NFL Week 18 Takeaways.
What Would The World Be Like If We All Had Confidence Like Joe Burrow? We'd All Have Mansions In Malibu At least I Would. He Stepped In The Spotlight. The Windows Open As Long As He Plays, And That's Right. The Bengals Can Ride On The Arm Of Their 26-Year-Old Quarterback. The Bills Josh Allen Always Has His Window Open. He's 26 As Well. Patrick Mahomes, The Oldest Quarterback In the AFC Playoff, has a Window open Even THe Team Let's Top Flight Talent Goes Out The Door(Or Window). God Knows Who Starts For The Dolphins, But Tua(24), Justin Herbert(24), And Trevor Lawrence(23)All Have Windows Letting A Little Sun Through The Blinds. All Of That Unfolds Next week When we Were Another Week Older and Our Windows Move In One Direction. Can't Forget Lamar Jackson. He Might move On To Another Spot In The AFC. His Window Still Stands Open.
Patriots Vs. Bills
In Light Of The Results, The Damar Hamlin Situation Remains A Force Of Encourage. He again Conscientiousness Through The Week And Shared His Thoughts via Social And Direct Messages With Teammates and Friends Throughout The League. The Bills Converted His Contract To A Permanent "Guaranteed," More Positive Motion After Such A Still Moment.
On Sunday Morning, I Couldn't Decide Which AFC East Team Would Serve As A Better Warmup Round For The Bills. The Washed Out Dolphins Or The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Patriots. The Patriots Long Before The Bills Trampled Over Them in The Return Game and Won The Coin Toss In The Whose Side Is Mac Jones Leaning On Game. From The Bear Bones, you Think The bills Smoked The Patriots' Offense In A 35-23 Long Stretch. The Pats Out-gained The Bills In Offensive Yardage 341–327, Better Completion Percentage, And Better Results On The Ground. The Bills 235 Yards Returning Thanks To Nyheim Hines returning Two Kicks For Touchdowns. The Bills Got Extra Motivation From The Damar Hamlin Circumstance, and I Love The Message MY Patriots needed This Game. Our Defense Held Up Pretty Strong.
Stephon Diggs Had Seven(7) Catches For 104 10.4 Per Catches. Josh Allen Looked Less Kryptonian. Someone started Calling Small-villle All Of Sudden, After The Patriots' Pressure Expended Most Of Josh's Energies. The Patriots Totaled Two Sacks, Four Tackle For Loss, And one Forced Fumble. The Secondary Needed Stops When We Needed Them. The Bills Offense Finished 7/12 On Third, 10 Passing 1st Down, and three Touchdowns Through The Air.
The Offense and the Game Plan Ultimately Fall On Mac Jones On This One, And He Acknowledged That Fact After The Game. He's Got to Get Better At Forcing Things and Not forcing The Issue. For Football Players, That's A Delicate Rhythm But One I'm Sure He Could Master With Time. "Just Don't OverThrow. Tony Romo Said On The Broadcast." the. Corner Is Looking Back At You." Jones Hit Daventae Parker For A Touchdown On That Play In Which Romo Referenced. The Bills Played One On One On The Outside The Whole Game, Just Daring The Patriot's Pass Attack, Receivers Win Routes, and Mac Jones Passing The Ball, To Win Out.
When Scrambling, Jones Needs To Adapt To Moving Laterally To Stretch Out The Pass Play, Not Vertically To Pick Up Yards On The Ground On Short Runs. I Dont Know How He’s Coached To Appraoch Those situations But Jones Must Take Onus, Have Better Spatial Awareness. The Patriots Took The Lead On A Field Goal, But The Odds. For Seven Points and Winning The Game Improve If Jones Just Stays Up Right And Looks Up. He Took A Hit Anyway And A Sack doesn’t Knock Him Out Of Field Goal Range There.
This Offseason Needs To Focus On His technical Skill. Jones Floats Too Many Fade-Give-My-Receiver-A-Chance Balls Out The Outside Without Really Checking If A Thread Pass Through Small Window Could Achieve The Job. He Can Make Those Throws Like He Did On The Drive, Like He Showed On The Touchdown To Jakobi Meyers in The Back Of The End Zone To Start The Scoring.
He's Good Final Stats, 26/40, 243 Passing Yards, Three touchdowns, and Three Interceptions Could Look Better Because The Bills Secondary Doesn't Have Great Players.
The Bills Will Face The Slip Slide Miami Dolphins, who Most Likely won't Have Starting Quarterback Tua, And Any Bid To Upset The Bills Will Rest On His Limited Shoulders. The Patriots Need To Reset A Bit. The Matt Patricia Offense Didnt Fit All The Problems The PAtriots Saw This Season. Still, They Need To Revamp The Offensive Structure Around Him FRom Offensive Quality Coach to Wide Reciever Coach.
Lions Vs. Packers
The Lions Will Have To Trust the Packers To Beat Themselves. The Lions' Defense Wants To Play Man To Man Defense Across The Board. A Tale As Old As Week One Itself. As It Turns Out, That's Not A Recipe For Success. The Lions Are Giving Up 12.3 Yards per Reception and A Passer Rating Over 105, And They Might Carry The Tag As The Worse Unit Into The Off-season. The Lions Gave Up 317 Yards Passing To Zach Wilson, The Quarterback The Jets Benched, And Who The Team At Times Seem Reluctant To Play Him At Quarterback. The Lions Simply Don't Have The Talent To Back Their Scheme, And They Like To Play "Base" With Three Linebackers.
