Darth Tater

We have not drafted a franchise QB since Sammy Baugh and we've spent quite a few high picks looking. Norm Snead did get us Sonny but Norm himself was just a journeyman. I guess you could argue that Theisman was sort of a draft pick. In the big trade, two successes in Sonny and Joe but also two big fails (both recent). In combo (trade up for high pick), we also have two recent fails.

The NFL probably want a Dallas v. Pack NFC-CG. I predict they will do most anything to get it. Unless McCarthy really tries to stop them, I predict the refs or the NFL will get their way.

If a few of the things that went wrong, don't, we finish 12-5. A few things that went our way, don't, we finish 2-15. (12+2)/2 = 7, so I figure we finished about right overall for who we are.

Reminds me of the Jess Atkinson situation so many years ago.

Stakes just went up!

The Eagles do scare me. They have about as easy a remaining schedule as you get in the NFL and are somewhat of a back season team. Dallas has always been a front-runner, often falling apart on the back end. Their Denver loss is a loss they are not going to make up.

Would be very hard road, but at least we control our own fate vis the NFC-East for now. Did not expect that to happen after the Denver loss.

Thing about this luck and bad call talk is to highlight how much it actually effects things. Take away the egregious bad calls against us (not all the ticky-tac ones but ones like the non-call face mask in the Chargers game or the fumble called not a fumble that ended up in another Falcons TD), we'd likely be 3-1 (and 1-2 dominant wins) and the narrative would be different (even though we'd really be no better than we are). Take away the bad calls and bad luck of our opponents and we are likely 0-4.

First to 30?

But last year, if we scored 20+ points, we'd win. If our defense was what most thought, we'd be 3-1. If the refs did not seem to want us to lose, we might also be 3-1 with 2 blow-outs!

We have never lost at Buffalo when we were the superior team. That is, all the games we've played in Buffalo we were clearly a bad team.

In my time as a Washington fan, how we fare against the Giants has been an excellent predictor of the season. Until last year, Gibbs was the only coach to get to the playoffs in a season after getting swept by the Giants. All of our coaches who swept the gmen in a non-playoff year got fired or left on bad terms (Allen). Gruden was the only coach we've had who got at least 3 years who never swept them although Pardee did it only in his last year here.

If Darnold and Wilson continue their pace on the year, New York needs to seriously become a contender for the "cursed QB" award.

What worries me is all the third and longs the Giants and the Chargers converted. Even three of the times the Giants failed, they ended up with a fourth inside of FG range. They like Dyami Brown more. He's been the guy getting most of what would have been a healthy Samuel's snaps. McKissic looked like he got snaps that often would have gone to WR four last night.

Even if they made the claim he fell because he was touched, it still looked like a bad mark.

My position on Taylor was that since we did not have the ammo to get a franchise guy at QB this year, he was either going to prove he was no fluke or we were going to have the ammo to make a move.

A short-yardage guy as good as Barber was last season is great. However, Barber proved that he is not the guy to backup Gibson. McKissic also looks like a guy who would have a focused role. While Gibson is a primary back, he still needs a guy good for several snaps a game plus a possible full game or three that doesn't change what the offense can do.

Virginia did everything in its power to prevent me from getting vaccinated but they could not stop me from getting it through my company.

Also, an offense/teams can give up cheap scores or put defenses in bad situations or not do that. Help minimize how much work the defense has to do (even a great defense gives up the big play if the other team's offense has too many chances. A good dc will also be able to take advantage of how his offense may limit the other team's playbook.

Having a true QB competition is not bad for the team. If you want to see it in a negative light, you could argue that it is a bad signal about the QB talent that only thing is that we have no known elite guy and don't want to give up what we'd have to to get him.

I consider Marshall as the first elite LB we had since Hanburger and one of 4 we've had in my fandom.

But he does get lots of over time.

Sammis is 25 and a part of an NFL development program, he could have been one of those young guys who might have missed his chance to a guy like Tebow. If he takes 2-3 years to learn TE, he'll still be south of 30 and could put in near a decade of good work. Tebow is a 33 year old who has already had his chance. Even if his second chance works out, he only has a couple of years at most.

RG3 was not the only home run swing we've made. I KNOW since 1999, we've taken that home run swing 7-8 times. Because a mock has a QB rated one way has nothing to do with whether the pick was a home run swing or not. In fact, mocks that rated Campbell as a 2 probably make the move a bigger swing.

Huh? We have either made a move since 1999 many times, tried or did not need 7 or 8 times. The best moves we've made for a franchise-type guy was actually flipping Snead for Sonny back around the time I was born then trading a second rounder for the rights to some guy up in Canada in the early 70s. Further, the second best way to make sure you pick a bust is to trade up huge. Only team to have success with this strategy in recent years was good to begin with (had been for several years a playoff team) and a coach who is the spiritual successor to probably the greatest QB guru ever (Holmgren).