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anonymous2112 · 09-04-2019, 04:39 PM

(09-04-2019, 12:32 PM)Bullseye Wrote: While I am off of work waiting out this storm I have a few thoughts

1. While my homeristic instincts likely overrode my better judgment in picking the Jaguars to win this week against the Chiefs, as I think about Sunday's opponent, I am impressed as hell with their offense. This is a daunting challenge for the defense. Based on the way the Chiefs played last year and the talent they added, they are looking like one of the three best offenses in the last 20 years, along with the Greatest show on Turf Rams and the 2007 18-1 Patriots.

2. As the season approaches, I can't help shake the idea that the application of the new rules of replay to not only make Pass Interference reviewable, but to use replay to create a penalty where one is not originally called has all kinds of potential for chaos.

3. It will be interesting to see how the Jaguars employ Josh Allen.

4. The media talking heads can amuse and mystify at the same time. The latest instance of this is the trend of them continuing to pick the Colts to win the division even though Andrew Luck has retired.

I too, am off work and have a couple minutes, so I'll take your main points one by one:

1. The Chiefs are a great team, top to bottom, and are the class of the AFC. They remind me a little more of those great Buffalo teams that kept losing the Super Bowl than the great Cowboys teams that kept winning them. They can beat any team in the league, just will they?

2. We all know that the new PI rule is because of one play in the Saints/Rams playoff game, but man, they had to do something. Right now, I believe it's a red flag/scoring review, not an automatic? I think it's the best compromise. What PI replay has shown to me is how often the zebras make the right call, and how incredibly talented the best DBs in the league are.

3. Yes. And it will be interesting to see the attempts of Jags opponents to mark Allen out as a factor. I can't wait.

4. The colts have become a fairly well balanced team after sucking on defense for so long. Of the 3 examples you provided, I think most plausible is that Brisset can manage the team's offense well enough to make it a ball control game against us and the Tacks, that the colts edge us on, and that the texans will be just inconsistent enough to have a poorer record than the colts.