NFL Week 17 Takeaways. The Derek Carr Fiasco Fallout. Are The Buccaneers Back, Or A Team Your NFC Team Should Fear? And More.
Prays For Damar Hamlin. I’m Amongst The Rank Who Came Into The night Mind Melded, Over Invested In The Results Of This Game. My convictions: Patriots Season Depends On What The Bills Have To Play Next Week. No, To Mention The Results, My Desires Resided In the Game Playing Out As The Stars Had Aligned To Favor The Patriots Early. As The Night Change, So Did The Mood.
The Seriousness Of The Moment Didn’t Dwell On Me Until the Ambulance arrived And The Weight Changed. I felt Football Change. The Results Can Wait a Life Cannot. What Damar Happened Suddenly and In General Rarely Happens In Modern Activity, Even In The Physicality Of Football.
Patriots Vs. Dolphins
Wait, There's A Chance. For The Pass Few Weeks, The Patriots Inspire One Depressing Narrative After Another. I Know Because I Wrote…
Two Failed Comeback Attempts Both Lost On Or Produce As A Cause Of Rushing Fumbles. The Offense Ranks Near The Bottom Of The Bottom Of The League. Quarterback Mac Jones, Suddenly Expressive And Boisterous, Far From Automaton We Regular related To Him, Aimed His Frustration At The Offensive coaching Staff Set To Get Some Retooling. New England quarterbacks Have Gotten Testy With OCs A lot In The Past—Mostly Tom Brady, And The Fussiness is Never the Same To Impact Winning. The Coaching Remains the Pillar Of The Team Foundation. This Season That's A Thing Of The Past. Coaching, However, Has Drawn The Interest Of Patriot On Lookers. Are The Patriots A Poorly Coach Team? I Have Heard That One Before In All The Line Of vitriol Written On The Most Successful Football Franchise Of The 21st century Thus Far. Sure The. Pats Have Lost A Few close Games On Late Mishaps. Several Player Have Incurred Inexcusable Penalties, Made Mind Numbing Choices With The Ball, And the team As Hold Runs An Offense That Belongs In The FCS Conference. But remember clawing Your Way Back From 17 Down, 22 Down Takes, Quote-Unquote, "good Coaching." Losing A Game Never Boils down To Just One Play, and Neither Dows winning.
Has The 2022-23 ShineD An unlucky, Sullen Glare Over The Patriots? (We Know Luck Plays At Great In The Out Come Of Football Games.) perhaps More So.
The Dolphins Are Going To Take The Chance And Plunged Into A New Perspective, A Different Feeling Football They Haven't Felt In Long While.
The Dolphins Are Experiencing The Coldest Winter For A Warm Weather Team.
At The Beginning Of December, The Dolphins We're on track To Hime Field Advantage. They were Charging Burn Up Your Sockets Hot. While Te Frigid Weather Slowed And Bogged Down Other Offenses, Miami Would Serve As A Haven For the League's Hottest Teams.
Then Everything for The Dolphins Stupefied.
Mike McDaniels Squad Are On A Four Game Mud Slide, But They Control Their Destiny If They Can Find The Winning Formula. From One Perspective Control Your Destiny Sound Great, Who Doesn't Want To Rule Their Destiny? I Ca Hear Bujumbura Banton In The Back Of My Head; "Destiny, mama, look from when you called.
I wanna rule my destiny" to Rule Your Destiny There's A Cost For The Dolphins Win Out; Winning, It's That Simply. But Simplicity And Winning Are Mutually Exclusive, as The Dolphins Have Found Out. Football Gets Tough. What's more, Your Destiny Means The Onus Falls On You. You Have No One To Blame But Yourself For Your Shortcoming. Owning Your Destiny Comes With Trials Such Are Famous In Mythology And Mike Mcdaniels Made Sure To Make Each Listening To Him Aware Of That Fact; "This Is Tough And Not for Everyone. Football Isn't For Everyone." McDaniels said Monday. At times Football Doesn't Seem Appropriate For Dolphins' Starter Tua Tagovailoa, Who'll Sit This Game Out After Entering The Protocol. I Wanted To Make A Play On Words They Not Suggesting His Career Upended By Repeated Concussion. Football And Destiny Will, However, Choose Teddy Bridgewater, Who Now Has His Hand In Destiny Game. Fate Has Dealt Miami A Cruel Hand With Everything On The Line: Pro Bowl cornerback Xavien Howard, Pro Bowl tackle Terron Armstead, and starting edge rusher Bradley Chubb Are Also Inactive.
Another Quirk Of Destiny; You Don't Control The outcome Of Others; "You know not the destiny of the next man." Buju Wails. They Have Their Destiny Bubble From Time To Time Crosses Yours. ( A Destiny Bond Of Sorts. )The Patriots Want To Rule Their Destiny As Well. They are Fair, No Better. The League's Best Will Have Four Key Players On The Sideline Of Destiny Dance. Marcus Jones, Jalen Mills, Shaun Wade, Jack Jones, All-Defensive Backs Injure. With Marcus Jones Who Will Mac Jones Through Screen Passes. Another Test By The Hand Of Fate. Mac Jones Won't Have Tight end Jonnu Smith, wide receiver DeVante Parker, running back Kevin Harris, To Through Screens To Either.
Wait, there's still A Chance. 🤩 The Patriots Proved They're Still The Most Forward Thinking Brain Trust In The League. What Team Do Know Has Such Depth At the corner. Four New England Corners Missed This Pivotal Matchup With Miami Due To Injury. Last Season You traded, In the case Of Stephon Gilmore, Your Most Accomplished Defensive Player; in Off Season, You Lose Your Statistical Decorated Player In J.C. Jackson. You're Criticizing For Drafting Some Some Undersized Corner Some What Early In. The Draft, Marcus Jones. A Defensive Back Drafted Back 2019, The Most Decorated One This Season, Kyle Duggar Makes The Play of The Game.
Chargers Vs. Rams
There is Only A Handful—Pun Not Intended— People Player Capable of Completing The Leaping Grab Mike Williams Snatched Out Of The year On Sunday. Justin Herbert Plug In The Launch Codes To One Of that Ballistic Missile From His Cybernetic Arm From The Pocket. Not One Of His Best Throws, But What Matter When You Have A Wide Receiver Who Can make Up For the Margins Of the Era.
Williams Went up A Made A Catch That Look Like If Basketball Player Aaron Gordon and Figure Skater Yuna Kim Had a Baby—along The Boundary. Ballerina Judges Would Have Given Williams A 10 For His Pirouette Landing. He looks Like Victor Freezes Wife In The Snow Globe.
The Move Impressed So Many Mike Williams Stopped After The Game To Give Lessons:
"Make A Play, React To The Ball." Mike Said Casually.
Reporter: There were So Many Athletic Plays From You. Did You Wake up and Say, 'I'm Just Going To Catch Everything With One Hand.'
Mike, Taking InThe Compliment:" uh, I woke Feeling Good. New Year… I Woke Up Feeling Good Today."
Did Williams Out Perform Justin Jefferson, Ceedee Lamb, Or Even David Njoku? I Don't Think So. He Won The Day and Caught Of The Year Need A Reward Or A YouTube Digital/Viral Plague. The Chargers Defeat The Rams, And Maybe Finally, We Hear The End Of Baker Mayfield For The Season. For A While, I Thought They'd Give Him A Star On The Walk Of Fame For a Resurgent Performance. I Know AFC Contenders are Salivating To play The Chargers. They Are Not A Good Team. The Offensive Scheme Doesn't Work, and Some Of The Windows Justin Herbert Had To Pry Open Against The rams Were Once In A While Only By The Strengths Of His cybernetic-ally Enhanced Arm. He Rarely, Rarely Throws Over The Middle, Everything Work To The Boundary And Good Defense is Going To Stifle Them. I Like The Jags In A Match Up Against The Chargers Today, Not Two Weeks From Now, Today.
Vikings Vs. Packers
If Justin Jefferson goes Off, Jaire Alexander Will have The Most Famous Last words In Recent Memory. Alexander Has Become Something Of A Sound Bite Savant Recently and Always Has His Eye And Tongue Lashing At the Opposing team's Top Targets. He Got into with Former Vikings Stephon Diggs WhenThe packers Faced The Bills— One Of The Numbers Of Losses That Put The Packers Season In A Sarcophagus. The Packers Have Rebounded, They're "Hot," And So As Jaire With Some Scathing Comments About Justin Jefferson. The Packers Usual Get Hot After an Opening Day Lost, a staple Going Back About Three Season Or So. You Know The R-E-L-A-X Mantra. This Season That Day, One Loss Came At The Hands Of The Vikings, With Justin Jefferson Streaking Cross The Recently Paid Jaire Alexander And The Rest Of The Packers Secondary. The Vikings Are The Champs Of The North and Have More Packers' platforms To Snatch, Like The Entire NFC. The Two Rivals Face Each Other Again, And in Preparation for The Matchup, Jaire Had This To Say:
"He's an excellent receiver. But at the end of the day, I'm a perfect corner. We've got perfect corners. We've got outstanding linebackers, D-line, whatever it is. You don't want too much focus on one person because it's like, the first Game was a fluke." He Said In Good School Yard Rivalry, Ash Ketchum, Gary Oak Type Of Way. If The Media wants To "Inflate" Someone's Persona, He Wants The Smoke On It.