Against The Packers That the Coverage Scheme Doesn't Seem To Matter Much Dealing With The Ghost Of Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers Will Forever Own Property In The Minds Of NFC north Franchises, But This Season Wasn't His Best Grounds Keeping. He's Played Average This Season, And Worse Of All; he Threw Three Picks Against The Lions the Last Time They Faced Off. The Packers Wide receivers are Widely Inconsistent Downfield. Rookie Christian Watkins Has Come Along Late, And He's Become A Revelation Of A Receiver Any They've Ask Him. His Speed Creates Mismatches In The Backfield, Out Wide Where his Size and speed Create More Conflict, And In Motion Where Every Edge Of Lafleur Cut A Defense Down.
Aaron Rodgers Said He Manifested The Packers' Season. Not Be Might, Strategy, Or Sound Mind Did The Packers Rise From Wayside To Control Of Their Own Destiny. Rodgers Disnt Put His Faith In A Higher Power But In Himself(Of Course).
The Remedy For a Lost Season, in One Bite: Plowing Over The Division Leading Vikings Came About Through Focusing His Mind.
"I do believe in the power of manifestation, and I do believe in momentum, and I believe very strongly in the force of the mind" the Lions Are Coming From A Place The Packers Can Relate To And Unrelated At The Same. The Packers Are Respected as One Of The Better Teams Of The Pass Three Years. The Lions Actually Looked Better Than The Packers Earlier. Detroit Came Out Of The Garage Hauling. The Packers Had The better Record After Seven Weeks; the Lions Could Run With Any team In The League In Scoring.
Even Briefest Of Tale Offs Couldn't Hold Ben Johnson From Hurling His Passing Attack Forward As The Team Got Healthier. They Remain A Top Five Total Scoring Team In The League Despite Absences From Amon-Ra St. Brown And DJ Chark, And They've Been Their Best Passing Offense In Recent Weeks, Number Two In DVOA. What's Not Change Both Quarterbacks Used The Same Practice. "A lot of it is trust and belief, no doubt." Jared Goff Said To Sports Illustrated. The Lions Are Going to Have To Trust The Packers Offense To Not Bring Its Best Game.
The Packers Started The Game On Offense Using A lot Of misdirection, Counter, Motion, and Bootlegs Reserves Using Savvy Instead Of Physical. A Mike Lafleur Game, play All In a Ploy To Exhaust And Confuse The Young Lions Pass Rushers Like Aidan Hutchinson. The Use Of Misdirection Pulls Guys Out Of Gap and Open voids To Attack. What Starters As A Slow shame Of 21 Questions Ended Up Playing Out Like 21 Questions Turned Into A Track Meet Of "Truth Or Dare." Both teams Would Have To Play The Balance Of Aggression And Reservation. Dan Campbell and Mike Lafleur These Weren't Coaches anymore; they Entered The Field Of Battle To Play General.
From The Onset, Anyone Could Foresee That Fourth Downs Decision Would Get Zero Second Reaction treatment. Matt Lafleur Would Exhaust Every Down Like A First or Second Down. THE packers Built A First Half Score Of A Field Goal Really Off Of Missed Opportunities. The Packers Receiver Showed Their Inexperience With Several Concentration Drops, But Even Veteran Allen Lazard Dropped Balls. Fans Waited For Aaron Rodgers To Awaken His Inner Gandalf Or Even Future, But The Wizard Wouldn't Arise. The Charm's open Lanes Didn't Deceive The Lions For Long. Aidan Hutchinson, Two Big Sacks Early, and Got Robbed Of Strip Sack On Aaron Rodger. For This, Hutchinson Ended The Debate About Which Of The Top Three Edge Rushers would be Drafted in 2022. He Recorded Multiple Two Sack Games, Multiple interceptions.
The Lions Passing Attack Didn't bother Attacking Jaire Alexander On The Outside Jared Goff Just Went To Cut The Packers Drop Defense To Ribbons Underneath. Teams That Can Only Attack The Outside, Like The Packers, Have Offensive Limitations, But Ben Johnson Spread His Completions Around Like A Pointillist Picture. The Lions Scored The First Touchdown. A 43-Yard Big Bomb That Traveled 52.4 Air Yards From Goff To Khalif Raymond That Set Up A Jamaal Williams Yard Touchdown. Goff Set That Touchdown Bedore The Half On The Last Drive That Leads To A Field. He Hit Swift, St. Brown Underneath, And Jamaal Williams To Keep The Chain Moving. "all These Young Guys That We've Got They All Took A Step Up." Coach Dan Campbell.
The Lions Anticipated The Packers Would Adjust, and When Green Bay Did Adjust, Not Dropping But Following Goff On A Roll Out, The Lions Struck Deep. The Packers Would Mount A Response. The Lions Defense Force The Pack To Rely On Aaron Rodgers's Arm More and More, and That Arm Gave Them The Lead One More Time. Rodgers 17-27, 205, one Touchdown, One Interception. None Of His Patented Throw Seem To Reach Any More. After The Game, He Reminisced A Little On Davante Adams And How The Packers Plan To "Fill The Void" Left By Adams's Departure. Like So Many Of Rodgers Passes Tonight, Those Never Came to Fruition. By The End Of The 20-16 Battled, All Peripheral Story Line Shrunk Next To The Gravity Of Aaron Rodger Possible retirement. Very Little is Mentioned about The Run, The Packers, Went On. The Lions Converted a Critical Fourth Down Goff To DJ Chark Underneath To Seal The Game, Jamaal Williams's Pokémon Fetish And His Breaking The Time Record. All Points Of The Game are Marginalized Because Aaron Rodgers Has The Decision To Think About. "Sometimes The Carousel Comes To A Stop and Its Time To Get Off. The Competitive Will Always Be There. I Wouldn't Have Any Regrets Walking Away."
