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Good stuff!

Also keep in mind that since we've already played Tampa Bay, that lone win was a freebie. 0-10 against non-OC-firing teams.

In fairness, we did get 6 sacks on Henne. Looks like you picked the wrong week to pick on the pass rush. And I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

It's working out great so far.

What's the downside of canning Jauron? We lose a bunch of games? That's going to happen anyway.

Fair enough. Trent's play sucked. He sucks. He's a terrible quarterback, and he's not showing signs of getting better. He seems completely incapable of hitting a receiver on the move, except for the occasional 9 route. He seems afraid to either throw the ball downfield or to wide receivers, and for good reason -- because the rare times he does avoid checking down, he tends to turn the ball over. Ryan Fitzpatrick also sucks. But at least he would bring a new kind of suck to the table. Bring on the Fitzpatrick era.

I hear George Halas has been reanimated and is looking to get back into coaching. Could be a solid hire.

Between Trentative's love for throwing checkdowns and Miami's pass rush (assuming Porter will play), I wonder if it would be beneficial to go max-protect? Keep all backs and tight ends in to pass block, and only send WRs into pass patterns. Would Trent just start throwing the ball away, or would he be forced to try a deep out or crossing route once in a while?

Great article. Can we please have a moratorium on people saying that Edwards is an accurate passer just because he has a high completion percentage? Every QB will have a high completion percentage if 77% of their passes are under 10 yards. It's the 11-20 yard row that is the most damning. Long bombs are always going to be fairly low percentage plays (albeit with a huge upside if you connect), so you don't want to throw a ton of those (which Al Davis still hasn't figured out). But those 11-20 yard passes should be the bread & butter of the passing game. I refuse to believe that the coaching staff wants our crappy TEs getting vastly more targets than our really good WRs. Until proven otherwise, I'm putting that on Captain Checkdown.

Henne has a bigger arm than Pennington and our 1 remaining starter in the secondary is coming off an injury. I predict the Dolphins go with a similar gameplan to last year, where they burned us deep early and often. If McGee is fully healthy, there's a chance it won't work, but if he's hobbled like he was last year, we're toast.

One of the reasons I was majorly Jonesing for us to draft DE Connor Barwin was that Barwin played TE for 2 years in college before being switched to DE, and could serve as an extra TE in a pinch.

You know he's been on the 53-man roster all year, right? But it looks like you'll get your wish & he'll be active this week.

Vick's accuracy on the longball was fine. It was short and intermediate routes where he was woefully inaccurate.

It'll be a good learning experience for Trent.

Jauron looked like he was in the Matrix.

Good, we can get smoked by their backup!

I honestly don't think Trent is an accurate passer. I think he has a very high completion percentage because he throws a lot of short passes.

All we need is more continuity.

In fairness to Lindell, Sean Taylor died well before his FG. Rian is no murderer.

I hate Jauron as much as the next guy, but I have difficulty believing that any coach/OC/play has your primary route being a 4-yard TE cross on 3rd and 15. Or a RB dumpoff (not even a screen) on 4th and 23. I'm putting those 2 decisions on Trentative.

Went 11-5 last year, 0-3 so far this year, backs against the wall, desperately need a win, coming home against a weak division rival. I know who I'm picking, and it ain't the Bills. Is there any chance the Bills could come within a score of beating the Colts?

Nor will we this year.

Well said!

Sad thing is, once TO blows up the locker room, I'm going to side with him. Andre Johnson is the only major threat on the Texans (Owen Daniels is not exactly a game-breaker, folks), yet he catches 100+ passes a year for major yardage. Roddy White was the only receiving threat on the Falcons last year, and had a monster year. Why are we seemingly the only team completely incapable of getting the ball to our best playmaker(s)? Even before TO came on, we couldn't get the ball to Evans. Now with both TO and Evans, we can't get the ball to either one. Awesome.

Any time you can give the ball back to Drew Brees without scoring, you do it.