outlaw4

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Nah, nah, don't give me this revisionist bull. There were those that saw Darnold as a bridge QB back in 22, but that was more in the minority. People here generally wanted him gone.

I'm not going to write off the Patriots because that's exactly what happened a long time ago with Brady's first SB appearance. Not saying Maye is Brady, but if the Pats D turns Darnold into a pumpkin and they very well can, Seahawks will be in real trouble.

Did McVay just do a Payton by not kicking the FG when he should've?

So envious that the Rams pass catches can actually create YAC on their own.

Saving grace for the Seahawks is that bad Darnold hasn't really shown up yet.

The same guy who committed the idiotic penalty is the same guy that gets beat for a touchdown. Damn.

I'd say that's ballgame if it wasn't the Rams.

Nacua's a cheat code.

Mike McCarthy... Well, that whole deal of only having x number of coaches over y years is going to be tested, especially with not really having a viable QB.

Payton not kicking that field goal early cost them the game. At least there's that positive.

Run, run, pass? Did Payton break an ankle and we have John Fox as the coach again?

Denver doesn't have a 2015-level defense that could effectively play without a quarterback and win. That said, I hate Payton with a passion but if there's someone that can extract the most of a QB, it's him. The real question is how good are the Patriots, really.

Oh, sure. Take away one preseason game where starters may be on the field for one quarter and add a regular season game where you go all out for sixty minutes. They're exactly the same thing. If anything, this only means even more injuries, worse quality of product on the field and more meaningless late season football. But at least they get to charge you full price for it! Hooray for unrestrained capitalism!

What a shocker Mayfield is going to have some more beef towards the Falcons because they hired Stefanski.

The impression I get is that Young is better at handling adversity than Stroud. A part of it might just be that Young has gone through so much adversity at the start of his career, and so things don't really rattle him as much anymore. Stroud has a far easier start to his career but it has gotten harder since then. Protection isn’t as good. He lost Dell. He had a concussion this season. But it's still bizarre how he went in full panic mode in the playoffs. It's like his confidence vanished and there was no real trigger on why it did. And this is happening a few years in? Young does need to work on his mechanics but that I feel may be far easier to fix than what may be a mental thing with Stroud.

Never seen a professional football team be so incompetent running a screen in my lifetime. This season's squad was not that, but I still remember we tried a screen with XL. Yeah, I feel as though screens and motions make more sense if you have explosive/shifty players on the roster and we really don't.

Only adds credence to my belief that the moment you pay any QB the big bucks, you have maybe one or two more years of a real shot at a SB before that window all but closes. The QB and the coach can only do so much to overcome the reality that a QB eats up too much cap space and you can't keep great talent around them. You have to replace them via the draft and if you don't nail that, you're screwed.

Looked to me like DJ started jogging not expecting the ball. As much as I didn't like trading him away, that was a flaw of his. But just not a smart decision to even throw there in the first place. With the conditions, adjusting one's route on the fly would've been a lot more difficult. Also, given how the situation played out, DJ would've needed to flatten his route a lot earlier to not enter a congested space. Finally, people must have tunnel vision because they are completely ignoring the actual throw. I'd say that had too much lead but more egregious, does not look like a throw that anticipated DJ flattening his route at all. Oh, and Curl had already read the route correctly and was moving along with DJ even before Caleb released it. Even if DJ did everything right, the only thing that might've changed was DJ trying to tip the ball away from being intercepted.

I'm probably one of the few that isn't shocked by this. Someone had to take the fall for not making it this year without Mahomes to worry about. The surprise is that Beane didn't also get the boot. A promotion? With that roster? A guy like McDermott is not going back to DC and even if he was, I'm not sure I want him. Those Bills defenses has blown games in big moments too. The one with Mahomes is an egregious one, but even this weekend, Bills defense could've won it for them in regulation but instead let Nix throw a bomb for a TD.

I really don't think Seattle wanted to see the Rams. They're the one team that can push them and that means Darnold will actually have to make plays. If not him being a ticking time bomb, that injury he has may be the determining factor.

Just waiting to see how the Rams give this game away.

Rams just had their Nakamura moment. What was that coverage?

Watch as the Bears score a TD and go for two.

Why would you run there? The two-minute was going to stop the clock anyways.