Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Wow, don't think I've ever seen a game where so my calls went against Belichick both marginal ones and blatant bad ones.

Based on the video, thought you were going to suggest he take up MMA or something along those lines.

While I'd agree with you regarding Cam and NE, what's happened to Tenn is above and beyond and injuries. Plus you'd usually know by Monday who got hurt in last weeks game and can't play the following week or will be questionable. Here' you have players hitting the "injury list" every day. How many teams lose ten players in one week of practice? How many will still be out next week too? 10 days after symptoms, so makes it hard to even know who will or won't be available.

That's my point, if the owner is going to allow these trades, why then give up after only 4 weeks. That to me is the crazy part here. He should have fired him when he proposed the Hopkins trade. Makes me wonder if the owner fired him now more to try and save face from all the criticism thrown at the team.

OK, but unless you decide to put everyone in a bubble, how can the league or team control what one player might decide to do. Cam goes to a party tonight, that becomes the teams fault?

I understand the compliance part, and handing out stiff penalties. But making it tougher for tryouts, signings, etc you're penalizing teams that maybe did nothing wrong. Even NE I know we hate feel bad for NE, but in this case since so far only Cam tested positive, seems like Cam did something stupid so why penalize the team. Or maybe it's not even his fault.

Wow, shocked so soon. Owner is to blame here too. If you're going to fire the guy this quickly, why'd you ever allow him to make the trades. Should have got rid of him then.

Of all you list only the Falcons, Lions, Chargers and Texans have either established or good prospects at QB. Though Ryan and Stafford are getting a bit old. Maybe the Jets if they keep losing. Not sure Daboll has enough cred to justify full control so without that, many of these spots might not work out particularly with the history with the Jets. In hindsight while widely blasted here, McD bringing in the GM worked out fine. Hard to hire a new GM at season ending as teams aren't going to allow anyone on staff to leave prior to draft so your only choices are those who'd been fired.

Was reading an article in the Athletic, below was one quote: Daboll used 19 different packages on Sunday. If that wasn’t impressive enough, he used 15 different personnel combinations through the first half, which consisted of only 30 plays. Got me thinking some, is more of Allen's improvement due to him just finally understanding the offense? Maybe last year when he'd drop back half the time he'd be trying to understand the play that there wasn't enough time left to often throw a good catchable pass. I'm sure working on the mechanics helped too, but maybe the mental part is a bigger reason for the improvement than people realize.

League average is 93%, exactly where Bass is on extra points. Yes it was in a dome, etc, but that balances out with kicking the ones he did in Buffalo. Wasn't one of the games pretty windy too? That 93% league average BTW includes kickers who kick inside every home game too.

I'd argue Allen's development is more dramatic as more people were labeling him as borderline bust after two seasons. Jackson didn't look strong as a passer after his rookie year, but only had one year of looking bad. Many rookies don't look that good. Did Jackson even start every game as a rookie, didn't Flaco start the year and go hurt? Allen's 2nd year while much improved still could easily create "lowlight" highlights of him. Also seems less people make such a big change from 2nd to 3rd year so was less expected this year so more dramatic.

One time I could read his lips (through his mask of course) where he said one.

I'll be willing to bet they won't be. I can recall in the past they came down on people for much less, maybe one time hearing an F bomb as opposed to multiple times. Agree in today's day and age, no big deal, but it is to the FCC. That seems to be their one sacred cow

Also feel of all the newer coaches, Flores seems to be better than many of the others.

Really where exactly are they winging it? What should they have done. How about a bubble, great idea except the players said no. It's real easy to say too bad, but it doesn't work that way, the league isn't allowed to just tell the players too bad, we're taking you away from your families for the next six months, players need to agree to it. So other than a bubble what exactly should they be doing right now? What past experience should they be looking at to determine how to handle this one?

I assume there's not a method to make this work if wanting to watch directly on a TV using CBS All Access app though as not able to spoof location directly on TV? Can easily plug laptop into TV via HTMI, but would be nice if could do it directly.

