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We’ve got players out here posting on Threads?? This team is more far gone than I thought. But, if Cooks has anything left in the tank, it’s obviously worth it to bring him in and see if we can get any semblance of passing chemistry going with Palmer, Shakir, Davis and Cooks down the stretch.

Can we get to a point where we enter the postseason only down Oliver and Hoecht of note? Everyone else can/should come back this season. Keeping anyone healthy seems impossible on this team, but getting guys back and ready for the playoffs, even at 80-90%, should be the goal. Everyone who is playing is banged up this time of year. It is what it is. I think it was last year or two years ago, Maxx Crosby was a terror down the stretch in meaningless games. Day after the season ends, gets surgery. Biggest issue, aside from just getting there, is developing any continuity down the stretch when we have the most fragile team I’ve ever witnessed. I just want to see this team in the playoffs, for once, without massive injury excuses. And if they can right the injury ship, only down Oliver and Hoecht, given all the other investments on defense, that is not an excuse in my book. Get your Pick #40 actual inside reps. Rest Bosa if you have to, get him healthy. Plant Bernard on the bench until he’s healed up. Sit Spencer Brown until the playoffs to get that shoulder as healed up as possible. See what Coleman can do in the slot over this mini-bye by giving him reps so we can rest Shakir some, who’s clearly hobbled. Theres no point in making the playoffs if you’re going to destroy your players to do so. Because OP is right, at least in the AFC… 10 very flawed teams are competing for playoff spots right now.

Bengals win Thursday Night and Bills beat the Steelers and they’re 2 back with 5 to play and another Ravens game on deck. With Baltimore and Pittsburgh still playing each other twice & Baltimore having zero easy games left. They play like they did against Browns/Jets and they’re losing a bunch more.

McDermott needs to be calling the defense all game, every game, in the playoffs. I don’t know what they’re doing right now, and maybe he is, but I want to know that this is his gameplan and his play calling when it matters. None of this Defense gets slaughtered for a half causing Josh to go into press mode and then we figure it out and maybe, maybe not McDermott takes over or makes adjustments in the 2nd half. Nah, who’s responsible? I want to know. Brady.. zero confidence in. This man is a joke. I get visually annoyed anytime I even see his face come across my timeline.

Cowboys could really do everyone a solid on Thanksgiving. They are probably the least trustworthy team ever though. Chiefs still play Texans and Chargers, so someone is losing those games. Chargers finish with Eagles, Chiefs, Cowboys, Texans, Broncos. I could easily see the Colts fighting for a WC with their schedule. AFC South is going to beat each other up down the stretch. If the Texans beat the Colts this weekend, they have the Chiefs the following weekend… might be time to start rooting for Houston.

In a vacuum, I don’t hate it. (Ducks head) If hes in shape, he’s always been good against the run. Play him on early downs with Rousseau and maybe we get a bit more stout. We also desperately need to get Bosa healthy as he has become a shell of himself with the injury he’s playing through. And TJ Sanders, pick #40, that we traded up for, needs to go back inside at DT. Figure out your rotation at DT with Walker, Jones, Sanders, Ogunjobi. Get Jordan Phillips off the field. Get Bosa healthy. That should be the 3 primary objectives down the stretch for this DL.

Brady is 100% gone after this season regardless of how this goes. Theres friction there between him and McDermott and probably him and Josh. You can sense it in their pressers when asked about him. Veiled comments and body language = not good. They turn it around and win it all, great… he gets his pick of HC jobs. They don’t, and it ends however it ends.. he’s likely off to a college HC job. Either way, he’s done here.

Yup! I could understand going into the game thinking our OL is a strength and we’re going to lean on them to neutralize the Texans pass rush. Ok, I get it. On a short week, when that was clear as day wouldn’t work early on, you’ve got to pivot. And he doesn’t. Or he can’t. He freezes. How many times do we need to hear him wish he did something earlier …. the next day… The next day doesn’t help anyone. You’ve got to be able to adjust and this muppet can’t appear to do anything but spam the same bs over and over again and pray Josh Allen saves him.

This is THE game. Get to 8-4 with the head to head against both AFCN playoff contenders along with the Chiefs and we should be looking at 2-3 the rest of the way gets us in (10-7). Lose to the Steelers and 10-7 might still get us in, but if Baltimore takes the division, we’re now down head to heads against Pittsburgh and Houston. It gets dicey.

Brady should be gone yesterday. Texans players laughing at his passing concepts. The HC just blown away at how dumb his protection scheme was. We need to accept that Brady just chokes in-game. When the bullets fly, he has no answers in the heat of battle.

If we play him now though, he’ll get his next injury in a week or two, which essentially brings him back for the playoffs anyway.

Pretty egregious missed PI that allowed the interception to occur.

Ed Oliver is an undersized DT. If he was bigger, is he arm tackling in that situation? It’s bad luck, yes, but sometimes you make your own luck. I don’t see too many other teams constantly dealing with injuries to their best DT. Michael Hoecht, we signed knowing he was on a PED suspension. Bad luck, maybe.. also PED’s are known to lead to more tendon injuries like popping an Achilles. Landon Jackson, bad luck again .. he also has an extensive injury history. No reason to think that will change. Terrell Bernard, undersized, hurt all year.. forced to sit probably a blessing in disguise. Joey Bosa, constant soft tissue injury history. Shaq Thompson, older player coming off injury Taylor Rapp, injury history and aging player TJ Sanders missing time is something out of our control but everyone else hurt on this defense, nobody is surprised.

Best case scenario for Pats based off how it looked. Campbell is the anchor of that line so if he only misses 4-6 games and returns for the playoffs, that’s huge.