Mikie2times

Very similar. Great call out.

This is McD's defense, I don't know why people think we would change how we play all that much if Frazier left. Sure McD doesn't call the plays, but the system? That's who he is. It might also be who Frazier is, but either way, it's not one that typically dictates opponent play with pressure. It is more death by a thousand cuts to beat us. Which seems like a style more teams are flashing, especially vs better QB's. It seems to frustrate better QB's when they don't get the chunk plays (sound familiar?). Maybe our system is the best defensive system to play in today's NFL even if I really don't care for it.

He knows his medical status, he acted like a flirtatious 12 year old on social media. Like it was the damn Lebron James signing tour. Months this went on. How didn't he contribute to this d baggery? False advertising and I'm sure some didn't appreciate it.

I'm sure it's among the 100 pages, but Jerry was saying his medical status was in doubt and he might not even be available for the playoffs. I about puked watching the Giants / Cowboys on Turkey day and just washing them wash OBJ's manhood all game replaying his catch and talking about him incessantly. He probably broke his Tivo rewind button and ran out of lubrication. Dude is in his 30's and he doesn't have 1,000 yards combined in his last two seasons. I JUST DON'T GET IT.

Right? Mahomes didn't see Von coming in that game because he was on him before he could react. Unlike last year where he seemed to frolic in circles for 2 minutes eventually alluding our pass rush. Groot was having a dominant season before injury. I hope that was on the back of learning from Von and further maturity. Oliver is having a dominant season. Several others are much improved. I hope it's enough.

Von was never meant for the regular season. He can and will turn it on as he see's fit. He's smart like that because he still has enough in the tank to dominate any play, but he can't do it for a whole game. One thing I can say for sure is if it's 4th down and we are in the Super Bowl and we need one stop to win it, he's the most important player on the team in that moment.

I think the system makes it harder to love your players/team, similar to NFL and free agency, but then again, the team loyalty itself is the driver for most. The players are just evolving jersey fillers. I guess I don't mind it too much. One thing I will say, no more Alabama dominance. With NIL money, no 4 star is going to stay more than a year growing in the system. We will still see elite schools on a consistent basis, but the outright domination as we saw with Bama is done. Lastly, I would absolutely want nothing to do with CFB right now if I was a coach. You recruit your rear end off, lose half your gains, try and stop portal transfers, try and compete with NIL money. It's too much. I could easily see a GM style position taken on by some colleges as the roster management and moving pieces is just getting to be too much for one guy who is supposed to be focused on X's and O's.

Draft CB, trade down, draft more CB's, once the draft ends, look at the UDFA's and see what CB's are available.

I think most the sports leagues do a great job at rendering the regular season meaningless by not giving it's best teams more of an advantage in the playoffs. These are professional athletes, usually the competition is tight and the best teams over an entire season should be given an advantage over the rest. That said, I have had a huge issue with the current one team bye system. One team can have a horrible division, injury luck, all sorts of outlying factors. Rarely do we ever have one clear #1 with a distant #2. Usually it is extremely close. This year we will have beaten every division leader and will win our division 🤑 but we still have risk of not getting the bye. 74% of the bye teams win in the divisional round so in our current system, you have what amounts to a 75% chance of playing the AFC championship game at home if you get that bye. It matters and it should be given to two teams as they used to in order to balance out how much of an advantage it is (spare me examples of wild card wonders or how the bye team never seems to win the big game). Run a sample size large enough and it's a big advantage, one an injury riddled team like Buffalo could really stand to gain.

I don't think it was Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused. I think it was Cole Beasley.

I'm 40 and have had two fairly major surgeries and will always be impacted to some degree by them. I just don't understand how these people have the strength and courage they do. It's easy for me to say I have been unlucky with these surgeries as that is the case. Then anybody who has been in the hospital for more than a week knows how much that sucks. What I'm trying to say is it's really easy to let your mind spin in the wrong direction with your fortune. Then I consider people like this girl. How she is approaching it. The mental strength she must have and that gives others strength through her. I hope she understands this. That even as an 18 year old who has barely experienced life at all, she has the ability to impact more people than most of us ever will and she is doing so right now. I will tell her as much in a card. Thanks for sharing her story.

