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Seems like when we’re being pessimistic we compare our players/coaches/gm to a hypothetical perfect team but even the great teams miss pretty often. if epenesa has truly turned it around beane has drafted as well as any other competitor drafting in the late rounds. Kincaid and Torrence look good(Torrence had a bad game last game but I wouldn’t panic yet), Dorian Williams looks like he’s got a nose for the football he just has to work on his tackling Elam was a bust but cook and Bernard look good. Shakir the jury is still out on could go either way but he’s a 5th anyway. Benford isn’t great but he was a steal in the 6th. Rousseau good, basham bust, brown make or break year this year but looking rough Epenesa looking good?, Zach moss we could not block for at all and he’s now playing well in Indy…I’ll give an incomplete on that one, gabe Davis outperformed his draft position for awhile but I don’t think he’s good enough, Tyler bass good up until the last few games unexpectedly, Dane Jackson great for a late 7th. ed oliver pretty good, Cody ford bust, singletary and Knox we got some use out of as third round picks and probably should’ve let them both go after their rookie deals

The whole thing gives me a chuckle…people post some valid criticisms for sure but also a bunch of overly negative doomer predictions get posted that always turn out to be false and those posters claim to be vindicated when we don’t win the Super Bowl despite being wrong about just about everything else 😂

I mean if we’re playing in ‘should’ve won due to blown calls’ we probably should’ve beaten the pats and lost to the giants to be fair lol I think the pats game evened the giants game out officiating wise. giants defense has been getting absolutely hosed by their offense but they’ve got talent. They went out and absolutely dominated the commanders offense the week after we played them so it wasn’t like it was a one off flukey thing. Tyrod is just better at managing the game than jones and with saquon back they can eat up some TOP and keep their defense off the field. chargers defense is worse than the giants in all the big stats...they’re giving up more yards, allowing more points, committing more penalties, worse in advance metrics like dvoa etc which is wild to me because the giants offense was struggling for most of the season and hanging their defense out to dry. Derwin James has steadily regressed since his rookie year, some of it is injuries but some of it is Staley having no idea what he’s doing. James is well rounded but his weakness is pass coverage and they’re just forcing him to cover constantly. He’s certainly not bad by any means, but he hasn’t really been playing like a dominant player that can swing a game. Bosa is just a big name that’s pretty much invisible also probably due to injuries. Mack is a beast though.

I agree with about half of this idk how blind faithfully that makes me lol. Pats clearly made it a point of emphasis to get the ball out quick and despite being depleted our dline was still good against the run. I wouldn’t sound the alarm on von yet theyre clearly easing him back in oline is a big problem but it looked like the interior to me this game. Torrence had his worst game as a pro, morse has been terrible in this 3 game streak. I do agree that if we can’t get that sorted the outlook is grim. looks like we got a real one in the first round this year, Torrence has looked pretty good too up until last game but I wouldn’t write him off yet. Epenesa has been turning it around Dorian Williams is flying all over the field he just hasn’t been the surest tackler yet. Bernard has looked good so far, Rousseau has been good, Ed oliver has been pretty good, James cook has been good Idk where this narrative of we can’t draft in early rounds comes from that’s a lot of good picks for a team drafting in the later portion of rounds. Elam and basham were misses but that’s gonna happen, there aren’t a lot of absolute sure things late in the first and beyond. I’ve reached the end of my patience with Knox and gabe Davis for sure so no arguments there. I’d just straight up bench gabe for sherfield at this point why not. I wouldn’t say our depth is bad, I think mcD just got outcoached on the defensive side last game(not sure that’s any better than having bad players though 😂). We’re missing 4 of our best players on defense and those guys are still hanging in there makin enough plays to win most of the time. Pats game was def a mess though on both sides so I understand the strong reactions from people

Division is still a pretty clear path with a game in hand against Miami a lot of these teams you’ve penciled in as losses have looked just as garbage-y as us lol 9-8 with a win over Miami could win the division lol and if they have the division locked up they’ll likely be resting starters week 18 as the 1 seed will absolutely not be in play for them I also personally vehemently disagree with your chargers pick 😂 they are probably the worst defense in the league

All of those things are a factor but the offensive line is kickin it all off imo. Seems like josh just doesn’t have a good sense for when the pressure is coming because of all the assignment breakdowns these delayed blitzes are causing. Nothing is improving until we figure that out regardless of what skill position players or coaches we bring in here. Flip side of that is it’s not a talent issue on the offensive side and I think it’s something we have a good shot of figuring out I just hope it’s sooner than later defensive side we just don’t have the talent anymore with the injuries; the offense is going to have to carry us. All teams have injuries for sure but we are missing all our best players on defense

