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I don't think it's that hot a take with their schedule. Going to be a fight for the WCs all the way till the end.

Game over.....

Dude....if you are not going to use all 4 downs, why take the ball first? I know it was 4th and 4 or whatever and if you don't get it, it's over, but punting there with the Chiefs only needing a FG is basically a loss anyway.

Good defense there by the Colts, but does anyone honestly believe that the Colts offense is going to score a TD in OT?

Should have let him score.....

Just an awful job by the Colts. I mean who didn't see this coming when the decided not to go for it on their last possession? You play to win..... They played not to lose and they're about to.

Ball is on the ground....his hands never touched it. Yes, he had it with his forearm, but the ball hit the ground......

Colts with the chicken call.......

Colts are done..... They've lost their composure.

Colts are in trouble.....

Colts are cracking......

If it wasn't for their cupcake schedule, maybe..... Regardless of where they finish, whether it's the 1 seed, 2 seed, whatever...... I still think they are 1 and done.

Very predictable, blitz heavy, series by the Chiefs and it worked.

Sure....pick up a flag against the Chiefs. Why not.....

What a freaking ticky tack call that was..... What else is new........

Well, the problem is, as of now, the schedule is set by a formula and I think it may be difficult to adhere 100% to the existing formula and still be able to work out the Bye weeks. I think the teams in the formula would have to change somehow to make things line up. Sure, you know most of the matchups for every team years in advance, but there are always a couple games determined by record and that's what may throw it off the following year when trying to match up Bye weeks to play on Thursdays or whatever. I don't know. Maybe if you just said that the 14 games or whatever that are set in stone are the only ones that can be played on Thursdays, you can figure it out good enough. I don't know. I just know that with 32 teams coupled with stadium availability and stuff, trying to add another layer of trying to match up Byes and Thursday night games might be tough. But, that's what computers are for. Input the parameters and let the computer do the work. If you need to adjust things manually in the end, you can, but it may be a little tougher to figure it out. On the other hand, the out of conference games and the games determined by record maybe should be the ones played on Thursdays anyway since they may mean a little bit less in terms of tiebreakers at the end of the season. Who knows. Until they show a willingness to even consider it, it's not something I am going to put much thought into.

Oh, I fully realize this. I don't expect anything to change at all. I was just saying they could find a way if they wanted to. But I am very well aware of the fact they don't care and they're just going to do what they want to anyway. Should it change? Yes. Will it? Most likely not unless something really bad happens at some point.

I don't think you need to get rid of it entirely. What they should do is make Thursday nights for teams coming off a Bye or something. I know that's not the most conducive thing to schedules and everything, but maybe it's time to reevaluate how the schedules are composed and worry more about player safety rather than be so opponent specific. There are a lot of smart people working in the NFL. I am sure with enough meeting time, they could come up with something that would take less of a toll on the body and still allow them to play on Thursday night most weeks. Maybe the first few weeks there aren't any, but when Bye weeks start, so do Thursday night games or something. I mean, the easiest way to do it is to make sure every team gets 2 Bye weeks and work it in from there. Each team would have an abbreviated Bye to play on Thursday Night and then a full Bye later on or something like that. I know they don't want to do that, but giving teams extra rest during the season can only help the product and player safety.

Yeah.....saw this when it happened. Not sure if he did it on purpose or not, but if he did, mad props to him. But yeah....that was very close to be very bad.

Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter Bengals are not activating QB Joe Burrow by today’s 4 pm deadline, meaning he will be unable to play Sunday, per source. His debut will have to wait another week until Thanksgiving night against Baltimore. 9:53 AM · Nov 22, 2025 · 124.1K Views He's not playing against the Pats*...... because why should the Pats* have to play the Bengals with Burrow and Chase and have somewhat of a chance to be upset?

There really isn't too much of a silver lining. We lost. We got beat up. Multiple starters likely to IR for a team that already has a bunch of banged up players. Our WRs were exposed once again. Both of our lines got manhandled. Allen took a beating. Brady looked completely clueless out there even with the most obvious adjustments that needed to be made (adding an extra lineman to block when our 5 was getting eaten alive on every play, getting away from running mesh on just about every play right in front of the Texans defense that was waiting for it constantly, never once trying a shot down the field, etc.). Our defense, while better in the 2nd half still being unable to stop Davis Freaking Mills from putting up 20 in the first half. Missed XP, and multiple penalties on returns that held back our starting field position. I could go on, but you were looking for a silver lining. The only thing I can come up with is that with them winning, it separates them from KC a bit more and makes it harder for the Chiefs to get in as a Wild Card. I guess if we're going down this season, we may as well take the Chiefs with us if we can. Oh.....1 more positive.... we don't have to play until next Sunday.

Yeah.....that's probably the poster child for luckiest win. The Comeback is on there for sure. But this one would have been up there with as inept as they were for most of the night.

