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All of that might be true, but preferring Ty Johnson over Leonard Fournette is what makes no sense. Ty has done almost zero in this league in 4 years on three teams. He’s been waved twice. Less than a JAG.

That’s not enough money to successfully run an NFL team. They have to put their own money in to be able to do things like restructure contracts, give guaranteed money, and invest in staff and coaching. Otherwise the Bengals would have more then 3 scouts.

Since this makes absolutely no sense, I’ll have to assume that this is an “insider” covering up for passing on bad info.

And he claps.

Harris must be out for a while

Wow. Daboll and McDermott really don’t like each other. We heard rumours, but that was cold. I kind of like it.

No, because with most QBs if you take away what was called, the play is more or less over. That's what makes Allen and Mahomes special. They can keep a play alive even with everything breaks down. I do wish that the BIlls could get more of their "on-schedule" plays to work.

How about this one, started on the Saturday before the 2020 season:

Seahawks are not going to win the SB, so how about DK Metcalf? I'm sure a 6th and Shakir would get it done. /s

He played 9 defensive snaps (15%).

Daboll had them chewing glass before the game. Also, I think that Wink has been game-planning for this game since the offseason. His defense looked a lot more exotic last night with stunts and disguised coverages than it looked at any time during this season.

Why in the heck would the Texans trade Stroud's favorite target? Plus, at 3-3 they are still in the thick of things.

Well, then the Chiefs are not contenders either.

NFL trades are different. But I was talking about the endless threads on LakersGround in the 2010's proposing things like Cook and a second for Paul George, and then a lengthy post explaining why it would be in the interests of the Pacers to make that deal.

We sound like Laker fans who scour the rosters of "lesser" teams every year at the trade deadline and propose lopsided deals that would only benefit their team.

As someone posted above, the Panthers are not going to trade WRs. They are looking to add WRs to help develop Young. And the Raiders? They won yesterday and sit at 3-3. The only bad teams that would trade offensive skill players are the Vikings, Broncos, Cards, Titans, and Bears. And I don't see any options on those teams that would be an upgrade except for perhaps Jeudy. And I'm not really a fan.

Cincinnati always starts slow. Burrow always misses time in camp and needs actual games to get going. The only difference is that they didn't win the games in which he played bad. They seemed back in the first half yesterday and then proceeded to put up only 3 points in the second half. But that fits the pattern of second-half lulls that they fell into all last season. Here is a typical Bengals regular season game from last season. Win 22-18, scoring all of the points in the first half. https://www.nfl.com/games/bengals-at-patriots-2022-reg-16?active-tab=watch . That's why I had hope in the playoff game at halftime, but they broke that pattern and kept scoring. I think KC is bored with the regular season, and with the playoffs a given they are sleepwalking through the first half of the season. I have no idea what is going on in Buffalo.

I don't think that the Panthers will trade away a WR while they are trying to develop a QB. The rumor is that they are trying to trade for Jeudy to give Young another weapon.

Snap counts are up in the NFL gamebook. The interesting thing to me is that Rapp didn't play a single snap on defense. https://static.www.nfl.com/gamecenter/b07e111b-f053-11ed-b4a7-bab79e4492fa.pdf

They were never going to call two back-to-back. Waller is a big guy. He needs to fight through that contact.

Remember this?

in the modern NFL, where every player on D is trying to punch the ball out more than make a tackle, fighting for yards in a scrum on 1st and 2nd down is not a wise decision.

People can scream at Dorsey all that they want, but his route concept produced a wide-open Shakir on that play. Josh chose to throw into double coverage instead.

If there had been message boards back then, there would have been similar meltdowns.

I think that a lot of those "shotgun draw" plays are actually RPOs.