October 16, 2024Oct 16 comment_1769021 2 hours ago, Griever said: Take it seriously. This where hamstring injuries can seriously be limited.
October 16, 2024Oct 16 comment_1769022 Just sitting here going into Browns week thinking, we are literally 2 plays away from 4-2 instead of 2-4. 2 fucking plays.
October 16, 2024Oct 16 comment_1769024 10 minutes ago, saphead said: Just sitting here going into Browns week thinking, we are literally 2 plays away from 4-2 instead of 2-4. 2 fucking plays. and my grandma is 2 wheels away from being a bicycle it is what it is
October 16, 2024Oct 16 comment_1769027 18 minutes ago, T-Dub said: and my grandma is 2 wheels away from being a bicycle it is what it is Yeah well I don't like what it is and I'm fucking sad
October 16, 2024Oct 16 comment_1769032 The line is now up to 6.5 points. Told to me by a friend. The friend in the cage at the sports book at Hard Rock.
October 16, 2024Oct 16 comment_1769037 2 hours ago, saphead said: Yeah well I don't like what it is and I'm fucking sad me neither but I also think all the "bad luck" and "better than their record" talk avoids accountability. ditto acting as though murphy that's been injured for most of his bengals career, a 30 year old rankins, and some mid-round rookies all being (gasp!) hurt was some unforeseeable matter of fate. fact is they've looked unprepared and/or unfocused most of the year while playing losing football. they have to own that.
October 16, 2024Oct 16 comment_1769038 2 hours ago, saphead said: Yeah well I don't like what it is and I'm fucking sad Cheer up Sap . A win is on the horizon come Sunday..
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769039 On 10/15/2024 at 7:20 PM, Shebengal said: Amari Cooper is leading the NFL in drops this season with 9. He's was surprised he even got a catchable ball his way
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769040 13 minutes ago, T-Dub said: me neither but I also think all the "bad luck" and "better than their record" talk avoids accountability. ditto acting as though murphy that's been injured for most of his bengals career, a 30 year old rankins, and some mid-round rookies all being (gasp!) hurt was some unforeseeable matter of fate. fact is they've looked unprepared and/or unfocused most of the year while playing losing football. they have to own that. They looked that way against New England for sure. Not so much in taking KC to the wire and BAL to overtime. I get it , a loss is a loss and there’s no moral victories in the NFL. Bottom line is the defense hasn’t been close to good enough and injuries have definitely contributed to that, along with poor drafting and player development. Time will tell if getting healthier will make much of a difference, but I don’t think it’s going to make it worse.
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769044 1 hour ago, Inigo Montoya said: poor drafting and player development this is the part I am not giving them a pass on, along with the brain farts & sometimes rudderless feeling from the sideline
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769047 2 hours ago, T-Dub said: this is the part I am not giving them a pass on, along with the brain farts & sometimes rudderless feeling from the sideline Zac also said that while Brown should have gone down after picking up the first down with 1:52 left instead of scoring, it was his (Zac's) fault. He correctly said he doesn't expect players to be doing math in the huddle. He correctly said it was his responsibility to make the players aware of the strategy, as dictated by the situation. Yet he failed to inform the offense. How many seasons does he need to coach to know he needs to have a time/timeouts chart that tells you when it's time to take a knee? When you have the lead and the ball, that's not the time to start calculating the straightest path to victory. I'm glad he took ownership of the faux pas, but when can we expect these faux pas to stop? It's not news to any coach that the objective is NOT to score touchdowns. It's to have more points than your opponent when the clock hits :00. If you have the ball and the lead and the ability to bleed the clock to 0:00, that's what you do. (the Browns failed to understand this vs the Jets a couple of years ago, and lo and behold, the Jets came back to win the game) And you don't wait until you're in that situation to figure out what to do, and when. If it's too much for Zac to remember or keep track of, then it needs to be someone's job, as the opponents' timeouts dwindle, to inform him of what time on the clock is the point at which ball carriers should get down instead of scoring and needlessly giving the ball back to the other team. This is the stuff that drives me absolutely nuts about Zac. You get paid more in 1 year than most people will make in their entire lifetime. There are some basic things I expect from a head coach: > know and understand every last paragraph & sentence in the rule book > understand basic end-of-game clock management, and have a system in place to quickly & unambiguously convey that to players on the field. BTW, as I composed this diatribe, I opened an Excel spread sheet and created a chart that tells you exactly how much time needs to be on the clock, depending on how many timeouts your opponent has, in order for you to kill the rest of the game off. Took 5 minutes. If Zac had this in his pocket, then the play call for Brown's TD run would simply have been accompanied by the reminder that all we need is a 1st down to end the game. Pick it up and then get down...in bounds. Ball game.
