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My thoughts - Where he's pretty solid: Extending plays Not turning the ball over Options/zone read - Keeps his eyes up field well during these. Throwing on the run (no one's perfect at this, but he's made some of his better plays this year on the move) Doesn't seem rattled Where he needs to improve: Ball placement - Too many lost yards by missing a guy in stride Pre-snap reads/adjustments - If clay's running an option slant over the middle in the red zone, you may want to adjust your read to make that the primary... etc. Decision-making - He can hold the ball a bit waiting for his guy to get open, rather than throw them open. A lot of this is reps and routine (knowing where your guy is going to be), which we're currently scrambling with all of our changes. Footwork - Needs to step up in the pocket more when its there. Teams are playing more contain to try and keep him in there, use that additional time to set your feet and deliver better passes. We did more designed roll-outs to address pressure against STL since they were gashing us with blitzes. His footwork seems to be more consistent on these plays (even though almost all of them were just chucked out of bounds).

You play off because Keenum is basically just throwing 8 yard outs all game - when you time it right, and he times it wrong - its a pick 6. It also allows you to keep your eyes on the QB and cheat a bit. Once he threw that pick 6 the whole game was off the rails for them.

p We struggled on third down for sure, but their blitz was creating problems. We tried to address this by doing designed roll outs, and no one was open, so a lot of those were chucked out of bounds. Goodwin, Powell, and woods all dropped easy first downs. The 2 minute drill sack was the one where he needs to get his clock moving a bit faster. He could've made a play with his legs there.

The last 2 punters we played were legit 2 of the best in football. Booming high long punts. Hekkers hang time was consistently a full second better than schmidt

That was a not trusting the line issue, they were on him all game. Good read, bad footwork. Woods also dropped a wide open slant, and Goodwin couldn't pull in a 1st down catch either. I think Powell should have pulled in the one to him as wel.Threw a bunch away rather than force anything. Not a good game, but 0 turnovers and solid red zone work means a win.

They blitzed a bunch in the end of the first and the 2nd. Goodwin and woods gotta pull in those tough catches because those passes were on target. We started moving the pocket more to adjust for the blitzes, didn't make much of a difference, but Eliminates turnover potential.

Tyrol played poorly, but a couple drops hurt us on third downs and we had some blocking issues that didn't help our cause. At least he was money in the red zone. And no turnovers. Decent enough 2 minute drill. Wins a win!

Yeah not a good start to have McCoy lose 4 on first... Meanwhile the defense picked up where they left off, sucking.

Donald sighting

2 players for 1 year of chandler jones, who they weren't going to re-sign after the year. Arizona extended him I believe. Cooper was a reclamation project throw in. He had fallen out of the starting lineup in Arizona, and New England didn't have thuney at the time of the trade. Now that they have thuney. And a healthy mason, they don't need him. Contract is fully guaranteed and he's buried, why keep him? I expected him to get cut in preseason.

The issue I'm hearing is that Kaep looks worse than blaine in practice. That doesn't always translate on the field, but if it did, that would be really bad.

Agreed. He's also had a few decent games with pass catching. Averaging 96 total yards per game on 21 touches. His longest plays are only 24 yards, so its not like 1 or 2 big blow up plays skews the data. He's been fine.

Earliest we could get rid of him is 2018 - and that would involve eating a 16.5 million dead money hit. We gave him a ton guaranteed - so he will be here for the forseeable future. If he gets suspended, he doesn't get paid so that would theoretically help us in getting rid of him.

Oh if Rex said it, everyone would be out of their minds... But i do like the statement.

Well typically we line up under center - see something - then TT motions out wide. It doesn't give them a lot of time to adjust. Plus if no one follows TT you can have the back chuck it over there. I imagine the rams will institute a quick adjustment when that happens to try and prevent the trap blockers from making a lane, but nothing works every time anyway.

All offseason it was our weekest group. We picked up spikes and everyone said doom/gloom.

Brady takes his job pretty seriously. Guy eats a diet specifically to prevent inflammation. He also works out for muscle flexibility to avoid strains and pulls. Guy takes good care of himself.

There are ways to get approval to use stuff. People need to actively do it. And not use the stuff if they don't have the approval.

Being in the booth with all the assistants would probably help with that. Felton has been very key for us, he's creating cutback lanes outside and overall blocking like a mad man.

I like that o'leary doesn't wear gloves. He's that confident in his hands for some reason... The amount of tack on the gloves is insane btw... no CLUE why he wouldn't wear them.

Know what we need in the draft? MORE! trade back - add more depth. 2nd/3rds get paid a lot less than 1st rounders. This helps keep cap number down, and adds more chances to hit in the draft. How they didn't put WR is beyond me. We have no depth as it stands, and 3 of our 5 are UFAs next year.

One would have to assume he has an element of a pass catcher to his game. Rather than be solely a blocking TE.

Looking beyond the numbers - and actually watching him play. He is very tyrod. If he doesn't have his first read, he's dumping off to running backs. He was also borderline terrible his first 5 years in the league. I'm all for finding a QB too. But people are saying we can't pay TT that contract. We have to cut him. Don't realize we're digging ourselves back into the same hole we did when we released fitzpatrick. There are 0 starters available at that position. So we then start the year with cardale, and apparently our 1st round draft pick (or multiples if we decide to trade up). We're probably a worse team at that point than we would be if we keep him. If we keep TT through 2017 - his 2018 dead money hit is only 2 million. Really not that bad - and we might know what we have in Cardale by then as well (takes job from TT in camp/midseason etc.)

Would you rather - keep gilmore and draft a WR in the first. Or sign Jeffrey (i know we can't guarantee that happens obviously), and draft a CB in the first? Assuming $$ is similar.

One of them is their starting LG Joe Thuney. The other is that Mitchell kid who mixed it up with our guys. Probably their 4th receiver. Long is playing - Ninkovich was suspended. He's in their End rotation with Sheard, Ninkovich, and Flowers. It was a deeper position there, and he was going to want a massive raise. Cooper was on the last year of a rookie deal - 5th year option not picked up - and will be a free agent. Costs the same to get rid of him, and he's probably just interior depth the rest of the way.