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Over two hours of greatness. Even in his rookie season, you can clearly hear Luke chants by the Raiders games. We knew quickly how special he was.

So many wasted draft picks on receivers. It's nice that we finally got a good one. Great start to a career.

A year late but absolutely deserved regardless.

There was a Pro Bowl?

I'm sure running an offense older than the bulk of your offensive roster will go over well.

1. This is a really tough hand. Comes down to what Ickey's agent pushes for. If they insist on that big contract he would've likely earned before injury... we cut our losses now. 2. His production doesn't really warrant a huge contract. If he does get one, it's likely one we could afford. 3. Unless we get Jerry to bite again, I doubt anyone would want to trade anything for XL. His future is dependent on him getting better and/or future late-round/UDFA guys taking his spot. 4. I'm very much into drafting OL's every single draft. Ideally, a new LT/C but any Big Ugly with starter potential is welcome, especially if it helps us replace someone a lot more expensive. 5. Lean towards using draft picks. 6. Can't put all our eggs in the Brooks basket. Personally, if we get another back with a late round draft pick or as a UDFA, I'd like someone with a good set of hands.

Endless hook routes and screens that get absolutely blown up? Have Jets fans not suffered enough?

There is only one correct response...

Nah, nah, don't give me this revisionist bull. There were those that saw Darnold as a bridge QB back in 22, but that was more in the minority. People here generally wanted him gone.

I'm not going to write off the Patriots because that's exactly what happened a long time ago with Brady's first SB appearance. Not saying Maye is Brady, but if the Pats D turns Darnold into a pumpkin and they very well can, Seahawks will be in real trouble.

Did McVay just do a Payton by not kicking the FG when he should've?

So envious that the Rams pass catches can actually create YAC on their own.

Saving grace for the Seahawks is that bad Darnold hasn't really shown up yet.

The same guy who committed the idiotic penalty is the same guy that gets beat for a touchdown. Damn.

I'd say that's ballgame if it wasn't the Rams.

Nacua's a cheat code.

Mike McCarthy... Well, that whole deal of only having x number of coaches over y years is going to be tested, especially with not really having a viable QB.

Payton not kicking that field goal early cost them the game. At least there's that positive.

Run, run, pass? Did Payton break an ankle and we have John Fox as the coach again?

Denver doesn't have a 2015-level defense that could effectively play without a quarterback and win. That said, I hate Payton with a passion but if there's someone that can extract the most of a QB, it's him. The real question is how good are the Patriots, really.

Oh, sure. Take away one preseason game where starters may be on the field for one quarter and add a regular season game where you go all out for sixty minutes. They're exactly the same thing. If anything, this only means even more injuries, worse quality of product on the field and more meaningless late season football. But at least they get to charge you full price for it! Hooray for unrestrained capitalism!

What a shocker Mayfield is going to have some more beef towards the Falcons because they hired Stefanski.

The impression I get is that Young is better at handling adversity than Stroud. A part of it might just be that Young has gone through so much adversity at the start of his career, and so things don't really rattle him as much anymore. Stroud has a far easier start to his career but it has gotten harder since then. Protection isn’t as good. He lost Dell. He had a concussion this season. But it's still bizarre how he went in full panic mode in the playoffs. It's like his confidence vanished and there was no real trigger on why it did. And this is happening a few years in? Young does need to work on his mechanics but that I feel may be far easier to fix than what may be a mental thing with Stroud.

Never seen a professional football team be so incompetent running a screen in my lifetime. This season's squad was not that, but I still remember we tried a screen with XL. Yeah, I feel as though screens and motions make more sense if you have explosive/shifty players on the roster and we really don't.

Only adds credence to my belief that the moment you pay any QB the big bucks, you have maybe one or two more years of a real shot at a SB before that window all but closes. The QB and the coach can only do so much to overcome the reality that a QB eats up too much cap space and you can't keep great talent around them. You have to replace them via the draft and if you don't nail that, you're screwed.