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I think they've both played quite well. Basham was the highest rated pass rusher in the league a few weeks ago and has a sack and int with a 31% snap count. Epenesa has 2.5 sacks with a 38% snap count

And Chris Jones is one of the best in the business.

Is hating JJ Watt a thing or did he poop on your lawn? Dude's an all-time great.

There's little need to ban tactics in my opinion, because coaching and talent will always evolve to create a new meta in the gap the previous one left. There have been massive shifts very recently in the current NFL meta from having multiple full D-line rotations, to going for it on 4th down, using WRs as running backs, etc. Brett Kollman had a great video on how the Dolphins have been solving the Bills offense over the course of a couple seasons that came out before our most recent loss to them and it was enlightening to see the kinds of work coaches put in, but you still need the talent to do it. I don't know what the next iteration of the league will be, but I'm pretty certain that it can happen on its own without the need to change the game. Rule changes have had a massive impact on the game we have today, but almost all of them came from a place of avoiding injury. As a result, offenses were completely opened up and defenses were put on their heels. For a while now, playing defense has almost become unfair to the defender. Talent is starting to catch up and one of the best eras in QB history has recently closed, so it's no surprise that some variance is occurring. Also, the NHL never banned the trap. They just opened up the game around it to make it less optimal.

I wouldn't say that it has much to do with punting. I also don't think it's accurate to paint a picture that offensive production declined last year, because 2020 was an outlier as the highest scoring year in history. last year was still the 6th highest scoring season of all time and 3rd highest in the last 10 years. Offenses have been putrid this year and I ascribe that to poor QB play and bad schemes. I can't remember seeing so many single digit halftime scores. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/NFL/scoring.htm

Hopkins is out for the season?

They'll have to drop someone for White. Suspended players don't count against the limit. That's the only reason he wasn't cut in pre-season.

kinda weird given they have Hopkins returning this week and a plethora of WRs they brought in that haven't been able to elavate Murray's game for him. Maybe he can play QB?

We won, but I wouldn't be so quick to relegate KC. Yea, they lost Hill, but they showed us they have young talent like Moore and Pacheco on the rise. They'll definitely draft more weapons this offseason too. In the end the game came down to a one score affair with Mahomes having the ball and an opportunity to win it. I won't make a habit of betting against them in that spot, regardless of how well we play.

Minshew isn't a great example. He's progressed every year. He just had the unfortunate circumstance to play in the dumpster fire of Jacksonville. He isn't blessed with all world athleticism, but he could very well have a Taylor/McCown/Fitzpatrick sort of career trajectory ahead of him. He's got 41-12 TD/INT an increasing completion percentage and had a monster game for Philly last year.

It's a buffalo thing. The same reason why they can't help themselves from adding an 's' on to the end of players' names.

The Bills and Chiefs are the class of the conference and there isn't anyone close to them right now, but it's a long season - even longer now. The Browns have shown the ability to play big games. The Chargers have been drastically under-performing and so have the Broncos. The Raiders have lost every game by 6 or less and have a complete team that just needs to come together. Carr will always be their weak link though. The Bengals probably have too many holes to repeat, and the Titans look like a shadow of their former selves. The Fins are pretenders, and the Ravens are built to win in the playoffs unless they make drastic changes to their offense. As happy as it makes me as a Mark Andrews owner in fantasy, WR's are not a part of their scheme.

Romo is the best I've ever heard as a color guy in any sport and it's not close. He has a way of talking about the action that brings tremendous insight to people that already know the game as well as casual fans who might not always know what they're seeing. John Madden had the latter, but being able to combine the two seamlessly while being entertaining is a an extremely rare gift.

Season records don't mean anything anymore with a bonus game for all players. You're going to see every season record broken over the next few years.

Maybe time for glasses then.

They're exactly the kind of team every fan base should want, imo. All-time great coach, all-time great QB, the best TE to ever step foot on a football field and they play at peak performance every year regardless of what happens.

She can both be an important decision maker and "one of the most powerful women in sports" and also have literally 0 to do with the on the field performance. I don't understand why you or anyone else would care unless you're personally invested in how the new concession vendor negotiations are going or how much the accounting department has operationalized efficiency improvements YoY. She runs the business, which has nothing to do with the on the field product as long as the piggy bank still has enough money to clear the checks.

Today is a different day than when I wrote this. Also they have the 2nd best record int he conference, so their actual seed matters a lot less than the fact there is only 1 team int he league with a better record than them 5 weeks in.

We have Travis Kelce at home. His name is Dawson and you'll like it. I too would love to have the 1st-5th best TE to ever play the game.

Grading by the mean is a very unreliable stat in football where the situation is far more important. If you run for 10 1-yard td runs, you're carrying a 1ypc average

If they know you're rushing? I think that Guy's name is Derrick Henry. Other than that, I don't think people do that very much anymore. Josh Jacobs was having a great go of it yesterday with a career day and McDaniels chose a hail mary on 4th & 1 😅

I mean duh... YPC is a vanity metric. In isolation over a 5 game span it tells you nothing besides how many yards per carry you're getting with a player. It doesn't tell yout he how or why, which is far more useful in being able to predict the stats of other players or the same players with different inputs. I'm not trading for McCaffery to get 1-2 more YPC. I'm trading for him hoping that I can increase the explosive plays that I generate from my offense. We already do well there overall, but we aren't very good at it from the RB position, especially early in games. If we could rely on a RB to spur our breakout instead of having to rely on Allen, it would be another dimension to our offense that also mitigates our risk when Allen isn't having a 5 star day.

Why would Carolina want Singletary on a half season rental in exchange for CMC? It makes no sense for them, and it's a big cost to us. If they just need a warm body to carry the rock, they can have moss who is cheap and under contract for another year. I'd even rather give them Cook than Singletary at this point just due to experience. Singletary provides a lot of benefit to us over the short term but none past this season.

This is the wrong conclusion. Pierce being a 4th Rd RB doesn't prove that RBs are a dime a dozen - it proves that NFL FOs have no clue how to evaluate RBs int he modern NFL. If you did a redraft today, he'd go in the 1st round. It's true, there are a virtually endless pile of backs that you can hand the ball off to and have them plod for a 3.0 AYC. When it comes to special backs, they're just as rare now as they've ever been - maybe more because it isn't a position in demand. With more and more WRs taking their carries and sometimes their jobs outright, maybe the true workhorse RB dies for good.

OP isn't asking why we are playing KC, he's asking why it's an away game instead of rotational.