Rodgers Showed Frustration after He Threw A Pick To Kerby Joseph, But a Deep Pass Felt Unnecessary That Situation. He Mutter Led Something Intelligible Into The Camera. Rodgers Need To Take The Underneath Stuff, But Without A Go-To, What Good Would Some Of His Attempts Make. Even as His Physical Abilities Parished, Would Rodgers Have The Strength To Pacify That Competitive Fire. The Packers Staff Had a Brain Drain This Offseason With Both Offensive Coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and Quarterbacks Coach Luke Getsy Taking elevated Positions In Denver and Chicago, respectively. Obviously, Hackett Stint In Denver Ended, and he Could Ultimately Return To The Packers, Possibly In The Same Role. Maybe Matt's Little Brother Mike Gets Let Go In New York. If Getsy Doesn't unlock, Justin FieldS Has a Passer… He can perhaps Return Before Rodger's Contract Blows Up.
Seahawks Vs. Rams
NFL teams are Waging Two Battles On Too Distinctly and Not So Distinctly Plains. NFL Teams Dont Their Ultimate Gratitude Out Of The NFL Regular Season By Accumulating Highlights, Massive Point Spreads On THE scoreBoard, Or Making Millions Of Dollars By Entertaining Fans. The Goal Of The Regular Season Arrives At The End, In Post Season Eight Team Remain Mathematical Active, Relevant In Week 18, Vying For Their Acceptance Through The Pearly Gates. "I don't think That Measures It, But That's The Goal. Coming Into The Season, I Think All The Teams Are Saying, 'We Got a Shot At The Super bowl.'" Geno Smith Responded When Reporters Ask Him Whether This Seahawks' Boils Down As A Success If The Makes The Playoffs. I Don't Think Every Team Believed They Had a Shot At The Championship, But I'll Leave Geno To His Declarations; he's Having a Good Year. Following A Preseason Battle For The Starting Gig In Seattle, One for Which Didn't Stand As The Favorite, Geno Stands With A more fabulous Presence In Seattle. He Didn't Have His Best Game. Facing The Rams With The Playoff Bid On The Line, Division Rival Rams are a Tough Opponent. Pete Carrolls Team Needed Over Time. These Two Team Played Each Other Tough The First Meeting This Season. The Rams Held The Lead With zone Possession Left.
Geno Authored A Career Day In A Career Year ( 367 yards, 3 TD passes), A Game Winning Drive Capped By A Strike To DK Metcalf In a 27-24 Win For The Seahawks. The former Backup Faced, The Rams Backup, John Watford, Starting In Place Of The Injured Matthew Stafford. Watford Moved Back to The Backup Spot in Place of Matthew Stafford, and Now Baker Mayfield Stood Between The Line As A Starter Looking To Pull Off His Own Geno Smith Type Redemption. So Far, The Result Are A Crossover Between "High flying Action" And "Crash And Burn." No Better Team To Play Potential Spoiler. The Seahawks Offense Got Off To An Inauspicious. Rams Corner Jalen Ramsey Hasn't Had An Pro Year, But He's Still One Of The Best Facing Opponents. He Knows Well. First Play First Route Ramsey Jumps The Route And Takes A pick Off, Geno. The Rams Would Settle For Field goal But That Play Set The Mode For The Game. Ramsey Got Geno Twice. Just A Reminder, Ramsey's Still An Pro Talent In LA With All The Walls Falling. He Got a Touchdown Saving Touchdown On Running back Kenneth Walker, Who Gave The Rams Fits All Another Trying To Tackle Him.
Both Defenses Would Have To Stand In Where the Offenses Fell Short. I Credit Baker Mayfield For Playing Through. He Took A Beating Of Five Sacks and has no plan under pressure. He Just Scoots Around the Folds. Even Statues Like Brady Have Better "Mobility" With Rushers In his Face. The Seahawks Played Excellent Coverage and Sent Corner Blitzes That Mulch Mayfield Finished Just 13/26 On Passing Attempts 147 Yards. The Rams Got Another Spirited Game From CamAkers, 21 Carries For 104 yards.
