Rubes

I really think that if our defense can hold them to FGs instead of TDs, we win it going away. (Though, honestly, that pretty much applies any week.)

I'm not thrilled with the defense either, but I do think that if we were even just a little bit better at 3rd down defense and red zone defense we'd be a lot happier with it.

As much as it pains me to say it, Mahomes is going to put up some gaudy numbers once he has both Worthy and Rice back together. I'd say that would be a good bet at those odds.

So many folks down on Van Demark…yeah he wasn’t perfect in pass pro but it was his first start in a long time and he was absolutely smacking guys around in the run game like a beast…

When they have Rice back as well we’ll be longing for the days early this season when we thought the Chiefs might possibly miss the playoffs entirely.

@4merper4mer reels them in again! It’s been a while since we’ve seen one of these. Well done, sir.

The most I've seen is when they play Pittsburgh. Fortunately, the last time I was there for one of those was the huge beatdown we gave them early in the season a couple years back (the Gabe Davis 98-yard special).

They won't be missing the playoffs, as much as we'd like to see that. There's a part of me that would love to see us slay the dragon ourselves in the playoffs.

You could always try bringing one of those emergency radios that you wind up to get power. I think I still have one of those somewhere.

Probably to save another call up for Zion, but to be honest I'm glad to have a veteran presence at DT to go along with Jones.

Really? That’s interesting, I had no idea. I figured everything being called was related to the green dot guy, who would then call the defense to the others. Maybe it’s also hand signals between players on defense prior to the snap?

I don’t know, Joe Marino in his podcast has been talking about how much more we’ve been using PA this year compared with previous years, and his numbers are higher than what is shown here. There’s probably some subjectivity to deciding what plays qualify as PA and differences in how different groups call it.

Seriously, what signs are being stolen? Don’t headsets eliminate the need for signs? What are we talking about here?

Sounds to me like you’re advocating for a straight up one-for-one trade of Allen for Tua…

We'll never be ranked #1 until we get rid of McDermott!

Well, one of those was John Fourcade, who threw for more than 300 yards in a freezing snowstorm.

Just saw this crazy stat...the Saints are one of only 4 teams to have a winning record at Highmark Stadium, and they have the best record of the four at 4-1 all-time. That's nuts!

I was at that game. It was *really* cold. The loss was incredibly awful to watch, especially against a dome team.

I noticed that too, it was really noticeable. I even mentioned it to my wife. It seemed like every play in the second half that didn't go their way, Lamar had some reaction or was making some kind of face about it. Was definitely off-putting.

There's that...I was thinking something similar last week, though. Another reason to hope the Dolphins keep McDaniel around another year.

Well that didn't age well... 😄

Didn’t they play in the playoffs last year?

I mean, McDermott himself was calling out Groot after the game. Should we all tell him to chill? It was tough to watch in the moment, and the pass rush and 3rd down defense did stink, but it’s hard to really argue with holding that offense to 21 points and low total yardage with 4 three-and-outs and a turnover. I mean, if the Bills D can do that consistently, we’ll beat most teams with the offense we have.

Kinda crazy how we played such a conservative offense yet we scored 31 and left probably at least 7 more on the field. They were a couple bad play calls from busting that game wide open in the first half. They'll open things up when it’s time.