mbarbour21

When almost all the huddle are in agreement, I think there is at least small cause to be cautious. lol!

Don't need points when you got field position!

I don't know man. I hear pundits say Falcons have a better shot than the Cardinals. HAHA! Not making that up.

*Side note: They trade their 1st round pick to Pittsburgh for Punter, Pressley Harvin III, to replace Winston at QB.

I hope the Saints lose so bad they give up all hope on the season, winning only 4 more games. 2 against ATL and 2 more against Tampa.

I feel the same way now that I felt about the Saints. My heart tells me we will shut them out, but my head says that it wont be that easy.

This bugs me to no end. When people talk about who was the greatest this and that, they never try to factor in situations around them. You will never convince me that Steve Smith's numbers would not have been considered GOAT if he played with Montana and Young almost his entire career. It just freakin wont happen. Pundits will say, "You can "if" all you want to.". It's not about making excuses. If you believe that factor doesn't matter you either know nothing about football or you are lying. They could at least have a conversation about it.....but they wont.

I'm saying if we clean up our play we are contenders. I have no problem saying that. NFC West is tough, but this defense is unmatched if it keeps up the same production. We have left a lot of points on the field. If we can start executing better it is playoff time. But I do agree. The Cowboys have a very nice passing attack. I am ready and hopeful for that game. If we shut their offense down, we are a playoff team with no question in my opinion.

I saw that clip from the "Behind the Scenes" video where we got a sack and one of our coaches was yelling at the team to stop celebrating because the game wasn't over. Said, "We need to go out there and do it again!" I don't think we have to worry about that. Granted, I agree with you 100%.

I said in another thread that if we played them week 3 we would win 40-0. We left so many opportunities on the field. 3 would be touchdowns at least. Should have been 30-0 at the half. Same for Saints. If Darnold doesn't throw that pick we shut them out, I have no doubt in that. Not living in the past, I'm just saying we are gonna be a problem if we clean those issues up. Like "we will be contenders" problem.

But their assistant coa...

Gonna stick with my prediction from the win projection thread before the season. Losing Taylor is a massive blow. Designed runs have not faired well against our defense (ask Kamara). Taylor's scrambling could have made this a game. (Taylor accounts for 55 of the 242 yards gained by Houston on the ground). Brandin Cooks needs to have a huge game to make this interesting. If he doesn't get at least 60 yards, that means we won by 21 points minimum. I see CMC getting over 100 rushing yards and over 200 from scrimmage. Texan's run defense has allowed an average of over 4.5 yards a carry. Cooks is held to under 60 yards. Defense gets 5 sacks. *Side prediction: We win by more than 3 TDs and still go no higher than 15 on most power rankings. (No, I don't care....I'm just saying)

I believe this year's defense will be the most consistent group from year to year. Most of that falls on the coach and GM. We were amazing in 2015, but that extraordinarily high production wasn't to that level before and after. I think we find out what it is like to ball year in and year out.

Are we going to have a game prediction thread or did I miss it?

Yeah, he has to learn to understand the situation. That pick to the DL was horrible for several reasons. It's 17-0 bro, their offense is incapable of moving the chains against us....take the sack there. Overall, I think he did great.

He probably wont get that kind of beating every week. We really got to Wilson. I thought he did really well against us all things considered.

To be fair, if anyone has cheered for an injury it has been for one of our own. lol!

Eric Reid?! Is that you bro?!

I disagree but okay. I feel like we struggled in the 3rd in both games. Not sure what our issues concerning that are but hope they get fixed tonight.

Oh I agree. I'm just saying, you can't expect them to rank us in the top 15 if we can't easily defeat a team who has lost their starting QB in exchange for a rookie in his first start, down two WR, and down arguably their best defender. If we can't put them away then I don't think we deserved to be ranked high.

If they are without Justin Reid and we don’t manhandle them then we don’t deserve the respect we often wine about !!PERIOD!! We win by 3 TDs or more, or we accept what ranking we get and kiss their feet in thanks that they didn’t rank us 32nd!

That’s the same thing. Haha!