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  1. Yes. The meta game between offenses and defenses are all about defenses wanting to get pressure while confusing the quarterback by disguising coverage. Offenses use motion, play action, and misdirection to slow down the rush and make the defense expose the coverage. The Dolphins are great at making the defense abandon all these little games and focus on just trying to slow their offense down. They don't want to be beat deep, so they put their safeties back and drop their linebackers into coverage so the line only has to block 4 pad rushers. I've seen Pete Carroll do the exact opposite, most famously in Super Bowl 48. He finds a weakness, and he lines up on a way that shows you that weakness is wide ass open and he dares you to try to beat him with your weakness. None of these things work independently. The 49ers and the Eagles use the run game to make you have to play lighter coverage. The Eagles entire offensive strategy is run until they have to dedicate more player to stop it, then let A.J. Brown destroy his defender when he is alone on an island. I said it earlier this week, Jalen Hurts is an average at best passer. He's also in the absolute best possible offense with the best possible supporting cast to be successful. A bad line can be overcome with a well designed quick game. A good line can be exploited with good secondary play. To be good you need both incredibly talented players and incredibly creative coaching to be successful. You have to be constantly looking for fat to trim to make your team better. You can highlight a quarterbacks strengths and minimize his weaknesses, but you cannot hide your quarterback. You can literally hide any other player at any other position, but the quarterback is your team's ceiling. I think this entire week's discussion is about all of these things, but the most important part is that Daniel Jones is a quarterback with an extremely low ceiling.
  2. My high school football coach used to tell us after a bad practice that we could fuck up a wet dream. I think he needs to go have a conversation with everyone who's worked at Bioware since Mass Effect 3.
  3. I don't think the running game is factored into that calculation. I don't know how SIS or ESPN rates these type of things. PFF watches every play and grades every player on their role in every play and takes an average of all the reps. The thing that people miss about pass protection is how running backs and tight ends affect pass protection. If your running backs and tight ends can block, your pass protection is a whole hell of a lot better. I was listening to a podcast where they talked about how the Texans are cobbling together their pass protection with so many injuries and the key was that their backs and tight ends are really good with chip blocks, where they can make a block on the way out into their routes and slow the pass rush down enough to allow their receivers to get open. Saquon Barkley is excellent in pass protection, perhaps the best in the league, Matt Breida is not. I don't believe Darren Waller can block me. The Giants do kind of have a perfect storm of shitty pass protection.
  4. Unfortunately, charts don't provide much context, but the thing I wanted to point out is that lack of time to throw is something that can be overcome. There are a lot of factors to why they can't, but for me the #1 factor is the quarterback. With that said, if you have a quarterback problem you can't put as much responsibility on the quarterback that the Giants do. I also don't think they should have given him that contract, because you don't have anything around him to actually build the kind of offense you need if he's your quarterback. I personally do not believe that Daniel Jones is an NFL starter, but they aren't helping by letting him go out there and sink or swim with the rest of that offense. The line is bad, the receivers are bad, without Saquon the running backs are bad, Daniel Jones is never going to be able to overcome that. I honestly don't believe that he would be good with all of those pieces, but without those pieces he has next to nothing to provide. To be fair, there is a difference between time to throw and pass protection. When isolated, the Giants are second worse in the league at pass protection.
  5. I've been thinking about how game development cycles are going to soon be a long as console cycles for AAA games. What we actually need are something between indies and AAA games, that is where the industry is lacking. I want a new Elders Scrolls as much as anyone else, but they should probably not get our hopes up for a game that will not exist on any platform that currently exists. Who knows when the next Xbox will be released or what it will even be when it does. All I know is that it will come out before Elder Scrolls 6 does.
  6. There is nothing more pathetic than creating a burner account to try to defend yourself from Twitter critics. Most people are terrible at their jobs. Not only that, almost everyone has a job in their life that they aren't quite ready for. If you put your head down and focus on catching up, you might get there. If you create a burner account to act like your short comings aren't your fault, you probably won't.
  7. No, it is a list of people who have less time to throw on average than Daniel Jones. Sometimes it is because the line is bad, sometimes it is the timing of the offense, and sometimes they process faster than normal. Whatever the reason, you can't point to his time in the pocket as the primary reason he can't be successful, because most of those players who are using less time are having significantly better seasons. Having a bad line is a huge disadvantage, but like any other disadvantage its his job to overcome it and perform. Most of the offensive lines in the league are overmatched by the pass rush. It is kind of the only advantage the defense has in the NFL. If you are going to be successful as an NFL starter, you have to be able to perform despite the pressure. For instance, Joe Burrow before this season has had a horrible offensive line, but was among the best quarterbacks in the league while pressured. It was to the point where teams stopped blitzing him, because he was better under pressure. It is part of the job.
