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He's a first in, last out kinda guy.

My condolences to Kirby and his entire family.

This is hilarious.

Could we use a linebacker, or is the talk about jobs a turnoff?

Unfortunately my thoughts lean this way too

Something tells me that Miami will find a solution for all of their woes today, shoot the lights out from everywhere and be the team they were expected to be even if only for one game. I would love to be wrong, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

I was thinking a few RB screens would have settled them down and then thought our OL works have probably picked up illegal man down field penalties each time so it was probably not in the playbook.

And yet Clements was still probably the worst of the bunch on OL

Just ridiculous how poorly his development went over his career. He looked so promising as a freshman.

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The refusal to call DPI was comical on all sides. There were obviously the calls that had Pry losing his shit on the sideline, but we also had some egregious shit we got away with as well. The worst of the night might have been one we got away with on a ball floated deep, our DB just hugged the WR, never turned around and somehow nothing was called.

Genuinely awful officiating.

Here's my take for everyone hating on Bowen and saying he can't call a game. He's down his two best Oline (edit: I hate the autocorrect from OLine to "online") men to the portal on an already weak line. Their defense was being so aggressive on blitzes they were called offsides a number of times, but seemed content to let that go because they were pretty good at timing their rushing to be right at the snap, giving almost zero time for plays to develop, making run plays really hard.

And for passing plays, the refs deciding not to call pass interference - wtf is that? Their corners seemed to know just how much they could push or do whatever to prevent a reception (without looking for the ball). I can't count how many times I saw a fair amount of contact by their corners before the ball reached the receiver.

So, between a hyper aggressive defensive rush that got to our line and past it probably faster than any other team I remember seeing and the corners being able to commit PI, not sure exactly how you game plan for that, even if you have a month. I mean, I guess you could have tried to have our DLine try the aggressive blitzing, but if they hadn't worked on the timing, they'd probably be bad at it. Also, I think our two best pass rushers weren't participating, so that probably didn't help the O get ready any better.

Edit to add: But really, not calling PI? That seems like it gives a team with a strong D line an extra unfair advantage because you usually deal with aggressive rushing by passing it over them. And I saw a couple plays where that's what it looked like Bowen tried, one was a reception near the ground where our receiver was able to get a hard pass, the other, was a crossing route that the corner pushed our receiver in the back before the ball got to him.

It's hard to call plays that are going to work behind a bad O Line, ESPECIALLY since Bowen uses them differently than standard pass protection of being a wall of meat (because they definitely can't do that). Given our two best linemen left, the offense was going to struggle, especially after seeing how good their line and LBs were. This is also why we need a good S&C coach.

AND their line and LBs were being VERY aggressive. There's a reason they got a number of offsides calls against them. They were going or starting to go before the ball was even snapped in a bunch of plays. I don't think we faced pressure that was that aggressive all season. It gives even less time for the QB to make plays or the OLine to do anything because they have to be motionless before the snap. So guys already in motion have an advantage (gotta love physics).