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a healthy Allen Robinson has helped Bortles a ton
the Jags have some nice, young weapons on offense with Yeldon, Hurns, & A-Rob
Julius Thomas too
And still 1-4. May as well have no QB just like the Texans
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And still 1-4. May as well have no QB just like the Texans
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Damn, man.
His absence these first few weeks hasn't shipwrecked the team (like you might assume losing an All-Pro center could do), but missing out on his contributions for the whole season sucks for Big Ben, who turns 34 this spring.
He is probably hoping for one last run, and in 2015, the AFC Championship Game berths are more up for grabs than they've been in a long time.
-DEN's offense being down through September and into October (the months where Peyton is usually at his best - who knows where he'll be in the cold months he typically will experience his struggles in)
-IND offensive line has plenty of questions (and caused Luck to become desperate in the pocket -> turnovers) and defense has trouble staying healthy
- SD has no OL for Rivers to survive behind, continue to thrive behind from a yards standpoint
- KC lost its best and most relied upon weapon for the season
-BAL's fading too fast for another second-half run like last season, and is worse than last season anyway.
While Pittsburgh's secondary will be suspect the rest of the year, their best competition once Big Ben returns for an AFC Championship berth seems to be just New England and Cincinnati. NE just lost its left tackle for the season, too (I'm sure Vollmer or whoever they put there will be fine)
a healthy Allen Robinson has helped Bortles a ton
the Jags have some nice, young weapons on offense with Yeldon, Hurns, & A-Rob
Allen Robinson's the next boring name to enter all casual fans lives (****, well, it always depends on Blake Bortles when I say that - disclaimer).
"He didn't take that next step" -> "expectations [of taking that next step] haven't been fulfilled at the time we're talking about it"
The next step and those expectations always come out of a group of media members who we watch more for opinions than they watch of the football games they have opinions on. How many people with those opinions were really watching the 7-9 Bridgewater-led Vikings in 2014? Because their only primetime game all season was started by Christian Ponder.
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a healthy Allen Robinson has helped Bortles a ton
the Jags have some nice, young weapons on offense with Yeldon, Hurns, & A-Rob
Allen Robinson got that bum McGloin to the NFL and Hackenberg hasn't been the same without him
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a healthy Allen Robinson has helped Bortles a ton
the Jags have some nice, young weapons on offense with Yeldon, Hurns, & A-Rob
Julius Thomas too
And still 1-4. May as well have no QB just like the Texans
Well they clearly have a plan and a solid foundation to build upon, we're still looking for that.
As of now their future looks a hell of lot brighter than ours.
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the next step is not fulfilled expectations, fulfilled expectations for someone off Teddy's pedigree is a franchise QB
taking the next step is showing growth, maybe it is the play calling, maybe it isn't but I don't think you can say he looks better than he did last year at this point
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NE gonna walk to the SB long as they stay healthy.
Just die already.
Bengals will take care of them this year
Pitt could make some noise in the playoffs but not enough to get to the SB
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Denver is still a very sneaky team to me. Kubes hasn't figured out the running game and that defense is serious.
Outside of them, though... nah. NE gonna wash everyone else in their path.
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If Broncos can get their offense going, I wouldnt say it's a walk to the sb..
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what about the Bengals?
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NE gonna walk to the SB long as they stay healthy.
Just die already.
Bengals will take care of them this year
Pitt could make some noise in the playoffs but not enough to get to the SB
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You'll see
You will all see
And then I root for the NFC in the SB
You will all see
And then I root for the NFC in the SB
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I was laying the bait, c'mon LTB
I meant to address that in the post but I blanked
I really wanted to see Peyton flourish in that plus match-up but he just looks worse and worse. Like, we can't really count on him to make one perfect throw when it counts. And it's kinda sad to see because he has that elite defense to bail him out of any bad TO's and to shut down anyone in the league. I agree they're sneaky but I really wanna see Peyton do anything of significance.I thought about Cincy but they're still a "prove it in the limelight" team. I'll say that their defense is pretty borderline elite as well and it's nice to see Dalton not forcing everything to AJ. That's been the huge problem.
They really need a bonafide #2 guy. Gio looking like his old self helps a lot.
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That AFCN loyalty
Love what Cincy has built, LOVE it.
But you want me to consider Dalton, IN NE, in January? Ehhhhh.
If they somehow get HF, game in Cincy, that would help, but it's still Brady/Bill v Dalton/Marvin. Fairly safe bet with NE in that scenario.
We'll see. Still only mid October.
But you want me to consider Dalton, IN NE, in January? Ehhhhh.
If they somehow get HF, game in Cincy, that would help, but it's still Brady/Bill v Dalton/Marvin. Fairly safe bet with NE in that scenario.
We'll see. Still only mid October.
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This is what worries me about Peyton. It ain't even the long ball and wobbles anymore.
**** was terrible Looking like Jeff Lockie.
**** was terrible
Looking like Jeff Lockie.
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Peyton is done, if they had an average D that team would be 2-3 at best
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