  8. The NFL Next Gen Stats track time to throw. The following quarterbacks average less time to throw than Daniel Jones. Tua Tagovailoa Joe Burrow Trevor Lawrence Dak Prescott Andy Dalton Gardner Minshew Brock Purdy Mac Jones Lamar Jackson Joshua Dobbs Ryan Tannehill Desmond Ridder Justin Herbert Matthew Stafford Baker Mayfield Derek Carr Jared Goff Anthony Richardson
  9. This amused the hell out of me. As someone who thinks that every middle of the road quarterback is a quasi-Kirk Cousins this scale needs to be the new test of mediocrity among quarterbacks. I feel like we've beaten the dead horse that is Daniel Jones and it's starting to reek of suckitude in here. So, to liven up the smell let's talk about just how stinky the Steelers offense is. I have a friend who roots for the Steelers, but has hated Mike Tomlin for years. His explanation is that Tomlin is only as good as his players, he doesn't actually do anything to help them succeed. I have always dismissed this, because Tomlin has been way too successful to not be doing something right. But now, I'm starting to see where he's coming from. Allowing Matt Canada to run your offense for this long is football malpractice. As a head coach, you do not have to be the most inventive offensive mind to be successful, but you need to be looking for assistants that fill in whatever gaps you have. Matt Canada doesn't fill gaps, he digs holes, and Tomlin should have to answer for keeping him around this long. Look at this thread talking about how completely and totally inept they have been over the last few years.
  10. I may have said some of this before. I do not understand why anyone wants a quarterback who can't average more than a touchdown a game. Scoring touchdowns is a skill, and most players either have it or they don't. He don't.
  11. CJ Stroud is a rookie who is playing behind a line that was bad before they all got injured. He's thriving. The Seahawks line was rated worst than the Giants last season, Geno thrived. The Bills and Dolphins lines are below average. Doesn't seem to stop their quarterbacks from performing well. At a certain point you have to stop blaming everyone else.
  12. Always beware of coaches who were only successful with transcendent talent. Don't get me wrong, dealing with transcendent talent is a skill, but that doesn't mean you're a good coach.
  13. It's like I was saying all day yesterday, you do not have to believe in good results from obviously bad processes. Last year the Giants got into the playoffs and even won a game, but they were not good. They taped, stapled, and glued some shit together, but it should have been pretty clear that their success was one strong wind from falling apart. Then, they overpaid the player who makes their offense bad and low-balled the person who makes their offense good. This is a pretty terrible Seattle defense, but Pete Carroll is a great defensive mind. Figuring out how to defeat Daniel Jones is as easy as pressuring him and covering his first read. He pretty much only throws to his first read, and he's not even good at that. This is what you sign up for when you overpay a bad quarterback. Baker Mayfield is making $4.85 million this season and Daniel Jones is making $40 million. Baker is better than him. Now, you are stuck with Daniel Jones and his contract, you're going to lose Barkley, and you'll have to start back at zero a year after a playoff victory. Stop giving people credit they don't deserve, stop overpaying bad players, and start looking at the process instead of the results.
  14. The thing about the Hernandez story that fascinates me isn't that these guys liked him, it's that none of them seemed to be able to believe he was capable of something like this. I grew up in a small town in Northern Ohio as the steel industry was leaving and the crack industry was gaining steam. I grew up around some people who have done some horrific things. You know what though, if you were to go back and ask a 10-year-old me who among my friends was the most likely to go to jail, I'm sure I would have been pretty accurate in my guesses. It was a small town that seemed to breed nothing but hard-headed young boys, but even then there were a few who were just willing to take things a step or two further than the rest of us. There are some people who I would have guessed would have ended up in jail, who grew out of their behaviors and didn't go to jail. There is not one who did end up in jail that would have surprised me. I don't think the average person is willing to shoot someone, and the people who are willing to shoot someone tend to be the type of people who would do all types of other crazy shit beforehand. The fact that none of these people think Hernandez was capable of killing someone is crazy to me. I'm not saying he had to have been a bad friend, or even an openly bad person, but he had to have done something when they knew him that made them think, "Aaron goes too far sometimes," or something like that.
