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Ugh....I want to win, but man I hope Rodgers is OK.

Gotta finish that. Great play by Groot, but you have to finish that.

The Chargers literally did everything wrong on defense when you are facing the Dolphins. You have all offseason to study how to contain that offense and basically did the exact opposite of what works against them. The Chargers coaching staff is just brutal and ruined what what have been a great start to the NFL season. Very overrated team. Oh well..... It's on us to cap off the week with a W.

2 separate points, but you already knew that. Point is, the 90% of the QB play today has been awful. And yes....we know it's week 1. Doesn't change the point of how bad it has been so far.

I'm sure part of it is just because it is the first half of the first game of the season for these teams, but there is not a lot of quality football being played except for the 49ers. Burrow stinks Watson stinks Jackson stinks You could go on an on about the QB play today. Just awful for the most part. Purdy is playing good, but that team is just loaded with talent. It will be interesting to see how thing change as we go along, but so far, these highest paid QBs in history are having a very rough go of it. I can't get over how bad Burrow has been. He sees pressure even being sent, and he is getting happy feet and panicking even if the pressure doesn't get there. Guess the key is to get him moving because he hasn't been good at all.

And when we win by double digits on Monday, they're all going to either wonder why the Jets aren't as good as they thought they would be, or, they will just say it's week 1 and it doesn't matter. Maybe you will get a couple saying that maybe the Bills were written off too soon, but it won't be many of them if there is any at all. It's all fine. Rather just fly under the radar.

I have no idea where this 4.71, 40 time is coming from. He didn't participate in the Combine and he didn't run at his Pro Day either. This is a completely made up number. In fact, because he didn't run, he was asked in an interview shortly after he was drafted what his time would have been had he run and he himself said it would have been 4.5-4.55. So, he is a mid 4.5 guy based on his own training times and if you watch the guy's film from college, that is exactly what it looks like on tape. So, ignore this made up time of 4.71. Regardless of his speed, what makes his special is his footwork and his power out of his breaks. That is where he creates his separation. Sure, the speed will help him get more RAC, but it is not the reason he gets open. His hips and ankles, combined with how low he can get out of his breaks, and then this burst out of his breaks is what is going to get him open, especially against LBs that can't move real well. As long as he stays healthy in his career, I have no doubt that he will be the best TE this team has ever had. We've never had a guy at this position that moves like he does. The bar isn't high to be the best in team history, but not only do I think he will be the best pass catching TE we've ever had, but with Allen as his QB, he has a chance to be an all time great with his combination of size, speed, route running, and catching ability.

It's hard to expect too much out of normal rookie TEs. But I don't believe Kincaid is a normal rookie TE. The way he moves, his releases, and the way he gets in and out of his breaks and creates separation, I have a feeling he is going to make a huge impact this season. With the way the Jets play defense, and with their primary weakness on defense being in coverage with their LBs, I would not be shocked to see Kincaid have somewhat of a statement game right off the bat. I think he, and whoever is playing the slot, will be the key to moving the ball consistently on offense. I would not be shocked one bit if he ended up being our leading pass catcher Week 1. I don't think they have anyone that can match up with him inside. That may sound like lofty expectations for a rookie, but he doesn't run routes like a rookie.

He should have been lit up a couple times, but for some reason, the Lions defenders almost tried to get out of the way instead of hitting him. But, they know that even if the hit is 100% legal, the refs would call them, so I guess they probably did what they thought they should have to do.

Illegal formation, false start, and holding all on one play..... Not one of them called. This is insanity!!!!

He is now lined up completely behind the center and leaving early every play!

FALSE FREAKING START AGAIN!!!!!

Spencer Brown taking notes for sure....

Why are they not calling 74 for anything????????? This is insane!!!

74 just reaching and grabbing on every single play. I guess lining up 3 yards in the backfield every play before the snap isn't enough of an advantage for him. He should have like 10 penalties by now. It's insane he keeps getting away with this crap.

Maybe not on the previous couple plays, but definitely on the last one.

Goff not being able to throw it 60 yards prevented them from even having a chance there.

