2024 Season | Week 11 | Gameday Chatter Thread | Texans @ Cowboys | 11/17/2024
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I thought the defense was somewhat decent last night, I guess the offense was too but you had Aubrey missing a short FG and McCarthy idiotically going for it on 4th instead of cutting it to a one score game.
Neither side was great but against a good opponent with a bunch of starters down I think that sort of performance was about the best that you'll get.
It's honestly how I'd like to see most of the rest of the season go, generally competitive games, some of the young players looking decent, but ultimately losing at the end.
If it were me I'd start sitting guys like Parsons, Lamb, Tyler (may be out anyway), Overshown, Bland (may not come back in the first place), and maybe Diggs sometime around the Bengals game. The Panthers game will be a critical tank loss, so I'd hope they're playing Lance by then.
Neither side was great but against a good opponent with a bunch of starters down I think that sort of performance was about the best that you'll get.
It's honestly how I'd like to see most of the rest of the season go, generally competitive games, some of the young players looking decent, but ultimately losing at the end.
If it were me I'd start sitting guys like Parsons, Lamb, Tyler (may be out anyway), Overshown, Bland (may not come back in the first place), and maybe Diggs sometime around the Bengals game. The Panthers game will be a critical tank loss, so I'd hope they're playing Lance by then.
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Please, yes, I think he'll actually be worse than Rush and will deliver us Hunter, Carter or Graham.
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This is what I was saying last night on the strip sack, the game was generally close throughout but at the beginning of the 4th Rush had thrown it 40 times with only about 10-12 runs, which I felt pretty much encapsulated our offense this season.
Guyton held up well most of the night but when you're on pace for 50+ pass attempts a rookie is going to end up getting beat at some point against some pretty decent edge rushers.
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The discipline and execution of the players was never good this year but it's starting to get even worse it feels like. Every other play there is some stupid mistake, camera pans to McCarthy who just looks totally frustrated and unable to do anything. Just feels like the players are giving effort but there is no real team there any more. Guys aren't playing together. Just seems pretty obvious that the team has checked out in some capacity and are no longer listening or paying attention to the coach.
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If they don't shut him down for the year even if he's cleared, they're retarded.
Which means they probably won't shut him down.
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This is what happens with lame duck coaches and dysfunctional environments. I think the players are actually trying and playing with some level of intensity but in this sort of environment where you know the coaching staff are dead men walking it's only natural to lose focus at times, lose a bit of intensity at times, not play with max physicality at all times, so on and so forth.
The margins are so small that "letting go of the rope" only a few times a game can make the difference, especially when compounded with injuries, and I think that's what's happening here.
To win big in the NFL everybody needs to be bought in and totally focused, and that's obviously the furthest thing from where this team is at, and has been most of the year.
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This is exactly it. The players don't buy into the coach. Which is why dumping McCarthy and replacing him now could lead to an extra win or two. You get an interim head coach and suddenly the players check back in for that guy. As painful as this ship wreck is to watch we might as well continue to sink the ship now. The players knew before the season started that McCarthy was gone. They aren't going to buy into a head coach that they know is already fired in every capacity. Especially when the owner is sitting there telling the coach what he can and can't do. That makes it all that much more painfully obvious.
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FWIW, and he didn't explain why, but even early in the game one of the Mannings said we need to run it and Belichick said no, they need a bunch of short throws instead. Not sure if he just doesn't like the way we run block or thinks Rico sucks or what.
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Yea I'm not saying we should be running more necessarily because the run game is obviously shit, just the pure fact that we had a +25-30 discrepancy in a close game pretty much typifies what the offense has been this year.
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I bet that Coach Jones stepped in and said “no”.