Seattle's Rookie Running Back Kenneth Walker Matched Him With 29 Carries 114. He Went Over One Thousand On The Season, and Seattle as Team Trek Over The Rams Historically Good Run Defense For 197 in The Game. The Passing Would Decide Matters Eve A Two Interceptions, Another One Essentially Drop. Couldn't Down The Seahawks Battle Their Effort order Remained Cognizant Of That Their Efforts Hinged On The Outcome Of The Lions-Packers Game. "We Treated This Game Like It's The Biggest Game We've Ever Played." the Seahawks Needed A Wire To Wire Performance To Pull Away With This Game. Geno Finished The Best Season Of His Career, with 4282 Passing(7th), Nearly 70% Completion Percentage(1st), and 30(4th). These Past Two Games haven't Shown The Best Of Him. Against The Rams, He Finished 19/31 with 213 Yards Passing with A Passer Rating Of 65.7, Just One Touchdown, and Two Interceptions. He Finished With A Solid Rating Against The Jet (103.1), Only Completed 62.1 Percent For 183 Yards, Five To Three touchdowns, Interception Ratio In His Last Three Games. Seattle, You Don't Want Your Quarterback Playing His Worse Ball Of The Season; However, you Want Your Me Defense Delivering Pressure, Your Running Game Packing On Mileage Your Wide Receiver Room Getting Healthy.
Jaguars Vs. Titans
Two AFC Quarterbacks, Josh Dobbs And Jarrett Stidham, Barreled Into This Week With Electrical Current Just Flashing Off Of Them. These Two Career Backups Can Power a Dam With The 'Buzz' They Generated In The First Starts Of Their Careers. Under Rrimb Less Than Ideal, Unharmonious Circumstances Team Wise(The Titans On A losing Streak, The Raiders Doing You Know Raiders Things) No Less Did Josh Doubs And Jarrett Stidham For One Another Demonstrate Why The Fourth Round Begets The Best Backups. The Titans Are In A "Rudderless" Situation Hoping For A Life Raft That At Least Prolongs Their Franchise Makeover One More Season. Long-Time Starting Quarterback Ryan Tannehill Suffered Two Injuries Absence. He Remains On Injured Reserve.
The Original Backup, Malik Willis, Still Needed Work He Couldn't Complete A Pass, and Completing Passes Might Turn Crucial If The Titans Hoped To Survive This Fall. Mike Vrabrels Offense Needed A Fixer, Someone Who The Titans Can Call On Short Notice To Man Their Shape. They needed a "Certified Rocket Scientist" like Josh Dobbs.
Dobbs Doesn't Bring The Spherical All Levels Athleticism Of Malik Willis But Dobbs, Who's Done Work for Nasa, "You're an f— astronaut" Former Teammate Jacoby Brissett Said Of Him, Can Take In A Play Book Fast. The Titans Called On Dobbs With The Season On The Line. The AFC South That Looks Like A Locked For The Titans After their 7-3 Starts To The Season Now a Five Game Slide With a Jags Run Both Teams Have One Title To Fight For One Spot Realistically. The Jags Had Their Own Five Game Slide This Season They Worked Out Of It. "that's When People Start Pointing The Finger And Looking For Outs." Jags Never Look Defeated; they Stayed In The Fight. The Preseason Odds Stacked AFC South In Favor Of The Colts—Vegas Will Go Out Of Business Making Bets Like That. Indy Had Just Signed Matt Ryan.
I Believed And Defended The Titans. Even With The Lost Of AJ Brown, They Should Have Enough To Win The South. The Lowly Jags Picked Third. A New Head Coach In Doug Pederson Taking On A Healing Process After The Debacle Of The Urban Meyer Year.
"If You're Not Aligned With What Your Leader Saying. It's Hard To Move Forward." Trevor Lawrence Said. Pederson's Leadership, Not The Offensive System, His Experience as A Quarterback Has Proven Most Pivotal In His First Season as The Jags Head Coach.
Coming Into Sundays Matchup With The Titans, Trevor Lawrence Didn't Want To Get Drunk On The "Aroma" Of his Team Redemption Story. "Jobs Not Finished." The Famous Kobe Bryant Line From the 2009 Finals, Curiously My Mantra For The Year. The Jags Started Promises, Fell, Of Course, and Found Their Way To .500. Still, None Of This Matters if They Don't Get To The Playoffs.
The offense pounded and Put in 196 total yards at halftime, In Total Control Of Time Of Possession. At One Point, Josh Dobbs Went 8/8, Throwing The Leading The Titans To Field Goal. The Jags Defense a Titans Flex Of Josh Dobbs, Austin Hooper, and Derrick Henry. Dobbs Look To Have Full Ranges Of The Offense Under Shia Neutron Mind. Checking Plays At The Line, Running The Hurry Up Offense. He looked as If He'd Always Held The Starting Spot. The Titans Out Gain The Jags By 90 Yards Totals, Ran 72 Plays To 47 By The Jags.
The Physical Limitation Would Prove His Undoing. With The Lead slipping And The Titans Back Up To Their Own End Zone Josh Dobbs The Titan's Offense Take A Big Swing Down Field. I Don't Know If He And Treylon Burks Didn't Work Out Or Communicate What the Intentions were, But Dobbs Threw An Excellent Back Shoulder Pass that Any Receiver Would Love To Have In Their Pantry. Only Burks Ran A Go Route, And Jags Tyson Campbell Waited On The Ball To Drop. In the Game Of Two Teams So Evenly Matched Turnovers.
Trevor Lawrence Didn't Have A Bryant-Esque Performance, A For The Ages Type Night With All The Chips Down Nine Of That "Living Up To The Hype" Stuff. He Looks A Little Wide-Eyed And Puzzled With How The Script Of the Plays Were Working. The Jags Were Only 5/11, 13 First Downs. The Offense Looked Like The One Ran By The Five Game Losing Streak Trevor Lawrence. The Celebrated Connections Between He a Player Caller Doug Pederson Didn't Look So Chinese figure Trapped Seal.
