colin

looool. way to address the points liz! let's play your non tedious boomer game! show me an industry where the workforce gets paid more than the management?

there are some assumptions on this that have to be questioned. in america of the adult population over say 30, blacks are about 13%, so from that point of view they are perfectly or over represented in coaching and head coaching jobs in the nfl. similarly, there was a lot of talk about blacks being underrepresented at QB, but since something like 1996 they were over represented vs their % of the population at qb in the nfl. the confounding factor in all of this is that blacks are so so so over represented in so many NFL player positions, and are all of CB and nearly all of RB. so the question to ask is: what is the expectation of "fairness"? is it that blacks are as over represented at QB as they are at CB, or positions in general, or starting positions in general? and what about coaching? are most coaches former players, making us think that the black coaching % should match the very high % of overall players? or of certain positions? like, do certain positions of former players represent a higher likelihood or quality of head coaching? are LBs or QBs or OL or whatever better HC than other positions? do we have sufficient data to go by? the comment from the article that the rooney rule isn't working suggests the commentator either simply wants more black coaches, or wants them to some higher %. well, what % is that and what is it based on?

any of the top 3 DEs on the market this offseason would be monsters on our D. yannick/clowney harrison oliver houghs w our back 7 would make converting those 3rd and 18s or two point conversions impossible.

you sure about that? foster (and clearly it was just a hot streak that he couldn't maintain for some crazy reason, foster has talent galore but can't get it together) when he was flashing late last year was just blowing up defenses and locating the ball perfectly. im not saying brown isn't better, just the height of the play that foster showed which made us all excited is a higher level than brown has played at on a consistent basis. **** (not related to the post im quoting above) something i like to do is compare skill position players of our team top to bottom to teams we are playing. except for motor, i don't think we have a single player who would make the houston squad. none of our TEs (but i hope knox improves, in blocking and not dropping balls at least!), obv not mac or williams, not bease and i don't think even brown makes the houston squat because he'd be taking snaps away from fuller who is better. for the rest of the O, i suppose our C is better, maybe spain, and dawkins would prolly be their RT. it's insane to have that kind of a talent gap on the offensive side of the ball and make the playoffs.

brown is an above average NFL starting WR, he's not awesome and he's not great. he is tiny, doesn't block well, struggles to get open vs man, and doesn't have great hands. he usually runs good routes, and has solid speed, and is generally a smart player, but like the man above says, he's like a top 50 wr, not a top 25 he dropped a couple on the money balls in the playoff game, not getting his feet in with plenty of space and no DB contact is simply inexcusable. he's not adjusted correctly to a few long balls too this season (early in the baltimore game comes to mind). he's a solid player and im happy he's a bill, but he's not as good as foster flashed late last year (of course he fell off completely). if we had cooper as our 1, with brown as 2 and bease in the slot, we'd have scored 21 points in the first half, and would have cruised to a comfortable road victory, even with houston doing their best to come back.

i doubt it can happen, but signing him and cooper, and getting a big RB2 and some kind of RT (draft could be for these last two) would just make the O awesome. the zone read flea flicker trick play potential of allen and hill in the back field would be a total nightmare!

i'm not disagreeing w any of this, but do you guys really think the FO is gonna go that hard for TE? I think we absolutely need a top flight WR, and need to drop big bucks on one. if they did that as well as got an RB2, maybe a new T, drafted a WR, and signed hooper to cut smith and kroft? i'd be doing back flips. i'm just not sure that's what dabol wants (i'd like to upgrade him to, but i've mentioned that before).

they are making this guy a punter?

i like the top three or four WRs, i like the bama RB, not sure what value vs player or whatever fits tho. one thing that i could see us doing in the 1st or second round is drafting a SLB to replace zo. he was a solid guy for us, but a young athletic TACKLER might make a difference in some of those plays that broke our back vs NE and HOU this season. WR I think we need to break the bank in free agency, possibly pass rusher too, and if i'm completing my list since we have so much money we could grab a RT as well. WR1 is to priority tho, i say we go FA and draft a guy.

while not the a holes the pats fans are (or philly or pitts), giant fans really are goofs. they wanted eli and coughlin gone after the first chip, thought tiki barber and shockey were HOF stars, when the team only won after they stepped out, and generally think they are special. when sequan got picked, they were mad rosen wasn't picked (who stinks), then when jones was picked, they all cried like babies. then, when "dimes" shows some promise as a rookie, he's the second coming. like, they can only be wrong, either the corch or players stink and need to go, or are the goat, literally never right.

not sure about the first one, not the right choice IMO but maybe they thought they'd never get the ball back. on the second: i'll bash the coaches. we were in some kind of jumbo package, and the texans dropped 7 or 8 and kept a spy, they knew it was pass all along. we are so clever that we put in lee smith and the FB and motor, but since we so rarely run well out of that package it was a complete tell that we were going to pass, so they just called the right D. for someone who complicates things so much, dabol is very predictable and rarely seems to get our O in the best position to score.

maybe he can be our OC. we'd go sideways, at worst.

on that weep morse didn't even see cunningham because he wasn't aware. he was looking straight ahead, not on a swivel. imo it's a great play and one our team should dominate with, but we spend lots of time practicing gore up the gut for zero and dimarco/lee smith go routes.

