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London Loves Luke

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  1. Actually the Pats build mainly from Free Agency and are pretty mediocre in the draft. The Seahawks have built almost entirely through the draft with very little FA movement up until this year. There absolutely isn't one right way to do it, but whatever way you do it, you gotta make sure you're picking up talent.
  2. Man I liked Culliver, thought he was one of the best CBs on the market.
  3. Damn that's a fine list of young talent there (with some more experienced names sprinkled in). When you list them out you realise this is going to be an exciting season.
  4. In the last few games when Remmers shored up the right hand side, I counted 4-5 times when Dickson had escaped coverage and was wide open but was overthrown by Cam. The Arizona game had about 3 overthrows on Dickson alone.
  5. Oh those rookies and second year players didn't work out so we need to blow it all up and start again I guess? You sure would be good at team building.
  6. What people are failing to grasp is that the "genius" Chip Kelly, and to some extent Sean Payton, are breaking the bank to rebuild their teams in a similar mould to ours. They are all going defense first, ground games. Yet our fanbase is shouting about herp derp receiver X and Y, when most other GMs and coaches are going the other way. I will be very surprised if we spend any more money this FA period. We have $13m cap left, 7m will be stored for changes that might be needed during the season and $4-5m will be saved for rookies.
  7. If that's his philosophy, then that's his philosophy. Plenty of teams win without having all-pro tackles that take up a lot of cap. Look at Seattle; Britt, Sweazy and Okung are nothing to write home about, but they have a mobile QB who can make up for this area of weakness and allows them to prioritise cap in other areas of their team. You can not afford to pay all pro talent throughout your team, it just doesn't happen. We aren't Indy or the Broncos. We are modeled on Seattle and I'm more than happy with that approach.
  8. I'm not sure why you're looking at his NY history, he was responsible for putting together two of the best offensive lines in history in 2007 and 2011. You can question Gettleman's ability to scout OTs (I personally wouldn't as he's had plenty of experience of doing it and has missed with us on limited resources) but stop underselling his ability as a scout in general. There are 20 other positions that he's more than proven himself with.
  9. To people saying "Oher can't be worse than bell" forget that idea. Go and watch film of Oher last year. He is a penalty machine and struggled against the pass as much as Bell. He was not better than Bell last year. I'm trusting that his injury problems have been overcome and that Matsko can sort him out (Matsko is a damn good O Line coach) but right now this is as bad a situation as week 9 last season.
  10. Be interesting to see how much he goes for. I thought we'd definitely look at him, think he's underrated.
  11. Gettleman's mistake wasn't trusting the coaches when they said Bell could start last year. All GMs have to do this. Gettleman's mistake was not providing enough depth and competition in case the gamble didn't pay off. We know that he's taking another risk with Oher this year. Anyone who's watched tape of him at Tennesse knows he was no better than Bell last year. If he had played as many games as Bell he would have had been ranked just as bad as Bell by PFF. This is a risk that Matsko and Gettleman are taking, but we should wait to see what Gettleman does for the rest of FA and the draft before seeing whether he has learnt his lesson around depth this time round.
  12. Some of it might have been Ron, some of it might have been that you need TIME to train o-linemen and for them to understand the scheme before being plugged straight in. As bad as Amini and Chandler were, you can not just plug people in until they've learnt their responsibilities. Understanding your role on the O-line is as important as any god-given talent you have.
  13. The O-Line is more than just tackles. Look at who Gettleman actually brought into the O-Line: Remmers, Norwell and Turner all proved to be good starting caliber O-linemen. You can shout about Chandler and Bell being mistakes, but at the same time acknowledge his successes before questioning his scouting ability.
  14. You on the next season of NCIS:Carolina with them detective skills.
  15. Its a balance between filling a Need vs Upgrading Talent. When you are working on a budget like ours (including the budget of the next couple of years which this years' contracts will impact) Need is filled in FA, primarily by signing your own proven players, and talent is upgraded in the draft. This is a proven winning formula. We don't have a need at WR, but we do need more talent which we will find in the draft. We did have a need at OT, KR, DT and as well as Safety. Looks like we addressed the first 3.
  16. Substitute Bowe and Crabtree for Nicks and Royal in my original statement and it stays the same. They're all equally irrelevant to the success of our team next year and would cost far more than they would add.
  17. No, this is like saying we don't need to throw money at Tyson Alualu or Lamarr Woodley because they had as many sacks as Ealy had last year. The amount of people on here that see a name like Johnson, Britt, Nicks or Moore and have tantrums is hilariously frustrating, and just shows how uneducated some of our fan base still is. Let me put it to you another way. Nicks, Britt, Moore, Johnson and Shorts had fewer combined yards than Allen Hurns and Mike Evans last year. We do not need any of these average WRs who are going to cost more for the "name" and "potential upside" they carry when this WR draft class is almost as good as last years. Our safety and CB depth and experience is far more worrying than "Wide receiver number 2".
  18. You mean the second tier guys like Johnson, Nicks, Britt, Moore, Royal and Shorts who TOGETHER put up fewer combined yards than Olsen, KB and Corey last year? I can't wait to have all these "wide receiver number 2" players on the team!!!! Argghhh god I can even be assed anymore, some of you poo-posters don't even watch football. You're opinions are about as useful as a dick flavored lollipop.
  19. But the Oxford dictionary of Armchair Football GMs defines a WR2 as "someone who has run sub a 4.4 40yd at some point in their career". Gettleman has NO IDEA what he's doing if he doesn't understand this.
  20. Derrick morgan meeting with Falcons according to rapsheet Ian Rapoport ‏@RapSheet 5m5 minutes ago Derrick Morgan, #Titans edge rusher, is headed to the #Falcons for his first visit.
  21. Can't wait to see Max sneak into the back of all the coach interviews this TC.
  22. Cotchery brings experience to the group and is a good role model for the young receivers on the team. With as many rookies as we have in this offence, we need Cotchery in the same way we need Harper in the secondary. People will trash because of what they see on the field from a camera 100 yards away, but what he can add before the snap and on the bench is important for KB/Philly and whoever we draft.
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