Just win this one game against a very good team at their place. Until that happens, I'm not even thinking about the bigger picture.
Going off the contracts we have all 4 back for at least 1 more year. Im sure some cap manipulating will be done and at the very least Pickens will be franchised.
Great, there's no need to do anything, especially since Clark's deal is up after next year and they should be able to bring him back for 2027 and beyond relatively cheap.
Losing a game here doesn't mean much to me in the grand scheme, starting with the Raiders game I almost consider this a new team with the influx of defensive talent. Obviously making the playoffs would be great but it's not a dealbreaker for me unless they look like absolute shit.
I definitely agree. I think this version of the team has pretty much already shown it can play with anyone. I was talking about the general fan/media attitude. They'll be doom and gloom even though losing to Detroit at their place could happen to any team.
Yeah, that's where the coaches need to be. Win this next game. Build on the positive and keep improving. That's your only job. Be better each week.
This DT development alone is like having had a deep postseason run all by itself. Maybe not, but it is huge and moreover gives me hope the organization FINALLY understands how defense fucking works.
Right, it's like they forgot about the great DT rotation of the 90s glory years, or Bob Lilly, and Randy fuckin White.
Exactly! They got all caught up in sack and pass defense numbers and forgot that none of it matters if you can't contain a QB's step up room or stop the run from ripping you a new one and keeping you guessing
Stopping the run should be paramount in any defensive scheme … it makes an offense 1 dementional.. puts more pressure on the QB…allows you to keep players back in the secondary instead of packing the line …I don’t know where any of our coaches have lost sight of this
Probably because all Jerry's pea brain can remember from those 90's defenses was the impact made by Haley and Deion, so he spent 30 years thinking DE and CB were the two most important positions on defense.
I almost posted that in his interview today he sounded sensible, like he had half an idea what he was doing. It was weird.
In all fairness the NFL in general sort of abandoned the run game for awhile. And you were seeing dynamic pass rushing duos win Superbowls. See Von Miller and Ware as an example.
Or he is lying.
Now that makes sense. He basically offered them more at the trade deadline.
That ain't Jerry. That's a fuckin imposter, and this is the best thing that ever happened to us.
