Maine-iac

Funny you mention that I thought Williams looked like he had potential. I'm sold on Bernard he seems like Milano 2.0. Hopefully Williams does step up. I think Dodson can play LB but I think coverage will suffer.

Lots of reports he was back but I didn't here his name called once and didn't see him in on any plays. I think he was on a snap count and didn't play all that much.

This is going to come out of right field but I was at the Bills vs Miami on Halloween a few years ago and the offense was struggling and the defense held it together and eventually Beasley caught fire. We need to run the ball enough no matter what and we need a short yardage receiver that you just can't stop. With the offense we have SOMEONE should always be open.

IMO Jones is the crushing loss (if he's out all year). Oliver can play but without Jones I bet he'll be game planned for and disappear at times. Phillips can't stay healthy if he's going starter reps and Settle has yet to do anything that moves a meter.

Looking at the team stats. Both offenses had 12 drives. We had a lot of penalties but the Jags took more sacks. We were horrible on 3rd down and running the ball. I think the fact that we only had 10 rushing attempts by the rb's is telling. We need to run the ball even when we don't have a 2 score lead. If Cook isn't running free after 2 or 3 carries we can't give up. Bring in Harris and punish them a few times and keep 3rd downs manageable.

Not sure with the players we have how any team can stop the run and the short passing game and still have Davis and Diggs covered outside. Kincaid, Knox, and Cook should be making a ton of catches or Diggs and Davis should be blowing teams up. If Cooks isn't shaking loose for some runs then Harris should be in there keeping the offense on schedule smashing in between the tackles. In some respects I think early season adversity should keep the team focused through the season but the season ending injuries are piling up.

I would love to agree with this except in this game it was the offense the really crapped to bed most of the game and they didn't even have injuries. Defense was on the field a lot. Not sure where our running game and short passing game went but we will not win any shoot outs with the offense that was out there today.

Let's just make pointless responses that aren't on subject all night and our post counts will be amazing!

Thanks

Any one can argue anything. Read some of the posts in here.

Are you saying Toney is anything other than a bad WR? I get it that he plays for a great team and happened to make one catch thrown to him but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

How long is Shorter on IR? I'd rather give him the reps and keep our draft picks.

Singletary threw a TD pass?

He's physically talented. We play a zone most of the time and if you don't know where you are supposed to be and can't stop grabbing guys it doesn't matter what your 40 time is. Hopefully the time he's had watching he's been learning also. I'd actually be interested to see if throwing him out there he could play through some of the mistakes and learn on the field but when you have a really good team you don't usually get those opportunities.

I'm not going to argue Frazier is better but with a healthy roster you could do a lot worse than Frazier. McDermott is a head coach for a reason. He is better and I'm glad he's calling the D. Let's hope we can keep most of the roster healthy this year.

Kelvin Benjamin 2.0?

Glen was playing pretty well then also.

What this run offense needed was some carries (this year or last year). Glad to see them handing the ball off. It will help our passing game in the long run.

I'll see your Barry and raise you a Jamaal Charles. He looked even better than I remembered watching the game and I thought he looked pretty good the first time.

Adam's comments aside, from what I've seen Rapp has not played very well in any aspect run or pass and doesn't need to be getting penalized. That penalty might not matter in a game when we're way ahead but when he does it in the 4th quarter of a close game it'll just be another reason he shouldn't be on the field.

Jet's offense was never going to win this game if we didn't give them the ball 4 times.

What was your point again?

Cook the yards and Harris the TD's. Like Thurman and Riddick.

Everyone always tosses SB wins and loses on QB's but I still think by and large defenses win championships. Usually by the time you get to a SB you are playing the best of the best in QB's so even if your defense isn't shutting down a QB it's the two or three big plays that make a difference. When we've made it to the playoffs whether it was injures (last year) or just not making a play when you need to (13 seconds) we haven't been up to the challenge. The Pats (Brady) always had the defense make the plays when they needed to make plays in addition to Brady also making plays that needed to be made.