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Colts are a problem

well ya don’t do it twice in a row Minnesota 🤦🏻‍♂️

Love that all out blitz by the Vikings. A lost art.

If this game proves anything, it’s that blitzing Tua nonstop WORKS. You can blitz him every single play and it will work almost every time. How every coordinator has not figured this out yet is beyond me.

what is your worst case scenario for our playoff matchups?

Youre describing the normal playoff scenario where we lose. Home in the second round to a team we lost to previously. And then facing the Chiefs, where we always lose.

We have already lost to the 2nd round team and historically always lose to the 3rd round team. Not sure how that's "not too bad".

It just launched and will be available the rest of the season (if it’s like past years). Kinda hate the current prediction.

No one is stating that run checks don't exist. We are stating that your example is not correct. This is the play and formation (below) where you wanted Allen to check to the right: The QB is going to walk up to the LOS and divide the defensive box into halves. I have made them into orange and yellow boxes for convenience. He sees 4 defenders on the right and 4 on the left. This is an even box. The WR goes in motion for the sole purpose of drawing either the left CB or left LB to follow him, making it only 3 defenders on that side of the field: The left CB, as planned, does start to follow the motion WR but quickly recovers and goes back toward the ballcarrier when he see's its a run. Keon, being oblivious to this fact, does not block this CB. He also doesn't chip the DE like he is supposed to, barely getting a single hand on him: Keon, having done absolutely NOTHING to help, moves on to the second level to block literal AIR, and Edwards, who was slow off the ball, puts both of his hands into Dion's back instead of engaging the DE. McGovern is meanwhile being stiff armed to the face and overpowered. Everyone in red (below) completely misses their blocks, dooming the play. Not because of the direction, but because they suck at football. Summary: NO, this play should NOT have gone to the other side. It was called properly and Allen diagnosed the defense properly. It would have been a huge gain if the O-line and Keon simply made their blocks. No, NOT everyone is a viable target. Progressions and pressure, for one. But also, Joe Brady has talked in depth about how his offense has receivers whose only job is to clear out or draw attention away from where the play is meant to go, and just because they are open is not meant as an indication for Josh to go there... that they set up plays for later, etc.

As one on the other side, yes it is. No, you posted a few plays with poor analysis and attributed blame to the wrong person on most of them. For example: On the 2nd & 10 you wanted Josh to throw the swing pass. I dont know what game you're watching but the play-call was for Josh to keep the ball. That was literally the play. You see Edwards pull and McGovern block down. This was a run all the way. The swing route was a distraction. If Allen throws that, its immediately illegal man downfield. On another play you say Josh has plenty of options and should have thrown to one of them, completely ignoring that his first read has 1 on 1 on the outside with no safety help because there are 2 receivers on that side and the safety is playing middle. In another play you say that Josh should have audibled to run on the other side of the field, because you saw more Bills players over there and thinks thats how that work (it doesnt). I could keep going on, but what's the points? So yes, you posted a bunch of images and wrote words, but they were grounded in a lack of football knowledge and understanding of what is happening. In general you really struggle with understanding progressions and that not every person on the field is a viable target.

Flacco after having good WR’s for the first time in his career: “today I saw how the defense has to treat those guys (Higgins/Chase). And if you don’t treat them a certain way, they can hurt you.”

Lol!

I can’t figure out what to make of Zac Taylor

There was some of this AFTER he spent half the game getting clobbered from pressure.

Josh was not great. But the disconnect between the two posting groups is that some of us think that Allen played poorly in part due to the porous line and non-stop pressure he was under. Even Tom Brady looked bad in games where he was under nonstop pressure. It gets to a QB.

Wow NFL receptions rules are dumb

Bingo.

Watch the entire ALL 22 and you might puke. Zero separation as far as the eye can see.

Yep. This would not move the needle at all.

Beautifully written.

The fans on this forum are so spoiled by Allen that they have no idea what they're looking at anymore.

Nah. This is exactly the BS type of move Beane loves to make. Acquiring a player who won’t move the needle at all. I want a WR but not Meyers. Someone who can actually help us.

I was just telling another poster this yesterday" Most NFL fans dont realize that NFL coaches are just normal average people like anyone else. Most are not extraordinarily smart (one exception I can think of off the top of my head is Sean McVay). For the most part, these are average people who were in the right place at the right time and get into the NFL. Position coaches typically get promoted to coordinator because they are on the right team - for example, they are a lowly position coach on a team who drafts Peyton Manning, team becomes good, its assumed that position coach must be good because they're winning games, and that coach gets promoted. This is why you see so many coaches struggle on different teams after having success on one. Many posters have this idea that coaches are brilliant football minds. Many are not.

Correct. Not sure what made you think a podcaster is an expert in the first place.

This might be true if the person saying this doesn’t understand progressions or how football works from the QB position.