dave mcbride

The collective passing game numbers for the RBs (Cook, Davis, Johnson): 33 targets, 27 receptions: 82 percent completion rate 289 yards on 27 completions: 10.7 yards per reception 289 yards on 33 targets: 8.8 yards per target turnovers (fumbles, INTs on targets): 0 touchdowns: 3, for a 9.1% TD rate on passes thrown their way (a sky-high rate) Allen's passer rating when targeting RBs in the passing game: 133.46 These numbers are shockingly great - almost unbelievable, really.

He averaged 8 sacks a year in that “dry” spell and was second team all pro in one of them. 8-9 sacks per year is quite good. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MackKh00.htm

Which is BS. It was one of the best games he has played in a while to anyone with eyes.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MackKh00.htm

It should have been. Textbook obvious penalty.

The refereeing all night has been biased and flat out terrible.

Harbaugh went out of his way this offseason to say that you pay for production and that Mack was a top earner in that regard last year. He is a Mack fan, and I think the Chargers will probably squeak in. He is not going anywhere. 3.5 through 7 games, actually, and he is on pace for 8.5. Plus sacks are spiky and he could have a 3-sack game at any point. He is still good!

He was awesome last season. One-man wrecking crew.

Belichick isn't wrong.

Yep, it was definitely blacked out. That prior catch is in the clip above.

The thing about Rodgers right now is that he is walking proof that if you can't scramble now, you can't succeed in the NFL. He's never a threat to run it or sneak it, and that really puts a lid on an offense. And honestly, he's still one of the two-three best throwers in the game. His arm remains amazing. But if you can't move, you can't succeed in today's NFL. He's basically a Drew Bledsoe who gets rid of it more quickly.

That was an amazing game! I never get tired of watching these plays. I listened to Van calling it on the radio.

I went with Rousseau, who has had three game wrecker games so far. Tough choice! I know he has only 3.5 sacks, but his 8 TFLs and 14 QB hits are twice as many as anyone else on the defense. Plus he has a couple of passes defensed.

He got beat badly on Josh’s first completion of the game too. It’s as if they went right after him.

That penalty was also in garbage time.

He does get the TFL (an underrated stat!).

Laughing at injuries is objectively bad and stupid (and just mean-spirited), so save me your snark.

But Pitch Perfect 2 and PP 3 are the ones with Josh's girlfriend in it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_Perfect_2; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_Perfect_3 (They made more money than 1 as well!)

Brees was fantastic in his fourth year in San Diego - comeback player of the year and fifth in offensive player of the year voting (and a 104.8 qb rating). Point is, he was already good when he got to NO. Darnold's grandfather was quite literally the Marlboro Man and named Dick Hammer!

The thing is, facemasks are always clear and obvious.

100 percent,

I can’t believe that wasn’t called. Literally, effing outrageous. The twisting facemask is literally the most dangerous play in the league (broken neck possibility). That absolutely has to be called.

And Jerry thought his salary was high because he COMPLETELY misjudged where the WR market was going within the next year/two years. I don’t think that’s right — cooper’s insanely quick and precise foot movement and stop-start ability out of violent breaks are his forte, and while I wouldn’t say he’s unique in that regard, he is top five elite in that category. Fitzgerald was a contested catch monster and the prototype for deandre hopkins et al. Different elite skill sets. I’d also add that for many years, Fitzgerald was a top 3 receiver.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/22/mike-mcdaniel-offense-dolphins/ The Dolphins (2-4) have produced three fewer offensive touchdowns than any other team this season with just six; the league average is 15. They scored 20 points — with Tagovailoa — against what has proved to be an awful Jacksonville defense in Week 1 and since then they have mustered 10, three, 12, 15 and 10 points. They are averaging a staggeringly poor 1.01 points per drive, last in the league. (The average is 1.98.) They are scoring touchdowns on just 8.7 percent of their drives, also last in the league. (The average is 21.3 percent.) The next-worst team, Cleveland, is at 11.1 percent — a different area code. They still employ superior wide receivers Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle, explosive backs Raheem Mostert and De’Von Achane, some highly paid offensive linemen and supposedly one of the true running game innovators in the NFL. And they have the worst red-zone offense in the league. “The owner can’t be very happy about this,” said one general manager, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not permitted to comment on personnel employed by other teams. “How can they be this bad with the talent they have there? I know they lost their quarterback, but come on. Look at [Browns Coach Kevin] Stefanski — he got to the playoffs last year with a bunch of backup quarterbacks. “If [McDaniel is] an offensive guru, then why doesn’t anyone look good in his offense? Where’s Tyreek Hill? He’s not getting anything out of his backs or receivers. He can’t scheme anybody open? … If you want to blame the [backup quarterbacks], who do you think picked them? [GM Chris] Grier? That offense is [McDaniel’s] baby. It’s all on him.” Through six games, not a single Dolphins player has even 500 scrimmage yards. Hill, somehow, has just 330, and Waddle has yet to break 300. The Dolphins have faced their share of awful defenses, including a fairly broken Colts defense this past Sunday. And yet they again ran out of ideas and winning plays on third down (6 for 15) and in the red zone (1 for 3). “When you are this deep into a season, with that much talent, that’s on the coach,” said one longtime NFL scout and evaluator under similar restrictions about speaking publicly. “You have to find ways to move the football. You think Andy Reid would put this s--- on film if he lost [Patrick] Mahomes? Get the hell out of here.”

5 solo tackles, 1 pass defensed, and 1 QB hit last week vs. the Bills.