Buffalo Junction

It’s always QB and trenches first and foremost. If a team is bad at two out of three — QB, OL, DL — they generally top out at a .500 record. When a team is good in all three they’re generally a playoff team regardless of the strength of other position groups. With regards to value at other positions…. Fill in the best talent that you can find because guys like Cook, Gibbs, Jefferson, Chase, etc don’t grow on trees. Get the trenches right, find a QB, get a few playmakers and most competent coordinators should be able to make something positive happen.

McDermott is a good enough play caller to work around some of these issues. However, McD is still going to get caught from time to time with the wrong call solely because of available talent. You can manufacture pressure, run stops, etc, but you have to gamble a bit to pull it off.

Achilles injury coming up

The fun play is going to come from him jumping an out route.

Bishop seems to be showing up with Poyer next to him instead of Rapp.

Watching that Packers/Steelers game last night was a bit eye opening with regards to this…. It seemed like LeFleur had an answer schemed up for almost everything the Steelers threw at them.

They just brought him back from IR after Havrisik was doing well…. They might just IR him again or cut him.

Not with the way the referees call penalties. A few games aside I haven’t really paid attention to Parsons while he was in Dallas. I’ve seen four GB games this year and it seems like the refs haven’t been calling blatant/flagrant holding on him or Gary since week one — not arm bar stuff, but legit headlock from behind holding. Honestly feels like Oline penalties have been selective all year for most teams though. Holding, false starts, illegal cut blocks, etc seem to be more subjective than normal this year.

I understand that it’s a passing league, but I will never understand only playing small faster LBers without dominant DTs that can keep them free to flow…. or at least a solid run stuffing 1T.

If Wade Phillips had JA17 instead of Flutie/Johnson he’d likely had several SB visits and at least one win.

He’s a rookie and he came into the season with a back injury which at his size could be aggravated with too much of a workload too quickly.

He absolutely has more upside. The concerns are improving technique, increasing lower body strength, and staying healthy with his back condition. Kid certainly has the talent to be a top DT

Two aspects you’re missing with how Coleman fits into everybody eats and separation are 1. Everybody eats includes the running backs, WR screens, and relies on YAC. Having WRs that can effectively block downfield adds to that. 2. Larger WRs that can high-point the ball is a form of separation, especially in the red zone where speed is mitigated. It’s certainly debatable if those particular skill fits were worth a trade down and high 2nd round pick when you could get that from a Mack Hollins. That said, neither Kincaid nor any of the other WRs on this roster were proven commodities with those traits. That aside, I wasn’t particularly fond of Worthy or Coleman pre draft.

Maybe waiting by the back entrance for an escort to be dropped off?

Easy now with Waze and car navigation, but back in the day…. “How the hell did I end up in Jersey?” 😆