lightsout

Can't put the WR on blast in game one lol. Good corporate response. He knows.

As we now know, first game as play caller, without any dangerous weapons on offense, and a rookie QB who can execute but has the worst OL in the league. Impossible to judge him. As long as he's trying new poo, and keeping some run/pass balance, I'm good

Yeah that's fair. I'm just saying why it's not exactly unhinged to criticize AT for being slow. He is. It is what it is, he's our best receiver, but that shows what sad state of affairs we are in. I think Mingo can improve. We just need a new WR coach I think. Or for 89 to come out and give a talking to. We need Chark to be something useful. We need Mingo to develop and be a dawg. We need TMJ to contribute. We're just slow out there and it's dampening our offense worse.

He has dogged Thielen for being slow. Watch the film. Motherfuger is slow. And he is our best receiver. Anybody got a problem with that, take it to AT...but his response may not be fast. Just like his routes.

I'm making a wild estimation. Offense is about to get crazy explosive for no good reason. Mingo is gonna start getting some shine, Hurst is gonna really take some games over, and Thielen will consistently be there as well. Brown is going to take this offense over with the mindset of "score as fast as possible, keep scoring, keep the offense moving by any means" with our defense being such a decimated mess. Bryce is going to appear to turn the corner the rest of the season. He'll be in ROTY talk by week 13. Ok I'm out of hopium

We need a next tier route runner in the draft so bad. Going for athletes with little to no route knowledge has failed repeatedly.

This is an absolute get right game. We've gotta get the swagger back tonight. Also, agreed on Tripp. Dude literally lost his mind since Forslund left. Idk what he has going on that is making him drink so heavily but fug.

You don't trade your young pass rusher for an aged receiver who isn't the same guy now that he was in his prime. That's a stupid trade without a first or second round pick attached so you can replace the youth you're losing.

We have one real move. Put Mingo in positions to get targets and reps. Thielen is the guy you paid to get his fair share so ensure that occurs. Otherwise? Let Brown shape how the offense looks and operates and pray to God he tries to copy McVay and that he doesn't try to do some weird hybrid of McVay and Reich philosophy.

Actually fug it, that would be my fuging go to for the night when possible. Orlov is pulling an extra minute or two after his shift gets off, pull whoever was centering with that change, Orlov just stays high slot area in the zone and plugs down low in our own end. Comes off when the puck moves. Gives our forwards a blow, gives us a chance to let Orlov play loose and aggressive without sacrificing the back end.

Double shifting to cover for Aho, 7 defensemen. Gonna be interesting to see if we just flex the poo out of Orlov.

Hanna Yates, my muse, my flame.

Did none of them know that it has a direct connotation with the female anatomy? Lol

Who the fug thought it was a good nickname to begin with? Lol

Every October I'm met with the same bullshit west coast schedule due to the fair and every year I inevitably miss games lol. Hopefully they net 3 in the first so I can go to bed knowing we likely didn't blow that lead.

He's played himself into being largely undesirable to any contender. We're looking at bad teams in desperate need of pass rushing potential, if anything. And they're not going to give a first so you're looking at 2s and 3s instead.

Scheme and time. Any deep route we've ran, for the most part, has been a clear out. We're going with a lot of short routes and when those aren't open, the hot read gets it and that tanks your YPC when it's all you ever really have. I think I've seen us run 4 verts twice this season. Both times, nobody with any separation and/or pocket collapsing.

People pretending that throwing a football deep changes from NFL to college. It doesn't. Can touch be exposed? Certainly. As of now, Bryce hasn't had a chance to stand in a clean pocket and throw from a good base. Not even close. Just because Cam was a freak athlete who could sling it while getting hit and falling away doesn't mean that's the standard in the NFL. It isn't. Young has the arm to get it there. His accuracy at the other ranges indicates he can probably hit it if he has an actual chance. Everything else is just noise.

Multiple things can be true. Bryce played poorly. Receivers are subpar. OL is atrocious at protection. Playcalling is awful. Defense is battered and broken. The numbers from PFF are basically a BMI. They are ultimately useless because they don't account for everything relevant.

Pat McAfee is great. His podcast is easier to listen to than most because it's more natural imo. It sounds like what a lot of guys sound like sitting around watching a game or watching SportsCenter. It's just sports talk with the boys. The little in-jokes and recurring bits can be a barrier for newer folks though, so I get how that can just seem obnoxious. The fact that ESPN is trying very hard to now have more McAfee-esque segments is telling. The fact that McAfee was allowed to continue his format after coming to ESPN for the first part of his show and not change anything except for the vulgarity is also telling. Haters gonna hate. He ain't for everybody but to act like it's objectively bad while he pulls numbers most personalities could only dream of is kinda funny.

Well McVay runs a fair amount of jet too, it's arguably the key to his offense. So we have Chark and Sanders and we have Shenault. Any of them could take it but without it hitting for chunks nobody respects it. Because the deep shot off of that is key, and I'm thinking Mingo on that off of the jet. It's about the only option because I don't think anybody else on the roster can do it

100%. Getting the notice of man and zone will help with his anticipation. The sacks he has been taking look as though he was expecting a thing and not getting it, then panicking like a rookie does. He doesn't have the escapism of others, so his scrambling has to sort of be built in presnap. If he sees pressure is coming from here, he knows where he can escape from. But he's absolutely not an improv guy, though he has tried.

Brown only has to look at the top and see what hasn't worked. Him being a McVay guy gives me hope. He saw what a good offense looks like and how it is ran. Hopefully he carries that over.

Yeah that's a miscalculation you only make it the puck is deep in your end and you feel it is controlled. Then you eat the empty netter if they are able to fight it out but you don't try to pull until that puck is in. Feel like that was an oddly timed one in that scenario.

We looked bad. Just lower energy than the Ducks. Transition game is still our biggest issue, and getting outworked on top of that absolutely kills you.