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McDermott has no more fall guys. 6-1 finish or 5-2 and pray or he should also be fired after the season.

Steelers constantly winning rock fights is beyond aggravating not over but Love just got picked in the end zone with 3 min left

Burrow … 🗑️ 🔥

Mac Jones throws the most insane interceptions in critical moments.

Yup. Whether it’s Allen turnovers or the Defense being completely useless early in games, getting down quickly has been crushing in terms of game flow/game script.

Seems like minority rule won the day in Virginia.

Go Pats? They have 7 losses .. let them rack up meaningless wins to keep them away from Caleb Williams / Drake Maye.

I can’t even get on the Bills, completely, due to betting on injury/age and getting bit. Guys like Milano, Knox, Elam, Benford, Oliver and Rousseau missing games… they’re all young or young enough. Jones is a normal age for an impact DL. Tre White was uncuttable due to his contract, and regardless, you don’t give up on a guy at his age off one injury. Hyde & Poyer we’re always the risk… and they seem to be living up to that risk in somewhat declined play and both missing games already. Next year we have a decision to make on guys like Tre, Hyde and Poyer. At the very least, I think you’ve got to move off Hyde and Poyer and talk Tre into a massive “restructure” aka pay cut. If not, and if they bring in more old players .. you get what you get. Von is a killer. I was for the move when we did it, and he showed out when healthy, but the injury has hurt us so bad. We desperately need him to find himself again. This team needs someone to break through on the defense.

I don’t have a strong position of marijuana either way. I generally think it’s not gone very well where it’s been legalized, but I also don’t think anyone should be going to jail for possession. I also think it’s criminal how pharma worked with elected officials to keep away the health benefits of cannabis from those suffering from various diseases. Abortion can be looked at as regulation … if you simply view it as a transactional medical procedure where one person makes a decision that affects nobody else. For those that view the baby inside them as a human life, it gets more tricky … even libertarians believe in having laws in place for murder - which is how you get many pro-life libertarians.

This is so disappointing from Tucker. Either people in the know are incredibly certain Trump is going to win re-election or most of conservative media has pulled a CNN and gone all in on a temporary Trump rush. They must realize that half of the people who identify right of center will never look at them the same.

We have no Crosby, Bosa, Garrett, Chris Jones type on this DL. When Daquan was healthy, we had 4 above average DL rushing together, with AJE as a 5th… the sum of their parts was greater than their individual talent. But.. as we saw last year.. if we take one cog out of the unit and/or guys get dinged up.. the pass rush disappears. None of these guys seem to regularly be able to affect a game themselves. They need to healthy as a unit and individually.. which is really disappointing given the draft capital and money spent. Maybe Linval Joseph and Von, at some point, returning to 80% can elevate them again … but they look like the same group we had last year. Elite with Von. Completely average without.

It’s not surprising to me. We had some bad stretches with Daboll… I was at the Jax game. However, we saw them be able to flip the switch and catch fire. We’ve yet to see that with Dorsey.

Now that Douglas and Joseph should be up to speed, I have zero appetite to hear about injuries anymore. Im not talking about us being elite on defense, that’s fair to say we won’t get there due to the losses of Jones, Milano and White.. but they’ve now been replaced by Joseph and Douglas. We also drafted a LB in RD3 who should be able to learn as he goes given we’ve filled in the other spots. Figure it out. McDermott has more than enough to work with .. and this defense better rise up from the dregs of the NFL where they’ve been residing for a month…. It was unacceptable with a defensive HC then, and will certainly be unacceptable now.

Jets have a ton of OL injuries and lost their starting QB five seconds into Week 1. I'm not even trying to laugh at them when they've gone through all of that, plus a tougher schedule, and sit a half game behind us.

We have no game breakers up front on the DL. It's a massive issue, and given the investment... unacceptable. When everyone is healthy, we have a ton of above average/very good DL and it shows - as they are a menace when rushing together. However, when one of them goes down to injury, the fact none of them can take over a game with any regularity is glaring.

