Khaki Lackey

Yeah, elite 3-4 nose tackles are as hard to find as elite 4-3 DEs. But there’s only one instead of two, so I guess we got that going for us lol

Of course it worked. Any GM can throw a bunch of cash at proven commodities to improve a position group. We’ll see how well that money was spent in the near future when we can’t get assets elsewhere because we have too much cap invested in IOL for a QB who isn’t on the roster anymore. as far as Hurney goes, I sure can discount his first round ability, because guess who else has great first round draft ability? Me, and I’m an idiot. The only time I disagreed with Hurndog’s 1st rounders was in 2012. I wanted Fletcher Cox over Keek. I’ll call that a tie although I could argue long term Cox would have been a better pick.

True. I just think big money guards were an attempt to make the offense viable for Bryce Young and the reason they ended up here is because other teams are smarter than to sink that $ into IOL, but I get your point.

Giving Dan credit for our Oline is almost as bad as peoples' praise for Hurney's perennial top 5 1st round picks.

Yeah, even Gettleman found Trai Turner and Norwell

If I were GM, I'd immediately fire Canales and hire anyone who would take the job, which would probably be a college assistant special-teams coordinator, depending on how good his wife's meatballs are. I would switch us back to a 4-3, them immediately switch back to a 3-4, then back to a 4-3 again after the draft. I would sign 2 more overpriced guards and draft running backs in the first two rounds of the draft. Then use the third and fourth round picks to move back into the 2nd for another running back. Line backer in round 5, long snapper in round 6. Then watch the Lombardi's come rolling in. Dynasty.

If we could draft decent guards, we wouldn't need to have the most expensive OL in the league.

I didn’t watch the second half. What did Bryce do that was shiny? Box score didn’t look shiny. Is Newton just making poo up?

Pass rusher and/or giant nose tackle

The only way we were going to win this game was to run the ball. We ran it successfully then abandoned it. Did we run it on second down at all in the first half? I hate going to a Riverfoxwilks game plan, but it would have been the way to go given the state of our defense

Let me guess what’s next. Chubba for seven yards on first down. Then passing for one yard a down until the 3 and out

This was our chance to just keep running the ball to try to open things up. Blew it.

They fired Dan Morgan and hired Hurney again. It's going to be awesome this time.

Like a lot of teams, we draft guys with explosiveness and measurables when we should be drafting route running technicians with great hands.

XL!!!!

I started a .500 pie thread years ago. I would love to start another.

From a marketing standpoint, Bryce is a better fit for Fed Ex. He’s going to be shipped to another city for a reasonable price soon.

and it was his sophomore season in a new system. Calling it now, next year he’s a top 3 LT.

Ben Boulware approves

Same. Former coaches usually give fellow coaches the benefit of the doubt rather than calling them horrible hires before the first quarter of the season has even played out.

Ickey will be fine. It’s his 3rd system in three years (four if you want to count college) with garbage guard play next to him (until now.) next year he will put it all together and be a stud.

This video is eye opening. Around the players, DC is not the “aw shucks” camp counselor personality that he is in interviews. We might have found us a good one fellas.

Very balanced offense. DC can call a game. Our pass rush needs a lot of work.

Everyone needs to pump the brakes on the Darnold talk. He was 2-0 in Carolina once. Remember that? It was the last time we had any optimism around here.

I get that. I know Canales is not going into a post game presser and announce that he’s benching the QB. However, he needs to get better at coach speak, he should have gone with “we have to look at the tape” before going with “Bryce is our QB” just to bench him less than 24 hours after, because the optics made it looked like he needed to have a pow wow before making that decision. Just a bad look, imo.