Old Coot

I think he has a right shoulder injury. On the sack he lands on his right shoulder and grabs it. When he gets up he's favoring that shoulder.

Moderator: Please merge this thread with the "Fire Daboll" thread of yesteryear.

That's a bit harsh. maybe he just wants to be left alone. He retired twenty years ago.

Never dip your pen in the company's inkwell. Way to throw away your career. "The joys of love are but a moment long; the pain of love endures the whole life through."

I think that we have two chances of winning the Superbowl this year: slim and none. How the team and Josh and Stephon in particular respond to this will tell alot about their intestinal fortitude. On the one hand, they are bound to be discouraged but on the other hand they are professionals and presumably have ways of mentally dealing with adversity. The key will be how they and the team respond when they are several scores down in a game: do they roll over and play dead or do they fight back? So far the team's intestinal fortitude is a question mark in my mind. Here I'm thinking back to the team's collapse at the end of last season. For Srephon and Josh there may be a silver lining to the clound here: the pressure will be off to win it all. Now it's just a "go out and so your best season." My 2 cents

You need a guy who can play right quick so I think it's a good idea to sign a guy who is already familiar with your defsnsive system. Now whether or not Norman still has the physical skills to play, that's another question. What has he been doing since 2022? Sitting on the couch drinking beer and eating chips?

Agreed. If by design Dorsey must have a reason. Could it be to give Josh some quick reads? Yep. I bet Lawrence noticed it and knew he had a one-on-one advantage. Those who live by the blitz die by the blitz if the unblocked rusher doesn't get home in time.

I do not necessarily disagree that the Bills were at a disadvantage but how to account for the fact that our D played much much better than our O? Would not they both be jet lagged? Playing devil's advocate here.

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He, Bill George and Sam Huff made the middle linebacker position what it was before the NFL became a passing league.

Get off my lawn you young wippersnapper! In that case you would be a young Coot

What does Diggs do when its an RPO? That type of play could be a run or a pass depending on what the conflict defender does so Diggs doesn't know whether it's a run or a pass play.

I'm guessing that if we get pressure on Tua that will rattle him.

Part of Gabe's problem with dropped passes may be that he does not have large hands for a WR. His hand size is 9 1/4 inches. Given that Josh throws fireballs (or Firebaughs), the combo of hand size and pass velocity might, in part, cause Gabe's dropsey.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

The D has played really well but hasn't faced a really good O. That plus the fact that McD's D is so very different from Frazier's means there is not much take on it for opponents to dissect. The game against Miami will be an acid test for our D. Note that I'm not belittling our D. So far it has done very well. But stiffer challenges lie ahead. Here's hoping our D meets them.

I'll add a twist to the shotgun- under center debate and play action. As Shaw has said classic play-action was a pass play disguised as a run play with QB under center and a fake handoff to the RB. Thr Run-Pass Option (RPO) needs to be executed from a shotgun or pistol formation. The RB meshes with the QB. The QB is essentially reading a conflict defender, lets say the left outside linebacker, to decide whether the RB keeps the ball or the QB takes the ball back and passes. If the LB plays pass and backs up the QB lets the RB have the ball who runs. If the LB plays run and stays clos to the line, the QB keeps the ball and hits a receiver behind the LB. It's not easy to run an RPO from under center because You cannot run an RPO from under center because the QB is running backward while at the same time reading the LB and trying to mesh with the RB. I suspect that Josh is more successful passing in an RPO when the conflict defender plays run than on a straight passing play with no fake to the RB because he's read the defender playing run so he passes to take advantage of the defender's decision to play run.

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Why is Alfred Hitchcock eating a book? That's not a book. It's a McGuffin.

Sorry about that.

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One in a Million Plays (including a drop kick by Doug Flutie and a TD by DB Tom Landry -- THAT Tom Landry) at 8:40

Someone with a better memory than me: Does Josh throw more interceptions than heroic plays against better teams, particularly in the playoffs?

Cover 1 guy said Josh was in the building on Monday from 9 til 2 pm and noted that players usually don't come into the building on Monday unless they need treatment for an injury. So maybe his poor showing got Josh's head turned around and focussed on football, specifically reading defenses.

For those who blame Dorsey's playcalling I urge you to look at the Cover 1 breakdown of key pass plays in the Jets game. The route combos are sound. Now we don't know the reads (long to short; short to long; key on the DB being attacked) but again the concepts are sound and there were open guys that Josh missed. It seems to be a problem of execution and not playcalling. Since he began playing QB I've noticed that Josh holds onto the ball longer than most QBs. Someone on the board said that Daboll put Josh in the shotgun because it gives Josh a better view of the field so it may be that Josh takes longer to process what he sees. From the Cover 1 breakdown it seems that Josh is better on plays when the concept is to high-low a CB so that no matter what the DB does he's wrong. Those are crisp bang-bang reads (if the DB takes the deeper WR you hit the underneath guy; if he takes the shallower guy you hit the deeper guy). Every time Josh breaks the pocket the route structure and timing is ruined. It becomes backyard ball.