colin

the nfl is a brutal results business, and as such mcd will either go down as choker or an all timer. he's accomplished enough in the regs to be in the category of good coaches, but if he never wins a ring with allen as his qb because his d keeps turning into a total pumpkin in the playoffs, then he's just a choker. if he wins say 2 or even 3, he's an all time great and it will come down to a corner not getting concussed or a rookie improving late and figuring out how to rush the passer on 3rd and long. it's not really fair, but that's the nfl. i think beane is ok, but the overall front office rating is going to be mostly impacted by mcd, and at this point it's down to winning a super bowl or not.

on the joe marino show, it was stated that only one guy has an average per catch of over 10 yards on the ain'ts, and that's the TE who is like 11 ypc with not a lot of production. they are going to quick pass, and we suck at stopping the quick pass, so i reserve my right to be a panic fan in teh game day chat as we see that happen. similar to the miami game, i expect NO to need a super great game script to appear to have a chance, we will look bad at times, especially on D, and net net we will walk on them and win by two+ scores.

Lamar jackson has a huge gap of how many people are vocally supporting him on TV (talking pundits and such) and online (baltimore fans are so so active) and his individual (regular season anyhow) accomplishments vs his being in ads. i wanted us to draft him when he was coming out because I though we wouldn't have a shot at a top qb (before our trade ups) and i figued he was just a much better version of tyrod, and we had shady and i had emotionally given up on us ever having a decent traditional passing game unless we had an all world qb from years of abused fan syndrome. i was vocal about allen being great when we moved up and drafted him, but i also liked baker and darnold (shows what i knew, i was not a josh rosen guy, i thought he was to frail). after his first year or two, i was (and still am) aways afraid to play the ravens because they have always had a super talented roster of big nasty fast players and that has always crushed us (nothing made me sadder than seeing the rex ryan jets just mash our faces in, or the game we gave up 300 rushing and passing to the 9ers with the other harbaugh as the corch). in terms of his dominant stats and great regular season record as a starting qb, i kinda hate him by association because i hate the harbaughs so much, and i think similar to his jerk brother baltimore harbaugh is a total front runner, and they pad the hell out of lamar and everyone else's stats in blow out wins vs teams lying prostrate being out of the game in all but physical reality. when they got henry i thought how the hell did the nfl let barclay go to philly and henry go to baltimore? i hate both of those match ups for us. i don't really dislike lamar, and he's obviously a great player, but he wears that uniform and except for stopping kc from going to a superbowl (or maybe miami or the cowboys or some team like that who i generally hate) im pretty much always rooting for them to lose.

ya, our dumb coach claps and has no hair, while the detroit dc has cool flexing poses and luxurious dreds. relax, it's a joke guys.

Lions d needs a flipping jugs machine, they have dropped two ez picks

buddy ryan used different metrics than the ones that were popular at the time to evaluate defensive performances, he looked at what are now toxic plays and some other stuff. anyhow, my model for the bills d: can they get stops (punts or turnovers) against elite offenses in the playoffs? there is a bit of a blind spot which is: do we slow down the death of 1000 cuts, which seems to be at best what we've done in the past 4 or so playoff exits, but i am willing to ignore that. anyhow, so far, and i'm giving a lot of grace to the bills d because we are missing our rookie (fast, not ancient like tre) corner, we are still green at SS and a lot of snaps at DT, and our roid guys are still out. we got trucked by baltimore like the I-95 for a bit over 3 quarters, but stopped 4 or their last 5 drives, and the one they burned us on was lamar doing something even he can only do once in a while, and then a massive immediate let down play where henry walked in untouched. the rest of the drives were like at best 5 and outs for baltimore, it was late in the game, and it included a turnover. we rolled the jets, but they don't count. vs miami, they had their best possible game, controlled the ball wonderfully, got lucky with a fluke game script where we should have been rotating between 1 and 2 score leads from the 2nd quarter on, missed a horrible kick, got stymied up on O at the worst time, and still won by 10 altho both this and the baltimore game needed a miracle turnover which we got in each case. we also had some really terrible kick and punt coverage at times in those two closer games, especially vs miami. from that perspective, where we have different coverages, can apply pressure and simulate pressure, and actually force punts we are improved. from the POV of 3rd down, we still kinda suck out loud so far. im not sold on the d, but i do think if we can get reasonably healthy, particularly if we get a bye in the playoffs, we will be able to get enough stops on who we play to win. i figure 4 or 5 stops by the d gives us a really really high chance of winning any game. we got i think 4 vs baltimore (haven't checked in a bit) and the ones we didn't stop felt like a runaway freight train. we got 6 vs miami where they controlled the ball like no one's biz. it is worth noting that maimi held the ball a lot, and still had putrid overall produciton. also, as of now we have the number 1 rush O (i think we fall to 2 after baltimore plays tonight), and the number 32 rush d in the nfl. if we can get that 32 to look like a 16, I think we might be going deeper than we ever have in the post season. we'll need our roster to be pretty healthy.

