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You’re not interpreting the article correctly. If Decker was covered by a WR, it would have made him an ineligible WR. He wasn’t covered though, so if he reported as the replay seems to indicate, he would have been an eligible receiver and no illegal formation would have occurred.

The ref commentator dude was saying because Decker did NOT report as eligible, there were a bunch of different penalties; the fact that he was ineligible and uncovered = penalty, the fact that he was ineligible and downfield = penalty, and the fact that he was ineligible and caught the ball = penalty. But if he reported as eligible, which the replay made it look like he did, all of that is washed away. He was legally lined up as a tight end and the refs just screwed up (again, IF he reported as eligible which it looks like he did on replay but you don't really know unless you heard what he said on the field).

Unfortunately, it looks like he did in fact report in and the ref's got the number wrong lol.

Denver really screwed up with the Wilson and Payton moves. Convinced themselves that this roster was close to contending when it simply isn’t a good roster and then went all in on two guys that aren’t particularly good at their jobs anymore. It’s not that Wilson is the worst QB in the league or anything but they’re getting bottom 5-10 starter play from a guy that’s getting top 5 QB money. You just can’t build a winner that way. Might as well strip this team down to the studs and start completely over IMO.

Think it’s fairly simple. 1. Sure, the young QBs are young. But their teams have likely decided they’ve seen enough and don’t believe they’re the answer. 2. They want to evaluate the other players and think more competent QB play will help make that easier. 3. Coaches and players want to win and therefore want the better players to play. Might be a little more controversial to give up on Howell, but he’s looked very bad for a month or so now and Washington is in position to get a highly coveted rookie QB if they want. They could also pursue Fields or Wilson in the offseason. Hell, they could just want to sit him down and let him regroup mentally after his recent struggles (but realistically, they probably try to replace him this offseason).

Reality of the situation is nobody has really had an MVP season. Voters have to decide between a lot of underwhelming candidates, which is the only reason a RB and WR are even garnering consideration.

He was literally #2 in betting odds going into the week. Purdy was a heavy favorite, but going into the week, Vegas had it as Purdy, Lamar, Dak, Allen, and CMC in that order. He was #3 the week prior as well.

This kinda put into perspective how relatively good he is compared to most WR2s for me. I think I'd probably only take 10 of the other WR2s you listed over Davis. At any rate, we need to start cutting costs somewhere and this might be one of the places that we unfortunately do. If we can bring him back on a bargain contract, I'd gladly take him (and while I think he COULD get a big contract, I think there's also serious risk that a lot of free agent WRs, himself included, end up stuck with a disappointing contract due to how strong the draft is and how many good free agent WRs there will likely be this offseason). I want to go WR in Round 1 or 2 if at all possible in the draft and hopefully give us another option, but having Gabe as a cheap #3 would be nice.

Think that’s probably the same order for me.

I would rather play KC personally. They just aren’t good this season. We arguably aren’t either but Baltimore is in the extremely short conversation of good teams this year IMO.

That was maybe the most confused I’ve ever been by a catch decision. The ball hit the ground and then rotated into his body because he did not have possession.

The main things I've discovered in my wings journey is I prefer wings to be smoked and prefer either a buffalo sauce or various dry rubs. I also tend to prefer dunking wings in a side of sauce rather than the restaurant drowning them.

If the award MUST go to a QB and the Bills miss the playoffs, Lamar or Dak would probably be my choice. He's been mostly great this season and has just been let down by his teammates time after time. Basically the opposite of Purdy where he's been the relative weak link (don't really mean this to be a diss even though it sounds like it; he's played well, but his playmakers have been remarkable) of the team more often than not but his teammates have been good enough that it doesn't matter. Lamar is missing the touchdowns on his resume compared to the others, but it's basically just because once they've gotten to the goal-line, they've let their RBs pound it in basically every time. Gus Edwards has 11 rushing TDs this season and his longest TD is 7 yards; after that it's 3. This isn't the case for any of the other MVP candidates. But again, I really think it should be between Josh Allen (assuming Buffalo at least makes the playoffs), McCaffrey, and Tyreek Hill for MVP this season. I don't think guys like Lamar, Dak, Purdy, etc. are actually deserving this season. It's an underwhelming season for QB play.

