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I guess. But head to head trumps that doesn’t it? What changes is Maybe we don’t need a sweep if we can overcome the head to head scoring and maintain division and conference parity.

This is good. Saints fall further from the 1st overall, we get square with TB, division loss tie breaker is neutralized, sets the Saints up to be overconfident next week. Maybe.

I mean we have no idea what will happen, with any certainty. But there is pudding that has proved he is totally capable of going right back to overwhelmed/outmatched the very next game following a record setting day. IOW he definitely looks like he has improved but has also looked like it is still 2023. Everybody wants to hand out the trophy now. Every time he plays well. Best to not do that and see what happens. Really looking forward to the Saints game.

You can’t be my DC. You were burned over the top for a TD once, and did not adjust. And got burned again. With playoff seeding at stake. It is arguably a more egregious response or lack of adjustment than Wilks failing to account for Mike Evans twice after being burned deep once, in a game that had playoffs on the line. And a possible future as the HC of the Panthers.

There was no ‘what if’ as in an alternate scenario. No Rico Dowdle strawman scenarios you are imagining. Simply a shoe on the other foot. A perspective. Allowing that to happen once, bad enough. But okay. Learn from it. Allowing it on the heels of the first one? It was was a clear dereliction by LA. We sort of got a free one the second time.

That thing about DB is overblown. They were being careful with him early due to coming off the injury. They said so. And it made sense. He told them he was good to go, so let’s go. It is more that than them just being too ignorant to use him. My only point of contention. I see the soft coverage.

No Bryce lover wanted any part of the question “what would we say if our defense allowed those two 4th down TDs?”. We would have been really pissed. Calling for heads. Rams were derelict, honestly. Even if you want to excuse the first time, what about the second one? You don’t account for a ball thrown over people’s heads? They were very well executed plays by the entire offense, Bryce certainly included. But I don’t expect that poo to continue, meaning that defenses are not just gonna continue to ignorantly allow that to happen. edit: and that is the purpose of doing those kinds of plays whether you hit them or not. Okay on 4th down you have to hit them but otherwise it isn’t mandatory. The effect hopefully is that the defense has to account for them and you get a little slack elsewhere to work with.

Might be the year to invest a 2nd or 3rd in one. But I haven’t investigated what might be there. I’d say we need to keep that OL pipeline flowing though we don’t need to keep spending this big on guards.

Where is this elite defense? It goes like it went early every year because preseason and time in pads is so inadequate for training guys in these situations, when there is a lot of turnover and you have some young guys. They have played pretty well since Buffalo overall, and they are definitely not elite. DB is elite. Horn can be. Is at times. There isn’t that much past those guys. I am not trying to wave the flag for him, but he has gotten scraps to work with. Whoever was DC I’d feel the same about as far as what he has had to work with. That DJ Johnson deal was a bad look for him.

Canales was basically forced to act. Thielen and Johnson were pitching public fits. Who knows what was happening in the locker room when that is happening in full view. It really does appear that they sheltered him from competition.

It is time to accept that we casual fans are simply inferior to the big brained Bryce believers. They have been telling us this for three years.

I don’t care who was DC they were not going to have a chance they way the defense was neglected for the better part of three years. Get him some more talent. Or whoever is DC. As far as Evero, why go sideways when you have almost gotten a thing built? Tepper can’t stop him from taking a HC gig, and if I were him - unless I really hated it here - I’d wait for the HC opportunity. Continuity is super important and we haven’t had it for years now, but are getting some. Try to keep it.

I was talking draft. Any way you want to upgrade otherwise I’d have no problem. I Draft wise I neglected to mention FS and CB, depending on what it all looks like in the moment. We are gonna have to do something at ROT and inside on the OL before resigning those expensive FAs we have right now.

No tight ends this time around. Trenches, ILB, if the right edge is there then you adjust. Talking about Young and thinking his standards are suddenly like 4-5 notches higher because of a couple of games is such a trap. He is like the 5 that shows up to the party with a couple of fat 2s. Don’t look too close.

We have had our souls crushed since 2018, it’s hard to feel anything much about our prospects. I can feel the game day stuff still. poo when we lose even if I know it’s coming, and good when we win. I still think he record may be a mirage. We could finish anywhere from 11-6 to 7-10. Heavily doubting the 11-6. Our record after a win is 2-4. Suggesting there won’t be a streak. That is just cold numbers there are plenty of intangibles in play so who knows.

I believe I saw that - that is the one that has them throwing normal velocity and then all out fastball style that I saw and did a great job illustrating the loss of accuracy that comes with max effort.

I will always hold David Carr and his gloves too, in high esteem. Houston as an expansion team stole the first pick that we rightfully earned, and they took Carr. Leaving us Julius Peppers. He is okay in my book.

Well it was on JR but not for that reason. In 2009 JR fuged the cap to tag Peppers trying to force him to stay, or keep him from leaving. However you want to put it. That is the year Jake got that extension. That was totally connected IMO. Moving money. And you always reward the guy who will redo his deal, or traditionally that is a part of it. And why Peppers wanted to leave, well that could have been on JR too. I think this was after JR publicly called him out wanting him to be a leader. It didn’t go over well with Pep. That’s how I remember it anyway. Maybe there was more to the why of him wanting to go. It wasn’t money though.

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That’s unfair, and bullshit. It just isn’t true.

You need to be clutch the whole game. Maybe then you don’t need the do or die stuff at the end so much. Which is nice to have and makes for great entertainment but you don’t want to live there. Everybody is doing ceiling and not really looking at the floor. The floor is the issue and really, has been. IMO. And is the better measure IMO. So I am saying don’t go all in without seeing progress where you know that floor is raised to a good solid level. There have been maybe 3 games this year that have had a pretty solid high high floor for 4 quarters. Dallas was one. Didn’t ask for a lot but it was there when called on. 4 qtrs. High floor. Atl and Rams were high floor. But there were places in both of those games that the floor dipped but it was short lived. It wasn’t allowed to continue. If a couple of those early losses had they had the high floor, maybe they are wins.

This will all change so much by the time the draft is upon us. Most interesting thing to me there is where he has us finishing.

If teams play us honestly and take that deep stuff away we may be able to operate good enough underneath to counter that. It is about time we started trying to force them to respect it. But I think people should enjoy the win for two weeks because what’s in front of us doesn’t scream playoffs to me. It would be shocking if we swept TB. They aren’t Atlanta. And even if we sweep there can be no let down. I saw the stat of our record coming off a loss. Pretty good. What would it be coming off a win lol? Without looking, it has to at least be pretty upside down (I count it to be 2-4).

You’ll have a day here and there where you do make a couple extra birdies and you hold the rest of it together and get a score out of your norm. But that isn’t every day or three out of every four days.

Without looking SCar seems a good bet. We have some Notre Dame guys. I would really be guessing after that. I lose.