HappyDays

I can't begin to care about this even a little bit. If Hamlin comes out of this with his health and we're playing on wildcard weekend I'm as happy as can be.

People have been way to quick to criticize the league's handling of an unprecedented situation. In fact all of the NFL's preparedness and on-field protocols for a situation like this may have saved Hamlin's life tonight. I choose to focus on that, instead of how many minutes they waited to announce the game was postponed.

One more thing on the charity. This was Damar Hamlin's last Instagram post from a week ago: Whether the specific daycare mentioned in the charity is still active or not, toy drives for children in need is clearly something that Hamlin actively supports. Anyone who donates in support of Damar Hamlin can be at peace with that. It was a small way of doing something with this balled up frustration I've been carrying since it happened.

I trust in the good of people in cases like this. Go Fund Me is as legit it gets. I believe without any doubt that all of the money will be used appropriately. I never would have considered otherwise. If someone would prefer to wait to donate that's fine, but capturing people's generosity at a unique tragic moment like this can not in any way be construed negatively.

It never crossed my mind that anything else would happen. Go Fund Me isn't a fly by night company. They're run by good people. They publicly endorsed the charity on their own social media pages. The money will get used in a way that is helpful for the spirit of the organization. Do people really think the money will just be unceremoniously dumped on a random toy drive organization in Pennsylvania?

I mean the Tyreek Hill trade was a resounding success for the Dolphins, no argument otherwise. He singlehandedly made that offense one of the best in the league and almost dragged them to the playoffs. If you take QB out of the equation there's an easy case for Tyreek Hill to be the NFL MVP. He was as impactful or more impactful for them as the Stefon Diggs trade was for us. Ditto for AJ Brown to the Eagles. Drafting and signing your own has to be the fundamental way you build your championship team, but trading for a star offensive weapon to push you over the top is a proven strategy.

Anderson is an interesting one.

I highly doubt checkdowns are the difference in YAC leaders. Most checkdowns get tackled pretty quickly. Some teams run a lot of screens, some teams have YAC specialist players, some teams have both. We have neither. That's the difference. We don't have anyone like Ja'Marr Chase or Deebo Samuel who can catch a 5 yard slant and run 40 yards after the catch. The only way we'll be able to improve our YAC is if we start funneling more pass plays to Cook. Up until now he hasn't had the full trust of the coaching staff to make him a focal point of the offense. Maybe that's changed and we can start dialing up specific plays to get the ball in his hands in space.

I don't agree with this. Allen could check the ball down on literally every play and defenses would still hang everyone back to take away deep passes. No one is ever going to change their game plan against us. Defenses are begging us to run the ball and throw short passes. Ultimately we can't just run the entire offense that way, eventually you need to create explosive plays downfield to consistently score points. So it isn't as easy as people make it out to be for Allen to just take more frequent checkdowns earlier in the play. There's a checkdown available on every single play including the ones that turn into explosive passes. The one thing Allen needs to work on to cut down his interceptions is not locking onto his pre-snap read. Almost all of his interceptions this year have been him pre-determining the read and being a little too lazy after the snap to make sure a defender hasn't gotten into the window. I don't think it's a case of him trying to do too much, it's a focus issue. His focus doesn't seem to be as high against opponents that he deems unworthy.

Every Steelers/Ravens game of the last 15 years has looked exactly like this and it never gets old.

Denver is getting the ball back with plenty of time to get a TD. Mahomes just threw an off target pass to an open receiver on 3rd and 8. Why do the Chiefs do this literally every week? They play just poorly enough to get my hopes up.

I'm sick of people pretending refs don't have a say in games.

Broncos send an all out blitz against Mahomes and predictably the Chiefs score a TD off of it. Stupid teams remain stupid. The Chiefs also start the 2nd half with the ball so not feeling great about this one.

Broncos country let's ride!! After a muffed punt by Kadarius Toney, Wilson runs it in for a TD.

I mean this is just an awful interception.

The Broncos were moving down the field at about 4 yards a clip on that last drive. Predictably a single drop on 3rd down ended the drive. I've watched a lot of bad Bills offenses over the years but I've never seen an offense make it look so hard to move the ball.

He's the Giants version of Duke Williams. Their WR room is so bereft of talent they have to force passes to a practice squad caliber player. If he was here he'd still be on the practice squad.

The Dolphins season could go fully off the rails today after winning the division in week 3 and starting the season 8-3. That's my rooting interest today

He also called Mahomes the best QB in his class, and Allen and Jackson as the #1 and #2 QB in their class. At the time those were considered hot takes. Simms has his QB type, he likes physical specimens with a quick release. At least he doesn't just spew random clickbait crap like a lot of other analysts.

The 2020 draft was excellent. We came away with: -A top 5 at his position #1 WR -A strong #3 WR with vertical traits -One of the best and most clutch kickers in the league -An adequate #2 CB -A rotational/situational pass rusher If you don't think that's a great haul you're not being realistic.

I don't know anybody that watches football who would say LT is less important than center. If you want to say Morse is a better player than Dawkins that's reasonable but that's not the same as more important. We lost Morse for a game and were just fine with Bates stepping in. We lost Dawkins for a game against the Patriots and our passing offense could barely function. Like I said, "not even close." It would be much MUCH easier to sustain a season ending injury to Morse than to Dawkins. If you don't agree I don't know what else I could say.

They're probably going to have the #1 pick... Why do they need to get rid of their most valuable offensive player to accumulate draft capital?

Yeah he's JUST a player at the most important position on defense. I don't care about need in the draft but DE was absolutely a big need last year. We had Hughes and Addison on their last legs and only one young player in the pipeline. It's not like he's been outright bad this year, he just hasn't made a huge impact. He's played 40% of defensive snaps. In that limited play time he has 2 sacks, 18 tackles, 5 QB hits, an interception, and a fumble recovery. I worry about his ceiling given his age but he'll get his 2nd full offseason of development and we'll see what happens. Even rotational DEs are taking up quite a bit of cap space these days. Keeping that pipeline full of young talent on rookie contracts is imperative.