Trevor Lawrence went 20/32 for 212 yards with one touchdown. The Jags Only Offense Needed To Produce That One Touchdown To Send The Titans Home. When Talking about The Dividends of Off-season Moves that Have Paid Off For the Team, We Have To Talk about Jags And Christian Kirk. Kirk Caught 6 Passes For 99 Yards And A Touchdown. He's Not Top Ten In The League, But He's Right Outside The Brackets.
The Jags Got No Push Rushing The Ball Only 19 Yards, 1.4 Josh Allen, And This Defense. Travon Walker, I think, Started The Game Early Getting The Pressure Started. The Jags Forced Four Sacks. Two Became Fumble One A Fumble Returned for Touchdown That Put The Jags Ahead Late In The Fourth Quarter. The Titans Protection Didn't Stay Consistent From Half To Half The Jags One of The Weakest teams In Regard Turned the Titans O-Line Into Pudding. Dobbs finished 20/29 with 179 passing yards, a touchdown, and an interception. The Run Didn't Provide an A-lot Of Support, Even With Derrick Henry Taken Up 30 Tote He Only Muster 109 YArds, 3.2 A Carry. The Titans Rushing Game-plan Never Materialized. Too Many Tike Derrick Henry Would Just 3.6 A Carry Only One Big 14 Yard Run That Nippled Away At The Clock On The Day.
Raiders Vs. Chiefs
Josh McDaniels Deceived Us All. He Never Wanted To Evaluate Stidham; McDaniels Knew All The Limits, Ideation, And Motion With The Tool House Of The Former Patriot Backup And Best To Use His Skillset Within The Structure Of The Teams Other Talent. McDaniels Used The Gravity Of His League Run Game Along With The Raiders Depth in Fluid Athletes To Crack The Safe Of Demevo Ryans 49ers' Defense. The Raiders Have Athletes On The Outside. The Niners Counter This By Employing Their Own Athletes On The Outside. Using Stidham Mobility 21 Personnel(Two Tight Ends, One Running Back), The Raiders Made The 49ers Over Pursue Then Strike Opening. Again, Great Work Knowing Your Enemy And Planning. I Still Don't Think He's A Great Head Coach, Just A Great Offensive Mind. He's Better With Products Who Are Ready Made And Less So With Guys Who Need A Little Coaching Up. The Chiefs Are Nowhere Th Defense The 49ers Were Coming into Last Week's Game, 23rd In Total DVOA. MAYBE McDaniels Won't Need Such As Vertical Or Misdirection And. Disguised Play Call. The Raiders should, For The Most, Get What They Want Out Of This Chiefs Defense If They Execute Or If They're Invested In Playing. The Raiders Aren't Running For The Playoffs. Instead, They're More Auditioning As A Suitable Destination For The Impending Free Agent Quarterback market That Includes Three Former McDaniels Players, Tom Brady, Jimmy Garrapolo, And Jacoby Brissett As A Possible Bridge Quarterback. Potentially Lamar Jackson(Though That's Circumstantial).
I Don't Think Stidham's Short-Lived Walk Through is The Raiders Quarterback End Just Yet. The Chiefs Ran Circles Around The Raider Quite Literally With Their Little Ring Around The Disperse Into An Offensive Formation. The Game ended quickly. The Chiefs Got Into The End Zone and Scored Touchdown After Touchdown After Touchdown. After A Stop O The Second Drive, The Raiders Defense Didn't Record Another Defensive Stop Against The Chiefs Offense Until The Third Quarter. That "Merry Go Round" Play More Like A Stratagem Than an Actual Act Of Superiority But Else Than The Raiders, Would Andy Consider Running That Wildcat Formation. The Chiefs Got up 24-3 By That Half Time, and The Game Felt Over Before Then. The Nice Suprise Of Jarrett Stidham Had Already Worn Off like The Second Time Trying That *New* Wendy's Sandwich.
The Whole NFL Twitter World Exploded Watching Stidham Suffer All Of The Injurious Turnover Struggle With None of The Flare Of The Three Touchdowns, All The Scramble Drills, Deft Defying Hook Ups With Davante Adams. The Raiders Didn't Come Out With Any Intent to Play, Like A consolation Game; they Let Out An Exasperating Sigh, A Puff of Smoke and Headed For The Exits. I Don't Think Josh McDaniels Had Much To Prove Beyond What He Proved Last Sunday. If the Raiders Are In Free Fall, Let's The Chips Fall. Jarrett Stidham Got No Support From The Run Game. He Leads The Team In Rushing with 50 Yards. Josh Jacobs Got Vociferous Last Week Expressing His Frustration With The Team That Drafted Him. The Organization Hasn't Done Enough In Shia's Eyes To Stay Consistently Competitive, And The Raiders Will Have To Start There With Competition If They Hope To Retain His Services. The Raiders Have So Many Questions To Answer, None Of Which Are Greater Than Wether To Retain Head Coach Josh McDaniels Then Pursue Or Retain The Quarterback Of His Preference. In Between, The Raiders Have Stars Under Contract To go Into, Around, Or Do Away With. Davante Adams Never Looked Settle In Oakland. McDaniels Never Had The Full Entree Of TalenT To Work With, But Adams Always Seemed Insulate. Like Kevin Durant On The Warriors—Two Different Operating Systems Trying To Work For One Cause. Adams Still Set The Raiders
Season Record 100 Reception 1516 Yards And 14 Touchdowns(Best In The NFL). Those Surely Didn't Seem Like The Outcome Of The Season After The Raiders Hit Speed Bump After Speed bump At The End Of September Adams Only Had 189 Yards Receiving; That's A Good Game For Him Regularly. On And Off, Adams Would Find His Rhythm. That, A Rythym More Than Anything, defines The Raiders Season As A Whole. (At least The Offense Defense Look Miserable All Year. Flickering Light Bulb In A Basement You Turn Only When You Break Something Really Night Changing. Adams Insist He Wants To Remain A Raider Despite The Carr Drama. He Has A Working Relationship With Josh McDaniels And Wants To Grow This System With Everyone On Board Regardless Of Who Passes Him The Ball.
