NoSaint

I’ve waved this red flag a few times. I continue to think coaching/preparation is a big challenge - more than talent add in the wrong number of guys on the field issues (even just the ones we have caught)…. The design of the Hamlin fake… the unit being on different pages for 13 seconds… there’s been a good number of mishaps in addition to multiple tips this year and bass falling apart

I’ll die on the hill that if you step back, don’t try to find plays that are exceptions (ie bad calls) and don’t lean on announcers explaining things poorly (sometimes incorrectly)… it’s not nearly as confusing as most portray a lot of my least favorite recurring debates for fans are as simple as “Troy aikman only marginally understands a rule and is a poor communicator on top of that” creating millions of confused viewers through the years

you start with 3 on prime time week 1 and the narratives going to haunt you for a bit

if just following the rules and logic, a lot of it makes sense. if trying to extrapolate to every variation of a guy catching a ball can go down and how another guy watching that in real time will call it and thinking it will extrapolate across every play consistently - much more futile.

you need someone to keep the defense honest and force them to cover a huge expanse of grass suddenly the other team can’t just drift an extra defender into the box and jam up the area that shakir/kincaid work the best. it’s changes the calculus to have an elite QB and a true WR1. Defenders were getting to the chairs at the dinner table before the snap. Now they have to cover the whole field and our guys can all eat.

he will at least work out to keep the paychecks and the browns will pray for a chance to pick up a rookie who can hold down the job cheaply next year

it’s like saying you have 2 qbs sure, it’s possible, but overwhelmingly more likely is marketing for having no qb youd think our fans would be better at recognizing those phrases after 2 decades of them.

oh, surely. I wasn’t trying to discount him. But in broad strokes, he has a special quality - his strength- that is a tier up from Keon, even if they eventually play with similar technique was all I was getting at there.

yea but Coleman is a couple inches taller and a few pounds lighter? I never watched anquan week in and week out but it seemed his special trait wasn’t finding soft spots as much as bullying we will see. I think the kid is productive and contributes in the nfl but I suspect that we talk about where this leaves his ceiling for his whole time here. A guy that doesn’t seize the number 1 spot but is better than many of the WRs drafted around him leaving him as great message board debate fodder. ((and I’m sidestepping the play where he’s trying to post up with that comment))

I think saying he doesn’t know better than THAT play is a cop out. That’s not learning, that’s just getting it straight up JV wrong. I would rather hear he just got unfocused on the play than he is still playing in the paint and WR is still that unnatural to him

wait, eballs name is cliff

that it was even a question we all were uncertain the answer of is a bit of an indictment

I have some theories about how bishop could replace damar, but they might really blow your mind

though would you feel more confident in January with bishop 17 games into his learning curve or Damar?

you realize announcers spend a good bit of time embedded with the team talking about stuff before the game. They don’t just show up Sunday and spitball.