I think it has a place because as the OP pointed out, footballs origins are from rugby. It allows for an advantage to be had to a team that is better prepared and plays with higher awareness. Which again, I don't see an issue with.

On defense we match up exceptionally well against the Bengals and the Chiefs match up very poorly. All the Bengals want to do is get you in man. This trend dates back to last year where they just torched man coverage but struggled with zone. In an ideal world the Bengals will dispatch KC for us and we will dispatch the Bengals. We will see for sure at the end of the year but i just think we match up better against Cincinnati. Perhaps as well as anybody. https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/news/joe-burrow-bengals-issues-when-facing-cover-2-defenses https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/lists/joe-burrow-zac-taylor-concinnati-bengals-offensive-line/

Little concerned about blowing a knee out. Sometimes we see the air Allen, but defenders go at his legs with force and every time they land one it’s scares this crap out of me. I think the biggest difference from Josh and just about any comp or even unfair comp, is when Josh can no longer be mobile he will be just fine. His mobility gives him another dimension, but he can also beat you from the pocket just fine.

I know a guy that can get you a CFB jersey with the name and a torso in it.

Prior to Art Briles Baylor competed with Kansas as the worst team in the Big 12. Briles tenure ended with a sexual assault scandal that left the program in shambles. All coaches and the AD were dismissed. Most of the team left. That is what Matt Rhule inherited. Scott Frost inherited a UCF program that had a history of winning for over a decade in a softer conference. They happened to be coming off the worst year they had in program history. For Baylor, losing was just normal until Art Briles and RG3. Frost coached two whole years at UCF, with one exceptional season then proceeded to become the laughing stock of the Big 10. The literal pinnacle of ineptitude. While Rhule restored Baylor back to the level Briles had built in a major conference. Rhule should have never got the NFL job. Almost none of these NFL jobs work out for the CFB guys. But Frost failed once he reached the level Rhule already succeeded in. It's not a comparison to me. It's not as if Nebraska wasn't a talented team.

Is that you Lamar?

He was running out to celebrate. He ran on the field when the player was down on the ground, but not ruled down. Up until NFL, he is down. Shocked this hasn't happened more. I think when he realized he was on the field he chose the second pill instead of the first.

They're good. I wish that wasn't the case, but they have the greatest play making WR in the game, opposite him, a WR that is turning into a Top 10 player, if not already, at his position. Then a QB who plays within the system and does so effectively. With a coach who has the right system for his players. Then bring in a defense that is not a liability and can even make some plays. It doesn't really matter who they played the last 5. They're good, when healthy, we are better. Hopefully we can get healthy soon.

Crazy

I don't find what your saying unreasonable by any stretch. Again, he's just not what I want, but in a world where the best guys get paid the best (not this list) I would say around 10.

I don't think we watched the same game. He constantly bailed out of the play design. Couldn't do anything in the 4th quarter. Looked average. Which is what he is. I can name 15 QB's I would rather have, 10 in a landslide.

I wonder what it looks like outside of a Roman offense. I doubt he is going to get the Baltimore treatment somewhere else. IMO, it could look much worse, but what they're doing with him right now won't allow for things to get much better. We have seen the best the Ravens can be with Lamar and in that system. It's never going to progress or get better, nor is it ever going to be bad. Just not good enough. I don't want all these questions with a guy I need to pay 200 million dollars to. I don't want questions when I spend that type of money.

I wouldn't be in the market for him. This is a passing league. I don't care about the MVP or how athletic he is. He's got a ceiling over his head in how far he can take you and will decline more rapidly than just about any QB in the league.

The Ravens letting him walk will turn out to be a blessing long term.