Good stuff bro....but on the Philly/Dallas game. I know what you mean, but that wasn't unluckySaw almost no live action yesterday, a little of the Pats-Raiders in an airport bar. Looking at the box scores:
Lions won but their recipe for success does not compute in December/January. No run game and porous run D. Bears almost stole another one with that passing attack. Fox must be an idiot savant to keep this going but at the same time being an awful coach.
Remember when they Chiefs were 5-0 with wins over New England and Philly? Yeah, me neither. Average starting field position yesterday was their own 21 yard line. Tough to put a big number with that kind of starting position in the bad weather at Giants stadium. Still, they have a two game bulge on the rest of that crap division.
Cutler simply killing the Dolphins this year.
Vikings and Saints just keep getting it done. Throw in Carolina and you've got three legit contenders to the Eagles regular season crown.
Jacksonville and Baltimore are going to be two real thorns in the playoffs. Stifling D that can travel, Jags add a nice ball control offense. Both teams know how to win in Pittsburgh, and the Ravens have handled the Pats in their building before.
There probably won't be a worse coaching decision all year than the Bills decision to start Peterman against the Chargers. Bills were IN a playoff position heading into that decision. Clay was just starting to get back to 100%, and Benjamin was working on developing some chemistry with Taylor. Now look at where they are. Chargers average starting field position in the first half was midfield + a defensive TD.
I'll give Marcus a pass for his first effort in Pittsburgh. If they somehow get back to Heinz in January he'll perform a lot better. Titans real problem was inability to generate a pass rush.
Landed in Pittsburgh right at halftime Sunday night, saw the score was 9-7 Dallas and both QBs had very poor stats. By the time I got to my car it was 29-9 Eagles. Looks like the Cowboys run D crumpled in the 3rd quarter. Wentz converted a few key third downs and one fourth down that they tried only because Elliot was out. If Elliot was available the 9-7 becomes 14. 21 then 24-9 before the strip sack TD, still a two score game. Instead it's 8, 8 & 6 points yielding a three TD deficit, a little unlucky for Dallas.
The Cowboys four most important players are Ty Smith, S Lee, Zeke and Prescott. With only one available they're vulnerable against anyone.
Stat from John Daigle - 2017 rushing numbers vs Cowboys:
With Sean Lee - 132 carries, 474 yards, 3.5 YPA
Without Sean Lee - 119 carries, 671 yards, 5.6 YPA
On Dak.....think so?pats still wikkid good even in a different country. (just how da raiders and pats prepared for this match up alone tells you all you need to know... bill is playing chess and everyone else Parcheesi)
Raiders coming off a bye week to boot and Del Rio is still Brady's bitch goin back to his Jag HC days
no wager is safe until the final whistle....see the under backers in mia and the clev backers there
philly looks legit
jerry needs more makeup on post game interviews bashing his staff for bad 2h adjustments
cowboys are not good and Dak is exposed as pedestrian when he does have his binki zeke to take the load off
I think every QB benefits from a good run game. Look at how much better the Saints look right now. Could say the same about Wentz. They didn’t add Ajayi to be a decoy.On Dak.....think so?
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I think every QB benefits from a good run game. Look at how much better the Saints look right now. Could say the same about Wentz. They didn’t add Ajayi to be a decoy.
I am one of the Philly guys Capaholic mentioned and I am just scared shitless something bad is going to happen. That comes with being a philly fan. I am just so afraid of our golden boy getting hurt, or even worse, the team laying an egg in a home playoff game vs a team they are clearly better then. This is just how we are programmed to feel in Philly. Hell, I'm worried they come out flat vs the Bears this week. We just know better than to get too confident.
Brewers, interesting comment on Mariota. I had this exact discussion after Thursdays game. I actually think he could very well be good in the NFL, but I hate that he has a coach that doesn't seem to work with his skills. I look at it like Goff. He was trash last year because he had a coach who wanted to run a certain offense style and said to his players "this is the offense, YOU run it" Then the same team gets a young, smart coach who has a different approach, which is "these are my players, what can I run that brings out the best in them based on what their skill sets are?" To me, this is the single biggest difference between a good and a bad coach. Mariota has some unique skills. He needs a progressive, new-school minded coach to bring out the best in him. Whether he gets that or not will mean everything, because he is not going to have success being a standard drop back passer
Interesting brewers, I think his head and his arm are his best attributes. Imo, the legs are just a bonus.
