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The Defence, the Turnovers, and the Tucker

SepticeyePoe said:
Did it seem like they were playing more man? I tried to pay attention to that after someone said we did better against the Bengals in man vs zone, but I'm not great at picking things like that up live

Edit: Oops, I quoted the wrong post, but my question stands
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It felt like it live, but will be curious to see in the coming days. I noticed us running with motion a lot more than I think I've noticed all season, but I don't know if that's because I was more actively looking for it or not.
 
Grim said:
This has been the biggest problem I have seen. We are consistently killing drives with first-down penalties. Someone do some research but I think our scoreless drives have all had penalties on first down. I also think we've never managed to overcome 1st-down penalties to score. I could be wrong on the latter (didn't vet this) but am pretty certain on the former. It is sick and needs to change. A lot of calls are dumb, but we are definitely sloppy af on the team.

If there is any reason to fire John Harbaugh, it is due to the poor penalties.
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I don't necessarily pin this game on Harbaugh but at what point do we start holding him accountable for some of these penalties?
 
redrum52 said:
I don't necessarily pin this game on Harbaugh but at what point do we start holding him accountable for some of these penalties?
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I think we hold him accountable now for the penalties. How can you not hold the head coach accountable? We definitely had some BS calls, but not all of them.
 
29BmoreBird22 said:
Dak's MVP odds were dwindling in November. He had a brief window where he was the favorite, but he was never a consensus, surefire bet. The largest lead that any quarterback had (CMC had by far the best odds for about half the season) was Purdy.

But none of this changes my point- ask Dak about beating up on bad teams and if that led to an MVP.
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And what it did was lead to him being the odds on favorite, when it looked like Dallas might actually be the one seed. The problem is you have to actually finish and the last thing voters saw in a tight race is him being bad.

This race is oddly similar except Detroit doesn't have a final gauntlet to really look bad against. Here is Goff's path to have the MVP and it is not that unreasonable of one (note I actually do not expect this to happen but it is a pretty reasonable path). They are going to beat up the Colts, and then 2 divisional games, and there will likely be great numbers against the Packers because their defense is quietly kind of bad. Then its going to be like last where the December 16th matchup against the Bills, provided Allen wins today, will basically be "winner gets MVP". That game might even lock up home field in the NFC, or possibly when they beat the Bears again the next week, at which point, like when Lamar rested the last week of the season, people will just consider the race done and the final 2 weeks pointless.

I do not think that it will play out that smoothly but it is not an unreasonable path because Detroit does not have a gauntlet. If you asked me to pick I would bet on Allen having about a 60% chance if he wins today but that still leaves a 40% chance of something else happening.
 
I'm already over this loss (for now). I was gonna wait until the Chargers thread, but fuck it.

The way I see it? The Chargers game is about as must-win as it gets. I never thought we were winning the division before the season started. I just had the wrong team winning it. Nonetheless, we need this upcoming game for tiebreaker purposes. Glad we got the dubs against the Bengals and Broncos.
 
UPennChem said:
Unfortunately, it's pretty irrelevant. I think Marlon may have given up 1 short pass. And I think White gave up 1 short pass. For the millionth straight week, nearly 100% of catches given up to a CB have been by Stephens.

Then in addition to him not stopping anything, he had a terrible day tackling. He's a liability and teams know it. As @Adreme said, teams put their number 1 on him and he never stops them. It's like 5% of the time.

Even a guy playing bad would be better. Plus White has upside
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I think the biggest difference between White and Stephens, and I was down on White to be honest when that trade was announced, was on the play when White defended the TD. He did not just keep pace with the WR, he got his head around and got his hands where the ball is going because he kept track of it. Stephens does not do that. Stephens plays good tight coverage but has no idea where the ball is so he always gives up catches where it looks like it was just a great play by the WR, because he never gets a hand it but just runs with the WR.
 
Adreme said:
I think the biggest difference between White and Stephens, and I was down on White to be honest when that trade was announced, was on the play when White defended the TD. He did not just keep pace with the WR, he got his head around and got his hands where the ball is going because he kept track of it. Stephens does not do that. Stephens plays good tight coverage but has no idea where the ball is so he always gives up catches where it looks like it was just a great play by the WR, because he never gets a hand it but just runs with the WR.
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White's skills are a long way ahead of Stephens, but I'm not sure he has the long speed between the 20s. He might be best as our specialist red zone CB, which by itself, is more than I thought we were going to get out of him.
 
Can we get the Chargers thread up please
 
I here many Ravens fans always talking about how the Steelers suck etc., etc. etc. But.....
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The Ravens just can't seem to beat this team! Pitiful!
 
Militant X 1 said:
I here many Ravens fans always talking about how the Steelers suck etc., etc. etc. But.....
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The Ravens just can't seem to beat this team! Pitiful!
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I said at the end of last year we'd better be worried by them and people laughed. I said it again when we lost the first two and they won. They've roared back to the top of the Division. We won't overtake them without a complete collapse by them and that is something they don't do. It pains me to say it...
 
Don’t know if this has already been discussed but why was DH on the sideline during the final drive and/or the 2 point conversion? There was over 3 minutes left in the game and we still had all 3 timeouts left. And on the conversion if you were going to run Lamar left it would make sense to me to have Henry in There as a decoy at least.
 
drjohnnyfever said:
I said at the end of last year we'd better be worried by them and people laughed. I said it again when we lost the first two and they won. They've roared back to the top of the Division. We won't overtake them without a complete collapse by them and that is something they don't do. It pains me to say it...
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Tomlin always has the Steelers in a state of mind to beat the Ravens. If not any other team, they are going to play hard to beat the Ravens. And the Ravens, for some odd reason to me, rarely seem to match their intensity when playing them. I just don't get it!
 
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