I heard a sports talker (Lupica I think on sports reporters but I was bouncing around) note that Kap got cancelled by the “non-woke” mob and that the whole woke thing is a canard.
If you punch up, you get canceled. If you punch down, you get rich. USA #1 forever.
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Most punchable (up) faces. I’ll take Elon.
1. The Bills are getting the Chiefs treatment
To understand where the Bills went wrong on offense, you have to go to the root of the problem. When the Bills are humming on offense, they use a multifaceted attack that almost any defensive structure has problems slowing down. However, teams have found something that works quite well against Allen and the passing offense and effectively neutralizes what makes them unique. And it’s a pretty similar approach to the one that all of a sudden has made it difficult for the once-monstrous Chiefs offense to put up points and yards in bunches.
Allen briefly alluded to it postgame before putting the blame back on himself, but the beginning of many of the Bills’ offensive problems starts with the Cover-2 shell defensive approach. The defense is designed to take away long-ball opportunities by keeping each safety deep and anchored to one side of the field, giving ample support to the zone coverage of cornerbacks and linebackers in front of them. The Jaguars’ safeties were always on guard for deep throws to the middle and sidelines. That meant if the Bills were trying a deep ball, odds are they’d need their receiver to win a two-on-one jump ball — which would be lousy quarterback decision-making.
It’s a defense designed to frustrate and keep pass-first offenses patient. Yelling for the Bills to take a deep shot just to take one is a bad process. It’s simple logic. The odds for a turnover significantly increase when you’re throwing at two defenders. That’s why you saw Allen and the Bills continue to look underneath and stack completions without ever taking a swing at a big play.
While the Jaguars didn’t use the Cover-2 shell on every play, they used it quite often — and the Bills had no answer other than to take what the Jaguars were ceding with underneath throws. This is the second straight week the Bills have seen the opponents take this approach. The only difference between the Jaguars’ game plan and the one the Dolphins ran was that the Jaguars were more committed to it. The Dolphins ran a lot of Cover 0 and Cover 1, which created some man-to-man opportunities in the second half. Unless the Bills can prove they can move the ball consistently against the keep-everything-underneath Cover-2 shell approach, this is the new blueprint. And they’re going to see a lot more of it from here on out. However, the defensive scheme is just the root of the problem. The trunk and branches stemming from that root have turned this into a big moment for the Bills to adapt and react.
This is basically what teams did to the Hawks in the second half of 2020 and it was super effective. Schotty’s inability to adjust to it was what got him canned, but seeing it work so well on the Chief’s O with all their weapons is weird.
They really only have two weapons running routes - Kelce and Hill.
Facing these defenses Kareem Hunt would run for 200 yards/game, catch for another 100, and basically prevent all this from happening.
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Has there ever been even one writer for Outkick who wasn’t a complete moron?
https://twitter.com/armandosalguero/status/1457524669897134086?s=21
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I feel like my email to them today (letting them know that, since their company decided not to end its relationship with noted lying antivaxxer moron Aaron Rodgers, I am ending my auto insurance relationship with them effective immediately) was equally reasonable
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That’s two Hall of Fame level receivers (though Tyreek will probably be kept out for his off field actions). Plenty of QBs would love to have Mahomes’ weapons.
Mahomes’ aggressiveness rating is the lowest in the league - meaning he’s throwing 91% of his passes (most in the league) to guys that are more than 1 yard away from the closest defender. This isn’t blanket coverage he’s seeing, guys are open. Part of that of course is throwing so many passes behind the line of scrimmage.
When your offense requires 3 all world playmakers and a top 5 (top 2?) QB to work well, it might be a problem.
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https://twitter.com/NFLFilms/status/1458120032370712589
This is incredible. I’m officially a Jameis fanboy now.
It’s weird but I envy their sense of community. The bedroom communities I walk through in LA are so sterile. Just people locked up inside their houses with their families, no front porches, barely any interaction on the street ever.
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Tuesdays are usually Rodgers on McAfee days. Let’s see how he can make it even worse.
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When the defensive personnel can run a cover 2 effectively, it’s hard for even the best offenses to handle. The best way to combat it is the power run game, followed by a TE who can work the middle as the outside receivers stretch the safeties.
Rodgers is on now.
Whoa, he apologized for misleading people (he did hedge it a tad, saying something like he apologizes to people who may have seen his words as misleading). But at least it’s something, I guess? I’m actually surprised he didn’t dig in right off the bat, considering his attitude in last week’s interview.
Pat just made fun of him for consulting with “Dr. Joe Rogan.”
EDIT: He later straight-up said he “misled” people with his immunization statement.
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The rest of the COVID portion was uneventful. Just him saying stuff like he knows he has had it better than a lot of people when it comes to the illness and how hard it has been for so many. That he has talked to a few people on both sides of the issue, that he’s a lifelong learner, that he’s not a political guy, just a football player, he has no hard feelings against anyone who criticized him, etc. Nothing special.
Sounds like he realized how stupid he was sounding.
Yeah, pretty much. I have a feeling some people told him he sounded like an asshole. He didn’t back down from anything he said, but he certainly toned it down. I also don’t think Pat wanted to carry on too much about it.
I guess its good that he’s a bit contrite, but saying he was “immunized” and that he was “allergic” and that a doctor told him taking the vaccine meant he’d have no chance of getting covid were just straight up lies that he needs to apologize for.
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Did Jamies have a crab tank?