"My dream was to play for this team before he[Carr]was a Raider, obviously." He Made That Dream Come True. LeBron Wanted To Bring A Championship To Cleveland. The Brought A Chip Home And Left. Davante Adams Became A Raider, and Now He Should Become Something Else With Derek Carr, Most Likely Somewhere Else.
A Tom Brady Acquisition Makes Everything Right.
Eagles Vs. Giants
Quarterbacks, As It Turns Out, Are Mortal. Your Top Shelf Starting Quality NFL Quarter Hideaway Water From The River Styx Every Day Or Have a Dr. Doom
invincibility Cloak That Prevents All Force Physical, Neurological, Virological, and Even Mythical. Quarterbacks They Tire, They Need Refresh, They Need To Get Stronger.
The Tom Brady Anomaly Regardless Immortality Still Hurts, Still Heals. As The Eagles Await The Return Of Jalen Hurts, Convalescing a Nagging Shoulder The Team Hope Doesn't Linger Into The Playoffs And Dampened An Otherwise Special Season The Team Produced Weeks 1-14. The Obelisk Obstructed For The Team To Lost In Game Needs A Little Patch Work. Hurts Has Officially Lost His MVP Bid. Coach Of The Year Candidate Nick Siriani Might Want To Pay Forth More Attention To Coaching and Pay Less Attention To Playing "House" With The Media. Some Complained That Gardner Minchew Looked Unprepared To Play The Saints. Winning Can Deceive a Good Team In That Way. With Less Flaw Expose, You Lean More Into What is Done Right Rather Than What Can Your Team Improve On. They're So Invested In The "Not Too High" Not "Too Low" They've Hit The Ground Running So Well You Could Easily Forget That Winning Isn't This Team's; this Group's Natural Disposition And Complacency Always Find A Seat At The Table After A Long Season. Inexperienced Coaches Don't Recognize All Of The Disguises Complacency Comes In With, Such As "One Percent Better" Without A Declarative System To Mark Where The One Percent Grows. "I Think They Didn't Look Ready To Play." Eagles Insider Reuben Frank Said After The Game. "I Put That On Coach Nick Siriani More Than Anything. He looked as If He Didn't Have The Team Ready To Play."
After All Of The Jalen Hurts Or The Team Redirect, I'm Surprised To See The Eagles' Season, Part of
The Season That Remains In Peril Come Down To Jalen Hurts Availability. Ver Few Of The Talking Heads Who Follow The Eagles Seem To Trust Nick Siriani's Ability To Put together A Game Plan without The Three Prong Attack Ability Of Jalen Hurts. At Least, that's The Sense I Got From Listen And Watching. Players, Coaches, the Media, and Maybe The Medical Staff, Because They're Tired Of Hearing About Him, Are Anxious To Get Him Back.
"they're [Medical Staff] Kind Of Holding Him Back, Though." AJ Brown Said To The Media. "He Gotta Do What's Best For His Body. These Two Games Were Winnable." The Eagles Could Have Won Both Games Against The Cowboys and The Saints If Ball Control and ball Security Were to Their Advantage, And The Secondary Holds Up Through The Game.
Has Anyone Ask Him, "Hurts, Don't It?" The Eagles Got Hurts Back On Sunday, And The MVP Candidate Helped Seal A First Round Bye Against The Giants, Resting Most Of Their Starters and Still Out Either Way. Jalen Hurts Arrived In The "Im Back." Jordan T-Shirt And Showed all The Rust Of A "45" Jordan Coming off A Golf Stint. The Debate Whether He Should Play This Coning Off A Strain Shoulder Went Back And Forth Like A Bill In Parliament Or Congress. I Can't Imagine How It Feels To Have Your Availability Discuss By So Many People Who Arent Taking Hits, Or Working Hard. "Had Something I Had To Battle Within Myself. I Wanted To Be Available For My Team. hurts Said. ". Tough Being Out. Tough Taking Loss When You're Out. Jobs Not Finished." The Eagles Could Have Secured A Full Bye Week If They'd Won Just One Game Without Hurts. The Eagles Teammates Resigned, Taking Their Lot In In Division Titles, First Round Bye And Fourteen Win, And A Direct Invitation To The Second around.
