JM57

In title only. Not in responsibility.

Woods, Watkins and Robey-Coleman are starters for the 7-2 Rams. There's 3. Darby and Bradham start for the 8-1 Eagles. That's 5 that I would call key guys, as starters on good teams. If we want to split hairs, Ron Brooks started in Darby's place until he also got injured (as is tradition) so you could argue he was a key for the Eagles until that point. Goodwin has been a starter for the Niners all year, and Kevon Seymour is basically a starter in Carolina (playing essentially the same time as Leonard Johnson does here).

There has been little excitement this year because he's been inactive or the defense has failed to force a punt for half the games. When he's back there he's made a few nice returns and just hasn't been able to spring one.

Tate is a very good returner. Still. After a long time doing it. And if he gets hurt while returning it? Oh well he is the 5th or 6th wide receiver.

Shoot boys he found it better draw up some fresh ones in the sand

I didn't miss the point. You claim it is unsustainable. I say if it is unsustainable, how have the Chiefs, for example, done it for the better part of 2 seasons?

You clearly haven't watched the Chiefs lighting up the league for the last two years, have you? Screens, jet sweeps, all sorts of crazy stuff and it WORKS because their offensive coaches looked at what they had talent wise and created a playbook that suited them. Meanwhile offensive Dick Jauron is running the same 10 plays over and over and over again, the same ones Kubiak and Shanahan before him have run for 30 years and wonders why it's getting stopped.

Yeah, he's a real windbag. It's fairly evident why he is no longer employed by any NFL team, and has not been for the better part of a decade in any full time role. Now, Tyrod, to me, is a league average quarterback. That is an indictment of the talent at the position to be sure, but it is what he is. You have a small group of elite starters (Brady, Brees, Rodgers) and a small group of above average starters (Wilson, Prescott, Rivers, Big Ben, etc.) and then a bunch of guys like Tyrod, Dalton, Flacco, etc. that do some things well but have their warts. The biggest problem with the offense this year is that the Dennison scheme emphasizes everything that Tyrod is not good at, and downplays his strengths. He is a square peg in a round hole. It's poor coaching. Rick Dennison and Juan Castillo are doing to Tyrod and the offensic line the EXACT SAME THING we were all up in arms about with Rex Ryan and the defense. They are taking their scheme and forcing players who do not fit it to try to execute it. The results are predictable. A good coach schemes around his players strengths.

This is exactly how I keep looking at it. I look at the group of teams at 4-5 and 3-5 and ask myself "Are any of these teams (Ravens, Jets, Raiders, Texans, Bengals, Chargers, Broncos) good enough to go on a 6-1 or 7-1 run to get to 10-6?" The only team out of that group that has the talent to do it, IMO, is the Raiders. But they have spent half the season looking lost. The same goes for Miami at 4-4. They fattened up with some easy wins but are destined to fail in a much tougher second half.

It always does. Too many people in this world completely unwilling or unable to comprehend a different viewpoint and instead just scream at each other saying I'm right and you're wrong."

Vaccaro is a big loss for their defense. I believe he has been serving as their nickel CB. Possible opportunity for Matthews to eat out of the slot, or perhaps Big Play Chuckie Clay.

Too much hate in this world for that to happen, brother, but I totally agree with you on those last few sentences. The media (both sides) leads people around like sheep, creating sharper divides and more tribalism, and most people follow right along.

I'd run a lot of nickel. Alexander off the field, Brown and Milano at LB and Leonard Johnson getting increased snaps. Should help to have a little more speed out there to defend the backs. Just have to play good fundamental defense. Wrap up properly and keep everything in front of you

I agree. McAulay is one of the refs where I feel as though if his crew throws a lot of flags, they are justified as opposed to Hochuli who throws flags to hear himself talk.

Finally a ref I actually respect after getting two clown princes back to back in Hochuli and Boger

I agree with you on both counts. There are 7 conference and 4 division games left. This game matters the least out of all of them. A win is a win if you get to 10...but if you can only get to 9 your better be rolling up AFC wins

John, this fanbase is still hung up on Gilmore and he's been gone for 7 months how do you expect people to let go of someone who's barely been gone 7 days?

Dilly dilly!

Don't mind me I just have poor reading comprehension sometimes

The point is that 140 yards on 14 completions isn't great (10 yards per). He didn't have to be great, of course. He dinked and dunked where needed to keep the ball moving. Their "deep shot" was a 25 yd TD to Anderson. Without that, it was 8.84 yards per completion (13 completions, 115 yards)

McCown did not have a good game overall, but he was efficient. 14/20 for 140 and a TD. As others mentioned he mostly took advantage of the gaps in the zone and exploited the weaknesses of the LBs. Other than the TD throw to Anderson they really didn't push downfield much and even that was only 25 yards

The loss of EJ Gaines for the majority of games since week 8 will help explain part of the increase in pass yards. The drop from Gaines to Wright is huge IMO. But there's definitely more to it than that.

I'm not sure if it's still hanging around with the switch to the new boards but there was a thread a week or two ago about Thompson mentioning that his hometown (Belle Glade) had produced a number of NFL guys including both Kelvin & Travis Benjamin. Pretty crazy.

And Spence has constantly had shoulder issues since he was drafted. He's dislocated his shoulder an obscene amount of times in 1.5 seasons. I want to say when he did it against the Bills it was the 5th time and it landed him on IR. That's crazy.

Not with a QB like Brees. If you started sending the house, he's going to take a 3 step drop and rip it to a receiver on a short route before your guys even have a chance to get there.