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nothing. now hopefully the defense gets Fields one more chance to do it.

true. a playoff caliber QB finds a way here. a guy you pay the big money here takes the team on his back and makes up for the other players you cant afford because you paid him.

I think of all the things that are uncertain, a new OC (at the least) is a certainty.

for sure. on 3rd and long its more understandable, but yes Getsy is over his head as a playcaller

watch fields patting the ball as he is sacked

hope so!

new coaches next year please.

the pat of the ball is why the defender got to Fields. Dammit. Just throw the damn ball, you dont have to say goodbye to it first.

yuck.

hell yes. And with his addition, even on plays he doesnt get sacks or hurries, QBs still cant just sit back there, and suddenly we can see how well all the back seven can play.

the link you provided was for a player drafted in 2019. He had a 5 year deal, not a 5th year option. The new 5th year option rules came into effect in 2020. EDIT - I researched, and the rule was adopted 2018, so I was wrong about your example not applying. Now the question is whether that site has the rule right or not regarding trades. I still think Im right about that, but the rule IS older than I thought. On further research, i was wrong about that.

Hey Browns? Remember when you sacked Fields so many times in his first NFL action? how's it feel Flacco?

Jones dont fumble

yeah, and salary cap considerations in effect, if youre a surround the QB with talent guy, then that goes with the draft a rookie QB scenario. Rodgers lost Adams, Mahomes lost Hill etc. And I fully admit if youve got a league beating QB, you pay him, but it does cost you other players around him.

oooh almost another Flacco INT

and he's only 175 pounds too.

sometimes there is other delay too, and he does seem to be doing better with that, but yes the pat has to go. And I realize that asking a QB to consciously think about stuff like that during the season is a distraction. But they should have gotten rid of it in the preseason.

they do it ALL the time, on the bubble screens too. WHY Put in the 6' 5" guy you brought up from the PS last week.

Ii think Getsy keeps asking Mooney to be the blockers at the point of attack, and it's a huge mistake. That 4th down run by Fields would have worked with pretty much any other receiver chipping the defender.

Fields has had a few quicker reads in this game too. Thats nice to see. Even on the incompletion to Moore, he made a faster decision. Now he needs to eliminate that pat of the ball before he throws it. It tells the DBs to break on the ball, and makes the ball a half a second later. I do see growth from Fields in the last two games. But there is more to fix before I can buy into him.

lol right?

Stevenson!!!!! way to go!!!!! WOW!!!!!! HUGE!!!!! That was a touchdown! WOw!!!! THAT was a superman play. Incredible.

Oh come ON Taylor!!! You arent fast - you were brought here for ONE reason - to cleanly catch punts even with limited return ability. UGH.

yeah. I like to think of it like a stone archway. if it needs 9 stones to hold up, you can 8 of them in place, but if you remove the brace, the whole thing collapses. But add that last stone, so they all rest on each other, and its stable. Our defensive roster has been getting better, but until we had a pass rush, you couldnt see it. Now with that last stone in place, the whole thing clicks. Football IS the ultimate team sport!

yeah no kidding. I never understood criticizing that pickup. Also, apparently they had Chase Young on the trading block and not Sweat, so Poles did an amazing job shaking him free at the last minute too.