Mikie2times

Bill Braskey and Mark Sanchez don't have a lot in common

I would say the evidence shows pretty clearly that it is. Unless you think refs are just deciding to ignore it. All these SEE! False start! are being done in slow motion and still frame. Not live.

It's a bang bang play that is difficult to officiate. Hard to see the false start live. Hard to spot the ball. Impossible to determine if the player fumbles. I have no idea why people are going to such lengths to say this is positive for the game or should be in it. It's just not on multiple levels. So what are we going to have, false start instant replays? Now we have those on all plays? We can argue over how somebody scratching themselves should be a false start? End the lunacy please.

Or take a spot on the practice squad and activate when you play teams that use it frequently. Lets not let thinking get in the way of words.

Buddy's from Detroit, if it needs to be a chain, Jets from Detroit/also in Ohio. But I certainly have love for the occasional Chicago or New York slice. I like making my own pizza as well.

I think teams should be looking at NT specialists for this play. Very large men. Sumo’s. These aren’t football players and they have no business on standard plays. But if you have the single objective of getting as low as you can and trying to not give ground I think those type of guys would be the hardest to push back.

I feel a little John Madden here

It’s ok for fans to not like elements about this team. All of us just don’t have to turn in our fan card because the regular season success isn’t doing it for us anymore. Most of us already went thru the 90’s. You aren’t beating that group for success without a Super Bowl win so running that back is a tad hollow as Allen approaches 30. So as we fumble thru an insanely weak part of our schedule looking ripe to have KC or somebody else decimate our defense when it matters it’s all valid talk.

This is about the best analogy I have heard to describe this team. If I had to say what is the bigger overreaction, this week, or thinking this team fundamentally changed, I would say the latter. We are still a team that will win a lot of games. We are still a team that has no business being a Super Bowl favorite. The games prior to New England showed the same things, we just happened to win. So people weren’t willing to discuss it. But that’s what it was prior to the New England game and that’s what it is now. As I have said for years, I will reserve my right to change my opinion. But as I said, been saying it for years and it’s still the same opinion.

They produced a couple wild card quality years. Kudos McD.

Haha…a few people still attribute most of this to him despite having Josh Allen in the AFC East. Which basically is a divisional title as the floor.

I don’t disagree. It’s just how I see it going. I agree with people that think Terry won’t pull the trigger.

I said this before but it didn’t seem to get a lot traction. I think McD will likely just leave the team by maybe the end of 27 or 28 if he still hasn’t gotten it done. The reason I feel this way is I don’t think Terry will do it. But I also don’t think people understand how uncomfortable it will be coaching this team at that time if he still hasn’t gotten to a Super Bowl. The fan base will turn on them and it won’t be pretty.

Ahh yes, without McD and his defense and Beane extending Bernard and the like, the whole franchise falls apart. Seems likely.

We are on version 1.7, that is like version 11.9 The coach and GM need to bring people in that can execute. They need to put them in a position to execute. If the players consistently fail to do so it is absolutely a failure of tae coach and GM and on multiple levels.

Our EPA on offense is a few ticks better than last year and our EPA on defense is a few ticks worse. It is essentially a wash, a near break even. Last year’s team came within a few plays of the Super Bowl, so it is not irrational to think our outlook should not be drastically different. The question is whether just getting yourself back to that position is good enough or whether you are actively improving your position once you are there. This year, with Kansas City and Baltimore both a little down, even slight progression could give us a real edge. But so far our investment strategy has not produced meaningful results. Brandon Beane is busy mocking radio hosts for questioning his approach and doing offseason media tours about how he drafted Josh Allen, while the team itself is not getting better on the field. Hyde and Poyer remain the best players we have had on defense, and neither of them were draft picks. Back then, Beane was shrewd with free agent acquisitions and hit some home runs. That version of him does not seem to exist anymore. The front office has not brought in high end defensive talent in years, and the unit feels like a talent vacuum. Then there is McDermott. He is restricting meaningful defensive change because that is his side of the ball. We hear the defense is simple, then we hear it is complicated, but either way it is ineffective. I do not care whether the issue is talent, execution, or scheme. It all falls under the same umbrella of underperformance. How can any fan have confidence this defense will improve with the same two people driving it? Beane was significantly better during the first build. McDermott might be more mature now, but together they remain fixated on pouring resources into a side of the ball that continually fails to deliver. They are all in on defense, but the returns do not justify the investment. At some point, time becomes irrelevant. Nothing we have seen suggests that more of it will change the outcome. If this continues, twenty years from now we will look back on this era as even more polarizing than the 1990s teams.

Rex would never hold a run like this together, but could he provide a higher ceiling for a couple years? Not THAT massive of a stretch to think that is the case.

The first time I can ever use the word hope and Rasul Douglas in the same sentence

It is a BIG deal to kick with a broken in ball vs a new ball. Huge. In addition to starting multiple positions like Travis Hunter, I also kicked. I also juggled cheerleaders on the sideline. Along with having no ego. In any event, I would get about 10 yards of additional distance on kickoffs if the ball was broken in. Kicking a new ball is like kicking a rock. The broken in balls will actually recoil against your foot.

It takes 7 years to acclimate a DB to this system.

They gave KC a swing call on the goaline fumble. So how does that work exactly? The great teams get some calls, same as Jordan got some calls. The conspiracy stuff to nudge teams further ahead would risk the entire NFL empire along with it's billion dollar gambling sponsorship. Some refs just aren't very good. Some don't like certain players/coaches/cities. You can get some bias. It's funny watching people turn into a pretzel to build the conspiracy angle.

Ya, I have no clue here. I like everything from the Doors to Dr Dre, and The Killers as well, but I don't get "pumped up" listening to any of the songs they have. Solid music, but just not a football song. I don't get it, never have.

Just because you get to "hand pick" your QB, you don't just get to hand pick a QB on Allen's level. While not fully the worst argument I have ever heard. That one is approaching it.

Only because we keep taking the "this will be the year" medicine.