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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.

It's a complicated game of rock paper scissors. Rules help push things along, but defensive coordinators and the generally higher level of athletic ability on d catches up, and then new offenses come along and the cycle begins anew. Right now, D's are really good at pressure, coverage, and run blitzing. They all seem to be poorly equiped to stop a power run game. There is also something to be said about a very balanced d like the one we have, where if guys make tackles we can defend anything. I think that why mcd likes waves of dline and super athlete mbls, they can deal w most anything. I'm a big fan of how these things trend and change. I really got into it back when I played and pitz came in hot w the zone blitz concept and the 3-4 vs 4-3 stuff.

Gore got run into a pile over and over again vs cleveland, while motor was beating the breaks off of them. even the announcers were baffled at how futile our predictable O was. Yeldon and motor have the wheels and hands to run screens, and motor has even had a couple go for big yardage (i THINK even vs cleveland). we are too predictable in what we will do based on down, distance, and formation. we also have too many formations/groupings/play combos. misdirection and different looks to set up plays which we run effectively is what is missing. we are bottom 5 or so in passing and overall O, but top 9 in chunk plays (and the distance from 5th to 9 is really small wrt number of big plays) and are near the top on 3rd and long and still pretty solid in the red zone. that shows me that when we just line up and play we do have the ability to make Ds play and make things happen, but we totally lack consistency and our drives stall out terribly. screens or just short quick execution low difficulty dump off passes can help us vs pressure, but we simply do not run those. we need better tackle play, maybe an upgrade at LG, another back and a big body WR to have a chance at being a good O, but we could be a 22 -24 or so points per game O if we just had better play calling from our OC who simply does not have a good feel for the game.

Bills 27 - Texans 20

ok, so you think we just don't have the horses to run a screen play, whatever. i disagree, i think we simply don't prepare and practice for it because we have too many plays and formations taking up all of our time. what about our lack of 3rd and makable, or lack of offensive identity, or constantly running gore into a pile? sometimes it's not personal, sometimes it's coaching.

assuming we can land shurmer or someone like that, i'm all for dabol leaving to another team. him trotting gore out and running him into a wall so often, duke never playing although he is our only big body wr, him taking so long to make motor or offensive focus (and still kinda getting away from him as well), our inability to beat aggressive blitzes with man coverage, NO ABILITY TO RUN A SCREEN, and most importantly the penalties and lack of offensive identity just shows that our O isn't cohesive, we don't have bread and butter go to plays, and our ability to score in the redzone and convert third and long with the best in the NFL is simply a function of allen using his legs and extending plays, not his drawn up O.