colin

he's not the only one i'd target, but this guy on our D in place of shak or murph would be like throwing a turbo charger on it. harrison coming back to make the DT position better, and Edmunds growing up more in the NFL would be awesome. also, houghs isn't going to be around for too much longer, clowney could fill the gap after say 2 years there.

a top notch pass rusher and an off season installing a tackle focused approach (just a small difference, i think it can be done) and we are looking at a 2001 tampa bay type D

Our wrs really are cheeks. End of the season playoff game and they don't have it in them to make plays

Titans are beasts up front on both sides, but they can't cover jack. Kinda not getting enough pass rush too

MR8, great work! i don't think we will or should spend that kind of money on a RT tho -- one good T seems to be enough for the teams in the playoffs, but pass rush and skill position impact players is an absolute requirement. i think we will draft a T, maybe sign another cheaper guy to compete and hopefully kick ford inside and let spain walk. i like your plan, but i'd want a free agent WR as well as a drafted one, and the one thread on here has me wanting Hooper for 10MM and cutting smith and kroft to cover it (leaving hooper, sweeney and knox). green/cooper, brown, bease w motor and hooper is a nasty base. cooper and brown w hooper and knox and motor for 12 packages is also a scary sight.

so two things 1. while a couple of great O's run real high tech schemes (KC comes to mind, but fat andy is a wizard at this) if you look at teams like NE, Baltimore, and even Houston, you see really really similar plays run out of several formations, and different plays run out of the exact same formation. the exact same formation lets you make the D pick their poison (OBV) but running the exact same play out of different formations gives you free reps (without the D knowing) at your bread and butter. we just MAKE ME CRAZY seeing all these goofy mish mash mix ups without any results. we go max protect w smith and the fullback, but we have yet to run effectively out of it, so we ain't fooling anyone. the fact that we waited until the post season to figure out ways to get the RB the ball on screens and allen the ball on sweeps was sad. the biggest issue we have on O is that when we have success, it isn't repeatable because we are simply not consistent. 2. i watch a lot of analytic videos and all 22 stuff. i like what these guys do and it's interesting, but something has always bothered me about them, and i couldn't quite figure it out. they tend to be coach's pets. i remember guys (often related to the coach, or a coach anyhow) on the team would say "if we ran it right how it was drawn up we'd have made that first". this is when the whole friggen team know the opposition had a drop on that play and it wouldn't work. these analytic guys just sort of take for granted execution at every level, and then key in one or two things which they say made the difference. that's fine, but they miss the plot when you have a TE blocking a pro bowl rusher on 3rd and long, or you don't have an outside WR who can get open or whatever. PFF are the biggest squad of never played and just make up nerdery dorks ever.

every opening drive would be a run heavy score, followed by garbage on O i think dabol is similar, except we didn't do that opening drive until the playoff game, where we do weird and wacky stuff that surprises the d, but stink otherwise due to lack of talent and also the o doesn't run any plays well because we have no identity. i need to stop, i'm on a dabol crusade!

sadly very very true. knox was going too fast/too far upfield and missed dude, but morse literally just didn't see him. i'm a broken record on this, but i'm convinced our overwrought goofy O has guys trying to learn and thus do too much, without any bread and butter plays everyone on the team can execute perfectly. on D, our tackling issues give me pause at times, but frazier has them in the position to win the vast majority of the time. the soft cover on 3rd and 18 (simple enough call) woulda had everyone stopped short, and that blitz prior to the RB pass which killed us was blitzed perfectly and woulda stopped them COLD. how many times a game do we have our O in a position to make a great play like that where it looks like our players understand their assignments and are in a position to make them?

allen lost the plot for a bit late in the game, you could see a crazed look on his face. he was putting the world on his back, partly because his teammates were letting him down save motor (brown and duke each dropping two huge balls both early and late in the game, bad line play, etc), and partly because his coaches were putting it all on him (empty set on first down in overtime? that goofy package of lee smith, the full back, and our rb all going out in routes w max protect, did we run out of that effectively at all? the d knew what was happening the whole time). most of the players on O were worse tho, especially down the stretch. the blocking was terrible and i don't think it's just our players being trash, missing the RDE totally on 3rd down by the OG, OT, and RB leading to the total disaster is on coaching as well. being predictable and not practicing consistency is the problem. most complicated O ever, and we can't execute a sweep with a 3 to 1 advantage on blockers. teams like new england don't have that happen.

so why would you not take the median of coaches? this is just asinine. like, the top player on every team makes more than the head coach. the top several players on ever team makes more than the head coach. if you take the average player and compare to the average coach (which is not the head coach, but is taken from all of the coaches on the team including guys making like 40k a year) you see the player is way way ahead. honest question: are you being disingenuous or do you not understand this?

LOL, wrong. lol you dork. why not compare average to average? also -- is that coach, or head coach? you know there are quality control coaches, position coaches, etc etc, right? i have you trying to obfuscate to cover up your trash, and your roommate (the other guy from the birdcage movie) saying i'm the one moving the goal posts! no you didn't you SJW footwasher, you just whined about "the work force" vs "the management" like this is some kind of "of mice and men" dust bowl industry. what % of head coaches should be black and why? that was the simple question in my post, and you didn't answer it because your weepy fem spot got all hot and bothered so you had to virtue signal.

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.