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I'm stoked to watch him whiff on backs at the LOS, get dragged 5 yards downfield and make zero plays on the ball in those underneath patterns.

It's not a slight. It's a simple collection of undebateable facts. Mahomes has reached heights Allen has not and has done so at an extremely consistent level. I'm not interested in theoretical arguments about who should have won games - that's not the way competition works. Winning matters and it's usually not luck at the highest levels. The fact that Mahomes has taken his team to that level every year should cement that point. If he retired today he'd be a first ballot Hall of Famer.

Dane knows what he's supposed to be doing all the time. That's valued more highly in Mc'ds system over talent. See James Cook who missed a blovking assignment on the Diggs screen and then was put on the bench most or all the rest of the game. It seems they either draft a lot of dummies, or they aren't very effective at teaching young players the scheme.

i.e. We'd like to upgrade over Jackson, but no one has been able to do so yet.

I didn't say it was perfect and actually mentioned that unions are very fallible due to the humans that make them up. My point about "quality representation" was that they got a real union to back them, not a fly by night organization looking to exploit them.

This is true of every player to ever play the game, including Brady, the GOAT. Correction: Otto Graham went to the championship every year he was in the league and won 7/10.

They certainly face an uphill battle, but it's always a good thing to try to disrupt monopolies. They are owned as part of a joint venture with Fox Sports (now owned by Disney), so they have extremely deep pockets if they want to disrupt the status quo. We could be looking at another LIV Golf situation that come sin and completely upends the sport. Probably not, but there's a realistic chance. I'd rather make $5k per week for 2 months. So would all the players who have bills to pay, which is why they and their union pushed for the changes they did. Working for nothing gambling on a payday at the end as your recommendation seems the opposite of a "sustainable model for success". It's only sustainable for the employers who don't have to pay compensation.

I'm full on the Josh train, but if you wouldn't trade him for a guy that's taken his team to the AFC championship every year he's played along with back to back SB appearances including a SB win and a SB MVP, I'm not sure how objective that can be. They're highly likely to be in that position again for a 5th straight year.

Their absence is also why we had tragedies like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. For those who forgot their history or never learned it in the first place: https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/triangle-shirtwaist-fire

The same reason anyone cares about any other non top-tier team like the Buffalo Bisons or the Rochester Americans - accessibility and because they like the sport. People here in Texas intensely follow High School football. Grown ass adults with no children attending the school. It's pretty weird if you ask me, but they do it. A better question is why wouldn't someone watch it? It's undeniably going to be comprised of better talent than college ball, so they have at least one advantage there. Another advantage is that they are setting up shop in cities with very severe income disparities and offering cheap tickets that will allow working class families to take their families out for an even of entertainment that would be impossible to do so with NFL prices. We went to a lot of Bisons and Bandits games when i was a kid and it was very economical. I probably only went to a handful of Bills games though.

100% false. The ability to have representation is an objective good for workers. By default owners will always have outsized leverage over employees, and that leverage will almost always cause employees to settle for sub-standard compensation (as the USFL players had previously). That doesn't mean that every implementation of a union is good, it is made up of fallible people after all, but that's true of anything. Ask the NFL players if they want to get rid of their union. I'm guessing you wouldn't find a lot of support for that given how effective they've been at creating one of the more equitable employer->employee bargaining agreements in our country. The reason many people leave Erie county (including myself) is the lack of high paying jobs which are rarely, if ever, supported by unions like those in tech, finance, consulting, etc.

I wonder if there's any chance Shakir gets McKenzie's reps this week. He should, but I'm guessing not. Outside of that, I'd say Poyer gets an INT, Milano causes a fumble and Groot gets a big sack.

He's been excellent. Admittedly I thought they paid him a bit too much at the time, but he's been one of our most consistent players on the DL and I'm glad he's here.

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And how did that end for us? We went into the playoffs last year knowing that we couldn't stop anyone on defense when it actually mattered. The way we chose to address that was by bringing in Von Miller and Kaiir Elam - neither of whom are playing. We also took a step back on offense. I don't understand how anyone is realistically expecting us to have a better result this year than we did last year, because on paper we haven't meaningfully improved, and Josh has been playing poorly. Hopeful? sure, why not. I don't think it's impossible for us to win it all, but we're either going to have to start playing a lot better or our competition is going to have to underperform in one of those bleh-style playoff years where the games aren't very good. That part could realistically happen if sliding teams are able to beat hot teams, the hot teams peter out, or a big inury happens to Someone like Mahomes, Kelce, Burrow, Tua, Hurts, Jefferson, Pollard etc.

Good deal. Glad to see them get quality representation.

It would be silly except I hammer Josh for his mistakes too. Unlike Edmunds however he makes massive plays that greatly impact the team and is maybe the best player int he league when he's firing on all cylinders. Edmunds is an invisible player who at his absolute best still is the 2nd best linebacker on his own team. I understand your argument, it just isn't very sound.

There are? Who? I've seen zero people who rank him in the top 20 across every list I've seen and his stats back it up. For all the ballwashing that goes on for Edmunds, he's not even close to the actual elite LB he's playing next to. https://www.nfl.com/news/2022-nfl-season-s-top-10-off-ball-linebackers-roquan-smith-trade-gives-ravens-tw https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-linebacker-rankings-and-tiers-monson-2022 https://www.scottfujita.com/best-linebackers-in-nfl/ https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/49ers/ranking-best-linebackers-2022-nfl-season https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/nfl-s-top-10-linebackers-2022

That's not true either.

My comment was in response to a claim that Edmunds strengths are a perfect matchup vs the Chiefs when statistically they are anything but. Context matters.

I don't? How long have you been following me exactly? Many posters would be shocked to hear this revelation.

Edmunds is far, far from "elite". After 5 years he's finally playing at an above average level but he's still not even a top 20 LB. If that's groot's future, we'll need a legitimate #1 EDGE.

Kollman is fantastic. QB School w/ J.T. o'Sullivan is really good too and The DB Room with Glover Quinn. I would start with Defense as I think it's easier to see the perspective of what happens on the rest of the field based on what the defense does. Specifically start with coverage schemes - Cover 1, 2,3,4,5,6,9 and then dive a little deeper into run fits. From there you can look at offensive packages and how they are designed to beat/exploit those coverages and how coverages can be masked/adapted on the fly to trick offenses into choosing the plays they do.