Leathernecks

1 hour ago, Seeking6 said:

Not the way we wanted things to go for sure....but my interest is all on Donaven. He's our guy for the next 2 seasons minimally. Every snap he takes the rest of the year and we can hit the ground running in 22. Valuable learning time coming and I'm all for it.

We can address line and OC on December 1st but for the time being the program is still in building mode and there are bumps. Last year we were ahead of schedule. This year a step back....but still in climbing mode. 

Even the best stocks don't go up every day.

1 minute ago, dgambill said:

You can't make a trade! No fantasy is worth another decade and half of my hated rival being on top.

Right! He doesn't really have much value right now, but if he turns out to be great, he's definitely getting traded. I couldn't stand having him for 15 years if he's another Rodgers. No matter how many times I might win the league!

23 minutes ago, dgambill said:

You can always find another fantasy qb lol....can't stand to get another 15 years of GB dominance. 

It's a superflex league with rosters of 31. There are no other qbs haha.

1 hour ago, dgambill said:

I'm just hoping for Jordan Love to throw for like 300 and 3 tuddies. Would be salacious to watch GB deal with all the qb controversy going into next year lol.

I drafted him in my dynasty league's rookie draft 2 years ago, so I'm really interested to see how he'll do. The fantasy part of me hopes he turns out to be great, but the Bears fan in me can't take a 3rd straight hall of fame QB for the Packers.

5 hours ago, bronkonagurski said:

Bears offense showed up a lot better today but the defense sucked. Mack and Jackson being out doesn't help but still, blech. 

Kind of makes you wonder if Nagy still had his hand in play calling the last few weeks even though he said he gave it up. Looked like a completely different offense with him not around.

In my one league, I have 8 guys currently playing, and don't have a point yet. Moore, Chase, Brown, Pitts, Darius Leonard, Roquan Smith.  Kind of impressed by my team to not have a point in the first 20 minutes of action.

Just now, Seeking6 said:

I really will and do feel bad for them....even with a month of football left I'm pretty confident they won't be in CFP. The other one that's going to cause problems is when Ohio St gets in over Oregon. 

I don't feel bad for them. Cincinnati really isn't helping their case as much as they should if they're really a CFP team.

Everybody knows we had them on the ropes until the targeting call, and they've really struggled against horrible Navy and Tulsa teams the last 2 weeks. If they were routinely beating teams by 40+ they'd easily be in. They just aren't passing the optics test lately.

5 hours ago, Hoosier82 said:

We lost like one guy on defense from last year and gained Kramer, Ryder, Handy and got Ball back. I empathize with the offensive issues and Penix’s inability to return to form / injuries & transfers at RB but the defense looks like they spent all offseason feelin themselves (Fryfogle can be included here) and not getting prepared to work. Mindset is crucial and these guys clearly didn’t know how to handle the slightest bit of success 

Yesterday was really the first game all year where I thought the defense looked much worse than they should have. Well, I guess we could throw OSU in there, but they do that to most people. I don't care what injuries we had, Maryland hadn't scored more than 17 points in a B1G game all year. It was a really poor defensive game.

My biggest issue with the defense is that we're really struggling at creating turnovers, but part of that is other teams playing with the lead. Hard to create a lot of chaos when the other team is ahead all the time. Even with playing behind, we should be much better than 97th in the country at creating takeaways after being one of the best last year.

My biggest concern is what next year's defense will look like. Almost the entire starting defense are seniors. Depending on who uses their extra year, or if anybody goes pro (Mullen), we could be in for an entirely new starting defense next year.

1 hour ago, jojo123 said:

I would say all of that was on display today. I watched McFadden get tackled about 6 or 7 times while blitzing today. How many times today did Maryland get a pass interference called on them? 

I feel like holding in general isn't being called as much this year. I have seen so many blatant holds go uncalled in a lot of different games. 

1 hour ago, btownqb said:

ESPNs box scores are really nice. 

They're having an issue with their play by play stats.  It was showing "sacked for 0 yard loss," so I had to do a little math.  No guarantees I got it all right haha.

24 minutes ago, btownqb said:

So dumb sacks count against QB rushing yards... 

I'd like to know DMs ground stats minus the sacks. 

DM was pretty darn composed today. 

Going through the ESPN play by play, it looks like 4 sacks for 24 yards. That would give him 7 rushes for 28 yards.

Just now, btownqb said:

I enjoy watching Peyton Hendershot play football. 

His play lately has reminded me of his play in the bowl game against Tennessee. He was a beast in that game until he got hurt. So glad to see him back to that level. 

2 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

He's going to be fine....the volume of talent he'll bring in will cover the mistakes today. We just don't have the depth. Warren is the least of my worries so far.

I'm not saying I'm really down on him and think he'll be terrible, but it's just something I'm concerned about. His track record was pretty spotty before here, and Maryland hasn't scored more than 17 in B1G play this year. We're also going to lose a ton from our defense after this year. 

1 minute ago, TheWatShot said:

If you miss, it's 35-26 and you still have to score twice. If you kick an extra point, it's 35-27 and you can tie after the next touchdown. 

You have to get 2 at some point. A lot better to try it early so you know what you're up against. Then if you miss it, you can change your game plan to know you need 2 more scores. If you wait, it's all or nothing.

1 minute ago, btownqb said:

All of you should absolutely be ripping Warren apart of this game. 

I am starting to get worried about our hire of Warren. Wasn't a big fan to begin with, and today has been really, really bad with all the talent we have on defense.

3 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

I've tried to stay off the board for the game but Sheridan can be let go tomorrow. His love affair with running up the gut all season long on 3rd down has stunted about 15-20 drives. Memo to Nick....it hasn't worked all frickin year. What aren't you seeing???

It's getting to the point where it is like DeBord's last season. We have a lot of good pieces on offense, but if Sheridan comes back, there will he no excitement all offseason. DeBord "retired" that year, and we found a great replacement. If we don't move on, we're going to be extremely limited moving forward.

I really hope we can keep this lead for a while. Maryland had been able to play pretty conservative so far. They'll make some mistakes if they get behind.

Let's goooooo!!!

@BGleaswas there any helping or hurting wind on that kick?

Hell of a kick there. 

We lucked out on that 3rd down play, and took advantage on 4th down. Great job stepping up by the defense.

Just now, BGleas said:

Not that you expect much different with the offensive line woes, but it would be great if the line and backs would come through for their freshmen QB. 

They're putting him in a ton of 2nd/3rd and long situations. 

It would be nice, but we know there's zero chance of that happening this year. Everybody knows they aren't going to block well enough to get more than 3 yards running it up the middle. At some point, we need to figure out something else.

That's at least the 3rd run up the middle on 2nd and 10+. I'd much rather take a chance at getting something instead of the max of a 3 yard gain. 

Looks like the defense and offense are back to their usual selves. 

Just a disaster series there.