colin

I call it the rock paper scissors element of football. We were scissors going deep all the time, so teams played rock w two high shells, now we went paper last year (and we really went paper with ten slots and no x wrs) and now teams are going scissors on us (press, crowd box, blitz) and we don't have an answer. Part of it is the talent we have (no Palmer or better to break the crowd) and even more of it is philosophy and preparation. Vs KC and even Baltimore we went in the bag and pulled out different plays and looks on o and d. We had change ups but on o vs KC we were mainly establishing the run and playing match up games off of that. Vs Baltimore once they cracked us open on d we went way more aggressive on o and hit some deep stuff outside, it stressed them and lead to a win. Even in d vs bmore we changed it up late and got stops and a turnover. Both teams on the field yesterday had a bunch of injuries to their better players. The difference is one team just fired the gm, had a bit of extra rest, and the coach was coaching for his life vs a team that always pants him. The other team spent their energy vs their Boogeyman team in an emotional win, and figured this was a game to feature different players, didn't have an answer to Miami's run d, and just sort of played random Madden offensive formations to try out their new material. We are mentally the opposite of Baltimore. They out size speed and talent other teams and front run with the best of them. They fade when the other team can take the shots and their QB falters when the light gets brighter, but piles up stats when he's given room to run. We play more smoke and mirrors and crumble with just weak plays and bad execution. We tend to play better vs better opponents and Allen gets inspired when things are scarier on the bigger stage. I think it's a bit of humble arrogance. Bean showed it when he attacked a radio guy over his total failure at the wr position. Our coaches show it by simply not bothering with a plan b, or the ability to make adjustments on the fly. Yesterday was the first opening drive we punted on this season, we had 6 TDS and a turnover going into this game, and stick azz Miami got us to punt. We went down the field in the second half opening drive in a sclerotic force of will by Allen who pressed the issue too much and threw a horrible int to end it. We can show out on scripted stuff, but we fade when the other team has an answer and we just don't seem to be able to change it up, it's like we show up with a limited play book every week. I've seen this movie way too many times. MCD and his teams have an absolute get trucked stinker one or two times every year. It's always us in desperation forcing the issue on o, and the d letting the other team truck us with explosive run after explosive run. Same script every time. We lack some talent but this team wins or loses with the coaching. It's just that simple.

Lol, I have lots and lots of spell check Easter eggs but those two were actually on purpose. Tub is a touchdown, I think I first heard it from Shannon Sharpe, checks is butt is ass.

8, 58, 7, and rapp have all been absolute trash this season. benford, daquan, and oliver too, if we factor in injuries. six of those 7 are our highest paid guys on D. the linebacker unit, now that bishop seems to have arrived, is our worst unit on D, and that includes when we have our 4th and 5th cb in. 3 lbs (sadly one was hurt today) have played way way better than 8. he's awful this season.

the flaws in our game plans are pretty obvious. we come in with our plan, and we stick to our plan, maybe with the odd wrinkle. on D today i give a mulligan because the o was so putrid and we had so many players hurt. the announcers were talking about how brady was saying he wanted to get keon more involved. every single drive where we "feature" keon early is a punt or a turnover. he caught the one nice tub, but whenever it was a clearly drawn up play for him it was cheeks. we also had screens to the wr very short, and a couple trash screens to the rbs. oh, and a jet sweep! like, they don't want to put the best players on the field and push that, not today, they wanted to assert themselves as this drop back passing team with what looked like extremely telegraphed runs, and it showed. it's simply arrogance. any time we actually play with some balance and unpredictability we get great results. our coaches were all the way in their bags vs kc, and this one was half azzed and kinda mailed in. i think what we are seeing, especially on offense, are players and a qb who just don't believe in what they are doing.

No, get the win w another td and fg

Nice TD drive, but shouldn't have gone for 2, we never get 2

Honestly, looking at this team there was no need to extend shakir like we did. Shoulda kept hollins and gone huge for some real outside talent. No one is even average

This team shot its wad vs KC, and the d is all hurt. If cook doesn't get rolling somewhat the offense is worthless. Poorly constructed and Coached given the talent we have at QB, ol, te, RB.

Coleman has the most appropriate number

Allen had a great one vs KC, and was good vs Carolina, but aside from that he's sucked for like 5-6 weeks based on his prior standard

The saddest thing is it is so obvious, the big people play action tightends passing is our best look, but Brady has to go into all kinds of cute ish. Shakir, Bernard, and sadly so far this season benford have been busy off signings. I hope these morons adjust

The comment in this thread was bang on, this stupid team already won its personal Superbowl, the regular season KC game

Good thing we got away from the heavy sets that work to help baby keon feel better about being a total bust. WTF is Brady doing?

Wow, it's even worse there. This team just finds the dumbest ways to absolutely disappoint me

Some terrible football here, getting so out coached.

I think Brady the turd brain is using this game to call his keon plays, he's been targeted early in both drives, has like 4 yards to show for it. Sad

These play calls are disgusting

The only part of our d that has starters in us lb, and they stink. Thompson is hurt, but 8 was a bust signing, should be sitting

Awful drive, the whole friggen d is hurt and mcdan always calls a perfect game vs us. We really need the o to get serious here

We just can't have this many dl guys hurt. C'mon!!

Methinks they called a keon play on first down and even w extra time he didn't get open. Hope we go back to run and play action out of bigs, not stoppable

Also, Houston's d is a disgusting monster. They are so flipping fast and dangerous

Pilz might be the dumbest built team. Let a top wr go, pay big picks and dollars for a fading one trick poney, get a semi retired cantankerous star for QB, put all dollars in an aging and underperforming d. Have no blocking or run game.

I'm happy about that if KC does it. load up vs the run when we have 1 wr, 3 TEs and cook out there and their horrible play action pass d, and bad covering LBs will be 1 on 1 with knox and kinkaid who will catch balls over their heads all day. also, cook has faced an average of 7.65 guys in the box this season (4th highest in the nfl) and is the per game leader in yards. if end up running on 7s and play action passing over 8s, he'll be running against a light box (for him on average) and we'll have the TEs 1 on 1 vs kc's far and away biggest weakness (worst in the nfl in fact). at some point all of my opinions will just be whatever joe marino said on his last podcast, but i've honestly been saying this for a while (not like im the only one). an EP offense looks its best with a sick run and tight ends, adn we have those, no more 1 on blanketed quick passes to WRs on the edge.

that makes sense, but the data on the field doesn't bare it out in the bills case. our O faltered vs atlanta and ne because we got caught having to drop back in obvious passing downs, and we were over 80% run from under center and over 80% pass from shotgun. going back to the playoff game vs kc last season (where we had a lot of offensive production running, but a lot of it was josh taking it himself) we score quite easily in drives where we feature cook, and struggle to do so in drives where we don't. i'd love to have an actual good wr on this team on the outside, but given we go to war with the army we have, not the army we'd like, i think we should put our best players out there and use misdirection and play action fakes out of an advantage run set to get our best results. if we use our best guys and make the d guess, we can score a lot. we did last year with basically the same set of sorry wrs