HardyBoy

Yeah, I mean there's no way he would get caught criticizing refs or other teams publicly calling games on national television...

My hope is they start looking like they did from the second half of the Cardinals game through Jags game, but against basically all styles of defense, because they now have an answer to win on the outside in press man, single high when the middle of the field is shut off...and not just have an answer, but a receiver that can absolutely torch you for making that mistake.

Did you read the article?! The cowboys sound like absolute morons... which they are

I know, part of me wonders if Beane always had this in the back of his mind when he did the Diggs trade in the first place. Plus the potential to get the 3rd back as a comp pick, where if the Bills have a good season, a 3rd round comp pick after the 3rd and before the 4th isn't all that different from where they'll be picking had they kept this third (granted a year later), especially since there are so few 3rd round comp picks.

No, disagree...3 million in dead cap on diggs deal because his salary only 3 mil less than the dead cap hit...plus you are getting Cooper for under $1m...while the Browns pay his bonus...what was his bonus for this year? Offset that from the $30 mil please

Your use of cheesy cringe nicknames is significantly more brutal

Is this why with the power of the masses approach (or whatever it's called when you have a jar of jelly beans and ask people to guess and then average the amount and you tend to get the best answer)...is what you're saying why you use average instead of median?

You mean like when he played badly in the second half and after the Green Bay game last year, suddenly and inexplicably?

He got hit really hard last week too...

Knox

Aw man, I was more excited about the Hook reference

I wasn't looking at the TV until right before the ball was snapped on that play...seeing Samuel in shotgun and then watching that play go down without having any context whatsoever...definitely felt like pure lsd a bit

Ru fi ooooo I mean they run Allen on power sweeps all the time

Writing the same thing at the same time, but you got there first...ugh, Monica had to call me about something for work or I would have been first

Looks to me like the play was supposed to be for Allen to do an end around and to be rolling to his right, but he got cut off by the early penetration and the pitch from Samuel being behind him.

He did a post game wrap up with the studio team on a game I watched a couple of weeks ago, and he actually said something interesting during one of his answers...i think he has potential, but he comes across as a cardboard cutout of a personality and says super obvious clichés during the game

My hope as well, and just trying to see if there was a type of player you would pay at that position and kinda where that line would be. What about a Barkley type running back? He's more in the Derrick Henry and Adrianne Peterson mold.

I hear ya and perhaps this is a bit of devils advocate, but what about paying CMC? I don't know that I'd call him a running back, as much as a versatile weapon that can be used in a variety of ways at a high level. He's not just an above average rb, where you can get that type of production out of late round rookies, especially with a top level oline...Cook is a different type of player arguably, and hopefully could maintain a high level of play through the end of a second contract.

Yeah, it's been really cool to see though for sure. Can you imagine having all these new receivers this year and having them all saying this offense is the most complicated they've ever tried to learn and just not contribute at all...everyone eats has a slightly different meaning when looked at through that lens too

Not sure I'd necessarily call that complimentary in the traditional sense...what I'm talking about isn't really balance and making sure the game scripts are aligned between offense and defense, but more in the philosophical approach to system design.

You could make an argument that the key to McDermotts success on defense is ultimately simplicity and allowing players to execute. Obviously this is the NFL, so it's a relative simplicity and I know they do a lot of pattern matching and there is thinking involved...but this isn't Rex Ryan's defense. With Daboll and Dorsey it felt like the offense was super complicated, which was mentioned time and again by receivers coming from different teams, and there were miscommunications over and over, especially in key moments (Gabe Davis and others). The offense this year sounds ultimately super simple, but highly nuanced and multiple. It's simple, but becomes complicated to defend because of the ability for it to be so multiple and you can't tell what they are going to do, because they can make the same thing do so many different things and get it into it in so many different ways with shifts and motions. That sounds exactly like the defense McD has been running for so long right! Allowing players to play well above their perceived abilities and allowing players to come in when injuries happen (or key players leave the team in terms of the offense) and keep the level fairly constant, both by keeping it simple and letting players play fast, but also by tailoring the gameplan around the players strengths and how they allow them to use those strengths to exploit the other team's weakness.

First, they are answering all the questions I've had, I'm super excited. That said, I think the next two weeks will be very telling. Week 1 the offense was awesome, but week 1 doesn't tell you anything. Week 2 they played on Thursday night against a team that had a significant disadvantage based on the heat and humidity they played in the week before...the gap in the teams could easily be explained by the fact that the dolphins just were screwed in terms of the recovery disadvantage. Week 3 they had a huge rest advantage. Now I'm seeing stuff that looks super repeatable and is simple and works because it let's the players play and just execute and not have to think and is designed around taking advantage of the opponent's weakness where they align to your strengths. I'm very positive about this team, but I just need to see them do it without me being able to explain it away with rest advantages.

13 seconds wasn’t a high scoring game really until the very end basically. It was very similar to last year’s playoff game until in the 13 seconds game they started throwing haymakers.

I think getting bigger at center might be helping with screens perhaps? Either way, they have a guard’s body size wise at center now and I’m curious how that’s impacting things.

Here’s to hoping the best value pick of Beane’s drafts so far is Rousseau…getting what might be an elite top 5 pass rusher at the end of the first round is insane and has a legit chance of being the case. Not diminishing how amazing the CB pick was by any means.