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  1. 16 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

     

    42 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

    The mindset McDermott said he told the team to have going into the second half according to that reporter at the start of the second half was perfect.

     

    What did he tell them?

     

    Paraphrasing here:

    get a 3and out to open the third quarter then get back on the gas and build a dominant lead.  The message was throw a beat down and don’t let them crawl back.

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  2. 10 minutes ago, ganesh said:

    If we haven't learnt anything from the Music City Miracle or the Hail Murray, then we really don't understand it.   These games are good signs that it is not over until the final whistle is blown.   His point was that if they squib kick, we would have shaved a further few more seconds of the clock;  that would mean they only had one play as opposed to two plays to get to the Bills 35.

     

    There are a few ways to lose in the 13 seconds.   One is a kickoff gadget play and the long kickoff eliminated that.  Another is giving Mahomes too much time to throw and letting him complete a bomb.  Rushing 4 generally eliminates that.  I don't know who they had on the field but you could put 4 DE out there or 3DE + Oliver and have some speed to hurry up Mahomes.  Blitz was an option to rush a throw, but Mahomes can pick you apart with that.  I think the general strategy was fine, but you have to execute a D that doesn't give up two chunk plays as was stated.  Upgrading the pass rush is much needed.

     

  3. Any team at +90 points in week 4 is properly at #1.  They legitimately have a top O and top D.  Yes their wins were against mediocre or bad teams but those teams still had talent on defense and we dropped plenty of points.  I don’t care how bad an O they played, the number of 4th down stops shows the D is championship caliber.  Defense wins championships.  Look at last years superbowl or the giants in 2007.

  4. 11 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

    The next time someone says "X player has zero trade value" we should remind them that a 33 year old blocking tight end with fewer than 500 career yards fetched a draft pick.

     

    We should offer to trade Bruce Smith to Atlanta.  He might fetch one heck if a draft pick!

  5. I looked at some of the teams the Patriots beat in years past and they beat some phenomenal offenses with good D.  Look at their first win in 2001.  They held the greatest show on turf to under 20 points.  That was a HOF RB, QB and 2 HOF caliber receivers.  Ditto what they did to the chargers in AFC championship games when they had LT, Rivers, Gates.  The 2008 patriots were beat by a great D and great pass rush of the giants.

     

    yes, a prolific O can win but only until it gets shutdown.
     

    We can’t win shootouts everytime.  We win if we keep KC under 20 points.  A RB doesn’t fix that.  DE might. 

  6. 5 minutes ago, maryland-bills-fan said:

    Here is a post from April of this year.  Remember that usually, the draft has 3 tiers of good players.  1->15= all pro types,,,, 16->50= people who you can expect to start and 50->250 a good chance to be a backup or inferior starter.  this is a generalization but is about right. (An indication of this is to see how much that the "more expert than you and I" people agree on the people who are in each group.).  You get what you pay for, most of the time.

     


     

    Moss and Singletary are where you get backups or are taking crapshoots.   Please think about this:  for many position players, you have a limited amount of film and such.  For running backs and WR, they are out where you can see them in college and not much is missed.


    Good points, but Sammy Watkins comes to mind.  There are a lot of high picks that don’t live up to expectations, particularly on WR and RB. Don’t forget, Ladanian Tomlinson never played in a super bowl.  
     

    I think the worst thing we can do is use a 1st rounder on a RB.  An upgrade at RB would help but they can be obtained in other ways.  Invest a high pick on D.

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  7. It really seems a tradition on this board not to pull an excerpt or at least give the gist of an article.

     

    Am I wrong in common courtesy being that you get at least the high point of the linked article in a post and if you want more detail you can click? I don't mean to single you out- just get tired of the teasers

    His flight artived late and he missed his connecting flight in chicago, He had few options at 10pm to get to buffalo for a 7am practice. He needed sleep so no rental and a buddy couldn't drive him..

  8. Ryan's 'exotic' looks, continually put someone in a position to fail. The better QBs took enough time to see who that was, and let them do so.

     

    Schwartz used the front four to stunt quite a bit, while occasionally throwing in a corner/safety/lb blitz in the mix. The main point being that the front four were pretty much always putting pressure on, and not being sent into stupid coverages, just to try and do something different.

    Pettine even had better results than Rex. You have to have some stunts and unexpected Blitzes or you are too predictable.

     

    Brady always figures out our D. With Schwartz, he just threw it quickly and the D line was irrelevant. The recipe to beat Brady has always been pressure but it has to be mixed up a lot and you can't put your corners 10yds downfield. Unfortunately I expect 0-2 against the Pats again.

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