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OMG! OMG! OMG! Pete Carroll just used a timeout. Burn him at the stake with McDermott

Worked last week 😔

This stupid game is going to go to OT. If Murray marches then down the field we’re gonna hear more stupid narrative about Murray being the GOAT.

If McDermott challenged this play, this board would be burnt to the ground. Yikes. Primarily because his challenge conversation rate would drop

I did! Just didn’t think of it occurred outside the EZ and carried in it was a safety... which it’s not. I was screaming at my TV last week when the Cardinals had an injury timeout and then called a timeout right after. Announcers didn’t even react, refs didn’t say anything at first. I was so mad... took until we came back from the commercial, a little more discussion and they finally called it lol. Point being that the announcers do a really poor job of picking up on the finer details. Drives me nuts. It takes 1-2 plays for them to catch on to things and I’m convinced it’s someone in their ear telling them...

We want Seattle to win, right? SOV tiebreaker...?

If they Kay Adams story is a true story for you... I’m deeply sorry. I love her.

Wait, I thought Beane was a poor talent evaluator and drafter? Someone tell New York Upstate and Ryan Talbot before they embarrass themselves putting out fake news!

Something like... “Why the heck did we have Gabriel Davis in over Dane Jackson on that last play? What was McDermott thinking... Davis hasn’t practiced one snap on defense all year and you put him out there to cover Hopkins!!!”

The clock was stopped. They had a chance to gather already... the offense calls a play and the defense has to react. The offense is the driver in the situation, defense is the passenger. McDermott got a look at what they were doing and called a timeout to make sure everyone knew their role. Sure, maybe it gave Kingsbury a minute to make an adjustment himself but the offense can adjust based on the audibles installed on that play... the defense is purely reacting. I like to use the example of a game in poor conditions. Offensive players have an advantage with bad turf, wet turf, etc. because they know exactly what they’re doing on that play... the defender is doing their best to react to it. The call was correct, the execution was correct, the result was a great player made a great play. It happens. What would people say if McDermott didn’t call a timeout and that exact same result occurred? That the defense was unorganized and players didn’t know their assignments?

Hopefully they keep playing loose and don’t get too tense after this fluke loss.

I highlighted it in the thread prior, but McDermott seems to follow a pretty common interview tactic. If someone asks a question that he doesn’t want to answer, he just sort of recycles the question as his answer. The last question about “did Morse doing something off the field that caused him to not play, or was it a football decision?” He very simply says “It was a football decision.” He’s too respectful to do much more than that IMO.

This makes sense. 1 state institutes a mask mandate during sporting events so that they can continue to be played with spectators and that means at this rate the season will be paused? 🤨

Did you come from the future? He’s under contract for 2021... ask me after next season. In all seriousness I would probably try to extend him through 2022 and decrease the cap hit in 2021.

Dave, just out of curiosity, because your points are really well thought out. I agree with some of Jim’s points for sure, but some of your perspective as well. What’s your football background? Because I can tell you have to have some form of a background in the game. EDIT: Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure Jim said Singletary wasn’t the target as well, but his poor route causes him to be in the area and impact the throw to I believe John Brown? He also said it was an inaccurate throw to Davis, because Josh was late in his progression on that throw. Which tightened the margin for error. Yes, he may have forced that throw to Knox (I actually agree with you on the thought process, you nailed what Josh does) but Jim also made a point that the coverage was designed to be confusing and hidden. He made the point that there’s really no way Josh could know that Peterson was a robber in that situation. So yes, he forced it, but maybe Josh’s process wasn’t entirely bad.

I need to do a much better job of finding my voice on here. Definitely a broad brush, was supposed to be fairly sarcastic but my tendency to speak hyperbole tends to hurt me when typing as opposed to speaking. Love the rest of your points!

This board as a whole reads at roughly a 3rd grade level. Listening comprehension is roughly at a 1st grade level. I enjoy Kubiak... really neutral POV IMO. I personally like Cover1 because it’s free to watch and I learn better with visual aides and listening than I do reading. I think Cover1 is a really good source but tend to sugar coat some things here and there... Kubiak, like I said is neutral. It’s amazing the sources there are publicly available. You’d be surprised at how many pro teams keep tabs on these guys internally and learn from their breakdowns. We do it all the time... amazing free source for teams to learn from... even if they’re not as polished as the breakdown by the team themselves.

