colin

i think there is internal finger pointing going on at one bills drive. i don't know if it's some like normal good competitive level, or a negative destructive level, but i think it's there and bigger than before.

ya, i think he likes taking 'clever' risks. it has worked from time to time, and we end up w more picks than we can roster a lot, so i see why he makes moves. tbh, i think what he did early, big giant moves to get allen, edmunds, and diggs, are the way to go. it's what the rams do, they had no 1st round picks for like 9 years or something, and were always trying to trade up to draft specific guys they loved (like the DE they got the year before last). they see it as go for gold, or just take who is where you pick.

i was a bit down on him early, and im still worried cuz he got hurt in our last two playoffs, but when he's on he's a top 10 defensive player (any position) in the nfl.

you are right about the road problems, but frankly it's not the d on the road, it's the O. our d got destroyed by miami on the road, but the O turned the ball over horribly that day which led to our collapse. our biggest issue, and the reason we lost to atl, houston, and kinda miami on the road, is we just can't pass the friggen ball on the road at all. we turn it over in desperation when teams key in on the run game. we had a shot last year w the in season trade (maybe not a great one) to get adams instead of cooper, and we coulda signed him as a FA maybe (again, it seemed he wanted to be in LA), and reports are we balked on trading up some picks for waddle this season. getting waddle mighta won us the game vs miami (as he killed us, and we couldn't sustain on O) and houston. that alone puts us in a position to beat NE and be the #1 seed. the roster that we fielded vs cinci was pretty short on talent, but missing hoyt, oliver, bosa, carter, rook jackson, bernard (he sucked so far this year, but i think he's been hurt the whole time), palmer, spencer, samuels is just a bridge too far. throw in one single game breaker at wr and i think we have 2 more wins this season, to me that's the biggest hole beane has allowed, and what make people angry is he did it by design (as shown on his smashing of wgr radio guys for talking about wr).

i'd state it as a great gm finds a way to find and get those players, but the point stands. i wonder if this is beane being "cheap" with his management of pics or something, or just his kinda fraidy cat mentality of fearing not having great depth, so he doesn't pull the trigger on getting waddle for a 1st in 2026 (+ something else im sure) or whatever. at the time i liked the trade for cooper (who i think went from a ton of talent and not so much passion for the game to less talent and not so much passion for the game) but in retrospect if he coulda gotten adams (maybe it wasn't on the table cuz adam's loves aaron) and moved cap around and not signed palmer or whatever, that woulda put us in a much much better position right now.

Some crazy no calls on the pats secondary to give it to them. Vrable always has his teams like that, like the old billecheat or Seattle teams. They foul nearly every play and just dare the refs to call it, and they never do

Literally a hold in the back

Lol 87 grabbed the jersey from behind on that play and no flag!

In KC that might end up being a catch

They could kept darnold in a cheap for starter QB deal and traded the rookie

Cincy hasn't covered between the hash marks once

Losing their QB for some games didn't likely help either

I don't think they have the depth some other teams so, DT injuries has hurt their run d too

W their rook lt hurt new England really can't protect maye

The next best thing works, and that's when we go tempo after the first first down. Something to note: we still score on our first drive at an insane clip, and our d has been much better in second halves than first halves. There is a recipe in there that our coaches have touched on leading us to potential glory, frankly it's on MCD to solve the d early and pressure Brady to stick to the effective game script

So unbelievable play calling by the bungles in this second half. Just awful. Good thing their punter got high before the kick, shanked it like early film happy Gilmore

Also, with those two monster dts hurt the faketriots can't stop a gut run well

Holy cow that was an inspired goal line stand by the kittens

Every time a flag is called in favor of ne, they rush to call it. When it is against them, they convene and feel bad about calling it

That's been the story on the road all year. We won after the bye vs worthless Carolina, and over the useless jets week 2, but we have faced 5 bad road teams and lost lame uninspired games to 3 of them on the back of turnovers and bad offense. And I think you are 💯, it's because of focus and energy

W the kicking talent and the ball they use now, we are going to see teams to for 60+ regularly, which means a good first down or two little ones off of a near average kick off start of your own 35 is a 3 point drive. Kinda tiring the game into basketball

You might be right, but given how great he was last season, and how he played week 1 this season, I feel like it's a mental thing. Just like Lamar and the rest of that team, they have adopted the attitude of their head coach, which is being a scummy front runner

That flag came out so late on the return, but my gosh what a kick for the fg!

How are the jets icing Baltimore's run game so bad?

If Indy loses today, they could totally drop 2 more