reddogblitz

Yet we passed 41 times that day and only ran 14. ? I was at that game. It was very windy.

he got in the same way Tyrod did.

To the bolded. Especially when they are run by women. The Seattle march was postponed til March 8th cuz of bad weather. It was typical Seattle January weather. 50 degrees and over cast.

Oh no. If he leaves, there goes our continuity. DOOOOOOMED

I hope he loses.

I think this is what it is. A few years ago the passing league thing was in full force. Teams built up defenses to stop the pass. They got quicker faster LBs etc. Played more passing Ds. Then someone noticed this and decided to ram it down their throat. It works. So as teams will gear their D back to stop the run, then the passing league stuff will start over again. As far as RBs being a dime a dozen, I don't buy it. Sure you can get half way decent guys cheap. But if you want someone like Henry or Shady (when we got him) or Zeke Elliot, you gotta pay. You get what you pay for. What if the Titans put a dime a dozener Yeldon in there? Does he do what Henry does. I doubt it.

Antowain Smith was one.

Like Tryrod or not, that offense was #10 in scoring in the NFL. An offenses job is to score points. Doesn't have to be pretty or what you like in regards to offensive styles to be effective. that offense didn't need to make gallant 4th quarter comebacks that often because they were able to score enough points so that the D could protect it. In 2017 there were only 3 opportunities for comebacks. In one, we were down 7 at the 2:00 warning and won by 3 in regulation( bucs). Another was against Carolina where Tyrod threw a pass to Zay that probably could have been caught if he had run the right route (Steve Taker, NFL WR said he ran the wrong route). And the third was Bengals which we blew. So that's 1 out of 3. Josh was able to get a few vs Jets, Titans, Dolphins but also missed on many oppotunites against mostly good teams like NE twice, Baltimore, Cleveland, Houston. If you add them all he's probably close to 3 out of 8 which not rally much of a higher percentage than we did before 33% vs 38% (maybe up to 50). But if we were able to score more points we wouldn't need all these comebacks especially with the defense we have.

the QB there is Mason Fine out of my alma mater The University of North Texas. He was in while the West scored 14 of their 27 points. Nice pass

KC Game time decision on NF C game. Really don't like either team. Leaning cheese.

Why could we not grab some Mike Gilislee type player from someone else's PS if we didn't have any we could give the football ?to? Why did we have No faith in Yeldon? I was happy with Roman and Lynn.

Things like this is what give me pause about THE PROCESS. They make some bone headed head scratches like this. The didn't want Josh to start. They had a Vet they cut that could have started over Josh. They didn't sign any vet QBs even though there were many available. Instead they went with the money ball approach and took McCarron and he couldn't make the team. Then they go into the year with Nate Peterman, a guy with only 2 shaky starts under his belt and the rook they didn't want to play. Then when Josh did get hurt they couldn't even play the guy they kept and had to sign street FAs Derek and Baker. This didn't just happen to THE PROCESS, it was totally self inflicted. I saw a similar thing this year with RB. We had 4 of them. 1st, Singletary was great but he is small and they didn't want to run him too much cuz they didn't know how much he could take. 2nd string was Gore who they couldn't give it to much because he was 36 years old and after the first 5 games rarely got more than 1 yard per carry. Then they had a 3rd string guy they couldn't even suit up in Yeldon. Why? Is he a fumbler? Fumbled once in PS and once in RS. Did he have a history of fumbler? Not that I can find. If he was, why sign him in the first place? Then we had Penny who I guess wasn't good enough to carry the football. Oh yeah, we also had a guy that couldn't play this year. Again, a self inflicted hole. Player personnel decisions have been odd IMHO like in the cases above. Hopefully these kind of blunders are behind us since they've taken ownership and learned.

No. Good point.

I think you might be talking about me Come on man. ?football fandom is all about opinion. I've been reading your stuff and I see ? where you're coming from. I just disagree. No biggee. They ain't gonna do what I say anyway. Yes, McDermott and Beane said they would build a perennial contender. I don't recall them saying they would keep an under performing OC for 3 years.

Never confuse effort with results.

I give them ZERO credit. Maybe they're good but since they cheat I don't know. And, it's not speculation, it's been proven 3 times. Who knows what else they are doing? Bugging the opponent's locker room? Screwing with headsets? Taping SB opponent's walk throughs? Good chance they did it all plus more. They got caught red handed 3 times. Can we really assume those are the ONLY 3 times they've cheated? In reddog's book, they get ZERO credit. How do you know this? It's not hard to imagine that a league that would destroy evidence would not do other unsavory things.

Fair enough. However the Bills were .500 over the 3 previous seasons before McDermott arrived. Not great but not a "bad team" either. And it was a pretty stacked roster at WR and OLine and DLine and RB and DB. If Rex coulda coached D we would have been in the playoffs. Rams, Broncos, Bears, and Eagles all hired new OCs. They all have prolific offensive head coaches and they didn't talk to Daboll. I hope you're right that it all just needs one more year to bake in.

It was sort of in jest. However in the McDermott era we have taken a defensive player in the first round every year. And we have a weakness in McDermott's D at the 2nd CB spot. We passed up really good offensive guys to take defensive guys. Tredavian Nighmare instead of Watson and Mahommes and Oliver over Lamar Jackson for example. Not saying these are not good players, but they are defensive in round 1. I hope not but it wouldn't surprise me.

True. But lets look a the teams that are asking about him. Cleveland - A Clown Car NY Giants - 1st pick in the 2020 draft Better than nobody I guess but not a ringing endorsement IMHO.

Some of the greatest offensive minds in the history of football started out on the D side of the football. Tom Landry immediately comes to mind. Makes sense. How can you be good at defense if you don't understand offense?

I will choose Free Will.

And what will the first RUSH song of the week be?

This is my impression as well with the offense. They could move the football pretty well at times. But as you say once they get to the outskirts of FG range, drives would bog down and often we'd get nothing out of it. Happened a couple of times in the Texans game.

We also saw it in reverse when Rex Roman and Anthony Lynn arrived our offense was really bad. Then with a new QB and a lot of the same guys went from 18th in scoring (Think about that. Hackett's offense with EJ/Orton at QB averaged 2 points per game more than we did this year with Josh as our franchise QB) to 12th in 2015 and then 10th in 2016. Meanwhile, Daboll has taken us from 22nd in scoring in 2017 to 24th in 2019.

This thinking concerns me. Are we trying to save money with lunch pail guys or are we trying to win? I'm not saying big money guys always work out or are necessarily what's needed. But we don't need more cheap average to above average WRs. We NEED a couple of studs to get to the next level and help Josh to become the QB we all hope he can be. We're about 1/2 way through JA's rookie contract. We don't want to get to the end and still wonder if with better WRs he could THE GUY. Time to find that out is 2020 and 2021. should be an interesting off season. This will be our first pick I suspect.