adambr2

Turang shouldn't be on a playoff roster. He's literally a poor man's Craig Counsell, which, let's be honest, he scabbed out a long career, but he wasn't a good player.

Goes without saying, but obviously every game in a best of 3 is critical. The thing is, if we can pull this off today, you'd have to think we're in really good shape for the series because of how much we've tapped their bullpen today.

Pretty big stretch, pitch was borderline and we don't know how the sequence would have changed.

Or ever.

Maybe we can get a banner hung that says that when we lose this series.

Hahahaha, just wow.

Real great work Turang.

Need a rally killing grand slam here.

To me he's the guy there. You need K's. He's going to get you K's or walks. If he gets you walks, well....

Huge outs by Uribe to keep us in the game.

God I hate MLB umpires so much. This one has called a one sided zone tonight.

Canha sucks tonight.

He is not.

Incredibly deflating inning.

Not lasting long in October if we don't get good Burnes when we're already down Woodruff.

3 great ABs followed by 3 terrible ABs.

Of course. We can never have nice things.

Remember last year when the Broncos sucked but at least they had a top defense? Yeah, about that....

Should the Bills and Dolphins just be onside kicking after every time they score? Am I even joking?

We lost that series.

I don't know who has the tiebreaker but we could possibly be in position to face Arizona instead of Miami as early as tonight.

I totally forgot about Eric Lauer. I'm ok with forgetting about him again.

He's got "gets released and takes a sweetheart deal with the Jets to go play with Aaron in '24" written all over him. And he'll probably end up playing 15 games there, too.

My overanalysis on yesterdays game after reflecting: Have to keep things in perspective a little bit and realize that 2-2 with some ups and down is about where I expected us to be right now. I don't have super high expectations from this season. Jordan looks like he could be the guy but he has a long way to go and they have a long way to go around him. He looks comfortable and decisive with a clean pocket, but when he has to improvise, it usually isn't pretty. On that note, it's clear they again shot their shot on Bahk's knee and are paying dearly for it. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times...come on now, guys. Move on. It's a sunk cost now for this season, so you just make the best of it and get what you can out of him, but you have to go into this offseason with all intent to cut ties. Tackle will be right up there with safety on the draft priority list. I expect a mid 1st and a couple early to mid 2nd's, so they should be able to address some needs. The running game also isn't where it needs to be for this offense to be successful. It's pretty clear without a healthy Aaron Jones they just don't have any talent in the backfield. I can see the possibility of a 2nd round investment in a RB next spring, provided it isn't another A.J. Dillon. Obviously this horse is dead, but Joe Barry is so bad. You can win with Joe Barry, but it requires a perfectly executed game by a talented defense to do so. Having Jaire out is not ideal, but Barry does nothing schematically to improvise if he's shorthanded to try to put the starting 11 in the best possible position to succeed. This man has SIX ...again, a SIX season sample size of being an unsuccessful defensive coordinator. Beyond Barry, it was a pretty poorly coached game by the entire staff. Coming out completely flat two weeks in a row isn't a good look for MLF and his preparation, and this is not a pattern that just started showing up this year. Bicassia's units failed over and over again, there's no getting around it. Constant flags on special teams. Nixon costing us constant field position with poor kickoff return decisions. Walker not staying disciplined and committing a horrible penalty that iced the game. A near turnover on a botched punt return. The mistakes were numerous. We are not good enough to constantly give away yardage on the simple mental things that we can control. Two winnable games coming up against the Raiders and Broncos, so it's not unrealistic to think they could come out of them 4-2, but there's so much to clean up. I'd like to think they come off of the mini-bye against the Raiders well-prepared and executing well, but historical precedent with this staff tells me that that isn't necessarily going to be the case.

My hunch, as someone who has never played, is that it is something that is very easy to see and recognize from the outside looking in, or with the benefit of hindsight, but as a player in the moment, with the adrenaline going and the game moving fast, it likely becomes very easy to not be thinking about the score, the situation, etc, and just want to make a play. Not that I am excusing Walker entirely, as this is not his first offense of making a bonehead move in the moment. But this is exactly one of the main things you have a coaching staff for -- to recognize the score, the moment and not only that, but to recognize that it may be one of the things your players are overlooking, remind them that the situation calls for them to back it down a notch, and give the offense the ball back.