The point about TOP and the Defense cannot be overstated. McDermott is a defensive HC and yes, we've had injuries, but not only are they giving up points quickly every game.. they don't get off the field. Even when they get a stop, the opposing team has typically gotten 2-3 first downs and we end up starting our drives backed up. This doesn't excuse the clunky and unacceptable offensive performances, but if we are going to have a Defensive-minded HC, we can't have a sieve of a Defense when some injuries occur. He needs to be better and now that Douglas/Joseph have had time to integrate... it needs to start now.

Our issues are mainly on Offense as we have an elite QB, a good OL, elite WR1 and a stud young TE. They should be much, much better. That being said, outside of those components, we are lacking in terms of WR2 and OC.. two pretty important pieces of a good Offense. Not going to absolve the Defense though. We are sacrificing Offensive continuity for Allen in order to have a Defensive minded HC. One who apparently needs top tier talent all over the field or else we are the worst defense in the NFL.

Apparently we can only run up-tempo with optimal starting field position and pandemic-era crowd noise.

His throw at the end of the Jags game (that Diggs dropped) was probably the hardest thrown, most absurd pass I’ve ever seen.

Probably true. We have a good pass blocking OL, but they have an elite IOL at both pass pro and getting push in run blocking. Morse and McGovern are more pass blockers and Torrence is still a rookie.

Mahomes is struggling with a similar model … an elite weapon, a good OL and then a bunch of guys. They’re integrating some RD2 WR’s and we’re integrating rookie Kincaid. Difference is their defense is healthy and dominating. Ours is injured and likely the difference between at worst 6-3, now 5-4. But we all knew we didn’t have enough on offense. KC has super bowls and an offensive guru in Reid to hope they figure it out.

We all know how this plays out. McDermott gets next year, no matter what. The only question is whether Dorsey gets let go. I would hope McDermott's recent answers to questions about the Offense, when paired with the fact his bread and butter (Defense) has become the worst statistical defense in the league after getting hit with the injury bug, would finally open eyes at OBD.. but he has his built in excuse, along with a fall guy. He's going to be here next year.

Is it crazy to think this offense with our much improved OL, Diggs - Hopkins - Shakir and a rotation/mixed use of Kincaid (mainly) & Knox (backup) would be high powered? Maybe it's far more complex than I'm making it out to be, but it sure feels like Gabe Davis as our WR2 is a massive issue in terms of our success and consistency. And if someone wants to push back on Hopkins.. ok, fine, any WR2 that run a full route tree for Allen. It's wildly obvious now that Davis as WR2 and his limited skillset and/or function here is a huge contributor to the high variance of this offense.

Under McDermott, we will likely never be on the cutting edge of offense. The way Allen plays, along with his tendencies.. we should probably stop playing games at WR and just get him legitimate WR2 that can run a full route tree. He clearly throws to who he trusts. Right now, it's Diggs and Kincaid.. which makes sense, because they are top tier talents. After that, it may be Shakir.. which, again, makes some sense because Shakir is in his true spot as WR3/Slot. Gabe is up and down because he's not a WR2 and is completely miscast in this Offense as we keep trying to tell Josh to trust someone in a role they are not built to occupy. He'll never be a consistent spread it around guy. He has his guys.. he trusts his guys.. Get him a legitimate WR2 that can run a full route tree and watch things pick up. Harty & Sherfield are just WR4/WR5 misfits here. I guess, for this year, we'll have to hope Gabe Davis magically becomes it.. or we can build an Offense around consistent production from Diggs, Kincaid and perhaps Shakir or a healthy Knox.

Yea, I'm hesitant to say 10 is the magic number for us, but according to those who ran the predictors, it's pretty close to a lock if we get there. We also forget that other teams we're looking up at/battling with currently also have tough games on their schedule. This week alone: Texans/Bengals Browns/Ravens Lions/Chargers Jets/Raiders Would guess we're all pulling for Bengals, Ravens, Lions and Raiders.