Billy Claude

Yes, I absolutely agree -- other factors play a much larger role in him not getting another HC opportunity. His record with the Vikings was worse than I thought (.400) although it was impressive that he got into playoffs with Christian Ponder as his QB even if he had prime Adrian Peterson. He also doesn't give the impression he is that interested in being a head coach. If he wanted it out there that he was looking he wouldn't have turned down a Rooney interview last year.

The Gase and Mularkey hires were a complete shock to me. Gase for some reason has great relations with the owners and almost no-one else.

I don't know where Frazier was on the list but it was widely reported that Dennison was his third choice for OC with Mike McCoy being his top choice.

I am not saying that Frazier deserves another opportunity and I don't think he even wants to be HC but really? You can't name one? Are we forgetting Adam Gase already? If we just consider NY/NJ related coaches, how about Dick Jauron, Mike Mularkey, Doug Marrone, Rex Ryan, and Pat Shumur?

That's what Trace McSorley is. Obviously no Lamar Jackson, but he ran a 4.57 40 and had 800 yards rushing his senior year at Penn State. He is Johnny Manziel without the off field problems.

I believe they said 2 stops out of 13 on 2 pt conversions over the last two seasons on gr this morning. .

Slightly unfair -- since Tomlin came from the defense side he not as involved in the Xs and Os that are more obvious to fans. Of course his defense gave up 45 and 36 points in the last two playoff losses so that doesn't help.

Wasn't this what they said about Andy Reid before he won the last Super Bowl -- i.e.., that he was a very good coach but would always get out-coached in the big games?

Definition of misleading use of statistics. It makes sense that your not going to get as many yards in cold weather but you can tell nothing this small a sample size.

Not defending it, but QBR is the only rating system that includes QB runs so that undoubtedly contributed to Jackson's better than expected numbers.

Here it is: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/10/dolphins-steelers-blitz-touchdown-tanking "Everyone thinks a bizarre Dolphins play call is proof of tanking" It wasn't a Hail Mary but a sell out blitz on a 3rd and 20 that led to a 55 yard Steeler touchdown.

Thanks. Makes sense.

Top of list is all young qbs except for Flacco and Newton. Most of bottom of list all veterans (Rivers, Brees, Smith, Brady) and Mahomes is a special case but why don't people blitz Trubisky and Minshew?

Here it using Pro Football reference data: Definitions: Blitz % = # Blitz/Dropbacks = # Blitz/( #Atts + #Scrambles+ #Sacks) Hurry % = (#sacks + #hurrys + #hits + #scrambes)/ Dropbacks 100 dropbacks or more Allen #4 in blitz percentage and #25 in hurry percentage Blitz % Hurry % Tua Tagovailoa 44.6% 14.3% Cam Newton 44.1% 27.5% Joe Flacco 38.4% 29.5% Josh Allen 38.3% 20.6% Daniel Jones 38.2% 27.5% Jake Luton 37.3% 21.2% Sam Darnold 37.2% 27.9% Baker Mayfield 34.1% 14.5% Andy Dalton 33.9% 14.6% Ryan Fitzpatrick 33.6% 21.9% Carson Wentz 33.4% 27.0% Jared Goff 32.9% 15.5% Matthew Stafford 32.4% 23.3% Nick Mullens 32.3% 30.0% Jimmy Garoppolo 32.3% 20.0% Ryan Tannehill 31.9% 23.1% Aaron Rodgers 31.8% 13.1% Derek Carr 31.0% 17.7% Russell Wilson 30.9% 27.0% Joe Burrow 30.5% 20.8% Kirk Cousins 30.0% 24.9% Ben Roethlisberger 29.7% 15.3% Nick Foles 29.5% 21.4% Drew Lock 29.2% 24.1% Deshaun Watson 29.1% 23.8% Justin Herbert 28.8% 26.1% Teddy Bridgewater 27.8% 18.4% Matt Ryan 27.1% 24.4% Dak Prescott 27.1% 21.3% Lamar Jackson 25.5% 22.1% Dwayne Haskins 24.5% 22.7% Kyler Murray 24.4% 17.3% Tom Brady 23.3% 16.8% Drew Brees 22.9% 13.5% Alex Smith 22.0% 29.5% Gardner Minshew II 21.0% 21.9% Mitchell Trubisky 20.4% 21.1% Philip Rivers 20.1% 14.7% Patrick Mahomes 19.7% 20.1%

Based on their play at the end of last season, I was hoping to see a big step up from both Tremaine Edmunds and Ed Oliver. For whatever reason it hasn't happened though they have been looking better recently. If either one becomes real stars, there would be no question that Beane is one of the top drafting GMs.

Probably a more meaningful stat than the average is the median which was 2 yards. In fact, not counting fumbles, they were on 2nd and 8 or longer 13 out of 22 times. I don't know what the league median is on first downs but I assume more than 2 yards.

If you count Cleveland Nick Saban, Kirk Ferentz, and Jim Swartz are all in the Bellichek tree. If you take into account he was also GM there, you can also Ozzie Newsome, Scott Pioli and Phil Savage also.

On Sportscenter on Sunday they started with showing two or three bad throws that Mahomes made in the first quarter and then showing how good he was the rest of the game. If they did this with Allen half the board would be up in arms about why the media is blatantly hates the Bills.

I assume they are not the same people but I could be wrong.

I absolutely agree that he has improved. I do not understand people saying 6 for 8 fg kicking is a good game.

I understand the guy is a rookie and that everyone wants him to do well but it is unreasonable for people to give him game balls for a 6 out of 8 days. From the discussion it appears that people are still looking at stats from the 1990's or cherry picking a few kickers having bad years. The NFL field goal percentage this year is 85% (341 our of 401). The field goal percentage from 40 to 49 is 80.6% and for 50 or higher is 62%. Tyler Bass is at 71% total, he has hit 5 out of 6 kicks from 40 to 49 is at 83.3% and 1 out of 2 from 50. Only 7 out of 124 fgs from 30 to 39 has been missed. Bass has missed three of them. Out of the top 32 kickers by attempts (5 or more), Tyler Bass ranks 28th in field goal percentage. Twelve kickers are over 90% and 21 are over 80%. The four kickers behind him are Michael Badgley, Jake Elliot, Dustin Hopkins and Steven Gostkowski, three of which have a records of success and Gostkowski has hit 5 out of 5 kicks 50 yards or more. I understand the guy is a rookie and I certainly are not looking to cut him but he needs to get much better.

I am pretty sure that is what he is counting on.

Incredible stats line for Alex Smith 9 out of 17 for 37 yards -- 6 sacks for -31 yards -- a net of 6 yards on 23 drop-backs for 0.26 yards per passing play. I was going to say this has to be one of the worse statlines in NFL history but I guess 5 interceptions in a half is worse than that.

I think the following is the most relevant quote from the article -- there are very few athletes who are able to identify where they need to improve as well as he does. The trait that Allen is rarely given enough credit for, Vigen believes, is his competitive intelligence — his willingness to identify what he needs to improve. Vigen had watched Allen mature over the years in his ability to attack those weaknesses. In discussions this offseason, Vigen sensed Allen was “on a mission.”