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'm sure you've seen it, but watch the endzone view of the ALL-22 and he is not even seeing/looking the dump down option. He is keeping his eyes downfield.

Play 1: Allen briefly looks at Davis to the left but sees his defender has safety help and moves to Kincaid, who is running the same route to the right. Hits him for a nice gain that almost went for a TD. Play 2: Sherfield has 1 on 1 and abuses his defender from the snap. Allen rightfully sticks with him. Play 3: This was discussed yesterday. Allen looks to Gabe first but he has coverage shallow and behind him. He makes the right read and goes to the man with a 1 on 1. Play 4: This is the hole shot play where Gabe got open and Allen threw to him. Play 5: Kincaid was the first read and he quickly got leverage and was open. Allen rightfully threw to him. Gabe may be getting open but Allen is making the right read.

Yes and I thought he played quite well. The d-line was getting really good push and shut down the Cinci run game. Ed finished the game with 7 hurries and 2 tackles and 1 stop. I was also impressed that Linval Joseph came off the couch and played 42% of the snaps.

That’s why I was so excited to see the double reverse flea flicker thing. Not because I thought it would work, but rather because it was a sign that there was some creativity left *somewhere* in the dusty pages of the playbook.

This doesn’t look like an RPO to me. If so, Allen did not give any indication of RPO and Diggs did not seem ready... at all… for a pass. I also don't think i've seen a tackle pull on any RPO pass this year. Have you? I'll have to check my notes. Came back to edit; Found an RPO with Spencer Brown pulling a couple weeks ago. .

I honestly wasn't attempting to make a connection, but I can see how it appears that way. I am just as confused as everyone else as to why these same players (and in many cases upgrades - speaking of the line) have regressed since Daboll left.

In years past, Allen hit this pass in roughly the red circle below. The safety just has no chance to get there. One move and Gabe might be gone. But if you want to see a tight window throw... My goodness...

I would ask - did these same players screw up less under Daboll? You're right, there is, but he has little chance at the ball (he is too far away). I have a hard drive with plenty of this exact throw by Allen throughout the years that made it. I'm not sure why he is underthrowing these.

Yes Kincaid is open, but Davis had his guy beat and it would have been a nice pickup. Davis was Allen's 1st read and he took it. It was just a poor throw. I could post a dozen others. It's just an example to represent the whole. This happens fairly often. Not fall down - no - but so tight in spacing that a WR has to slow down or alter their route.

The Bengals ran a similar dual A gap swim later on in the game and Morse picked it up. I'm thinking it was Morse responsibility (though I don't know for sure)

This was a very frustrating game to analyze. 1) For those who wanted to keep running and establish "balance". It simply wasn't happening. They could have ran 50 times and we simply wouldn't have scored. Very frustrating run blocking performance for several linemen. Example of this (GIF may take a moment to load): 2) More o-line issues. We are 9 games into the season and still having miscommunication between linemen. Torrence clearly thinks he has help from Morse. 3) Why isn't Josh throwing the ball? Well... to whom? Separation is non-existent on many pays. 4) Torrence got tripped up on the screen play. Had he not been tripped, Cook may have scored on this screen. See the following two photos. 5) No defense is convinced by our WR's pretending to be a screen option on shotgun darts. And it's actively hurting us. Instead of our WR's blocking the CB across from them, they fake a screen and then THAT CB goes and plugs a run whole. Shakir's defender on this play is who makes the tackle, stopping the run for a 2 yard gain.

Allen reads Gabe (high/low read) first on this play. He has coverage both in front of him and behind him. Image below: Allen wisely moves off of Davis, and onto the 1 on 1 Hardy has, with no safety help .This is This is the correct read. When Allen makes his decision to throw to Hardy, Gabe Davis still has a shallow defender just waiting to intercept. Allen made the right read. .

Allen made the right read on this play. He had Hardy 1 on 1 with no safety help You take that 100 times out of 100. It is what we signed him for. In addition to this, when Allen was releasing the ball, Davis had a defender shallow of him that has INT written all over it. He did not break out from this zone until the decision to throw was already made. Have you ever watched a football game and yelled at the QB to 'throw the ball!!!' because it was taking too long? That's what happens when you ignore the correct read, hoping that someone else would get open (like Gabe eventually did). The tweeter does not understand this basic concept. Joe Marino is just as bad at this.

The run game was not working Sunday night. Dorsey could have ran 50 times and it was not going to work.

If we can win the next two (Broncos/Jets) I think we will be okay. That would put us at 7-4, needing to go 4-2 or 3-3 the rest of the way. Perhaps 4-2 is a more realistic need, since we lose a lot of tiebreakers at this point.

I’ve never liked critiquing coaches on things that likely don’t matter at all on the win/loss column, but you’re right that those post game speeches are pretty rough 😂.

Why do you feel no one else could have success with this roster?

Top flight offensive minds typically get head coaching jobs.

Sounds like “balance”. Sigh.

Sorry I didn’t catch the actual press conference yet. Just catching up on tweets.

Make of this what you will. Mods if this belongs in another thread, please feel free to merge it. I didn’t know where this exactly fits in.

The problem is we currently lose every tiebreaker. Our AFC record is abysmal. We may need 11 wins.

Personally I think of all games this season, Elam should have been playing last night. Man is his jam.

That's all speculation on your part. Remember, Shoen was hired first. And the Shoen hired Daboll. Not the other way around, like it was done here.

Did Daboll became GM and no one reported it?