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They are both great in zone coverage, but I'm not sure how good they are playing man.

It is not the loss of the game. It is the fact that the loss revealed some very troubling things - chiefly: - The offense seems to lack all creativity. Very rarely is someone schemed open. - The play calling is befuddling at times (see the Knox and Moore plays). - We have a good run game, but we are running it often against stacked boxes - which makes everything harder. Either we refuse to take advantage of that downfield (Brady) or we can't (WR) or both. - This all works together to often put Josh in the position of having to make a play to keep a drive alive. Then, all it takes is one bad play, one great blitz by the defense, or one bad ref call for us to be stalled. - The defense has problems...but we knew those already. I'm bothered because the last two games have forcibly ripped the rose colored glasses off my face when looking at the offense.

Like I said, I don't want to believe it. To be clear, it is only Gen Z. I looked up and found the study: https://www.resumetemplates.com/nearly-half-of-gen-zers-have-mom-regularly-talk-to-their-boss/ It really does seem ridiculous. Unfortunately, my experience with my businesses is that 50% is probably accurate. I'm sure there are some fields where the number is lower, but I know a hiring manager for McDonalds who tells me her experience is that it is closer to 100%. I'm sure that brings up the average.

I agree, but unfortunately this is the direction of the world lately. In my generation we would have been mocked by even our friends for it. I have seen stats that look unbelievably ridiculous, as in about 50% of this current generation have their parents regularly talk to their boss. I don't want to believe it, but my personal experience says it's true. Helicopter and Snowplow parents make their kids weak and prevent them from truly growing up.

Bills 30 Cheats 24 Vrabel is a solid coach and a good hire, Maye is a rising QB, McDaniel might be a bad head coach but he is a good OC, Henderson is a good back, Diggs will get some plays. I would like to think this would be an easy win, but I know better. The difference between a great team and a middle of the road team is not that big, the Pats have shaved the difference a little, and it is a division game. This will be closer than we are comfortable with and there will be some overreaction to what that means.

Yes. He single handedly killed like 3 or 4 drives. He trips on the 4th down and we easily get the first if he makes his block. I distinctly remember one where he had a TE chip his man and he still let him by. He is not the end of the world, but it was noticeable. I hate to complain about the refs, but I agree completely. On the season, NO had committed a lot of penalties and we hadn't. I'm supposed to believe that the teams just switched identities and now we commit all the penalties?

34-19 Bills win. We wont break 40 because we will not need to and will be content running the ball. We'll be up 3 scores and the Saints will score a TD on their last, meaningless drive. They will go for two and miss.

I want to see more passes to Shakir and Moore - they both look dangerous with the ball.

Our defense struggles with covering speed. They back off too much. Tua absolutely could not throw down field. We should have squeezed them.

The weird thing is that I have never considered Micah unathletic. It might come down to definition. Are we really just talking about speed? He definitely had slowed down near the end. I just keep seeing in my mind the over the head interception at the goal line against the Pats, thinking about how he just decided to score as the hands guy defending the onside kick, him returning kicks, him playing baseball, being such a great safety, etc. He just struck me as a superb athlete. I know that his RAS score is not even close to being good and that Hancock's RAS is elite. Like I said, weird.

I did it while my grandkids were talking to me. 😀 Terrible Tua McDaniel Mostly Middlin Dolphins Drubbed Dude

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This is actually kind of important to understand Josh's reaction. If 90% of the stadium left and it was crickets in the stadium, no one would question Josh wondering what in the world was going on. If only 10% of the stadium left, Josh doesn't even notice. Somewhere in between those two extremes is a line where Josh, who believes and is fighting to win on the sideline, looks up and notices and is rankled by it. Honestly, if 2/3 left, I don't blame him for calling it out. Also, I doubt as many leave if this is a 1:00 game.

Both of these are true and both of these are good things. Another benefit of a strong culture is that you can take in some talented players, who are maybe not the highest character players, and the culture carries them so that you can get the benefit of all their talent. The players police themselves, as it were. If you have too many of them, things unravel. It is like back in the day when people like Kelly used to talk about the over/under on the number of players you could have from the U. They were good players, so you wanted some of them, but you didn't want too many.

Speaking of Shavers making the team: "My wife is happy because now his wife stays around." I get that all the culture stuff will always be nit picked until we win a Superbowl, but culture matters. The WR market is crazy and Shakir would have gotten more on the open market. He chose to stay here.