Khyber53

Development of guys like those listed is supposed to be Rhule's bread and butter. I hope to see it this season. Growing the team organically inhouse is going to make something special that will last. Good coaching in the midst of the wildstorm of egos that can come up has ruined many teams -- the few coaches that can weather that AND develop their undercard rosters get dynasties.

Never jump into deepwater drama, no matter what the reward might seem to be. Just take the time to better survey what is out there and what you really need.

Math-wise, yeah, that is true. But they fill up two roster spots for no real value. Grier hasn't actually had to wear cleats on game day for some time and Thomas played like he still had his slippers on as well. It may cost more money to replace them, but two guys who are willing and able to be on special teams could use their spots. Let 'em roll and find new homes, bring in some UDFA for their spots.

The key to winning a Super Bowl is often which team is the healthiest. The season is a war of attrition.

He's right once he moves past the Watson fantasy. And I harped on this a lot last season: if we could have made some of our opponents punt even once in a number of our games, we would have had a winning season, potentially even the play offs. Our defense just could not get the opponents off the field. If you can't get your opponent off the field on third down, then you are done for. We were unable to do it on an epic scale. There were games where are best defensive option was to literally let the other team march down the field and hope to hold them to a field goal. And yet, we still were within one score of winning most of our losses. I mean, do the math. We had the personnel to do it. Our defense shut out the Lions, which isn't saying much, but was also able to give Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs fits. We played aggressive defense in those games, but spent the rest of them playing like a bunch of old ladies. We need o-line, but Steve Smith is right, we need someone incredible manning that MLB position, calling the plays, reading the offense and holding us to an aggressive defensive attitude. Drafting this year should pay particular attention to the guys who get the green sticker on their helmets.

Everyone wants to be Michael Jordan with the Bulls. One docu-series and the whole world goes nuts.

Really looking forward to this Friday's episode. This series wayyyy exceeded my expectations.

Dude, we were friend zoned way early into this courtship. Any interest paid to us is just to make others jealous and run up the price.

The read sounds interesting and isn't one of the big OT prospects out there from Northwestern as well?

Bezos Bozos.

Like I said, we still could be in that mode and I don't think I'd have any trouble with that.

The guy has a lot of money to get rid of. He strikes me as the give most of it away rather than hand it down to his kids kind of guy. Of course, if he just left 10% of his estimated $2 billion estate to his family, they'd have to somehow make it through life after splitting a measly $200 million. It'll be tough, but they'll somehow pull through.

If a team had a good offensive line and a strong defense, Teddy can work for them. We had neither of those last season and he just couldn't operate outside of that window. He could also be a prime prospect for someone like Jacksonville to take as a warm-up act and bench coach for their QB. That's what I thought we would be doing with him here and we still could be looking at that possibility. A good part of the problem we had with Teddy last season was Teddy, but it wasn't the entire problem. Our o-line was taken from the cast of Little Giants and our defense was Swiss cheese in cleats. We had receivers like no other team and a fairly okay running game, but no TE work and an offensive coordinator who literally could not watch the entire field. And don't get me started on not having CMC for most of the year -- that alone probably cost us four or more games.

A couple of flashes, but a lot of time on the bench while we fielded the "Last Lap All-Stars" on defense. Maybe he'll come back, get a chance and make the most of it. If not, meh.

Good for him. And yeah, he looked the part on the show.

I've been saying it for a while now and I'm going to keep saying it: Mac Jones will be our pick. And he'll be the right pick. I know, a lot of folks more in the know are saying he's a bust, doesn't have it, would be a wasted pick. Heard the same thing, from a lot of the same people, when I said CMC would be our pick at #8. They were wrong, so wrong, then and they are wrong again. People point at Jones and say he is a product of the system. He had a pro quality O-line. Pro-level receivers and RB. Had pro-level coaching and game planning. Pro-type program all around. He had everything a professional football team should be able to provide him, right? So how did he do? The guy was accurate (311-422, 77.4%, 4500 yards in 13 games, 11.7 yds avg, 41 TD, 4 INT), won every game he played in last season (including a playoff game AND the national championship) and even Nick Saban praised the guy's maturity and leadership. He's not a gym rat, he's not the tallest guy out there and he's certainly not the fastest. But he wins. He works. He does the film study. He reads the defense. He spreads the ball around. To the right team. He's the pick. If not, then we will live to regret it big time.

If we decide that there isn't a franchise QB at our pick in the draft, then we pick the best player available and continue the rebuild. If that means Bridgewater gets another season, I'm not upset with that. There is a chance with better protection and another year as a starter we would see some improvement with Teddy. It would be a better move than investing big in a reclamation project like Darnold, Carr or someone of their stripe. In the end, Teddy would have a year's head start on upgrading and we'd only have his contract to deal with rather than two contracts of that level to pay at once.

They got rid of Cam because this was Cam's team. There was no doubt about it, any new coach coming in would either be beholding to Cam's wishes or he'd have to move him away. Cam's diminishing capabilities on the field (his charisma was completely unaffected by injuries) only made the decision easier. For a complete rebuild, Cam had to be shown the door. New coach had to be the biggest dog in the yard, just like Steve Smith had to be moved out to let Cam take the leadership role.

Oh bother.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Someone will. Someone may find there's an injury lurking unseen, though, something soft tissue that won't be easy to catch on medical exams.

I could see Teddy working out really well for Belichick. Better than he did here. There was something nearly collegiate about Brady's calling the offense at the later part of the season. Hopefully he learned a lot (and will get up into the danged coach's box for a good view). Not saying it hurt Bridgewater's performance, but yeah, I am. It hurt the team for the coordinator to not have a good view of the entire field. He couldn't see defensive movement tendencies and had to rely on what the receivers were telling them about how open they were on any given play (never trust a receiver on this -- they are always open).

Give me Peyton's arm, Brady's vision and Tarkenton's ability to move. Let Luke teach him to read defenses. I'm not asking for much.

I think he'll have his best season to date this coming year. I think he has a personal need to put up hall of fame numbers and set records. He'll knock down at least one more record this coming season. The kid is just that good.

Yanno, I'm just hoping that accuracy, leadership and reading a defense are higher priorities than athleticism for our next starting QB. He can be as immobile as a second generation Manning as long as he can get the ball out quick, accurately and to the receiver who can make the most of it. A Mahomes or Wilson is fantastic if you've got one, but there sure are a lot of QBs who've been touted as the next ones who were just second rate versions of them. Great mobile QBs aren't the norm, no matter how sought after they are, they are rare finds.

If Cam were still healthy and able to actually compete, then this would be a big deal. Honestly, Carolina wouldn't have moved on from him. He wasn't healthy 2018, he was really bad off in 2019, he got cut here and performed poorly in New England for the 2020 season. I hate that it worked out that way, but almost every great football player's career ends earlier than they want and mostly due to injuries if they were ever really good. Cam's at that point. Has been at it. Did Rivera ruin his career? Quit trying to blame anything but the fact that football is a massively dangerous contact sport. What do you think "leave everything out on the field" means? This is the nature of the game, and it's rough when it takes out one of your heroes. It's rough every time.