The Big Cat

Yep. haha, all good. they shut indy out for the first 44 minutes of the game. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Then Indy scored their second and final TD with less than six minutes to go, down 27-8. did you honestly believe, for a second, that that game was in jeopardy because of failed second half adjustments? Rex and the 2015 defense are not beyond critique. But come ON!

You said it happened "many" times. It did not. Therefore, you made it up. Is that short enough for you to follow? I was only looking at games they lost.

Yeah, I don't understand how that would be in any way relevant. Especially considering we won.

It did not happen in many games in 2015. You just made that up. Only once in 2015 losses did a team score more points against the Bills in the second half than in the first: KC. The difference? Two points. 14 in the first 16 in the second. When I mention getting a consensus on reality, this is the kind of totally fabricated "critique" I'm referring to. It doesn't even get to be a real critique because it's fantasy.

Nope

Three weird things happened that day: AS finally and for the last time throwing the ball downfield, injuries up the middle that turned the run D into the Lincoln Tunnel and TT inexplicably not targeting SW after the two of them torched KC in the first half.

I believe these are the most updated ones: the percentages are relative to how that week's opponents' season averages, minus the bills games

How teams finished against Buffalo relative to their other 14/15 opponents was hardly skewed data.

?? Are you saying the defense won't win in a shoot out? That's a bizarre way of putting it.

Good post. There's no shame in Brady-esque small ball. Take every last yard the defense gives you and eventually the points start piling up.

I totally agree. But when I floated this very notion back in March (probably), very vocal swaths quite fervently did not.

Oooooooooh, it was a protracted battle. Believe me. And based on relative performances, the offense lost us more games than the defense did last year and the defense won us more games than the offense did. If it's the offense that improves, so too does the W-L loss record. Shall I post the heat maps again?

I insist, in the face of much ridicule, that this progression, more so than the defense's, will be critical to success in 2016.

Exactly. Which means it'd be premature to pay him as if.

...assuming his expectations for pay and his coach's expectations for him are aligned. doesn't dunne's analysis indicate they might not be?

of course. there is some gradation between expecting nothing and expecting aaron rodgers. roman and ryan will expect more. but it'll still be less than what's expected of the league's top 10-15 passers, i think.

getting the defense off the field and keeping the offense to third and 6 and shorter while mixing a big score once in a while will be our formula for 9+ wins if that means pounding the rock all game long, so be it. what's the easiest way for us to get 4+ yards on downs one and two? like it or not, the coaches are not ready to put it on TT's shoulder.

most times when a guy resigns, it's for the long term. personally, i'm hoping he re-signs.

Sal posted this. You should link back to him.

Five years. How is that the math mistakes around here always accentuate the narrative?

May, 2016. Still no consensus on the reality of the 2015 season. Outlook: not so god.

but will he have to mentor tannehill too?

WUT!? That's awesome!

Amazing how? Amazing why? Because he's oft criticized for it, even by his own team mates? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/football-insider/wp/2015/11/30/jay-gruden-jordan-reed-must-work-on-blocking-technique-to-cut-down-on-penalties/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/18/redskins-tight-end-jordan-reed-focused-cleaning-ru/ http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/189828/ryan-kerrigan-up-jordan-reeds-blocking-down-in-redskins-win

Which is like saying my job is a complete waste of time so long as I could simply plant a money tree in my back yard.