{"id":6410,"date":"2016-11-17T01:20:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T06:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:49:25","slug":"five-hot-takes-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2016\/11\/17\/five-hot-takes-week-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Hot Takes From Week 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Five Hot Takes From Week 10. Five Hot Takes is a weekly feature where I, Brick Wall Blitz, take a look at five takes from the week of football I consider hot<\/em>, then counter them with my own opinion on the subject matter.<\/p>\n

Five Hot Takes From Week 10<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 2nd half of the 2016 season has begun, and the takes are sizzling.<\/p>\n

1. Marcus Mariota<\/a> Is Elite.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is surfacing\u00a0a lot of places now. Even though\u00a0Mariota is a really good quarterback and he’s my favorite young quarterback in the league, but elite? It’s obvious that at this rate he’ll be there, but his production is slightly inflated by the quality of the teams he’s faced.<\/p>\n

However, considering\u00a0that his head coach is Mike Mularkey<\/a><\/strong>, who uses play-calling tactics from the prehistoric era, all things balance out. Mariota isn’t elite yet, but he certainly is really good, and he’ll be elite one day.<\/p>\n

2. Kirk Cousins<\/a> Has Cemented His Place as the Redskins’ Franchise Quarterback<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If that statements means,\u00a0“They’re gonna give him a load of money,” then sure. But Cousins is a bad quarterback, and this was seen from 2012-14. He needs a decent offensive line and a great receiving cast to look functional, and even then he’s forcing turnover-worthy passes and checking down from clean pockets.<\/p>\n

Against the Minnesota Vikings<\/strong>, who were once the top defense in the league a few games back, Cousins’ two touchdown\u00a0passes were off a connection to Jamison Crowder<\/a><\/strong> that was low and behind him and an underthrown pass to a completely-uncovered Vernon Davis<\/a><\/strong> (who wasn’t even the right guy either; Jordan Reed<\/a> was even more open).<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t distribute any stats out because they\u2019re irrelevant<\/span>. After the massive statistical drop that Blake Bortles<\/a><\/strong> has suffered\u00a0this season, theoretically\u00a0people would pay less attention to raw numbers, but that’s not the case.<\/p>\n

3. Tony Romo<\/a> Should Retire<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He’s still in his prime and one of the top quarterbacks in the league, and he is certainly one of the most mobile. Loads of teams will want him. Popular connections include Arizona<\/strong> and Denver<\/strong>, though the Cardinals aren\u2019t the most favorable due to their coaching this season, and the Broncos have an offensive line that will murder Romo. It’s doubtful\u00a0he’ll stay in Dallas at this point to back up Dak Prescott<\/a><\/strong>, but it’s still a toss-up.<\/p>\n

4. The Bengals Are Done.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Not quite. They’re in a big hole, but they’re also in a weak AFC North, where the Baltimore\u00a0Ravens<\/strong> have beaten bad teams to stumble to a 5-4 division lead. The Pittsburgh\u00a0Steelers<\/strong> suffered a four-game losing streak with an unhealthy Ben Roethlisberger<\/a><\/strong>, and the Cleveland\u00a0Browns <\/strong>are the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n

Sure, Andy Dalton<\/a><\/strong>‘s been\u00a0weak without four\u00a0accuracy-erasing receivers and a dominant offensive line and playcalling scheme like in 2015, but their last seven\u00a0games are against Buffalo<\/strong>, Baltimore twice, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philadelphia<\/strong>\u00a0and Houston<\/strong>. Most of these games are manageable.<\/p>\n

5. The Seahawks\u00a0Only Dominated a Weaker Patriots Defense<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It is true that the New England\u00a0Patriots <\/strong>defense is not among one of the stronger units this season, but the Seattle\u00a0Seahawks<\/strong>\u00a0boast one of the top offenses in the league. The offensive line is horrible, but the skill players are incredible.<\/p>\n

They have\u00a0Russell Wilson<\/a><\/strong>, one of the most precise passers in the league and a major running threat. C.J. Prosise<\/a><\/strong> and Thomas Rawls<\/a><\/strong> offer rich young talent in the backfield. Doug Baldwin<\/a><\/strong> is awesome, as is Jimmy Graham<\/a><\/strong>. Tyler Lockett<\/a><\/strong>, Paul Richardson<\/a><\/strong>, and Jermaine Kearse<\/a><\/strong> are also explosive players and the play-calling\/scheming is excellent.<\/p>\n

The win was\u00a0legit.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Kinsley takes a look at the five hottest takes from week 10 of the 2016 NFL season and counters them with his own opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":752,"featured_media":6314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,7,19,32,11,8896,22],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","category-bengals","category-cowboys","category-seahawks","category-titans","category-washington-commanders","category-washington-football-team","tag-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"Al Preziosi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}