PerpetuallyBored74

I nominate the scouts who thought that Elam would be our Polamalu.

And the ones who thought Terrence Cody would be anything other than a big waste.

Ozzie should never listen to those guys again.

Mosely's banged up and Smith is starting to slow down.

We should rotate Brown in just to keep those 2 fresher and healthier.

Especially on obvious passing downs were Brown's speed might prove useful in coverage.

I still can't believe this many people are upset about a win.

The way I see it, if we're good enough to be 8-8, then we should hope to play up to our level.

But if we really are a 3-13 team this year, then I hope we nail the off season--the draft, FA signings, coaching and scheme changes, etc.--so we can turn this right around.

I don't want to see Joe's prime go to waste like Ray's and Ed's did.

I'd want him to start as the LB coah first.

Can you imagine how much that would benefit Mosely and Orr? Even Smith despite being a seasoned veteran?

Maybe even Brown too.

No.

For one, there's no way to fit him under the cap.

For another, he's following Todd Heap's career path (for exactly the same reasons).

Worst post ever. Don't even write those kind of things down. Bad juju, man.

I'm not superstitious.

I still deleted it anyway.

Because maybe there is something to be said for having a more positive outlook as opposed to a negative one.

Like it's a self fulfilling prophecy or something.

who gets cut for him to come back on the active roster? or does he stay on roster with ir designation?

Nobody.

SSS is going to be IR'd.

Now they might cut someone to add another WR for depth, maybe Daniel Brown.

Just reported that Le'Veon Bell has badly torn MCL that will end his season.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000570953/article/leveon-bell-expected-to-miss-season-with-torn-mcl

what makes you think his system will finally work?

Because that's the kind of luck this team has had this season.

Unfortunately, it will only last 5 days.

Purely out of force of habit, Pees will prevent the last 2 days of the bye week.

Hurst-------Why is he even on this team?

Because Monroe can't stay healthy.

I like wins.

But realistically...we're halfway through the season and we're already fielding a team that is makeshift with all these injuries.

That and we stil have Pees.

I don't see how we can overcome both to go on a historic run.

Seasons were we weren't so decimated by injuries.

All these rule changes to declaw defenses by removing hard hits to make the game safer.

But there seem to be more injuries and of greater severity than what we saw in the old smash mouth days.

Good: Flacco's hands -- reaching out to one hand the ball on Urschel's errrant shotgun snaps

Bad: Gillmore also left the game with an arm injury.

Sad: If Gillmore's injury impacts or prevents him from playing. We might have lost our 2 most productive pass catchers today.

Serious question. Is Aiken, Brown, Ross and Givens the worst group of starting of WR's in league history?

Only one, Givens was a draft pick. The other 3 came into the league as UDFA's.

Has there ever been a team relying on 3 UDFA's at WR before? And if Butler gets any snaps, that would make 4 UDFA's.

I don't know if that would be unprecedented or what...craziest season we've ever had.

Come to think of it, with SSS done for the year, we'll probabl promote Daniel Brown to the roster.

That would make 5 UDFA's.

Good: Joe was sharp, Will was killing it on D (at times), the D-line was stout, Kamar and Givens were clutch, Justin was money.

Bad: Pees and his soft coverage 3 man pass rush nonsense, miscommunication & blown assignments by the secondary, our LBs can't cover, Marlon is trash.

Ugly: Urschel's snaps, SSS achilles, injuries in general, now our WR corp is Aiken, Givens and either Ross or Brown (hopefully Ross).

Might as well close this thread.

All these injuries have definitely let Harbs off the hook, if he was ever even on it.

People have to lay off Kamar because him and Flacco were on point with those slants. Where was that all season? 

 

SSS going down with what looks like an achilles injury is so heartbreaking. I don't think anyone can seriously ask him to play next year when he wants to be with his family and his body is beat up. 

Kamar has had relatively little experience playing WR, not just in the NFL, but also in college where his best season was as a junior with only 36 catches for 610 yards but 9 TDs. And this was in the CUSA which is hardly the SEC or ACC.

Aiken has come a long way in his development into a solid steady WR.

But it's unrealistic to expect him to be a #1, which he now is by default with SSS' injury and Givens still not up to speed with Flacco and the playbook yet.

Win the game.

Lose more players.

Talk about bittersweet.

meh...season was already done anyway

The Rock Bottoms

(hopefully this means they now have nowhere else to go but up)

I don't understand why so many of you are constantly making excuses for Flacco. All the stats point to he is a below average QB and worst when we need him to be best. There is no arguing that. That SB run must have been a glitch in the matrix or something because he has never played like that since. Wake up people he is a huge part of the problem.

Only valid criticism of Joe is that his footwork was a mess after the Denver shellacking that he took, but for the last 2 games, his footwork has been fixed. For the offense, the issue now is throwing to a brand new WR/TE corp--because of all these injuries--who lack both experience and, for some, talent. That and *someone* has been making terrible calls on 3rd down and at the goaline on potential game winning drives.

But the defense is the main problem, clearly. And Pees is the main reason. His scheme is both too soft and too complex for our secondary, while being too easy to diagnose and dissect for opposing QBs and their OC's.

He's Cam 2.0.

Right down to "the players need to execute" mantra.

And he's going to suffer the same fate as Cam.

Blame Ozzie? Really? Let's blame him for how soft our defense is...for playing 8+ yards off a WR. For having an extremely thin Cb's group last year due to injury.

 

Give me a break. Webb was OUR draft, Jimmy DRAFTED, both were great and nobody complained about them, INJURIES happened and neither you or I can predict that. Same goes for Perriman. It happens and we have been on the wrong side of the injury bug. PERIOD.

 

Pitta has been out for 2 years now, had it not been for that then guess what? now we have a playmaker on the field.

 

We have been drafting well, that's not the issue.

Nobody's blamng Ozzie for Pees' failures or for how snakebit our WRs and DBs have been recently.

However, for several drafts we only drafted well in the later rounds.

And Ozzie seems to have wised up as he made the right choices in the last 2 drafts.

Hopefully, next time, he drafts 2 of 3 among either an edge rusher, CB/coverage safety, or WR in the first 3 rounds, and continues to do so in almost every draft from now on.

I'm not saying he should be fired or retire or anything outlandish, but yes, for awhile there he was messing up with the early rounds--or are you really going to argue that prior to Breshad's' selection that WR had not been severely neglected?

Ozzie deserves blame for drafting/relying on too many players with injury histories and/or who are on the wrong side of 30.

Yes, our cap has something to do with that, but some of our problems there are also on the FO.

And his neglect of our WRs & DBs who can cover & pass rushers in the draft have really come back to bite us now.

You're supposed to draft at least 2 of those 3 in the first 3 rounds in almost every year.

Instead we grab Cody, Upshaw, and Elam in the first and second rounds--who are all run defenders, not pass defenders. (also Williams in the 3rd round, but he was a steal there).

Yes, he finally wised up and drafted a WR and pass rushers early in the past 2 drafts. And if those players develop, we will see dividends from them.

Just not this season.

Didn't really think we were playing for the tie at the end of regulation. We ran the ball well to get down to where we were. We just don't have anybody reliable in the red zone from a pass catching perspective, and its far easier to stop our run game when the field shrinks.

It was classic Harbaugh, run twice, then throw. Remember, Trestman's history would lead one to expect him to throw it at least twice if not all 3 times. But you're right that Harbaugh may have had more confidence in the run, even though Justin had just been lost for the game, than in our makeshift recieving corp, though Kamar, Nick and Jeremy all played well and the RBs showed they could catch too. Only one who really failed to show up was Marlon (again).