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Guessing he was pissed the RB blew an easy blitz pick up so it made it a far more difficult throw than it should have been. Brady is a significant part of the problem at this point in his career. Idk why he decided to unretire when he’s this scared of playing football.

This offense will only get field goals if Dallas’ offense gives them the ball there

14 more points and then Tampa will start running their good plays. They can still make it a close loss instead of a total drubbing.

This is my whole list as well. Those guys all played really well (less so with Singletary but as noted, what a run to end the game even if he probably came up a little short).

I don’t even know if I’d say them honestly. Feels like every play SF has one or two guys with 10+ yards of separation. and the run game design is obviously awesome too.

Funny thing is if they just kicked it regularly, Seattle probably kneels on the next play and heads to the locker room down 2. The squib gifted them great field position and just enough time to let San Fran be morons.

That TD was a beauty but I’m still a bit skeptical we can really rely on him after so much time off the last couple years. Would be huge if that TD proves to be more than just an aberration though.

I still wish we had brought in more outside help and played Davis as more of a big slot. He was used in the slot on like 25-30% of his snaps the last two years but it's where 50+% of his production came from if I remember correctly from when I had a PFF trial, not to mention how helpful his run blocking was in the slot. I don't really get why we decided to build the team around almost exclusively using him out wide this year. Feels like a miscalculation, not to mention we obviously really struggled to find a good slot option either.

You’re right but more games does give the league more time to spread out and therefore have fewer meaningful games. But agree overall, there’s generally a lot of meaningless games the final week be it week 17 or 18.

They’re about as mediocre as Cleveland. Cleveland has the better run game and SHOULD (though he’s kinda sucked so far) have the much better QB.

I think Miami will end up winning, but there’s a decent argument to be made that Flacco is the best QB in that game lol. Seems like a decent chance New England still gets into the playoffs with all 3 teams losing today lol

I don’t know if Cinci has the biggest gripe, but the coin toss thing just doesn’t make much sense. It doesn’t really make sense that they’d flip a coin for a wild card matchup between Cinci and Baltimore, but not for an AFC Title game between Cinci and Baltimore. It doesn’t make sense that they’d flip a coin for that matchup but not for a Buffalo/Cinci matchup. It doesn’t make sense that Baltimore could win the coin toss and essentially be the 3 seed for one week and then return to being the 6 seed and have to play the best remaining playoff team every step of the way. The coin toss is just total nonsense and it looks even dumber when you consider the other rule change the NFL is making for KC/Buffalo/Cinci.

That would make a lot more sense though it still seems odd to me that Baltimore could be treated as the 3 seed for the first round and then the 6 seed the rest of the way.

Yes. They need 9 votes to reject this proposal. If they vote purely out of selfishness, there’s a pretty easy case to be made for KC and Cinci voting against it. They’ll need to find 7 other teams that aren’t really impacted by this but don’t want it to happen anyways (maybe because they simply don’t believe in changing the rules midseason). So if I’m reading the Baltimore-Cinci part of this correctly, Cinci has clinched the division due to the cancelled game. But a coin flip will determine who hosts a playoff game if these two teams meet. So I’m the unlikely scenario where Cinci is the 3 seed and Baltimore is the 6 seed and both teams advance to the AFC Title game, Baltimore could theoretically host that game at home after winning on the road to get there. Weird stuff.

If we're grading strictly based on their contributions/performance to this point, they're all pretty low grades IMO. There's certainly been a decent number of flashes from Cook, and a few flashes from Elam and Shakir to think they can be solid in the future but there's a chance this is just a straight up bad draft from Beane.

Titans are a weird team. Robinson has made a lot of poor decisions with trades, the draft, free agency, etc. but the team has been consistently successful in spite of that and in spite of not really being the most talented team. Still, this feels very odd. Maybe just wanted a new guy to have more time to prepare for the draft? I don't know.

Teams shouldn’t be scared of them but: 1. I remember the 7-9 Seahawks beating the Saints that one year 2. It’s still a very talented team with Playoff Brady at the helm. But no doubt they have to overcome some horrendous coaching to succeed in the playoffs.

