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The Refs, the OL, and the Coaching

allblackraven said:
I have a huge problem with the "can he stay healthy?" qualification. It's not like he had pulled muscles every second week.
Dude had shattered his ankle, then doctors fucked up the surgery. Takes time to overcome that stuff. And Ronnie did.
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And shattered his ankle due to dirty after the whistle action by tj watt
 
We don’t have ball winners on the outside.

It’s infuriating. These guys don’t make plays on the outside.
 
It was pretty much common sense that our oline was gonna be ass. If we knew it months ago im sure coaching knew it.. my guess, they either tried to make some moves but failed or it eventually got to the point where it was too late
 
Truth said:
Between these past two games, we have arguably one of the worst performing set of guards in the NFL. It has not been pretty.
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Every Dollar Counts.
 
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Every Dollar Counts.
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Why choose the O Line for cost cutting over anything else while continuing to over-invest in the secondary? Wiggins might very well be great but at some point the ratio of returns to investment in any one position group won't be in your favour.

And if you are choosing to rebuild the O Line with rookie contracts, shouldn't you invest more than 1 late second round pick to do it?

So annoying, and that's before considering that
- our QB's greatest strengths are extending plays and running
- our WRs and TEs (and QB) are better at improvising than in-structure, quick game and timing stuff
- our biggest new addition was a RB

It really sounds like an O Line was going to be required to make that all work.

But, no, let's continue adding to the secondary in a league that was obviously going to become more run heavy than it has in years. While fully intending to continue with MacDonald's DB heavy system, where we ask each individual DB to do less. Was that really the spot to make our biggest move?
 
rossihunter2 said:
Refs spotted the raiders points with the Madubuike facemask and 2 phantom DPI calls on Humphrey and Stephens... all those calls literally changed the score!

But we completely and utterly capitulated... 2 score lead in the 4th quarter. This is like 2022 all over again. And what is it about Minshew... he did it to us with the Colts last year too. Both times at M&T.

In the most important moments of the game, we fell apart. Offence, special teams... and coaching.

The right side of the OL looked so much better with Rosengarten on the field in those passing situations. Faalele gives up a massive sack late in the 4th quarter.
Bate with the interception.

Tucker missed again.
Stout shanked a punt late in the 4th quarter.
Kelly took a couple returns out that got stopped short.

Harbs making terrible challenges and wasting timeouts that we absolutely needed at the end of both halves (we lose a shot at the endzone to end the first half, and we lose 30 seconds of clock at the end of the game).

It took all of those things to come together to give the Raiders that winning FG and preventing the Ravens from having a legit chance to come back at the end.

And it wasted a dominant performance by this defensive front.

0-2 for the first time since 2015 is horrible.

Some answers required, especially with regard to the right side of the OL.
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Blitzing to much and not getting there Mcdonald kept them guessing!
 
Not sure why they didn't make MacDonald Assistant head coach and put him in line to takover Harbaugh's job.

That was what I wanted to see.
 
ravenslord said:
Will an 0-4 or 0-5 start get Harbs fired?
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No. The league generally considers Harb to be a top 5 head coach. There is nothing that could happen to get him fired mid season, barring a massive scandal. This is kind of a classic case of the post loss overreaction.
 
Sandtown said:
If the Seahawks end up just wining only two games this year after the season is over would you still feel this way ?
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Yes.

Here's my case against Harbs:
1) Terrible clock manager
2) Terrible challenge coach
3) Multiple OC's fired and always predictable no matter who it is (except Kubiak).
4) Would have been fired if not for Lamar's heroics.
5) Very poor offensive minded thinking.
6) Harbs and Decosta let a clearly deficient line go to the regular season unchanged.

Someone make the case for Harbs please .
 
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Simba said:
Because that's not how it works. He got a head coaching offer, and he took it. No reason for Macdonald to sit around and wait when an opportunity was there right in front of his face.
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Isn't that what they did with Decosta when Ozzie was signaling retirement . He was guaranteed that job and waited years.

I think Harbs is close to the Ozzie scenario. Could be wrong though.
 
ravenslord said:
Isn't that what they did with Decosta when Ozzie was signaling retirement . He was guaranteed that job and waited years.

I think Harbs is close to the Ozzie scenario. Could be wrong though.
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EDC is a rare breed. That is so far from the norm.

Maybe there's some credence to it if Harbaugh was open that he was going to retire in the next year, but there has been 0 indication of that.
 
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