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Give me Bam over Murphy. Johnson covered the flat against ekeler really well.

I agree with the OP. Something feels different to me. No longer wide eyed kids new to the game. They feel hungry. The defense walking off the field at the end of the yesterday had some swagger. I feel we are closer to a deep playoff run than a first round bounce.

I get it. I can understand Vedvik cause he can do both but I wouldnt want to use multiple spots on the PS. We have used those players a good bit this season. Do we know how many other teams are keeping a kicker on the PS for this? Do we think itll change after the broncos situation?

To a degree its the nature of the business. We could take away all the shower mats?

Def a concern. My biggest hope is that coaching staff has emphasized how important it is to take care of self outside the building like with nutrition.

Why does any of that unit need to interact with the rest of the team (hell can almost stay away from each other too)? From that perspective i think the likelihood of losing a kicking unit be low whereas QBs share a room together and interact with other team members.

Yup. I think the coaching staff is saying its a brand new season including the playoffs. I'm pretty excited. If they rise to the moment we have a special couple months coming up.

I think the team would love to play them again. As that game was ending I thought all their actions were just good bulletin board material.

Best passing down front might be Oliver Hughes Addison Klein Edmunds and milano. That’s a pretty fun nascar package. I trust all of them to rush.

Agree with most your points but we only lose to good teams. It looks like we could let any one back in but really the pats are the only bad team that even got close. I think not blowing out the Jets has left a mark on the fans. as you said we can hang with anyone and have a signature win. I’m super excited to see the coming weeks. I think we are closer to having a special season than a loss in the first round of the playoffs.

I think I’m ok with it. Yeah we have not blown anyone out but I have felt really comfortable with our lead with 4 min to go in all but 2 of our wins (pats and rams). Maybe it feels weird cause we did get blown out in two of our losses (though I think they were closer than the score) which wasn’t our MO last year.

So this years bears team is bills teams from the 00’s that got off to unsustainable starts.

I agree with the points you make. I am still ok with it because when we have 1st half leads (we do often) you can afford to do that. The part that really makes me feel ok with it is even when we let a good team do that (cards) we can respond. Having to recover an onside kick to win the game is not a problem. It’s a 95% thing. Having to win games by FGs that’s a different story. That means you were down or tied. Onside kicks mean you were up by two possessions in the closing minutes. I see your concerns but I think with a rising defense and a franchise QB we might be on the precipice of a really fun run.

I also think he was a big part of limiting Keenan Allen. Plays in the run game tend to pop more than taking away plays in the back end.

Nice thanks everyone for responding. Sorta off the OP but that makes this the best game by our rookies by far. Probably best game of this year for the 2019 draft too (although Ford is done 🤮)

That last criteria was why I was ok with it. Thought it was on Tre at first and wasn’t happy but I wouldn’t want that hit on josh not called. The moss and Allen fouls were just so silly though.

After that rock start he has really become a weapon. Pretty happy with him if we need to hit a 50 yarder in the 4th. Also he can kick it out the back the end zone whenever he wants. Haus$ had trouble with that.

Cover 1 dudes thought epenesa played his best Game yet. I saw a really good play on TFL. Wondering if anyone’s else noticed. also agree Ed had a good game (great if not for the penalty)

For me there’s more good takeaways than bad. good: run defense, run offense, pass defense, bass is very solid bad:miscues continue to leave points on the field.

Are we concerned with garbage time scores now? We have had control in so many games. If anything this game was weird cause they didn’t get the garbage time TD. It wasn’t perfect but you don’t necessarily need perfect or dominant to win in the post season. You might need to play that way but not necessarily. We moved the ball on them all day. I think those TOs can (And will) get fixed up. Finally we have beaten plenty of good teams and look to have a better record than last year when we played a cupcake schedule. Are we gonna be favored after the first round of the playoffs? No but I think we’re gonna get a shot playing with house money.

I think he’s saying he didn’t get full reps cause he wasn’t back until part way through the week. That’s a good football reason related to the injury. If anyone’s evidence is McDs clear words then that’s not gonna help your case much. mcD is cagey about so much; I would want to see some other confirmation that the staff doesn’t think Morse is good enough.

I’m confused too. Does he think Morse shouldn’t start or is it some narrative about that McDermott benched him and he doesn’t agree with that (not clear at that is what happened).

Wild cards come down to tie breakers all the time. 2017 playoff drought was snapped on tie breakers. We are currently the 3 seed in the conference because of tie breakers.

I think Knox can do it hes just inconsistent at recognizing the edge player. So yeah I don’t hold a ton of hope for it. I have honestly had Kroft as TE1 for most the season. I do think 12 personnel with both of them is pretty good. Just make sure that Knox has to identify a LB to block. in one of the videos I think Eric says we run like 70% of the time we do jet motion

So I reread and I definitely agree that we dont have any All Pros/Stars on the line, and you def said in your first line that we brought in a lot which does acknowledge how Beanes has kept us stocked. I will disagree on Morse a smidge. There was at least one more center in FA that year (former denver center; I think named Dice..?), but you are right at that time we did not have a viable center on the team. However imo, Morse has been tremendous for us with the exception of missing some time this year. Back to cover 1, there was a really cool video early in the season of his play that really showed his ability to really clean up in pass pro. Overall I think Beane would get a B+ from me on his line rebuild. They started from garbage if you accept that they had to eat their medicine in 2018. That 2019 FA class was pretty impressive and I give him a good grade for Morse. This year I think he gets another good grade cause of Daryl Williams (Winters is what you would expect for a back up). I am still unclear on his ability to draft considering Ford has yet to be a big contributor (I thought improvement on last year could be great) but he hasnt really taken many more shots. The other negative on him would be losing Wyatt Teller, but considering the haul in 2019 Im willing to give it a pass. I used to think like you did about prioritizing the OL but I'm not sure where I'm at now. I definitely wanna protect Josh but good god Diggs has been so much fun. RB is a position where we have a type (TE is another position like that) and were not setting them up as well as we did last year with outside runs. Good conversation btw.