Mikie2times

Unfortunately last year made us fall into the trap of thinking this turnover margin was sustainable. Last year was the very best this can look offensively. I’m not even sure that it’s actually all that different this year. Teams are just a little more prepared for this system and we are turning it over enough to hurt.

The Bernard signing was Knox level. It wasn’t like he was going to hit the open market and land some big payday. Now little baller slots him as our MLB for the foreseeable future. Just no logic here.

You trust lil baller Beane to plug the boat in the draft?

Agree, been saying it for awhile with these coordinators. We can have a lot of debates about McD. One topic I don't think his supporters can debate is he won't hire coaches that want control. Plenty of NFL coaches will let guys come in as experts and take over. The best ones will be required to have this environment to even consider the job. McD won't look at those guys. It's the same as the roster. We would rather promote from within than best man for the job. Our internal farm system of coaches and player development simply isn't good enough when other teams are looking at the entire league and best coach/player available.

In fairness if we didn't have the injuries we could have overcome the negligence at other positions.

My point is we are taking a franchise QB hit no matter what. The problem isn't because we have a franchise QB hit. The problem is you can't have a franchise QB hit with poor roster design and half a dozen players absorbing far more cap than market value. Again, it's on Beane.

It's on Beane more than Josh.

All of our coordinators are yes men. I don't think we have room for an independent, I'm going to build this my way type coordinator on either side.

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I'm not sure what an over reaction looks like with this performance. We are horribly inconsistent with holes all over the offense. It's been said for weeks, but many here said those were overreactions.

That was 100% incomplete

Both, I just find it humorous that he's crafted his image into this cool, calculated, chess player. When he is simultaneously calling up PFF and complaining they graded his moves unfairly. It's not what's real, its what people think is real.

The Beane PR machine. He has every BLO reporter basically banned from the facility if they write something negative. Annual 2 week Beane tour in the postseason where he talks about drafting Josh and smells his farts with Pat McAfee. Then the standard narrative shifting leak we see today. The whole big baller Beane or image of him looking slick in his shades is more PR. Paper thin skin, insecure, etc.

Just throwing this up as it's the 2nd college football weekend in a row YouTube TV users will not have ESPN. Sling TV offers a day pass for 4.99. I used it last Saturday and it worked out well.

I don't think the Patriots will win the division and that's all I got to say about that.

I don't disagree on adding Wilkins, our EPA run defense on junk grabs is far worse than last year and our kissing booth activity is at a net loss over the first 8 weeks of the season.

Really good video.

Damn, I liked him in the draft. I'm also a Western alum. He was a great player for us.

6. Phidarianitus

When it happens I will believe it can happen.

So the assumption is we can check the box on defense at this point? We had the #1 EPA defense in 2021, 7th in 2022, 11th in 2023, 12th in 2024, and now 12th in 2025. We have had many times in the regular season where we look unbeatable on defense. I'm hopeful our investment pays off and it looks like it can. But at the end of the day we have been down that road plenty of times before. We are one more injury away from even an optimistic look on that side of the ball falling apart. Max, Bishop, Bosa, Benford, all it takes is one more. That's assuming it all comes together as you hope it will this time. To your call out, yes, separation was an issue on our final two drives vs the Chiefs. It's not about isolating to specific plays. It's about increasing the margin for success. Our margin in those situations is razor thin. You increase it by increasing your ways to win. Maybe Josh doesn't see that blitz on 4th down if he never gets to 4th down. Our formula almost guarantees our offense will have to deliver on multiple high leverage drives in the postseason. I don't see the horses to execute that drive. Glad you do.

We have been a top 3 DVOA team since the beginning of time. We haven't closed the deal. Nobody is arguing this is a bad team. They're arguing we have shown nothing further to suggest we are more likely to avoid our standard playoff demise.

I give him the benefit of the doubt more than most as far as weirdness, but this is f'n weird

We need a professional emjoi interpreter