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52520Andrew said:
Yeah the Broncos felt like they had a horseshoe shoved somewhere with all those 4th quarter wins. I know they have a talented defense and Bo can make some good throws but I also feel like they benefited from some teams falling apart vs earning those wins. I will give their defense some credit though in forcing turnovers from Josh Allen, something our defense hasn't really been able to do(and even 2023 we didn't get any turnovers in either game in the postseason). But also the Giants were having their way with them... the Giants.
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we haven't had a turnover in our last four post season games.
 
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Purple Haze said:
Hello all. Just made an account here. I usually sit on the sidelines but I couldnt help myself after the epic miss by the Steelers hiring McCarthy. I love this entitled franchise finally being brought down to size by poor ownership. Welcome to the real world. Now you can dwell in the world of retread coaches and 43 year old qb's.
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Elite first post. Welcome
 
52520Andrew said:
Yeah the Broncos felt like they had a horseshoe shoved somewhere with all those 4th quarter wins. I know they have a talented defense and Bo can make some good throws but I also feel like they benefited from some teams falling apart vs earning those wins. I will give their defense some credit though in forcing turnovers from Josh Allen, something our defense hasn't really been able to do(and even 2023 we didn't get any turnovers in either game in the postseason). But also the Giants were having their way with them... the Giants.
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Yep that’s exactly my opinion on this.

The Giants, Commanders, Raiders, Jets are all games where I was wondering how they played so close.
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Guarantee the afc isn’t wide open next year.

One down year by the chiefs does not mean they’re done, they will be back. Denver has arrived. Bills could come back stronger because McDermott really wasn’t the greatest HC, and Houston is well coached with the best defense in the league. There’s also the colts to worry about if they figure out the qb situation even with a bridge solution.

AFC is about to become a fkn meat grinder over the next 4 years or so
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it's a down year because the teams with elite QBs all stumbled for various reasons
most of those teams are going to be back

the divisional round in the AFC only featured 1 of Mahomes, Jackson, Allen, Herbert, Burrow...
that's unlikely to repeat - in fact it would be the least surprising outcome if the divisional round was just matchups between 4 of those 5 teams next year

the problem for the rest of the AFC is only really 1 QB in the last few years is developing in a way that suggests they might join that group: Drake Maye

closest guy other than Maye was Trevor Lawrence who finally ascended in the 2nd half of the year - if he can sustain that level of play then you might be looking at a super 7 rather than a top 5

we need some of these elite QBs to end up in the NFC lol
right now the NFC QB rankings are being anchored by Stafford (who's amazing but 37 years old) and Dak Prescott... who are even the threats to be the next elite QBs for the NFC? Caleb Williams maybe, Jordan Love seems to be peaking just below that top tier with consistency and health issues
 
JoeyFlex5 said:
Isn’t Mike Mac the first successful HC to come out of harbaughs staff? If I’m remembering this correctly, then you just don’t have enough head coaches coming out of Baltimore to even have a harbaugh tree. At the rate it’s going, Macdonald is going to be the father of his own coaching tree.

The defensive philosophy that makes MM head coach material, is his and his alone, it’s not harbaugh’s, if it was harbaugh’s then his teams wouldn’t suck so bad at running the scheme without Mike Mac on the sidelines. Mac built this scheme, mastered it, and used it to great success across many teams at every level, and harbaugh tried to replicate it with his own pick at DC and failed so badly it got him fired.

If the defensive coaches coming up that are running Mac’s defense, do so successfully, then it will in fact be Mike Macdonald’s coaching tree built on his X’s and O’s, all harbaugh did was hire him and use his scheme.

To have your own coaching tree, you gotta have a system in place that is the foundation of “why this coach will make our team competitive” and coaches will bring that system with them to new jobs. Harbaugh has no such system, he was a manager.
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technically macdonald's defence comes from the wink martindale tree

it developed out of that restructure of the defence with Wink in 2018 that was re-imagined with Wink, Macdonald, Minter (notable those 2 assistants were involved in the redesign) and designed with and around the strengths of CJ Mosley, Eric Weddle and Terrell Suggs

wink obviously ran it very differently with lots of aggression and overload blitzes but the structure of that defence is what macdonald and minter have iterated on - they've just refined it to be more about the way you teach and structure the playcalls and the pressure packages with the modular teaching and emphasised sim pressures and rotating coverages vs wink's all-out aggression

if people want to argue that because it came out of the ravens during harbaugh's tenure and because it evolved out of existing ravens defensive systems that it's a harbaugh defence then they can argue that but in terms of the actual schematics, it's more wink's than his
 
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