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We need that Fitterer laser eyes gif from the draft.

Not to be a downer, but what this tells me is that Horn is done for the year with his foot injury. Heal up. We'll see you in 2022.

1 hour ago, PootieNunu said:

Not pushovers, but games we should win. Do you think we are pushovers? 

We should be favored in those games.

At the same time, teams have set up their offensive personnel on the same speed versus power spectrum. A team might want to attack us with power running, but if they're more of a fast, athletic line, is won't be easy to switch to power running in a week. 

In any game, you think in terms of the meta. In essence, a "meta" in gaming terminology is a generally agreed upon strategy by the community. Said strategy is considered to be the most optimal way to win/ has the best performance at a specific task. Some people have defined meta as an acronym meaning “most effective tactics available”.

You build your team based upon the countering the meta. If the meta is speed, you build your defense for speed and hope you can hold your own when you face that off-meta team that uses power.

I like the way the Chargers alternate Eckler and Roundtree. Brady could learn something from that.

10 minutes ago, onmyown said:

i can’t tell if the Raiders suck or not…always finding a way to win

i do know picking Grier instead of Crosby was really fuging stupid 

Crosby is a case of a guy going to the right team. The guy has issues but Waller helped him. Crosby's play had skyrocketed after that.

This was a big factor:

5 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

I know this is a dumb question but who is Sean Chandler?

Apparently the starting safety next to Chinn. 

UDFA with the Giants in 18. On and off the Giants practice squad then on and off our practice squad last year.

But he went to Temple. 

9 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

1. Dallas repeatedly caught them in the wrong personnel by going to hurry up.  I want to know the percentage of snaps per defensive player.

22 hours ago, glenwo2 said:

 

"in game" = Team played like sh-t after CMC went down

 

They did for a time, but then they recovered and went TD, FG, TD without CMC.

"Texans have showed a tendency to play cover 1 out of base personnel on 1st + 10 and Panthers attacked that tendency with crossers off play action and play action boot: Erickson 25 yards, Marshall 23 yards"

Imagine attacking the defenses tendencies. I'm not sure our previous coaching staff ever did that. 

( it seems like Dallas also plays a high percentage of Cover 1 or at least they did against Philly.)

Dallas' CB Diggs is playing really well. Sam's gonna have to account for him.

2 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Ummm I’m gonna go with a no on this. Even on the timelines they are. 22 has methodically been basically half of our offensive production and the only factor in the run game, which in turn has allowed the passing game to open up. Want to see what a season without CMC looks like on offense. Check last season. 

I know it sounds crazy, but Horn let us do things in defense we couldn't do last year. Maybe CJ Henderson lets us do those same things, maybe. That remains to be seen. If he can't, we might have to revert to the zone heavy scheme that we struggled with last year.

As for CMC, look at last week. Once they got over the gut punch of CMC going out, Carolina's offense went 76, 60, 75 yards for TD, FG, TD.  Darnold took over in way TB never did last year.

We're going to miss them both no doubt. They are both awesome players, but we've largely ridden our defense to 3-0 and I think the JC's impact could be larger depending on what Henderson does.

4 minutes ago, dave-o said:

Without #22 I am not confident this week....  Heart breaking loss this weekend... Just my .02....

#8 is a bigger loss than #22. 

1 hour ago, KB_fan said:

Panthers offense in the 2nd half was so efficient.  Had 1 TD drive (9 or 10 plays?) in which they never faced 1st down, and they did a pretty great job of staying ahead of the chains the whole half.  TMJ and Dan Arnold did have 2 clutch 3rd & long conversions though when they were needed.

 

 

Reminder: These were all after the CMC injury. Excellent production even with our best player out.

8 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

I’m not sure the name is a menacing as it needs to be.

We live in the deep south. Snowstorms are quite menacing.

Just now, Mr. Scot said:

I'm still not buying us as a playoff team this season.

A few more winning weeks and I might be ready though, especially against a really good team.

There aren't a whole lot of those on the schedule this year.

11 minutes ago, stbugs said:

Why would 2021 be year 1?

Year 1 of the Fitterer/Rhule regime. Some have questioned if everyone was on board with the rebuild in the Hurney/Rhule regime.

55 minutes ago, WestPanthers said:

Although I like the traded but Joe Brady is going to be pissed...

51 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

He will get Arnold back next year when he is coaching the Jags

Joe Brady probably already has a real estate agent looking at houses in Chicago.

No 2nd round pick. Now no 3rd round pick. How, exactly, are we fixing the OL next offseason?

According to NextGen stats, Bridgewater is ahead of Darnold on both CAY (completed air yards) and IAY (intended air yards). They are essentially tied in AGG (aggressiveness). AGG is shown as a % of attempts into tight windows over all passing attempts.