1 minute ago, Waiting4Someday said:

Yup - much has been made about the offense, but the defense is pretty far from rushing 4 and playing C3/4 every play. Vic is taking a lot of risks to make up for the lack of pass rush and to hide CB2.

Dean is giving them a jolt.

Im afraid Carter will never be healthy all year. His shoulder injury is significant. I doubt it gets better till he gets surgery in the offseason.

If he isnt going to be the force that frees up our edge rushers, then we need to significantly upgrade at Edge. Not just sign Graham, who will likely get injured anyway.

And improve CB2 to increase the chances of some coverage sacks.

The D certainly has enough issues to discuss. But, its still not bad and we are going to need the offense to step up to improve our chance at contention. I think this is still an above average D, than can become really good again when/if healthy. And if the offense were sustaining more drives, the optics and even stats would be much different, much more positive for the D.

4 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

What does C3 turn into against a go route?

DB carries because it's man match, but then I'm not sure what you meant when you said Flores interrupted us from making mistakes. Which coverages wouldn't have done that? C2? C6?

Hell of a thought to Kevvy P.

10 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Getting an MRI tomorrow

I heard he was trying to put braces on. Would they let him do that with an ACL in play?

Just now, Diehardfan said:

I heard he was trying to put braces on. Would they let him do that with an ACL in play?

They know pretty quickly if the ACL is involved via physical testing. Never say never, but it would be surprising.

1 minute ago, Diehardfan said:

I heard he was trying to put braces on. Would they let him do that with an ACL in play?

If he had an acl no way they let him out there. Brace or not. Plus there’s test to get a somewhat conclusion it is a torn acl

Huff with another sack…

Just now, Diehardfan said:

I heard he was trying to put braces on. Would they let him do that with an ACL in play?

I feel like you never know in the NFL. Players seem to be able to force their way on to the field a lot. Like Nolan Smith cursing at the doctor in the super bowl and saying get me a brace.

Who knows what back injury Jergens played with last year. And even this year.

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

Huff with another sack…

What were the conditions on the pick again? He might actually hit it, which is shocking.

Huff with a sack causing a fumble.

How many sacks does Bryce Huff need for us to improve our draft pick?

The condition is 8 or more sacks.

I was a big fan of the Huff signing. I really can’t believe we couldn’t make it work even a little bit with him.

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

The condition is 8 or more sacks.

That’s a Friday night for @Godfather

Huff is at 4 by the way.

2 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I was a big fan of the Hiff signing. I really can’t believe we couldn’t make it work even a little bit with him.

pretty off with a defensive genius and all.... some things make you wonder...

That looked like a fumble to me, he lost grip on his wind up.

Like to trade some surplus in certain positions to bring in reinforcements for the trenches mainly and help at CB2/secondary depth. I would start with trading Dotson. Darius Cooper should be back soon. And Metchie can also contribute. Could also send Howell out of here since McKee is healthy. That was an insurance policy earlier in the season and can get out of that pretty easily I'd imagine. And still can trade from a draft pick surplus. As we currently have 10 picks for 2026. I want Howie to be aggressive for winning the Superbowl THIS YEAR and stop it with the Adoree Jackson type additions and stop smoking the hopium. And can take some stabs at street free agents like CGJG, Simmons, Samuel and Gilmore. Can use 2 of them here. He's got some heavy work to do here. Think he should scalp at least the bottom five out of this roster to add overall depth.

16 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

The run game schematically at least was better, more varied. We just don’t have the horses up front to execute right now at a high level and at high volume. Dickerson hasn’t been good this year. Hopefully he will get healthier and back to his pro bowl level. Jurgens has struggled too coming off back surgery. Steen has been our best interior OL, and he’s maybe at best a solid starter.

I have faith in Stout. He didn't forget how to scheme up a running game in a year. He's scheming what he thinks will work with what he's working with along the OL. But, a lot of it really is the OL whiffing too often, partly because Toth isn't good enough, Dickerson can't move like he could before, etc. Lots of things. But, Stout knows how to coach. Patullo... I'm not so sure about. The thing that matters a lot in runs is when and where you call certain things.

Just now, we_gotta_believe said:

DB carries because it's man match, but then I'm not sure what you meant when you said Flores they interrupted us from making mistakes. Which coverages wouldn't have done that? C2? C6?

2H coverages to take away the deep stuff, force throws underneath and ideally into windows. On the Smitty play they brought 5 and Harrison Smith came into the box/ short zone leaving Rodgers essentially in man coverage.

8 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

They know pretty quickly if the ACL is involved via physical testing. Never say never, but it would be surprising.

8 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

If he had an acl no way they let him out there. Brace or not. Plus there’s test to get a somewhat conclusion it is a torn acl

8 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I feel like you never know in the NFL. Players seem to be able to force their way on to the field a lot. Like Nolan Smith cursing at the doctor in the super bowl and saying get me a brace.

Who knows what back injury Jergens played with last year. And even this year.

Sounds somewhat positive at least

@we_gotta_believe I did a google search as well, because I know that I know what I know. And you dont know much.

You kind of had to start calling it Passer Rating to make it further from QBR which came out much more recently causing some confusion. But it was and still is commonly referred to as QB rating. And normally 158.3 is impressive. But today, it wasnt so much.