Lance started and finished a grand total of 3 games, one of which was in a monsoon that barely resembled a football game (where Lance ended up with the most passing and rushing yards from either team). Kittle missed two of those three games and McCaffrey wasn't on the team yet. Clearly Lance was disappointing enough in practice/was just injured too often for SF to give him a real chance, but I don't think it was really ever proven that the offense wouldn't work with him. And obviously the offense worked quite well with Jimmy G at the helm, who is a below average starting QB at best. Having said all that, I think it's pretty clear Purdy is the best of the three QBs. I don't think he's proven himself to be on the same tier as guys like Mahomes, Allen, Lamar, etc. though, and I don't think he's the most valuable player on his own team, much less in the league (unless you maybe want to argue we should start factoring contracts into the MVP discussion in which his contract is obviously a huge bargain).

JJ and Quadir finally playing well these last few games has been a game changer. Hopefully they can keep it up.

I think Allen wins MVP if we win the division. If we are a wild card, he’ll have to play his ass off to have a chance. Missing the playoffs is obviously not an option if he wants to win MVP. Really though this feels like a year where a non-QB should win, be it McCaffrey or Tyreek. The QBs have all been pretty blah this season.

Looks to me like both feet are in bounds by a good amount when he gains full possession. Guessing your definition of possession is just a lot stricter than the NFL’s. He bobbled it and then secured it with both hands and had both feet down at that point and dragged his knee inbounds too. I think it was probably a very easy TD call on review. The last INT is the one that really could have gone either way. I think with the super slomo we have now, it probably wasn’t an INT but I think it was close enough that it made sense not to overturn it.

even Sharp’s video isn’t really slow enough to tell but this one is slow enough that I think it actually might not have touched. That has to be one of the closest calls I’ve ever seen.

In the very least, the new staff is working their tails off so far. I think we're up to like 8 four star recruits coming to visit this weekend, and it sounds like we're fairly certain a couple of them will end up committing. Would be a gigantic step in the right direction for us.

To be fair, if the DPI gets called, the running clock part probably doesn’t occur since they would have been at like the 5 yard line.

I didn't like Copeland much in high school but we'll see. Hopefully Chance comes back next year too to provide help there. And if we do ultimately lose by Judah and JJ, I would expect we hit the transfer portal so who knows really what the team will end up looking like. At any rate, I'm having fun watching the team again.

I'm not so optimistic about this year's team, but I generally like the direction we're headed in. The part that's really a bummer is we have IMO two starters on the team as currently constructed (Judah and JJ) and theoretically have what we're lacking coming in next season (Freeman as a stud forward and Elijah as the shooter we're sorely lacking), but there's a decent chance Judah and JJ both move on and then we may end up stuck in a similar position again. If we can convince at least one of the two guards to return for a junior season, we might have something here. Having said that, I'm not ready to take it to the bank that Freeman and Elijah will be studs yet either; I'm really glad both of them should be on TV pretty regularly/will have officially tracked stats to monitor how they're doing rather than just seeing highlight clips. I tend to be confident in Freeman like I was in Judah; Elijah I need to see more of.

Definitely a bit nervous about the defense. It's so nice to have a pair of guards as quick as Judah and JJ are though. JJ's jumper a bit concerning too; I feel like he had a reputation as a pretty good shooter but the numbers and eye test are both not good right now.

I think between this and Cover1's analysis, we're left with sort of a conundrum in terms of what you want in an offensive coordinator. Do you want to lean into what makes Allen who he is and create sort of a pedal to the medal offense that is very high risk-high reward in terms of the play design, or do you want a coach that can try to reign in some of the bad stuff (and likely some of the good stuff too) that comes along with Allen playing the way he wants? I tend to lean towards the latter personally, which seems to be Dorsey's thinking as well but I think there's a very fair argument to be made in both directions. When I watch Solak's video, I tend to agree with his takeaways that Allen is making the wrong decision in a lot of cases (and the very damning stats re: his accuracy on deep balls this year definitely matches the eye test). Cover1 seems to place more of the blame on Dorsey, but it seems to me like a lot of the plays where he's blaming Dorsey are issues of Allen beginning the play by already reading the wrong side of the field or forcing passes instead of just taking the easy yards to keep the chains moving. I definitely understand the frustrations that people are having with Dorsey though, but I also think a decent amount of it simply boils down to defenses playing a lot of two high looks to defend the deep ball while Allen simultaneously struggles to throw the deep ball and also wants to throw it deep as much as possible, which isn't really a great combination.

More PTSD from watching him for the Bucs lol