First, I Like It. Putting Your Word Adds Another Level of Motivation, A Little Extra Volatility Into The Volcano.
The Packers Have To Win This Game To Stay Alive In The Crowded NFC Wild Card. When You Say Something Like That As You Prepare To Face a Rival. Alexander Brings Added Motivation To Back That "Talk" Up. The Banter Gives The Rivalry Game Nore Investment Because an Opponent "Pride" Joins The Wager.
Also, He Has A Point; the First Happened Like Two Season Ago An d While getting Torch For one catches for 184 yards and two touchdowns in a complete Out Classing 23 To 7 Beatdown. Justin Jefferson is Looking Like The First New Years' Eve Fire Cracker, Just Virtual Gliding Uncovered Across The Packer Zone in the first half. Alexander Has Clout At His Position, Five Interceptions, And Pro Bowl Nod Still Doesn't Poke A Sleeping giant. Jefferson Can "Set It Off" (Whatever It Is) No Queen Latifah Or Jada Pickett-Smith. He's On A Record-Setting Charge Over The Pass; I Don't Know How Many. The Vikings Are Still Chasing The Eagles, Who Are Ailing And Nursing That Lead In The NFC and NFC East.
"Very Disappointed In Our Performance." Kevin O'Connell Said His Vikings Team Got Embarrassed Against The Packers In What Looked Like One Of Those Spiritual Test Of Transition Found In Superhero Movies.
I would Hope O'Connell Felt Embarrassed.
Losing A Key Game To A Rival In A Game When They Stood In Your And Crushing Their Playoff Would Mark A Great Success For Your Still Inconclusive Season.
Losing In Such an Inept Fashion. "We Can Do A Better Job Coaching." O'Connell Continued. Clearly!
There's More Work At Hand; the Work Never Ends With The Final Second; the Work, It's A Constant.
The Vikings Looked Like An Offensive Unit That's Never Played With Each Other.
At the End Of The Contest, Justin Jefferson Reference His Focus On His Performance, Maybe Inadvertently.
"I finally realized that I made my mark in this league," he said, "every single game, they are not going to let me get 100 yards." Impose Your Will, Your Talent On The Game. The Connections Between He And Kirk Felt Like They Blew A fuse In The System Somewhere. "Frustrating Getting One Catch," Jefferson said. Get In Kirks's Ear, Get Into O'Connell's Ear. You've Beaten Good Coverages Before, The Vikings Didn't Come To Fight.
When The Vikings Appear The Vigorous Contender, They Disappear Like A Plane In The Night Sky. Like A Counterfeit, Fraudulent When Met With Over Exposure To Serious Adversity. Not The Colt's burlesque Like Adversity.
The Vikings, Kevin O'Connell, They're Too Stoic. I'm A Stoic. The Words Of Marcus Aerilius and Jordan Peterson Have Changed My Life Over The Pandemic. Sometimes, You Have To Sit In A failure. Don't Just Watch The Tape And Move Unto The Next Game; have Some Emotion Investment. Maybe O'Connell Brought The Steely Veneer To The Podium And Kept The Emotion For Behind the Scene And Not Share any With Observers. You Have to Take Some Beatings personally, Like Jordan(Then I Took That Personal Meme), Like Brady, Like Kobe— They etched The Days Of Deep Defeats In Their Hearts, but They Didn't Dust It Off With Placid Disinterest. Nick Siriani Of The Eagles Had Similar kinesthetics After The Eagles Lost To The Saints In A challenge. "I Try Not To Get Too Up And Down" Well Your Getting Real Close To Down lately, and He's A Bit Smugger With it. A Few Injuries To Key Players Suddenly Your Not A Contender Anymore.
The Vikings Lost Big. The Final Score of 41-17 Doesn't Give Credence To This Disaster. The Packers Danced On The Vikings—Literally. Jaire Alexander Bust a Griddy On Justin Jefferson. "One Loss Doesn't Define Our Team." Dalvin Cook said. Maybe Four Losses, All In Similar Define Your Team. "Look Out For Nice Week." He Continued. Sure, Bury The Shame The same Issues That Plague You Sunday(Slow Start, No Fight, Lack Of Direction) Surely won't Arise Again In Oh, The Playoff. "Nah, I Don't Care. Playoffs Coming, We In." Dropping to Third Seed Doesn't Matter.
We'll See.
The Packers Secondary Served Their words, Their Diatribes Right. Justin Jefferson One Catch, Numerous Push Downs.
I Admit I Wrote The Packers Off Maybe Three Times This Season. I Proudly Supported Benching Aaron Rodgers For Jordan Love, Who, At This Point In The Two Quarterbacks, Offers More in Terms Of Upside and General Playmaking. A Favorable Schedule, A Bad Tua Game, And A Couple Of Big Wins Later, The Packers Control Their Destiny. Beat The Lions and The Packers Reach The Promise Land.
The NFC Remained This Muddied Competitive Amoeba Long Enough. The Packers Had The Resilience and The "Faith They Could Over Take Everyone In Their Way. The Art Of Resilience Doesn't Come Natural For The Winningest Team In The Past Three Seasons. Matt Lafleur Started His Career as The Winningest Coach In Football History Through Three Seasons. This Season, With Struggles On offense and Changes To The O-Line, Feels Like The First Time He's had To Coach Up This Team, Especially Rodgers, Who Had This To Say:
"It hasn't been my best football at times, but I've been asked to step up my leadership and be someone the guys can count on to keep it together." I'm Never Quick To Share Empathy For Aaron Rodgers, But I Know Struggling with Playing Football Must Have Left A Bad Taste In His Most. He's Usually Too Good, Wizard Like, Knowing The Spots Before Everyone on The field. Growing As a Leader Must Have Challenged Him On A Personal Level. He's Neve Ranked High As An Emotional Ballast, But He had To Dig Deep To Hold The Ship Together.
Today The Packers Still Own Th NFC North; the Packers Are The Kings Of The NFC Mid.
I Read A Stat line A Week :
Defensive DVOA overall: 1st (No. 7 vs. the run; No. 3 vs. the pass)
EPA/play overall: 3rd (No. 9 vs. the run; No. 4 vs. the pass)
The overall success rate is 5th (No. 3 vs. the run 3rd; No. 10 vs. the Pass).
You Read A Stat Line Like This, And You Have to Think that's The Best Team In Football. No, It's The Cowboys. That's A Sterling Resume (Defensively). Why Are the Cowboys the Clear Favorites To Win The Super Bowl? Only A Handful Of Team Can Boast Of Such a "Buxom" Stat Line. A Team That Can Win In A Number Facets at All Game Levels. But The Offense Has Matched That Level Of Productivity.
A Blistering Confident Quarterback Playing at His Highest When The Games Count The Most. In The Words Of Pusha T, "Those Numbers Aren't Real With Inflation." ESPN's FPI Ranks The Cowboys As An Average Defense, Right In Line With Cincinnati And Tennessee And Below The Bucs And Commanders In The Conference. Why Are The Two Metrics(DVOA & EPA) DVOA Metrics Sway Heavily By Turnovers And Nobody Produces Turnovers Better Than The Cowboys? The Cowboys Force The Usual Safe Lock Eagles Into, They Also Lead The League In TakeawayS and Turnover Differential. Another Reason is, The Cowboys, Ranked Favorably Against them Because The League, In General, has played The Run Poorly. Only Three Teams In the League Are Surrendering Less Than 100 Yards A Game On The Ground, One Of Whom Are The titans Who Are One Of The Worse Teams Defending The Pass. The Titan's Opponent, The Cowboys, Are The Inverse.
The Cowboys Surender Around 130 Rushing Yards Per Game, Not The Ideal Figure Defensively, But Their Pass Rush Makes The Cowboys Great Against The Passing Attacks They've Faced This Year. We'd All Have Auspicious Results Defending The Pass If We Played The AFC South, The Giants, and the Commanders Twice This Year.
The Cowboy's Passing Offense Will Have Some Questions To Answer As Well. The Giants Are Also A Top Ten Passing Team. The Giants are nowhere Near a Top Ten Passing team In Any Other Year But 2022. Passing Efficiency Have General Suffered This Season; The Cowboys Are Higher Than Only Based On Relativity.
I'm Not Casting Aspersions On The Season The Cowboys are Having. They're Winning, And Th my 12th Look Imminent. EPas Are Swing By Results Where ESPN's FPI adjust For Opponent.
My Point, Context Matters. The Cowboys Have Played Three "Good" Passing Teams(Lions, Vikings, Bengals) And Flattened Them. "Good" Ultimately Depends On How You Judge Kirk Cousins(He Ranks 20th In QBR But Also Has).
