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Posts posted by Had Enough
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Stafford isn't that much better than Dak. He may not be any better. He had 2 interceptions and it took a last minute drive with a gifted 1st down on a BS holding call on 3rd and goal for them to barely break 20 and win. The refs gave them chance after chance with calls on contact they hadn't been calling all game.
Their defense won that game. Stafford just survived it with a big boost from the refs.
One pick was on 3rd and long throw down the field. The risk/reward justified that decision. The other was off the hands of a seldom used rookie.
The refs didn’t give them chance after chance. That holding call on #55 was every bit as legit as the damn call that put the Bengals in the playoffs.
And I’ve yet to see anyone reference the holding of Van Jefferson’s arm forcing him to try a one handed catch that killed a Rams drive. A pass that bounced off that free hand. It was a big non-call and blatant.-
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No, I hadn't. Good thing AD bulled Spain then,No, I hadn't. Good thing AD bulled Spain then,
I saw this elsewhere. But,
Couple things. I count 10 Rams. So I’m either blind or that dudes off the screen. Probably in the middle of the field. So….
If Burrow is going to Chase, he’s either hitting it quick or giving that safety a false read to get heading to the left, which is unlikely giving the situation. My guess he doesn’t like the option pre-snap so he’s going elsewhere. And Burrow looks left immediately, which indicates that. He didn’t like his first post snap read either or the ball is out.
If he looks short and left, he’s got 3 choices. Then it’s very unlikely he’ll get back right and deep. Don’t expect to have that kind of time. If that safety is deep, it ain’t no smart to come back late, Ramsey falling down or not.
It’s 4th and 1. If Burrow wants Chase, that ball is out quickly. I’m interested in knowing where the safety is pre-snap, but it doesn’t matter cause Burrow wasn’t going there.
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Stabler? Absolutely.
There was such fear with him and his teammates that they instituted a rule. -
Heck, he wasn't even the best QB on the field last night. He had much more time to throw than Burrow and still was airmailing throws all over the place before that last drive.
The first sentence is flat wrong. Then Cincy started with good pressure. Rams pass rush in the first half was mediocre.
Burrow takes some sacks he shouldn’t. But the rush was largely effectively but really only in the 2nd half. Burrows first 3 completions to Chase were not good throws. The throw to Tee for the TD was not a good throw. The first 3rd down throw to Chase, even if the LB wasn’t there, was a poor throw. And Higgins was WIDE open.
Stafford had an inexperienced TE who then went out. Odell went out. The Rams had an ineffective run game that they kept pushing and pushing. Pass blocking was not great. Staffords first pick? 3rd and long, chased out of the pocket. Pick, who cares. It was worth a shot. 2nd pick of the WRs hand. A backup, hardly used WR at that.
Stafford was better and not really close. -
No, they did not. The refs mostly let them play, aside from 2 bad calls, each of which resulted in a TD for each team.
This is a bit of a mischaracterization of the calls.
Rams still had a 4th down play or could have kicked a FG.
The Bengals should have been pushed back as they committed the infraction and had 2nd and a long way to go. -
As to your comment about Cousins, yes. Only a worthless goober would say “yes, Cousins deserves a pro bowl nomination over Matthew Stafford.”
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2021/passing_adv
That link may not work but it’s Pro Football Focus advanced passing stats. Cousins offensive line is not good. Pocket time is the same as Staffords yet the pressure rate is 10% higher. Cousins bad throw % and on target throw % are better than Staffords.
I’m not saying Cousins is better, but there are stats that say Cousins is a good QB. In the two prior years Cousins had more time but was quite accurate.-
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……OBJ helped and they did, but they would’ve won without them tonight
This is cowardly and probably not correct. The Rams O was pretty stagnant without Odell.
I kinda like Goff so I’m not totally conceding this is the difference. Maybe Stafford was so good because of the other weapons the Rams have.
McVay does some nice things. But Akers is not one of them. Continuously running tonight was not a good thing tonight either, Akers or no Akers. -
Even if he didn't hold him you'd say each team got a shitty call in the 2nd half. Bengals had plenty of time to take it to OT. Rams lost their 2nd receiver in the first half.
As someone with little rooting interest and no money on the game I find it difficult to be upset about anything. I thought it was a pretty good game.
