colin

he's a disgusting jacked yeti and it's a crime that wayatt teller was not kept to be his pal. dawkins teller any nfl c, cyrus, brown is a legit 3k rushing yards o line

i want the queefs to miss the tourney but to also play spoiler to some teams who would otherwise be ahead of us in the 1 seed sweepstakes. i think they beat the colts. kc has the best run d in the nfl over quite a few seasons now, and i don't think the colts can drop back and pass on them. i think kc might write the blue print for stopping them and they might just end up splitting vs jags, houston (both of whom they play twice after this week) and even the nfc north teams (seattle and sf). i think the colts will be a 5 loss team. i think we can be the one seed if we only lose 1 more game, but we might have to run the table to get it. upside is if we do run the table i think it's almost certain we are the 1 seed.

so i know we play base nickel, but tbh that (for us and other teams at least like 40% of the time, if not more) just means we take off an LB and put in a corner. a lot of the time 7 for us (and the nickel corner for other teams) basically plays linebacker in that they line up exactly where an LB would line up and do exactly what an LB would do on that play. when we are in different formations and do creative things to disguise and post snap and all of that then it ends up being more of a tool for the DC, but the bear formation discussed above is the same thing as a 3-4 where the outside LBs line up on the line in a 3 point stance, there are two things at play -- who you put out and what you have them do. IMO, what we've seen many times and especially this season -- when we go 3 LBs instead of nickle we are taking off taron johnson who is shot/washed right now (hope he's hurt and just gets better) and we put on dorian williams who is perhaps a touch undersized but is a physical player and a real plus athlete. 3 LBs also creates some formation changes so that 8 and 58 don't have to be super fast and perfect in technique and reads or else they get their tiny slow bodies thrown around, so i think having DW out there improves their level of play as well. i think 8, shaq, and dorian williams (when they are available) should be our base LB set and should get a good number of snaps going forward. when he was in his prime 7 was a nasty player, but he's not been steady in coverage for over a year now and he's really undersized in the run game. also, as max gets more burn and benford is back to health (something was wrong with him before, he was just not good in a few games this season), along w old may poy/hancock and the suddenly solid cole bishop, the secondary is better so we can put more resources into the front 7 to stop the run and be physical/pressure the passer.

obv im sad we are not in the cat bird seat for the division, but from a pure fandom POV, this current NFL is flipping really exciting and interesting.

so we won't ever get definitive proof of CJ's statement that he is a better qb than Joshua Prescot Aloysious Captain Allen. pity

true, but one will be the division winner, the other will take a WC slot.

i misread the title of this thread, and i thought it was going to show a pic of poyer's wife, and also show a (new to me) pic of bishop's wife who was also really pretty like poyer's wife. i leave this thread in disappointment.

so, it really feels like we are where we were last season, but about a month ahead and a rockier road. we got all our defensive injuries early, we got our best offensive weapon hurt already, we had our swoon, we had our offense stuck in the mud, and then allen had his "what is wrong with that man" alien performance, but it was dec instead of nov last season, and our defense and special teams were even worse then than they are now. i hope we come out at texans like how we came out last year at detroit, and just put the belt to that ass.

they miss if one team from the afc west (not the division winner), south, and east finish with a better record. technically pittz or baltimore can finish with a better record than them in the north (and not win the division) but i just don't think that's likely. one of NE or us are for sure gonna finish with a better record, so it's down to the chargers (i'm saying broncos win the division) and jags, with maybe like houston and pittz/balti being a mega outsider. looking at the schedules coming up, KC has some tough games and does not look like they can run the table. I think they finish 8 or 9 and miss teh playoffs.

the 131 hours between 1pm sunday and when the texans game is over will basically decide if we are in a great position to take the division an still vie for the 1 seed, or are counting our blessings with tie breakers as we hope for a wild card spot. since miami we have turned the ball over 6 times (on like what, 125 snaps? that's an insane rate) and allowed nearly 400 yards rushing, and we have lots of key guys hurt or playing hurt. we are kinda (ironically) in our typical post season form already, so if we can overcome it then maybe the bright lights won't blind us again. texans is basically a must win.

if coleman were a 5th round pick he'd only have ever gotten spot duty. frankly, that might have made him a better player, he's a classic looks like a guy who can dominate but just can't play ball kinda guy. he has a chance to really embrace a smaller role and stay on the team, but i think that's a slim chance and he's likely gonezo.

in the playoffs mcd is winless on the road, and has dropped 2 at home (cinci and kc, in 22 and 23). we might end up decent in the regular season for road games, but we really have to get that fixed for the playoffs.

The texans D is more than the best in the nfl IMO. it is just so fast and physical and scary. the funny/sad thing is -- it almost doesn't matter. we win games when we don't turn the ball over, we lose them when we do. the one exception to that was yesterday, but IMO that came down to the D because a horrible early allen pick to the enemy only led to 3 points, while the cole bishop shoplift of the football led to a TD in like 4 real time minutes or less. the punt fumble was terrible obv, but the 4th down int in no mans land was gonna be a turnover on downs anyhow, so not a biggie. the TO differential is what cost in us in ATL (and we almost started the game w a shoplift), and vs NE we had 3 sloppy turnovers (was that the keon fumble, or was it atlanta? i know we had fumbles on jet sweeps in both games). even if we get trucked bad in the run game (and my gosh, is that always a possibility) as long as we don't turn the ball over i don't think we really lose any games. if we have the ball long enough even the texans d will fold and succumb to the stampede.

i was big on him coming out of college, but ate some crow about it watching him play last year (he flashed a couple times, but many many more times was cheekful). now i think we are seeing him play more free. to me he is to the safety position what spencer brown is to the RT position. not fully formed/skilled but such a monster athlete that if his attitude and temperament are on point he has the potential to be a huge impact at his position.

I want it like how Baltimore used to do it, play action, misdirection, lots of second guessing. I think our issue is we are too predictable. The cook runs and shakir plays today looked like the bucs DC called them