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I'm probably rooting for KC tbh. Miami hasn't shown they can beat the top teams, but they look like they'll steamroll everyone else. If they keep Tua upright, I don't necessarily see a bunch of losses on their schedule.

Jaylon Johnson moves the needle for me, if we're truly in on him and not just kicking the tires. 1) He would be a massive get for this year 2) Would signal another piece to the youth movement on defense, with our secondary built around Jaylon Johnson & Christian Benford. Backload his new contract for when Von and co. come off the books and let's go

Frustrating.. Bernard looking overwhelmed his rookie year and playing like a legitimate pro-bowl caliber player in Year 2 absolves them a bit, but a RD3 pick should be sufficient depth at any non-QB position. The fact the can't/won't play Dorian Williams is very annoying. The guy taken one pick before him was set to start at LB for Dallas before he suffered a season ending injury in pre-season.

I have to disagree. Based on options to play the position, sure.. but OLB is a far less important position to a modern NFL defense than DT or CB.

I agree. Their actions surrounding Kaiir Elam almost seem to guarantee that we'll do something... and I don't think that's simply trading away Elam for a pick and rolling with Josh Norman as our outside CB depth.

No one that I'm aware of.. but their Offense hasn't been able to do much, puts them in tough positions and hasn't really allowed them to play from ahead. I'm sure that has affected the attacking nature of their defensive philosophy, but still.. that's the most talented defense in the league on paper and they've been shredded two weeks in a row.

I'm not, at all, cool with this view. Floyd, Oliver, Rousseau Bernard, Johnson Hyde, Poyer They have multiple above average players at every level. No, we don't have an elite defense like we did with Jones, Milano and White.. but it's middle of the pack. Equivalent to other contending defenses like the Chiefs, Jaguars, Dolphins, Ravens etc..

We’ve already felt that. Mac Jones carved us up. We’re going to give up points. We need the offense to be back… and not “oh hey, they looked good early and then faded” back. That being said, we need our Defense to make a few plays/get a few stops. They didn’t look capable of that last year. The reason McDermott took over is so that they are capable .. and going from Top 2 talent Defense to Middle of the Pack Defense isn’t an excuse to not get a few stops/make a few plays, so that we can win if the Offense is truly starting to figure it out again.

I think it’s about coaching, and I’m not going to give McDermott the injury excuse all year. We still have middle of the pack talent on defense and he needs to put them in positions to succeed Sunday Night. He did that against a less talented offense in Tampa. Sometimes they did, and sometimes, flukeyness aside, they didnt. I feel immediately better about our chances without whatever that Frazier-led defense we saw last year was.

Chargers social media is WILD

Was driving during the late games yesterday and NFL Radio “The Sunday Drive” hosts were absolutely crushing the NFL for the Bills and Chiefs losing a home game overseas that could come into play with playoff seeding.

Nah, miss me with this. We had Top 2 talent on Defense before those 3 injuries. With those injuries, we’re more middle of the pack. They still have Floyd, Rousseau, Oliver, Bernard, Johnson, Benford, Hyde and Poyer. We’ve been hit hard, but due to the talent level they began with, this isn’t some mash unit that people want to pretend they’ve become. It’s a tiresome excuse. That being said, there’s a reason so many people want us to get Josh another weapon. Sometimes elite defense doesn’t matter much. Eagles defense let them down in the Super Bowl.. when healthy Bills & Niners had the two most talented defenses this year… Niners defense is healthy and has been struggled big time for two weeks in a row against the Vikings and Bengals.

Not to say the Bengals don’t look legit, but Cousins went 35/45 for 378 and 2 TD’s against that same defense 2 weeks ago. SF has lost 3 in a row and looks lost on both sides of the ball right now. *Ironically enough, they sustained some injuries and went off the rails after dismantling a rival. Sound familiar?

This has been him almost every week, so I’m not sure where the disconnect in evaluation is.

Refs literally get more air time than anyone but the QB’s in an NFL game. It’s like the memo went out that “anything close” must be flagged.

Lol… the Chargers legit just ran a play with two screen reads. One to either side.

SHOCKING Refs dramatically alter the game with their incessant awfulness I am so surprised

Herbert just had a scoring drive consisting of only screens and check downs. I just can’t respect anything about the way they run their offense.

@BananaB explain why you disagree. Their metrics/data/ratings literally put Jackson at average and Benford above average. Are either elite. No. But as Miyagi-Do stated, we have a CB friendly system.

Im not saying they won’t struggle more with a team like the Bengals, but they’re not struggling now. Both eye tests and data/metrics say Jackson is about average and Benford has played above average.

Mac back to playing like a pumpkin after the Bills game. cool cool

Refs just influence games way too much. And it’s not just fans bringing this up now. It’s got to be getting to the Commissioner. .. at least I hope.

He’s wearing a brace as part of the recovery/return. He’s not going to have elite bend in a bulky brace. He’s detailed this process. Next step is a smaller brace, then no brace. We’ll see if he becomes effective this year, but right now.. judging him in his first few games back wearing a brace is very premature.

AFC, yes. NFC games … hit or miss.

Aside from having Kelce (the best weapon in the NFL) and an elite IOL, they’ve provided Mahomes with: -WR3 FA in MVS -Trade for a recent RD1 WR -RD2 WR -RD2 WR -Brought back Hardman We can clown, I guess, but that WR room isn’t for lack of trying.