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The 33rd Team names three NFL teams that are "stuck in neutral"

Mr. Scot

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This is not surprising. There are pages of Huddle threads that support this assumption.  Darnold is the albatross hanging around the front organization’s neck.  
 

Corral was a deliberate and rational decision for trying to correct that long term.  I’m happy to embrace the suckage and hope we can climb out of this.  

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13 hours ago, Sgt Schultz said:

I wouldn't say they are contradictory statements.  They were hard to play against until the weakness was figured out.  As is the case with most speed defenses, running right at them can yield big gains.  That was figured out in game 4. 

The catch is not every team is equipped to run at the opposing defense.  We were still hard to play against for those offenses that rely primarily on speed and finesse.  Those are the offenses that often get throttled in the playoffs, which probably ought to be a sign to our coaching staff/front office.

Speed is a great asset in the NFL.  But, there come times when you simply need to line up and out-muscle the opponent on either offense or defense.  We haven't done that very well for a few years.  We might some improvement this year on offense if our OL shows improvement.  The defensive side of the ball remains a mystery to me in that respect.

Straight up truth.

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1 hour ago, joemac said:

If you think we are bummed out, imagine what the players must think having to go out there with Darnold under center again.  They must be asking themselves WTF is going on...

They are all extremely well paid and a lot of them enjoy that job, even if they lose. I would think this includes the ones that don't love the job or are staring at a contract year where this interferes with their chances.

Even on a bad team, it's a fun job that has a great minimum pay scale and all of them have been doing it a long time. Can't argue with them looking at it all and going WTF then switching over to ohh well.

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13 hours ago, Pimpdaddy said:

Whoa...Riv sucking water...who woulda thunk it.... We've had a lot sht in CLT recently... 

That can't be.  RR threw us on his back and took us to the SB.  Everything was stacked against him but his superior coaching made us great. /sarc

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3 hours ago, Sean Payton's Vicodin said:

No poo, it will remain as long as Tepper is owner

TBF Mike Brown is often rated one of the absolute worst owners.  He goes beyond meddling, he makes himself GM and put family in key positions.  Their playoff win drought lasted from the early nineties to last year. 

If you get lucky and land a HOF caliber QB all bets are off.   It carried the Bengals last year.  It carried RR his entire career here.

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