Khyber53

I sure hope he does. It'll be good for the rest of the division. He'll revolutionize the Saints like he revolutionized the Bucs.

I'm going to say that had CMC been healthy this season, we'd probably have gotten five more wins. We'd probably also be talking about how Bridgewater was able to eat opponents alive with the short passing game thanks to CMC. We have to remember that the offensive plans for the season centered around utilizing CMC to his full potential. Even though Davis was able to come in and serve as a really good RB1, it still wasn't anything like having CMC back there. CMC is a game changing athlete and requires a ton of defensive resources to keep him under some sort of control. Teddy's short game was good, but with CMC coming out of the backfield, those eight yard pass plays suddenly turn into 12 yard plays, 15 yarders, 65 yarders... The run game increases to the point where the other team has to bring a safety into the box opening up downfield opportunities. A lot of those three and outs become long, scoring drives. Yeah, the CMC injuries wrecked the season for us.

It's not like there's anyone really standing between him on the PS and being our first string TE, as things go right now.

I believe you've hit the nail on the head there. Lot of teams with big contracts are going to be just floating things out there, seeing if there's any interest. If something gets traction, they roll with it, if not, they say "Bah, there was never anything to the rumors, he's our guy."

Jets are gonna Jets. Whatever decision they make, it's probably a bad one.

A lot of really wispy rumors float around this time of year. And it seems there's a bumper crop of them out there. If it were to be true, not sure this wouldn't be a win-win-win situation for all parties involved.

Grab him in the sixth then or whenever it seems like his time is now. Honestly, he looks the part. But also, he was part of a national championship o-line that kept a non-mobile QB clean and gave him time to stretch the field with great receivers. It could be he worked better with his regular teammates than he did with some folks he just met, running new plays and using different terminologies. Something tells me you get him on a good team and bring him along at guard, you can get way more than your money's worth. No sacks allowed in three seasons at Alabama. That's on a top end (championship team) for three years against the best competition in the college. Heck, the SEC is just about a pro league as it is.

Totally edited out the part where he pancakes a Sasquatch and redirects a moose around the QB.

I think he's our guy. And I think he's going to be excellent.

Dude, I can always go for some Cornbread. Oh, you mean the player, nicknamed Cornbread. Oh hell yeah! And if you really want it to be a Carolina O-line you draft a guy nicknamed Pinto Beans to work alongside him. Seriously, though. Deonte Brown would be a great pick-up for us.

Coaches spent all week talking about how good Jones and the other QBs were, then after the game they're like... nah, we're not hot on any of them being first rounders. We'll have Jones in the first or the second. "Now Mac, that ankle looks pretty bad to me. Maybe you'd better sit this thing out." "Nah, Coach Rhule, I'm fine. Look I can run, I can pivot, I can push off and I can plant, no problem." "Mac, just sit there, look disappointed and try to look like an optimistic bust every time the camera pans to you." "And with the eighth pick of the 2021 NFL draft, the Panthers pick Mac Jones, QB, Alabama." "Told ya kid, we'd take care of you."

I mean, it's not like anything has ever blown up in JPP's face, right? Sorry. Couldn't resist. Hate that it happened to the guy.

I don't think we'll release Teddy at all. If someone took him in trade, then yeah, but I think we'll still have him on the roster come September barring that. If we draft someone as QB, then Teddy is someone you want to have on hand to help that player's development. And as a backup, he's a guy that can come in and run the team until the starting QB is back on the field. That $20m+ on the books is going to be there no matter what, so you might as well get some mileage out of him. And I think that was the plan all along with Teddy. It's what I said going into last season after we picked him up. He's the guy for the moment, but he isn't the longterm plan.

I mean, he can talk it and it's obvious he knows the X's and O's part of it. He knows what great QBing looks like. He just cannot put it all together and develop someone at that position. It is his Achilles' Heel.

This, sadly, is probably truth. And it is the worry when trading for any of the QBs that are going to be put out there to test the trade waters. Remember we were putting Cam out there last year and making big statements about how he was good to go and would be fine for any team. Yeah, this is the used car lot part of the offseason.

Not sure where the worries about his contract are, would be two years with $19M a year on the books. He'd be earning less than Teddy. And I don't think Carr is a bad QB at all, but his coach has never successfully developed a QB. There's a reasonable contract and player that might be worth taking a good look at.

Ask Minnesota about the Herschel Walker trade.

Points to the roster. Umm. We didn't get Stafford after the Rams offered a ton for him. Did I miss some folks out there that passed on us since Jan. 1?

Just another voice on Twitter. No reason to get upset about it.

No, running a football team and organization is massively difficult. Only about six to eight teams in the league are successfully doing it. And Rhule, in college he worked miracles turning around programs building from the ground up. The guy knows his stuff, but he's build a whole house starting at the foundation, he's not just dragging a trailer to a new lot.

This whole running a football team thing is hard.

That was a massively aggressive offer. They basically sat down at the poker table and pushed all their chips to the center while the cards were still being shuffled. If it blows up in their faces, the Rams going to pay for it for a loooong time. Detroit, not so long.

Good for him. Hope he handles JPP well and gets his ring. Remmers never did anything but play football for us and he handled the job better than you or I could. Good luck to him.

Therein lies the rub. Sometimes the right coach can find the right technique and you develop the guy into a winner. Most times you don't, though, and you don't even develop a decent back up QB.

That got me, too. There's something there, but it's going to take a lot of practice and polish to make him into something great. He'd be perfect to spend a year behind someone like Brees, Brady, Roethlisberger or Alex Smith.