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Just do it. It literally cannot be worse. He works with Kromer on the run game and Kromer will still be here. Josh calling his own plays could likely replicate Five Man Protection Mesh Brady’s simplistic bs in the passing game. Let Joe go take the LSU or PSU job, hit the recruiting trail and gtfo of Buffalo.

Very fair and very accurate assessment. The question is.. how much is that skillset worth?

Spencer Brown was rough before getting hurt, but battled through injury and at least looks like he cares. He was miserable on the bench and looked completely dejected when the coach came over to tell him his night is over. Can you imagine him making the types of comments Dion makes? I can’t.

We clearly paid him thinking he’d make a jump as a pass rusher, and just like Benford, Bernard and Shakir, that jump hasn’t come. They absolutely did not extend him at his contract to be a run defender. I guarantee you the FO is upset at the play of all 4 of these guys after getting paid, especially Benford, Bernard and Rousseau.

Beane, followed by Brady. But the reason we’re in this mess year in, year out at OC is because we have a Defensive Head Coach who can’t seem to field a competent Defense. Good times! In all seriousness though.. It’s Beane by a mile. This roster is in rough shape and he blew our reset/JA second window on a dumpster fire 2024 Draft and recent extensions that look horrible in hindsight. But even if Josh had weapons on the outside.. does it matter with Brady? He couldn’t make it work with Diggs. His concepts in both routes and protections are JV level.

Do you think it makes sense to pay a Robin who sets the EDGE and is primarily a run defender before you find a legit pass rusher? We let Edmunds walk because he never made splash plays, was going to get paid, but the argument was he alters the way opponents attack us in the pass game. If the FO couldn’t justify paying big money for that then how do they justify paying big money for a Robin DE who primarily functions as a plus run defender?

This feels like the Edmunds conversation, except we never paid him. “You just don’t see what he’s doing out there” You make fair points, but you should feel a guy making the money he’s set to make, week in/week out. It shouldn’t be where we have to dig deeper to see his true value on a Defense that is absolutely terrible. I feel Cole Bishop out there. I felt Bosa out there before his hand injury, and even with it, he’s the only guy even getting close to the QB right now. Rousseau is in this Edmunds category where we need to dissect the tape to see any impact he’s having. We’re paying Rousseau and Bosa essentially combined what Danielle Hunter is making on his extension. Maybe we just need one Danielle Hunter and not two B level guys. Seems like this example can be applied all over our roster.

If you want to feel even dirtier, should NE beat CIN this weekend, we’d probably want them to beat the Ravens in a few weeks.

Winning the next two, and getting to 9-4, all but guarantees us the playoffs as we’d need one more win to get to 10 wins and at 10-7 which could very well be the line of demarcation, would have tiebreakers over a 10-7 PIT, BAL and KC while CIN, at best, would then finish with 8 losses if they ran the table outside us.

This is the excuse for the Chiefs. And it’s valid considering they turn it on every postseason. Our group hasn’t even made a Super Bowl. Has never been the 1 seed. I suspect you’re correct, but it’s comical that you are.

In fairness, we saw a Texans like performance against Mahomes from this Defense a few weeks ago with Hoecht. But it can’t be we lose one guy and the Defense falls apart. If the Texans lost Will Anderson, who’s a Top 5 DE, would their Defense fall apart? Of course not.

Mentally, I’d agree. Physically, he’s the toughest player I’ve ever seen in my life. But Mahomes has that burning desire.. that mental fury inside him. It says a lot that we are all “whoaaaa” when Allen yells “What are we doing!?” to Trubisky after another Brady disasterclass. That shouldn’t be so rare given where we are right now. Mahomes has multiple Super Bowls and still is maniacally driven to get back. I’ll acknowledge it’s probably tougher when you feel you’re swimming upstream against the current that is Beane/McDermott compared to Reid/Veach.

He’s hurting us at BOTH end positions because we can’t even think to rest Bosa with his injury due to Rousseau being a compete non-factor rushing the passer.

Yup. Most people probably didn’t watch much of it due to the Chiefs game being on, but that Ravens/Browns game was almost play for play what Bills/Texans was last night. Difference being the Ravens Defense did what you’d expect a Playoff team to do to a bad Offense. Mills is obviously better than Sanders, but 20 points in a half is absolutely wild.

I said in another thread, his attitude is emblematic of a major underlying issue this team has. Dawkins just wants to vibe. Which is fine, but not when you’re a team leader on a team that hasn’t even been to a Super Bowl. He said before the season “it’s never Super Bowl or Bust” and proceeded to give a five minute explanation why. His play on the field has been uneven, and last night, piss poor .. but he then says outside his locker that we weren’t out-physicaled. Ok, buddy… whatever you say. Soft. This whole team outside Allen, Brown, injured McGovern and Bosa gutting it out with one hand, are soft. I’d throw Bishop in there with how he’s been playing. Blew up Nico and is one of the few bright spots on Defense.