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I could definitely see Henry…he’s hitting the point in his career where the titans might want to get something for him when he still has value and he could help solidify our offense which is gonna need to carry our defense.

I don’t really trust anyone in the NFC but it’s gotta be somebody lol I was hoping for the lions but the ravens straight up embarrassed them. 49ers are about to hit a pretty tough stretch of schedule I think they’re gonna falter a bit. Eagles haven’t looked super sharp either. AFC it’s hard to pick against KC.

I’m keepin my fingers crossed one of Milano and/or Daquan jones can return and play decent for the playoffs. This was the best team beane has put together and we’d likely be 7-1 right now if one of von miller,Matt Milano,tre white, or Daquan jones was healthy which doesn’t seem like too much to ask for 😂. I know every team has injuries but ours always seem to find the best players

They aren’t as well coached as the pats and their head coach didn’t design our whole offense also to be fair lol. If the last three games taught me anything it’s that most coaches are stubborn idiots that won’t adapt from what they like to do for their current opponent. The giants and pats both sprinkled in a bunch of things that gave us trouble and Todd Bowles just completely abandoned it despite having more defensive talent than both lol the giants defense is kind of underrated also in my opinion…they have some absolute beasts on the defensive line but you’d never know it because their offense hangs them out to dry nearly every game.. I don’t think they’re far off this years bengals squad talent wise on defense tldr of this is division games are tough because of the familiarity, road division games are very tough, and the Brian Daboll giants essentially are a division game

Desperation could be a bad thing for a team just as often as it’s a good thing. There’s no reason to root for a team that is likely to be a potential wildcard competitor I don’t think they are the elite squad they once were, defense has taken a step back and really that was the strength of the team in big games. Might be a fun shootout next week

I think we’re having a big issue where when cook is on the field the pass blocking takes a huge hit. I’m pretty sure some of this shotgun draw business is to catch the defense off guard that dials up a delayed blitz to confuse cook in his pass blocking assignments. And it’s not like you can trot cook out there for running plays and Murray for passing plays because then you’re pretty much telegraphing what you’re trying to do presnap Singletary was actually a pretty competent pass blocker but not that explosive in the running game. Derrick Henry is near top in the league in both so that would be a pretty big upgrade if he’s still got juice. derrick Henry also can’t truck josh Norman if he’s on our team 😂

The burrow injury seems like mostly a baseless excuse to me this year from what I’ve seen. The games the bengals have looked bad the entire offense got absolutely dominated.

That call on phillips was correct but it was so corny lol. If the bucs didn’t get that call I don’t think anyone would’ve complained. Light, inconsequential facemask debatably after the play should’ve been blown dead. If they were calling things that tight all game there would be a penalty every play if our offensive line builds on the bucs game I think josh has a chance at mvp. The chiefs offense doesn’t look as sharp as it has in the past but their defense has stepped it up

Yep they seem to do that

I’d be more critical of the coaching if that late TB td wasn’t both an obvious opi penalty and dumb luck lol. That drive realistically couldve taken a few more minutes and Tampa was getting dangerously close to having to onside kick down one score territory Phillips is a dummy but that play absolutely should’ve been blown dead. TB caught every break imaginable in this one

Just looking at total points is very flawed also as any team will get more conservative up two scores against a bad offense…the offense was objectively better against the bucs who are coincidentally a better defense than the pats as well.

Gonna be tough for mahomes not to get it going against the broncos and chargers defenses 4 times

I am just baffled by this…Godwin was so clearly lost on that play for its entire duration to the point where he was facing the complete wrong direction when the ball was going by him and we’re trying to make it sound like we dodged a bullet? 😂. why is ‘if he turned around’ even a thing lol who the heck is facing the wrong direction at the critical juncture of a Hail Mary. Obviously that effects how the defense is playing him too

That didn’t touch on what I was saying at all though really. there’s no question he’s a capable receiver…he was just either out of position or everyone lost the football because baker threw it 60 yards deep but 100 yards up in the air since it was just at the edge of his range lol. out of every offensive player on the field it looked like only Mike evans had any idea where the football was. so the ‘if he turned around’ to try to explain how close the play was makes no sense to me. If he wasn’t clearly completely lost spinning around in the end zone maybe he gets more defensive attention lol that play was not even remotely close to being successful…he would not catch that ball in 1000 tries. It would’ve had to perfectly land in his randomly outstretched arms with him having no idea it was coming 😂

It’s how every Hail Mary is defended…we were calling them stupid for not doing that on the hail Murray which wasn’t even a real Hail Mary 😂. The only way they’re calling a pi is if the ball is right on a receiver that’s getting held and the receiver can’t jump up to high point it due to the holding. it’s a play with a lot of receivers just standing around and you’re supposedly not allowed to box them out or impede the receivers moving around in the end zone?

4 of our last 6 losses have been divisional games and we are 18-6(.750 win percentage) in that time. It’s just a weird time to make that claim because most of our struggles have been divisional games recently and we are doing very well in the vast majority of non divisional games including a 2 game win streak against the chiefs at arrowhead

That does seem like the deal to me…after the pats/giants games the posts were certainly understandable but the bucs game was a big step in the right direction and we’re still getting those same sort of posts like we made zero improvements. it’s fine to think we won’t hang in the tougher part of our schedule I have no issue with that, but there was clear progress last night. The TB defense is no slouch by any means

Seems like most of the struggles are coming in division games lately tbh lol we lost 3 total games last season and 66.6% were divisional

Yep I was agreeing with you haha just wanted the other side to know this isn’t a just blind love fest either which seems to be the criticism you get whenever you mention a positive thing related to this team

I’ve been waiting for someone to come up with a better insult name than mcclappy which I hate haha it’s not clever or particularly insulting in any way.. mclapperson is a marginal improvement 😂

There’s just so much hyperbole at work on these boards haha like you can be critical of McDermott and still admit he has done a good job developing defensive players. the guy has gotten a ton out of pretty low ceiling talent type guys. Doesn’t mean he’s a genius that’s beyond criticism though by any means

I think it’s a little bit more complicated than that lol. If Ron Rivera is such a good, Super Bowl caliber coach he’d be turning that commanders team around. Some head coaches absolutely get carried to a Super Bowl and it’s been much more likely in the NFC than the AFC lately

Not to put words in anyone’s mouth but that did not appear to be the posters point at all. The ‘comeback’ last night was fueled by objectively flukey plays which is what they were referencing. The ball is not going to bounce only the opponents way at every possible opportunity seemed to be what the gist was, and despite that happening the closest they came was a very very low percentage desperation play which is how a lot of games end that one team is controlling. the giants and pats games were absolutely terrible, but last night was clearly a better effort without question.

Under a microscope though supposedly great/good coaches frequently make terrible decisions also to be fair. We’re just not putting other teams coaches under the same level of criticism understandably andy Reid made some absolutely disastrous decisions in that week 1 game There’s also a lot of terrible coaches in this league and many that are overrated in the same way you are criticizing McDermott so your numbers are way off regardless

I really don’t get this place a lot of the time…like all week we heard from people on here that the bucs are actually pretty good and we’re in trouble. we win and control the game but things are just as bad as before because a bunch of bounces went their way?