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I still have turf toe from at least 10 years ago, it's never really right unless you get it fixed. When I play bar league football i tape the crap out of it and its mostly ok. I have to crack it when it rains :-). Rest, and probably more frequent mid-game rest. It's pain management more than anything else - toe instability isn't going to prevent you from cutting, but jump cut on that foot and its probably gonna hurt. It's also unlikely to prevent you from running like a hamstring or ankle might. But it hurts. Every step. To me that didn't look like turf toe in the way he hit it? I'm not sure how he'd roll the toe under his foot with that type of shock, but it doesn't mean it wasn't broken, badly bruised, or dislocated.

Don't worry- they're probably all out too 🙂

They lowered his base salary in the offseason with incentives, so i assume this was partially requested by his agent to offset monetary loss. The teams good with it because it created cap space without having to push money into next year (unless he hits incentives). See i thought the 2nd one she just refused to testify so you don't really have a case.

Hamlin has played better than Bishop though. More tackles than bishop and rapp combined, only 1 missed tackle to 2 for bishop and 1 for rapp in fewer snaps. Pass coverage has been fine too. He hasn't done anything spectacular, but the big plays the last 2 weeks went to rapp and bishops sides of the field.

You can do this when you have a core. When you gut the core and leadership of the team, you need people who can play day 1 more than lottery tickets.

It's going to be tough to go down the whole line Arizona - 3/9 33% - 2/2 on 4th downs (both less than 2 yards), 1 3rd and 19 after a penalty, another 3rd an 14 after penalty. Miami - 3/9 33% - 0/3 in 2nd half, and after the pick 6 it was all but ballgame. Jax - 6/11 - Thats a good game. Baltimore - 3/13 - 17, 8, 10, 10, 12 - so 5 times they faced 3rd and long. Houston - 3/14 - 20, 11, 9, 14, 10, 9, 8, 10, 10. This alone is absurd, 9 times they faced 3rd and long.

So you want to lose so you can be like "see, beane's terrible". Got it. Bigtime fan.

Fair, he's big and elusive. Us missing half our defense helped them too, so i don't really feel that bad. People get injured.

I mean... he's a defensive coach and the adjustments that were made resulted in 3 punts and 2 takeaways. During the 5 possessions buffalo had after that they scored 10 points. I'd put the onus more on brady and allen in that regard.

I think timing of playcalls has been an issue on the road. Not getting to the line quick enough, and always going on 1 makes it a lot easier for defense to disguise.

I think both game plans might look a little different. It's also october so both teams will look considerably different should the teams meet in the playoffs. Impact players get hurt all the time.

Both road games against 2023 playoff teams with good defenses.

Probably the jags 9-6 game for me. Both were bad when it came to pass protection and he made it worse.

I don't disagree with anything you said. This is a big game on the road against a defense allen has struggled with, its not going to get easier for him - honestly probably harder. My additional thoughts: We need some adjustment to snap counts on the road because its part of why the offensive line is struggling. The ends were getting far up field creating a lane for josh to take - and then adjusting to his lane with the spy. He has to just stay put on some of these to make it hurt when they use a spy. Scrambling just cuts away half your receivers. Taking too long to get plays in. With the team having a ton of offensive turnover, you need motion - ours looked half-assed at times because we only had 4 seconds, and it felt like the defense didn't give anything away. We also haven't been using motion as well on the road. Get to the line quick, give yourself time to get your alerts in. Keon in the slot. Boundary guys are struggling, and if shakir is out this week I want to try and manufacture targets for Keon. If you want to put sauce or Reed on kincaid, so be it. Samuel almost needs to start in the boundary for this to happen. I'm not sure they'll do this because its wholesale changes but it needs to happen. No Huddle. Hard to do on the road but hand signals can help here. Just get them off their gameplan, and you have to avoid penalties and negative plays. Manufacture some completions by getting to the line quickly.

I thought he got the wind knocked out of him, which might have just been how he landed. His head did hit the turf but that doesn't mean he got a concussion either. Boxers get punched in the head and don't get a concussion on every punch.

Most QBs show some wrinkles on the road, its harder to play in general when you're in hostile territory. Silent snap counts, harder to communicate pass pro, harder to call alerts... but that was just terrible. You have to make them pay when your play works, and allen did a poor job on that.

I am not sure how snaps played out, so i hesitate to blame samuel and knox too much without knowing how much they even played. I question a gameplan that involves hollins playing the majority of snaps though. Might be time to make a change there - either give MVS or knox or samuel some of those snaps.

I don't think most teams have the horses to get pressure and man up the way baltimore and houston have. But i expect to see a lot more man coverage as the year goes on. The other thing they need to figure out is trying to disguise snap counts more effectively on the road.

It's tough to say - you don't know where hollins is supposed to be, or how it was practiced.

I thought it wasn't the best throw, but there was air under it. A good WR probably at least touches the damn ball.

Who's fault is what? The WR room is weak because of beane, but also a lot because diggs forced his way out. He was moved in April, and free agency was already mostly taken up. I suppose they could have signed beckham... but he's an injury prone player in his 30s. The defense held a top notch offense to 23 even with a blown coverage TD, and missing Milano, TJ, Miller, Oliver, and Rapp. I think there were issues with the offensive gameplan, and i think the roster is somewhat flawed in its construction offensively. At the same time, allen missed.. a ton of throws.

It's the difference in a 40 and football speed. He slows down trying to switch shoulders and loses track, he also looked way late after he beat the coverage. The ball shouldn't already be in the air when you're trying to track it there.

I thought it was the right move tbh. If you can't move the ball there the timeouts won't matter. The goal is a first down so you can kneel for OT. I had no faith in martin punting it well enough to keep them out of range, without some kind of penalty or something. Yeah, something short, some kind of crosser that is a high % completion to get you space out of the end zone... and force them to burn a timeout and open up the ability to run the ball on 2nd and 3rd down to get the 1st. Once you go incomplete you have to pass, and allen was just so bad throwing beyond the sticks.

I'm not concerned about his targets being dispersed, its more who he's looking to on a crucial 3rd down.

Shakir out - Samuel invisible - Hollins Hollinsing - MVS MVSing... If there were a time for a breakout, its this game.