SmokinwithWilly

Unless he's calling the plays as HC, I wouldn't be worried about the type of offense that he ran in the SB so much. The fact that Philly put together an offensive juggernaut this season shows he has the offensive mind that is needed in a franchise in today's offensively driven NFL.

Never said it was because of race. Not sure where you got that. I was agreeing with you that there has to be something else going on behind the scenes that's causing him not to get that HC job offer.

I have confidence we now have the ability to develop a QB. Cam was a very good QB for us, but his development didn't really progress much here. Watching Mahomes, it makes me wonder what Cam could have become under a guy like Reid. Having the ability to recognize, understand, and develop a QB is just as important as the talent level IMO.

I don't mind taking a shot. I minded when we had Ron and Captain DumbAss as HC, neither of whom had any idea about running an offense or how to use a QB. I'm a little less worried now that we have some offensive grown ups in the building.

The only reason IMO to trade up is you've done all you're scouting and there is one guy that is head and shoulders above everyone else in your book. If it's 50/50 between 2 guys, no need to move unless you're pretty sure they're going to go before your pick. I don't think you move unless you're sure of the skill level of the player you're drafting.

He never really struck me in his pressers as a guy I could listen to talk football for hours. Greg just talks football like one of the guys you would hang out with and that makes for very good announcing.

I still wonder if the issue between his ears can be resolved now that we have an actual offensive minded coach. Gase and Rhule were both complete ass and 2 of the worst HCs he could have had. I've said before sometimes guys just process learning differently (I'm in that boat) and that may be the case or it may not. As a vet backup, he's worth the cost to bring him back depending on our options. Maybe he could develop under someone who's not completely incompetent. Either way, don't care.

There's something definitely going on there behind the scenes. I know there's been mention of some legal things potentially, but he must be horrible at interviewing or his coaching tree he could actually pull from is very limited.

Teams with a 4 score lead at halftime are 0-1. Fug the Falcons and Matt Ryan.

It just happened with Russell Wilson. That didn't turn out well so far. Could that change under Payton? Sure. But RW looked like ass. Denver gave up a ton of picks and salary cap for him and got basically nothing. It's not just the picks. It's the salary cap implications as well. If Lamar is looking in the range of 50m a year guaranteed or more long term, which is what it's sounding like, who are you going to let walk? Burns. Chinn. Icky when it's time. Moton. DJ. Horn. Burns contract could be in the neighborhood of 25-30m per season. How do you fill in the rest of your team paying so much in salary? You need picks to replenish talent that is inevitably going to walk for a bigger paycheck that the team can't provide. And those picks will be sitting in Baltimore. Plus you have to hope he can play the entire season, because the past 2 he has missed several games to injury. Half the league may be willing to give up the picks to get the others, but would they be running to the mat if it was 50-60m per year fully guaranteed? I'm not against bringing in LJ, though I really think we should build through the draft. I'd be saying the same thing if it was Herbert, Burrow or Allen, especially Allen. His playing style and that elbow injury is very concerning if a fully guaranteed contract were in play. I'm against the combination of salary cap implications and traded picks that could very well leave the team hamstrung. The whole thing really depends on what LJ contract price would be and what Baltimore would want in trade.

The goal isn't just to get a franchise QB. The goal is to build a team around a franchise QB. If you cripple your ability to do that, then you likely waste your franchise QB. That's why you rarely see teams trade for franchise QBs. They can't afford the salary and the picks. You can do one or the other, not both.

Grass should have gone down the day after Arizona's last home game. That would have given it a chance at least to become a legit playing surface

Derek Carr won't cost nearly what Lamar will and there's no guarantee Lamar gets you a SB win. If you want Lamar, prepare to give up at least 3 1sts and a couple 2nds, plus 50 to 60 a year fully guaranteed. It's difficult to build a team when you don't have picks or the cash to replenish players lost to retirement, injury or FA. I don't think Carr will get us to the SB, and Im not advocating for him, but to think what it's going to cost to acquire either isn't going to affect your ability to build a team is ludicrous.

JMO but sacks are an overrated stat. A guy can have 3 sacks and get burned every other defensive play and most people would think he had a great game just looking at the stats. I'm far more interested in how many times a player severely impacted the offenses ability to move the ball or establish a rhythm. To me, that much more accurately determines the effectiveness of a defensive player.

Having a QB with a coach that knows how to run an offense wins championships. We had the first part. We didn't have the 2nd.

I don't want to refs to be perfect but I want consistency. There was a lot of handsy defensive plays tonight that didn't get called. If you're going to call it, call it all game. If not, then let it go all game.

I understand McKinnon sliding but man, I wanted another Philly possession just to keep the shootout alive.

Turf will start to root and be somewhat connected but spikes and torque will tear those apart pretty quickly.

He's not old enough to get that call

Typical sod is 6-8 weeks to root in completely in ideal growing conditions depending on turf variety. You can go back to sod laid 2 weeks ago and it will pull up with very little effort.

LOL at me being mad. You obviously don't understand that increasing the cap doesn't increase the % available to pay players. 53 players have to be paid. One player taking a huge portion of that % limits the ability of the team to build around them.

It all depends on what you think the best strategy is to build a team. I like Burns as a pass rusher, but he's not a complete DE right now, especially against the run. We haven't had a QB since 2018 Cam. If we think Stroud or Young are the guys, we need the picks Burns would have gotten to trade up. It's not ideal because you obviously want to keep your edge rushers, but if trading Burns can get that franchise QB we've been missing, I think you have to do it.

When the cap began in 1994, SB winning QB Steve Young was 11% of his teams salary cap. At 45m per season, Lamar would be 20% of his teams salary cap. You can't keep increasing the % a QB gets and expect to field a team that is competitive. Doesn't matter if you have a billion dollar QB if you can't afford to block for him or have someone for him throw to.

I think at some point we're going to see the QB contracts hit a wall, much like the rookie contract cap. 50m a year fully guaranteed contracts aren't going to be sustainable to be competitive long term.

I'm OK with it. His contract is going to make it hard to assemble a solid roster over time. Franchise FA QB is great and all but one player taking up 50m in cap space a year is going to make them rely on a lot of rookie or lower tier FAs contracts to fill the gap.