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I think yorue talking about the 3rd and short. I was ok with it cause it was hard to see and they were behind the play. The one a little later (series before Tre's DPI) was a bit more egregious. Diggs gets his hands on the ball and the defender doesnt turn his head while being very physical with Diggs. @ 12:12 in the highlights below I agree those are both RTP. Clark would have had to just not drive him into the ground and wouldve not gotten the flag. He pushes to drive Allen into the ground, so to avoid the call he needed to stop (within the laws of physics). Ed's play is not about bringing a QB down especially not as a runner. Hes throwing so youre not trying to tackle him. Youre trying to hit him and affect the throw. So yeah it makes sense you can't smoke his knees when hes in that position.

Don’t even have a LCB and ran with 3 safeties to start. 🤮 Also wasn’t a pick 6 but both of Josh’s picks resulted in great field position that lead to quick TDS (2nd return was just weird).

I understand now. Any plays specifically? I dont recall any specifically, and I thought overall the tackling was great in that game which was critical to overall defensive success. Again overall he has been good to elite as tackler which is the secret reason why hes stuck around for McD. I looked through highlight video and got the following summary: 1 whiff at 11:22 against Kelce that resulted in a first down on KC's drive. He also got out run by the cheetah at 15:20 (I'm not gonna count thats a missed tackle, more of a bad angle because of a blocker in the area). If you wanna nit pick he "loses" his grip at 4:30, 9:40 (this was not his man and I think him coming off to engage the runner saved many yards), and 11:50 but all those had other players there quick. would note he has a really good tackle on hardman at 10:30. Overall I still think tre is a worse tackler (he also got out run by the cheetah), and Levi was an effective tackler with 1 exception.

I dont think this is true. He only missed 3 tackles all of 2020. Do you have data for this season.

I love it in the first half too. As Al michaels was saying "This is the first time all night they are bringing their safeties into the box" he burns a time out. He wants to see what youll do for next time!

Josh averaged 21 yards per completion. Thought the offense looked fine considering the weather, some bogus calls, and some really bad no calls (2 3rd downs fell incomplete because of PI with Diggs).

That teasing of desmond king was too funny. Rook has a chip on his shoulder. Even the ref is laughing in the picture.

If peeps are thinking the price is a bit steep I think McBeane are making an example of Taron. He lost his job to cam Lewis last year. He didn’t make noise and continued his grind. When his shot came back around he put up 2 game changing pick 6s. I think they want to reward that type of toughness

Much of this is good. But don’t blitz mahomes. That’s a proven way to get lit up. Simulated pressure where you drop a rusher and replace with someone else. Sure. But his splits against the blitz make it unadvisable. We blitzed once in the reg season game last year which was the more competitive of the two games. Forcing them to methodically move the ball has caused them to be impatient this year and has really been the only thing to stop their offense this year. While it stinks for the fan it seems the right defensive strategy.

Yup. But could start spread and motion to a bunch set. The motion can make pre snap adjustments harder but considering the noise we’ll probably see less of that anyway

i dont remember how much we stacked receivers last year, but bunch sets would seem to help get more free releases. Seems we like to really spread folks out usually so maybe a bunch could give Diggs and co. some room to run.

Another really interesting play (would like to see Baldy or @GunnerBill if agree) is this anticipation throw from Josh. In real time i thought it was an under throw like Erik, but the break down helped give perspective. Really liked them pointing out Sanders and Beasley giving Josh props on the play too

Season needs to play out maybe before it locks? So subject to change?

Thanks OP. Tangential but peeps seem to think protection is a guarantee but there is a window in which any player can be signed. Teams can designate four players every week that are protected from being signed by other teams. This protection starts on Tuesday each week, so every practice squad player is still available to be signed to the regular roster of another team after their team’s game that week until the deadline on Tuesday. https://www.hogshaven.com/2021/8/31/22648441/how-it-works-nfl-practice-squad-rules-eligibility-salary-and-more

? That doesnt help. You think Detroit wants to be a passing team? You would think with the number of pass attempts from Goff (5th) the would want to be. But then you look at their weapons and this stat (they are 30th) and you see they want to run the ball. They have to pass cause they are behind so much which is why pass attempts is not a good stat for that.

Im just confused where you get ultra talented from? I dont think hes in football shape. I think hes just as likely to make a game breaking fumble as he is to make a game making TD catch.

Anything to get better running efficiency against light boxes. Probably a lot more useful now that teams aren’t blitzing at a 33% clip.

It was okay on the field. Filling the wrong gaps in run fits. Cover 1 preview with rivers from football outsiders. So not just a fan either.

Did not hear good things about Cunningham from a Texans content creator

Sure thats fair. This place can be a bit crazy so it may have gotten under his skin during that particular interaction (don't want to speak for them, nor do I have any perspective on the situation youre talking about). But they seem to be able to have football discussion with many great content creators (dont know how they are on the twitter sphere) which is why the description of the situation seemed odd to me. I would also note that I have appreciated your thoughts over the years and you are one of the reason I actually come back to this board. So thank you for what you do.

Probably stopped posting cause they are so busy. They have done very well. If peeps wanna say its homerism, then they got into the biz with homerism at the right time. I thought they were critical of Josh in their film analysis while pointing out some of his good stuff. Overall, I think cover 1 has been great and I enjoy their content. Maybe they seem like homers cause this board is hilariously pessimistic (see threads/posts on Allen regression, allen cant play in wind, allen cant play in front of crowds, tremaine edmunds is bad at MLB). If youre gonna deal with that stuff might as well just do it on twitter where its more visible. They have been highly regarded by the other thoughtful content creators like Joe Marino and Bruce Nolan. I dont think either of those guys are homers, and they seem to be able to have discussions/disagreements. They are able to get guests from other teams every week, and I dont think they could do that if were the homers that didnt understand football.

I forget if it was posted in the chat but rivers was on cover 1 preview show for Texans insight. This how he thinks he got the job.

I’m meh on their grades and didn’t comment on the value of the OP versus pff. That’s a very fair point. The OP seems to want to do it While they are homers they are up front with it. They also have a very good perspective particularly in their roles. Erik breaks down tape at a level similar to Baldy (better than other content creators such as Jackson Krueger) and Gregg has gotten several contracts dead on. I don’t listen to hoof but like the opinions of Quinn and pohashka. What is the bad info they have given?

I don’t think teams subscribe for the grades. I think they subscribe for easy access to the advanced stats like formations, blitz %, and under pressure splits. These are not subjective like the grades. This is specifically why cover 1 subscribed to them

Joe Marino agrees that hes the best player for their defense iirc. was limited today so probably ok to play.