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Looking at Spotrac, they list the potential 'Out' as after next season. He has a 9.1m Cap Hit with a 11.25m Dead Cap Hit next season. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/21781/curtis-samuel

It makes sense. But we're getting to a point where it's a tough call as to who to cut to make room even on the Practice Squad. Of our 17 players, 13 of them have been called up at least once or were even on the 53 man roster. It's pretty loaded: QB Mike White #14 RB Frank Gore Jr. #20 WR Jalen Virgil #89 WR K.J. Hamler #19 WR Tyrell Shavers #80 TE Zach Davidson #84 OL Will Clapp #61 OT Richard Gouraige #75 OL Mike Edwards #65 DE Kingsley Jonathan #59 DT Eli Ankou #51 DT Zion Logue #93 CB Daequan Hardy #25 CB Te'Cory Couch #33 S Micah Hyde #23 S Lewis Cine #36 S Kareem Jackson #27

Fair point. But with Mahomes week to week and then having two AFC playoff teams coming up on the docket - the 1 seed is more in play than it was before this weeks slate of games. I don't know that now is the time to put it in cruise and experiment. Especially given that he couldn't finish the game and he hasn't looked very good in relief when called upon before that game. The secondary gave up 494 yards and 5 TD's through the air against the Lions. As bad as the Rams game was, our secondary gave up 320 yards and 2 TD's. That's 174 more yards and 3 more TD's giving up by the Secondary in this outing than last week. Is that all on Elam? No. But I don't know how you can look at a game where we have up just about 500 yards through the air and say that Elam stepped up to the plate. Douglas had a bad game and Elam didn't play well either.

I can see the merits of Bishop for Hamlin - in theory. I think Hamlin is more regularly reliable right now than what Bishop has shown. But I don't think Bishop is far off in terms of ability right now and has MUCH larger room for growth. However, this isn't a move i'd be willing to make this late into the year. He doesn't have the experience right now. Hell, the guy got a full games worth of NFL Football and had to be carted off the field with cramps. But Elam for Douglas is just a baffling question to me. Douglas had a rough outing against the Rams. But it's not like Elam fared much better against the Lions. And there's no question week to week who the better CB is. Benching a healthy Douglas for Elam is laughable.

Bad things man.

In his presser after hitting the 61 yard game winner against the Dolphins, he was asked if he did anything differently for such a long kick? I remember his answer being that it doesn't matter if it's 20 or 60 that he lines up and kicks the ball the same way every time. I thought that was a really weird answer and couldn't possibly be true. But if that's true, it'd explain why his short kicks often get f'ed up.

OC of the top scoring Offense in the entire NFL. Put 42 up on us. Us putting up 48 doesn't make him or the Lions failures. File this one under 'When you're hitting that "Heyayayay!" bottle too hard'

Exactly this. Opposing D-Coordinators are going to focus coverage and put their best CB on him. Josh is going to go to whoever is open. Case in point, Ty Johnson having a 100+ yard Receiving game. Brady has emphasized this since he's taken over for Dorsey. This is in large part why Diggs fell off and why he wanted out. Luckily, Cooper thus far seems to be more of a team player and just happy to be on a winning team vs. Diggs who demands being a focal point every game.

I don't get that call. Either go for the 66 yard FG in the Dome or go for the Hail Mary.

Nantz: They've brought out the cart for Khalil.... Me: Oh God No! Nantz: Dorsey Me: Oh thank God! ... I mean, that's terrible. So sorry for that young man.

Kareem Jackson was elevated from the Practice Squad.

Considering he's one of only 3 Safety's active - I don't see how it's possible he won't see the field at least a little bit. Cole Bishop and Cam Lewis probably aren't both going to play 100% of the snaps on Defense and Special Teams.

The ratio probably speaks to that. On Offense, they're loaded at all the positions with stars that are holding it down. On Defense, they need more bodies to keep fresh bodies on the field to help make up for underperformance. It's like the old adage goes, if you've got a lot at a position, you probably don't have many studs.

