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move ickey to guard next year and find out what to do with hunt. can he play RT?

Yeah Icky getting hurt really messes with what we need to do. I think we could go OT this draft as a result of that injury. But we have cap space and I have enough trust in the FO to fill the holes prior to the draft at this point.

I dont think he was ever sold as a offensive genius. He was sold as the QB 'fixer'. I would say that the jury is still out on that. He has this next year to make BY a top 15 QB. If he does that then I think he earns that title considering that last year BY was talked about being the biggest draft bust ever.

Mays I view like BC. He can do an admirable job as a starter but he will never be anything other than a bottom third starter. He is a top shelf, critical backup. Hunt would be a net negative salary cap impact to cut/trade this offseason. He also has a $9 mil guarantee that gets triggered on March 13. He would be easier to move in 2027 but I am not sure there will be many takers at his salary. We need to start getting serious about drafting a real C, some interior depth/starters and at least one starting caliber OT. As much as a strength as that unit has been, we are over invested monetarily and the returns have been underwhelming.

Lets not forget...

It's concerning that Canales isn't an offensive genius he was sold to be. He's a good motivator and manager of the locker room, but in today's NFL you need your head coach to be more than that. Otherwise, he needs to relinquish his play calling duties to someone who is.

I think it's a lot of issues. Bryce being a big one but I think Canales lack of in game adjustments and his very poor general game preparation weigh heavily on the overall offensive output. We can have flashes and some of the first drive scripted stuff can be great but I am not sure we have ever seen a truly great end to end offense performance. Perhaps Atlanta?

Agreed. He's vastly overpaid - not sure if they can restructure him or release him after next year if we can draft his replacement I thought Cade Mays did a solid job at guard.

He tore his Achilles and he is a free agent. At his age, he will likely not be signed by anyone until he can pass a physical. It's possible his career is over or he misses all of 2026. If he is able to recover well, perhaps towards the end of next season we can bring him in to help out. Truthfully, the FO needs to overhaul the OL room after the two major injuries.

this is what cope looks like

I'd be curious how our run game performed on scripted drives. It also felt like we could not adjust when teams figured us out in the run game. To be fair, some of that was because we needed the pass game to back them off and, well......

It's good to be confident in yourself but I don't really understand why he's burning bridges. I get wanting to be a feature back and maybe he was making business decisions in the second half of the season though, because he fell off a cliff. It is concerning that we have players talking crap about our coaches though.

I think a big chunk of it is having a bottom 5 OC. I do also think we should be drafting Hunt's replacement. He is essentially a vastly overpaid one trick pony as an OG. Lewis is actually a top shelf run AND pass blocker. We can get cheaper and better at RG.

What did I miss? Why is BC done here? No snark, just busy with life and must have missed something.

I think it's a schematic issue, teams figured out what we were doing. They need to get back to mor power runs instead of zone.

I've never seen a player fall from grace like he's done with this fanbase. He definitely seemed like he lost something the last few weeks.

I'm going to say what probably shouldn't need to be said but I guess I have to break it down anyway. They were the 15th ranked scoring defense. This matters because Evero's style is bend but don't break, which we did a lot of. The Panthers ranked around 20th in the league in time of possession. The longer the defense is on the field, the more yardage and points they're going to give up. We were toward the bottom of the league at like EVERY offensive category. In essence, we hung the defense out to dry. So I say, once again, Bryce Young is a plague that has infected the entire team. He's horrible, and he's dragging everyone down with him.

I think the most concerning thing about our offense is how with two starting caliber RB's and one of the leagues highest paid OL's that we kept getting shut down so often this season. So, what was all that investment for if it isn't anywhere close to a dominating rushing offense?

Something will have to be done at LT, as Barnwell pointed out and was very clear in that game, Nijman is a reserve. He will be a disaster for a full season schedule. It sucks so much worse to lose Ikey with BC likely being done here, too. BC was our realistic, on roster stop gap option.

he had a 4 game Linsanity run against some pretty terrible run defenses and thought that made him Derrick Henry

We will see how Stroud fares next weekend. He was lucky he didn't throw away the game for them as terrible as he was.

I mean, he has not looked remotely the same after his stretch of games where he went off. Even when he was given a lot of carries after Chuba came back. Just from the eye test he looked much slower and wasn't breaking any tackles

this team cant be drafting for need. we need blue chip talent because we currently dont have alot. draft the best player there and fill the other gaps in free agecy

Notable players picked 19-25ish the past few years: Emeka Egbuka Jaxson Dart James Pearce Jared Verse Troy Fautanu Brian Thomas Jr. Graham Barton JSN Trent McDuffie There will be a pro bowl caliber player right there in that range, we just have to make the right choice and probably need to be willing as fans to accept if the team just drafts the right guy regardless of position. If we focus too much on need then there are plenty of whiffs in that range, too.

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