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Great defense there! That's a hustle play

Panthers are a lot tougher this season than I expected. We did some nice things in the run game but we cannot push the ball downfield in the passing game

Perhaps my perception is incorrect.

It's not just that this GM drafts a ton of defensive players. The coach won't play half of them. He won't dress our 3rd round pick. We have injuries everywhere in the secondary and we drafted like 15 DBs this year but some never even get a chance. It's a pattern. Every year certain rookies might as well just be cut, because they are never getting a chance. For guys that are "one mind" this is bizarre.

People laugh at me, but the Bengals are winning that division. Here's the standings: Steelers 4-2 Bengals 3-4 Browns 2-5 Ravens 1-5 Steelers have Green Bay, which is a "bet the house" type game. There is zero chance Green Bay loses that game vs Rodgers. Rodgers doesn't win those type of "big games." And this one? No way. He'll be way too tight, too wound up, and the Packers will bulldoze the Steelers. Bengals have the Jets this week. We're 3 days away from the Steelers being 4-3 and the Bengals 4-4. Burrow is reportedly on track for a mid December return. Bengals and Ravens play twice, once in late November and once mid December. Only 1 of those teams is making it in, but IMO one will. Rodgers is playing well this season, but overall the Steelers are frauds. That defense is atrocious. Ravens are too far back. They already have 5 losses, and could easily lose to the Bears this weekend. Bears are no longer a joke. Ravens have Steelers twice, Bengals twice, plus the Packers and Patriots. There are some losses in there, even if everything was 100%. It's happening.

During the Atlanta game where guys were in on Allen almost every play unblocked the commentators gushed about that defense and how all the investment in DL was paying off. I had to count to 10. McDermott's system does not work against good teams. It's really that simple. It didn't work when he had all his guys in their primes. Now they're all still here or back and older, more injured, and slower. Sit back, keep the game in front of you, don't make mistakes, wait for the offense to mess up and then take advantage, is going to work a lot, especially in the regular season. There's no doubting that. Sadly, there's no bottom feeders in the playoffs, except maybe Wild Card weekend where you often get the team who nobody thinks is a real contender. Watch RedZone. There is a LOT of bad football in this league on a weekly basis. Being smart, not beating yourself, and making a play when it's there will pay off the vast majority of the time. In the regular season.

Exactly. There are only so many individuals who have 6-10 billion just to acquire an NFL team. As you mentioned, that doesn't touch operating costs or signing bonuses or coach contracts.

the numbers are just so stupid that the days of individual owners are probably coming to an end. There will always be the face of the group, so to speak, but fewer and fewer people will be able to be the traditional 1 person ownership model because not that many people have 6+ billion dollars to put into 1 purchase, let alone run the team afterwards. The Bills are reportedly worth 5.9 billion now. Pegula bought them for 1.4 billion, which seemed crazy at the time. That's a 4X growth in 11 years.

Football feels a lot easier to affect the outcome of than most other sports. You get a lot more possessions/chances in basketball. A crooked football ref at any level could call holding at a key moment and totally derail a drive. It doesn't even need to be a big moment. A holding call that kills a promising 1st quarter drive could be a major factor later in a close game. You only get so many possessions in football. A drive killing penalty here or there totally changes the game. And you can call holding almost every play. It's so subjective. Same with pass interference. The effect of any 1 call in football is so much more impactful than almost any other sport. A theoretical crooked football ref (at any level) who stops 7 points from being scored by Team A in a sport where 23-17 is a typical score output , is lowering Team A's point total by as much as 25-30%. That's like a basketball ref directly stopping a basketball team from scoring 20-30 points.

No. This is McDermott's preferred approach. Safe and steady. Limit mistakes. Low event football. Yes, sometimes (13 seconds, opener this year) that has to go out the window, but we have one of the best QBs in the league and won't lean into it.

After watching the SF MASH unit that is their defense basically shut down the same Falcons team that ran and threw all over us, I hate this scheme on defense even more. Without their star DE or LB SF shut down the same offense that had their way with us 7 days ago. Robison and London were non-factors. Penix was under pressure almost every drop back. Meanwhile, we get zero pressure and everyone is wide open. I am 100% convinced the issue is scheme and coaching, not players. There's just no way the guys we have on defense are this bad.

Just keep the game in front of you. Don't make any mistakes. Nothin cheap now! Let them get their catches. They'll make a mistake eventually, and we'll capitalize on it! On offense, play it safe, don't turn the ball over and make it easy. Everybody eats! Slow and steady! If that mantra and system doesn't fire you up, what will?

Wow Colts might be for real

Eagles had a 34-6 lead at the end of the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl vs KC with Hurts at QB. And Siranni at HC. Enough excuses. Find a way. Throwing up your hands and saying "golly but Mahomes and Reid" is not good enough. As far as Rex Ryan goes, he got as far with Mark Sanchez as McDermott has gotten with Josh Allen.

Bengals will win the division.

Rodgers still has the arm. Fun game to watch!

Rodgers is playing well this season

Terrible punt. Your defense can barely slow them down.

This is a fun game! I expected a Steelers collapse once the Bengals got ahead

Plus once the momentum shifts there are flags on the Steelers defense every other play. It's like it's....

3-4 if they win. That's no miracle. They could win that division

When games switch like this the pass interference penalties always come

This game is over Everything is going the Bengals way

Steelers are such pretenders. They could be 15-2 and I wouldn't take them seriously. That said, go Steelers! Bengals and Ravens still play each other twice.

There are some diva WR, but the vast majority of star WR just show up and ball.