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He's been insanely fun to watch this season. Every week I'm like, "welp, he'll probably get slowed down this week" not to the point of like 13 carries for 11 yards or anything, but more like, "he won't be breaking so many runs that go for 7 or more" but then he does. There he goes for 14, 8, 12, 7, 9, like almost every time. His vision is really good and some of the OL guys have talked about how he's really skilled in the way he sets up his blocks. He's shown improvement every year. I remember his first couple of seasons he was a really easy guy to tackle, often going down on first contact. But then he said his prayers and took his vitamins and now he breaks tackles and runs over dudes.

Yeah, I hear that. I try not to take it for granted, the dudes a unicorn and I've no idea if we'll ever see another one like him. Sometimes I'll think about the future like "one day he's gonna retire and that's gonna suuuuck" because I dunno if I can go another 15 years of the foosball gods making us suffer with QBs from the realm of mediocrity.

That's easy, Carl Cheffers. I'm not a violent guy but I'm pretty certain I'd kick an NFL official in the nuts and feel no remorse. No ragrets!

My conspiracy take is that Josh got his bell rung really hard against the Pats. He scrambled and on the tackle his head whiplashed into the turf. He appeared a little wobbly when teammates helped him up and the game broadcast went to another shot. You could hear the analysts kind of beginning to wonder if something had happened but they went silent on that real quick and then just went back to calling the game. About 7-8 minutes went by until we saw a shot of Josh on the bench. It was just a weird sequence IMO. Usually if it appears like a player may have been hurt but was able to get to the sidelines the analysts discuss it while the cameras follow said player for a beat. The fact that everything in this situation was opposite of how it usually goes was interesting. The next few drives they had the dude was way off on a number of throws. Again, just my conspiracy take.

I'm pretty sick of those red rat bastids. It would be cool if they were all forced to do a 10 mile barefoot Lego hike.

Yeah that's definitely not ideal. I'm also on the "try throwing it to Jimmy sometimes" bandwagon as he has been targeted exactly 0 times in the last two games. It's weird because with Dorsey's offense, the passing game was centered around more intermediate and longer routes that they would hit on for 15, 20, 25 yards or whatever, but they never generated a lot of YAC in that scheme. Now the pendulum has swung in the complete opposite direction. They can hit on all these shorter throws near the LOS and create some solid YAC, some of those plays even break loose for a big score (like Shakir has done twice this season). But now they can't hit anything down the field with a QB who has a rocket for a right arm and excels at those kinds of throws. I mean, it's awesome how he's improved a lot on the short stuff and that should certainly have a place in their system but right now it's just really unbalanced with the short stuff being somewhat successful and the down field stuff being nearly non-existent.

Son of a biscuit! He just got back. Stupid jerky jerk Panthers guy ran him over. That guy should be mandated to step on at least 362 Legos.

Right? And the "real pro offense" he's looking for probably looked a lot like what Ken Dorsey was doing. Longer developing routes and the mindset of, "hey we just line up and do our thing and see if they can stop us and if they stop us then, uh, I will throw my headset!" Brady has gotten a little ahead of himself at times but generally has been better at making adjustments.

It would be the considerate thing to do, really. I would offer 14 magic jelly beans for one Waddle.

Turn in your fan card, now. It's revoked.

I don't know this Ricky Scoops fella but I knew his dad, Big Dick Scoops, Sr.

Haha these types of things always remind me of some of the folks who call into WGR. I dunno about Fitz, but my "call into WGR" would be can someone get Stevie Johnson in here to teach his crossover move to the WRs? C'mon, Keon is a basketball guy too I bet he could pick up on it and start getting CBs all turned around like Stevie used to do with Revis. Anyway, I'll hang up and listen.

Yeah I don't like to speculate but I had the same thought. I thought it was kinda interesting how they showed the replay and pointed out how he bonks his head on the turf but wouldn't cut to a shot of him on the sidelines or anything. That's not super unusual but typically they go to a shot of whichever player is being talked about. Made me wonder if he was getting checked out on the sidelines or something. And then he came out in the second half and had some good plays but also seemed like he was pressing a bit to make a big play and he just either didn't see some open guys out there or he did and didn't fire it for whatever reason. At the same time, it seems like they're good for one kinda "WTF was that?!" game every year in the McBeane Era. Last year it was Houston. Year before that was Jacksonville, etc.

I think it was one of their TEs that twitched a tiny bit.

I go into every game expecting the usual awfulness from the officials and I've been able to pretty much just shrug and move on from every ridiculous call because that's just the way it goes. That said, the refs were out of their minds last night. They'll say they wanna call a tight game but that seems kinda silly when they call 11 penalties on one team and 0 on the other thru an entire half. When they're calling super weak holds that happen on virtually every play and you're only throwing the flag on one team it just makes them look incompetent. Not that they care.