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They realised the juice was no longer worth the squeeze Part of that was him getting older, and maybe a bigger part was Brady being unable to scheme a passing game centred around a WR1 - he saw the future and upped his dickishness - we thought we saw an elite offence that didn't involve a highly paid WR1 - something some people here still believe in it seems Thankfully we fixed this by concentrating on having 5 or 6 WR4 types and dont have to worry about how to use a WR1 Watching Redzone and seeing multiple different outside receivers so easily ***** the ball out the sky to continue a drive and be in scoring position has become a bittersweet watch - as we wait for Cook to rip a big one or Josh to scramble around on 4th down and fire a laser beam. I can understand all the people who believe it is both working and sustainable all the way to a Superbowl. I certainly don't agree. If Kincaid was an iron man, maybe you could get through with it, but he's not back on topic - Diggs was and is a dick. We had enough of it.

Great point. There is a lot of chat here that we need outside guys, we already have a slot and very few available snaps there, Shakir is a top slot And yet week after week we see actual top players getting their biggest gains out the slot - JSN as you mention, Puka appearing from there, Amon Ra is well over 50% slot, Olave and Chase 30% out the slot, Devonta Smith over 40%, CeeDee 33%, Drake London over 40%? Any why? Because getting a talented player a free release is pretty pretty good People can argue over Shakir's talent level, but its undeniably a waste to use a whole set of snaps and those free releases to park a guy at the line of scrimmage surely? That release should surely be used to get that guy (whoever it is) down the field on occasion? *Not an Xs and Os or scheme guy, pretty basic knowledge, so happy to be shouted down if i have misunderstood what is going on here - but i definitely see top guys coming out the slot with no-one near them - so there should never be any argument to not get talented guys because we don't have slot snaps available. We dont get anywhere near enough out of that spot - as noted its not even as much as Beasley was getting - its a bunch of low ADOT plays where Shakir sometimes pinballs off guys and gets 8-15 yards (which he is pretty good at to be fair)

So wait, a sideways look at a particular topic and the mods have merged three threads in 5 minutes. But the actual GameDay thread full of pats wankers, one in particular, and crickets..!?! Just ban this dipstick already, it's boring and ruining the thread. Unless typing things into chatgpt and pasting the results here now counts as a contribution?

25% chance of the division (50/50 to beat the Pats, 50/50 they lose another divisional game) Bills In - 99% Bills out - 1%

Great summary. Overall whilst a bunch of the same complaints I have had for most of the season were still right there for all to see - this felt a bit different in the end. The D is still mash, but they are back to getting takeaways And more importantly Josh has flipped the switch. Very clearly. And that makes me feel like we are right back to where we usually are - which is a punchers chance in any game anywhere any time. Bring it on Now for the Steelers and Chargers to find a couple more wins each and keep the Ravens and Chiefs out of the way

Seems like russing > trushing

What better evidence for wins not being a QB stat? Lamar, Mahomies and Burrow beaten Tua, Penix and Mills emerge victorious (Maye is actually good to be fair)

Getting TJ Sanders and Javon Solomon steaming in off the edges to take down Drake Maye mercilessly over and over again 🤬🤬🔥🔥💪💪

Missed in the wash of the weeks news - but they just extended Andrews!?! With Likely already there and a clear enough decline from Andrews over the last couple years? Seems a wild decision. Also never really going to get on a players back for trying to make a play, didn't work, but thems the breaks 🤷‍♂️

Joey Porter, Zach Frazier, Harmon, Boswell, Highsmith, Herbig, Warren In fact the exact list of players they will be looking to keep if they ever tore it down (they wont!)

Good time to bring up the fan police on here after Pats and Falcons defeats when you point out that those would end up being massively costly - even back in early October. They cant wait to tell you its an overreaction and season starts after Thanksgiving, calm down etc. Well it turns out pissing away easy games early on does indeed count in your final record and ultimate seeding. Path is not impossible, but its definitely harder than it ought to have been based on the schedule we had this year (look at next year for example, way harder schedule)(also comically we could end up with Texans, Ravens and 49ers/Seahawks/Rams as 2nd place teams - so there really wont be any schedule advantage over the 1st place Pats either)

10-7 will also very likely be fine if one of those losses is the Eagles As far as i can tell even just beating Browns / Jets puts us near enough in

Madness to want KC in There is 4 years of evidence that this ain't good news for us And two of those years we were better than them (2024) or played as well as we possibly can (2021) - and still lost. One of them at home Rather play the Texans all day long, tough to beat the same team twice in the same season (see Bills regular season vs Chiefs) I think we roll vs Texans in a play off scenario - home or on the road

I havent followed it too closely as i dont give a toss about the Bengals - but this feels like another of these holdout guys who moan and piss all summer for more money, miss TC and rampup - turn up just before week 1 after they get more money - and promptly spend long time injured as they are in no way ready for the season. Hendrickson and Scary Terry come to mind, Aiyuk last year - must be annoying for those teams

My brother is a Texans fan and watches every snap - his main comment was he couldn't believe we didn't just run right at them over and over again. They were astonished we set up to pass with 5 man protections - they haven't seen anybody do that all season as it seems suicidal (and proved to be exactly that!) My view on the game was they didnt sell out to stop the run at all - it looked a bit like that with so many men at the line, but those guys were just happy to cover our eligibles from close up to the line - they werent selling out to stop the run - we just didn't run it enough to force any changes. hence why i felt the Steelers game plan was 10 days late - it would have been a much better option @ Texans