Whether He's Fully Healed, Or Otherwise, He Didn't Discuss, But The Eagles Took a Step Forward In His Rehab By Securing The First Round, Essentially Gracing The Team With Two Weeks To Recoup. He Finished With A Rough Day. Hurts were 20-of-35 passing, "That's Not How The Game Went Today.". The Game started Settle for Passing. The Eagles Picked Up Where They last Left Hurt Big Play down The field To A J Brown. The Eagles Score 10 First Quarter And Really Ran Away With This One In The Running Game. Warranted Given that The Team didn't Want To Expose Hurts To Harsh Elements Of A Full NFL Rigor. Scott Lead The Team In Rushing 9 Carries, 54 Yards; Kenneth Gainwell Carried Five Balls 35 Yards, Two Parts Of The Eagles Three Headed Monster From Last Season. Facing A Giants Offense Resting Nearly All Their Starter. The Giants Did Play Kenny Golladay. The Former Big Free Agent Transaction Turned "Meme" Caught A Big Cam Newton SiZe "I'm Back" For 25 Yard Touchdown. The Giants Have Next Next To Look Ahead To, A Rematch With The Vikings. Will Galloway Get More Run? A Fully Rested Saquon Will. The Eagles Have Their Own Adversary At The Front Door.
"The Next Goals Is The Next day." Said Nick Siriani.
Vikings Vs. Bears
If You Follow Justin Jefferson’s Career Arch With Any Interest, Sunday’s Conspicuous Vanishing Act Against The Packers Isn’t uncommon. Sure There’s Nothing Like His Cath 15 Yard Game In His Career Catalog, But He’s Almost Slumped a Time Of Two Before. Matter Of Fact, I Had A Background In Statistics I Could Build Some Linear regression Model To Predict His Next Drop Off. Lapses In His Production Made Sense a Year Ago Or Even Two Years Ago. The Vikings Ran A Run First Under Mike Zimmer And Clint Kubiak. Even Jefferson’s Repute As The Game’s Best Pass Catcher Couldn’t Defuse Long-Time Tendencies. On Sunday, The Packers Decided They’d Employ a Strategy Unthought The First Time The Two Teams Met; maybe We’ll Try Defending Him. Keeping A Body Or Two Attach To Him. The Packers Secondary Made Light Of The Idea That They Had Any Attention Set On Jefferson, But Their Play Reflected Otherwise. In Sports Playing Defense And Trying Your Darnedest Helps With Moral Victories But Does Actual Little To Stop Offensive Players. I’m Sure All The “Nudging” And “smidgens” Of Grass Taking Away And The “timing” Pushed Off were Equated To Jefferson Losing All The Football In His Bone, Like the Mon-Star From Space Jams Stole his Skills. The Vikings Game Planners Had To See Joe Barry’s Scheme Coming No Matter How Much His Secondary Down Played Their Interest. The Vikings Offensive Staff Did Little On the Surface To Obstruct What The Packers And That, ’s Above All, Determined The Game.
Coach Kevin O’Connell Addressed That Matter In The Press Conferences Proceeding The Game: “We Continue To Try To Evolve The Scheme Each And Every Week. Make Sure We’re Doing Something in It, Particularly About The Opponents We’re Playing. To Get Detail About How We Want Our Coverage And Evolving Things.”
The Bears Had ANOther Number one On Their Mind, Like The Number One Pick. A Loss To The Vikings and A Houston Win Meant The Bears Would Pull Off The Final Of Th Many Unlikeliest Comebacks In This Season. The Texans Had A better Than 87% Of Locking Up The Best Record Needed To Secure The Top. The Vikings Did Their Part To Trample The Bears 29-13. Field Sat Out With a Hip Injury, Said He Felt “80%”. He Could’ve Had a Stronger Finish To The Year, But The Bears Medical Staff Saw No Reason To Risk His long Term Develop Over The Quarterback Rushing Record. Ultimately Field Has Seen The Progress, We’ve All Seen The Growth, and Now He Aims To Get Better At Just Playing Quarterback.
The Bears Won’t Have To Draft A Quarterback With The Number One Pick, Ryan Poles, and Matt Eberflus have “Options.” Their First Option On The Table Discussion is “Trading Back.” The Bears Lost Their First Round Pick Last Year by Trading For Justin Fields The Year Prior. Ultimately, The Deal Work That The Previous Nagy Regime Bartered Worked Out. Still, The Team Lost A Chance at Wide Receivers Like Chris Olave, Garrett Wilson, Jameson Williams, OR even Jahan Dotson. All Receivers, Except Williams, Finished With Big Seasons. If A Team straddled In The Bottom Half Of The Draft Wants To Move Up For A Quarterback, The Bears Should Move Back. The Has To Chase A Tackle Or Receiver Of Potentially Both.
The Vikings Are Chasing An Offensive Line Themselves. Injuries Mounted Across The Depth At All Phases Of The Line; they Won’t Have Questions At Receivers. Justin Jefferson Cruises to The Top Spot As The League Leader In Receiving Yardage 1809, Almost A Full 100 More Than The Next Guy. Jefferson played Limited Snaps This Game, But He’s Going To Get His First Shot At Playoff Yards Next Week When they Face The Giants. K.J. Osborn stepped Up and Took Hime Five(5) Catches For 117 Yards. Tight End. I’ve Smith Jr. Got His First Action Since Mid Season. He Caught Three Pass For 14 Yards No Need For O’Connell To Write Up A New Game Plan; The Vikes Beat The Giants Two Weeks Ago.
