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I mean, is it that he tripped on his pull or that he was even asked to pull on 4th and inches?

30 is not a remarkable feat. Basically every winning team that’s not the giants was at worst within one scoring drive of it

and on the bright side, we only have to get like 1 tackle on less than half our plays many weeks. Practically a niche skill set.

yea, probably 100% healthy at the end of the season

yes and no? Kamara is just getting A LOT more of his touches as screens and swing passes instead of handoffs.

Mcvay is wild. He could tell you the 12th play of the third quarter of week 4 in 2017. The players involved, exact play call and outcome. He also is very smart with forcing tells with formations and motion this feels like the meathead complaining the smart kid has better grades

rice will be back from suspension but I think many neglecting it’s also a return from injury. I’m not sure we see a fully 100% explosive version of him.

No joke, just bumped into him at the airport and they gave his rental car away. I presume he ubered to his hotel after but if you see the man walking, try and help him out.

yea - that’s kind of the impression I had. I’ll probably be getting the family out the door at like 8-830 if they are the humans I believe they are just coming from the downtown Airbnb but sounds like parking elsewhere and strolling that direction

I do often wonder if the over/under throw factor is the wide receivers in play not doing him favors in tracking and adjusting routes etc…

Texans here- looking for the worst team in comfortable with not the obvious blowout. At home, vs a bad team, back against the wall. Demeco vs a rookie qb.

he’s always been a handful to manage. that said, if managing him for a few months - and you let him play - I do imagine he’d like it here and give the defense a little more spunk

I’m all for those two playing each other in the wildcard round. I guess chiefs losing helps support that happening? chargers with a solid 3 game lead in the division would feel like chiefs going on the road out of the gate in the playoffs.

I’m 19-1 since the start of last season… my one loss of course the browns early last year. Just too volatile a team to bank on today I picked against a terrible saints team traveling all the way to Seattle. When else was I going to use Seattle?

When he was in the transfer portal everyone wanted him. Now….

Bummed I can’t set up parking in advance. Traveling with the family and suspect we might not be out the door at the crack of dawn. how early does hammer normally hit capacity for a 1pm game these days?

Thats absolutely not a misunderstanding for us. Was all good with the strategy in the first half. we absolutely needed a play downfield in the second half and it was a matter of lack of skill outside- that’s noteworthy.

nailed it. holding two truths here is the nature of the discussion.

almost always most teams are down someone…. And it’s become hard to say we are down Milano as a starter at this point

Counter: sure they are an nfl roster in the era of the salary floor. They have nfl players scattered around the roster and even some good units. they have a bottom 5-10 secondary and a bad offensive line. They also have a guy who’s kind of average at qb. so lacking talent and no talent multiplier at the most important position. They are the drought era bills with a little bit more at qb and not the high water mark of the other 52? Plus more dysfunction? it’s a below average team that has dysfunction on top (bills, chargers, KC, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Houston bring you to the argument for 8 in the afc)

I think many of us think Miami is a very bad team though. Not the playoff fins we have at times battled but a true talent lacking squad that has active internal conflict on top of it. in a special season there will be a few of those that aren’t pretty but you take the win…. But that the gap on the field matched the forecasted gap on paper is what stands out. josh airmails a couple passes and nobody blinks about the long term because sometimes you just don’t hit everything. Josh stands patting the ball because he can’t find anyone open and that gives pause about the bigger story.

If the interior of walker-sanders-Oliver comes together and bosa stays healthy plus hoecht coming back…. it’d have me as optimistic as I’ve ever been about this team (even with my wr worries)

if he hits his ceiling, he will be tremendous value for us - the type that can sway huge games. he’s flashing it.

I’ll at least buy this. it may be some confirmation bias that what we saw tonight matched the pre baked worry about the group…. But may not be the norm.

got it. So the argument is in the 4th quarter after losing our lead against a team in the division/conference (all those tie breakers count extra) that we were strategically punting back to them for lack any real pressure - not that it was a case of our offense struggling to get anything more than 5 yards down field, but simply complimentary football still hopefully when we need the play later down the road- or maybe several of those plays - they are in fact readily available