Yeah, 12 for the 4 man Defensive Line vs. 8 for the 5 man Offensive Line is kind of wild. I get that the D-Line is rotated. But 12 seems a little high for the D-Line and 8 seems a little low for the O-Line. The roster breakdown of D vs. O is a little wild in general too. 28 rostered on Defense v. 22 rostered on Offense (remaining 3 for K, P, and LS).

It's Kareem Jackson tomorrow

Also, Kareem Jackson elevated at Safety instead of Micah Hyde with both Taylor Rapp and Damar Hamlin Questionable.

If you're playing law or averages - they're currently averaging 1 loss in 13 games. Losing 2 out of the 4 games - with the Browns and the coming off the rails Texans being 2 of those 4 games? I don't know how you can think it's not that unlikely. On top of that, we'd have to go 4-0. Is it impossible that it could happen? No. But is it even close to likely? I don't see it.

Even if we beat Detroit, it's still very slim. Chiefs have Browns, Texans (coming off beating the Jags by a field goal and a loss to the Titans), Steelers, and Broncos. They've lost once all season. Expecting them to lose half of their last four games seems pretty unlikely.

I mean, obviously. With a 2 game lead and only 4 games left - the odds that we're getting the 1 seed from Kansas City is EXTREMELY small. So in my mind, the question is really "would you take a guaranteed route to the AFC Championship game?". Of course.

This is a wild take. To the point where I was honestly puzzled that things didn't look better after Halftime. Teams being successful offensively in the first quarter or half and then having issues in the 2nd half, allowing us to re-take the lead and/or steamroll is pretty much the norm with this team.

All it takes is having a Hall of Fame Quarterback who is playing one of the best games of his entire career and lining up not one, but two Elite WR's - who are making unreal highlight reel grabs.

Saying Puka Nacua is "not that good" is absolutely ludicrous. In just a season and a half of NFL Football, he's accounted for 2,318 yards and 10 TD's. The guy was an All Pro last season as a Rookie. His 162 yards against us wasn't his highest or even his 2nd highest Receiving total in a single game in that only a year and a half of play. He's one of the best WR's in Football. Should we have fared better against him and made adjustments? Yes. But if you weren't concerned about him heading into this game and believe he's "not that good" - you must not pay much attention to the NFL outside of Buffalo Bills football.

True that he doesn't see the field as a Boundary CB unless there's an injury to Benford or Douglas as they're better players. But I don't think it's as "simple as that". When Douglas went down today - Ja'Marcus Ingram got the call. And Ingram has consistently taken more snaps than Elam coming off the bench. They don't think much of him as a player. They made an investment in him, has little to no trade value, and on average your Outside CB4 isn't going to be all that great to begin with. So for those reasons they've kept him around. But him not seeing the field is more than just he's not as good as Benford and Douglas. I'm not convinced that Elam is going to Start. He'll be active. But I think Ingram has surpassed him on the Depth Chart. And not just bc he plays Special Teams. He gets more off the bench Defensive snaps as well when they're both active.

The Timeout was inexcusable. No reason to do that. I didn't like the push call to begin with. At the Goal Line, you do that for a yard or less. Anything over that and you're pushing your luck there. The Accepted Penalty I don't see as egregious as everyone else. They weren't going to go for a Long Field Goal from there. They would have gone for it. With Ingram on either Nacua or Kupp and with the way their Offense was going and our Defense was, they'd have made the 4th and 7 just like they got 12 on 3rd and then converted from 4th and 5. The biggest coaching blunder was the push on a yard plus from the Goal Line and calling the timeout when it was unsuccessful. Yes, that was awful. Everything else was on terrible Secondary and Linebacker play and poor execution from the Special Teams on the Blocked Punt. If not for that Blocked Punt, Josh's MVP level play would have won the game - even with everything else going as it had.

Mack Hollins definitely outplaying his 2.6m deal.