Buffalo Junction

Hard to track accurately when you’re dragging an anchor. 🤷‍♂️

Not DPI or defensive holding.

Oddly, we’ve gotten some of these teams at full strength when other contenders haven’t…. Steelers, Titans, etc.

A few plays could have changed the game. Really anything that put the Pats in a position to pass likely would have resulted in a Bills win.

Put in an application

Oliver is undersized and aggressive. The Colts manipulated that, and the Pats followed suit. Without Star or a beastly 1tech that’s going to be exploitable. Milano shot the gaps a few times and made plays, but that’s not reliable long term. Puts us in the circumstances that occurred tonight…. 3-tech washed in a trap, LBer misses fill, Edmunds brushing over the top and can’t scrape off combo blocks fast enough to cover for Epenesa losing contain. Edmunds isn’t going to look great without a dominant 1 tech or as a will in a 3-4. He’s not a downhill LBer. Never was; never will be. If McB is happy with that then they need to find a solid 1-tech that’s more reliable than Star…. A guy who can dominate and allow Edmunds to scrape and get to the edge.

See above. Also….. watch blocking schemes and the like. Wait. Watch the cover 1 and tag me tuesday

He’s good at what he was drafted to do. 🤷‍♂️. Guy shrinks zones and plays cleanup. He’s Poz with the ability to play zone….. Might want to rail on Oliver for being unable to figure out when he’s being trapped, Epenesa for failing to contain….. when the DL ***** up combination blocks get to the second level. A fair amount of that is on the front four and coaching. Im not high on Edmunds, but this loss doesn’t sit on his shoulders alone.

Quoted because there’s no BB ******* emoji for you and your mother. 🤷‍♂️

This again? Cool 😎. Can we comment on Dodson getting washed out while railing edmunds?

OMFG. The sky is falling!!!! 😱😱😱🤣

Not Mongo. He needs to be replaced asap as a starter, and I’d consider it a giant failure by Beane if he’s starting next year. Morse and Williams I can see staying around for 2-3 years while they groom replacements, particularly if they tack on a year or two at a more team friendly rate. IIRC Morse already took a pay cut. I don’t view either of those two as a liability, so I think the timetable can be extended if they find a big improvement at LG. That said, I hope they double dip on the interior in the draft and possibly supplement that with a starting left guard in FA. As for Johnson… He needs to improve or adding talent may not matter. Agree that he’s likely coaching for his job right now. There are definitely other variables at play, but he has to own some of the responsibility for who they’ve kept on the roster.

I see a slightly longer timeframe (2-3 years), but agree that these guys need to be phased out with younger and/ more dynamic talent. Personally, I’ve been concerned with the regression and lack of development in the trenches. I can’t speak from authority about Bobby Johnson, but it certainly appears that something is off with the development pipeline … whether that’s talent or coaching 🤷‍♂️.

When it comes to OL the Morse and Williams contracts were the right moves. We needed a solid veteran center to pair with a rookie QB. Providing that recognition and experience as a resource for Allen was important. As Allen’s pre snap recognition skills improve Morse’s value to the team decreases. Admittedly though, it can be difficult to diagnose center play when the guard play is awful. Ford whiffing on blocks and failing to pick up stunts has made everyone around him look worse than they are. The Williams extension might look like a whiff since he hasn’t panned out at RT this year. However, he’s been solid at guard, and bumping him inside has helped Morse. Most notably the communication coupled with the ability to execute combination blocks and passing off stunting DL has been a night and day improvement over Ford, Mongo, etc. Add Brown into that equation and the right side of the line looks solid. Is this team overpaying Williams to play RG? Maybe, but $8 mil/year isn’t outrageous for a starting guard who can play tackle in a pinch, especially when that player has shown the ability to stonewall top pass rushers on occasion. That last guard spot needs serious improvement. Getting that spot solidified would improve the offense exponentially. Particularly if they can get a player with attitude and talent. Most of us enjoy the edge that Feliciano brings to the table, but he doesn’t have the talent to back it up. Assuming that S Brown pans out at RT and Dawkins rebounds next year (sans Covid) inserting a beast at the LG spot could completely change the nature and effectiveness of the OL. Finding that player though is different matter.

A bunch of linemen downfield could just pancake the second level of defenders. They’d be setting up run blocks 10+ yards downfield while a pass play develops. Couple that with the rules banning defenders from cutting linemen out of the box and you have a recipe for unstoppable offensive plays. Imagine a reverse throwback to Allen or Lamar Jackson where the OL is allowed to engage defenders out of position 10-20 yards downfield….

Breida definitely wasn’t in contention by the end of preseason. Stevenson showed solid vision and speed. I have to wonder how close that competition was. I think that it’s possible the coaching staff put weight on the known commodity. They’re both electric in different ways…. 🤞🏼 that Stevenson ends up 1) staying healthy, 2) developing his route running enough to be a viable weapon going forward, and 3) adds some energy to teams while being reliable.

I swear it’s like people haven’t considered the possibility that Stevenson may have won that return job if he didn’t get IR’d. Not to mention the kid had a decent preseason catching passes Fromm Mr Khakis.

I’d say it’s important because it bumped Williams inside…. Not necessarily because Brown’s an uber talented beast. He’s just better than the alternative and allows the team to eliminate a liability in the middle.

Plus it’s easier to just chip or double a DE with TEs and RBs than it is to provide help to a turnstile on the interior.

Bass has to nail a freakishly long kick or a few game winners in prime time to get that same recognition. He has to do something memorable which will get talked about by the National media for a couple days. 50+ yard game winner in flurries on MNF or something similar.

I hope they stick him out there against the Colts. That defense will likely remember what he did in the playoffs. That might allow Diggs to get some better looks against coverage.

IDK. Browns are a losing team without Chubb and Belichick owns Sam Darnolds soul. That said, the Patriots are a dangerous well coached team that’s strong in the trenches. We’ll see how it plays out.

And….. option money has nothing to do with this years roster and salary cap. This year Klein is costing us $2 million more in cap space than Edmunds.

So is your last name Klein?