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Good idea. What could possibly go wrong?

The Final Countdown: Desolation Row: The Carnival id Over: Nowhere Man: Dust in the Wind: (I can't get no) satisfaction: Baby Blue: To end on a hopeful note: takin' Care of Business:

Interesting firing given last night's O performance. The O's play was more lack of execution rather than poor playcalling. maybe what got Dorsey fired was the fact that he didn't go with the run game until the last drive; that and the cumulative poor performances of the O in previous games. Brady will run the same system -- you can't change systems mid-season. Hopefully he will learn from what happened to Dorsey and call better plays. It will be interesting to see if we continue to go shotgun under Brady. Shotgun helps Josh make quicker reads. We'll see if they stay with it or go under center on passing plays. Our running game was surprisingly very effective last night. I don't know how proficient the Broncos are against teh run. I do know that our O line is not good enough to run consistently against the better DL teams.

This was another frustrating loss and I get that people want to fire McD because of that. What is needed here is a clear-eyed analysis of the team's on field failures and maybe that leads to McD being fired.

Maybe so but no coach can micromanage the D when the bullets are flying. The O screwed the pooch tonight. Is that on McD because he's the HC?

The fault is Taron Johnson. It's man coverage with no help over the top because of the max blitz.You simply cannot get beaten long in that situation yet Jeudy did precisely that.

I get this reasoning. The HC is responsible for everything but as such the HC must delegate duties to the asst coaches. The reasonong that screwups are on the HC makes McD responsible for the 4 turnovers (team not physically and mentally prepared) but that's absurd. BTW I realize that you aren't making this argument but it is the logical conclusion that the HC is responsible for everything.

The HC is responsible for everything. But the HC must delegate many of his duties to the asst coaches. But if you fire the HC everytime someone on staff screws up you'll have no continuity. It is troublesome that there are so many screwups late that cost us games and that needs to be fixed.

I agree completely

I agree. My point is that the blunder is likely on the asst coaches. To some extent that's on McD as HC. In any event, the staff needs to work out why these late game blunders happen and take corrective action. BTW I'm not a McD homie. I'm just pointing out that it's not the HC's responsibility to make sure that the FG team does not have too many players.

The FG team is determined pre-game. You send the FG team out. Who thinks to count your men? That's why I think the late injury messed up the FG team.

You do understand that fron the sideline it is difficult (if not impossible) to count all your down linemen. At the very least someone upstairs should have alerted McD to the 12 men.

Maybe. But Taron Johnson screwed up. How do you get beaten long in man coverage when the other team is on the edge of field goal range & will likely looking to throw long

Ok; I get that. But if what I said is true, it's not McD that screwed up.

You do understand that the responsibility for the field goal team is likely on the special teams coach? It is likely that the late DB injurie messup up the field goal team D. The D played well enough to win tonight. Who coaches the D?

Belichick was the one who designed the D that stopped the K-Gun passing game. I read that he did two things: 1. Changed the D after every Buffalo possession so that when Kelly & Marchibroda worked out what the Giants were doing in the previous Bills' possession, Kelly faced a different D on the next possession. 2. The Giants' D was designed to keep everything in front of them. The Bills were a great YAC team and this aspect of the D was designed to limit YAC. Belichick was a very good coach. The combo of bel & Brady made them both GOAT's at their respective positions. As someone on this forum has said, great coaches are great, in part, because they have great players.

Good point but a bit of monday Morning QB'ing. Had the Bills run more the Giants D would have adjusted. How that would have changed the score is an interesting "what-if."

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I've been looking for a mismatched plaid shirt to complete my oufit.

A common misconception. To be precise, the K-Gun was named after McKellar's nickname "Killer"

Nice breakdown. On the early analysis of Josh's interceptions I noticed that Josh tends to stare his receiver down. Good opponents will pick that up on tape and coach their DBs to follow Josh's eyes. I did not notice Josh doing this last year. It may be a function of the quick reads built into Dorsey's offense which may in turn be a function of our OL not being the best. Josh previously took I think 3.5 secs to throw and now he may be down to 2.5 secs. Josh got that extra second not by the OL but by Josh's scrambling.

On the reading process, specifically which side the QB reads first: Picking a side is based on the alignment of the DBs, usually the safeties. The read of the safeties can be pre-snap or post-snap based on the movement of the safeties. That tells the QB which side he looks to first. If the receivers on that side are covered the QB looks to the other side. It looks easy by as someone has said the QB has about 2.5 seconds to make his reads and throw the ball. FWIW Josh immediately looks to one side. He doesn't attempt to look off the safety on that side so the safety knows which side the initial reads are on.

"DVOA" is a term I have seen used several times on the board but was unfamiliar to me so I looked it up. For those who are as clueless as I, I quote from the following site: "That term is “DVOA” or “Defense-adjusted Value Over Average.” Not “Dorks Value Only Analytics,” as one ESPN reporter put it this week. Did that just bring your brain to a screeching halt? That’s okay, it’s done the same thing to me too. Football Outsiders, who uses DVOA as the heart of their work, defines the statistic as the following: “DVOA breaks down the entire season play-by-play, comparing success on each play to the league average based on a number of variables including down, distance, location on field, current score gap, quarter, and opponent quality.” So in layman’s terms, DVOA is a statistic that takes things into consideration plain old stats might not. For example, Kirk Cousins had a decent day in the box score on Sunday (19-25 for 259 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception plus 34 yards rushing) but his DVOA took a bit of a hit because the Vikings were playing from behind, which does have some impact on how DVOA is calculated as noted above (Cousins ranked 9th in DVOA after Week 1). DVOA looks at the average result of a play in a similar situation, and when teams are down big, they tend to throw a lot and go for chunk plays. Cousins was successful in doing that (over 10 yards per attempt), but because the baseline is higher, his value over average dips." https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/by-the-numbers/2020/9/17/21441001/dvoa-a-beginners-look-at-a-misunderstood-metric-packers-football-outsiders Hope this helps.