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Ehh, Daniels has looked much better than any of those guys you mentioned other than Herbert. Of course nothing in this league is guaranteed but Daniels absolutely looks like the real deal. Dude is just outrageously poised and calm for a rookie in all situations, not to mention the mobility and a hell of an arm and great accuracy. Washington got a really good one.

lol stroud has been terrible, should have like 3 or 4 picks so far

Depends how you define "believe in." He improved a ton post-benching but that improvement still did not yield franchise QB level play in my eyes. I certainly "believe" he could continue to develop and improve and maybe get to being a franchise QB. But as it sits right now I still don't think it's super likely that he will be our answer at QB long term. I hope he does and am rooting for him. But I do believe there are physical and skill limitations that could hold him back, and as much as he did improve he still has a long way to go to actually being a top QB. He's shown enough that I am ok going into next year with him as our QB, but we should still evaluate other opportunities to get a franchise QB if they are there. Although really unlikely for various reasons I would consider drafting Ward and trading Bryce away. Otherwise I don't like the QBs in the draft or FA/trade options so Bryce it is for another year anyways.

not terrible all things considered. sucks to still not have our own 2nd though. please no more trading up or trading away premium picks for scrubs

I'd do that straight up without hesitation. Think the Jets would prefer pick(s) though.

Fair I just don’t see it personally but he certainly could prove me wrong. Good call, for some reason I thought he was interim the year before but that was way back in 2020.

Well Morris is a defensive guy and Canales isn't so that's kinda a significant difference there. I'm glad they're keeping Morris around. He's got a decent size sample size as a HC at this point and just isn't very good. But the Falcons are kinda in limbo regardless of coach -- not sure I totally agree Penix will be good. He's been pretty underwhelming in his limited action except vs. us but we were literally the worst D in NFL history this year lol so I wouldn't read too much into that game. And even if Penix is ok, that Cousins deal and cap hit totally hamstrings them the next few years while he's on his rookie deal anyways. Just a stupid offseason from them last year, including keeping Morris as HC.

I hope he proves me wrong but I didn't want him last year either and nothing changed for me. This year was historically bad but even before that he was never really anything better than average at best, and that was with some talented defenses in Denver.

Mara has 2 Super Bowls to show for his ownership tenure, I think he deserves a pass despite how absurd it is to keep the crew from this year around. Tepper has a pair of 7 win seasons to show for his ownership in 7 years. But yeah I'd be pretty pissed if I was a Giants fan.

I found a bit more info on it and he ran 3-3-5 like 18% of the time -- largely on obvious passing downs. Rest of the time was a combination of 4-3, 4-2-5, 4-1-6, with a tiny amount of 3-2-6. His base was 4 down linemen and he never had 4 linebackers on the field. Yeah he adapted a ton but it was very much based around a 4-3, NOT a 3-4.

Well that's a massive stain on Canales' promising finish to year 1. Terrible, terrible decision.

lol how did we finish 3rd in division and still pick ahead of the Aints? love it

I could see 10-11 wins with this schedule if we can fix the D a bit and the offense continues to build on the momentum from the last month or so. Those are somewhat big "ifs" though.

Fun to go to Jacksonville again; missed out on going there in the pool with the riot the last few times, hopefully it finally works out this year.

Probably goes back to KC and they get their elite numbers-compiling passing offense back to go with their elite defense and situational coaching, etc.

Victor Cruz 2.0. Hope he can stay healthy unlike Cruz. I think he can be a long term starter for us, but ideally as a #2 not our top guy. Maybe Legette can develop into that top guy but not a good rookie season.

Incredibly the only NFC team ahead of us is the Giants. Glad we're picking ahead of the Aints.

Shaq was healthy but honestly I don't think he was any better that year than Jewell this year. Chinn was a rookie and Snow got a ton out of him but yeah he was talented (I'm still pissed about how we wasted that dude's career). No Chinn this year but Evero had him last year and had absolutely zero clue how to use him so Snow getting a lot out of Chinn that year doesn't exactly help Evero's case. Horn is the only truly elite talent across both of these defenses I would say, and puts this year ahead of 2020. Brown became elite last year but in 2020 he was still very raw as a rookie.

4-3 base with most of the snaps having 4 down linemen. But yeah he ran a ton of different sets to change things up, kinda like Belichick did in New England all those years. Definitely a fair amount of 3-3-5, a lot of 4-2-5, some 4-1-6 even. Don't think he ever really had 4 LBers on the field -- if he was taking out a down lineman he was putting the replacement in the secondary.

I'd be cool with trying out a Rivera reunion but that said he was pretty awful with the Commanders recently when he took over calling defensive plays after firing the DC. Also he wasn't exactly great at calling plays here when he took over as defensive playcaller the year in his last year I believe. I think some of that can be chalked up to him having all the head coaching duties on his plate too and not being fully prepared to be calling plays (both times he took over midseason) or having full focus on defense. My hopes wouldn't be extremely high but he is an intriguing option with high upside and be a nice reunion as despite his faults as a HC he was an awesome dude and extremely well liked in the community and by players. Wonder if Luke would be interested in coaching LBers under Ron...

2020 Carolina Panthers season - Wikipedia Our defensive roster was definitely worse in 2020, not even a debate. Remember this is well before Brown broke out and Burns was only in his 2nd year. And Phil Snow had them top 10 in the league. Yes the roster this year was bad too, but Evero was just flat out terrible.

He's terrible and I really just can't fuging stand the 3-4 defense. You have to have such a stacked roster with personnel specific to a 3-4 for a 3-4 to work and not get totally gashed by the run (which we have been every single year we've run a 3-4 even back when Ron switched to it to try to save his ass). Rhule may have sucked but at least he had our defense far overperforming their talent level with Snow running his 4-3. No brainer to can Evero and hire someone to run a 4-3. I'd even be all for considering Rivera as DC if he was open to a reunion.

Coming off a 5 win season absolutely not. Let's see how next year goes. I'm still not sold on any of Morgan, Canales or Bryce. Next year will be a very telling season for all 3. Tepper still sucks until he proves he can hire successful people and not meddle with them. Maybe this current crew winds up successful but only time will tell. I'm definitely not convinced that Tepper won't start meddling if things don't get exactly as planned to start next season.

if only the bucs had also lost so we could've been the ones to knock the falcons out of the playoffs

KOC has exceeded my expectations and obviously I’d love to have him over Canales, but I still think Harbaugh is the better coach and Chargers will be better off than the Vikings.