colin

We have had some just awful run plays. Slow to develop, blocks are trash, no one is fooled. Why can't we line up power and just slam it in like we did w 22 last week?

That is such a a catch

We have a fragile linebacker problem. If we are gonna be small at lb, we need some size on the line to protect them

That was way too much contact for Knox not to get a call there

Bro, semi work wheel swing or screen is a paradigm shift compared to what we are used to

We never saw a replay on the pass intro, was that legit?

Those ads are insulting. Who watches that trash?

Woo hoo!

Lol, maybe Tennessee just realized how bad they are!

The offense just has to figure it out, get back to what was effective earlier in the year. The d is trash, MCD just isnt much of a coach. The jets and Tenn are lighting us up.

This team stinks.

Poor ball security by the retune man doesn't seem like smart coaching

Sweet, another lb injury. Worst run d in the NFL, and now we get worse

Garbage drive and a garbage punt

Lol, I'll eat that well times crow. Don't like the d or how we came out tho

This is not a top flight football team right now. No creativity nothing is effective

our hopes to win a chip this year mainly ride on our d's ability to right the ship. the knock against that is how awful they have been vs explosive plays, as well as runs and short passes, not a good mix! the upside is that this d has totally collapsed in the past and brought it back together after several times. we really really need williams and bishop to really improve over the course of the season and the rest to stay healthy. if we get booted from the playoffs again on a similar d collapse, then i don't see how this team goes forward with the same FO. i get that pegula prolly won't can them if we do another 1-1 playoff, but a super d focused fo getting you 4 consecutive 2nd round losses due to the d stinking while you have a HOF qb is a joke.

so, mcd hates starting rookies on D. he made the exception for edmunds, but i think edmunds had fewer splash plays than his athletic ability would predict because he was so ultra focused on not making mistakes -- he's had more impact plays in chicago. Milano had trouble getting burn early, and he's (injuries aside) basically genetically engineered to be an LB in mcd's system. Dorian makes some mistakes, coverage more than the run, so they brought in aj klien off the couch vs kc last year (a mistake that i just can't let mcd live down) because braylon spector of all people was injured (and the other LB was that other back up we had, can't remember his name). most nfl coaches hate mental mistakes more than anything, and bishop made the most glaring one possible when he came up and let collins past him for a 60+ yard td vs houston. he also was in the wrong place on a few screens from what i saw. i think mcd is gonna be very slow to forgive that mistake. in truth, they have to play bishop and take some lumps, because as pointed out above, we are worst in the nfl at yards per carry, and we are bottom 5 in defending short passes (marino said we allow 4.5 yards of separation on short passes, which is shocking). the same way that not playing dorian lead to aj klien ensuring our loss to kc last season (kc punted once vs us, and that was when dorian was on the field and made plays when it mattered), they really need a way to get bishop out there to be able to fill in for rapp if he gets hurt again, or to ultimately replace hamlin. hamlin is simply a huge liability because of his total lack of physical ability. all of that said, i think cooper fixes our O, and getting ed and miller back (oh, we have to be healthy up front on d to have a shot as well) will greatly improve our pass rush, but the biggest threat to us come playoff time that i can see is bass. he's just awful (worse at his position than hamlin based on his last 20 games or so) and we lost vs kc by 3 off of a bass miss. if we get teh ball to the 30 bass is like 41% accurate. other kickers are double that accuracy from that distance (and beyond) and that is just too much when facing the best in the nfl

pick/value/position/performance/availability. ya, the only one i can think of that might compare is wyatt teller because he's an all pro level G and picked in the 5th, but he's not even here so ya, dawkins might be it.

mcd has allowed way too many clean attempts at hail maries, and has bumbled a whole lot of late game and end of half scenarios. the silly thing is our d is base nickel and generally has the best stats vs the deep pass, especially up the middle. going out of that for some zero impact d is what has hurt us and corch has to wake up to it, right now. also, billicheck who managed just a little more success in the playoffs than mcd would put WRs back their for special situations, knox and kinkaid and coleman can all play center field and body in front of the ball, only need one or two back there to take the hail mary away.

aside from the two stinkers prior two weeks (and really, only the houston game was a shocker) allen has been on this season. basically, he plays great, we win, he doesn't we lose. i have noticed something which allen's game last night reminded me of. there are so many games where solid qb's have super clean stat sheets, like houston vs us, us vs jets, even rogers vs us, but there is not much scoring. i've spotted it in a few other games. part of it is teams playing deeper coverage, and basically allowing some first downs and yards in the middle of the field to take away the bigger passes, and just working to force a mistake or a 3rd and long. part of it is imo because qb's oc's are very stat and efficiency conscious, and just don't go for bigger plays as much, and oc's don't call them like they used to. it also shows how insane our penalties and field position was last night. super efficient passing, no turnovers, ran like monsters, high red zone efficiency, and only scored 23. such a strange night.

you are 100% right on this mjt. the issue on the field is even worse than this, imo. it gives the d a great idea of what we are doing based on who we trot out and how we line them up. just like our obvious runs on 1st down vs houston, if you look at the game last night, the bills actually produced when they gave them selves a chance, but once we were behind the sticks and were suspect to a blitz or some games up front, it was same old same old. we run these screens that always have issues because we suck at them and they are slow to develop. you'd think we could run something w two tight ends and one of our small quick wrs and backs where people get open quickly and it's a short pass and a chance to run after the catch. kc does it regularly, and ne won 6 rings doing that under the same offensive system. we don't even really try plays like that. part of it is certainly allen being greedy, but the coaches can draw a few of these up instead of the absolutely doomed screens and get ahead of the sticks a few more times a game. we just don't play advantage football and i think it's down to coaching more than personnel (altho that sucks too)

the talent is obviously really weak, but the lack of play action, the zero ability to run a screen, and the amount of time that coleman, shakir, and kinkaid are not on the field really don't help matters. samuel is a net zero so far, but he's also set up to fail. you see the issues with coleman running really lack luster clear outs and stuff, but there has to be a way to get the offense to operate in a more efficient way. we saw signs of it last night vs last week, efficiency was much higher in the face of bad penalties and facing a good d, but they lost their cb2, and we really didn't make any money off of it. i think there will be improvements, but adding cooper would put those improvements on ez mode.

as alpha said, the raiders didn't have to pay one extra dime, and the jest have the cap room, so that is that. i suppose my next impossible dream of dk getting traded is there, but i don't see that happening. also, cooper i suppose is out there, that might be the best/only realistic option.

What else was I going to base it on?