Mr. Scot

How'd that work out last season? What Bridgewater does isn't "protecting the ball". I could get behind that. Playing scared? Not so much.

Don't know about everyone, but Erving actually looked good up till the last game. Regardless, tackles weren't the problem yesterday.

Considered using that but decided against it.

Nah

I'll take a quarterback who takes risks over one who plays it safe tem times out of ten, even in a WCO.

You wouldn't understand it if I did.

Continuously changing lineups hasn't helped. That said, changes are still warranted. If nothing else, Dennis Daley badly needs to be benched.

Pretty much. For my part, I want to see Moton stay left, Deonte Brown in at guard, Brady Christensen stay at right tackle or move to the other guard and Cam Erving or Trent Scott take whatever spot is left. Center? About the only option there is Elflein if he gets healthy. Bad as Paradis may be, I doubt Sam Tecklenburg is gonna be an improvement.

Possible. I know Brady is the prototype of what a lot of teams want now, (i.e the young offensive wonder kid) but when it comes to OCs, I've always had a preference for former head coaches. Honestly, I just wish we had a former NFL head coach somewhere on this staff. It still bugs me that we've got the least NFL experience of probably any staff in the league. Sometimes I think it shows.

I've seen him have bad games, but Rivera was consistently bad. I don't think Rhule is that.

My take on Brady hasn't changed much. He's pretty good in the area of play design. Playcalling and game management? Eeehhh

Guys never improve with pro coaching?

I've said multiple times that I think this year's veteran signings were meant to be stopgaps while we tried to build the line through the draft. Unfortunately, it looks like some may not even be "stopgap" quality. Don't know if we'll look at free agents on the line next year, but if we do we'll have Dan Morgan in the fold to help. His background is in pro personnel. Fitterer is a draft guy.

Nah.

They hold tryouts every week. It generally doesn't result in much except the occasional bottom of the roster churn. Do you really want to sign some guy off his couch when we haven't even put Deonte Brown in yet?

Bridgewater wouldn't have thrown as many picks because he didn't have the balls to try risky throws. Throwing two yard passes when you need six or seven yards may not turn the ball over, but it doesn't exactly win games either.

Igo is right. We have guys who haven't seen playing time yet. I'm going that route before I'm asking somebody to get out of his rocking chair. And sorry folks but the whole "I'm mad so somebody better get cut" thing is just a fan tantrum. The real world doesn't work that way.

First off, some of those guys are retired. That means their rights still belong to their prior teams and you can't sign them unless that team releases those rights. Setting that aside though... Better than who they used to be? No. Better than who they are now? Yeah it's possible. Those guys are very well recognized names. If they really did still have something in the tank and were readily available, with the number of teams that have OL needs right now I'm pretty sure they'd have a job.

Seriously doubt it. All indications are and have been that the team was happy with Darnold.

Restating from above... There are probably a good 20 teams that need help on the offensive line right now. For some undiscovered gem to be out there, it means that not only did our staff miss them but numerous other NFL staffs with the same problems as us did so as well. I don't see that as especially likely.

That narrative has been disproven more than once already. We didn't want Fields.

This coming draft does not look like a good one for quarterbacks.

Thing is, we're not the only team with offensive line issues. Hell, at this point it's the norm. With as many teams as have needs at these positions right now, if you're not on a roster there's probably a good reason.

Don't know if that'll happen, but it's way more likely than what LaCanfora suggests.

I'd like to hope not, but given the history with that poster it's not guaranteed.