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4th. Allen has better vision 😁

He's alright

Yeah it's bad. Luckily we have great pass protection which makes up for it. Even Mack Hollins can break open after 5 seconds.

By the way this is why Allen is the MVP. He has limited time of possession and zero margin for error because the defense is so bad, and he just keeps delivering in every moment we need him.

We got saved by Rodgers' idiocy. Great. Unfortunately that won't work against playoff teams. This defense is so utterly disappointing and it starts with the play calling

God I hate that freaking play call. Rush 3, play soft. Way too easy to get all the penalty yardage back

We have the worst defense in the NFL over the last month

Officials are learning that calling a penalty on every little thing makes the chippiness worse. These guys have failed at their first job which is keeping the game under control.

I turned on this game to watch guys in black and white stripes pose on camera so I'm having a great time

I'd like to see more downfield throws to Coleman. That was a beautiful completion even if it doesn't count

Pass protection has been fantastic so far. Allen was playing with fire on that last one I got nervous

It is especially bad when those poor calls take great plays off the board. It's bad for the league, bad for the players, bad for the fans. Just bad.

That is a BS penalty. I'm sick of great Josh Allen plays taken off the board by non existent crap

LFG!!! Aw come on man

5 yard penalty converts 17 yards to go. I'll take it

These lines hate each other

Great protection

We won the toss and chose to receive. Interesting.

It isn't just the ceiling, it's the position. Coleman has played just 9.1% of snaps from the slot. I know a lot of people pre-draft thought he would be better as a slot but he's shown he can play outside. So his ceiling is as a high level outside WR. McConkey to me is just a high level slot if he reaches his ceiling. My feelings on both haven't changed at all from April to now. Both exceeded my expectations as rookies, both fit the roles I anticipated, McConkey unsurprisingly came into the NFL as the more finished product. If I changed my opinion now I wouldn't have any convictions to speak of.

Adams, Williams, and Gardner are all active.

So will Bishop play FS today, or Cam Lewis? I would bet Cam. Elam being inactive tells you all you need to know about how the coaching staff views his performance last week.

Then I guess I'm a fool 😁 Like I said before it's way too early to make judgments. I could have told you in April that McConkey would have a better rookie season than Coleman. Even as one of the biggest advocates for Coleman in the offseason I knew his rookie year wouldn't be pretty. Still today I would easily take the higher ceiling playing outside over the higher floor playing in the slot, especially since Coleman has if anything performed slightly better than I anticipated. Somewhat off topic but over the past few weeks I've come off the fence about extending Shakir - I'm now firmly in the camp of not wanting to extend him. I just feel the money he will get can be spent on more difficult to fill positions. So if it were up to me I would draft another slot WR next year in anticipation of Shakir leaving in 2026, but still not in the 1st round. Round 3 and beyond is perfect for that skill set.

Very close between Denver and Indy. I chose Denver because I like our chances against a rookie QB in Buffalo, versus Jonathan Taylor in a possible bad weather game. Denver's defense is better but I don't worry about good defenses beating us, I worry about good offenses beating us. Miami and Cincy both offer the same problem which is that they can drag you into a shootout and I don't trust our defense or our coaching in that scenario. So I really want to avoid them.

In Lamb's rookie year Dallas already had established outside WRs in Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup who had each gotten 1,100 receiving yards the year before. So putting Lamb in the slot as a rookie was the best way to get him on the field. But trust me if they had Quentin Johnston and Josh Palmer out there instead, Lamb would have been placed outside right away. Dallas had the luxury of getting him acclimated to the NFL at the easier position on the field. LA doesn't have that luxury. They are placing McConkey in the slot because that's where his skill set fits. You can go back and read all the scouting reports. Lamb was known to be a prospect that could play outside, McConkey was thought to be a prospect that would be relegated to a slot role. His role this year in a bad WR room cements that profile. If you want to defend the unlikely prediction that he will turn out to be more than just a slot WR, I respect that, but nothing he's done so far is making the case for you. It's all projection at this point.

Where do you get your stats from on this? This is where I get mine: https://www.playerprofiler.com/nfl/ceedee-lamb/ 2024 - 46.2% 2023 - 51.3% 2022 - 45.5% This doesn't appear to be true? According to that same source he was 25.4% last year and 28.3% this year. Anyways the point isn't about WRs who can play in the slot. The point is about WRs that can pretty much only play in the slot. Cole Beasley, Tyler Boyd, Christian Kirk. That's who we're talking about. WRs that can win outside can also win in the slot (which is why they will get moved around), but the opposite is not true. Again look at the top AAVs which I linked in a previous post - the top 20 is made up almost entirely of outside WRs. Some of them will be moved to the slot more than others but the point is they can win outside. They aren't spending 2/3 of their time or more in the slot. In fact now that I look at them even Kupp and ARSB are in the slot much less than I thought - 56.5% and 43.0% respectively this year.