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It’s the last of our division road games though…this is pretty tin foil hat-y but the schedules almost seem like they were created to keep the afc east close for as long as they could lol bills had a tough start with all the road afc east games in a row too. Miami got a bunch of layups in a row midseason then a really tough stretch late.

They just snuck by three of those teams in a row…one of which we absolutely destroyed(Steelers) so I don’t think it’s that simple. their offense hasn’t looked anywhere near as good against the afc playoff field even with tua playing (outside of the final quarter of the ravens game after the ravens lost a few dbs) tua was pretty deer in headlights-y against us and the half he played in cincy. The browns win was impressive but I don’t really put any stock in their performance against the Kyle Allen led Texans. Also…we barely hung on against the browns? Lol that was a very comfortable win imo

Miamis got @SF @LAC @BUF in a row comin up and I’m not even sure GB is a good matchup for them. Really anything could happen at this point

I think Bernard and Dodson get lumped together because they have similar first names and they are both playing poorly lol dodson played every snap against Cleveland

Idk what has gotten into them recently then though because they were consistently dropping dimes into tight coverage the last few weeks lol there is also a lot more to offense than qb play as I assumed a pats fan would know 😂 we also had the biggest defensive liability I’ve ever seen in my life at LB when one of edmunds/Milano is out that we recently plugged up by signing Klein who played pretty well this week. I think the pats are catching us a week or two too late

Yea I’m genuinely not sure that’s just an educated guess haha. I’m with you though. I can’t believe I have to review the definition of a catch again lol Vikings are the luckiest team in the world I just don’t understand it

That hunter Henry catch was interesting…I think they probably ruled the ball hit the ground with his hand underneath which is fine, but then when he rolled over the ball bobbled a bit which puts him in ‘the ground helped secure the catch’ territory i think this is a classic candidate for ‘fans don’t know all the nuances of the ruling and it was a stupid rule called correctly’

Should be an interesting game…I don’t doubt belichicks ability to minimize diggs’ impact this season but they’ve got a mostly new crew of linebackers who seem to have struggled against qbs that can run it does seem to me that with his elbow injury they are making a more concerted effort to not run josh as much though so I’m expecting a close one. Really gotta win this one for tiebreaker considerations with Miami if we want to take the division I think pats,dolphins, and bills will likely all make the playoffs though. Cincy overtook the jets as expected

To be fair, Cleveland and Detroit are two of the best offenses in the league. We actually held Detroit under their average yardage/ point totals believe it or not lol. Cleveland was about 20 yards over their average but a big chunk of that was garbage time if we had klein instead of Bernard/Dodson for the jets game there’s no way they would’ve cracked double digits. Those two guys are just not nfl caliber yet. Kleins pretty average but Dodson has been awful so it’s a huge upgrade if edmunds is still out especially because he’s a solid run defender and the pats like to run

It’s pretty wild how bad our second/third string linebackers were that Klein could come in essentially off the street and take all Bernard/Dodson’s snaps lol i cant believe people were calling for us to leave the nickel and put both those guys on the field at the same time when edmunds or Milano were hurt. im definitely more willing than most to give Frazier some benefit of the doubt depending on how the rest of the season goes big negative for beane thinking the depth at lb would be ok but a bit of a positive for picking up Klein to somewhat remedy the situation

That could conceivably be the case this season come playoff time also. We’ve had a ton of injuries but only one ‘season ender’ I have even heard talk of hyde returning for the playoffs so who knows

You can attempt a fg again if the snap is bad since it wasn’t 4th down. Odds are higher that that will happen than a kickoff return td. I don’t believe it was ‘panic’ at all. I’m actually not 100% sure on this but I’m pretty sure the holder can throw the ball away

This seems to really have picked up in the last few weeks and my guess is it’s because people see Detroit and Cleveland as bottom feeders that aren’t good at anything. they are both just about top 5 teams in total offense though (Detroit was 6 before we played them and is now 7,Cleveland is 4). considering the injuries and the uncharacteristically impressive tight window throws Goff/brissett were making I really don’t think the defense has been that bad. they have made some absolutely massive plays this year at key moments

That’s right you haven’t…because I don’t think anyone has ever played 3 away games in an 11 day span in nfl history

I think the big problem we have had is Bernard/Dodson are just not nfl caliber players yet and one of Milano/edmunds has been injured pretty much every week of the season. That’s just way too big of a weak link to overcome on the defensive side when there’s 3 or 4 other high impact defensive starters injured also. Idk much about the lions injury situation but I doubt they’ve been missing their two starting guards all year crazy that Klein stepped in virtually off the street and took all the snaps from Bernard and Dodson.

Hopefully they make some adjustments…I really think they expected gabe Davis to be winning a lot more 1 on 1 matchups but he’s been struggling finishing the catches. this is pretty much wild speculation on my part without watching all22s in awhile but it seems like teams know josh is playing hurt and that we are trying to minimize the qb running game which is making everything more difficult. It hasn’t seemed like a designed part of the offense in a very long time and when it happens it’s very late in the game with the game on the line.

It’s frustrating because he has all the physical tools he’s just not making the plays

Over under was 11.5 pre season…12 wins would be insanely impressive based on what we’ve dealt with if we’re talking regular season results

I really thought essentially 13 seconds-ing the lions would restore order to the universe…I guess we’ll see

New England got whooped a few times by dual threat qbs so here’s to hoping that continues. Chicago and Baltimore really roughed them up

They’re doing a bad job determining the quality of players lost then imo…we decided extremely quickly that aj klein who was recently released by the bears was a better replacement for edmunds than Bernard/Dodson. I can’t think of another team that had a situation like that. I also doubt it factors in players lost midgame and players playing hurt (ex josh Allen,Jordan poyer) seems to me that they only factor in what they perceive as the quality of the player lost and not how big the falloff is to the replacement player that is forced into a starting role. That is an extremely flawed methodology imo hamlin, Dane Jackson, cam Lewis, Bernard/Dodson have all been somewhere in between pretty bad and horrible and they all play defense

A lot of talk that mahomes was awful in his first camp so I’m not sure that’s true. Tyreek hill thought mahomes was ‘trash’ as a rookie

Very much agree…there’s tons of other stats that mahomes benefitted from by sitting out a year and learning the offense too

It’s really not excuses to bring these things up when we’re theorizing how future games are going to go. people are assuming the team is going to continue to play mediocre and there’s a lot of reasons why that may not be the case

We were pretty mediocre 14 weeks into the season last year…I think we are far ahead of that this season when you factor in the wild amount of injuries