the knocks

Wrote PFF in its scouring report of Stone: “In his first season playing in a full-time role on a defense that deploys three safety looks as much as any team in the NFL, Stone boasted an 84.9 PFF coverage grade in the regular season that ranked seventh at the position and brought in a position leading seven interceptions. The knocks on Stone will be about his lack of deployment in the box or the slot and his poor run defense and tackling, missing 19% of tackle opportunities this season.’

Not the music, but the knocks and steps and whizzes and shrieks.

I’ve heard the knocks against him, but the perils of a second Trump term – to democracy, the rule of law, mainstreaming political violence and Trumpian vengeance—are far more dire than any of Biden’s defects, real or perceived.

One of the knocks on LIV was that so many of its big names were in the twilights of their careers.

The inability to adapt, however, was one of the knocks against coordinator Ken Dorsey last year, when Buffalo’s offense closed the season showing signs of regression.