1) Did we have 3 on the field very often? I didn't notice it. 2) We already have when Starr is back 3) Maybe it's Norman, but can easily find a potential high end starting as a rookie CB even if drafting #32 4) Agree we need to be better at putting pressure on the QB. This one could be the hardest to fix as not sure you can get a future super star pass risher drafting low nor do teams let really good ones go as a FA and not sure we could afford to sign one if there was one available.

Really how do you come to that conclusion? I could see if you argued 33 points for the Bills and should have had another field goal on the one drive if JA doesn't take the dumb sack. But anything else points either for us or against them is just nothing but a pure guess. In the last 7 minutes they had the one drive of 3 straight running plays trying to take time off the clock which it did. Could they have thrown one short pass in there that has a high percentage of completion, yeah probably, but other than maybe changing one play wouldn't say there was anything they did that was playing not to lose.

Really think you should change the title to "Any Four" as maybe there is some teams that you could argue are very close, but adding Davis as the 4th puts the end to any discussion. Even McKenzie and Roberts not bad there either.

Hope your boss doesn't see this post. You may be looking for a new job!

Think there's a big difference between the two situations. Every day Tenn keeps having more positives to the point they would barely have enough players available. They'd be in a situation where they'd have to move players to IR Covid which then I believe means they are out 3 weeks but may turn out to be symptom free. Anyone with actual symptoms will likely also miss Bills game if played next week based on the 10 day criteria. The big issue I'm sure with NE was they didn't want the entire team getting onto a plane not knowing if others may be positive and now by the time you exit the plane, 5 more are positive. If the game had been in NE, not so sure the league would have canceled the game already on Saturday, they may have waited to see if others became positive too.

Not sure if you're joking but I think very high that they stayed in their rooms! Between what has happened in the NFL and elsewhere is a big reminder. Is strange how things in the league were so good the first 3 weeks, and now got much worse. They need the players to agree to the bubble idea and could see where they'd say no for that long a period of time and frankly can't blame them. The players in the NBA reported to the bubble roughly 3 weeks prior to the start of NFL training camp. By the time the first week of the NFL season started, the NBA only had 4 teams left, so in two months time the number of players still left in the bubble was less than one NFL roster in close to the same time period it took only for training camp. To expect players to go in this bubble that long away from family including through the holidays is to long. Too many would be going over the wall, in particular a team say with a 2 -10 record say two days before Thanksgiving. I read the NBA has already stated no bubble for the 2021 season for the same reasons it's too long. Could see why the idea of only one division game would make sense if shortening the season as some teams have played both out of conference and out of division games while some haven't. But doubt anyone has played a division opponent twice yet, so is the easy thing to do. Maybe you then eliminate divisions and just have two 16 team conferences where the top 7 teams get in. Don't like the idea of adding games to the end of the season at all. Suppose the Buffalo - Tenn game is canceled, likely could both be in the playoffs. So they play "week 18" while the remaining playoff teams have a bye. Personally if I were in the playoffs already and just playing this makeup for seeding purposes, if the scenario I described played out, I'd elect to forfeit the game so we can rest too. I'm sure the league would say no to that, so I'd play 8 guys on the field to reduce the risk of injury. No way is it even close to fair to make me play while everyone else is resting! Have to have the makeup week say two weeks prior to the end of the season so everyone plays the last two weeks. Do kind of like the idea of having a break maybe after week 5, 10, and 15 for potential make ups. If they don't need it, then move the schedule back up and eliminate the teams scheduled byes, though that may be tricky to do at this point. Does make me wonder how many alternative schedule concepts the league already has in their back pocket.

Thank you NE, now I get to watch the game on regular TV! Yeah I often look at these maps and try to figure out the reasoning behind it. Often involves some college or local player.

We've drafter 4 D-Lineman in the past 3 years and Ford is far from terrible.

Really why? You have two undefeated teams playing two 2-1 teams. The only argument you can make for the Bills game is it's a conference game that more comes into tie breakers. But that is offset and then some by the market size of Chicago. I hope the Bills game is on, but the fact that they chose to move that game of all of them they could have chosen makes me figure it's no so certain.