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then you can’t allow the play call

I agree. unfortunately, I think it’s very rare in todays nfl for a team to go 20 games and not have a few shootouts. it happens almost universally at some point. Not saying it should be without critique but I think if you look at special teams debacles we are more like a bad team than a good team. Generally our defense is that of good teams

bingo. It’s sequenced decisions that are out of alignment and don’t make sense that are most maddening. Take a 10 yard penalty then play a design to give up a minimum of 10 yards?!? I hate the sneak but if nothing else have a second hurry up play called if it fails so you can line up quick. Everyone’s on the line just standing up.

the defense will sometimes throw a hanging curveball. It’s an offensive league, and that’s just a reality. Just have to keep them few and far between. and can’t pair with continuing catastrophic special teams and clock management. Those two scare me more than our defense.

also forcing the kick there eliminates threat of a 2 score game and gives you click flexibility. Letting them bleed time and score is crushing. End their drive and go win it.

yea. You have to have two play calls in the huddle in case it fails.

yea, continued special teams gaffes is a real concern that we’ve traded a few posts about

I’ll buy this to a point. somewhere in there the defensive head coach could maybe say “hey, maybe try a little tweak here”

if Josh isn’t told why he can’t do that short of a wide open gap - it’s still on the coaches too

Terrible call to sneak Should’ve just thrown the ball. It’s like the one and only time you can’t sneak Allen.

Not PI to block like a lineman on a rub route?

especially these days where there are very few full contact practices there’s also a reality that a young lineman rarely gets to engage a defender in a meaningful way just being able to go out and hit a DE full speed is not particularly common for an average late round pick in their first year or two

It’s almost like I posted for a decade that it was a missed opportunity as we trotted out Lee smith. Hidden perks - real snaps for a young OL to develop too

weird. You’d think having a rb, te and slot wr as your top targets would be deep sideline throws

he’s injury insurance through the season and a well liked guy that makes the Monday-Saturday a better experience immediately no more no less

yea right behind Trevor Lawrence and directly ahead of tua and Goff like I said, no one’s putting him with the josh-mahomes-burrow-Lamar crowd he’s a top 5-10 guy on his good days, and 10-15 when not on his game. and he’s paid as an unchallenged starter with some untapped upside

he got paid like a starting quarterback

I’ve never been super high on him but also I don’t think you really see him counted in the top group (and barely in the second tier)

I think Tom might be talking as a broadcaster that’s trying for attention and not as a player giving true insight but who knows

it’s all relative and his replacement is not fast

how has he proven to figure out his post season failures between August and early December of this season? if you ask me to predict how we lose in January - it’s not Josh that I’m guessing. hopefully he proves that wrong. I think having our two new coordinators will help out.

im not a doctor, I haven’t seen his records and it’s not my career. if he’s cleared and he’s made the decision - more power to him. unfortunately any given game we watch a dozen guys that will struggle mightily later because they provide us entertainment now. All we can do is wish them the best if we aren’t going to walk away from watching. Its a dangerous game.

I think there is a balance and I do buy arguments that it’s a tough spot for a defender when you ask them to hit a qb at the belt buckle and then tell the qb to slide so his head is in the center of that zone I’m really struggling to see this issue here though. it was a solid 5 yard gap and the defender was not traveling head on at full speed. 15 feet is across the room you are sitting in reading this - two guys full speed head to head, maybe on the edge. Not the case here. Additionally he used his braced arm to hit him in the face - not a natural movement for a defender if tackling an upright player or if avoiding the sliding player. It was textbook inflicting pain on the guys head.

could also be the past history, the ensuing fight and the follow up fighting after he was ejected all contributing too

you know, call me crazy but I think that a dirty on field play should be a stiffer punishment than poor behavior in the offseason you know, integrity of the game and safety of coworkers being more important than being role models when deciding who needs to be taken off the field?