Maine-iac

Cover 1 had a nice episode on this. Josh and Diggs (for whatever reason) missed a lot going down the stretch and again in the playoffs. If even half of their downfield misses were catches Diggs probably has 2 or 300 more yards in the regular season and a pretty good game against the Chiefs. Diggs was also dropping short passes more than usual. Every team after the Jags game played to take away the deep throws and keep everything short. We developed the running game and Shakir and Kincaid emerged but then when you get the shots you have to connect and Allen and Diggs just were't connecting.

It was encouraging to see Elam stick his nose in there on run defense a few plays before he picked it off against Pittsburgh. Now he got absolutely run over but the effort was nice to see.

Let Sherfield walk and sign Reynolds then draft a WR to play with Diggs. Reynolds can do all the dirty work that Sherfield did and is 10x the pass catcher. He's probably capable of Gabe Davis numbers in a pinch. I'd still try to draft someone to be #2 but Reynolds would be a huge upgrade over Sherfield.

You say already did that like I hadn't posted this weeks before they signed Hamler.

If he's cut after 6/1 it spreads the cap hit out over 24 and 25 so we save 10 mil in 24. I imagine it will depend largely on who we intend to bring back or sign. I'd love to keep White around but given he's likely not the starter week one next season and possibly not even after he's fully recovered it's hard to justify 16 million for someone who has played 34 of the last 67 games. Maybe there's a restructure that makes everyone happy. From Sportstrac it says post 6/1 2024 Dead Cap: $6,234,918 2025 Dead Cap: $4,134,918 2024 Cap Savings: $10,208,819

Just saw the 4 year out. Everything makes more sense now.

In today's passing league you need all the CB's you can afford. If I remember right Douglas's contract is friendly next year as well. Keep White next year while Douglas is still affordable. Elam is still on a rookie contract also. They'll all end up playing by the end of the season. The next year when you have to start resigning people is when White becomes too expensive and aged out. White has a dead cap hit of 10 mil in 24 and only 4 mil in 25. I wouldn't be surprised if Benford and Douglas start in 24 and by 25 Elam and Benford are starting and Douglas is signing one year deals somewhere. Maybe Douglas plays some safety. He has the insticts for it and the money is there as Hyde and Poyer get older and possibly move on.

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If you have the defense to erase the TO's then having a gunslinger can work out. It's always better to not turn the ball over a lot but if your defense is playing well it hurts less. The more you do it the more it bites you in the butt. My largest complaint is that it isn't a here or there thing. Pretty much every week we turn the ball over.

In my mind to think he had a bad game and still had 359 yards and 2 TDs. Imagine if he had a good game. He doesn't throw the picks, Cooks makes a catch, and he hits Diggs it's not unthinkable that Josh could have had 500 yards and 4TD's against the Fins.

Teams have been using creeper blitzes and actual blitzes in the A gap. It makes it much harder on any guards say nothing about rookies who tend to be more mauler than finesse type guys. They need to clean up the protection. I'm guessing it's as much confusion as it is anything. I have to hope it can get coached up better and have better results. I also think they could scheme up plays to get them out of the A gaps. Wilkins is a terror either way. Some weeks we do the same things to some very good teams.

And so did Rapp but I'm not starting him over Poyer if Poyer has a bad game.

McGovern is probably our best pass blocking guard and he gets bull rushed often enough. Wilkins probably takes any guard we have and eats their lunch. We didn't do much running right at him which I would have like to have seen. They did however shorten up some of the passes and Kincaid and Shikir made the catches and kept the chains moving.

Like I said in another post all our b list free agents earned their paychecks this week.

Who are you subbing in for him against Wilkins with A gap blitzes who will do better?

If Dane was 6'1" 200 pounds he'd be a starter. He's a good player to having coming in when you need someone.

I bet the Dolphins would rather try to tackle Lamar. I guess the defense had his back. Allen can save his perfect game for later in the playoffs.

And the defense. So many scoreless drives by Miami. Outside of the fact that our offense wasn't pounding them on the scoreboard the must have thought they were still in Baltimore.

For the love of god .............. you can love Allen and still hate the turnovers. If Diggs was dropping every pass you say catch the ball. If Dawkins was getting false starts every play you'd say clean up the penalties. Allen is turning the ball over people are going to say stop turning the ball over. It only makes sense.

Rapp with two amazing plays. All our B list free agent signings paying off tonight.

Bass for 55 or tush push ................ I'm leaning tush push.

Bring in Lenny and play some bully ball.

Get Lenny in there and run north and south

Mark my words Shakir is always open.

Please for the love of god don't let Allen turn it over again.