The Cowboys Score Over 34 Points Per Game On Average since Dak Prescott Returned To The Quarterback, The Best Mark In The League. The Cowboys Shouldn't Need All Of That moved Pass A Titans. Mike Vrabrels Squad Didnt Have Much To Play For In The Game. Sure, They Could Avoid A Six Game Losing Streak The Worse Of Vrabrel, But Without Their Starting Quarterback, A Team Replete With Injuries(22 Players On IR) Possibly And A Preordained Date With Destiny Against The Jags Next week, and A Thursday Nighy Game This Late In The Year. The Titans had Nothing To Gain In Playing a Full 60 Minutes Of Football. The Unwritten Rules Of Football Aren't So Deeply sacrosanct That Mike McCarthy Should Defer To Running His Offense On Neutral And Not Running Up The Score And Run The Whole Play Sheet. The offense is Throttling things After A Big Win Against Philly.
The Cowboys would have their Own Key Pieces Missing Themselves. Team Rushing Leader Tony Pollard Would Sit This One Out. Meanwhile, The Titans Are Shuffling Through Rules, Striving To Figure Out How Many Guys They Can Rest in One Given Night. They CowStarted The Night With All Of The Thursday Night Viewing On The Offense. After Philly's Pass Rush Fluttered and Toppled The Cowboy's Pocket For Another Game Of Six Sacks, The Offensive Line was bang Up And Nursing Bruised Ego. The Cowboys Try Marrying The Run And The Pass. On Three Of Their Four First Downs On Their Touchdown Drive, The Cowboys Rush The Ball With Ezekiel Elliott And play Dak A Little Conservative More Under Center. Understanding The Assignment: Get Out Of Here With a Win And As Little Exposed Weaknesses and Gently A Bruised Ego As Possible. With That, The Cowboys Scored The First Ten Point Of The Game. The Titans all World Run Defense forced several Unsuccessful Yards And Some Negative Plays To Set The Cowboy's Offense Back. This Game didn't look tight for those expecting the Tennessee Titans to Lay Down. McCarthy Would Counter With Long Developing Routes For Ceedee, T.Y. Hilton(Who's Settling In Nicely), and Dalton Shultz. The Titans Would Throw A Blow Or Two For themselves, But First, They Had To Get The Blocking Scheme Correct For Josh Doubs Making His First. The Cowboy's Pass Rush Force To Sack Fumbles, One To Start The Titan's Corresponding Drive(Doubs Recovered), And Another To End The nine Play Drive. Micah, Wearing A Club Like Cast On His Hand, Forced The Fumble. That Looked To Signal The Highlights Doubs Night. When His Passes Didn't Sail Over The Hands Receivers, He Had Fumble Collection.
The Cowboys Would Get Another Opportunity To add To Their Lead. The Titan's Rushing Defense Made Its Point. The Cowboys Average 2.7 Yards Per Rush. The Cowboys Found A Few Holes But Nothing Sustainable.
McCarthy made a Statement That His Team Didn't Have Style Points In Mind, But His Action Betrayed Him. With a Chance To Put The Game Away Early, McCarthy Calls For The Trusted Shotgun Formation. To that point, Dak Had Success Passing The Ball and Spreading The Targets Around, But something Happens When He Flips That Switch And Goes Up Tempo. When Passing Attack Starts Clicking Up, Dak Reminds me Of A. Confused Pokémon In The RPG Game. When A Pokémon Becomes Afflicted By "Confusion," they Enable To Carry Out Proper Attack Turns; Instead, A Confused Pokémon has a 50% chance of attacking itself.
That's Dak. When The Tempo Gets Too High, He "Shoots" Himself. He Fumbles, Trying To Catch Tennessee Off Balance. Then The Interceptions Come In.
I Get It; Football, It's A Team Game, Dak, He's A Team Player. That's the First Pick, Not His Fault, Though One Could Argue He Put Too Much "Mustard" On that Pass To Tight End Peyton Hendershot Still Coming Out Of His Break On An In Route. It could Happen To Anybody (I Guess). Nevertheless, The Winds Of Luck Seem To strike the Cowboys And Dak Prescott This Season.
Dak, On The Other, Has Had a Turnover Problem, And He's Well OnHis Way To Leading The League In Picks(Turnovers). Interceptions are A Quarterback Stat Whether He And The Receiver go Half On The Baby Or Not.
Dak Always SeeMs To Vacillate Between Needing A Tune Up and Run Like A Race Horse. The Second Pick, The Result Of A Good Read By Kevin Byard On Somewhat Poorly Places Ball, Put The Titans Back In The Game. Instead Of Cowboys Putting Up Three More Scores, The Titans Turn Dak's Bricks Into Field Goals(Gold). The Titans Headed Into The Half Not Only With A One Score Battle On Their Hands(Despite only a Hand Full Of First Down And Maybe Two Recognizable Player Name) But With Some Sense Of Momentum. The Titans Defense Prevented The Potential Dallas Deluge Of Points Or Rather Delayed. Out of the Half, The Cowboys Wouldn't Let that Momentum Stray Too Far.
After A Titans Punt Because Josh Doubs In All— Doubs Had A Nice Stat Line At The End—The Cowboys Put Together A Scoring Drive To Pull Away.
More Than The Titans The Cowboys Look To Strike Back Against Themselves and The Narrative written Against Them;
"If you've been watching us, we have won these games, sure," Prescott said, Almost Self Consciously Aware Of The Medias And Fans Expectations And Misgivings about His Team. "Once y'all see a game like Minnesota, you think that's how every game is supposed to be." the Cowboys Set Lofty Expectations For Themselves By Their Status as The Cowboys. Wins Over Philly and Minnesota Only Pile On Top Like Jinga Block One False Move Or Lose oR A Game Fitted With to Interceptions Topples Such Expectations Such Aspiration. With That, The Cowboys Would Pull Away In This One—McCarthy Park The Running Game, and With Pass After Pass, Dak's Confidence Calcified. Powered On Big Games Tight End Dalton Shultz In Contract Year And T.Y.Hilton Extending His Career The Cowboys Pulled Away,28-13. Shultz finished 7 Catches, 56 Yards, and Two touchdowns. Zeke Added Another Touchdown On The Ground But Really Couldn't Get Anything Going with His 19 Carries For 37 Yards.
The Cowboys Squeaked This Win Out Drop By Drop. The Titans, On The Other end. At least HaveA Starting Quarterback For at Atleast Another. Josh Doubs had The Best Career Start Game In His First Career Start, 20/39 232, One Touchdown, And One Interception. He Got Big Plays Out Of His Copse Of Rookies' Top Targets Racey MCNah And Julius Chestnut; Treylon Burks led the Team In Receiving 4 Catches And 66, A lot of Which Came On Splash Against The Cowboy's Heavy Box Looks. The Titans Are Petted For A Matchup With the Jags and One With their Existence. For the First Time In Three Years, Mike Vrabel Faces Edge Of An Early End To A Season. What Await Him An Off-season Rift With Rumors and Decision To Make On Contracts and crux Of Modernizing Their Team Building Strategy. Has The Old Titans' Locomotives Run Itself To The Ground? Can Any Early Success And Accomplishments Of This Season Be Passed Over?
Does The League Drive To Parity Still Make The Cowboys A Favorite Based On Relativity? No, Because You Only Need One Bad Matchup Early In The Playoffs, As The Cowboys Learned Last Year, To Knock You Off.
In Some Ways, The Bucs' offense Reminds Of A Tyga Album Repleted By Lowlights And Skippable Track, But Those Highlights Are A Constant Drawback And An Ideation Of Possible Good Things. And Why So? Why Can't The Bucs Offense Hit The Throttle Straight Out Of The Gate? the Answer Has Two Sides. Crunch Time Forces The Body Of Athletes To Shift Into A Heightened State, A zone Called An Autotelic Mode. The endocrine Release More Adrenaline And Endorphins, The Stuff That Makes Action Movies, Know Action Like. Brady's Lived In Those Moments In His Career. The Quarterback Turns, And A Doctor Acutely Aware Of Where To "dissect things" Awakens. His Arm Generate More Torque Easier and pinpoint pupils, Makes Tighter Window Routine Passes.
One Of The Commonalities Of The Cardinals And Saints is, The Two Teams To Surrender Late lead To The Bucs Given Improbable; they're Are Not "Good" Teams With a Combine Record Of 10-20. The Cardinals Arrive At The Bucs Door On A Four, Game Losing Losers Of Six Of Their Last Eight. The Cardinals Best Win In That Soan Came Against The Saints As Both Teams Battle Back Against Falling Out Of Their Respective Divisions. The Cardinals Are Near The Bottom At Defending Narrowly Dodge, Letting Brady Set A New Career High For Comeback Deficit By Three Points. The Brady Set His High Of 13 Against The Saints. The Saints Are Mid Against The Pass And Played a Conservative Offense, Only Using 17 Seconds Before Punting The Ball Back To The Bucs With The Two Minute Warning Still In Hand. In Tight Situations, Most Teams Play Drop Coverage That Stress Not Getting Over The And Sacrifice Underneath PosturingThemselves To Drain Clock. That is another Way Tampa wins.
