Simon

He didn't even have to cut off his route because he was already running it for him. That was sort of eye-popping.

The throw he made immediately after Epenesa tried to kill him when he was flirting with the sideline again made me take my hat off and tip it to him.

I do not freaking understand how somebody in the organization isn't crawling up his ass about his insistence on bailing teams out of their own chaos over and over and over again. I don't hate him but that single issue means that if I ever sit next to him on a plane, he's going to punch me for sure.

Sure we can; we've got no choice. But there is no better or more important player on defense than him.

Not like this they haven't. They're generally ranked NFL middle of the pack on 3rd downs and they weren't as bad as a couple plays made them look tonight, but those handful of plays were a horror show we rarely see and are the kind of game-changers that will cost you wins eventually. Every secondary gets worked sometimes but tonight was beyond the pale at times, imo.

Actually I thought he hurt himself early in the game, on the play where he swam JTaylor (the play right after he'd gotten too wide and taken himself out for a big gain) and dropped Hunt 2 yrds deep on a 1st down. He was favoring his left shoulder for a looong time after that. At a couple points, I thought he wasn't even using it.

I agree that they were too passive on a couple of those 3rd downs. I even wonder if that patchwork secondary had anything to do with their reluctance to expose it with blitzes in key situations. I also wonder if they felt like they were getting to Mahomes enough with 4 today that they were loathe to overdo it. Kermit took a worse beating today than I've seen him take in a long time.

They just lost their best defensive player for the year and one of their only two big FA acquisitions for the year in back to back weeks, at the same position group, which happens to be the 2nd most important group on the field after QB. That's light years beyond the "part of the game" expectation.

Forget deals for a WR; Beane has got to go find at least one and possibly 2 DL before the deadline.

There's a complete lack of cohesion in the secondary right now, and before our WGR-quality whiners chime in, it's not anybody's fault. They are trying to work 4 new guys (two of them rookies) into 2 spots all at the same time as a result of injuries. They are playing most of their snaps every game with a crew of DBs who are in places they're not used to and have had no chance to consistently play with each other at any time this year. Toss in losing Taron and now both their nickel and dime are being manned by yet two more new guys in roles they're not accustomed to and their lack of familiarity with their roles and each other which ratchets up that lack of cohesion by yet another order of magnitude. Their communication is not there, their pass-offs are balky, they're ending up in the wrong part of their zones because of it and it's inevitably going to be a messy, messy mess in the short term, particularly with a DC who has already been struggling for the whole year to have them on the same page. I think they can ameliorate it by just making 3 permanent switches right now and stop trying to pull off the juggling act while you acclimate new guys in. Just tear off the bandaid tomorrow morning and start Hairston and Hancock with Tre as the full time dimeback (and primary backup) and leave those guys in those positions for 100% of the game. Cam Lewis is the primary backup at both nickel/dime with Poyer backing up both safety positions. Do it right now and let these guys get an opportunity to learn and get better together and maybe by December you've got a unit that is starting to gel and getting better every week right at the time you need them to be doing that. I appreciate working Hairston and Hancock in slowly as green rookies, but it's November and the time for that is done with. It's hurting this team right now, and is going to for several weeks, but if you make an immediate commitment to your final configuration with no more dithering they can shorten the pain of that transition and still have a potentially good unit when we're really going to need it.

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Another giant pile of crap. Hoecht has played 4 straight 17 game seasons plus a bunch of postseason games and has never missed a single game in the NFL.

This game is too big for Ingram. They've got to be a looking for a way to get him off the field, but Taron being out complicates everything.

He's playing

They've got 9 guys in the box

> Bishop is coming hard to separate a receiver from the ball on a huge down in the endzone. > He lead directly into teh contact zone between the waist and the shoulder that the NFL wants defenders to attack. > There is no chance in hell he can stop after that ball is deflected and he was 100% rgith to follow through on the play in the legal strike zone.

I think he was absolutely more explosive the last few years. I suspect that he's beating the dogsnot out of himself cuz he loves attacking the run game and it's wearing him down.

He made it a point to get underneath that pad, too. I like that.

I think they got caught in single high with Hancock shading to Rice while Benford continues to play trail technique on guys he can't run with anymore.

Yes

He needs a tramp stamp that says "Exit only"

When you tie up too much cap space and draft capital in WR instead of OL and DL, that's the kind of team you end up with.

If they'd put more resources into their OL and DL and less on WR, maybe they'd be 5-3 instead.

To be 3-5? If they'd put more resources into their OL and DL and less on WR, maybe they'd be 5-3 instead.