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I’m definitely not taking Taron off for a LB. Agree with everyone saying taron is great against the run, and our next LB up is not gonna be as good overall. if taron comes off I want a iDL in. Poot Ed DQ and ford in the middle with Rousseau and Shaq/Floyd in a bear front against 13 and maybe even 12 personnel (Washington might be too much for us to run nickel). If they wanna throw drop into a cover 3 with one of the DEs covering a flat or hook to curl. I think this is the chess match of the game really. If they play 11 cool we’re in nickel and I trust our DL with single high coverage to stop the run. If they lean into big personnel to run as people expect how do we counter.

so by 8 you mean 5 (from yesterday) of which 2 were vet rest days? just cause they werent seen during media portion doesnt mean they aint practicing.

I think lil Heyward is their TE/FB hybrid.

Bit of this is substantiated. I forget where I heard but someone commented that Brady is always looking for Waldo when he game preps. Waldo is the guy they are gonna target. In the dallas game Waldo was Bell I believe, and they ran right at him. I think Apple was waldo against Miami because as soon as Diggs had one on one with him they took the shot,TD to Sherfield was targeting him as well. This game I think one of the LBs will be Waldo and I think Cook and the DKs get going.

I think there is a good discussion math bomb that could be had about his data set. Particularly about how players have changed. If we look at the last 10 drafts I don’t think Dodson would be undersized considering how much his score increased from 2019 (suggesting most players were below his 237 weight). I think the old school thumper LBs are skewing the dataset. What looks like meh size is probably above average considering the way the body type of position has changed with increase of spread offenses

That’s his RAS at time of draft. If you update it to the current database you see a change in numbers. Most particularly a big jump in his weight. Sorry size I was going with weight cause yes he is short. Are you only using height to see he undersized. I would say he probably is more dense than most too considering his height weight. I find the change in weight interesting cause the database is always updating. His increase of 0.5 is very indicative that LBs are trending smaller. So in terms of weight not undersized. Lastly 5.00 is average so he’s above average. That might fall as poor in his categories but it’s average. Edit he’s got ok size when RAS recalculated. Mostly held back by his height. Which is meh to me. If this was limited to players in the past 10 drafts I suspect his size would be good and not just ok. Also shuttle and 3 cone is why i didn’t consider him speedy from my eyes. He’s good in a line but wow change of direction bad as you note. Can’t believe you called very poor agility speedy

cause after you see someone make the first down you should commit a penalty to stop the clock. its weird but the dolphins benefited from this rule despite being the team that committed the penalty. if we decline the penalty and got the first down on our own we should be able to burn the clock. if we accept the penalty to get the first down then yeah it should stop.

Appreciate the speed reference but gonna disagree that 237 is undersized. That is above average for a LB all time per RAS and the league is trending down. Also he is the heaviest LB on the team. So yeah i dont like losing our heaviest LB that is good against the run. Felt like you were implying that he was a coverage guy with the undersized and speedy comment. I agree this is the game to choose to be missing coverage players.

did you just call dodson an undersized speedy LB? cant believe im saying this after his preseason, but i want him for this playoff game. Defending the run is what he does best (he comes off the field on passing down because he is not a speedy LB that covers well). Agree with your overall point that this is the best situation to lose secondary players for.

Ive been impressed with how physical we have been as well. I think we were more physical than Miami and Dallas obviously. but thought we matched the intensity of two teams that wanted to be physical (Chargers and Patriots). Both teams seemed to want to punch us in the mouth and I thought we did a good job of responding (miscues didnt seemed to be physicality related). You know were one of the better red zone teams in the league right. We struggled last two weeks but were still really good. If theres a trend, its us figuring out our passing game. havent heard any talk of Diggs missing in action this week when that was all the rage last week. we missed some plays against the pats, and were really close against the phins (but our mistakes just all went as TOs). Sorta think this is the week we put it all together.

Personnel is very interesting. I don’t know if they take taron off for Dorian Williams. If they do take taron off I would prefer an extra DL. Give me 3 DT (ED DQ Joseph sounds great) shaq with hand in dirt and Rousseau or Floyd as a Sam type. They have hade both of them off ball at times this year. With Bernard’s direction (really wanna hear how he watches tape cause he sees it all) and Spector I feel good we can stop any run game

Agree you can run on them but some context. yes they have more yards per game but they middle of the pack at yards per carry (better than us and only a little worse than us). I think we have to score through the air though even though we can get yards on the ground. they are third best in rushing TDs and middle of the pack in Passing TDs. I suspect they use light boxes to get guys into coverage in the middle of the field but then stiffen up when they get to the red zone. Cowboys had a major injury on the interior and got pushed around. Heyward and Benton are not gonna get pushed around in the same way as the cowboys iDL i think. though i hope we can pressure them on the edges more than we did miami because they are not as athletic in the back 7.

I get it but i dont know that i trust dorian to do it right now if Dodson cant go. I would stay with taron just cause i trust him to be in the right run fit more than dorian. would consider an extra DL and have rousseau or floyd play a SAM role though. they have played off ball this year some.

I think that play works except for a penalty that they didn’t call. It’s annoying that he gets concussed from the ear hole shot and it took points off the board. Hope it’s a fine.

Yeah blocking as your calling card is majoring in minor things as joe Marino would say. I think we need more separation from WR2. If you can get separation and block we’ll like Robert woods great. But you need to get open and catch primarily. In those two areas I think Gabe is below average.

for playoffs? yes am expecting that to happen after this week.

Interesting how quick the AFC south turned around to become a tough division. I suspect not getting to play the NFC south brings them back down to reality quickly. Also its super weird that the Lions won the division and are so much lower than the Packers. I dont understand that really at all. their records arent different enough to account for that.

No idea. He did break down Josh’s play for the first 3 years with @Cover 1 and he def became a believer in Josh through that series. The 2020 tape is obviously the most fun

Would’ve thought there would be more. I like this one.

I dont even understand why they care if people use streams. I watch the commercials either way. Yeah ratings might be down but im just as likely to see an ad and buy a product. I assume that helps them set what they can sell the commercial time for.

McD is super good against shanahan tree. i forget his record what it was before the season but there were not that many losses. hes 3-1 already this year with wins over miami and NYJ. I dont think anyone in the NFC East or AFC west run shanahans offense (every copies a bit though) and TB, CIN, Jax dont run it so 3-1 this season is pretty good.

I would/will (mines doesn’t have bad juju though). Dude got snubbed from Pro Bowl. I think that disrespect is gonna burn in his belly and he’s gonna have another monster game against the fish.

Sure. I don’t know if jalen is gonna travel. People are expecting it cause he did with Wilson when Howard was out against NYJ. That plus diggs roasting them in the first matchup is why the thoughts. I do think they played diggs wrong in the first game

So Mccourty has two examples of him not being out there on 3rd down and one of them diggs does a fair amount of work in the scramble drill. The other i dont have context cause all he says he ran an over and came out. This is silly to say hes being schemed out based on two examples. give me more than just twice.

Leaving Kohou on Diggs without more help was a mistake. Howard was available for that game and shouldve traveled. Try anything cause 6 for 120 and 3 TDs seems like a mistake or are you saying there was no way of stopping Diggs that day? We saw Kohou lining up on Diggs and took advantage.