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Oh, sure. Take away one preseason game where starters may be on the field for one quarter and add a regular season game where you go all out for sixty minutes. They're exactly the same thing. If anything, this only means even more injuries, worse quality of product on the field and more meaningless late season football. But at least they get to charge you full price for it! Hooray for unrestrained capitalism!

What a shocker Mayfield is going to have some more beef towards the Falcons because they hired Stefanski.

The impression I get is that Young is better at handling adversity than Stroud. A part of it might just be that Young has gone through so much adversity at the start of his career, and so things don't really rattle him as much anymore. Stroud has a far easier start to his career but it has gotten harder since then. Protection isn’t as good. He lost Dell. He had a concussion this season. But it's still bizarre how he went in full panic mode in the playoffs. It's like his confidence vanished and there was no real trigger on why it did. And this is happening a few years in? Young does need to work on his mechanics but that I feel may be far easier to fix than what may be a mental thing with Stroud.

Never seen a professional football team be so incompetent running a screen in my lifetime. This season's squad was not that, but I still remember we tried a screen with XL. Yeah, I feel as though screens and motions make more sense if you have explosive/shifty players on the roster and we really don't.

Only adds credence to my belief that the moment you pay any QB the big bucks, you have maybe one or two more years of a real shot at a SB before that window all but closes. The QB and the coach can only do so much to overcome the reality that a QB eats up too much cap space and you can't keep great talent around them. You have to replace them via the draft and if you don't nail that, you're screwed.

Looked to me like DJ started jogging not expecting the ball. As much as I didn't like trading him away, that was a flaw of his. But just not a smart decision to even throw there in the first place. With the conditions, adjusting one's route on the fly would've been a lot more difficult. Also, given how the situation played out, DJ would've needed to flatten his route a lot earlier to not enter a congested space. Finally, people must have tunnel vision because they are completely ignoring the actual throw. I'd say that had too much lead but more egregious, does not look like a throw that anticipated DJ flattening his route at all. Oh, and Curl had already read the route correctly and was moving along with DJ even before Caleb released it. Even if DJ did everything right, the only thing that might've changed was DJ trying to tip the ball away from being intercepted.

I'm probably one of the few that isn't shocked by this. Someone had to take the fall for not making it this year without Mahomes to worry about. The surprise is that Beane didn't also get the boot. A promotion? With that roster? A guy like McDermott is not going back to DC and even if he was, I'm not sure I want him. Those Bills defenses has blown games in big moments too. The one with Mahomes is an egregious one, but even this weekend, Bills defense could've won it for them in regulation but instead let Nix throw a bomb for a TD.

I really don't think Seattle wanted to see the Rams. They're the one team that can push them and that means Darnold will actually have to make plays. If not him being a ticking time bomb, that injury he has may be the determining factor.

Just waiting to see how the Rams give this game away.

Rams just had their Nakamura moment. What was that coverage?

Watch as the Bears score a TD and go for two.

Why would you run there? The two-minute was going to stop the clock anyways.

Okay, that one you can't blame Stroud at all.

Asking Stroud to throw in this game...

Start General Mills!

That one is more on the receiver, tbh.

Josh Allen! No! Oh, sorry. That was yesterday. CJ Stroud! No!

Must be nice to have a defense that can create turnovers at will.

49ers threw the towel but it ripped in midair and is now out for the rest of the game.

Technically fumbling the game away... twice, actually!

If Bills lose this game, I just don't see them ever winning a Super Bowl with Josh Allen.

Third and Evero! Oh, sorry. Force of habit.

Panthers quality tackling

I'm still mystified on how Stroud looked so overwhelmed at times in his playoff game. Pure speculation but maybe the concussion is still affecting him somewhat. Similar with how Horn seemingly has been playing worse since coming back from his concussion. Rodgers... really interested to see how Maye fares.