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Yeah cuz we need the refs making judgement calls and blowing errant whistles for "fake slides". Could you imagine? They can't even get the helmet to helmet stuff right. "He stopped running for a split second and i thought he might slide so i just blew it dead" - Could you imagine if the ref had to say that to the bills stadium? Competition committee can complain all they want, but there are two factors in play here. 1 - It would never get the votes approved because the league cares more about protecting QB assets than fans. 2 - The refs would never call this. They would never overrule it if it was somehow made a challenge or something. The rules are down by contact, and out of bounds. You give yourself up when your butt touches the ground, or your foot touches the boundary. His butt didn't touch the ground, so the onus is on the defender to tackle him. In fact it never even really approached the ground, so what are we even talking about here?!

So don't have him call plays. He can still help draw them up and evaluate film?

Wouldn't shock me - he might get some OC calls first though. Depends how this coaching cycle goes, and whether he wants to move back to a QB coach role. I don't think anyone would be able to argue that Brady has done a poor job, especially factoring in that it was a mid-season promotion. He's done a lot of the things that McDermott wants to see. He to me has earned the right to be offensive coordinator here, and working with a long-tenured coach under sean payton seems like a great person to collaborate with on Consistent effort and execution in the run game, usage of tackle eligible players in addition to the two TE sets. We have rushed for over 100 in every game since he took over. Some of this is end of season allen, but scrambling was already included in the game plan - I haven't seen a major influx in designed runs outside sneaks. More of a focus on playing from under center. Run game is able to get outside more consistently, as well as the possibility for play action. Allen is money from under center and play action. Complimentary football - Higher time of possession in every game other than the chargers. More first downs than the opponent in every game other than the chargers. Longer sustained drives seem to be a bit more consistent, and we don't seem to run into these lulls where we can't stay on the field. I don't want to pull all the field position starts to determine if that improved, but i think it did - even most of allens turnovers were to the other side of the field. They seem to start faster, which suggests improved game scripts. In any case, i would assume brady gets the promotion permanently. That means we need to hire a QB coach, and a long tenured NFL coordinator/QB coach would be a good target since our coordinator has only been in the league for a few years.

Over the course of a game were talking 3-6 punts. If his net average is 5 yards less... this is a loss of somewhere around 15-30 yards of field position. Haack actually has a higher net average than Martin this season fwiw.

Considering he basically began the sliding process at the LOS, then fully initiated after about a yard, and slid at like 3 yards... it was late. How hard you hit someone late doesn't change hitting someone who has given themself up.

I usually do twin oaks, but i ended up at kk mart since a couple friends park there. It was 70 bucks. .

I mean the thing holding them back from doing the deal last offseason was injury concerns. And he played every meaningful snap. He made the pro bowl, was an MVP candidate, and led the league in passing yards. He didn't play well the last couple of games, and injuries had something to do with that (offensive line combinations all season, waddle at the end of the year, achane missing time etc). They also seemed to struggle to adjust when teams took away their "fastball", and playcalling seemed to get away from the run game and just general issues with making adjustments offensively. Unfortunately by waiting, they lost a ton of contract leverage - his poor performance down the season not withstanding.

Id rather have a punter who's played in the NFL - EVER. Whos played in a cold weather game - EVER. Who has held for a field goal in a game - EVER.

He knows whats at stake and he's going to leave it on the field. Can't ask for much more.

He has not played meaningful football since 2021.

Nice plays by isabella and harty to find work too.

True grit! Fantastic western.

Only thing i don't love about kicking is its cold, and that tends to lead to worse kicking performance. If you don't want to kick and potentially throw even more field position their way (block was obviously the worst case), you just go for it. 7 yards and we can run the clock off for a shorter FG or potentially a TD with little to no time on the clock.

They were 30 yard end over end punts where he covered like 20 yards. Thats field position. He's not davis, and he'll be released in the offseason most likely. But for now, he's playing better than he has all season.

If it was 4th and 15 maybe. Its the 31 yard line and we need 7 yards. I just cant fathom punting from the 31 though. It's FG range. I think he tried a low trajectory kick for some reason and it was just.. too low.

I wasn't paying a TON of attention during warm ups (Like what hashes and distances etc), but both kickers were struggling from about the 30. Wasn't windy so maybe it was just the balls being cold. Boswell hit his clean and it was probably good from 50. But in warmups he had quite a few knucklers flying all over the place.

I left my house in williamsville at 1230 - parked in KK mart back lot on corner of southwestern and abbott by about 1-115. Got to the car around 8, it took a while to get out of the lot (maybe 25-30 minutes), and i was home by 9. Normally 60 to park, they charged 70 for playoffs i assume, or plowing fees, etc.

We were on the 31 yard line - why would we punt there? Just go for it. Considering he spent the halftime break practicing punting, i am not shocked that he was having some mental issues. Do we know what happened on the shank? Did he slip?

I mean... he's on this team for this season. I don't think he'll be here next season. Thats fine.

He played 14 offensive snaps, made a nice block on a cook swing pass for a few yards, and caught his only target and broke the tackle for YAC. Between that and a few nice fair catches on short punts in the first half - i thought he added something.

I don't really care about his catch% when the majority of his targets are lower percentage throws further down the field.

It's just like a player drawing a foul in basketball. You can do it too, so i don't have much of an issue with it. Just don't push him down, if anything hold him up on his feet and you won't get a call.

I thought him and williams struggled on their first... full drive action. Just some general missed tackles, angles, run fits, coverage gaps. Whatever. But i felt they both settled into just.. playing ball. Go get the ball carrier, pass catcher, limit yac, wrap them up and toss them around. Do what linebackers do! Guy knows beane and mcd well, and they trust him as a vet hand whether he's still got the athleticism or not.

Both have had some drop issues their entire careers. Both are plus blockers. Knox is probably our most consistent red zone target. Davis is more of a downfield threat to stretch that last level of the defense either vertically or horizontally. Both are good players - we act like they're trash, but both would play a lot of snaps if they were on... any of the remaining playoff teams most likely.

Even Daboll is getting dragged this weekend 🙂