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Ugh. The dichotomy of Schulz. Good in the passing game, awful in the run game.

I hate our pace this game. We're playing slow and we look sluggish. Let's pick up the pace on offense.

smh. McCarthy just negated a Cards penalty. Let's hope this works out.

It wasn't really DPI, it just was a great catch. lol.

Pollard shouldn't be in on 3rd downs...... he can't block.

But if it does...... it'd be nice to have a kicker who is a coin flip from 30-45 yards.

Zack Martin got beat like a drum on 3rd down. JFC.

Yea, that's on Moore. Basically, we're too obvious in our alignments and Baker knew the play as soon as we got set.

Gregory took himself out of the play on the Edmonds run and allowed himself to be sealed for the cutback. Need to get some chunk plays vs their D and get pressure on the midget without letting him break the pocket.

Very much agree with this, although I'll say that the college football player community is not a monolith, and different guys choose for different reasons, but to think that the NIL is the creating this rift is naivety. IMO, it's pretty simple. Money changes everything and the more more money you insert into a system, the more it changes. As college sports has increased in popularity throughout the decades after WWII, the way audiences consume the sport and the money involved have changed. Now, a bunch of old white guys tried to keep the money from disseminating into the overall system as best they could, but eventually, everything comes out in the wash and the volcano exploded to some degree. College football is in transition, not because of these rule changes, but because the problems and issues they had necessitated change. Change happens slowly with most systems and that's what you're seeing now. A 12-16 team playoff would much more enjoyable as upsets would be more prevalent and folks feel a true gauntlet was run with 3-4 games rather than 2. It'll get there, give it time, but the system right now certainly isn't optimal. The Bowl model can go the way of the NIT.

@ztejas probably can help you with this. He loves Demar. I'll just say, basketball is a team sport and although there may be a couple of guys who can take shit and make ice cream, most players are going to play around the level of the overall talent of their squad.

Yea, he's sort of becoming a 3 and D guy, because his splits look like a guy who can do one thing. 10-16 feet, he's 40%. 16 ft -- to the arc, he's 35%. He's almost 60 points less than last year from 2. His FT% has gone down almost 50 points too. He's shooting the 3 better but regressed everywhere else. And here's the thing I see when I watch him. He doesn't have much mid-range game. Now analytics will tell folks that a mid-range game is sometimes inefficient, but the good to great scorers all had elite mid-range games. Keldon just looks awkward at times if he's not getting to the rim. I still like him and the 3 ball is nice, but I haven't seen a lot of improvement in his game beyond the distance. He needs to find a go-to part of his game. He doesn't really have a post game. Not really a great dribble drive guy and not really a pull up guy. But he plays hard, gets extra possessions, don't need to run a ton of plays for him and if this 3 ball is for real, then he's a good 3-D garbage guy. That's not a terrible thing at all. Thad Young is/was a good garbage guy. Shawn Marion the same. However, fair point about his 3 ball. That's good to see, but he's just not a good shooter anywhere else, at least this year. I'm gonna guess we split the difference on his splits and that's where he settles in for the next few years. Find that go-to game son, whatever it is. That was the thing Kawhi always had, he had a post up game whereby as he became a perimeter player, he could still post up and then get his jump shot off his post game. Excellent foot work. Anyways, that was rambling. I like Keldon but I don't see superstar or even 2nd tier star guy in him right now...... Always can get better.

Why we have to watch falling in love with young players. Sometimes, they don’t grow or progress straight line. He hadn’t gotten much better shooting the ball. Has to do better with the stroke or will be a garbage man his whole career. Why is Gretchen Wilson reffing the NBA? She’s a Hard Wood Women?

As mentioned he was awful and basically benched in the last few games in crunch time. He also had a slow start last year irrc. AE? Huh? Anthony Edwards? Who?