The Bucs Call Plays And Act On Plays At The Fastest Pace In The League, The Clock Never Plays On Their Mind, And That Sort Of Defense Can Turn Out Self Defeating Because The Open Windows Make "Centering" (Focusing) easier With Windows Just Folding. The Browns Achieve The 2022 Version Of The "Impossible" By Beating Brady In Close. How? They Man To Man Defense And Forced The Bucs Receivers Out Of The Rhythm, And They Have Generational Talent On The Edge. How Offensive Coordinator Byron Leftwich, everything Boils To "Finding A Way To Win Football Games." The Best Team Have An Identity. They Win Through Deliberate Adherents To Their Process. The Bucs Don't Seem To Rule By A Process They're Winning By The Skin Of The Goats' Greatness. "It's Take All Eleven. Someone Has To Catch, Block, Scheme." Too Often In Late Games, The Seems Guided By His Shear "Willing" Completions Through.
The NFC South Championship Didn't Fall Back Home To Tampa the Way We All Predicted It Would In The Preseason. In The Title Never Fell At All, It Levitated, Suspended Until One Of Two Team Grabbed The Belt Out Of The Air Like A WWE Ladder Match. The Buccaneers Didnt Wisk Through NFC South With Ease Like Aladdin On A Magic Carpet Through Air, You Know just On our Way To Another 12,13-Win Season. Stanchioned By one Of The League Best Offenses Of The Year Pushing On The 500 Points Button. Tom Brady, A man With A career So Illustrious He Honors the Title "Hall Of Famer", Didn't Throw For 5000 Yards, 40 Plus Touchdown, More Big Time Throws, and Ran For Five More Quarterbacks Sneaks. Instead, The Bucs Struggled, The Mire, The Depress, Grunted, and Sometimes Moped, But The Came To Play Like Champion One More Time And Again One More Time. For Now Thats Good Enough of a Storied Ending To the Scintillating Season For Me.
Big Play From Terrence Marshall, Former Top ten pick Derrick Brown, Edge Yetur Cross-Matos, Jaycee Horn, Chubba Hubbard, and Laviska Shenault. A Messy Franchise, Retrograding With Each Move At Quarterback and Bound To A "Fire Sale" at The Trade Deadline Held Things Together. A Constant Participant In Conversations Of The Season, Never A Point Of Emphasis. Coming Into The Year, The Saints were The Only Divisional Opponents Credited With A Right And Potential To Challenge Tampa Bay For The Division. Interim Head Coach Steve Wilkes, A Son Of The City Of Charlotte Who Made A "Family" Decision To Return To North Carolina, Coach the Defense, and Become The Cynosure For This Panthers' Run, Deserve Flowers. They Beat The Heavily Favorite Tampa Bay Bucs by Three scores, a Win That Signal The Turnaround Into Their Season.
Some How They Enter The Week against The Bucs With The Division In Their Claws. The Panther is coming off their Best Game Of The Season against The Lions. The Panthers Have Face Must Win Matchups For Months and Continued To "Keep Pounding." The Panthers should their Characters. "you Have To Have Character, and We've Shown That." Ben McAdoo Panthers O.C. Against The Familiar Bucs For Boiled To Their Season Could They Bear Their Soul.
Which Animal Spirit Would Prevail: the Goat Or The Leo?
Tampa Came With An Identity. The Panthers Down, Their Best Jaycee Horn, Came To Face Struggling Passing With A Former Figurehead On, Former Pro Bowler Josh Norman, Still Trying To Work His Way Back into Shape. Norman, Regardless Wanted To Make His Presence Felt This Game.
"You Can See A Dog When They Walk On The Field. You Know It's Presence." —A Freshly Signed Josh Norman Stated. Norman Couldn't Have Seen That Dog Coming Out In Mike Evans. Evans Has Started His Career With Eight Consecutive 1,000 Yards in a Season, But an Inconsistent 9th Season and Year For The Entire Offense Look To Spell An End To That Record. In Their First Two Years And Tandem, Brady and Evan Had Proven A Symbiotic Union That Could Rival Any In History. Last Season Evan Threw Away A Number Record breaking Balls. This Season The Bucs Threw Away Leads.
A Diet Of Short Belied and Disguised Trimmers Of The Big Game To Come. Evans's First Catch Went For Three Yards On a Short Screen, and His first Target Fell Incomplete. One Catch And One Target Later, He Picks 63-Yard Bomb on Cj Henderson Picking Up For Jaycee Horn. Mike Evans Caught 10 Passes and 207 Yards. The Panthers Talk About Throwing a Counter Against Their Tendency, And Comes The Bucs Came Out Passing Deep, Their Kryptonite In A sense all Season. Mike Caught three touchdowns For 63, 57, and 30 yards.
The Bucs Shook Off Adversity In The Form Of An Ominous Start That included Chris Godwin's Fumble, a Missed Field Goal, and Two Three and Outs. The Panthers Pounce On the Opportunity And Took A Two Score Lead Late Into The Second Quarter When Sam Darnold Connected With DJ Moore On 24 Yard Strike To Put Carolina Up 14-0,21-10 Entering The Fourth Quarter.
The Panther Didn't Show Their Claws In The Run; Ben McAdoo Counter Against The Bucs Defense And Threw Ball. McAdoo Schemed Open The Bucs Secondary. The Panthers Had a 37:22 Pass Run Ratio.
Sam Darnold Had His Best Passing Game Of This Divisional Push, Maybe The Best Since His Last Three Game Starting LAST Season. Darnold May Have Cemented Himself as The Panthers Starter. He Started The Season I.R., Moved To Backup, And May Not Go Back; Coach Change Pending. Darnold Finished 23/37 341, Three Touchdowns, And One Interception. Carolina looks Contented To Win An Lose By Darnold's Arm That Gave 9.2 Per Throw. He Looked Good; 4th Pick of USC was Good. Even As The Bucs Crept Back Into The Game, Darnold Responded. He Throws Quick Pass To DJ Moore, a Deep Pass To DJ Moore, and Over the Middle To DJ Moore. That Gave And Took Away. Darnold's Impressive Performance Got Weighted Down By Three Turnovers. The Panthers Lose The Turnover Battle and Spoil A Great Offensive Effort. The Bucs Win Spoils Any Opportunity The Team Had Of Drafting Georgia Tight End Brock Bowers. The Team Desperately Needs A Tight End. Brady Battle Passed The Drops. Shook Off The Missed Field Goals, Hot, Fussy, And Pouted But Continued To Sling( I Say Two More Seasons). He Dials Up Several Deep Threads, Bouncing around in The Pocket. A Healthy Offensive Line nullified the Panther’s Pass Rush. Darnold Couldn't Out Shine The Goat 34/45 432 And Three Deep(Emphasis On The Modifier Deep) Touchdown Passes and One Rushing Touchdown(Sneak). Goat Game, MVP vote For Carrying this Husk Of Offense To The End And and mighty Blast Of The Horn Of A Finish.
With The Brady Wins His 19th Division Title, 20th Playoff Appearance. The Last Time Brady Didn't Win The Division, The Bucs Took The Long Road To The Super Bowl. This One Feels Different Because They Earned Every One Of Those Eight Wins, and With The NFC South Having A Special Kind Of Bad Season, The Bucs Pull One Out. One More Super Bowl Run For The Road. The Bucs Defense Also Played Great In Spots; that's All You Need From The D. Sean Murphing-Bunting Another Great Day Playing The Pass. Joe Troy Shroyinka Played Better, Getting Pressure To The Pocket. The Bucs Showed How We Expected Them To Play All Year. They Left Points On the Field With Two Missed Field Goals But Didn't Need Them.
"The playoffs start a clean slate for everybody," Bowles said.
"We knew what we were playing for. ... We were right there," Darnold said. "In the end, we just couldn't get it done." The Bucs Will Most likely Face The First Team Out Of The NFC East As Underdogs But Under With a Hard Bite. The Panthers Have Nothing to Feel Ashamed about, And They also Have a lot Of Young Talent To Work with. Most Of Which They Drafted To Carolina. Steve Wilkes Most Likely Keeps The Coaching Hat Full Time And Continues To Build On a what The Team Accomplished This Season. The Buccaneers Won't Run The South For Long With How The Panthers are Coming, But They Run The South Today.
Browns Vs. Commanders
The Commanders Have A Number, Several Points /Factors Working in Their Favor As they Prepare To Face age Browns For What Essentially Boils Down To A Playoff Game and One That Doesn't. The Brown Have Nothing To Play For Except Pride(Whatever Pride Means To Them and How Much Of it They Have Left), Kevin Stefanski's Job(If Salvageable), And The Differences Between Houston Franchise Changing Draft By Landing a Quarterback A And Jalen Carter In The Same Draft. The Browns Can Push Their Draft Position Out Of The Top Ten m(where They're Slated Now) Depending On how They Play These Last Two Games. The Browns Are Not playing Good Ball Right On Both Sides Of the Ball.