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769048 Then again…a player is mainly trained to score. A basketball player has the time at the foul line to intentionally miss a free throw, as needed. A running back who suddenly breaks free for a race to the goal line will be driven by the sight of that goal line. Or something like that…
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769054 19 minutes ago, Paul said: If they beat us on Sunday this won't age well.
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769059 58 minutes ago, PatternMaster said: If they beat us on Sunday this won't age well. Nor will my slips from Hard Rock's sports book. Two of 'em. One straight up and one giving six points.
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769063 Looks like we will get at least a partial Chubb on Sunday. I just don't want a full Chubb shoved down our throats.
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769064 11 hours ago, KA14_HOF said: Zac also said that while Brown should have gone down after picking up the first down with 1:52 left instead of scoring, it was his (Zac's) fault. He correctly said he doesn't expect players to be doing math in the huddle. He correctly said it was his responsibility to make the players aware of the strategy, as dictated by the situation. Yet he failed to inform the offense. How many seasons does he need to coach to know he needs to have a time/timeouts chart that tells you when it's time to take a knee? When you have the lead and the ball, that's not the time to start calculating the straightest path to victory. I'm glad he took ownership of the faux pas, but when can we expect these faux pas to stop? It's not news to any coach that the objective is NOT to score touchdowns. It's to have more points than your opponent when the clock hits :00. If you have the ball and the lead and the ability to bleed the clock to 0:00, that's what you do. (the Browns failed to understand this vs the Jets a couple of years ago, and lo and behold, the Jets came back to win the game) And you don't wait until you're in that situation to figure out what to do, and when. If it's too much for Zac to remember or keep track of, then it needs to be someone's job, as the opponents' timeouts dwindle, to inform him of what time on the clock is the point at which ball carriers should get down instead of scoring and needlessly giving the ball back to the other team. This is the stuff that drives me absolutely nuts about Zac. You get paid more in 1 year than most people will make in their entire lifetime. There are some basic things I expect from a head coach: > know and understand every last paragraph & sentence in the rule book > understand basic end-of-game clock management, and have a system in place to quickly & unambiguously convey that to players on the field. BTW, as I composed this diatribe, I opened an Excel spread sheet and created a chart that tells you exactly how much time needs to be on the clock, depending on how many timeouts your opponent has, in order for you to kill the rest of the game off. Took 5 minutes. If Zac had this in his pocket, then the play call for Brown's TD run would simply have been accompanied by the reminder that all we need is a 1st down to end the game. Pick it up and then get down...in bounds. Ball game. Yep. I'm too tired to type it all out, but you can youtube the ending of the Texans game from November 12th, 2023. Zac threw this one away by not employing very simple basics at the end.
October 17, 2024Oct 17 comment_1769067 5 hours ago, Le Tigre said: Then again…a player is mainly trained to score. A basketball player has the time at the foul line to intentionally miss a free throw, as needed. A running back who suddenly breaks free for a race to the goal line will be driven by the sight of that goal line. Or something like that… Yup, every RB worth his salt possess and is driven by a "must...score...touchdown" mentaility. This, however, is easily overridden by the coaches who communicate the play to Burrow: "x-47 trap right, zebra low, on 2....a first down ends the game." I strongly suspect that the reason we saw Brown awkwardly tumble into the end zone was because he was caught between the idea of scoring and of getting to the ground. He was unsure, very much the way Ahmad Bradshaw scored for the Giants near the end of Super Bowl 46 vs New England. A simple reminder in the huddle would've resolved that in Brown's head. But Zac hasn't figured out a way to do that yet apparently.
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