Wonder how healthy he is.... if he's healthy at all.

After that 4th and 27 play, there wasn't a doubt in my mind we weren't going to win that game. That was until it was 3rd and 1 and Brady just didn't try to pick up the first down. Should have run Allen, gotten the first down and then taken 4 shots at the end zone. The second he kept passing the ball I got worried real quick. Anderson made a great play on the tipped ball to Shakir, but it was the play call that bugged me the most. Run Allen up the middle, tush push or even out of shotgun.....just get the first down! But yeah.....regardless, if we would have won, it would have probably been one of the luckiest wins in team history.

The easy theme here is McDermott. That said, the OCs had their share of flaws. Dennison was flat out awful. Just too many things to even get into with him. Unqualified for the job. Daboll, in my opinion, is the type of OC that you want. Fiery, competitive, and driven to hang 40+ on the opponent every week. He schemed to his talent and worked on concepts to get certain guys open on any given play. He used defensive tendencies against the opponent, found the weakness, and worked to find ways to attack it. The problem was he probably errored on the side of passing a bit too much. That said, though, he didn't have much of a run game to count on. Our offensive line staff was bad and couldn't block things up well enough in the run game at times so Daboll eventually just got away from the run too much. The problem with this is that McDermott HATES the style Daboll wanted to run. Daboll wanted to run as many plays as possible in a game and wanted to score as fast as he could. But, McDermott wants a ball control offense, control TOP, and limit the opponent's number of possessions. Scoring too fast and putting his defense back out there (which struggled to keep opponents from scoring) was not something he wanted and that's why it was very contentious between them. Dorsey was kind of the exact opposite of what Brady is in terms of depth of target. Everything Dorsey ran was down the field and took a long time to develop. His running game wasn't great either. But he wasn't a schemer by any means. He called plays, but was never a guy to set out to fool anyone. He was competitive and wanted to score, but just didn't have the play design skills to do it effectively. Out of all the coordinators we have had under McDermott, I think Dorsey was the most reliant one on the actual skill and talent of the players on the field. Brady....well, we know what he is. He's McDermott's dream OC that is struggling to make things work. He wants to roll our 3 TEs and pound the ball, play a ball control offense, and control the clock. The problem is, he doesn't have a creative bone in his body. Every route is at or behind the LOS. The ball rarely travels over 15 yards in the air within the structure of the offense. The only time it gets pushed down the field is when Allen scrambles outside of structure and tries to make things happen. Everything is static. No choice or option routes. He has a list of plays and he just calls them with no real plan. Many coordinators run plays not necessarily to be successful, but to set up something bigger later in the game. He doesn't call plays with a plan. He runs mesh as part of his base play package on not only early downs, but in every situation because again.....he's not scheming guys open....he's just calling plays. Why is he not using max protect or bringing in an extra lineman to help block up front last night when everyone could see that our front was getting manhandled? Because he doesn't have a "plan".....he has plays that he calls. And when you couple this with a lack of talent at the WR position, it's a recipe for disaster and that's where we are now. I posted it in another thread last night....just look at Allen's passing chart. Not one ball over 15-20 yards down the field even ATTEMPTED, let along completed. So, Houston was plan a mix of zone and man all night with virtually every defender within 15 yards of the LOS and Brady never once tried to exploit this over the top. There's so much more to get in on with Brady, but it would take all day. So, in the end.....is it McDermott or the OCs? While the answer is both in many respects, but most of it is on McDermott because he is trying to find a guy to run the type of offense he wants to run that doesn't expose how bad his defense truly is by putting them on the field more. He wants a "yes man" to run a 50/50 offense to control the clock and win games by scoring in the low 20s. He hand picks guys that he believes can do enough on offense, but not be too good to outshine his defense and won't rile anyone up with calls to replace him with said offensive coordinator. It happened with Daboll because we were scoring a ton of points and his defense let us down in the end. Just think about it.....the last 2 games Daboll coached here was the Perfect Game and 13 Seconds. The offense was great in both games. Against KC, the offense did just about everything you could expect to in order to win that game on the road against a great team and McDermott's defense and coaching decisions BLEW that game. Yes, Daboll was going to get a head job somewhere because of the job he did here with the offense, but McDermott couldn't wait to get rid of him because he's the exact OC he fears.... a creative mind that knew how to put up points and did it quickly that a lot of fans were asking to take over for McDermott. But yeah.....in then end, this is McDermott's ship and he is well on his way to sinking it. Problem is, we have an owner that loves him and Beane and they probably have lifetime contracts at this point because Pegula doesn't want to fire them. Heck, just look at our hockey team. Awful year in and year out but because he loves the GM, he gets to sit there and do nothing to help the team day in and day out. So all of this "Fire McDermott and Beane talk"? Just forget about it. It's not happening, especially in a year they are heading into a brand new stadium.