DrDawkinstein

This is exactly what 'Quality Control" guys do. On the Offensive side we have Brady's BFF DJ Mangas, Kyle Shurmur, and even Marc Lubick. And they have people under them who do all the film editing and packaging.

Burrow's only hope is the Rams win the Super Bowl and Stafford retires and Snead is on the phone to the Bengals the next day with a starting offer of 2 1sts.

Yeah, Haslam is up there as one of the biggest scumbags and for making bad decisions. But at least he's willing to spend. Mike Brown has never had to work a day in his life, yet he refuses to include any guaranteed money in contract past the first year.

Vikings in shambles

Dont confuse ownership with Front Office. Bengals and Cardinals belong on the list of worst ownership.

I know its an all-too-popular diagnoses nowadays, but he definitely seems to exhibit some on-spectrum behavior.

Probably some players too. Baylon Spector, grab a screw gun.

Yeah, I believe they can change the screw-in cleats, but even that would be a major undertaking while youre in the middle of a game.

My point is, no coach drew up or designed the play that lead to JP's batted ball and AJ's int. I'll give credit to the CB blitz call that put Benford in the position to make that play. That was one. But it has been few and far between that our D scheme or D playcall "tricks" or forces the offense into a mistake. It relies on individual players going above and beyond and saving the unit. The last one that comes to mind was years ago at the end of the Chiefs regular season game, when Frazier called a play for Von to stunt inside and Milano to delay rush, and it tricked Mahomes into flushing right and throwing the ball right to Milano. Ed Oliver punching the ball out on Derrick Henry was an Ed Oliver play, not a scheme play. Etc. I hope all is well with the Knox family.

Right, that's what I said. But that was it. When push came to shove, we let them march right down the field, unless individual players can take it upon themselves to make ridiculous plays. The last month?!? They showed up against an ailing Steelers team. Other than that, they gave up over 30 points to the Bucs, and let Davis frickin Mills own them all day against the Texans, and then needed more Josh magic against the Bengals. Defense is a concern. There is no denying it.

Arguable. And mostly thanks to Josh being super man, so we're always in position to win games. We got a couple of great individual plays for turn overs, thank goodness. We only forced one stop/punt the 2nd half, and allowed the Bengals to move right down the field otherwise. I guess we disagree on what "in position to win" means.

The excuse list for this McDefense is longer than the actual Defensive play sheet.

A lot of good, and I'm sure correct, answers here regarding the turf and what happens when we try to remove snow. However, one aspect I havent seen mentioned is cleats. The players have different cleats for playing in snow than on a clear field. If you are clearing snow, but then it is also accumulating over the quarter/half, then the players will have the wrong cleats on for part of the time no matter which way you go. I think it's easier for them to say "ok, we're playing in a a couple inches of snow so wear those cleats" and stay consistent, then having to go back and forth on a clear field. But I just made this up so who knows.

Do we ever show up psyched for games? Feels more like its always "low positive". Get pushed around in the beginning, then hope we find some traction, get a fluke TO on Defense, and Josh pulls a rabbit out of his hat. Real interested in how this McD v Vrable series plays out over this season and over the years.

Yeah, I had the whole list of TE contracts pulled up on Spotrac when I posted that. I get that contracts always go up over time, along with the cap. Knox signed at $15M/yr but has been knocked down to $9M/yr in order to keep his job. Kincaid has been good, but certainly not elite even when healthy. I could get comfortable at $12M/yr. But if we didnt want to pay Cook $15M/yr no way Kincaid should get that. He isnt in the Andrews/Njoku/Hockenson tier. I can