Is there Value In Being Competitive With Nothing To Win? The Texans Have Fired Head Coach Lovie Smith, and Star Wide Receiver Brandin Cooks Doubled Down On His Interest In The Team Trading. Cooks Finished With A Career-Average Year. He Missed A Few Game After The Trade Deadline For Personal Reasons. His Name Surfaced In Trade Rumors That Never Came Into Fruition. The Texans Have A lot Of Work To do Six This Franchise, and I’m Sure The League Expects An Effort In Due Diligence In Count Of Their Part To Get This Franchise Turned Around. Smith Stated That He Expected To Return; he Had Three Years Left On His Deal. The Dials of Fate Turn Against Him In That Matter, And He Must Have Known But Couldn’t State Such. The Texans Have Draft Capital In The Form of Two Top Ten Picks and The One Mistake They Can’t Make, Trading Back Into That Number One Spot They Won Their Way Out of Securing.
The Houston Texans Are On The Clock But Not Just yet. Week After Weeks, Knocking On The Door, The Texans Burst Through With A down To Wire Win Over the Texans. Admittedly Beating The Chiefs Would’ve Looked Better And Why Choose To Win Now Raises More Questions, But Davis Mills, Lovie Smith, and Recently Dubbed Top Ten Defense Marked Another Win On A Long Lost Season. Over The Past Month
Or So, The Texans Have Earned The Markings Of A Top Ten Defense Versus some of The Best Offenses In Football.
Something Jacksonville Head Coach Doug Peterson Hasn’t Over Looked As He Prepares To Face The Torrid Texans.
“I Look At Them On Defense They’re A Top Team In Takeaways. They’ve Played Cowboys(Whom The Jags Beat, Chiefs and Beat Tennessee.” Pederson Said From The Official Transcript.”They Do Things Right.”
According To ESPN, The Texans have an 82.6% chance to land the top pick Which Shouldn’t (Will Mostly Change By The Time I Post) Come As A Surprise To Anyone. Through Weeks 1 Through 13, The Texans Remain The Only NFL Team On The Borders Of relevance.
The Colts Are Bad, But They’re Hysterical, Interestingly Bad. So Too, Are The Bears And The Cardinals. The Texans Were The Last Team To Earn A Win, and They’ve Suddenly Become a Tough Outing. I Don’t Think I’ve Read a Power Ranking Where The Texans Weren’t The 32 Ranked Team This Season. Matter A Fact, I’m Sure.
Despite The Chiefs Handing The Only Team With Double Figure Losses With Their Ninth Straight “L,” Lovie Smiths Squad Forced The Chiefs To Play Overtime. They were the Last Team To Force The Chiefs Into, The Bills. The Texans Also Played Tough against The Cowboys. The Defensive Line, A Texans Strength If You May, Rough Up Dak Prescott, and The Cowboys Rush Game A Week Prior. What’s more, The Texans Look Poised To Take Home an Upset Win In Both Games. If Jeff Driskell Remembered Which They Run Call Went and Davis Mills Had More More Than Just A “Cutter” In His pitching Array. Instead, The Texans Botch Both Opportunities On Some Routine Plays.
Shh… Their True Plan(perhaps).
Despite The Failures, The Texans Have amassed More Passing Yards On The Season Than Several Teams Slated To Make The Playoffs, Including The Ravens, Giants, and Titans.
The Texans are Just Capable Enough.
NFL Teams Can’t “Tank,” That’s To Say NFL Teams Can’t Openly sabotage Or Devise Schemes To Lose To Earn A Higher Draft. The Model Of Team Building Propagated By The Philadelphia Sixers and Popularized By The NBA.
The NFL Considers Such Actions A “Threat To Competitive Integrity” In The Dolphins’s Lost Their Round Draft Pick As Consequence For “Tampering” Violations And Were In Turn Investigated For Allege “Tank” Proposal. The League Found No Evidence Or Credence. The DOLPHINS head Coach Had This To Say About His Claim The Dolphins Offered Monet For Him To Sabotage The Teams Winning Efforts; “There is nothing more important when it comes to the game of football itself than the integrity of the game.”
Commissioner Rodger Goddell Added This Statement Reported By ESPN. "Every club is expected to make a good faith effort to win every game." Taking the Fast Track To The Bottom Can Turn Out to be A Double Edge Sword, A Catch 22. Win The Number One But Have it Stripe Away In A Violation Or Develop A Losing Culture Whose Rotten Remain Produce A Stench That Continues To Hover Over The Franchise. The Texans Are Switching To “Stealth Tank” Mode, And This Competitive Awaken Looks Great On The Point Spread. I’m sure The Texans Want To Avoid Any “Tank Talk” Now that They’re Three Weeks Out Of Their Main Goal. I’m Not Insinuating Anything; Just Looking At The Facts. Hey, They Might Shock The World And Win Another Game With OnLy Division Foes Colts, And The Jags Left On The Docket. “You Worked Hard To Get In This Position.”
Being When You Have Nothing to compete For Matters. You Want To Engender—On A Personal Level— To The Young Man Drafted High To Your Franchise That Trusting You With The Future Of His Career, That Risking His Mind and Body won't Come Back Empty For Wearing Your Emblem On His Chest. He’s not Just Excited To Get Drafted Early Into the NFL; He’s Excited To Play For You. Rewatching Derek Stingley, The Texans Third OverAll Pick Last Draft, I Didn’t Get That Sense Of Excitement. That Excitement To Play Football, Brandon Cooks Or Deshaun Watson (Before He Departed) Haven’t Exuded Spellbinding Drive.
