Hairyducked Idiot

Personally I'd like to see them think a bit more critically than that

Any mods who can give me a temp ban from the football threads? The hyperfixation demons are kicking my ass

I am *extremely* happy that either Sam Darnold or the Packers are losing next week. They can't both keep going.

It's funny, my concern for Jayden Daniels coming out of college was that he throws fine on short throws and has a nice rainbow deep ball, but his intermediate throws lack NFL zip. So far they're working around that by only asking him to throw short balls and mix in an occasional rainbow deep dime.

They ran a couple but fewer than they should have

Williams was pressured on 13 of 52 attempts on Sunday. Not quite as good as only 4, but that's the second time in 3 games he's been pressured at a below average rate

You could watch video of our guy blowing up. It's barely 30 hours old

He looked good. I don't regret the pick in the slightest

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MariMa01/gamelog/2015/ I'm just gonna leave this here. No reason. (Not that Daniels doesn't look very good, way better than I expected)

It's hard to believe he's not even 25 yet, but Trevor Lawrence looks icky

This is my first live look at Jayden Daniels and I'll admit he looks better than I thought he would. The ball comes out of his hand way better than I expected it to based on his college film. He's not being asked to do a lot, but he's doing it well.

https://x.com/ButkusStats/status/1838320922023072108?t=ExTOBzkyYY1jxBvoMEEllw That's supposed to be a Jenkins video, but look at this screenshot from 1:09 Swift ran left on that play instead of right, for a -2 (the LOS is the 31, he literally just has to run into a lineman's butt and fall down for a +1, but he tries to bounce all the way to the outside and gives ground) I think this is the exact moment my belief in him died.

After a day to go back and re-watch things (not beating the hyperfixation demons today i guess): Non-Caleb Williams stuff: Caleb Williams stuff:

One more for fun then I really need to take a break Career 350+ yard passing games Caleb Williams - 1 Justin Fields - 0 Jordan Love - 0

Maybe he's not allowed to audible there. Maybe the coaching staff didn't get the play in on time to give him a chance. Maybe Waldron should have guessed better. Or maybe he missed it.

It's a speed option, cut blocks are standard. That play has to be audibled or call a time out. They called it because they expected the colts to overload the middle again. The colts didn't and had an extra man outside the tackle on the wide side. The play fell apart because there was an extra man out there, and because Braxton Jones was being asked to get around and seal the edge on a guy way too far to his left It's a perfectly standard normal part of an NFL goal line package, but it was defeated by look at the line

Tory Taylor update: Outkicked his coverage twice, semi-shanked OOB outside the 20 his best chance to pin them deep. Net of 36,0 for the game, 40.1 for the season. There's no such thing as a special punter.

Look at all that green on the interior of the field.

The running game did look a *little* better today. We were getting a couple yards each play instead of moving backwards on half of them. But if that's the best it can look against the softest defensive front we're gonna see for awhile, it's gonna be a disaster going forward. Which is fine with me, dial me up 65 dropbacks a week.

See, I have no problem with your stance. I disagree, because I think I've seen more counterexamples (busts continuing to be busts, great QBs thriving year in and year out while the coaching staffs around them rotate), but it's a coherent argument with reasoning behind it and makes predictions about the future that we can observe. If we see more of it, I'll eventually change my mind and agree with you. That's different from the WSCR-call-ins spamming "PLAYCALLING BAD" I see from football fans all over the internet every week. You could practically copy-paste the posts across 25 football team forums/twitterverses with the names changed. They can't identify what plays were called, what the opposing offense/defense was doing, why the play succeeded or failed. Half the time the plays they want called are already being called (stop benching Kmet for Everett! We never run slants!) and half the time they don't know why what they want is stupid (rollouts rollouts rollouts!). Identifying what plays are working or not working and why is hard because NFL plays are complicated and there's a lot of them with a lot of moving parts, it's impossible to keep track of real-time. Did you know the Bears ran screen-passes at a below league-average rate last year? They did, but every single Bears fan I know is convinced Getsy ran nothing but screens because of a couple of highly memorable moments involving them. If someone wants to criticize Waldron for the offense being sloppy in the first few games, sure, I won't argue. Or say that he should have pushed for better offensive linemen, fine. I can even live with wanting Roschon to be the primary back over Swift, I'm starting to lean there myself (as is Waldron, judging from the trend in snap counts). But the overall playcalling and offensive scheme? It's completely fine. It's the same modern offense descended from the west coast that almost every NFL team runs, including a lot of very succesful ones. The same zone block runs, the same motioning into 1-4 overloads that everybody else is trying to attack the new cover-6/9/0 split field coverages that have become rampant in the last two years.

Cool. Keep doing the Lord's work I guess

Jfc I've never seen a player bury another player with pure performance the way Dalton just did Young

No. The fact that pro coaches are mostly fungible doesn't mean that literally anything would be ok. There's a few coaches who come up with novel ways to attack the NFL meta and give their team an edge. There's a few who are probably truly holding their team back. And there's dozens in between who are all running pretty close to the same pro schemes the same way, and whether they get praised or booed is entirely on the performance of their players. And that's already reflected in their salaries. Even the highest paid offensive and defensive coordinators make less than a mid-tier backup QB 95% of the people yelling about coaches are just being WSCR post game callers. They're mad that the team lost and want to blame people. They can't identify what plays were called, let alone why they did or didn't work.

This is roughly the same quality of answer that had Cubs fans believing the manager was gonna fix the bullpen. You can't use results to differentiate between bad play calls and bad players .

How do you differentiate between coach culpability and player failure?