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Over under 70 1/2 and 5 1/2 receptionsMuch like he did last week 1 for 37 in the Semi's.I just need 6 pts from himHopefully that won't be too much trouble, or he could pull a deja vu from last year in week 16 and go down with injury in the 1st qtr and cost me a championship again (in the same league no less).
I haven't checked Bovada yet, curious what his prop bet is for reception's and yards.
I looked up Randle's last night and didn't play him.Over under 70 1/2 and 5 1/2 receptionsMuch like he did last week 1 for 37 in the Semi's.I just need 6 pts from him
I haven't checked Bovada yet, curious what his prop bet is for reception's and yards.
I can't believe I just looked that up. I'm sicker than I thought....
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Won 2 titles tonight and Green is responsible for one of them and help me overcome missing Luck, Ingram, Odell Beckham, McCoy and Jimmy Graham.
Oh, I'm working my way through it.
- Sunday - denial
- Monday - anger
- Tuesday - Thursday - bargaining
- Friday - Saturday - depression
- Sunday - acceptance
The Bengals had a lead and tried to run the ball some in the second half. AJ was simply not targeted as much in the second half.
Agreed, not targeted as Cinci tried to run (unsuccessfully) and when they did throw did stupid things like on 3rd and goal from the five throwing to Tyler Boyd in traffic instead of to a manned up AJ on the opposite side IN ISOLATION!!! Unbelievably shocking that Dalton didn't auto chuck to Green in that situation. Green is gonna be great this year. Top 5 WR is a lock and the only thing keeping him from being the #1 WR will be Dalton and Lewis. Neither of which are aggressive enough.*
I was surprised at that play as well. Sometimes HCs overthink things. If I am Dalton, I feed AJ to the point that is embarrassing. AJ could not be stopped and looked like the best WR in the NFL last night.
Yes I'm a Green owner but even if I wasn't I'd still ask how you are not throwing the ball to him on nearly every play near the End Zone in a game where he is absolutely shredding the opposing defense and you are struggling to score? The one time you did he scored with ease. I don't care if they are triple-teaming him I'm still gonna throw him the ball because they couldn't stop him the entire game. It was like the Bengals got near the End Zone and then, other than the one time where Green scored, they stopped trying to score because they stopped throwing the ball to Green. I think you could put nearly all of their Red Zone play calls last night into the thread about coaches doing stupid things.
Yeah as a Dolphins fan when I saw them lined up for that play and the Fins had no one lined up outside of the box on that side of the field (the wide side no less) I figured it was an auto touchdown to Green. He had 20 yards of width to work with one on one and they ran some gimmick to Boyd on the short side of the field instead.
Yeah, these kinds of plays display the weakness of the Bengals at QB and coach that will likely prevent Green from becoming the #1 overall WR this year. It wasn't like Cinci was crushing the Fins in the redzone that they could understandably go away from him late in the game to keep him fresh for later this year. Cinci could not move the ball in the redzone and indeed couldn't run it well at all anywhere on the field so shying away from AJ represents coaching/QBing malpractice IMO. Green should have finished that game withh 200+ yards and 2 TDs and I am not being greedy at all. Hoping the coaches look at that tape and say "what the hell were we thinking?" but I suspect that won't be the case given that they dominated the game and the time of possession. A well coached team would look at the performance last night and say "we were incredibly inefficient and we need to clean up the coaching/QBing in the redzone if we want to win any meaningful games this year." As someone who disrespects both Lewis and Dalton I don't see that happening.
Gee, Dodds' early projections had Green as the #8 WR. Now his final rankings (after the game) have him at #4. Brilliant. Amazing call.
This is what separates the few great coaches in the league from the rest. Anyone think Belicheck would have gone away from AJ in the RZ?Morton Muffley said:
In poker it is called FPS (fancy play syndrome). Lots of coaches out-think themselves in an effort to prove how smart they are and as a result end up giving up on the thing that they do well. Belichek was miked up this past week and there was a time on the sideline with Blount where belichek instructed him to "just hammer it in there behind the double-team block". Put another way, belichek was saying, "don't over-think this, don't look to do anything fancy, just follow the blocking and get what is there". Simple, right? Apparently not because some coaches have determined that if it (scheme, play-calling, whatever) isn't complex/fancy then they'll be no one to blame but them! So in that regard, coaches probably do get some coverage by making things overly complex and then blaming it on the players when it isn't executed flawlessly. Anyway, that's enough tangent for now ?
Also, I think his TD chances are high today because if the game goes according to form the Pats should be playing from the front and possibly with a large lead. That could/should result in a lot of passing volume. If the Bengals are throwing late New England could be playing loose coverage late and that could lead to Green getting a late TD like LaFell got last week. Those are tough to predict and project of course but they happen all the time. LaFell got one that way last week. So did Hopkins. I could easily see Green getting one in similar fashion this week.