Rare game where both teams’ coaches should be fired after.

I can’t believe Tampa hasn’t fired any of their coaches yet this year. Unless they’re trying to tank while continuing to play Brady and being in an insanely winnable division, it makes no sense that they haven’t fired Bowles and Leftwich yet.

It's kinda funny to read through this thread after all the discussion in the offseason about how people were disrespecting our offensive weapons when placing them around #10 or slightly lower in the league. Rolling with McKenzie/Crowder as our #3 WR was a mistake, plain and simple and we seemed to take Gabe's development for granted.

I had said Mintz would have some ugly games when he isn’t getting the foul calls he tries for…that was one of them lol. It’s going to be a long year. Just have to hope the young guys are interesting enough to be somewhat fun to watch and hope that Boeheim retires at the end of the year. I tend to think this program will never be what it once was but I know for sure Boeheim isn’t the guy to save it.

I've been waiting for Taylor to get a real shot. Glad to see him step up in a major way. That and Bell continuing to hit mid-range jumpers are pretty much the only positives after that game. I guess if we're really trying to be optimistic, Jesse dealt with foul trouble all game, Judah was ejected early, and Joe would have been more helpful if he had been ejected and we still managed to nearly beat Bryant... Realistically, this just isn't a tournament team; certainly not an NCAA Tournament team but likely not making the other tournaments either if I had to guess. I'm just going to try to continue enjoying the young guys as long as they remain at Syracuse.

That was a brutal game from Joe. Might not have made a difference but would have liked to see some of the subs play more. Our starters were dead by the end of the game. Judah once again looked very impressive but he kinda fell apart by the end too. Really struggled handling the ball against the pressure St. John’s was giving him. I watched a bunch of Bell’s high school games and feel confident saying this is the best two game stretch he’s had. Not really sure what to make of it but if he continues to shoot like he has the last two games, that’ll be big for this team. Jesse continues to be a relative disappointment, though he did make a few tough shots to keep our hopes alive. Pretty nice showing from Benny. He’s had a couple games now that have shown why we continue to play him so much more than the alternatives; he’s capable of doing things nobody else on this team can.

We've had issues getting Edwards involved in the past but last night wasn't it. He just flat out sucked at everything. We tried to get him the ball in the post; he was no match for Colgate's physicality and it resulted in him throwing up ugly shots, trying to dunk from too far away, etc. He got exploited defensively all game too. It was a rare game where we probably would have been better off if he had gotten into foul trouble. A lot of ugly stuff last night. Seems like communication defensively is a gigantic problem. In man-to-man, we had no idea how to handle a simple ball screen. Guys were switching when they shouldn't, fighting through when they shouldn't, hedging when they shouldn't, and double-teaming when they shouldn't. The 1-3-1 zone is just a non-starter; it's asking for Girard and Edwards to cover the most space on the floor and that's the worst position we can possibly put the two of them in. The communication issues were there constantly in the 2-3 as well and the 3 guard lineup so many wanted to see appears unworkable in the 2-3. The team had no awareness of who Colgate's shooters were and couldn't execute the simplest of rotations on a consistent basis; often leaving shooters open while the defense was defending empty space. The offense is what it is. If Edwards plays like he did last night and Girard's shot is off, this team will lose that game 100 times out of 100. I think the offense mostly did a good job of getting Girard open looks on the move and did a nice job getting the ball to Jesse until it became apparent that we shouldn't. We got a sneak peak of what happens to Mintz when the shot isn't falling and he isn't drawing fouls in the first half but he rebounded beautifully in the 2nd half and overall had a nice game. Benny was as promising as ever; I definitely don't want to see him taking jumpers with regularity, but his free throws looked good, and he was mostly active and confident. I would really like to see him take advantage of teams playing off of him more. Colgate rightfully helped off of him constantly and mostly abandoned him on the 3 point line; Boeheim and Benny need to recognize this as an opportunity to set screens or dribble-handoffs to get easy looks for Girard and Mintz. It's a super simple tweak that just isn't happening for whatever reason; I'd like to think Boeheim recognizes it but maybe not.