Coach Tuesday

Because mental toughness = screaming like a frustrated toddler. Surely anyone with any life experience knows that.

I'm starting to think they should require a license to use the internet.

Humans...

Thanks for doing all of that work Mango. Very interesting breakdown but I'm not yet sure what to make of it. As you've said here and elsewhere, Allen's most useful comp in terms of the type of offense they'd like to run, and the type of overall strategy McD favors (defense first), is Russell Wilson and the Seahawks. IIRC, Wilson's first couple of years featured many, many games where he'd put up something like 15-22 for 225 yards and 2TDs, with 30-50 yards of scrambling. The defense kept those games close in Seattle. But at some point, just like Wilson, there will eventually be games where the D is struggling and Allen needs to win a shootout. To me, a 300 yard game signifies either an anomaly (like JP Losman's bananas game against the Texans where he hit Lee Evans for two 83 yard TDs in one quarter, and which then became a shootout as the Texans stormed back), or, more typically, that the coach and OC trust the QB enough to put the game in their hands - which is more indicative of the point you're making, i.e., that if a QB doesn't have a 300 yard game by about Year 2.5, it probably means their coaches don't trust them very much which probably means they aren't likely to be a long-term starter in the league.

Bad example.

What does this say about that irresponsible previous regime which drafted him? Or the current regime who let him walk so that they could trade down, pass on two potential All Pro QBs, to draft his replacement?

How about beating the Patriots? Or winning a playoff game?

I mean considering that the run defense still hasn't recovered from that trade, and he's a defensive specialist... he should really shut his pie hole.

Ok but it definitely sounds defensive. And some of those moves presumably were signed off on by his boss Terry. McD hasn't won anything yet - ANYTHING. He really should keep those thoughts to himself.

Said the guy whose boss tried to trade for AB...

If Star "doing is job well" means lazily leaning into his assigned gap and not easily being moved, which might very well be the case, that's great. Star mostly did his job on Sunday. I question why you pay a guy $10M/year to do that job, especially when all hell breaks loose if that guy ever has to move laterally. And don't even think of asking him to fire off the ball, because he can't quick-twitch.

I'm not sure Beane is ready...

Isn't it kind of the opposite?

Great - the LAST thing we need around here is another millennial.

You can't trade a player on IR, I don't think...

Why don't you start a new thread with actual examples from the all-22, instead of posting about it in the trade news thread.

That's totally wrong, I'm sorry. The biggest problem on offense - by far - is the lack of talent to create favorable matchups. Daboll hasn't been great (some great games, some terrible like Sunday) but he's had very little to work with. Bracket John Brown and the whole offense shuts down. That needs to change - they need a serious talent influx ASAP if this team is going to be competitive in December and January.

Bell to the Bills would tip the whole division in our favor. The Jets would be announcing to their locker room and the league that they're in full rebuilding mode under Gase - they'd implode for 2-3 years. The Dolphins are already there. Bell would force the Patriots to actually gameplan against the Bills on defense and would give Daboll a true chess piece to move around. He'd also take a TON of pressure off of Allen. I'd trade a 2nd and 3rd for him in a heartbeat and never look back. That said, I don't want Singletary (or Gore, but less likely) going to the Jets in return.

Derek Wolfe please.

WR, LB/EDGE are the two/three biggest needs. Then maybe an actual NFL tight end which this franchise has really never had.

Derek Wolfe is the player they should trade for. Please OBD, just this once, accommodate me.

Do they even have a first round pick next year?

Huh. For some reason I have it in my head that on third and long specifically, Tyrod's #s were almost historically bad, and Allen's are significantly better. I'll do my best to dig up the stats.

I bet they don't make a single trade.

Really? I remember Tyrod's being almost historically bad. Anyone have access to the data?