The Defense Amongst The Greatest Underachieving Groups From a Talent To Production. Defensive Standout Edge Rusher Myles Garrett leads the NFL in pass rush win rate (28.9%) Through Week One To Sixteen. He Ranked Third In Sacks and Pressures That Hasn't Stop The Browns From Surender The 11th Most Points and 5000 Yards. Coverage Unit Lead By The Top Corner Denzel Ward Who's Play Has Evolved From Detrimental To Passable Over The Course. Your 5-year, $100,500,000 Investment Not Panning Out, Let Me Play You Number On The World's Smallest Guitar. The Browns Have Become A Respectable Unit Defending The Pass(8th In Yards, 19th Graded). Pass Rusher, Edge Defenders, And Run Stuffers(From What I Learned) Aren't The Same Thing, And That's a Fact That Will be Consequential In This Matchup.
I said Respectable, Not Definitive. A Decent Passing Attack can Methodically Cut Through Joe Woods, But That's Fine Because The Commanders May Not Take That Route Or The Dozens Of Route Combinations In Offensive Coordinator Scott Turners Cabinet. "Route Is Where I Make My Money." Jahan Dotson During The Draft Process. His Route Has Not Come Back Empty. The Rookie First Round Has One Of The Highest touchdown Percentages in The League and Need One To Add To His Seven one In three Straight Games, One Short Of Setting A Franchise Record.
The commanders Lead The League In Time Of Possession. On Offense, Even With Carson Plug Into The Starter Spot, The Commanders Want To Continue That Trend. The Browns Rival The Commanders, They're Second In Time Of Possession. What The Two Teams Need to Share, Run Defense. The Browns are Porous. The Commanders Are Stout. Running The Ball Controls The Clock. The Browns Boasted The Best Run Game In The League, Nick Chubb And Kareem Hunt Tagging Like The Hardy Boyz, That's Gone. With Deshaun Watson At The Helm Of Kevin Stefanski's "Pass Happy" Offense, The Running Game Has Died. A Rusty Passer Only Invites More Pressure Happy Defense, The Likes Of Which The Commanders Qualify.
The Commanders Are Also Looking To Qualify As A Playoff Team, And A Win Here Boost Their Chances. If Anybody Has Something To Play For On The Browns, It's Deshaun Watson. "Each And Every Week, Regardless If You're In The Playoffs Or Not, This Is An Opportunity For You To Evaluate Yourself And For Other Teams To Evaluate You," Watson said. The money Doesn't Factor Into The Matter, Only Your Efforts To Prove Your Worth. Watson Got Paid Now He's Focus On Fulfilling The Latter Half Of His Arrangement, The Winning. He's Put Out Strong Tape, Accolades, and Stats.
What's Working Against The Commanders? Following A 49ers Win, The Losing Teams HAve Finished A Rousing 0-12 In Their Next Matchup Following A Loss To The 49ers? Remember That Tie The Commanders Thought Meant "Nothing"? Well Turns Out Losses Are The Only Thing Worse Than Ties, and Now The Commanders Have Too Many "Ls" For The Math not to matter. "It's a little weird," McLaurin said After The Seeming 20-20 "Loss" To The Giants. "After the Game, you don't know what to do next. Even the fans are still standing in the stands. Do we go to P.K.s?(?) What do we do?" You Prepare Because Your Room For Error Gets Cut In Half. The Commanders On A Bye, The Giants Continued To Play And Fight For Their Playoff Lives. Now Four Weeks Later, we See The Results, A Loss. "I Think One Of These Teams Will Make The Playoffs. The Other One Gets Picked Off by The Lions Or Packers." Mike Florio said On NBC After The Game Almost Prophetically. The Giants Who Were "Sinking," Cooling Off After A shot Start Got The Win Two Weeks Later, Now They're In The Playoffs. The Giants responded Because The PlayoFfs Matter To The Players And Coaches.
The Commanders Carried a more Traveling Bounty Hunter, Laid Back, Lobo Like Living On Edge, Pulling Out Of Salon On The Skit Of Their Teeth.
The Losses Climb Up On The Giants But Only Heightened The Giant's Sense Of Urgency, Their Resolve. While The Commanders Waited, Middling Happy To Just Be Here.
Was It "UnFair" The Giants Got The Colts as A "Win To Get In" Match-Up? Maybe.
The Matter At Hand; How Do You Lose This Game? Staring Across from The Browns? how Do You Come Out So Unprepared? On The Day The Commanders Tied Deshaun Watson Made His Debut, Week 13. In One Of The Ugliest Games For a Quarterback Coming Off a Long Break, Watson Didn't Get A Tie Or He Got A "Win" (Oh…). While Rehabilitating A Fail Quarterback Sound "Cheeky," Securing The Win Should Have Control The Focus Of The commander's Brain Trust.
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
When An Organization Makes A Bad Choice Or Investment, They Have Two Resolves To Meet; You Either Bail Out Of It Or You Double Down On It. The Colts Bail Out On Carson Wentz, Who Agains Floundered On The Door Step Of The Playoffs Once More, The Commanders "Double Down" On Their Mistake. They brought Wentz Back In For What Essentially Boils Down To Their Playoff Game. Two "Good" Drives In A Losing Effort Last Week Doesn't Mean Someone's In Rhythm, The Niners Loosened The Grip. Bringing Someone Into The Fold In The Weather In Cleveland doesn't Howl In The Wind Is an Auspicious Idea. Wentz threw Three Interceptions Going Against The Grain, Into Double Coverage, In Obvious Over Extending Situations.
Wentz Brought All Heart Stopping Frenetics Of Taylor Heinicke With The High Octane Sky Scraper Climbing Throws That Make The Game Intriguing. Heinicke Would Have Found A away To Find Terry Mclaurin. Heinicke Would've Most Likely Hang The Ball Higher Ober Jahan Dotson's Head Giving The Rookie Receiver Enough To Make an Adjustment and A Jump Ball Catch.
Wentz Alone Didn't Drop This Game, The Defense, The Defensive Back What Happened.
The Defense Kept The Life On The Game In The Half. Despite Carson Wentz Forcing sudden Change Dramatics, the Defense Only Surrendered three Through two Quarters. The Brown Look A Lot The Browns We've Seen Since Deshaun Came Back, Rusty. They Look like A team That Hasn't Play In A While. Deshaun Watson Still Finished 9/18 For 169 Yards But Three Of His Nine Went For Touchdowns. All In The Second Half.
I Think The Commanders Forgot The Browns Are Still Talented. Deshaun Watson, Amari Cooper, Donovan Peoples-Jones Who Continues To Play Unsung Role On The Team. They're Just Working On Chemistry, Patterns, And Schemes. "I expect To Be Open More." Cooper Said Before The Game. He Got Open A Ton Against the Commanders Running Over The Middle. The Commander's Pass Rush made A Mark On Watson's Five Sacks, But The Commanders Never Play Up To The Heights Of The Talent They've Accrued. "It Can't Be Talent Alone," Cooper Said, The Difference Between A Playoff Team And Those Watching From The Outside Of The Tournament. Talent Alone Helped Cooper Find His Wings Against The Commanders In Second Half. I Can Excuse Ron Rivera For His Ignorance, Even Though He Should Never Serve As An Excuse For Failure. The Commanders Have Held That Seventh Spot For Eons; It Seemed Like.
Meanwhile, The Packers Are Only Three Weeks Out From Holding a 3% Chance Of Making The Playoffs. How The Packers Rose From D.O.A To Control Their Destiny? The Packers have Piece Together Evidence Greatest Comeback Since Some Jewish Guy In The 1st Century, Like A Case Closed Murder Mystery. The Browns Aren't Amongst The Highlighted Teams That Beat Playoff Team, So I Understand. The Commanders Enter Another Early Off-season With Question. That ImmovaBle Force Upfront On The D-LINE has Extension Due Soon, Starting With DaronPayne, Who Had A Career Year. They Have Sam Howell And Carson Wentz Under Contract(With An Out On Wentz, If They Choose). The Offensive Line and That Secondary Need Attention. Not Too Mention The Problems In Ownership anD A Coaching regime Laden With sound Bites Of Failure.
Raiders Vs. 49ers
"Derek Carr was never the problem with the Raiders," But He Never Showed He could Become The Solution.
