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  1. SMU_Sox

    Are we not doing game goats any more? (Week 9 @ Titans)

    Overall this is a mediocre draft at the top. It’s likely somewhat of a down year. COVID has made the last 3-4 drafts rough. This is the last year of the super COVID 7-8 year starters (technically will be a handful of guys next year but not like this year). So development should start to go back...
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    Maye-day Every Day

    Yeah I just meant like, if one potentially turned the ball over or put the ball in harms way 2-3 times a game consistently that would outweigh the good. It's ignoring the 4 NFL starts part. But I mean to ignore it. I am still super excited about Maye. I think he's going to be aces.
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    Maye-day Every Day

    We expected Maye to be a little turnover prone because when he faced better competition in college he had those issues. I am not saying anything is bad. However, he is putting the ball in harms way quite a bit early on. He also makes absolutely spectacular plays too that help mitigate the bad...
  4. SMU_Sox

    Patriots WRs

    ASS bakes that in. Raw separation score also takes that into consideration. I think the scores and the data is mostly junk and I don’t pay a lot of attention to it. But hey YMMV. Not you personally. Universal you.
  5. SMU_Sox

    Are the Pats the worst team in the NFL?

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    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    We're just two lost souls N's of 1 swimming in a fish bowl. My colleagues are Pats fans. None of them listen to sports radio. Some listen to pods. Everyone I personally know offline is worried about Mayo. Not like fire him worry but worry. I am also worried about him. I fucking like the guy a...
  7. SMU_Sox

    Alpha Wolf: Eliot Wolf named de facto GM

    Polk is 17th on the list. 12 of these guys are better than 1.5 Yards per Route Run (Y/RR). Disappointing is a little harsh. It’s 7 games in. Polk is 24th or 25th out of 27 for Y/RR. That’s rough. 0.44. TT territory. For reference Boutte is 1.24.
  8. SMU_Sox

    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    Noll - Cower - Tomlin another exception//coaching. Landry to Jimmy Johnson another. It happens sometimes. A lot of times it... does not.
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    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    Yeah I am in agreement here with both of you. I think Cover-3 would also work... another guy in the box to help stop the run too. Yes but I think they would be better off in more single high situations, more man coverage, and go higher risk higher reward. Blitz more too. Side thought but...
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    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    Why do we think they are playing so much Cover-2 and 2 high shells? I can't think of an answer that makes perfect sense but maybe it is just the least bad option out of many?
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    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    I watched a bunch of the first and into the second half last night. I am a little surprised how much cover 2 they ran. ILBs are so out of their depth when trying to cover anyone. Tavai and others don't play with the requisite awareness in zone. Then you have bullshit where they can't figure out...
  12. SMU_Sox

    Jaguars Game Goat Thread

    Yes Maye is the most important part. Refresher: Wolf reached by quite a bit on most of the remaining picks. You should be concerned that the entire rest of the draft has not done anything of note early on. Why wouldn't you be? You are a draft and develop team that hasn't shown that they can...
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    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    What is weird to me is how complex their zone coverage is and when they use it. Sometimes I wonder what the thought process is on calls. It’s like they don’t have the safeties to play C1/C3 but their corners are better in man than zone. Their front gets no pressure regardless so it doesn’t...
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    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    Sorry, I should have specified they all speak in the same way more or less. I can buy that to a degree. You hear a lot of HC's say the exact same shit after a loss. We have the term "coach-speak" for a reason. As a long-time ACC fan (since July 1, 2024), I hoped you caught the classic ACC...
  15. SMU_Sox

    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    Thank you. That makes sense. All losing coaches are alike; each winning coach is winning in his own way. So the opposite of the Anna Karenina principle?
  16. SMU_Sox

    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    Which team? Overall though, and this is me asking with palms up and no assholery intended, what is your point, good sir? Isn't a coach instrumental in getting wins? I could interpret what you wrote a bunch of different ways but I would be reading into what you are saying. Rather than doing...
  17. SMU_Sox

    Hold the Mayo? Evaluating Patriots coaching.

    Agreed. I am trying to figure out what Maye is doing well if anything and the only thing that pops up is that some of his in-game management has been good. A lot has not though. He can't exactly X's and O's his way out of this either. He is a culture builder kind of coach but I am not sure he is...
  18. SMU_Sox

    Jaguars Game Goat Thread

    Corner is such a volatile position. This team doesn’t have any position of excess. To me if you have a high pick and you can’t get OT, Edge, IDL, or WR (or QB obviously) you best trade down. I wouldn’t want to take a corner in the top 5 and prefer not to in the top 10. So yeah trade down. Plus...
  19. SMU_Sox

    Jaguars Game Goat Thread

    It is possible that 2 of them are corners. I’ll actually have time to do my deep dive this year. That is something I have mentioned to @Super Nomario … we might be in a class where there are 2 “top 5” guys in the draft and they both play corner. The Michigan guy and Travis Hunter (he also plays...
  20. SMU_Sox

    Jaguars Game Goat Thread

    The run blocking sucked today. Seemed like the WRs weren’t separating. Edges, DL, ILBs couldn’t consistently stop the run. Gonzo gave up some plays again. Tackling was poor. Polk couldn’t make 2 tougher catches and then fucking tripped. Seems like almost everyone sucked. Coaching wasn’t great...