NFL Week 8 -- Primetime blues

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

McDaniels ran a QB sneak and didn't sub out Garropolo. Moron.

My theory is that a lot of these NFL coaches - who mostly went to Nowhere State and played a little - harbor a lot of resentment toward NFL players who have the size and speed and skills they lacked and have no problem seeing them get hurt.

Nah, they're just the stupidest ****ing people in the country this side of Republican "leadership."

 

[Tighthead]

I think almost every team in the CFL uses QB2 to run the sneak. From what I watch, they rarely fake and run a different play out of it.

I do think the one yard buffer at the LOS makes the sneak a different play in the 12 man game.

 

[Junkie]

I had NFL stickers from when I was a kid, and I am pretty sure that Lions logo with the two bars were on those stickers.

It was. It was on all their gear back in the Alex Karras days. I had a ****-ton of it. On TV, though, it was tough to see that outside of an extreme close-up.

 

[outofplace]

Do the Bears just like starting late on Day 2 of the NFL Draft?

They traded their 2024 second-round pick for Montez Sweat, who is in the final year of his contract. Last season, they traded a second-rounder for Chase Claypool. That turned out to be a disaster. I don't think the Bears won another game and that turned out to be the first pick in the second round and Claypool was awful for them. Sweat is certainly a better player, but that's a high price for a player who will be a free agent after the season.

 

[Cosmo]

It would kind of send a ****ty message to QB2 as well, wouldn't it?
"This play is so dangerous that we don't want QB1 to run it. QB2, get in there! You're expendable!"

Sort of the same as digging into the bottom of your bag for that Pinnacle range ball you found on the course when having to clear a fair bit of water over a par 3. Not wasting a ProV1 on that!

 

[qtlaw]

Niners get Chase Young; hopefully this stud stays healthy (like McCaffery).

 

[Cosmo]

Young hasn't been a stud for some time. He's maddening to watch. Takes too many plays off.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I have nothing to back this up but gut feeling, but my gut feeling is the 49ers of the Shanahan era are going to be like the '80s Yankees: Continually going for it and never getting there,

 

[Regan MacNeil]

If the Bears don't sign Sweat, Poles should be fired into the sun. But I think they will.

Also, I'm OK with the price. The odds are more likely than not that the pick the Bears sent to Washington will produce a worse player than Montez Sweat.

TL;DR, I'd rather have Sweat even with the money than whatever DE Poles could have drafted at 35 or whatever it ends up being. I also completely get why Washington made the trade. Can't pay everyone on that line, they already paid Payne and they have a lot of other holes to fill too.

 

[qtlaw]

I have nothing to back this up but gut feeling, but my gut feeling is the 49ers of the Shanahan era are going to be like the '80s Yankees: Continually going for it and never getting there,

I'm happy they're constantly going for it; as a fan I'm not demanding a dynasty, just another taste of a SB win.

And BTW, its not like the 49ers are trading for Mel Hall/Rickey (he was good), signing and overpaying Claudell Washington, Whitson and Andy Messersmith. McCaffery/Hargrave/Young are much different.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I'm just hoping a bunch of stories don't come out tomorrow about Sweat having issues in Washington like Claypool in Pittsburgh.

 

[Cosmo]

I never got that sense from following the team.

 

[outofplace]

I'm just hoping a bunch of stories don't come out tomorrow about Sweat having issues in Washington like Claypool in Pittsburgh.

Was it such a surprise with Claypool? I imagine fans in Chicago might not have realized, but it wasn't surprising if you had paid attention to him when he was with the Steelers. I never understood that trade for the Bears, but I'm certainly grateful.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Not till after the fact. He wasn't really a household name.

 

[DanOregon]

Totally agree on the Sanders era Lions unis, particularly the pants - was the grey last night supposed to be "primer grey" as a nod to the Motor City?

 

[DanOregon]

Why would any coach sub out their QB1 on a play that puts that player at risk? Might as well announce that it’s coming.

You’re smarter than that, Dan.

Because Garrappolo is fragile. Saints did it with Brees. Oregon State had a guy last year, Jack Colletto - kind of a Taysom Hill type - usually he ran a QB keeper out of the gun, but sometimes he threw it. Yes you expect it, but if you have a guy who can actually run or throw...

 

[DanOregon]

McDaniels has to be shown the door this season yes? He took over a playoff team and they've gotten worse as he's added more of "his kind a guys" to the roster. What a disastrous hire by Davis. At least under Carr, it was the defense that let the team down. Maybe just elevate the D-coordinator at this point, and de-Patriotize the team.

 

[goalmouth]

The .500 NFL with so many teams with playoff hopes has long been trade-averse, but we're seeing a new normal.

 

[outofplace]

Not till after the fact. He wasn't really a household name.

Every Steeler is a household name in Western PA.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

LOL. True enough.