Idk if they’ll figure it out but if they could communicate better on these stunts/delayed blitzes the offense would improve exponentially in a hurry. It’s really been the same things killin us every game since jax

Even with our current struggles all 4 of the games you highlighted are winnable and every one of them have looked bad against bad/mediocre opponents at times much like we have

Can’t imagine how this board would react to Ben Johnson’s last game lol. They have one of the best offensive lines in football, we very much do not. Those guys up front didn’t show up Sunday and the lions got destroyed. We’d be currently calling for Ben to get fired if he was here 😂

I think it’s the opposite lol have to get to the red zone though 😂 The oline looks horrible to me this year…if josh wasn’t as athletic I can’t even imagine how many times he’d be sacked. Weeks 1-4 it really looked like we turned the corner finally but now it looks like we’ve regressed

I saw a stat that he’s last in the league in accuracy to open receivers…of course I can’t find it now so there’s a 20% chance I’m making it up lol

No one wants to be the Super Bowl favorite, eagles and chiefs will both look bad next week now 😂

This always makes me giggle…the qbs don’t play against eachother directly in any way. Put Mac on the bills yesterday and he gets absolutely demolished

Those delayed blitzes have our whole offense rattled it seems josh included…I think he’s not really sure when he can hold the ball and attack downfield and when he’s gotta dump it off quick anymore. Sometimes he diagnoses a quick blitz effectively and throws it hot…sometimes a delayed blitz turns into a jailbreak type scenario because nobody can block anybody despite it being ‘delayed’ lol silver lining if we end up powering through this we’ll be a better team for it. That is a decently big ‘if’ though at this time still think this is the best josh we’ve seen I kind of feel bad for him honestly…he’s not perfect by any means but the last 3 weeks have been the typical games in past years where he’s absolutely awful and this year he’s played pretty well. the stats won’t reflect it though

Kc we are doomed I’m afraid…philly and Dallas I have no idea what to make of and we’ve got some time to right the ship before we see them. Hopefully von shows up at some point before then

Haha I thought you meant the commanders and was confused but it’s kc. I just don’t think Miami is very good. They install some new wrinkles to make tuas life a little easier then they seem to get figured out at the midpoint of the season. Tua might be the worst qb at improvising on off schedule plays in the league I don’t think the guy sees the field at all when he has to move in a collapsing pocket if we can’t catch Miami it likely means we weren’t good enough to do diddly in the playoffs anyway McDaniel has definitely hit the ceiling on what they can cover up with great play design imo. They’re also at a pretty big disadvantage on the road with all that presnap motion…that’s probably hard to pull off cleanly without penalties in a silent stadium let alone philly on a Sunday night

I’m actually pretty excited for their jets game…has tua ever started for the dolphins against the jets?

I’m starting to feel that way too…dolphins just get absolutely worked by the playoff level opponents on a regular basis. They had that flukey game against us where we outgained them by double despite missing our entire starting secondary and that massive comeback against the injury ravaged ravens last year and lost all the rest bills are up and down but josh has those games where he pulls magical sh*t out of his a** haha They’re frauds but so are we until proven otherwise 😂. Miamis offensive system really exploits bad defenses disproportionately to good ones but can’t hate on that right now as we can’t even beat the bad teams haha

Lol I watch on mute. That’s embarrassing if true…this team is now 2-6 under McDaniel against playoff teams with tua (assuming the bills make it) and 2-8 total. Their two wins were sneaking by absolutely injury ravaged ravens and bills teams (they got outgained in that bills game by nearly 250 yards)

Neither are beating the chiefs imo which is unfortunate. Dolphins don’t look like a contender either idk who’s left…ravens maybe?

Tua is only great at a very niche aspect of playing qb that just isn’t available against the better defenses often enough it’s unrealistic that his first read is gonna be open 80%+ of the time right off the snap in games like this and he gets tunnel vision trying to make plays happen I really hope they unload the brinks truck for his new contract that would be a huge win for us if we have a down year

They love the sad qb shot on network television…guarantee you he was pumping people up most of the game im sure he’s a bit frustrated this is 5 years now of hardly any pass pro. I’m sure he’s frustrated with himself for leaving plays out there too

Eagles don’t look unbeatable either…chiefs are a tier above them for sure. Chiefs are pretty darn close to an automatic loss…we match up worse against them than ever lol

One team was playin against a Swiss cheese defense with 0 pass rush lol josh would’ve won that game 50-0 if they swapped teams

I think it’s more that who’s gonna step in and make an instant improvement…do they have someone on the staff they make like better? I doubt it