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AJ is a savage tackler, easily the best on the team in that area. Playing him to his strengths allowed that to shine through. Now let's hope McD & Frazier keep using him in that role. I'd like to see Milano play the big nickel role & keep AJ playing the hybrid blitzer/MLB role.

Replace Taron Johnson with Milano in our base defensive set, problem solved.

What bothers me about Edmunds' tackling, is he likes to pull the ball carrier down on top of himself, instead of driving through him, which always gives up an extra 2-3 yards. It's often 2nd & 2, instead of 2nd & 5 because of this. He did it a few times early yesterday, but did start stopping guys properly later in the game. Overall, I agree he has been much better than the first several games.

When the Music City Forward Lateral happened, I took my Bills hat off & fired it at my tv. The hat stuck in the gap between the tv & the entertainment center (pre-flatscreen). Hours later when I'd stopped fuming, I took the hat out, the bill was cracked in half.

I have the solution... Milano at Big Nickel. Taron Johnson has been the weakest link in our back-7 all year. Milano playing there gets him & Klein on the field at the same time, this would make us a legit tough Defense again. If we want to win in the playoffs, this is what we need.

More than 50% of QB rank lists by NFL analysts had Darnold ahead of Josh as recently as 11 weeks ago, which now looks as nuts as we all thought it did then. The only teams who'd consider trading for Darnold would be the ones who need a young QB & don't have an early enough pick to draft one. That leaves the Colts, Bears, & maybe Steelers or Pats. I don't think the 49ers move on from Jimmy G unless it's for a QB that's proven to be better. Darnold hasn't shown anything close to that.

My subdivision has 3 different households of Lions fans. They're all Michigan transplants & I live in IL, so maybe it's more common around here. But I agree, they're probably the most irrelevant franchise this side of Jacksonville. On a side note, my son's best friend is from one of those Lions families. I recently overheard him saying that Stafford will be in HOF someday. I secretly LOL'd.

Dane Jackson really impressed me yesterday, I'd have no problem with him being the CB2 the rest of the way. He's solid in coverage, and a very willing & fundamentally-sound tackler. When I saw the close-up of the injury, it looked like he just got cleated. Hopefully that's all it is.

Between Boettger & Winters, Ike is the much better player. I don't care about left side vs right side, if one of them plays, it should be Ike all day, every day. Mongo/Boettger at OG is light years ahead of Boettger/Winters. We need Morse to stay healthy.

He was benched in his rookie season for playing with a lack of effort, the final straw play was him casually jogging after a WR en route to a 47 yard TD. Even though he was cleared of the armed robbery charges, he clearly was surrounding himself with the type of people who get caught up in that sort of thing, and that's another huge red flag. I haven't seen him play, but based on his 40-time (4.57) & still being drafted in the first round, I have to assume he's a zone CB, I wouldn't mind Beane & Co taking a look & seeing if he's matured & has anything.

I'll never forget the excitement I felt when we signed Paup, it was like Christmas morning. Had a similar feeling when we signed TKO. Then the same with Diggs. I had tempered excitement with the TO & Mario Williams signings.

Remember all the shots Diggs took in Week 1? He surely does, and wouldn't finish the season if that was every game. Smart move to avoid getting hit by the 4 Sehawks closing in around him. He's got to be available to keep coming up with catches all game. He's being going out of bounds when it's the smart thing to do too.

Every point made in this thread is valid, but I'd say about 80% of the reason people don't watch ESPN anymore is the constant talk about politics & race. Depending on which hot-button current political event is happening, ESPN's coverage will be more about that actual sports. They've spent more air time on Kaepernick than anybody who actually still plays sports. If somebody digs up a questional tweet an athlete made when they were 16, it's a top story. A new coach gets hired, they'll talk more about race in coaching than the about the guy who was hired. Nobody cares about that stuff, people use sports as an excape from this crap in their daily lives, just cover on-field sports.

I had a grade 2 shoulder separation & I couldn't lift my infant son above my abdomen without extreme pain for at least a month. Even on a non-throwing shoulder, QBs still have to lift their front arm for proper throwing mechanics. If Josh couldn't do that without pain, it absolutely affected his mechanics, and that leads to confidence issues as well.

One thing to consider regarding having a dome is the effect of weather on player stats. Guys playing 5 games/year in high wind/rain/snow will typically have lower overall numbers than guys playing in sunny conditions or indoors. Over a season, this could mean the difference between being an All Pro or not, making the Pro Bowl, or statistical contract escalators. Over the course of a career, it be could be the difference in making the HOF or not. Imagine a QB is a borderline HOF candidate, and played his career in a bad weather outdoor stadium. HOF voters don't take weather factors into consideration, but mostly look at raw numbers. If he'd played in a dome, that could mean potentially 40+ more TD passes over a 15 year career. 40 more TDs puts a borderline candidate into "lock" territory.

I was in High School, already a Bills die-hard.

Something I noticed about Josh in the KC game that I haven't heard anyone mention, was that he wasn't stepping into his throws, any of them. Even the deeper passes were just flicked out there. I think it was due to traction in the rain, you could tell he was slipping a lot when he ran & tried to cut. I think he was worried about slipping if he planted fully on his front foot. Our turf is known for being slippery as it is. It looked like he was wearing hard plastic spikes, and I even commented during the game that I bet he'll come out in the 2nd half with rubber spikes, or at least different spikes. He didn't, and I don't think he had any confidence in his footing. Hopefully no more rain games...

Metcalf is very much like Calvin Johnson, physically. If Megatron had run the 3-Cone Drill & Shuttle at the Combine, he'd have pooped the bed too. He was smart to let teams judge him on his 40-time & college production. Guys that big & physical have extremely unique & valuable skillsets, but will never be able to make quick cuts like Beasley or Diggs. I think if DK had skipped the "agility" drills at the combine, he'd have been rightly drafted in the top-20. I also think you'll see a future shift in the perception of those drills for the big/fast freaks who won't be running the types of routes those drills are used to project anyway.

Diggs has 79 targets in 8 games with us, he had all of 94 last season in Minnesota. Being heavily involved keeps guys happy & motivated. He's a great teammate, but I can see anybody with elite skills getting down in that case.

I'm not sure why SI thought putting a husky golfer on the cover would sell magazines. I'm pretty sure the NFL has quite a few more followers than the PGA. Why not put Josh on there?

The Giants' OL is among the league's worst. Jones is forced to play hero ball a lot, I think he can be a solid QB with more development and better play around him. I don't see him ever becoming a star, but maybe a Stafford-level guy with a long career of being pretty good.

I think he'll be lucky to be able to continue working on an NFL staff once his dad retires. He's currently known more for his mullet (& being BB's son) than anything he's done as a coach.

Darron Lee scored a 31 on the Wonderlic, that would explain Frazier saying he has a high football IQ. For comparison, Edmunds scored 22, Klein scored 23.

That is big, Kittle would've had 12 catches against us. We can go all-in to stop the run without him there.

I honestly don't think it matters who their QB is, Jimmy G is league average at best, Mullins really isn't much of a downgrade. It's their running game that scares the bejeeezus out of me. They'll have some injured RBs back by then too, we'll be lucky to hold them under 150 yards rushing.