Sojourner

Dude was one of the few who came in that B ready to play, ready to go. So disappointed for Jimbo we didn’t make a superbowl after that TD effort on 4th down by him.

Young MC? The “Bust a Move” Young MC? Might be accurate lol

Aside from Hunter and Johnson in terms of CB, do you think the next group of Revel/Amos/Morrison are who we could be drafting @ 30? If so, who do you like most? I’ve seen Barron translate to a mineable chess piece. Actually like the idea of a player who can play nickel and safety. Revel’s size probably puts him way before 30 imo. Even though he had injury the tape prior suggests he isn’t scheme dependent for success. Great athleticism and instincts at the position. Morrison’s the same as Revel for me in terms of instincts and physical ability. The guys I’m keeping an eye on are Amos, Darien Porter and Denzel Burke. My favorite guy we have a chance to get is Thomas from FSU. If he tests well I think he easily slides into the first round.

If you’re on the field. You’re ready. Call was made in. They knew the play and assignments. 5 guys getting it wrong isn’t coaching. 3 of our best guys getting wiped out by Ju-Ju isn’t coaching. Im not arguing that coaching and Sean are not problems. Some of it is. It’s their players, their system and their calls. But that can only carry over so much. I think you are spot on that when you put the talent on both teams roster for roster, there’s not much different; just different areas of weakness & strength. However, in crunch time their players make little to no errors. Especially in the biggest moments. The failings we had on Sunday were play calling on offense that let us down mostly and vice versa for the defense, the players more than coaching were the failings. There’s a blend for sure. But again, when 5 players mess up on a game defining play, 3 of them your best players on that unit you can’t pin it on coaching. That’s a between the ears moment. Looks like a cal we sent in during my college years called “Down Right Rat”, whatever the terminology is for them I don’t know but it’s a similar alignment and responsibility scheme from what unfolded where essentially 4 guys responsible for 2 players. The 5th is more of a reaction/freelance that plays the box edge (which would be Groot). That play shows players more than no coaching. Again, I’m not stressing you’re wrong or unjustified in coaching errors being an issue. There is. But man, so many plays is just poor execution by a player/s.

There is no explanation lol. I’ve posted this a couple of times but please, as I’m very intrigued that you’re so staunch its coaching, explain the coaching error here…

Ok man. If you want to lump every failing a grown man has for making the wrong play or no play as a “has to be coaching” scenario, you’re very much entitled to. More power to you. I played one year D2 and transferred to a D1 program for two years years before getting my leg snapped in two in summer. I can attest that the step before NFL that the best guys make errors that have nothing to do with the coaching. Missed tackles, blown assignments, wrong reads, seeing something and decide to jump it/break gap integrity… If you think that isn’t common place in the pros, again more power to you. Not implying you’re wrong but putting it all on coaches contains some naivety imo.

Sure, I can see that the gap isn’t massive and kind of agree. However the gap comes to on field product. And not just coaching. Players just don’t show up who are more than capable of high end play.

Agree. Cook showed me he’s elite. Milano has/can be. Benford looks to be of top end quality for stretches. There’s a few pieces. They just unfortunately are consistent with the highest level of their play. Big problem.

It’s a coping mechanism. I bet it was working wel before the reality kicked in from your comment lol

Kelce isn’t elite anymore. But you’re right you need more. The Chiefs have a few of them outside of Pat. A few on their Online alone. The defense? I hate to say it but Karlaftis and McDuffie certainly have shown traits of elite defenders. Especially in the playoffs. GK was their best defender last week.

I always stress and try and stick up for Sean and Brandon but sometimes errors and misses start catching up to you. Double downing on sticking up for them though, for all their misses they’ve still be one of the absolute best teams in football. That is largely due to Josh, sure. But it’s not by random luck the team with all its fallacies plays hard. My issues with them is the resources, financially and draft picks, they’ve invested in fixing just one positional group on the whole team. Like you nicely said, big swings. Those big swings turned into big misses. The whole moves you listed is an absolute mess and still doesn’t truly show the mass moves they’ve made to address the issues. At some point you have to stop using premium picks on a position that’s not working for you. Groot is quality, but not an elite pass rusher. He’s like a lab built Chris Kelsey lol The Von addition was the right method, just the wrong player. Too old for what you were paying. If they’re going to go big for the position again, I get why so many people beg for the Garrett/Crosby trades. Im right there with them. The Elam pick has turned into a complete dud. However, miss isn’t that big of a deal to me in isolation for CB. They drafted Taron, Benford and acquired Douglas (who was quality for a period). The secondary misses are few and far between. But! When you add it to the rest of the selections they’ve made early in the draft, Josh/Tremaine and Cook aside, they’ve not done well. Which sucks even more. If they made hits on more than 50% of those picks, I think they have a Lombardi to show for it.

