Coach Tuesday

Agreed. This sucks for him and I don’t know how he can continue his career.

DVOA, basically, measures situational performance versus a replacement-level baseline. How does your team compare to how your average team would do against that same opponent, in that same down-and-distance.

Correct, but for cap planning purposes I think they have to make the call now - I mean I suppose they could franchise Edmunds and kick the decision down the road but I'd be very surprised if they're wiling to do that.

They are gonna likely have to choose between Edmunds and Oliver. First half of the season I would have given the edge to Oliver, but he's faded down the stretch and Edmunds has stepped up. I wonder if they can trade Oliver.

Oh I agree completely. This front office has been generating media likes for years but has yet to find a SINGLE free agent value signing. Mike Brown’s accountant’s nephew or whomever is running the Bengals’ skeletal pro personnel department is running laps around them. Cook has had a few nice games to close the season but beyond that they got close to zero production out of the 2022 draft which is a bad sign with Allen’s monster cap hit looming. This front office needs to start cashing the checks its been writing for the past four years.

More for the rest of you!

Exactly. It’s not the lie it’s the coverup. The NFL makes this same unforced error over and over and over and over again to no end.

@T master is that you?

Oh no, I suck again.

That's kind of where I'm at with your meme game.

I have like zero doubt Tua is going to play.

Almost zero chance Spanos is willing to pay $20M/year to Payton (that's rumored to be his asking price), let alone pay Staley to sit on his couch.

Gabe is bad at catching footballs.

Bad technique by Elam, no idea why he turned toward the sideline instead of toward the ball.

Possibly just too much adversity to overcome in a single season.

His career trajectory is trending toward Nate Burleson.

The Raiders have been tanking since Rich Gannon left.

I know reading comprehension isn’t isn’t your thing but this is a new low point for you.

Maybe. Daboll’s team is third in his division. Pederson’s team is .500. Nice stories but neither of them have had to coach through what McD has had to coach through, not by a mile. Yup. In a year when McDaniel and Saleh trotted their injured QBs back out onto the field to get hit again, McDermott’s actions in putting his players first deserves special recognition.

As some of you know I’ve been pretty critical of McD. I’ve called him a turnaround specialist but not a championship coach, have criticized his approach to roster construction, and have been displeased (to say the least) with some of the coaching strategy (X’s and O’s) and gameday decision-making. I thought he was a bit of a phony; I may have even referred to him as a gym teacher. And while prior to this weekend there certainly were some challenges to navigate this season like a slew of injuries, a blizzard relocation, and some funky scheduling quirks, those things didn’t strike me as too far beyond the norm for an NFL team and its head coach. That all changed for me this week. First it was watching him pace the sideline when Damar was on the ground - you could see him muttering to himself (“okay, okay, okay”), as he tried to figure out how to lead a group of men through an unprecedented situation on the national stage. He collected himself and took his team off of the field. Since then, the stories that have come out - McD telling Taylor he needed to be at the hospital instead of coaching the rest of the game, and just generally staying calm and putting his players first - have just floored me. Sean McDermott is the embodiment of leadership. And great leadership - the good kind (the reluctant kind IMO) - is both rare and difficult. He is the ultimate leader of men and there is no one more deserving of NFL Coach of the Year than him. Not that I have a vote, but if I did, it would be a no-brainer choice. No matter how the season ends up. If Nick Siriani wins Coach of the Year over Sean McDermott, the whole thing is a joke. That is all. Off my soapbox.

The Bengals should forfeit as well. That’s the right outcome (because the League can’t make the layup).

Not to nitpick but I think run stop rate (used by Football Outsiders, but not sure when they compile/update it) is a better stat. Yes Edmunds doesn’t miss too many tackles. But too often he gets run over while making a tackle and the result is a first down. It’s happened much less this year but he’s just so tall, he gets out-leveraged. But again this is nitpicking. He’s been the most consistent player on defense this year other than Poyer, no question. He’s having a very good season. One game-changing play would sure be nice to get from him in the playoffs. He’s beyond due at this point.