When You Thought That the Benchings of Taylor Heinicke Or Matt Rayan Would Prove The Most Consequential As The Late Season Rounds To A Close—Facetiously, Of Course—The Las Vegas Raiders Pull Their Chips Off Derek Carr's Board. I Think That is How Poker Works. After signing Derek Carr To New Three Year $121.5 million Contract That Engendered The "Our Guy Right Here," Extending All Of His Top And Adding Another Weapon In Davante Adams, The Raiders Fold On The Greatest Statistical Passer In Their Franchises History. According To Reports Corroborated From Venues, The Benching All but Assumes And Guarantees The Illustrious End To Carr's Tenure, Though Thats Explicitly Stated And The Team Could Bring Him Back. Fall Intents and Purposes Carr Has Typified What It Means To Represent A Raiders. He's Ridden the Highest high Waves And Got Washed Away In the Lowest Ways. He Endured Through Failed Administration. After Administration, Lead The Team in Response To Some Of The Most Controversial/Onerous Moments In The Franchise New And Old Iterations.
"I got a job to do, and that's never changed no matter who the coach is, no matter who's on the team with me. I have a job to do, and that's to lead these men, especially now. "An Emotionally Sick Carr Said After The Gruden Fallout Which Followed The Henry Ruggs By Days. Lead A 3-2 Raiders Team On A Charge To The Playoffs With Hurling, Spiraling Wind Of Disconcertment Dance All Around The Organization. He's A Raiders Figure As Much As Any In Their History And More So Now Than Ever.
He Took The Raiders Back To the Playoffs(Twice), And The Raiders Still Have Slim Hopes Of Playoff This Year. Sure, They'd Have To Beat The Two Best Teams In FootbAll On Back To Back Sundays, But … ok, they Have No Shot. Right The Raiders Aren't Playing Their Best Ball. I Don't Think They've Played Their Best Ball At All This Season. Injuries, Offensive Line Woes, Inconsistent Defense Misfires On Offense. Running back Josh Jacobs Has Become The Best Part Of The Raider season, And The Raider Put Him On A "Prove It" Meal Plan Deal. He's More Than Proved It. He's Having a Marvel Of A Rushing Season Statistical. Jacobs Leads The League In Rushing Yards(1539) 110 Yards More Than The Second Place Running Back. He's Tied For Fifth In Touchdowns(11). He's The raiders Go To Time Comes To Move The Sticks First In Rushing First Downs(86) 22 More Than The Next Guy. Jacob's Stats Only Get Better From There. He's The Only Rusher Averaging More Than 100 Yards Per Game(102.6).
The Raiders Gambel On His Potential, and He Played Himself Out Of The Raiders Tax Bracket Which In Nevada Might Cost Them.
The Raiders May Want To Posture Themselves Under The Cap To Hold Unto The Best Player On The Team Right Now and Then Restructure Carr's Deal. The Raiders Will Have To Address Adams As well.
The Former Star Packers Receiver Left A Very Felicitous Spot On The Packers Roster To Field Footballs With His "Best friend," This Benching Can't Sit Well. Adams, Who's Struggles To Jell With The Raiders Are Well Discussed In Football Circles, Hasn't Issued A Statement In Light Of The News, To My Knowledge. Carr's Play Recently Also Made Benching Rather Than Gamble Between The 1% chance To The Playoffs And The Incalculable Percentage Of Him Getting Injured And Fish Hooking The Raiders To A $40 Million Payout. That's Quote The Confident Swagger And. Huge Bet On Yourself To Agree On A Contact Structured To Give The Team An "Out" Based on How Deep You And The Team Plays Into The Season. For The Pass Five Games, He's Hit The Lowest Point Of What One Can Only Describe As A Turnover Binge. His three interceptions Against Steelers Pushed his Number To nine picks over his past five games—And The Raiders Lost That Game. They'll Mostly Lose The Next two Despite Hope. Before Carr's Benching The Raider, We're Top Ten In ESPN's FPI Ranking Before Falling 21 Spots in Light Of The Instability.
Then The Search The Replace Carr Begins. One Name Stands Above All Tom Brady. Josh McDaniels Regime: The Second Regime To Adopt Carr After The Franchise Drafted In The Second Round In 2014.
I Think The Dolphins Should Pursue Tom Brady More Than Any Other Team, Given They've Already A Steep Price For "Tampering" After Team Owner Contacting Him A Summer or Two Ago. The Colts Make Sense To Me Carr Hasn't Played anywhere Near As Bad As Matt Ryan Played. The Colts Can Package A Second Wide Receiver, Micheal Pittman, For Carr And Adams(who Will most Likely Want Out). Maybe The Raiders will Land Brady. Maybe After All These Years, Jarrett Stidham Has The Answers. Last I Remember of Him, The Pats Tried To Convert Him To Tight End. Regardless With Carr Taking A Absence From The Team For a Third, The Raiders Will be More Than Just a Football Drama To Unravel. I expect Carr To Comeback Unless He Truly Intends To Live Out His Promise To retire From Football And Become A Pastor. (Very Enticing. Trust Me; I've Been There.)
"You Can't Turn Football On And Off."—Kyle Shanahan. The Niners Don't Have Any Quarterback Issues, Right? Kyle Shanahan Are The Only Positive Representation Of What Grinding Down Your Quarterback Could Bring About.
Everybody Loves Purdy; he's A Phenomenon. From Last Pick In The Draft To Winning Rookie. The Niners Are Running Eight Straight Wins; they Last lost In Beat Down At The Hands Of Patrick Mahomes Chiefs, and Before That, The Falcons. Weeks 3-4, Back When Atlanta Had High Hopes In The South; That's Changed.
As It Turns Out, Jarett Stidham Can Ball. McDaniels offenses Are The Only offenses He's Operated In As A Pro, And He Got The Keys To Ferrari And Spun The Block On The 49ers Early. I Don't Think Anyone Saw A Shootout Back And Forth Offensive Battle Between Rising Out Between The Two Bay Area Rivals. The Embattle Desperado Raiders and The Golden Fleece 49ers. The Raiders Jump Out Early. All Of The Raider Offensive Arsenal Had Their Hands On Deck For This One, and Darren Walker Started. The Scoring Waller caught three passes for 72 yards, including A Big Jump Ball Touchdown In The Back Of The Endzone From 24 Yards. Stidham Save another Corner Pocket For The Raiders Other superstar Pass Catcher.
I Never Understood Why Niner's defense Never Clearly Held The Number One Defense Spot In League Over The Jets Or The Patriots. They Have The Clear Cut, No Surprises Here Defensive Player Of The Year. I Know Now the Niner's Corners Are "Mid, To Average At Best, and With That Pass Rush And Linebacker, They're Exposed On The Outside.
Jarret Stidham And His Fleet Off Foot and His Touch To The Corners avoided Both Of the Niners' Defensive Strengths. Niners Corners Ultimately Make Two Plays That Decided The Game. Still, Stidham Throw Straight Through, and They Got Their Stuff Today Against A Very Mercurial Raiders offense That's Never Had Any Rhythm This Season.
One Of The Clearer Qualities Of Stidham Displayed Over Carr, Mobility, With Purpose. No Better Showcased when he scrambled To His Left and Hit Davante Adams Down Field For 66 Yards Touchdown.
Stidham Rolls out, Keeps His Eyes Down Field, ReseTs His Feet stand His Ground, Takes a Hit, And Delivers A Strike Like A-Rod At a Short Stop.
According To Next Gen Stat, The Stidham Touchdown That Put The Raiders up 24-14 was The First Scramble Touchdown Thrown By A Raiders' Quarterback This Season. Yes, Carr Can Move, But He's Never Shown Stidham Unexpected Flair. The Average Fan Probably Can't Find many tapes On Stidham. If The Niners—Knowing The Fastidious Approach Kyle Shanahan Takes To Football He Most Likely Did—None Of The Notes Had a Relevance To How He Played Today. Stidham threw for 365 yards( A Full Year Of yards On New Year) and three touchdowns.
He Showed That Mind Meld With Davante Adams, With The Two Linking Up For Big Play After Ply. Adams Caught Seven Passes For 153 yards and two touchdowns.
Alas, New Quarterback is the Same Raiders.
The Second Half All Niners. Brandon Aiyuk Continues To Show Why He Deserves The same Recognition( Maybe The Same) As The Rest Of His 2020 Wide Receiver Draft Mates. Aiyuk Finished With 9 Catches, 101 Yards, 8 First Downs, And one Touchdown. After A Slow Start To The Year, Aiyuk Emerge With The Injuries to Deebo Samuel And George Kittle And Races Near To His First 1000 Yard Season. He's already Notch A Career High in Touchdowns With Eight. A Brock Purdy Third Quarter Interception Looks Like A Graceful Charity Play To The Raider. The Niners Were Driving For The Lead When Purdy Target George Kittle Caught The Niners First Touchdown, But Raiders Defensive Back Amil Robertson Jump The Route. A Stidham Interception By Niners' D-Lineman Kerry Hyder Jr. Niners Got The Ball Back. "Obviously, I Don't think Anybody Wants To Make A Game Close. You want To put Up Points And Win Comfortably." Purdy Said After The Game. Maybe The Raiders Will Take Him Up On That Parlay, But They Scored a Couple Of Field Goals, Equal 13 Points Unanswered Points. By The Time Brock Got Done Leading The Niners' Charge, Niners's Rallied 17-3 To Go Up 34-27. A Big Christian McCaffrey Catch And Run Set Up A Jordan Mason Plowing Rushing Touchdown. The Response Seem Miraculous But Any But More Methodical. The Raiders, In Response, Would Fall On Their In Prayer And Catch A Deep Pass. Jarrett Stidham Again Finding Davante Adams For Diving Catch. At The Foot Of The Red Zone.
