JustHewIt

Lol... one can dream

8-2, another week of playing a solid B game and winning handily, excited for the next month! Games start to get more intense now, we're playing four good teams, time for the true measuring stick for this team. Enjoy the ride!

Between winning by too much and beating an NFC team, we are doomed.

Our Defensive philosophy has always been to come out vanilla, bend and try to not break, and adjust. This is nothing new. Our offense has a relatively new coordinator and tons of new faces. We're 5-2, have a strong running game, just added Amari Cooper, have blown out three teams, Josh hasnt thrown a pick and has a passer rating over 100, and are 2-0 in the division on the road. I understand the lack of patience with McDermott, but things do look a bit different this year. Can we show a bit of grace?

Pretty sweet considering the opponent and physicality of that game

Exactly this. Its exhausting. Somehow every vet we let go, none of which were all pros or made a single significant play down the stretch or in the playoffs, is vastly superior to who we brought in to replace them. It's maddening. i cannot understand why you would bother following this team and posting on their message board if you can't be excited about the opportunity to witness the next chapter of JA's career, moving on from a core that had four good shots at it and couldn't get it done.

And the close games we lost? Those DEFINITELY couldn't have went the other way. Only the close wins can be reversed in this fantasy land of negative nonsense

Diggs has and will always have the stigma of being a crappy teammate exactly for this reason, he just doesn't get it, he's too self absorbed. A "real pro" would keep his mouth shut and be an exemplary teammate both on AND off the field. Diggs is a great player, but also stirs the pot constantly on social media and never goes out of his way to show up for his team outside of the hashes. He's a mercenary in a position where people look to him as a leader

We'll see if this moves the needle at all, but kudos to the staff for trying an innovative new approach

Oh cool, I can't wait for the only person to ever have 40+ TDs in four straight years, while leading a top 5 offense, while averaging 12 wins a year, to stop being "quite inconsistent." As soon as we get that meanie QB coach in here to rough him up a bit he'll surely go for 6000 yards and 60 TDs every year! Are there some real world examples of this whole hard-nosed yeller vs. friend thing that you all seem so fixated on? Are you referring to Daboll? Josh didn't have any more success under Daboll than we did this or last year, going by your metric of "who's playing next Sunday." We're not playing next Sunday because our D-Line is underwhelming, the middle of our defense was gutted by injuries, and our safeties aren't impact players anymore. So we gave up 9 yards a play to the best quarterback/play caller in the league and lost. Of course there's room for improvement everywhere, but this thread is about the (silly and reductive) notion that our QB coach's personality is a serious concern, and that Josh doesn't work or improve because he doesn't have someone in his ear screaming "DON'T THROW AN INTERCEPTION MAN!!!!!!!!!!" Maybe it's time to just accept and be happy that he's always going to be a 45 TD/17 Turnover guy, and he'll never reach this pinnacle of perfection that everyone wants. And you know what? That's plus his current rate of playoff production is plenty to help win a title.

Well, I figure 5-7 coaches get fired every year, plus 31 other currently employed coaches. McDermott has more wins, playoff appearances, playoff wins, and divisions titles than any of them except Andy Reid since 2017. And if not for Reid, he'd probably have a Super Bowl appearance or two. So, to me that's successful, there's more to success than winning the Super Bowl. But, agree to disagree I guess.

It's almost as if a bunch of fans were judging and thinking they could read a person off a bunch of intentionally bland press conferences, rather than his body of work, which is more successful than 98 percent of the coaches in the past seven years with a locker room that constantly raves about how together they are year in and year out.

Why? Is there something wrong with our quarterback that needs tough love? I thought he played pretty damn well after he got out from under whatever Dorsey was coaching him to do.

No idea what the answer is but I agree. I was watching a YouTube video the other day of the JA's first 200 touchdowns, and it was striking how easy we used to make the red zone look under Daboll in a way we don't really seem to see anymore

This. If the boys can use it and come out as the more physical team, then the game is going to be a lot of fun for us The chiefs part is most annoying to me though....as if we didn't put up the "perfect game" two years ago when it was like zero degrees in the playoffs