MasterStrategist

I won't be surprised if the team has to fly on Sunday am, worse case. Highly unlikely the game is canceled.

Agree he's been practicing in full. But he could still be "feeling" not 100%, or it could be mental (like many are implying). Many players have said they don't feel truly 100%, until 12-18 months after surgery. Like Coach said, it's go time soon. Silver lining is that Benford and Elam have got great learning experience/PT this season, and it will payoff at some point for us in the future.

Tremaine just needs to rest that groin and get healthy for the final stretch of games. Not sure we should expect to see Klein get meaningful amount of snaps against Cleveland, but he's great insurance for a short turnaround against Detroit. And with New England upcoming, he will be helpful. Dodson is certainly capable and did fine against Vikings. He's got athleticism, not Tremaine level, but if I had to pick 1-2 games to see Dodson get snaps it's against Cleveland and Detroit.

Agree, nobody knows what is going on. Everyone just assumes he should be, bc we see other guys come back in a shorter window. But we know Tre was really down after injury, and it might have slowed his initial rehab. No way he was playing 2 games in a 5 day span. It will be good to get him back for New England and have a month+ of games to get ready for playoffs. As of now, a healthy Dane/Elam/Benford is going to have to be good enough. We need our offense to stop turning over the ball and get back to taking care of business, and the dline to generate pressure with 4.

You don't think that same stress on players/personell/staff exists if the game was at home in a major snowstorm? Ie: getting to stadium for practice, etc. To me, either way the schedule is being disrupted for players. Advantage us for having the game in a setting that benefits our style, vs theirs.

7 Home games, "9 away" (& 1 neutral) is better than playing a run-first team in inclement weather.... Will take a neutral domed game as a far trade off.

It's a fantastic comparison. Not only the slump/stats, but the primary reason for it... Mahomes LY in slump: struggled to take the checkdown/forced alot in redzone. Sound familiar? Difference is Mahomes has Andy Reid, I'm hopeful that Dorsey/Allen can get this figured out. Not as simple as "take the checkdown" every play, it's a fine lime of being aggressive and being smart/efficient.

Most of this message board underdtsnfs where thats coming from....Every diehard fan feels the same emotional roller coaster. If you take the losses this hard, I do too, then you need to find an outlet, ie:your daughter, another hobby, work, etc. Everyone needs balance, like this offense could use 😁 At the end of the day, it's just football. Remind yourself that, and see you next week...stay the course/keep believing/don't give up...whatever you need to tell yourself.... Season is far from over, could always be worse (we're 6-3, with a great QB still available).

Exactly, go under freaking center a bit more. Same thing happened under Daboll LY, feel like they changed going into playoffs, but it's frustrating. Not sure we took more than a handful of snaps under center in 2nd half. This team needs to learn how to close out games when leading, it's cliche. But the aggressive offense needs to find a balanced attack, that can sustain drives when ahead. Multiple weeks in a row where 2nd half offense can't put up points. Josh will be OK. He's clearly taking it at, as you would expect. But he's got a potentially 11-12 games remaining...plenty of time to right the ship. Dorsey included, think alot is on Josh right now but Ken can help some more too.

This is the love/hate relationship that you get with a new off coordinator, who is still learning how to call plays with a lead. And, the delicate balance of how aggressive Josh Allen should be. 1st half: establish an average to above average run game, spread ball around on to multiple targets, play smart/execute in redzone 2nd half: abandon run game with double digit lead, put more on Josh's shoulders, turn the ball over multiple times.... It's a frustrating brand of football when our team should be winning these games. Josh will get this figured out, just frustrating for now.

Nothing to do with a single hit/play. It all has to do with coaching, Dorseys/Josh's aggressive styles. When they're on their A-game, few will be beat them. Problem is, being overly aggressive comes with risks. It's a very fine line. Someone needs to take that 4th quarter game tying drive, and put it on replay for Josh's. Showing him its OK to checkdown the ball.

Omg shut up man bc you are being an a**. He just ran the seam with their #2 WR (Thielen). How about those "instincts", everyone likes to roast him for, on that1st PBU against TJ? Unreal criticism, not many LBs are making an INT on either of those, let alone breaking them up

Possibly. But also for S/T. We usually have Benford on teams, guessing Rhodes isn't playing s/t, so it might just be getting #s there. Along with how they envision using Hines, possibly they consider him more Swiss army knife (split out/slot/rb)

Lot of speculation that Cook is inactive, can't see that happening. Just wondering if they are using Duke as "insurance", in case something unlikely happens pregame (ie: injury). Or perhaps someone came down sick today, that we don't know about. For Rhodes, Elam is very very likely out. I'm wondering if both Rhodes and Tre dress. Both these guys haven't played in a full NFL game in quite a while. They have 1 extra game day roster spot, by dressing just 8 DL.

Just saw Parrino reporting that this could be a sign of Duke on punt returns, giving Hines more time to focus on learning the playbook/sync up with offense this week. Still odd to me though, just glad Josh seems to be ok

Agree, very odd move.

Interesting about Duke Johnson.... Bummer about Rhodes, seemed like Tre return game. But another revenge opp for Rhodes.

Pure guess... that we elevate Mike Love and Matt Barkley.

Someone will be elevated, at least a DT. Just no announcement yet, it's been filed with the league already.

One thing being overlooked is we only have 2 P/S callup per week: 1. DL: I definitely expect us to elevate a DL for tomorrow, either Zimmer/Ankou/Love. I'm fairly certain we have dressed 9 DL for each game this season. 2. CB: this will be another tell on Tre's status tomorrow. Elam is very unlikely to play, so it's either Tre or a P/S callup (Rhodes/Ingram). I'm hopeful Tre is ready, which would give flexibility to elevate Barkley as insurance (like you said). But we might not have that luxury, and haven't seen anyone bring up that point. Meaning, if we elevate Barkley and a CB...it was likely due to "need", and point even more toward Allen sitting it out. If its a DL/Barkley, then I see it as a possibility for Allen to play still.

Past weeks these were announced closer to 3pm.

Agree they aren't wasting a P/S elevation, can't recall Coach doing that ever. Only if Josh is truly a GTD. I think alot of the "finalizing" of gameplanning/offensive play scripting is done on Saturdays. IMO, they know if Josh is playing or not,if Barkley is called up then Josh is sitting...Coach isn't trying to play mindgames, like some are alluding to.

Sure, if they had unlimited callups from p/s. But when limited to a few, I don't see them calling him up for no reason...and further, if Josh starts, no way we dress 3 qbs.

It would be interesting to know how much this influences team gameplanning/etc, this late in the week. I'd figure Minny already has their scouting/adjustments prepared, in case Allen plays. At this point, not sure the uncertainty changes anything for them. Not sure Coach is thr type to go thru theatrics. His comments aren't always specific, but if Josh is practicing limited likely points to 50/50...see if Barkley called up tomorrow. FP=100% playing IMO

Coach never said he was practicing, he said he boxes to still check....meaning he's close, but might not be ready. Media also had like 5 min of access to see stretching. So who knows, but very likely Case playing, will know injury report later and tomorrow by 4pm if Barkley is called up.