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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.

4 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

I sat Stafford today in FF - didn't realise the Bucs were going to lose multiple DBs during the game. 

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

2 hours ago, RumHam said:

 he can't make a TD throw in the red zone.

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.

16 hours ago, OldhamA said:

Kingsbury is not a good HC.

Arizona is undefeated just like us.

25 minutes ago, mbarbour21 said:

Would love to have Cannon back.

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

19 minutes ago, Fright said:

Hope that heavy college use and us riding him into the dirt hasn't caught up… Time to be on the safe side and draft a 1st round RB. 
 

 

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

20 minutes ago, Adb6368 said:

Royce freeman is known for his pass protection. Not so much his running. 

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.

5 minutes ago, bLACKpANTHER said:

normally on game day - i'm like this:

 

but this season so far - i'm like this:

My normal game day is this:

On 9/16/2021 at 12:05 PM, Mr. Scot said:

For those taking part in the Pick Em game, don't forget there's a game tonight.

Also, you guys suck. All but one of you were outpicked by a bird

(and yeah, I was too, so...)

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

2 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

I don't think the outcome is in doubt at all. I just hope we come out of it free of injuries. The Injury Bug really seems to be hitting the league hard to start the season.

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

4 hours ago, Zod said:

In what world do you automatically mark a W because of Taylor? lol.

2 hours ago, hepcat said:

Lol an automatic win if they had Taylor starting I want what that guy is smoking.

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.

44 minutes ago, onmyown said:

Teams aren’t going to be putting an LB on CMC all year long.

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?

19 hours ago, Fox007 said:

It wasn't the runs that ended his career.

The hits from the rushing attempts may cause cumulative damage that shortens careers. This is more of any hypothesis than a definitive statement.

18 hours ago, Fox007 said:

Like Lamar Jackson hasn't come close to getting hurt running the ball all over the shop. They've gone over this many times. QBs get hurt IN  the pocket not running the ball. Other than, ironically, sliding where you've seen bridgewater and flacco get knocked out sliding.

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.

15 minutes ago, Riverboat Ron said:

What if Davis Mills is the next Tom Brady?

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).

9 minutes ago, shaqattaq said:

Dak will be the first "good" QB he'll face. that match up will be telling.

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

9 minutes ago, outlaw4 said:

 I would like to know the plays Darnold did call an audible and how that play went.

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

1 hour ago, RJK said:

The only thing I’d like to see more from Sam and Brady is a designed run now and again. He’s got wheels and the bootlegs are great. Not asking for QB draws or option plays like cam but a couple times a game scheme a run to keep the front 7 honest 

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