A DPI Penalty Later Against Tight End Darren Waller For 19 Yards Set Up A Josh Jacobs One-Yard Rushing Touchdown. Jacobs Had A Tough Game Against the Niners' Line But Got His Easiest Yard at The Foot Of The End zone. But 1:11 Minutes Were More Than Enough For The Niners To Plot Out One More Drive, To That Point Brandon Aiyuk Had 49 Of His 101 Yards, Four Catches, and five Streaking Routes, and 52 Yards Later, the Niners Are In Field Goal. Aiyuk Made His Money On Those Catches, One of The 49er's Penultimate Play Of Regulation, Hung In The Air For A Steely Three Seconds. Aiyuk Broke His Route To Adjust To a Purdy, discombobulated, Throw. A Uniform Drive To Set Up A uniform Kick That Robbie Gould Missed. The Raiders Came Out On The Other Side Of Overtime, With Another Chance To Win. Another Chance To Keep Their Slim Playoff Hopes Alive. Another Chance Not To Blow A Digit Lead. The Lacking Of a Run Game Proved Sore Here.
Jacobs Got The Raiders Moving In The Right Direction. He Got The First Two Touches, 15 Yards one First Down. The Raiders Decide, Bafflingly, To rerun Jacobs Awaken Some Of That Seahawks Explosiveness. The Niners Stuff Him And The Raiders Success Rate. Jarett Stidham, For All The Good He Achieved Today, Took One Chance Too Many. The Niners Secondary Steps Up. Tashawn Gibson Picks Off A Forced Pass To Davante Adams and Returns The Ball 57 Yards Into Fields Goal Range. The Raiders are THROWING AWAY A LEAD ONE More Time. Robbie Gould, One More Time, GOOD. The Vikings Loss Moves The Niners To The Two Seed, Which Matters For California Weather Purposes above anything else if Northern California Survives Their Storms.
P.S. Maxx Crosby, Out Of This World Edge Rusher. Ashamed The Raiders Have Sunken So Much. He Deserves Defensive Effort Recognition. Just Wow, With The Pressure Non-Stop.
Jets Vs. Seahawks
A Month a Go This Jets, Seahawks Matchup Had So Much Blockbuster Potential(Prewritten). Two Teams Completely Shocking The Football World With ImpressiveWin Streak. The Jets And The Seahawks Had A Good Thing Going Early In The Year.
Who Had A Better Quote Than Geno Smith After The Seahawks Beat The Broncos Day One? "They Wrote Me Off." Then Turn Around and Begin The Trek To A Career Year.
Expected To Shoe in For The Top, Now Vying For A Top Spot InnThe Playoff. Alas, All Looks Lost. Underneath It All, Geno Smith Returns Face His Former Team. A Former Face Of The Franchise Facing The New Face Of The Franchise. Both Passing Offenses Lighting Up The Score Board. In The End, I Have To Agree With Coach Pete Carroll On That Note: "It was Such A Long Time Ago. It's Not A Factor." I'm Not Sure If He Meant The Last Time Seattle Won A Game Or Geno Smith's relationship With the Jets. Geno Smith's Redemptive Arch Continues To Stand As The NFL's Best Story This Season Regardless Of How These Teams Finish. He's Still Playing the Best Ball Of His Career Despite The Slump.
Both Teams Are Pressed For Wins And Hemorrhaging Playoff Ground. The Seahawks Have Loss 4 of 5 and The Jets 4 In A Row.
However, The Jets And The Seahawks Have More Relationship Goodies. According To Coach Carroll, Robert Saleh Took A Number Of The Seahawks Coaching Staff With Him In His New Digs In The Big Apple. "It's Really Adapted… the Style. The approach. The Mentally." The Two Teams Are Rooted In The Same Principles Of How They Play The Pass And How they Control The Box In The Run Game. But You Couldn't find To teams Similarly In Ideation But On Different Spectrums In Results. The Jets Are The Number Two Defense, have a Solid Pass Rush, and are Tethered To Elite Corners. Disruptive Talent In Quinen Williams In The Middle.
The Seahawks Aren't Last, But The Might As Well Be 29th, According To PFF. Outside linebacker Uchenna Nwosu Leads An average Working Pass Rush Tethered Along With One Really Elite Corner And Some Mentionable Talented Guys.
That's Another Story Two Of The Best Rookie Corner Sharing The Field Sauce, Gardner, And Tariq Wholen. When And Fellow Rookie and Sauce Gardners's College Teammate Coby Bryant ("I Call Him Ahmad")Have A Nose For Turnovers. They'll Have Their Fair Share Od Chances Facing The Latest Iteration In Jets Quarterbacking Mike White, Back From His Rib Injury. Gardner, On The Other Hand, Will Have An Elite Receiving Group To Handle. Lead By DK Metcalf, Who Could Get His "Underrated" Sidekick Back In Tyler Lockett. If Lockett Can't Go—Fresh Off Of Finger Surgery Less Than Two Weeks Ago— Football Immortal Marquese Godwin Will Step. Whenever He Looks Done In the League, He Pops Out To He's Always Around There Down Field. According to Next Gen Stats, The Jets Are One Of The Worse Teams Defending Deep Zone.
Geno Smith will Have To be Aggressive, Trust His Receivers If Seattle Hopes To Escape this Losing Streak And Enter The Playoffs. "You Have To Be Aware where You Throw The Football." Against The Jets
He's PlAyed All Three Of His Former Teams This Season And Handle Each Win(Chargers And Giants)Like any Other Game. Smith Still Has A lot To Prove. At 31, can He Duplicate Or Improve On What He's Achieve This Season? Very Few Renaissance Men Ever Do. In The Lead Up To This Game, NFL Next Stats Drop A Video On YouTube Detail The Different Metrics that Separated The Seahawks from The Jets And How Seattle Could Leverage Their Offense Against The Jets Impressive Defense. When people Ask My Religion, I Tell Them I'm "Statically agnostic," Not Skeptical, But In different, But I Tuned In attentively, Doubting If any Of This would Appear Relevant In The Game Sunday. The Seahawks Defend Deep, The 6th Best In The League, and The Jets are The 25th Worse; Advantage Seattle. The Jets Are General Terrible Throwing Deep. Geno smith Can Scramble(8.6 Yards per Carry) and the Jets Struggle To Defend Scrambling This Season. This Raise A Question: The Jets Play Josh Allen Twice, One Of The Best Scramblers. Won't Those Numbers Be Skewed Based On That Fact? (They Showed Allen Highlight and Everything). Every Point Next Gen. Levied Proved True. The Jets Had Franchise Savior Mike White In The Lineup, and Zach Wilson Returned To Brooding Duty. Mike White Threw Two Interception Of 10+ Yards On Miserable Day 23/46 240 Yard 47.4 Passer Rating. The Jets First Drive Ended With A Pick. A Cloudy Overcast In Seattle Set The Tone For The Jets Offense.
From The Jump, The Seahawks Hit The Ground Running, Kenneth Walker 60 Yard Sprint Into Jets Territory. Geno SmithFirst Throw, Touchdown To Cody Parkinson. The Seahawks Had Their Full Convoy With Tyler Lockett In The Lineup. Two Catches For One Of The Best Receivers In The Game. He Looks Super Agile On Two Routes. The Tight Ends Controlled The Passing Lane For The Seahawks This Game.
The Seahawks Offense Wouldn't Need The Run Game Control, And The Defense Controlled The Matchup From Start To Finish. Every Time The Jets Got Some Rhythm Going Or The Defense Push Seattle's Offense Back Kenneth Would Slipped Through The Line, and 30.4% Of 133 Yards Came Above Expected.
"Everybody Did Their Job Blocking. Made It Easier To Hit The Hole." Kenneth Walker Said.
The Michigan State Product Has All The Tools To Damage In The Playoffs. By The Time The Jets Adjusted, The Seahawks had gone Up 17-3. Geno Smith Didn't Have His Best Game. The Former Jet Travel Over 4000 Yard On The Day But 18/29, 183 Two Touchdown. They are noticeably Avoiding The Left Side Of The Field But Still Found Time To Get Challenge By Sauce Gardner, Who Moved around DK Metcalf Most of the Game.
Gardners Goal Line Break Up Stop The Seahawks' Lead From Running Over Flowing Before The Half.