  15. The biggest issue is that teams think that the quarterback is going to be the savior of their franchise, but there are only 5 of those guys tops. If you have Mahomes Jackson, or Allen you have guys who can fuck around and win even when they aren't particularly good. Literally everyone else needs a team smartly built around them and a coach who understands what that quarterback is good at and maximizes those skills. Not only that, the coach can't be too in love with his own shit to adapt to the talent on the field. The Shanahans have made damn near every running back look like a million bucks, but you put Terrell Davis, Clinton Portis, or Christian McCaffrey in their system you can tell the difference. Another thing, you can't win if you can't trust your quarterback to make a play. I make fun of Kirk Cousins a lot, but he's an average to above average starting quarterback. He makes a lot of mistakes, especially when plays break down, but he's never scared to make a play. Let year they won 13 games, because he knows Justin Jefferson is better than whoever is covering him and he gives him a chance to make a play. The Saints have great skill position talent, and Derek Carr checks down instead of letting his guys make a play. Josh McDaniels even knows you can't do that, that's why he's no longer in Vegas. Seriously, look at someone like Jalen Hurts. Hurts has been criticized for his lack of arm talent since his freshman year at Alabama. So, they built a team around the run, gave him two stud wide receivers and put him in a position to make 3 or 4 throws a game and let his guys beat their guys and it works. You can't put Mac Jones on the field with a bunch of receivers who couldn't get separation from me and expect him to succeed. He succeeded in college because literally every player he threw the ball to was better than everyone they played against. He's not going to make a play by himself, but if you put him in New Orleans or Atlanta he might be serviceable because of their skill position talent.
  16. I'm going to miss Terry Francona, he is easily my favorite Guardians manager. They were up and down during his tenure, but I never felt like they underachieved. Not only that, the players asked to love playing for him. Hopefully he enjoys a long happy retirement
  17. With that said, I'd watch a 4 part documentary on Aaron Hernandez and at least half of the interviews have to be from people who knew him and believe that all of this is a lie. He seems to have been loved by his friends in an uncommon way even after they heard he murdered a few people. I saw a YouTube video of Fred Taylor talking about how he talked to Hernandez the day before he died and he's convinced that he he didn't actually kill himself. I just want to know what all these people saw in him that makes them go to bat for him even after all the evidence.
  18. I really want to write a long form article about quarterbacks that are clearly terrible but somehow people talk themselves into believing they're good. Mack Jones at his very best is a, "well, he didn't fuck anything up," quarterback. You can't expect him to be good, but you can hope he's not bad. That's no way to go through life. The league is full of dudes who have never shown themselves to be better than OK, and fans who will call you racial slurs if you point out that their quarterback is not very good. The worst part is it isn't even the guys who aren't good but kind of exciting, it's always Mac Jones or Daniel Jones. Guys who might be able to do enough with the pieces around them to not ruin your life, but under no circumstances should be asked to do anything to win you a game. Derek Carr the the back to the running back 13 times for 33 yards, that will win exactly 0 games. Jameis is like playing Russian roulette with your offense, but at least you're going to score some points. Justin Fields has been awful, but if you can build an offense around what he did in the first half yesterday, you might have something. With Mac Jones, you just have to hope everyone else is good enough that the quarterback doesn't fuck everything up. I'd rather have a boom or bust quarterback than a, "God, please don't let Lucy pull the football away," quarterback. We all know these guys aren't good enough, Lucy pulls the football every time, let's stop pretending.
  19. Between him and Lamar Jackson today, you just have to shake your head and ask, "what the fuck are you supposed to do?" You can do everything right, they can do something that would be stupid as hell if they were anyone else, and somehow they still get to win.
  20. This was late, but Herbert is the king of running like he's going out of bounds only to cut back for another yard or two. That close to the first down line, he either has to hit him or risk him extending the drive. I agree with the Khalil Mack grudge theory, because he hasn't been good this season, but he's been a monster today.
  21. This was late, but Herbert is the king of running like he's going out of bounds only to cut back for another yard or two. That close to the first down line, he either has to hit him or risk him extending the drive. I agree with the Khalil Mack grudge theory, because he hasn't been good this season, but he's been a monster today.
  22. A.J. Brown has to be the best receiver in the league when it comes to catching the ball between multiple defenders and somehow making the exact right move to not be touched by any of them.
  23. The Browns offense is going to be a problem, especially when they're starting a 5th round rookie. The Browns defense has actually played well, but punk ass Lamar Jackson keeps doing Lamar Jackson things. I've seen him throw 3 balls that didn't make any sense, but somehow landed perfectly in his receiver's hands. That touchdown was triple covered, but the only person who could get a hand on it was Mark Andrews.
  24. The Vikings were legitimately one of the luckiest teams of all time last year. They won 13 games while not really being good at anything other than having Justin Jefferson on their team. They probably aren't as bad as they are playing so far this year, but they weren't going to keep getting away with the nonsense they got away with last season. Denver was legitimately good on defense last year, and they are looking not just bad this year, but historically awful.
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