Red Mosquito

Sports are weird as hell.

This is what we do smh.

But also, I'll enjoy this one.

4/5 wrote:This is what we do smh.

But also, I'll enjoy this one.

Yeah, I enjoyed it

The Buffalo Bills Super Bowl hangover is real.

wth happened here

LoathedVermin72 wrote:wth happened here

A lot of young/new players stepped up. We saw what some vets are actually capable of. If they play consistently like this, they could actually potentially win out and make the playoffs. Crazy.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:wth happened here

Buffalo won their Super Bowl last week and so they underperformed this week.

epilogue wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:wth happened here

Buffalo won their Super Bowl last week and so they underperformed this week.

And we just won our second one in as many weeks!

4/5 wrote:

epilogue wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:wth happened here

Buffalo won their Super Bowl last week and so they underperformed this week.

And we just won our second one in as many weeks!

buffalo lost because of that stupid commercial with babies and they deserve it and so much more

AL

Huzzah!

Haha. Yeah f tua

Nobody has time to watch "film", and I don't expect them to know anything about route concepts and stuff, even if the broadcast angles captured them at all during the game, which they don't.

So, this Kurt Warner breakdown of the film is very useful. Either the play designs suck, or the receivers don't know what the play is, or the play is being poorly communicated.

Either way, doesn't look like Quinn Ewers or anybody else would have much success in this offense if it doesn't change drastically. I dislike Tua as much as the next guy right now; we need somebody with much better physical and mental abilities and "fire". But jee wiz, these route combinations absolutely suck.

After watching the Warner breakdown, it’s pretty hard to pin that Steelers game on Tua. The route concepts were bad. Guys weren’t getting open. No late answers. That’s on the design.

That said, this is probably Tua’s ceiling. A truly great QB pushes back, kills plays, simplifies, and basically tells the OC “this won’t work today.” Tua runs what’s called, even when it’s clearly not working.

Which is why the Ewers thing makes zero sense to me. If Tua — who knows the system — can’t survive bad concepts, a rookie sure as hell won’t. That’s not a fix, that’s a gesture.

Feels like McDaniel needs a Peyton/Brady/Rodgers-type who can take control of the offense. Instead, he’s got a QB who’s solid but system-dependent. When the system breaks, everyone blames the QB.

I'll watch that video when I get a chance but that's interesting because I saw a clip of Warner on some show (Rich Eisen maybe?) today and I got a different vibe from it. He did say the offense is demanding on the QB and makes him have to put the ball in tight spots. But I didn't get the impression he thought it was bad play design.

My perception the second half of the year has been that McDaniel has done a very good job coaching around a black hole at QB on offense. Tua has lost any shred of athleticism he had a year ago and is a complete shell of himself. My theory is that mysterious hip injury at the end of the year last year was the end of him.

I'm very interested to watch that video because it really sounds like you're absolving him of most of the responsibility when it seems like most things around him have been pretty good for the last batch of games and he's been the biggest issue.

That’s fair. I didn’t take Warner as saying McDaniel is a bad play designer either. More that the offense is really demanding and kind of falls apart once timing gets disrupted.

I’m not trying to let Tua off the hook. I agree this is probably his ceiling, and yeah, whatever limited athleticism he had seems gone. I just don’t buy that everything around him has been “pretty good” lately. Against good defenses it feels like once the first thing isn’t there, there’s just nothing else to go to.

So for me it’s less “Tua isn’t the problem” and more “this is a fragile system paired with a QB who can’t override it.” That combo breaks down fast.

I’m curious what you think after seeing the full breakdown — it hit different for me than the short TV clip stuff too.

McDaniel out

The right call.

Harbaugh incoming.