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I know everyone wants an instant analysis but drawing any conclusions about these QBs in Week 3 is premature.

Aikman still throwing shade at us. Still salty over us ending the Cowboys dynasty I see.

I have Woods on my FF team. Can someone please remind Stafford that Woods is still on the team?

Chubba had a terrible drop in the end zone Thursday that might have changed that. The line is terrible. That's not changing. And Sam is going to have some bad games. Every QB does. It happens.

Arizona is undefeated just like us.

I don't think SF is going to give him back considering all their RB issues.

Only 7 of the top 10 running backs in 2020 were picked after the 1st round. I'm going to suggest that if we want a RB, we trade down and get our 2nd round pick back and use that on a RB. Top 10 RBs in 2020 Henry - 2nd round Cook - 2nd round Taylor - 2nd round Aaron Jones - 5th round James Robinson - UDFA David Montgomery - 3rd round Nick Chubb - 2nd round Josh Jacobs - 1st round Melvin Gordon - 1st round Zeke - 1st round

I thought Freeman had on of the best runs of the night on one of the very few plays where there was actually a visible hole to run through. Chubba might be pretty good but he's a rook and still growing into his NFL body. Think about how different CMC looked his rookie year to now. Royce needs to be the lead back as soon as he knows the playbook well enough.

The worst call was the fumble late that they called an incomplete pass. I'm surprised we didn't challenge it. Maybe we would have if we had recovered it.

My normal game day is this:

It's Thursday, again. Also, I'm tied with the bird now.

This is my big concern, too. Thursday games always seem to have more injuries. I just hope we don't lose anyone.

While there's some typical fan hyperbole, the Texans had a real shot of winning that game against Cleveland before Taylor went out. But its moot because Taylor isn't playing.

If they use a CB or S it means they're pulling that player out of their coverage concepts on DJ, Robbie, TMJ, and Dan Arnold.

Maybe NFL Network wants to hype up the team that is part of their nationally televised game on Thursday?

The hits from the rushing attempts may cause cumulative damage that shortens careers. This is more of any hypothesis than a definitive statement. Lamar is in year 4 (2018 rookie). That is the equivalent of Cam in early 2015. Cam, at that point, also hadn't come close to getting hurt running the ball. My idea is that if you use your QB like an RB, don't be surprised if their longevity is closer to that of an RB than a QB. RBs drop off after age 30. Cam is 32. Lamar is 24. We can try to refine this a bit more. 1800 carries seems to be about when RBs falter. Cam had over a 1000 carries, and also took 322 sacks. That alone puts him at around 1400 hits. We also know QBs often get hit after releasing the ball, but I can't find any stats on that. Newton had 4383 career pass attempts. Getting hit on just 10% of those puts him at the magical 1800. How does Lamar compare? I put Lamar at around 682 total hits. 510 rushing attempts plus 72 sacks, plus about 100 QB hits (He has 1003 career pass attempts. If we use the same (admittedly arbitrary) 10% of pass attempts where Lamar is taking a hit). He has about 60 more rushing attempts than Newton did at the same stage of their career, but Lamar has taken half the number of sacks (72 to 152 for Cam at the same point in this career). I would guess Lamar has 4-7 more good years, but the closer he gets to age 30 and/or 1800 hits, the more I'd be worried if I was a Ravens fan. If you use your QB like an RB, don't be surprised if their longevity is closer to that of an RB than a QB.

Tom Brady's first start: 13-23, 168 YDS (New England did win that game mostly because they got 2 pick-sixes and had a good running game).

I wonder if they put him on Lamb, or Cooper.

Clayton ignores Tampa and the Rams as they were "aren’t surprising". Of the five remaining undefeated teams, he ranks them as : Arizona Las Vegas San Francisco Denver Carolina

If you can get the TV broadcast, anytime you hear Darnold come to the line and say "kill, kill", it means he changed the play. A) Something I learned in watching the old Quarterback Camp shows Gruden used to do is they call two plays in the huddle and when Darnold gets to the line he can "kill" the first play which means we run the second play. Gruden runs a version of the WCO like we do. B) I noticed most of our kills are runs. Call a pass play add kill it with a run. I'm sure opposing DCs will pick up on it as well.

"In a funny twist, D.J. Moore and Robby Anderson have once again flip flopped roles. Heading into last year Moore was an underneath guy and Anderson was a deep threat. Then it flipped in 2020. And now it appears to have flipped again" - Peter Overzet, Fantasy Life

My kingdom for a good endzone fade to Terrace Marshall or Dan Arnold.