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BruteDion

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I wonder if they could lower a shade on any of those windows only when beneficial to their offense or defense? Seems like it could be illegal but this is a unique and rare stupid stadium feature.
Yeah it would be messed up to rise and lower blinders when you have the ball vs when you don't but Dallas 100% has the ability to cover them up.
 

Rambo John J

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Yeah it would be messed up to rise and lower blinders when you have the ball vs when you don't but Dallas 100% has the ability to cover them up.
I love natural light in a building but they went a bit overboard and might want to tone it down depending upon game conditions. For the benefit of both teams.
 

Chimonos Revenge

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oh don't play Pats as a Victim lol, it doesn't work

I didn't know about the giants doors, wonder how many times they did it? Lots of tricky winds in some of these stadiums for sure.
Lots, opening the doors at the end of the stadium created a crosswind that would blow down the tunnels and affect field goals. They did it all the time.
 

Rambo John J

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I watched some Caleb Williams tape just now
Seems to have lost accuracy and pocket presence somehow
His clock seems to be slow compared to the speed of the game and he seemed to have it semi figured out a few weeks back
Level of competition ? Shit coaching and play calls/prep?
 

Chimonos Revenge

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I watched some Caleb Williams tape just now
Seems to have lost accuracy and pocket presence somehow
His clock seems to be slow compared to the speed of the game and he seemed to have it semi figured out a few weeks back
Level of competition ? Shit coaching and play calls/prep?
if you’re talking about yesterday’s game, then all of that. Plus receivers that don’t seem to like him very much and an entire team that just gave up and played with no fight

Patriots sacked him nine times yesterday. Nine.
 

Rambo John J

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if you’re talking about yesterday’s game, then all of that. Plus receivers that don’t seem to like him very much and an entire team that just gave up and played with no fight

Patriots sacked him nine times yesterday. Nine.
Last 2 weeks combined, I saw about 12+ throws where he was inaccurate and not on time
Pats got a D on them?
 

Chimonos Revenge

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He played yesterday at least like he was hearing footsteps and wasn’t on the same page as his receivers. I know both of their starting tackles were out but still.
He looked lost out there
 

Hauler

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He played yesterday at least like he was hearing footsteps and wasn’t on the same page as his receivers. I know both of their starting tackles were out but still.
He looked lost out there
Most of the footsteps he was hearing were the ones on his back. 9 sacks is a lot of sacks.
 

Chimonos Revenge

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Last 2 weeks combined, I saw about 12+ throws where he was inaccurate and not on time
Pats got a D on them?
They would if everyone was there. They were missing their two starting safeties and Christian Barmore has been out for the year. They traded Judon after his contract dispute
Their defensive play caller and leading tackler Juwan Bentley is out for the year with an injury


they’ve been weak sealing the edge in the run game

so if they were at full strength, yeah I think they have a pretty solid defense. It’s been a patchwork quilt most of the year though.
 

BruteDion

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I watched some Caleb Williams tape just now
Seems to have lost accuracy and pocket presence somehow
His clock seems to be slow compared to the speed of the game and he seemed to have it semi figured out a few weeks back
Level of competition ? Shit coaching and play calls/prep?

View: https://twitter.com/MoveTheSticks/status/1856052931126276443?t=az8fkb-6glAolVB1j5jwpA&s=19


This is what DJ saw and I agree. I dont think its beat into him to not mess up but more like he's told to play more like a traditional QB so that he gets better at it. Issue is the system around him is not good so it's harder to do that when not every thing is working together. He is off on his time sometimes because it is just him being off and other times its because his drop back and pass route concepts are not paired well so no matter what hes gonna be off schedule. Hes only developing bad habits playing like this.

Bears gotta actually get a good OC in the building so we can see what Caleb is in an actual NFL caliber offense. This year was a waste in terms of his development. This is T-Law under Urban Meyer bad in terms of a wasted year.
 

itskrisdude

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Waldron gone. That’s step 1 in helping Williams, though quality replacements aren’t readily available at this juncture.
 

BruteDion

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View: https://twitter.com/PFF_Moo/status/1856330607179247976?t=KeQtPe_Lb-frlrRBnKrnag&s=19


A few weeks back many pro-analytics accounts showed where they are lacking by arguing that Momentum is not a thing and can't be quantified. However they will argue that culture is a thing. I dont see how they can think culture is a thing but Momentum is not.

I seen a few make this argument by saying "How many teams have lost when the broadcasters said momentum was on their side?". They say this because those teams lost. I mean you claim to be a man of science but think what Joe Buck says is data lol
 

BruteDion

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I can't believe there isn't an option to close the sunroof in Texas stadium.
Or do they just not close it???
They can close it. However that's not the source of the blinding sun light. They have windows that face east and west. That is where the sun comes from. They have blinders but they don't use them.