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And then he sailed one on 3rd and 18 that should've been a conversion. Had the TE wide open down the seam. He's looking shook.

That was classic Darnold taking a 17 yard sack when out of the pocket and he could've just tossed it away.

I honestly think a lot of the shifts to 3-4 have been driven by 3-4 OLBs being easier to find in the draft than 4-3 DEs. 4-3 DEs are freaks. To be big enough to set the edge against the run and athletic enough to rush the passer all without the head start a stand up rusher has takes an athletic freak of a man.

No. I don't think anything would've been different had we lost the coin toss and the Falcons had driven the field for the win. That's really what it boils down to. Neither defense was doing anything. It's why I was surprised when the Falcons didn't go for two for the win after their last TD... unless they'd already seen the results of the Bucs game.

I think he'd be crazy if he didn't. We've been doing a pretty good job down the stretch of playing well but losing. That's the ideal outcome for a team out of contention. We just fuged up and actually won two of them.

Not impressed by him. I'd prefer a change. Nothing personal. Best of luck elsewhere.

Just better players. The good thing about our roster from a draft standpoint is just throw a dart at the position chart. Whatever you hit there's a really good chance we need better players there. All things considered, I'd rather have higher picks than lower picks to try to find them.

Yeah, no way I'm letting him walk in FA for a 3rd round comp pick. I bet they end up trading McCarthy. They were trying to trade up for Maye on the draft but the cost was too high for them to stomach so it's not like they were super sold on McCarthy to begin with. I think they just had QB tunnel vision.

It would be hilarious if the Broncos ended up beating them in the playoffs after laying down today got them into the playoffs. LOL

It's gonna be really interesting to see what the Vikings do this off-season. They just spent a first rounder on McCarthy last year and then he got hurt in preseason. Honestly, if I'm them I'm probably tagging Darnold and figuring it out from there.

Me too. He was terrible here though, gotta say. That season was a massive cluster fug where it seemed like no part of the organization was fully committed to either QB.

And look at the draft capital we had to give up to get it. We went 5-3 down the stretch that season to tank our draft stock then had to gut the team of roster building capital trade up to #1. Perfect example of why late our of contention wins are significant net negatives for the future of an organization.

Honestly there's really not much about the team itself that I don't like, but the media and refs giving them the Brady/Belichick era Pats treatment was getting old and then the Taylor Swift bullshit added to it just put it over the top. But again, that's really nothing to do with the team itself, more the NFL and the media.

I wish Sam Darnold nothing but the best. Seems like a legit good guy. I wish Baker wasn't on Tampa because honestly I like him too.

I know the Chiefs are resting their starters and all that, but fresh off the heels of a 38-0 drubbing and handing your division rivals a playoff berth in the process isn't exactly how you want to go storming into the playoffs. Especially when your starters are gonna be pretty damn rusty after resting week 18 and then having a bye week. They're going to be close to a month on the shelf. Felt like that approach came back to bite the Manning era Colts a few times.

It seemed pretty clear to me that he never wanted Bryce.

Hard to know what happened behind the scenes. Did he take the job thinking he was going to have more control over the QB decision? Was it due to a miscommunication or was it due to him overestimating how influential he'd be? No idea. Either way, no I wouldn't just mail it in because I didn't get my way unless I was flat out told it was going to be my pick the. They jerked the rug out from under me. Otherwise I'd try to make the best of it.

One more win in the final two games of 1998 for the Colts means no Peyton Manning. I'm pretty sure they're quite happy in retrospect to have taken those two losses and ending up 3-13 instead of 4-12. That would've been a franchise crushing moral victory.

Seemed that way to me too. Felt like he was in a different camp and didn't get his way so he just said fug it.

lolwut? They're different because the pick represents the opportunity. Once the pick is made then it's no longer an opportunity. It's a specific player. So now the value of that "pick" is based on how other teams had the player that you picked evaluated. No, the #1 pick every year doesn't have the same value because it is based on the evaluation of that draft class. But #6 is always more valuable than #8.

I mean, we're 5-12. We still have a lot of problems to solve. But yeah, I think Reich either took this job as a retirement check or he mailed it in when we drafted Bryce. Either way, not a good look on his part.

Kraft was very recently committing hard to Mayo. Not typical soft commitment you see from owners who are still pondering or maybe kening toward letting a coach go. He was going to the mat for Mayo hard. Then - boom - fired. Not saying it's because of this but it wouldn't be surprising if it was.

I only separate them because they are indeed separate. That making me right is why I've been making the same consistent argument on this matter for years.

A good chunk of them won't be here next year and nothing about next seasons outcomes will be impacted by today's post game jubilee. That's all I care about. We sucked this year. We've sucked for several years now. All I want is to not suck in the future. 4-13 vs. 5-12 means nothing but lost draft capital in terms of our future.

In terms of measurable variables (draft capital) it is a negative. There's nothing measurable about the potential positives. Morale and culture and whatever aren't measurable data points. Maybe they're real and impactful, maybe they're not. Draft capital is definitely real though.