i think dabol and co are gone by week 8, i suspect dart is way to raw to be starting and he'll get burn and it will show. that team is a dumpster fire.

I live in Monmouth county NJ and work in the city. The NY press and giant fans will be totally insufferable if this skataboo does well. He will be annointed even faster than shokey was

we are ball control on o, we have a sick OL and run game, so that's the story so far on o (aside from cracking 30 points every time they play a game, and no TOs). i think we have a bit of a pass game identity and outside wr problem. we don't have anyone who can stress the d deep. a nico collins or that scary terry guy in dc would make this o look like a madden game. we don't have that tho, and while coleman is showing improve he's just not there yet. i think we need to shift even more to the multiple TE sets. aside from maybe the ravens or eagles who can just body up on any team, i don't think many nfl teams do much against that.

ever since brady took over, or totals in production have been quite similar to the totals we had with dabol and dorsey, but the variance has plummeted, and we have a viable run game. the 22 season when josh's shenanigans took his head out of the game vs cinci, and we had absolute stiffs like roger staffold rounding out the bases on his way to retirement at, we lost 3 regular season games by a total of 8 or so points in ridiculous fashion (a one pointer where we out gained maimi by like 200 yards, the total multiple melt down game at home vs minni with the fumbled qb sneak and all time catch by jj on 4th and forever, and i think to the jests who were in tough that year, we woulda lost to cinci as well). before losing von to injury (and other guys too) that team was a monster, with cook at rb, von and them at DL, and a healthy all pro milano, but that team just never felt like they had the chops to put together a script to win, and needed hines of all people to save us at the end of the season vs NE after hamlin incident. i have trouble with brady for his small ball tendencies, but the net of it is we have consistent mistake free insane offensive production on the offensive side of the ball. our d has faltered in the playoffs, but what looks different to me vs prior years is that while we let up 4 awful drives (one stopped with a great pick at the end) vs the fish, they mostly got smashed and their overall numbers were pretty weak last night. after getting smoked by balti all day, we got stops when we needed. jets we dominated but who cares. in contrast to prior years, it was just always a slow slow death of a thousand cuts and we were even worse on 3rd down that we have looked this season, and so far we are missing like four to six quality players ever time we put our d out (milano, oliver, hoyt, african anabol, rookie corner, someone else who might step up). so that long winded effort poast is to say, our conservative O is what we need right now, and if we didn't miss that cake FG late in the first half we likely just waltz to a 3 score victory where miami is never in position to get close, so i'll take it.

So chincy

Bad effing hold

Big time stress reducer there.

Literally a gift from the football gods We need turnovers, and we are lucky to get them!

This d is simply no good at stopping short passes.

3rd and long and it's an instant completion.

Another bad kick coverage. We need some good d happening

I gotta talk smack about him more!!

Lol,min my face!!! I'll take it

One thing I'm seeing, this o looks better with tes and Coleman out there than shakir

Lol what a gift!

This team is just falling apart here

How can you have super bowl hopes and a no one like babbich running your d?

Slow small weak, so sad to see

We are a dumb little team man, fug