar vibes with our defense.