Don't think it's gone unnoticed and we spoke about it about a month ago in the thread. They've had a few injuries but nothing serious, basically, it's the same team from last year with a few different supporting parts, but the real issue is Dame is terrible right now. Not like, oh, he's having a down season for a superstar, he's having like a disaster season and playing about 60% of last year's campaign. He's played a lot of basketball the last 2-3 years so folks are wondering, if it's his legs...... or at 31.5 and being a small guy, is this the beginning of the end and by end I mean has a star. Is it a cliff ending which happens with little guys too. We're almost half way through the season, so idk what Portland does. I've always questioned whether you could win a ship with Dame as your best player (I've leaned no), but respected his loyalty to Portland. Maybe it's time to sell it all and get the picks you can to try and rebuild because his value is slipping by the day.

Racist. Jakob's ladder has pretty much settled in as the guy we traded for, he's simply playing more minutes. He's a good, solid player, who's a little outdated because of athleticism but will play hard, be a great teammate and do as instructed. He's a slightly better Tiago Splitter. All of his advanced have settled in and at 26, he'd really have to add something to his game to change it fundamentally like develop a 3 point shot. I get the frustration. Remember watching Tiago getting his shit swatted back on the reg 5 feet from the basket? Or him getting dunked on all the time? He still, at his peak, was a good solid role player for us.

RIP to Reeves. Truly a great NFL career in all aspects.

Venue. Public vs private. NYC Hall deemed Brooklyn's practice facility a private venue. Players playing in public venues have to be vaccinated.

Good for her, but it probably kills any chance of coaching a men's team unless it's the Spurs. Sorta sucks but I get it, she can't wait around forever and she's getting the biggest contract for a WNBA coach ever. Congrats, Becky.

Both coordinators getting a look. With Baalke staying on as GM, I'd probably rather avoid Jax if I was in their shoes, unless they can convince Kahn to fire him. Still, can't go around passing on these jobs too often.

All those championships should have told ya..... Next, let's ask JR Rider what he thinks.

Definitely, but he seemed much more comfortable with CW back and climbing up in the pocket. LT is still a real issue and we have a TE/edge blocking issue. Schulz has grown as a really good zone buster like Witten and understand space, but his blocking is extremely suspect and without Bell, we've struggled to set edges with our TEs. It's an underrated aspect of the run game. Schulz missed at least 3 and I think 4 blocks where runs were just blown up putting us behind the sticks yesterday.

Brown is more their speed threat. Godwin is outstanding in the slot and with Gronk controls the middle of the field. Evans is also dealing with a hamstring as is Fournette. I think both will be okay for the playoffs but hammys are tricky injuries. It's a shame though because the Bucs have such an easy end to the regular season with the Panthers twice and the Jets. Maybe the Panthers can come up with a home effort and surprise them. Not counting on it though. If I had to guess, we're going to end up with the 3 seed and that sucks but going to Tampa, if they're a bit banged up, is probably better than GB, where the weather could be a real issue.

No one knows if he has COVID this time. He's had it once confirmed. Reports should come out soon if he's close contact or actually has it this time. Ageist. Maybe he needed so many for the..... practice.

I think he definitely has options at the college level, but the question is what do those options look like? What schools would ride out the media heat, ignore he's left Florida and OSU with NCAA violations and basically is a dick that no one likes? Would it be a blue blood type school or a 2nd tier school with big potential? A fixer upper in a P5 conference? My question is..... how bad does he want it? Does his fire still burn white hot? I sort of think he took the Jax job because it was a ridiculous offer that he couldn't turn down and wanted to see if he could make it work, but not sure his heart was in it? I think his behavior and decisions since he was named HC and basically puppet master of the worst franchise in the current NFL, makes it look like it wasn't. He wanted to create his own fiefdom but didn't really understand how big and different the NFL animal was and was too tired and disinterested to really care until it was probably too late...... the "for cause" portion probably took him off guard. I think a Florida State or Oregon type may consider it despite the fallout, as they have proven they don't really care, for different reasons. Maybe like a Tennessee or Nebraska type, who haven't quite figured out the new world order. I wonder if FSU would have the money though...