Except it was their 2nd possession. Regardless, no less important.

Every Lions lineman was laying on the ground on the 2nd down play. Looked odd. Nice fake, though.

Defense in the NFL has evolved a ton over the years. It's partly because of the rules and partly because of just how good QBs have gotten. It's so much tougher to just throw a defense out there and blitz the heck out of a QB and beat them physically. Offensive schemes, film study, coaching, and the physical abilities of these QBs, especially the great ones, have them knowing exactly where and when to throw the ball no matter where the pressure is coming from. You send the house, you are going to get burned more than you would have a decade+ ago. That said, while the Tampa 2 defense that Frazier, and several other coordinators have played for a while now, are becoming a lot less effective as well, again just because of how good these QBs are getting. Going to sit back and not allow teams to beat you over the top? Again, the top QBs are so good that they will just sit back in the pocket and pick you apart underneath and outside the numbers. Sure, this type of defense still can work against average to below average QBs. Frazier has proven that over the last few years. That is why our defense was consistently ranked high season over season. During the season, you play enough QBs that aren't quite good enough physically to beat you play after play all the way down the field. However, that is why we have also been shredded in the Playoffs. All of a sudden, you are playing the best of the best when it comes to QBs in the Playoffs and they are more than equipped to physically and mentally dissect that bend but don't break defense as they are more than willing to take what you give them underneath and dink and dunk you to death. So, what do you do on defense in today's NFL to try and slow down these great QBs? It's the million dollar question. If you can't blitz the heck out of them, and you can't sit back and wait for them to make a mistake, what do you do? In my opinion it's neither. Today, more than ever, the NFL has become a chess match between the offense and defense. Offenses are literally scheming up plays to get certain players the ball on a certain part of the field on a regular basis. Defenses are trying to find a way to keep up with these offensive schemes and designs and, unfortunately, playing defense there is only so much you can do in trying to react to what the offense is doing to you. Offenses can do so much more schematically to try and force the defenses hand. But that goes back to what can defenses do to try and stop these innovative offenses. If it's me, I'm scheming offenses right back. Instead of sending everyone on a blitz or sitting back and covering deep, I'm using simulated pressures and disguised coverages more than ever before and not allowing QBs to know what I'm doing before the snap. I'm doing whatever I can to make the QBs think that there is going to be extra pressure coming on every play and only actually sending that pressure occasionally. I'm showing different looks pre-snap every play and dropping into a different coverage post-snap all while showing these different simulated pressure packages and making these QBs try and figure it all out while dropping back to pass. Instead of a physical grind on these QBs, in a league where you can hardly breathe on them anyway, I am going to try and beat them down mentally. All it takes is to find a way to make these great QBs make a couple of mistakes a game to change the outcome. Games against great teams and great QBs are more often than not super close and the difference comes down to those 1 or 2 big plays in a game that can change everything. The days of just physically beating up a QB are just gone (except for Mike White......shout out to that guy's toughness) and just sitting back waiting for these top QBs to make a mistake are long gone. It's time to test them mentally. Sure, the good ones are still going to beat you on some plays. They're that good. But, making them process so much information on every single play could take it's toll mentally throughout the course of a game that it forces them to make some big mistakes as well. I think in today's league, against this level of talent we are seeing at the QB position, this is the best you can hope for. You just have to hope your superstar is better than their superstar. And with Allen being the athletic freak he is, I'll take my chances against anyone.

You hold onto him and work to develop him unless you can trade him for an above average MLB. If you can get someone serviceable in here at MLB, as much as I want to be patient with Elam because he does have talent, we need to worry about this season first.

There is not 1 LB, not named Milano, that can cover on this team. And now Spector is banged up. MLB situation has never been worse on this team.

Isabella has had a rough go of it today. May have played his way to the practice squad. Guess we'll see.

Will have to go back and look at the coverage, but I think Dodson was supposed to carry the TE deep and didn't get any depth at all. Luckily there was a terrible drop.

Dodson is just plain terrible. Beane owes it to this team to do everything he can to bring in a serviceable MLB. There just isn't one on this team.