Khyber53

Won't give any spoilers, but what did you think? Tons of laugh out loud moments, surprises throughout and good story. Bringing back one of the old time world-threatening supervillains was great.

First half, first half, first quarter. He's got to get out there and prove himself to the team. The questionable offensive line also needs as much practice as possible with him to learn his tendencies under real pressure and to understand his line calls. The only guy who should get any sort of complete bench time in the pre-season is CMC.

It's all imaginary money. Ask the Saints.

There's quite a herd of them. Lot of meat weight on the hoof, but I'll be darned if there's a prime animal in the bunch.

Can't this monstrosity die?

Man, I'm working through a mortgage and getting two kids ready for college. Can't even imagine doing something so foolish.

Honestly, our punt returner(s) didn't get much work last season. I sure hope that has changed. Still, you'd think by this point we'd be seeing something about an unsung player making moves to be the returner. Just hearing crickets chirp at the moment.

We are what they say we are until we prove them otherwise. And it's Madden, not real football.

Division 78 QB?

Who?

Sorry, but Phillip Rivers is basically the same guy as Matthew Stafford. Media loves him, everyone says he's great and an asset to any team. Reality says he's an 8-8 QB who somehow survived numerous coaching changes.

No training camp goes on without a fight or two. Let's move along.

Let Moton work at LT some in training camp, let him try it for the first couple of pre-season games. Unless he is playing at Pro Bowl (real Pro Bowl, not just popularity contest pro bowl) level, go back to RT with him. Moton is a fantastic RT, that is a known performance level. If he can't achieve that on the LT side, then you have to put him where he is absolutely the best. Then you put the best LT candidate you have on the left side and scheme to assist them whenever possible.

It may be that Darnold is one of those Rhule is targetting with that ass-chewing. If Zod is calling him out for holding onto the ball too long, you know the coaches have seen it and discussed it at length among their meetings. This was a reclamation project at QB. It's going to take more than a spot of paint and some landscaping to make him viable again. Hope Rhule can get Darnold repaired before September.

Let's hope he has a busy season and that statistic barely budges. That's just astounding!

I think we may be looking for someone during camp cuts. The loss of Walker and/or Grier won't be hard to recover from. There's going to be a smart young kid that ends up on the wrong side of some team's math and hopefully we'll grab him. Walker and Grier offer us nothing either as relief pitchers or for the future.

Let's take a hard look at our QB room. Honestly, we have three backups in there between Darnold, Walker and Grier. And chances are good that two of them really aren't the quality you need to hold a clipboard and be ready to come into a game and not lose it after the starting QB is injured. I know, I put Darnold in there. Right now, his performance with the Jets would have him headed to the pool of back-up QB candidates in most seasons. We're taking a flier on him that he can be coached back up, but until we get a couple of games into the season, that's still a crap shoot. We're hoping we find a Favre or Brees needing a new home, but honestly its just as likely we have a Rosen or Colt McCoy on our hands. I hope he'll be good or even great, but chances aren't good for QB flops in their second home. Walker and Grier aren't cusp players, they are cusp pros. They are just hanging on to the possibility of being in an NFL uniform much less actually playing in a game. If you have to send one of these guys into a game, pray the defense can somehow run out the clock. If you have to start one of them for any period of time, it's time to look at the next draft class while possibly polishing up the coaching resumes. This isn't a great situation going into the season. Maybe it will work out. Hope so.

It's the Internet. Hot takes only for most people and if you can dis on someone, the cooler you think it makes you.

Moore for certain. Anderson, I wouldn't negotiate that until we see if that wasn't a flash in the pan last year. After week 5, Robby didn't post a single 100-yard game and really only 3 over 50 yards. True, this was one of his only 16 game seasons, but either he ran out of gas as the season went on, or teams figured out how to jam him up. Sometime around week 12 we should know what the story is there. Donte... yeah, let's get some more games under his belt. He improved a lot last year, and once again, we need a better view of whether that was the ceiling or just the beginning of something better. Burns, yeah, we need to get that extension signed sooner rather than later. I believe this will be his break out year.

Worst case scenario for Darnold is that he plays a bit under mediocre but the team has a winning season on the strength of the running game and a stout defense. We get a playoff spot and an early exit, then pick in the last third of the draft. Worst case scenario is he turns us into the Bears, a decent team with lousy QBing, bad placement in the draft and a coach that no one believes in anymore. Me, I'm hoping this becomes a redemption story for the ages and Darnold comes in and shines.

As much as an experienced decent corner is intriguing, this is probably 100% right. Let's stay the course and keep the money in reserve. I hope we don't need to, but there may be a chance we need to grab a QB.

People used to complain that character was part of our drafting criteria. This is all about quality of character.

Good, I don't envision it either. Kinda have a nightmare about us doing it, but hopefully wiser heads in the front office will keep us out of this trouble.

If it pans out that way, it would probably be better to ride out the season (again) and take a QB early in the draft rather than pay big for a guy who could conceivably not be allowed to play football again. The allegations against Watson, if true, are terrible and should result in him being banned from the sport. In such a case, the team trading for him would be out the draft picks, the opportunities they would have created AND very likely be sitting on contracted dead money against the cap for years to come. Yeah, let someone else take a chance on that.

In the end, we could have had both looking at how the CAP money worked out. We could have had a second round pick used elsewhere than at WR and the replacement for Robby Anderson on staff and experienced going into 2022. They were just figuring out how to use Samuel in the last half of last season. Having him and CMC out there together this season would have been murder on opposing defenses if Darnold plays well. But, there's no use crying over spilt milk.