Haven’t seen it mentioned since the Kupp holding call, but Apple blatantly held Jefferson’s left arm on the attempted one handed catch. 1st and 10 inside Bengals 40 rather than punt. Significant missed call.
Rams we’re without 3 of their 4 best pass catchers.
Bengals were fortunate to have gotten this far. Starting with a 4th down hands to the face versus KC that actually got them into the playoffs in the first place.
Don’t feel sorry for them. -
Not to mention playing the whole season behind a patchwork OL.
I think there are good arguments for players other than a QB (Samuel, Kupp, Taylor). MVP has definitely become too QB-centric. But the arguments for a QB other than Rodgers aren’t as strong.
And Brady’s Oline was nowhere near a patchwork unit. Hardly any missed starts. They did get banged up in the playoffs.
Thing is that statistically the non-QB group you reference had incredible years. Yet they still couldn’t wrestle it away from the QB. Hard to imagine a WR ever having a better year and certainly not substantially better.
You could probably throw Watt and Donald in the mix too. -
I'd like to see Kurt breaking down the Steelers defense when James Harrison picked off his pass in the end zone for a 100-yard pick-6 that lost the Superbowl (despite the blatant holding on the run that wasn't called by the crooked refs).
Was this on Larry Fitzgerald who ran off the field of play when not allowed to do so? Well not legally without receiving a flag. -
Deebo is really good. He was playing Running back and receiver all the time. He definitely deserved to be in the conversation and I fucking hate the 49ers.
The 49ers were 3-5. Then they put Deebo in the backfield or at least started making a concerted effort to get him involved in the run game. Then went 9-3.
That’s MVP type results.
Now the Chiefs beat GB because Rodgers didn’t play highlighting the need to have him play. It also highlighted the buffoonery. So there’s probably some justification there.
Deebos a unique dude on the field. Kinda wish some dudes would go beyond QB in their voting.-
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One of my favorite memories as a dumb ass 15 year old. One good juke move and was right past some corp douchebag and in the center of the field with the players. The key was to be in the first wave before the corp reinforcements made it out of the stands to "protect the field". My dad watched the mayhem from the stands and was convinced I was knocked out or arrested when I didn't show back up for 30 minutes. Good times indeed.
Damnit. I was one step away from hitting the turf when a corp dude and I had a cordial discussion.
Still regret to this day I wasn’t smart enough to get myself on the field for the celebration. -
It's an ignorant premise without doing analysis on what experience coaches generally have prior to being hired. If 100% of coaches have NFL playing experience, then sure, we can look at that as a trend, but it's nowhere near that high. A lot of them work their way up ranks as assistants before ever getting a coordinator or head coach job. Very few that did play in the NFL were even drafted or played more than 4 seasons. It's simply not where most coaches come from, so it's an invalid comparison meant to stir up controversy and distract from actual issues with hiring practices.
I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m just taking it down a different rabbit hole.
Coaching hiring decisions are made by a small number of persons with advice from likely a small numbers of persons just like tons of other, albeit less publicly viewed, closely held, private entities. Many of those go with who they know or based on the advice of those in their inner circle. And often that is family and friends. I’m not sure that is inherently wrong. That does not mean it is the correct decision for on field success however. -
You're comparing apples and oranges here.
How about you start by counting the number of coaches with actual NFL playing time experience? Then tally up the number over the last 10 years to get an idea of how often players become Head Coaches? Then take that percentage of Head Coaches and figure out how it compares to player ethnicity to make a fair analysis of the data and predictions of what hiring practices should be.
Coaches do not come only from guys with NFL experience. So your coaching pool is coaches, men and women, with those aspirations. What does that composition look like? No women players. How many Asian players? How many Hispanics?
Point being is that the numbers will never fit in all capacities. It’d be an interesting discussion on why the current composition of race of NFL players does not track the general population of eligible football participants. If you get too far into that, it might crush the feeling that we’re all equal. -
Usain Bolt hit 27+ miles per hour. But based on what I read that was between 60 and 80 meters.
So you’ve got fastest dude, but he’s not reaching max speed until we’ll after a 40 would be over.
I’d guess there are quite a few dudes over the years that could hang with Usain for 40 but can’t after that.
All the NextGen fastest times seem to be recorded on long TD runs presumably because speed needs being built up so it’d be worth noting at what point in those runs did they hit the max.
