Jauronimo

Its been Dodson and Dorian Williams subbing in for Milano. Rapp played his most snaps against Miami (65) and Tampa (26), games where we played much better defense. Jax (0), NYG (0), and New England (8) he was barely a factor and I recall he was more of a big nickel than playing Milano's role.

Lets not leave Jacksonville off the list. I think the defensive line is the primary issue. Without Daquan taking on two blockers we aren't seeing the penetration up the middle. QBs don't have to move off their spot, we aren't buying time for the edge rush to get home. This forces our CBs to cover longer. McDermott has sent extra pressure as a result, particularly against new england. Blitzing left easy completions. We played all of last year without a healthy Tre White. Dane + Benford is an adequate starting pair. Milano is great, no question. We miss him big time as Dorian gets abused on misdirection play. I think Daquan's role is more important than either Tre or Milano to the success of this defensive scheme.

And the season highs in offense given up to Jacksonville and New England? Cincinnati's backup OL had their way with our defensive line in the post season without Daquan in the lineup. If you are of the opinion that 3 quarters against Tampa negate these other performances we can disagree.

Is our defensive line getting blown off the line of scrimmage because Tre and Milano aren't out there? I'll need to see the Xs and Os on how that works.

Most teams don't fall to pieces after losing a defensive tackle.

Phillips is who he always was. Bad against the run, flashy when he can penetrate and rush the passer. Without a Star or DaQuan next to him he gets even more exposed. McD's defense seems to rely on having a unicorn at DT. This defense falls apart without a tackle that can anchor while taking on two OL. We will be back to playing Oliver out of position because the other bums aren't up to the task.

You don't understand selecting a linebacker in the draft when we were thin at linebacker? Add it to the list...

There is no momentum game to game, week to week in the NFL. None.

Super Bowl MVP

Smart move. Quit while you're behind.

What in the world are you talking about?

Nothing we can do but cut our ***** off now!

I heard Sam Martin rubbed up against someone inappropriately at the Bingo parlor.

He started the last 2 or 3 games and was then benched because he wasn't performing. He has been playing.

There are 2 teams with more losses and 4 teams with just as many losses. Sabres are 4-5 coming off 2 solid performances.

Mahomes

What kind of big game coach can prevent drops and missed tackles? A coaches job is to put players in a position to succeed. Players job is to execute.

So in other words, the primacy effect has no impact on assessing the offense in week 7 vs. week 8 by your own admission. Which was my point. Digging deep into the ultimate frisbee studies again I see.

If you want to try something new hit up Nine Eleven Tavern.

Its a bad analogy to cite the primacy effect in this context for obvious reasons, but lets entertain this stupidity: were the primacy effect at play in this comparison, wouldn't our bias be to imprint on the earlier game in New England and discount the new information of last nights performance as less relevant? Or are you suggesting that we imprinted the first half of the Bucs game into our long-term memory and are too rigid to deal with the subsequent half of football played 15 minutes later?

The offense's finest play in the New England game was Poyer forcing a fumble at the 20. Major EPA boost in a game we could have easily lost by 2 scores. I shudder to think what our EPA could have been if we were playing down 14 points and needing to go for it on every 4th and short in the second half. Coulda been huge! Playing with leads and complementary football is bad for EPA.

What does the EPA say about drinking my own piss? Do you want to see more of the offense that took the field in Foxboro or more of the offense we saw last night as we face Cincinatti?

Cinci losing to an NFC team would only increase their position when it comes to tie breakers. Hate to see us lose the #1 seed just because Cinci blew a game to the hapless Niners.

I think they have passed through the lower intestine and into the colon. There is daylight ahead, however. One more week of offensive performance like this and they're out of the ***** entirely.