The Big Cat

the offense ran 10 plays in four consecutive drives against a 9-2 team who was at home and whose QB is in talks for MVP. wtf did you guys think was going to happen? 29 unanswered points. emphasis on the unanswered. when your opponent has a quick strike offense and your offense disappears for a quarter and a half...in the second half...you can't expect to win. and if you still think it's the defense's fault, i have nothing for you anymore. jesus.

The 9-2 Raiders, at home, with an MVP candidate @ QB and our offense runs 10 plays on four consecutive drives and scores 0 points. Blame the D. You're fooling yourselves

12 plays on five second half drives

Nah the offense is good

Three straight three and outs had no impact. Nome

Keep telling me how stringing three and outs together isn't a problem

So that's 11 plays on four drives. Who could have seen this coming?

Sure. Couldn't possibly be their players are better than ours. Eliminate that obvious possibility and there's much more to B word about.

You don't know much about Oakland in 2016, huh?

Which is why the five man rush resulted in their longest score of the day

Come again?

Rushing 3 is the problem

May be you should start a thread about it

Yes. Because 4-5 wasn't working either. Carr is the least sacked QB in the league. Set your expectations accordingly

Keep telling me how the offense isn't killing this team.

Same reason the 11 opponents before us couldn't.

Carr is one of the hardest QBs to pressure/sack. Our safeties need all the guys in coverage they can get.

Response was the same when this was griped about six months ago: Run first offense. Before injuries ravaged the corps: Watkins legit no.1 Woods statistically sound for no. 2 Clay should be a weapon in the passing game Shady should be a weapon in the passing game The need to bring in another body to compete for touches with all the factors above didn't make sense then and it still doesn't. That other guy

No Thank You #FARTNOISE

We should be suiting up seven Pro Bowl wide receivers for an offense that ranks third in rushing attempts and dead last in passing attempts. The fact that we don't means Whaley is having himself a Nix nap. What a Mickey Mouse organization. Russ Brandon has to go. Rob Ryan's nutritionist needs to be held accountable. Everyone sucks but me.

His sarcastotron needs re-calibrated.

If we can't trade him I'd have no problem just cutting him.

That's fair. But Dalton has never had anything resembling Shady to work with. Imagine an offense that complements Shady, instead of having to depend him, that's all. The fact that we score the way we do now absent a respectable passing game is borderline miraculous.

The offense has been "good." Read: the run game has been good. If we had all our guys healthy and a quarterback of the caliber of Andy Dalton on our team, in this system, with Shady out of the backfield and defenses having to account for Sammy, (the unused) Clay, Woods, now-Harvin and a speedster like Goodwin...this offense would be GREAT. We're happy scoring 28 a game and hovering around 10th. That's because our offense has been so unwatchable for so long. If we had a quarterback that forced teams to cover every inch of the field, had any semblance of pocket presence and timing and did the one thing which has been unspeakable in Buffalo since Fitz left town--letting your receivers make a play on a contested ball--we could be putting up 35+ a game. I truly believe that. We're playing football on a razors-edge. It should be no shock that, with the exception of MNF in the Clink (shocking), as one unit goes, so does the rest of the team. I happen to believe that we're competent quarterback (actual quarterback play, not this unconventional **** TT revels in) away from being a force that doesn't have to rely on its a defense in a league where all advantage goes to the offense.

It's not even remotely ludicrous. You can describe the notion with many words. Many would be accurate. Ludicrous is not one of them. Also, they were up 17-6 with :19 to go in the third quarter. As in three full quarters.