With respect to our dudes numbers, how far are they running? I’d speculate that some guys wouldn’t hit their max speed until after 40 yards whereas some are very quick off the start but maybe can’t maintain their speed after40, 50 yards. Derrick Henry may have better top end speed than a guy like Bijan, but Bijan may have a better 10 or 20 meters.
Interesting to speculate on how fast these guys are, but you really need comparable data under like conditions to make useful determinations. -
Do we think ticket prices going up because of fear that some monies are going to NIL? Move to the SEC? Both?
For us less well to do folks, it makes decisions to keep investing in the program for tickets difficult. -
Because you stopped touching yourself.
Start up a Burnt Ends fund and make it a done deal. -
So when we win big next year is it because we learned how to coach or is it because our portal guys were the missing pieces?
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I wonder how many people(black or otherwise)we interviewed for the Special Assisstant to the Assistant Night Manger role that and old white guy coach got?
I was just about to ask, didn’t Gary P just get a job in which he was the only realistic candidate?
A couple of other things. NFL teams tank all the time. Two years ago Baker beat the Steelers to make the playoffs. Several Steelers sat to rest for the playoffs. They didn’t try to lose, but they didn’t put their best effort into winning. So if the Dolphins were tanking for a better pick and really it’s better picks in each round, then I don’t fault them. If it were to get you what would become a Josh Allen or Pat Mahomes or maybe Joe Burrow, then it’s the right move. Pro baseball teams tank all the time for the future.
From my fans standpoint, who like the rest of you doesn’t know shit about the entirety of the inner workings of these discussions, I would have bet money that Flores would get another head coaching job albeit not this year. He really hasn’t shown enough to be a slam dunk hire in year 1 after getting let go. Daboll on the other hand was going to get a job with his work on the Bills and Allen. And it’s probably an easy sell to an organization if they think Daniel Jones is the guy. -
Maybe when Ojomo turns 18 in a couple years
Very true. He hasn’t peaked at 16. -
How about some context. Your body weight is factored into the calculation. It rewards dudes like Finkley who are 250 and can move weight a lot of weight more than defensive tackles who are 310 pounds.
Context? There ain’t none of that here. I’m very interested in all these numbers though. Wish we had access to all of them as well as some historical context too. But based on what’s been flashed here we should expect more production out of Coburn and we’ll see more production out of Murphy. Murphy might be the Golden Goose. I don’t recall seeing Ojomo name popping so maybe his value is that of a solid run defender but not much for explosiveness. -
not sure what the bungals did to mahommes, but clearly something worked. he was under a 3 man rush multiple times and had nowhere to throw. certainly seems off to me. just my 2 cents but i think the chiefs struggle to make adjustments in the game, but can do so at the half. they are hot and cold. its crazy to see a team that can create so much space for its fast players just completely go cold.
mcvay is not a great coach in the moment. at least not yet. he was shitting the bed against the niners there at the end. that challenge was like a prayer. eh.
rooting for the bungals, but the mismatch of the rams dline is going to be a massive negative to overcome
Hard to know what changed. If I had to guess the Bengals dared them to run and they wouldn’t. 7/8 in coverage can be difficult if you don’t fully commit to the run or pass. Then it looked like the chiefs figured it out but went to Robinson on 1st and 2nd in OT.
Never would have thought Zac Taylor would have been the most stable, consistent coach in the playoffs. -
I have a lot of friends who are Eagles fans and they hate Reid. He wasted a lot of talented teams with poor gamesmanship in the big ones. He is terrible at clock management and will often fucking call weird plays instead of just powering the ball.
And he has one dead son and one going back to prison. Why hire your felon son to coach when no team would hire anyone with his resume? He at best is an enabler. His dead son od’d at eagles training camp.
Obviously he does a number of things well as a coach. I don’t remember specifics from the Eagles but that was the general feeling of him. Lots of passing when more run game is appropriate.
The CEH pick two years ago was odd because he does well with RBs off the scrap heap a la McKinnon and Williams before him these last two games. Their defense always needs players and quite honestly WR group is pretty weak outside of Hill and Hardman for some gadget work. He just seems to do odd stuff on and off the field occasionally. His kids being part of that. -
So where does Washington rate on the slow-fast chart?
This would seem to indicate he should be fast enough.
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