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Do ya reckon JJ has any future there? As a UDFA he's made it through plenty of cuts, presumably there's something there they like about him

Definitely feeling good after the recent stretch, the next few weeks will tell us how serious a contender we can be. Funny story, my mate asks me yesterday whether he should start the Pats defence or the Bucs(vs. Giants) in fantasy. I give him the whole Bill will make Atlanta play left handed but I don't think it will translate well in fantasy spiel, the Giants o-line isn't great, D Jones isn't smart enough to throw the ball away and will end up taking sacks, etc., go with the Bucs. needless to say, he was not impressed this morning😁

Our form recently has been a phenomenal turn around in the course of a few weeks.

I had always expected our Defence to improve as the season continues, like every BB D does, but they turned that corner much quicker than I had anticipated.

On offence, I'm really liking what I'm seeing from a play-calling and scheme perspective. We're using the TE's and RB's well to help bolster the pass blocking, and using that to our advantage in play action and screen play. Overall this is giving Mac the added time he needed to allow plays to progress a bit and take some deeper shots.

Right now there are very few teams that I'd be afraid to face. I don't think we'd win in an offensive shootout, but I don't think there's any offense at the moment who'd look likely to put 30+ up against us...

Nice, perfect timing with the grandparents available to mind the kids while I hide in the corner with sky go....

We've been lucky with injuries so far as well. The next 4 games will tell a lot - if we can go 2-2 over that stretch I'd be happy, and with Dolphins and Jags after that, our final two games are very winnable. 11-6 would be a great effort for the season.

A very good performance yesterday I thought.

The Titans may have been missing Henry, but they still have a very good D. We moved the ball well through the air, got a couple of scores and no turnovers. Defensively, we able to allow them to run the ball, knowing they needed to pass to keep up on the scoring.

If they get Henry back in time for the playoffs they could be a different beast, 200+ yards rushing with him in the game would usually lead to a lot more scores for them.

Looks like Dugger is going on the Reserve/Covid list and will miss Monday against Buffalo.

That's a huge loss.

We've seen a lot of these cases end up spreading around a area of the team too. If DB's eat lunch or work out together, there might be more victims

That was as impressive a regular season win as Belichick has ever cooked up. I prefer having won like this than having blown them out. That's a special, special victory.

Has anyone done the math on the 1 seed for next week?

Chiefs, Titans, Ravens could all catch up to us at 9-4 next week, who will have take the top spot?

Phenomenal stuff by BB to get us to this position with this group. 3 wins from remaining 4 games will see us take the #1 seed (home to Bills and Jags, away at Colts and Bills).

@ Dophins as said.

But I don't see how 3 wins could be enough as that would bring us to five defeats, and any of the three teams who currently have four defeats could run out. (Which is probably unlikely but it sounded like you you were saying that 3 wins would be definitely #1 seed).

Also (and annoyingly) I think if the defeat happened to be against Buffalo then they would have the primary 'record in division' tie-breaker on us, though hopefully they lose at Tampa first.