Forcing The Seahawks Into A Field Goals Only Helped In The Jets Something To Respond With, but The Seahawks Defense Would Force A Turnover With Sack Fumble Before The Half. The Jets Defense Made The Road Rough, with Only Six Second Half Points For The Seahawks; fortunately, The Jets Offense Could Only Muster 0. The Jets Defense Has Broadway, Primetime Written all Over Them From Top To Bottom But No Results From Offense Again. The Seahawks Are One Win From The Steal The "Narrative" As One Of The Unexpected Playoff teams Of This Season Away From The Jets.
"Honestly, It[The Game] Doesn't mean Anything Outside Of The Fact That We Gave ourselves Another Chance To Go To The Playoffs." Geno Smith said. "As A Team, This Is What You Want The Chance To Play In The Dance." With Lockett Back, The Seahawks Have Two Receivers Who the Defenses Can't Control With One On One Coverages. The Hawks Haven't Played Up To That Billing In Recent Weeks. That's Why They Need One Weighted Situation To Fall Their Way.
Lions Vs. Bears
All Of This Lauding Over The Lions Offense Has Blinded A lot Of Us (Including Myself), When Evaluating Dan Campbells Team As A Whole. I Knew They Had a Question on Defense, But TheY were Well Sinful Against The Panthers Last Week. The Lions Are Another Team InnThe Long Line Of Teams Whose Edge Setting Technique and Defensive awareness Needs Tweaking. Credit The Panthers For Some Of Those Unique Rushing Ideation. Counters with RPOs Who Could Have Pictured Such Elusivity And Execution. The Panthers did What They Do All Game. The Lions Down Line And linebacker Weren't Getting Into Shoving Matching, Having Their Concentration Pulled away From The Ball, And Losing At The Point Of Attack. The Lions Secondary, Too Soft, No One Wanted To Fight Over Blocks Consistently. The Lions Lack of Bite Showed InThe Passing Game As Well. On A Laviska Shenault Fourth Quarter Catch And Run For 43, PFF Credits Him Eith Three Missed Tackles On The Game ButIm Sure He Made The entire Lion's Secondary Slip Off Of Him On The Move DownField. That's Not The Type Of Defensive Moral, Defensive You Want To Carry Into a Game Against Tye Leagues Nimber Rushing Attack InTerms Of Rushing Yards Per Game. The Bears Will Most Likely Have To Continue Their Earth Bending Ways Without the Quarterback Element. Whispers Are Getting, Or At least They're growing Into a Choir, And The Discussion should Carry On Into The Off-season. The Bears are Shutting Justin Field's Legs. They Have To, Right? Head Coach Matt Eberflus Stressed That His Team Will Continue To Play To Win, and He Still needs to Stated That He'll Shut Down Justin Fields. Even With The Quarterback Rushing Record Still In His Grasp. Fields Haven't Expressed serious Interest In Pursuing The Record.
As Of This Week, The Team, The Coaches, and Eberflus He's More Focus On Positional Flexibility. Moving The Teams Defensive Lineman To New Positions For Scheme Flexibility. While Simultaneously Looking To The Future. When Question About His Offensive Line, Eberflus Drew On Memorize From His Dallas Days When the Cowboys Had Arguably The Best Offensive Line In fOotball With Travis Frederick At Center, Zach Martin At Guard, And Tyron Smith At Left Tackle. That Took Time To Build, And The Lions have to Build Their Line.
Similarly. Taylor Decker A Few Years Ago and Penei Sewell a Year Ago. "You Might Get One Through Free Agency and One Through The Draft. The Bear's offensive Line Will Take Time, and The Lions Have The Shiny, Clean Model Of alone they Got Demolished Last Week, Facing Brian Burns And The Panthers. Burns Finished With Two Sacks And The Panthers Splattered Pressures All Over The Line. The Fourth Best Rush Blocking Line According To Lions Didn't Live Up to The Mantel Jared Goff Lead The Team In Rushing With Fifteen Yards. "We Had A Tough Game, And We Lost," Goff said. "It's The National Football League, And That Happens."
The Lions Are Fourth In The League In Rushing Touchdowns, And The Bears Are one Of The Worse Rushing Defenses In The League. Hopefully, Moving Some Bodies Around Helps. After Getting Ran All Over, The Lions Decided To Rail Road, The Bear On The Ground. Jamaal Williams, D'andre Swift, and Jameson Williams (mostly) Combined For 265 Yards On The Ground. Not The god Level Wrecking The Panthers Gave Them But A Harrowing Counter Answer. D'andre Swift and Jamaal Williams Had Their Best Fang over Fang, Shearing Gashing The Inside Of The Bears Front. Credit The Blocking Up Front, Which Paved The For A total of 66 yards before contact per attempt(PFF). Williams Lead, The team In Rushing 22, Carries 144 Power Yards. Swift Lived Up To His Name, He Nifty Flash And Strike; he Tallied 11 Carries For 78 Yards, One Touch Each. Swift Added More Work To His Numbers In The Receiving Game, 4 Catches For 39 Yards, And Caught and Carried One Of Jared Goff's Three Touchdowns On The Game. Goff Had Another Day At The Offense. The Passing Game Mostly Played Complimentary Football, Second Fiddle To The Rush; You Wouldn't Expect An Excellent Passing Performance Underneath. The Lions Still Showcased All The Weapons They Can beat You With, 29 Weren't Enough. Goff Finished 21/29 255 Yards, His Target Amon-Ra St. Browm Kept The Lions Chains Moving and Set Up The Run. The USC Product Caught 4 Passes(Going 100 On The Season) 62 A Couple Of First Downs. The Bears Had Trouble Keeping Up With DJ Chark Deep; he Caught Two Passes For 56 Yards, 14 Yards Per Target. Tight End Brock Wright Balled Out, Three Catches, two touchdowns, All End zone Work.
It's Clear; The Lions Have A Wealth of Talent On Offense. How They Manage and Leverage This Will Prove Paramount To Their Development As A Contender. If Ben Johnson Does Depart, Will The Continue Regime Have The Mind To Compartmentalize A Direction For The Team?
Jared Goff discusses, Somewhat Succinctly The Difficult Allocating Enough Targets to His Teammates.
"He's Coming Along" Jared Goff. "I'd Like to Throw All Of Those Guys A Million Balls." Jared Goff Said, "He [D.J. Chark] Have A Good Thing Going." You Never Want To Stress Arm, And His abilities Too Much Like McVay Did In 2019. Chark May Not Return. He's A One Year Prove Deal, And His Skillset Matches Jameson Williams, So The Lion Can Move On If They so Like.
The Bears are in Contrast To The Lions, And I got A Good Look At Chark Yesterday.
I Don't Want To Sound Like An Over Invested Fan Or A Concerned Parent, But I Don't Trust Luke Getsy With Justin Fields's Development. They Had No Continuity In The Game plan.
If Anything, Fields Has Regressed coming Into The End Of The Season. Two Games Back To Back With no Sign Of A Plus After The First Runs Of The Game. For Such An Exuberant Talent Such As His(…) The play Calling Remains Vanilla.
On Sunday, He Never Once Showed any Animation. Happy To See Him Get Up After That Big And Chase The Record, But The Marriage Between Play CallEr And Quarterback, Brain And Body, Look Distressed.
The Bears Have Nothing To Lose, Outside Of Draft Position—Which Could Change—Play Like It Calls Plays Like It.
"You Just Have To Look At The Positives." Fields said after The Bills Loss. After Fallen Short, Justin Fields Pick Up The Slack In Pursuit Of The Rushing Quarterback Record as He Should, 10 132, 105 Of Which Came In The First Quarter. I'm Not Here To Critic The Coaching Staff For Not taking Fields Out, In A Rout(41-10). Every Snap Counts, Any Moment Could Materialize Into Something Special, Something To Learn From, And High Light As Exemplary. Few Meager Passing Affair Fields Finished 7/21 75 Yards passing, 40.8 Passer Rating. Very Little Of The Passing Performance Matters. Next Week Determines Whether The Bears Get The Number One Pick Or Number TWO. Matt Eberflus's Team Didn't Have any Offense For The Lions Yesterday And Most Likely Want Have any For the Vikings. The Differences Between One and Two Matters In The Draft. The Number Two Pick From Last Years Draft, Edge Rusher Aidan Hutchinson, Lined Up As A Corner, Picked Fields Off, shared One Of Detroits's Seven Sacks On Fields, And Added Five More Pressures To His tally. Fellow Rookie James Houston Had A "Thing" Going; It's Clobbering Time. Three Sacks For The Rookie Sixth Rounder Out Of Jackson State, Another Two For Fellow Rookie Second Rounder Edge Zach Pascal. "I Think Their Pass Rusher Are Good." Bears Head Coach Matt Eberflus Said After The Game. "I think They Had Pressure on The Inside and Pressure On The Edge." They Did, Like A Sea Of Pressure."
Two Years Ago, The Jets Got Zach Wilson Number Two, And The Jags Took Off With Trevor Lawrence. Several 2020 Redrafts have Field's Going Numbers Instead. Fields As A Jet, Under Matt Lafleur's Offense, Brother Green Bay Packer Matt Lafleur, Former Boss Of One Luke Getsy.