For everyone that’s not going to read the entire thread... this is a brief synopsis of the McDermott presser. The order the questions were asked, when they were asked and how McDermott responded. The OP and the folks on Twitter have been mixing and matching statements from McDermott out of order in order to create a story. There really is not a whole lot here.

Yup. Just the nature of things... just have to keep pushing through. A lot of people claim the Bills are pretty lucky this year being 7-3. It would be lucky if they had a weak schedule IMO. Bills/Dolphins will be the most battled tested teams come playoff time. Bills slightly more so than MIA, but close.

Would’ve been nice. We get the AFC and NFC South next year. Things change year to year but a lot of good teams in there. Saints, Bucs, Colts, Titans. Falcons have talent. Panthers are building. Texans and Jaguars are scrappy.

I am sorry your father didn’t teach you proper English? Boom. Roasted. 60% of games in the NFL are decided by a score or less. Get over it. Let’s also neglect to mention it was against two of the top 5 offenses in the NFL.

No. He did not. The combination of Dawkins-Boettger-Feliciano-Winters-Williams that started the game played 100% of the snaps. No other lineman actually made their way on to the field as an eligible receiver or anything like that.

Yes, very good point! This kind of goes into your post hitting the media hard last week. IMO they do a very poor job of asking the right questions and connecting the dots between something like Feliciano’s comments against NE and how it may impact Morse... maybe if Joe B goes “Sean, Feliciano said after NE it was easier for him to play center right now because his pec isn’t 100%. Did his injury factor into the decision to keep him there for now? Do you have any intention of moving him back to G when he’s more comfortable?” And then boom Sean opens up a little more on the topic because it’s interconnected. Sean, like Belichick, will give you some very good answers... if you ask some very good question. It’s a reward thing... when you watch Sean he reacts to certain things more positively than others. For example the “football decision” comment that is in the title of this thread... a reporter asked specifically, with no context of what he meant by “football decision” asked McDermott (paraphrasing) “Did Morse do something or fail to do something off-field that caused him to not start, or was it a football decision?” It was basically a yes or no question... either Sean says it was an off-field reason or it was a football decision. To Sean, football decision could mean absolutely anything in his mind. It could mean that Morse sucks, Feliciano is still playing hurt and is healthy but his hurt and healthy is less significant than Morse, it could mean he’s a football czar and makes football decisions! Sean just reused the term given to him... it’s a very common tactic in sports interviews... the reporter gave him an out when it came to specific details. McDermott just had to say “it was a football decision” and boom he gave an answer that doesn’t allow for follow up. The reporters want to blame the coach, which fine, he’s vague. But maybe the reporters should come prepared with well-phrased questions and not stumble over their thoughts as they try to come up with a question on the spot. The wording matters, the flow of the interview matters, the context matters. They seem to get lazy with it and in return get lazy answers that lead to ambiguous answers from McDermott... maybe that’s what they want so they can put their own spin on it?

I shouldn’t have been so definite with my Morse statement, that’s fair. I guess what is was trying to highlight was a lot of what McDermott said was fairly normal and most of it was taken out of context. I mean he seriously spent 15-30 seconds in total responding to all 3 questions. Yeah it comes down to which OL has the comparative advantage over the other... which comes down to who is better at each spot. I would think that even if Feliciano has a slight edge on Morse at C, Feliciano would have a substantial edge on Winters/Boetteger/Ford at either of the G spots. Which then you’d have to determine whether the slight decline at C is worth the significant upgrade at the G spots by inserting Feliciano there. You nailed it spot on at the end there. I don’t think Morse is outside of our top 5 o-lineman, but it seems to me they were figuring out which G combination works best... coupled with Morse being healthy but the line having some success last week it just seems like a 1 week thing. I’m not saying I’ll be right at the end of the day, but it seems to me a lot was made out of such little that McDermott provided. The OP was misleading and made things seem so much worse than the way it unfolded in the press conference.

Yes, sarcasm. Lol