dave mcbride

Looking at this, yes, it's hard to figure out what jones was up to there. He needs better clock awareness and a sense that if he's got a clear and open shot to the end zone, the qb is probably looking that way.

Just watching it now for the first time. Why would he ever cut to the sideline at the 3 with almost no time left? It doesn't make sense. That should have been a cut to the pylon.

Yeah, hard to say. The route looked sloppy and it may have been that taylor saw the td and threw for it. Jones actually slowed down for a moment near the end of it too. The throw certainly wasn't accurate enough (that was an extremely difficult catch to make) if that out pattern at the end was the route, though.

Eff Jerry Jones. Jones makes Kraft look like Mother Theresa.

I don't understand your response. Can you please clarify?

That's not a logical response. Seriously. If a pitcher gives up 1 run and pitches a complete game yet still loses, is he to be blamed for losing?

Huh? UCLA's defense is freaking horrible and can't stop anyone. A qb should expect a victory every time if the offense puts up 45.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/09/15/near-mutiny-forced-the-hand-of-marvin-lewis/

Yup. It leads to a fair amount of sacks, but the upside is big.

Don't confuse TBD with a press room. You're arguing with people who want to engage with you about specifics, and responding by saying that you disapprove of his press is the metaphorical equivalent of hand-waving. Pretty much all of the informed posters here have the ability to dig deeper than mouthing cliches from the press, so in this particular context bringing it up is a red herring.

It's greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Isn't the issue that they're basically no longer a SF team? If so, does anyone really expect San Jose residents to invest much emotion in a team that was never identified with them? It is literally 42 miles from a random SF neighborhood I selected - Noe Valley - to the stadium. That is really freaking far to drive for a football game. Granted, most fans live in the burbs, but it's never really about the getting there - it's about the getting home on a Sunday night, and driving back into SF at 5 pm on a Sunday totally sucks. Unless Silicon Valley adopts the team - very doubtful, in my opinion, given the demographics (East Asians and South Asians constitute the largest demographic bloc in SV now) - the stadium is going to have a lot of empty seats any time they're merely decent or worse.

The LA metro area is literally ten times the size as the Buffalo metro area.

Agreed, but if I'm Luck, I'm looking at the owner - who ain't going anywhere - and saying to myself, "if past is prelude, I need to get the hell out of Dodge ASAFP." Guess who was the owner of the Baltimore Colts in the late 70s/early 80s?

I'll believe it when I see it. LA fans are terrible (Christ, SC v. Stanford looked 40 percent empty). This will become more and more obvious over time. Also, the Chargers' presence in LA is the biggest joke in pro sports in a long time. I also think that pro football has more reputational problems in California than anywhere else in the country (CA culture and head injuries is a volatile mix). And let's not forget the flight of the Raiders. Just a bad NFL culture all around.

Not a bad comp ( read to the end -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Jones ), which may be why Luck allegedly wants out of the Colts org. 'The widely respected scout Ernie Accorsi is quoted as saying that if Bert Jones had played under different circumstances, he probably would have been the greatest player ever. ... On the eve of Super Bowl XLII, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, in discussing his choices for the greatest quarterbacks of all time, described Jones as the best "pure passer" he had ever seen.'

What do you think about the point of trying to avoid a pick, which was a danger if he led him? I don't think it looked like that tough of a catch at all even though it was behind him. I expect $6 million TEs to make it, but i also know that drops happen. It was just bad luck that it resulted in a pick.

Good point.

Great stuff, and thanks. I certainly don't think it was a perfect throw by any means, but it's a catchable ball for a good NFL receiver. It may be the case that he threw it slightly behind to prevent the pick too. In any event, I think you're probably right in calling it an error, but it's a minor one given that a lot of catches that receivers make all of the time aren't 100 percent on target. He also didn't get hit until the ball passed through his hands, or so it appears.

A deeper analysis: https://www.patspulpit.com/2017/9/13/16283498/film-review-new-england-patriots-big-play-issues-kansas-city-chiefs-tyreek-hill-kareem-hunt-nfl. Conclusion: McCourty's fault.

Awesome clip.

Um ... wasn't that particular game the best game in Smith's entire life??

The WR corps is not good. You should be concerned.

Dareus had nearly 30 sacks in his first four seasons - as a DT! He can obviously rush the passer unless he's lost a step.