He's on the wrong team with the wrong coach and the wrong talent around him, D Henry is a limited RB but sufficient to this point...other than that it's all Marcus and his head. If he played for an offensive minded staff he'd light it up.
Wrong team imo...had he gone to Tampa, it would be a completely different story and Koetter would be up for coach of the year as opposed to on the chopping block. Crazy how that works.
Ajayi's 71 yarder came late when game was already out of reach no? I think the run means more to teams like Dallas/KC than it does to other teams. Probably exposes Garrett as a coach as well......
Not sure what the game plan was in KC but how is it you're throwing 35+ with Alex Smith? Just didn't make sense from the Andy "bye week" Reid...was also super windy that game...
Agree with the statement above, that JAX d is pretty damn good, love the confidence in Ramsey as well
Both could be good, if not great. Both need better coaching.Winston better than Mariota? Wow....
Russell Wilson is a top 5 QB
I think they are both guys who are pretty good offensive minds but are best suited for a coordinator spot and not the head coaching spot because they are not natural leaders of men. Wade Phillips is the same way with defense...these guys are great at what they do but there are some other traits you need to be a great HEAD coach that they don't have
Norv turner was the original
Hue Jackson is clearly one too, it puts teams in a shitty spot
Do you risk losing the elite coordinator by giving the job to someone else? Even if you don't think they have 'it'
But sometimes it works like Payton, zimmer etc.
Bowles and McVay look like it's working so far
Winston better than Mariota? Wow....
Russell Wilson is a top 5 QB
Can you please take out Todd Bowles because he is trash.
On Dak.....think so?
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Ken Norton, Jr. fired as DC of the Raiders.
I think ppl been waiting for a reason to rip him and now they think last 2 weeks somehow validates their wrong opinion that he isn't that good. Fact is we have yet to see a game where it was fair to evaluate him without zeke, and unless smith back thu we won't then either cause chargers pass rushers gonna be teeing off.
I'll tell ya who needs to be getting ripped it garbage Garrett and his coaching staff for being incapable of devising a blocking scheme that can work without their all world tackle. No qb worth a damn when under the kind of pressure dak has been the last 2 weeks.
First off, as a birds fan, I 100% agree with you. There seems to be a big argument between Eagles fans and Dallas fans over Dak vs Wentz, which is bound to happen when both teams have very good young qbs. The issue is, when the Eagles lost Lane Johnson last year and the WR's got the yips and couldn't catch his perfect passes, and Wentz' production dipped, all Dallas fans said to us was "no excuses, good qbs win in any scenario and make the players around them better!" Now that Dak is struggling, we are hearing the same kind of excuses.
I think its a silly argument because the reality of the situation is both are very good qbs and both fanbases should be thrilled for the future. It is going to be a very fun next decade, and throw in the Giants if they get Rosen or Darnold (even though I think Rosen is going to bust). But there are very few qbs who can succeed when the line falls apart and the WRs aren't helping.
ive only seen praise for him, you follow them so would know best from the outside it looks like the team was gutted and hes making something resembling chicken salad out of chicken shit
I want him back here as D Coordinator and hope the timing works out that Boettcher gets a head coaching gig just as Todd is cut loose. That job he has is thankless, he's damn good.Can you please take out Todd Bowles because he is trash.
I want him back here as D Coordinator and hope the timing works out that Boettcher gets a head coaching gig just as Todd is cut loose. That job he has is thankless, he's damn good.
Really hope Jim Schwartz understands this and is ok with being a long term DC in Philly & be a perennial contender rather than take some crap head coaching job.
Please make this happen!Hopefully he can be the Cardinals DC in 2018.
Hopefully he has realized head coaching not his strength!
GMs should be figuring out much better idea to hire a offensive minded hc, chargers made huge mistake hiring a defensive guy imo. That d be great with a good d cord. The offense is too talented to be as suspect as it is, play calling conservative to a disgusting fault as tends to be case more often than not w former DCs turned head coaches. Hoody being the best leads teams to think defensive guys a good idea when fact is he the exception and it cause he not shortsighted like lot of former DCs that come in with the mindset he doesn't want offense to put his d in bad positions which stupid. Best position you can put d in is a lead!!