Fear The Chorizo

Tampa hasn't had to play anyone that's competent at passing the ball since they've lost all sorts of guys in their secondary - the Rams and Stafford torched them for 343 and 4TDs back in week 3, and they've only gotten worse since then healthwise at corner and safety. I think Tampa is a really good team, but they aren't close to as good defensively as they were last year, and good passing offenses are going to be able to score on them.

Gute's 2019 draft is pretty impressive despite not having a ton of picks....Gary, Savage, jenkins are a pretty solid 1st 3 picks I still see some angst around Gary on here and I don't really get it...as he's figured out how to play OLB in this system he has become really solid against both the run and pass. The angst is just the fact that as of now, every 1st round DT/DE or LB drafted behind Gary, according to profootballreference has provided more value than Gary has. He was the Uber project but legit 4 others at essentially the exact same role were on the board. Making matters worse was how high they must have thought on Savage. The fact you didn't find a trade partner to move down is why Gary was a bad pick. He's at least starting to live up to that value drafted but as mentioned above, the immediate impact should have been there at 12 not a project who becomes expensive around the time he lives up to #12. Montez Sweat is a better player drafted last of those 4 clone types after Gary. Hundreds in trade value opportunity missed. I think you could've at least come up with a better specific example to try making your point that's entirely aided by 20/20 draft hindsight. Montez Sweat would've gotten picked in the top ten of that draft had he not had a misdiagnosed heart condition - which caused quite a few teams to leave him off their board entirely. The word of the misdiagnosis didn't occur until the morning of the draft following a 2nd medical opinion, so teams were still hesitant about it. Plus, Sweat profiles much more like a 4-3 DE than a 3-4 OLB or lineman. I put zero stock in postdraft hypotheticals that always assume teams had their pick of suitors to trade down with and still get the same player they apparently overdrafted ~15 picks later - oftentimes it's just not a realistic approach to determining whether a draft pick was great/good/awful. Gary was picked as a development project due to his freakish size/athleticism combo - he didn't do much in 2019 but still saw time on the field, and he didn't get the benefit of a full offseason and training camp to continue developing in 2020 due to COVID. Despite that, by the second half of last season Gary was one of the better defensive players on their roster - now he's right up there with Kenny Clark in terms of impact on the defensive front for this team in year 3.

Gute's 2019 draft is pretty impressive despite not having a ton of picks....Gary, Savage, jenkins are a pretty solid 1st 3 picks I still see some angst around Gary on here and I don't really get it...as he's figured out how to play OLB in this system he has become really solid against both the run and pass.

Gary is having himself a ballgame

Feels like Washington has had the ball all game long. Right back in the red zone, right where we want them

Jeez

That's quite a nose you got there. What do i have on the grill? A grill cover , lol

They would first need the cap space to absorb the full WR tag. It will take some maneuvering. Good luck finding that and resigning Alexander. Adams might be back but it won't be under the franchise tag.

Omg....Black had that dead to rights and he literally just ran away from the guy

I smell a pick coming

Olsen is really good...and he's been prepping for this for years. I recall he has done some broadcasts when he was either injured or semi retired. Really awesome dude, too...

Washington's front is no joke. Davante is insanely good at football, too...what a catch

Red zone stop juggernauts, lol

The camera angle after the break made it an obvious wash recovery after savage clearly didn't have the ball.

Aside from the fact it was laying next to him on the ground after he completely whiffed on jt.

Jeez....Kyler Murray is going to watch this tape and salivate based on this qb running everywhere at will. Also, can a green bay defender recover a dang fumble cleanly? This is a terrible officiating call...

He fumbled then regained possession on top of a heap of bodies with forward progress completely stopped. At some point the play is over and the ruling on the field is no TD. Shouldn't get overturned

They shouldn't give them a td simply because he couldn't get into the end zone untouched on 3rd down

This defense just feels like mashed potatoes at the point of attack far too often, and nobody can make a solid open field tackle solo. They've found a way to keep a bad offensive team mostly off the board and I get there are lots of injuries hampering them....would be nice to force a three and out a few times a game!

So is the camera guy tailing Rodgers after every score something thats been going on all year, or us it just to try and get more "i own you!" footage?

Yeah, between that episode and the Astros, I'm guessing Manfred isn't looking forward to attending games in either of those parks or stumbling through answering questions over the next few weeks.

I believe the Astros as a team were among the mlb leaders in fewest strikeouts as a team offensively. And they were also top 10 in walks and led MLB in OBP. They give you tough at bats across the lineup and they put the ball in play. One of the best ways to defeat shifting is to simply make alot of contact and not give the opponent half your outs via striking out.

honestly, if the NL does get the DH after the new CBA finally gets hammered out, go out and give Castellanos a longterm deal at market value and hope he signs. A righthanded bat that can hit for a high average and pop, plus not strike out a ton is exactly what this team needs.

It might still be a bit premature to write off the Dodgers - I believe ATL was up 3-1 in last year's NLCS, too. Still a big hill to climb - but the Dodgers can roll out Scherzer and Buehler for games 6-7 and it's the Braves who will likely see some key innings have to be pitched by guys who aren't near the top of their rotation early in games.

Yea he's certainly scrambled and gotten desperate. However, I was just thinking how the current state of Dodgers pitching could probably be argued started from the trickle down from having to play the WC game and use Scherzer there. Basically exactly one of the effects the WC game was supposed to have in giving the division winners an advantage. Of course it's hurt more in this situation due to Bauer/Kershaw, but a team having 5 aces or high high level SPs is very rare, having 3 though isn't rare and this is a scenario that could happen from it. without a doubt, and exactly why I wanted the Dodgers to have to go through that WC round to soften up their staff - having to go the full 5 games against SF really left them in scramble mode, too. Not having Kershaw or at least a solid 4th SP has been costly, and having in inconsistent Buehler hasn't given their bullpen the breather it would normally get since Scherzer and Urias are constantly pitching on short rest and not able to pitch deep into ballgames as effectively.