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    So is Landon Jackson done for the year?

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    well, i'm generally a homer and try to look on the bright side (until the game thread, then i doom and gloom) but this level of talent missing from the DL which is completely and totally the center piece of our D might just be too much for us to overcome.  the offense is blowing goats at the moment, but we fail every playoffs because of defensive breakdowns generally helped along with injuries.

     

    i read oliver might be back for the playoffs, or late playoffs, but it's not certain he'll be effective even if he is back.

     

    assuming taron and benford can come back to full health, we at least have a workable secondary w harriston, bishop, poy/hancock, benford and Taron, but our LB play has been bad without shaq, and it all comes down to our DL, which is now a total mash unit.

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    Coaches are heavily implying that Coleman isn’t trying on the field

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    Coleman sucks and looks like he's dogging it, but we saw this from diggs, wrs want the ball and they want to be important.  The whole o right now is set up for wrs not to be important.  I'm sure keon thinks that sucks, and that he doesn't get good opportunities.  He had a couple bad attempts vs Miami, but also was thrown a couple bad balls as well, so in his mind it's a wash.  

     

    I think it's clear the players don't have a lot of confidence in what the coaches are doing, at least on offense.

    Were We Running Into a Stacked Box?

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    To my eye we did because we were stubborn (arrogant).  We played vs big personnel on d with our tiny nickel, and when we saw stacked boxes early vs the fish when we had the ball we were predictable and ran the same cut backs we always do, which they stayed at home and beat.  

     

    Week to week this coaching staff just doesn't have ideas, and what's more when it fails early, there is no answer.  The team gets up for games the coaches are up for and prep for, and fails in games where the coaches just don't bother to have answers.  All three losses look the same -- the offense gets figured out by the opposing d, makes no adjustments, and we have to drop back and force balls to low talent wrs.  Early down throws and play action was there to be had vs Miami, we just don't like to be unpredictable 

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    We need Gabe Davis

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    14 hours ago, Comebackkid said:

    Coleman's 4.61 40-yard dash doesn't necessarily jump off the charts, but in the gauntlet drill at the NFL Combine, Coleman reached a top speed of 20.36 miles per hour – the fastest speed by a receiver over the last two seasons.

     

    you would think....you would have him running crossers day and night...   he also has made big plays on them yet we rarely ever see 

    them called for him.   

     

    Honestly, we have an oc with no success prior to having Allen, and we have a dc with just no success.

     

    They don't have the experience or knowledge to adjust on the fly.  They can script stuff up w the talent we have for opening drives and stuff, but when the game is dynamic if it doesn't go their way they can't bring it back.

     

    I think MCD has this team built in his image and this is what it is.  There is no mad man Kevin gilrbide of who will fight for what he says is how the o needs to be, there is no wink Martindale dc who will get into a fist fight to support their cause, we have kromer who is a stud, and then people who can script up what MCD wants well, and then they kinda hope it keeps working the rest of the game

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    Stale

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    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.

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    This staff doesn’t take every game seriously

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    4 hours ago, Poleshifter said:

    Hey Colin, I enjoyed your post.  Are these typos (spellcheck etc) or some new urban expressions?

     

    Is a "tub" like a haphazard pass?

     

    Is "cheeks" like saying they played like "ass" (a popular expression these days)?

     

    Thanks @colin for a chuckle amidst the gloom.

     

    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.  

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    Linebackers

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    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.

    This staff doesn’t take every game seriously

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    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.

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