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Considering the only two that were fired were Cameron and Trestman - no, they both have a history of terrible coaching and Cameron couldn't even do it in college FB

lol ok, whatever buddy. He's the only player that's every played that wasn't amazing his rookie year, every that "knows what their talking about" gives up on players after 7 games, keep thinking that.

Overly cautious coaches, figured they'd wait until he was unquestionably 100% after the bye

Stanley has been practicing for a week and a half

Give you a break? I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you You can complain that a first round pick isn't the most amazing player on the planet, but to act as if he's a bust 7 games into pretty much his rookie season being behind multiple other receiver is just plain moronic

Yeah, he's our first round pick in pretty much his rookie year and is #3 on the depth chart, #4 when Smith is healthy. You're just being extremely ridiculous.

Even if we were considering moving on from Flacco - which I guarantee we aren't - then who exactly would be the replacement? No QB in the draft is worth taking high if you have an adequate QB, only desperate teams would be forced to take any of them high, any FA won't be any good. Like Flacco or not, we're sticking with him

Because if there's anything wrong with this team it's the third/fourth string WR - nice logic bro

Time to buckle up

Don't mind me, just listening to Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy"

Shockingly, a million injuries on defense have taken their toll, who'da thunk it

In short yardage, probably - but I doubt he gets any real chances outside of that

I can't believe Stanley is inactive again, he's been practicing since last Wednesday. I guess the coaches are playing it extremely safe on him and waiting until after the bye. Thats sucks, I was really hoping our oline would be mostly healthy today, the Jets' dline may be underachieving at the moment, and Wilkerson may be nursing an injury, but they can explode at any team. Week one they destroyed the Bengals' oline. Our oline wasn't terrible last week - even Hurst was meh, which is good for him. Now we have Wagner so our oline will be better, so I'm not hitting the panic button on this injury, just surprised he isn't even suiting up.

I don't think Aiken is definitely going to leave, with Smith retiring - and if Wallace is gone like you think - then there's plenty of reason to keep him around as he'd be unquestionably the starter. Levine will probably be re-signed, provides solid ST play and is a tool on defense. I don't think there's any way we let Juice go, great blocker and receiver and FBs don't demand much money. Mallett is tough, but I'm sure he'll be re-signed as he would be cheap and is a solid backup I wouldn't say Doom is 100% cut, we're still incredibly thin at pass rusher and now Suggs' future is in jeopardy. I doubt Zuttah is going anywhere, we currently have no clear backup at center - we have guys like Urschel who can step in in a pinch but Zuttah has regained his form the past couple weeks and he's our best option there until we draft and develop someone to take over. I'm still skeptical if Urschel is our long term solution there, I think he's our long term guy at LG when Lewis is moved to RT.

If you listen to some fans on here, every week is a must win. There has never been a game in our 20 year history that we could afford to lose.

Yes, but compared to the others on that list theirs has been particularly inconsistent and hasn't been very good the past two weeks, and their oline can't be trusted to consistently block well for anyone

Um, all of those teams except Seattle definitely have a run game...

Sounds like Joe's back at practice so all this Mallet talk is probably out the window, I'd imagine he'd only miss the game if he didn't practice at all this week.

It'll be interesting to see who our LBs will shake out with Suggs being out. Last week we rolled with Suggs, Orr, McClellan, and Smith, losing Suggs changes things quite a bit. Do with slide in Judon at the other OLB spot, or scoot McClellan out to OLB and let Correa get the start. My money's on the former, we haven't gotten any indication that Correa is ready to start and I doubt we'd hand him the start after giving him almost no playing time all season.

We shot ourselves in the foot with these penalties, where the heck is the discipline, this team has none whatsoever. We could have won this game if we just didn't commit stupid penalties seemingly every five seconds on offense

I think at worst it's still an improvement.

Good thing our makeshift oline is still pretty darn good at run blocking, which is what we should lean on anyway to start the game, that'll hopefully keep their defense honest and open up those throwing lanes

Lots of question about who's going to start at various spots. Who's starting opposite Wallace? Perriman or Aiken, either way I'm sure we're going to see a frequent rotation there. How are our LBs going to shake out? I'm betting Suggs-Orr-McClellan-Z. Smith. How is our oline going to shake out is the biggest question though, two starters out and Lewis at LT, he played well there last week but he's going ot have a bigger test today.

I'd say if you think we're one of the worst drafters in the league then the problem isn't Ozzie/DeCosta's drafting abilities its that you have unreal expectations for what one team gets out of the draft. No team ever hits on every pick, most are lucky to hit on one or two, we've consistently hit on 3 or more per draft for years. If you're expecting a game breaker every draft then you're going to be disappointed regardless of who we've got making the picks, sorry to burst your bubble. Our FO looks to take solid contributors because they understand the concept that it takes a team to win it all, having one or two superstars and rest garbage players might make for some fun gamedays but that doesn't translate to consistent wins. I know some fans have ridiculous expectations for the draft but Ozzie/DeCosta are as good as you're going to get in a league where many teams don't have a competent GM at all. And even after the draft Ozzie has a record of hitting on at least one UDFA, which is way more than most teams can say. Sure Ozzie doesn't make splash FA acquisitions and he draws his line in the sand when it comes to re-signing guys which results in most leaving for more money, but he's been right on those FAs more often than not. "Superteams" rarely work out and many of our former players, not all, have been big disappointments in their new homes.

You're giving two rookies and a quasi-rookie - all three of which being developmental players - one game to decide their entire future, that certainly seems fair and not insane at all