Mr. Scot

The Steelers went twenty plus years with only a single losing season using that philosophy.

You wanted to talk about actual games. How come you don't want to talk about that one?

This is true.

Like the Saints game?

Nice article by The Observer's Jonathan Alexander... GM Scott Fitterer mentions that he's willing to talk to players and agents about their contracts at pretty much any time when it might be beneficial. Some GMs won't, but Fitterer apparently doesn't feel like it's too much of a distraction. Both Fitterer and Rhule seem to want to concentrate more on keeping our own than going out and spending big in free agency. Hence the extensions for guys like Moton and Anderson. On a related note, a recent discussion in The Athletic asked agents to talk about team officials. Fitterer was mentioned a couple of times as somebody agents believe they can trust; also as someone who knows what he's talking about when it comes to evaluating players. For the curious, the least trusted GM was Philly's Howie Roseman. Agents felt like he'd lie to his own mother just for the heck of it.

I see you don't like to mention things like passing stats and QB rating. PJ is a big play guy, which is fine when he gets lucky. But if we learned anything by watching Drew Brees, it's that consistency wins way more games than big plays

I'd say this also helps explain why they lost.

I think they ran a black cat under a ladder across a broken mirror. Yikes

You're reaching by going back. Their more recent performances are way more relevant than previous ones. And again, that "helps in practice" argument is still one of the stupidest things I've seen. You don't take up a roster spot for something as dumb as that.

Avoiding a sack doesn't mean jack sh-t if you throw a bad pass.

Have you seen Luke since he retired? In the pictures I've seen, it looks like he's dropped a fair amount of weight.

I hear Dontari Poe is available.

To be fair, that didn't work out so well in the case of Dan Morgan and Will Witherspoon.

Well, more than it would to keep him as a starter

Wonder if they've thought about trying Ian Thomas in that spot

It's not easy to blow a 25-point lead in the second half of an NFL game, but as everyone knows, the Falcons managed to do exactly that against the Patriots back in Super Bowl LI. Although the Falcons definitely weren't celebrating at the end of that game, it seems they were celebrating at halftime and we know that thanks to an interesting story this week from Malcolm Butler. The former Patriots defensive back now plays for the Cardinals and one of his new teammates is Robert Alford, who was playing for the Falcons in Super Bowl LI. ... During a recent interview with 12 News in Phoenix, Butler was asked if he had talked to Alford at all about the Super Bowl comeback and not only have the two talked about it, but Alford apparently told Butler that the Falcons were so confident that they were going to win that they were already celebrating at halftime. "I talked to him about it, I asked him if he wanted his ring back," Butler said. "He told me a story, he said he was in the locker room at halftime, he told me he was about to pop a bottle and things like that, it was so funny. And then we came back and beat them." ... "I'm just imagining him at halftime," Butler said. "Robert, he's a funny guy, got a lot of energy, tells a lot of jokes, and he told me at halftime they were in there dancing and hooraying and then we came back and beat them, so I think that was pretty fun." The fact that the Falcons were "dancing and hooraying" locker room almost makes the Super Bowl loss even more crushing, if that's even possible. Falcons started celebrating victory at halftime of the Super Bowl

Did you not read the first one?

They should trade him to us for a 7th.

Bridgewater made it tough to judge DJ last season. The two of them just never had chemistry.

Which is fine. But when said speculation is proven wrong, continuing to defend that speculation is kinda stupid.

I'd rather you stick to posts that actually make sense, but that doesn't seem to be happening. The reality is Anderson never held out. He didn't miss any mandatory time and only missed OTAs for family/personal reasons. But the Chicken Littles always have to freak out about something.

It was supposedly also "common sense" that he was pissed about us trading for Darnold and wanted to get away from him. Except... Goofball fan theories aren't common sense at all, and the narratives put forth on here definitely were anything but. It was dumb speculation. Hell, a lot of folks recognized that even back before this news broke.

It's just basic fan speculation with no actual roots in reality.

Heh