my sober thoughts: dabol is trash and needs to go. if we ran these sweeps and screens and such all year instead of making it up as we go along we'd prolly be able to do them well. Our pass blocking is not good. i could live with it if i absolutely had to, but letting spain walk, Ford inside, and a real RT might really help us. we do not have real NFL weapons. singletery is a good player, big fan. he lacks speed and raw power, and his pass blocking kinda sucks but that should improve. we need an RB2 with either speed, power, or both. prolly not worth paying but Henry from Ten would be a MONSTER for us as RB2/1. knox might end up being a keeper, but his bad plays have been too many and too big so far. in response to the post above about how houston has trash CBs -- CB vs WR goes down a chain like a poker hand, their top CB is on your Top WR (some exceptions i suppose, but in general), their 2nd on your 2nd, etc. Given that our only two NFL WRs, brown and bease, are tiny and can't really get open vs press man quickly, we seem to only get guys open with long developing plays. this is where our poor pass blocking kills us. if we get a real WR or two, the whole game changes. We saw brown fail to toe tap, duke drop a TD, and both of them dropped passes on the right boundry on consecutive plays which hit their hands (altho brown had a nice route and catch to convert 3rd and 10). four passes to the right edge of the field from a right handed quarterback, two for first downs and two for either TDs or goal to go, and all of them are dropped. that's straight trash WR play. allen lost his damn mind in that game, but he was still our whole team. we have got to go out and get some actual NFL WRs on this roster, pay amari cooper whatever he wants, or trade for someone, or whatever. also draft a guy, i don't care, just make it happen. on D we obviously need a SLB, i expect us to draft one early, but cb2 would be nice and if one is there, i'd like to drop big cash on premier edge player, clowny or that guy w the african name, whoever is there.

Allen obviously tried to do too much, he was a disaster at times. Aside from motor though, he was the only guy who showed up on offense. I'll give a pass to bease because he was riding the pine while practice squad guys ran dabols trash plays. Blocking was just cheeks. Our offense hates to be in an advantage position. Five wide with no motion in the condensed part of the field is something they love to lose with. It's disgusting

Duke has the ability to be a wr5. We have two play makers and one actual weapon on O, singletery (Allen is the other play makers). Our mix and match always changing gadget O is we Todd did, sofa king we Todd did. We need new offensive coaches, a new te, a new OT, a new rb2, possibly a guard, and most of all an actual nfl wr Our entire team has no ability to get open vs man or best an aggressive blitz. Dabol not realizing that Duke was better than what we had out there, or that singletery needs to be our focal point, or that empty sets don't produce points for us has driven me insane.

He is so clearly our best weapon. The following players are nfl offensive players: Allen (spazzed, but was out by himself for a lot of it) Dawkins Morse Singletery Brown Beasely Feliciano (not great but dece) Spain (as above, but perhaps a touch less so) Knox if he improves Ford (who I pray can be converted to guard) Smith, kroft, gore, mck, roberts, dimarko, Duke (at this point at the very least) and that other wr who looked sick last year are all not on the field for a good team. I do sometimes wonder if a better coaching staff would make something useful happen, maybe a power run and screen game with some over the top stuff, I dunno. I remember that stupid up for grabs ball to dimarko. We had protection and Josh was being spied, but our two WRs got nada (like usual) and we had no body disengage from a block and roll into a soft spot. The guys on the field combined with the play call was pure dabol. Trying to out smart everyone but not realizing his garbage just doesn't work

Really good article. Our offensive coaching is terrible, dunno how much is mcd and how much is dabol, but a change is needed.

Allen made some bad plays, our WRs had trouble getting open and catching, our tes were invisible in the pass game, we passed and went empty way too often and we could have been way more aggressive on d. All of that said, we lost because of trash blocking and trash tackling. Absolute basics. If we block the ot qb sweep, we win, if we block the rush on that break down drive before we got the ball back in the 4th, we win. If we tackle the qb when he's wrapped we win, and of we tackle the wr on 3rd and 18 we prolly win. Allen is obviously not there yet, but we need at least one ot, one wr, an rb2, upgrade to te2, and we have to solve out tackling problem.

some is luck, some is how we rush them, and more if it is good d forcing teams to make harder kicks (in terms of being further given the conditions and more mental pressure from not getting closer)

i think roman might be pretty epic on clevland. i'm sure he'd have some better OL brought in (maybe trade ODB for one, i dunno) and with the backs they have, he'd be able to scheme some pretty impossible to defend stuff. it wouldn't be what they do in baltimore, but i could see it being more pass heavy with heavy formations and just huge run production from those two backs. the browns really do have insane skill talent. could you imagine one of those backs on buffalo and ODB here too? we'd prolly get an extra 70 yards and 5 points a game.

our coaching staff has shown to be very very conservative in removing or putting in new and especially young players. they were way too slow to start josh in his first year, too slow to feature motor this year, too slow to keep smith off the field more, etc. in the longest of long terms i understand the wisdom of this strategy, but we aren't minimizing bad things at this point, we are aiming to win in the playoffs and the super bowl. we really need to "play fearless" now. duke and yeldon need some burn, maybe even sweeny too.

was that 2012 Raven team a wildcard too? over 50 years it looks weak for a wildcard team, but from 2000 to 2013, it looked pretty good!

you are the most consistently in character poster of 2019. big fan!

watson is sick and to date is clearly a better qb than allen. i'll give the future to allen tho, his raw talent and energy are off the charts, and watson has the benefit of much better college prep and much much better weapons through out his career (imagine fuller and hopkins over benjamin and zay jones for allens first year and this year?!! watson's protection was trash last year, but ours was perhaps just a tiny bit less trash, i won't say better). as far as who is better today? we'll find out on saturday.