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He was aiming for the ball and the wr lowered down. New we need to bring that intensity again

Just stupid. Stopped the clock for that? Just go for it w allen, why are they doing this? Oc is cheeks man

So those two misses are looking large. Also, I knew that last play would fail as soon as I saw how we lined up. Compressed zone w eyes on the qb, and we are in this silly ass formation w a slow rookie rb in the back field. No chance of a fast play. Awful

This drive now is on dabol. He needs to know the tendencies by now and call something that lets us play advantage offense

So bass has two easy misses in a tight game, and our idiot te falls down on the way to the end zone. I swear this team is snake bit. Also, every 3rd and passing down they blitz and we have a slow to develop play. Williams is out coaching dabol

Guys, we actually had an almost good 3rd quarter. Of course we end it with a fuggin hold on the return

I really wanna win this game. The db mugging beez makes me sick, these zebras need a long swim in the Hudson. We finally got some solid run blocking at least, but our rbs are sooooo slowwwww

Why did that guy in the jets hold the ball and kick it?

Dabol is still a trash oc. He can script em, but he can't call for sheeeeet. If bass didn't flub that earlier one, we'd be in the lead, hurts. Our o to start the season was a lot of smoke and mirrors, and now the ds have caught up (except ours it seems) and it's a struggle

I called and they said everyone walked out once Josh fumbled!

That bass miss last week killed us, let's hope it's not the same this week. Did anyone see what zimmer did to get a 15 yard penalty after the pick? That could be a 4 point penalty

im in NJ too bro, Monmouth county. Just a big body who can punch some people in the mouth is a big addition at this point. phillips is too hurt to anchor, star is afraid of the big bad covid so's doing jack for us, oliver has a knee and he's not really a 1 tech anyhow. if it could happen, i'd fire off the 2nd and get q in here and at the least keep the LBs clean for like 40% of our plays on D

he's big and talented, if that price was a 3rd, i'd do it in a new york minute. frankly, i am tempted for a 2nd

the raven's roster is disgusting.

these next four games are the season, and after that we have the bye. really, the next two games are the season. 4-0 in the division and 6-2 means we can drop every hard game and still control the division. our o line must get not terrible in run blocking, but based on mongo coming back i think that's pretty reasonable, dabol has to unplug his head from his butt and figure out some stuff too. we need to be healthier in the back 7, but honesty it more or less comes down to the coaches fixing the d line. maybe trade like the ravens did for a solid player.

im too young to opine, but that hasn't ever stopped me before. our o line coaching isn't good enough. it's that simple. more than any other unit on a football team, coaching helps and hurts the oline. you see kc and ne and gb put in back ups and get sick results, and you see teams like the raiders spend a ton on oline and still get just ok to barely good results. individual talent on the online doesn't help if you have a single weak link. you need talent, obviously, but how they play as a unit is like 80% of it. if you have just a glaring hole, you need to scheme around it at the OC level. i remember we had this LT (gandy maybe? don't quite remember his name). he was really trash. anyhow, he ended up being the starter for the cards and they went to the superbowl and really shoulda won the thing.

if we had traded for watt 3 years ago at the same price, it would have been considered a steal by the bills but in fact would have been a bad trade because he has been hurt just about all the time. trading for him would be a huge almost desperation move. basically throwing in the towel on all of our DL signings, and ensuring murph and houghs are gonezo next season. It could work, but it's crazy risky and i don't think the bills would make that move. would be exciting at least! im pretty sad the FO let shak and phillips walk and just used that money, and more, to sign downgrades. they may only be downgrades because they don't know the scheme, or perhaps our smaller always fresh rotation doesn't work when refs don't call holding on pass rushers anymore, but its pretty clear clown or dude now in minni would have improved our D, even if we had to cut murhpy or whoever. i think we might have won vs kc if our pass rush came on on 3rd down, and our run d made a couple of stops (literally, like 2 or 3 more stops on first or second down runs and we get the ball and cut a score from KC). absolutely disgusting!

i knew it before, but it kinda shocks me we have more cap/salary allotted to our DL than any other team. having 9 (and now 10) guys in the rotation will do it though. iv'e been shting allover them, and for good reason, but there has to be some non talent reason for the drop off from last year. surely there is a coaching thing that can correct it. i certainly hope so.

well, with this guy getting cut, and the benching on monday, the coaches have made it clear they are the boss and the team follows them. They've kinda increased the difficulty for themselves, but this is their chance to right the ship and get everyone on the same page. these next four games will basically be our season IMO

the klien contract is especially insane. like, we run this D which requires frankly too much from LBs, they have to read cover move and tackle, and a mistake in any of those hurts the d more than in many other d's, so we spend not big but not small money on a guy who really can't do any of that as well as the scheme requires. this team hit paydirt w cheaper free agents signing hyde and poyer, lorax, and jordan phillips. they did less well w star and murphy. combine that with drafting (solid on white, edmunds and milano, trash at CB since that and unless oliver just gets awesome when his knee heals, he and epenesa can be added to that list so far) and we just don't have the right amount of young playmakers offsetting underperforming over paid old guys given that we are putting straight UPS driver practice squad guys and benching starters vs the champs, we would be MUCH better off to have passed on some of these barely JAGS and brought in say clowney and a decent nickle cb

aside from just perhaps not being talented enough (which would come down to guys being hurt, getting a bit older, and phillips and shak being replaced by lesser and not cheaper nor younger players, *gulp*) i think we have a scheme problem up front. the stunts and games our DL have been playing didn't seem to work and the 3/5s back up linemen on the KC Oline seemed to know where they would be just about every play. to a decent extent being a DC in the NFL is playing rock paper scissors, we showed scissors every single snap, and the O called rock and smashed us. at some point, you HAVE to pull some tricks and make them guess wrongly. we did that pretty well last year.

how did we end up soaking so much of our cap? did we front load the cap hit of some of our big contracts in order to use it up this year, or have we just ended up over paying for crummy old DL guys and carolina LBs?

we've seen the ups and we've seen the downs, so to me it comes to the next 4 games. how we bounce back form these two horrible rescheduled games going into our bye is the story. 2-2, with the afc east games being must wins in that case, we are alive but fighting miami for the division. 3-1 and we are solid, would be lame if one of those losses was vs NE, but we'd still be in decent shape. i can't fathom us losing to the jets and then winning the next three tbh 4-0 and we are ripping it up with the ship righted. 8-2 into the bye puts us comfortably in the running for #1 seed. My expectation is we win the next two games, and have a good shot at the cards game. if for some reason the D turns into what it was last year and our O catches fire i suppose we could beat the hawks, but i doubt it.

if that kelce super catch (that the did a quick snap after to avoid a replay) was ruled incomplete or kecle just didn't magically scoop it, they likely woulda had to punt from deeper and not scored the FG. so his stats were good, but i still don't think mahomes lit it up as much as the boxscore says

keep in mind we basically play a 4-2-5 and the two LB positions are largely interchangeable. this is a schematic flaw in our D at this point, because both LBs have to do so much. if you look at historicly good tampa 2 ds or whatever the hell you call what we run, you see other worldly good MLBs, that one HOF LB in tampa, urlacher in chicago, kueckly and davis in carolina, the list goes on. i suppose the one hope we can have for our D would be the championship run dungy had in indy, where sanders, who is a SS but basically played like an extra LB in the run game, came on late in the season and just started murking fools. if milano and edmunds can magically go super sayin (or whatever that dragon ball thing is) and become human cruise missiles, then maybe we can stop sucking.