2020 Our Year For Sure

I agree. My point was that saying Royal is good at his primary task doesn't necessarily mean you're saying he's a good player. The only reason why Royal's 'primary job' is not to make plays in the passing game is because he's incapable of consistently making plays in the passing game.

I hear you, but would you say blocking is Antonio Gates' primary job? Kellen Winslow? Jason Witten? Your primary job is ultimately going to be to do whatever you're best at. If all you can do is block, then thats what you're going to be asked to do. Every tight end needs to be a competent blocker, but some tight ends are able to make a bigger impact than that.

Is he good at blocking because he wants to focus on his primary job, or is blocking his primary job because its the only thing he's good at?

I think I saw that too. It was a touchdown, right? I want to say it was Reggie Wayne, but I can't be sure.

Lets get another defensive lineman round 1. Kelsay, Denney and Kyle Williams work hard, but I'm sick to death of not having a pass rush.

Exactly. Give Warner and the rest of that offense credit for a job well done today. Its easy to say we should have blitzed more, but does anyone remember a blitz actually working? Most of the time Warner would read it and get the football out of his hands to the tune of first down yardage.

Ah good point, you have my apologies. That was meant to be addressed towards Dan.

Exactly. He throws the ball down before the arm comes all the way around, maybe instinctually to break his fall. His hand is empty by the time it touches down. You could be right, but I thought it was pretty clear the shin never quite hit, Dan.

I'm gonna take another look at it later tonight, but after watching all those replays the network showed and then rewinding it during the commercial, I never saw anything hit turf. Are you referring to when he swings his arm through the air like an idiot, just before he lost it? Or something before that? And Bluefire, to say Jauron didn't challenge the play because he "gave up on the team" is just ridiculous. He was shown on the sideline frantically conversing with his guy upstairs to get the word. The only argument that can be made against DJ here, which plenty have made, is that the play was big enough that it was worth a shot at getting it reversed even against long odds. I can understand that viewpoint, even though when I personally watch the play I just don't see any way we get the call, and would rather keep the extra timeout in our back pocket.

Good thing I made the call to start Steve Slaton over both Jonathon Stewart and LJ last night. I'm too lazy to count the points, but I had a good day so I'm expecting a win. Meanwhile, do the Chiefs not understand that they NEED to get LJ his carries?

After today, he's averaging 27.0 per catch!

Not only does it give the players two weeks to heal up, but it gives them two weeks with that sour taste in their mouths. Look for them to come out in front of the home crowd pissed off and charged up against SD. I think we win that game.

If you disagree, maybe go look at it again. Nothing ever hits the ground: the shin/knee amazingly never find turf, and then he's completely on top of the defender afterward, which is NOT down by contact. Then he swings his arm around and drops the ball before the arm hits the ground. There's plenty to complain about this week, but the absence of the red flag there is not one of them.

What was the deal you ended up making for Royal? I'm guessing the other guy backed out of the Edwards trade?

You're disappointed nobody responded in 12 minutes?

Last week the winner went 10-3. There's some margin for error.

Thanks guy, you're quite the gentleman. Here's to hoping I'm wrong! My passion for this team goes a lot further than a football pool.

I picked against the Bills in my pool for the first time all year. Just have a gut feeling about this game. We're much better than Arizona, and losing to them wouldn't change that...thats just the way sports are sometimes, the best team doesn't win every single game. I think we drop this one in a close game, then come out fired up in two weeks and knock off the Chargers.

I'm sorry, we're not allowed to discuss that. The board has used up its pre-paid optimism limit for the day. All we can do now is B word about trap games, holdouts and timid head coaches.

iirc, you don't have a flex and just start 2 RBs and 2 WRs? If so, I'd make that trade in a heartbeat, given your roster. Johnson doesn't do anything for you that you're not getting from Thomas Jones, and you've really got to find a way to upgrade that WR2. I'm not particularly high on Edwards, but this just makes too much sense for your team to pass it up. In conjunction with your first trade, you'll have improved quite a bit.

He'd have to be some kind of special player to justify being drafted 11th overall at our single most loaded position. The only thing saving that pick from a tirade of criticism is the absence of any real alternative on the board at the time. Lets see what he's got. If hes another solid starter like McGee, I don't think that pick makes much sense in hindsight. We could have gotten that by re-signing Greer instead of letting him walk after this year. If he's a Pro Bowler a few years from now, that pick is obviously a good one. Otherwise it could've been better used somewhere, anywhere else on the depth chart.

I tend to think shadowing Fitz with Greer would be tempting. He may be giving up some size, but he plays a physical game and his experience makes him a much better foil than McKelvin or Youboty.

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Right, but it wouldn't have made sense to go straight from St. Louis to Phoenix. Have you ever heard of a team doing that with two cities that far apart?

Yeah, so now I like Al Davis.