Lol That doesn’t help the accuracy of a Marvin Lewis comparison

You post about specifics in probabilities but you know that they didn’t challenge to save the timeout in the event there wasn’t concrete evidence to overturn the call. They trusted the Josh push again. Why? I’ll have no idea. Ironically, lack of evidence and play call was what they deemed and we failed on the ensuing play being a conversion on downs. Win some, lose some. Game should never come down to one bad call or decision and in the bigger picture, it didn’t. We had opportunities to take control of the game again but didn’t. Credit to the coaching staff for stuffing the short yardage game and, another irony, being better at converting theirs.

Been retooling a defense and an offense for the last 4 years. Might wanna start buying the right tools. Is he shopping at Home Depot? I know it’s multiple trips for any job to get done.

BPA is always the way to go unless it is literally just the one piece you need to either absolutely complete your team or you need one piece to start your team (trading up for a QB). The better teams over the years go BPA. If they turn out the better player you can trade the guy in place already, if you don’t trade them then you have surplus quality that allows you to do more and have flexibility. a win-win.

Thats f-king sad. And hilariously accurate.

Maybe in his heart he’s a pastry chef? A chocolatier? Maybe even just a decorator?

Dude got his sht yanked away from him one handed by a 165lb soaking wet WR… 1v1s against a TE scare me.

I definitley feel getting better production from all the resources, players and effort we have put into that position group woul help the secondary greatly. That’s in part why I, reluctantly, have no problem with them adding more draft or FA capital too it. We need better players all around is the sad truth. LB might be the only passable group for SB quality.

There’s definitely some coaching issues and I’m not advocating a defense for McD by any means. I was a huge defender of his but this coming season if he returns is the last if it’s not a super bow appearance. The players on the field make too many errors or are not up to par to execute well even basic fundamentals sometimes. Whilst that isn’t indicative of his coaching through and through, it is indicative that there’s a problem with the players on the field. They’re they because of the coach. Whilst running plays like that on offense would be great, would we even get the same looks of the units were flipped? Sadly, probably not lol out of either 5 or 6 KC players, they’re not all being erased by essentially 2 blockers to get Cook/Johnson/Davis that catch. Again, coaching is an issue but the players out there have to be held just as accountable. Seems more often than not people give them a pass to lump it on Sean & Co. That image I posted should highlight the bigger issue.

Great point. The defenses in the top half of the league are all around the better ones for sacks and/or pressures. No coincident there. What does become weird is that we were middle of the pack in sacks and pressures but in the bottom 5 for 3rd down conversion rates. We have a coverage issue as much as a defensive line issue if we aspire to have a Super Bowl caliber defense.

This isn’t coaching staff on this 2nd & 9. The wilting you see isn’t because of McDermott, Babich or anyone involved with that group. Looks to me you have a 5v3 there. Play it better and you win. Good plan if it’s played better. Actually 6v3 if the safety plays it better. But sure, we’ll roll with it’s all Sean’s fault lol

That’s a fair point and I’ll be honest, I wasn’t impressed with them in Green Bay and portions of the Rams game. Even against the Commanders they looked shaky at times. But like Buffalo, they seem to play better defense during the second half. Couple that with sticking to wearing you down with a ground game and opponents can be left just constantly chasing the game. I tip my hat to KC for their achievements throughout the whole season and my suggesting and hopefulness of them losing isn’t bitter because of our result against them. Like @Bills!Win! said, the storyline would be one for the ages. No doubt about it. But their 3 peat march started against Philly and I think it ends with them too. Just so much talent on there. When you couple that with what Philly has done in terms of roster and coaching turnover on the defense in one year, I think it’s more impressive than the continuity that’s actually expected with Reid and his crew in KC.

The D were the final nail in the coffin but no one even before the game thought they were stopping KC if they needed a FG to win. It had to be a TD on the final drive if any. If they punted and we didn’t stop that’s an even bigger failure than the mess that happened to be punting to begin with. They played like absolute dog sht that last drive they had. But so did the offense. Whether we had to score 20, 30 or 40. The offense was how we were winning that game. Collectively, their last drive was just as dog sht as our defense…

They have a chance. Not suggesting otherwise. They’ll just have to go all out to stop Saquon and that running game. AJ Brown/DaVonta Smith/Goedert/Dotson isn’t even the same ballpark. You either keep the box light and get ran over. Add the extra guy, still get ran over or sell our completely and get hit with PA to one of their SP’s. Their interior isn’t dealing with Jalen Carter and Milton Williams. On top of that you got Sweat who can turn up but then Nolan Smith who’s on an absolute tear these playoffs. Maybe it’s just a hope to see them not win again but I honestly feel Philly rolls them by 14+