Khyber53

Good point but both the Steelers and Ravens are really built to combat the run, it's a necessity in their division and for the climates they play in. Personally, I wanted us to draft a center early last season and snag one of the best. I still kind of wish we had, not because I don't like Bozeman (I do, I really do) but just the cost savings would have been considerable. Still, Bozeman and the IOL were night and day improved over where they had been. Tackles, too.

The rumors of the 3-4 in Carolina have surfaced before, many times. They haven't panned out so far, so I'm going to do a wait and see thing here.

He has been a major upgrade, although it seems he didn't get enough time as a starter to really evaluate what kind of impact he had on the team. I can say that once he took over, the entire line performed better as did the team. Really good centers can do that and they are the cornerstone for building long term success in an offensive line, which gives a good working environment for a QB, which opens up the game for running backs and gives WRs more time to get open. Yeah, it's an important position to get right. Unless there's an injury issue we are unaware of, Bozeman is absolutely the right choice for this team now. Whether he was the number 3 or number 10 center in the league on someone's arbitrary chart really doesn't matter. He was the absolute number one there for us.

Best wishes to Coach Wilks. I think he'll do great there, he's certainly got a lot to work with.

College sports has ruined college.

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Oh not that old thing again. Bad teams pick high in the draft. Again and again. Their fanbases live for it, drool over it, hope and pray for it. And they get them again and again. Let's move on.

Considering the firing of the HC in a busted season, perhaps we should judge his impact based on how bad it COULD have gotten. Interim coaches and low player effort go hand in hand. Somehow, Wilks kept the team competitive. That's worth a tip of the hat, at least.

Are we sure that we're moving to the 3-4 or is that just fan talk?

The guy is the most consistently good player on our defense and leads the whole group. He sets the tone and covers for many of the holes we have in the schemes. We need to keep him and I hope they can work things out, either with a redo of the contract or that we just pay the man as he was promised. He's certainly upheld his end of the bargain.

He'd probably make a good OC, to be honest. He understands offensive plays backwards, forwards, by the QB calls, the gestures of the opposing coaches, the sweat on the WRs...

I'm a bit more optimistic about who we have in house and who we can pick up. I really feel that Rhule's coaching hindered some performances and stunted some development. We got to see some of the better play by the end of the year. And yeah, TEs do take time to develop into their full roles, but to get a pass catching one who can work the seams would be an immense favor to whoever will be QB. We've got to move on from the blocking TE only mentality Rhule had. There are a couple of excellent opportunities in the draft, day one, perhaps early day two. There are also some good free agents out there that might be a pick up and bring the experience quota with them.

He's still mainly an unknown factor. Really wished we had seen more of him, the glimpses were really inspiring of optimism. Maybe a whole season and off season under a better strength and conditioning group would help immensely. I think under Rhule the weight room became less important than the big meeting/indoctrination room. And we got pushed around a lot. A lot.

Yeah, his size had nothing to do with that. Elbows and knees are weak spots on even the largest people, if not even more so. I hope the kid can come back from that, he was a real revelation at QB.

This ^ 100 percent. We really are that close. A good draft, a couple of free agent pick ups and we can move ahead of the division rivals quickly. And we can compete, hopefully like the Jaguars did under Peterson.

I'm looking forward to this, with the understanding that the writing is on the wall that with a good job done we are going to lose him to a HC job next year or the year after. Until then, I hope he gets things back on track here and helps us lock down the NFCSouth. Glad we've got him. Now l'm dying to see who will be OC.

It's a job you take with the knowledge that you will get fired, eventually. And it is one of the heaviest grind jobs in the world, 16-18 hours a day, 7 days a week in season, and probably close to 75% of that in the off season. How many coaches have we seen go down had really just collapsed under the pressure and the burnout. I'm really astounded their divorce rate isn't astronomically higher than it is.

I've said it before, I'll say it again, every danged team in the NFCSouth will be in the mix when it comes to hiring Carr. He's better than anyone any of the teams has at QB now and a one year upgrade would be massive. Each of the teams involved has receivers and at least a modest offensive line. Whoever grabs him has a massive leg up on this coming season and maybe for a year or two after.

I'm still not completely sure that trading for Darnold was as terrible as most think, had we just had a coach that could call a game and develop a QB. There were a couple of games in his first season where Darnold put the team on his back and ran the game -- that Vikings one that he almost made a comeback in really sticks out as an "I'll do it myself, dammit" kind of thing. I'm actually hoping we give Darnold another season here as a bridge QB to see if Reich can get him straightened out while developing someone behind him. And Darnold was, sadly, the best QB we fielded last season. On the Luvu one, something just tells me that one of our scouts found him and snuck him in under the radar. However it happened, he's been a real find. He fits the mold of a Carolina linebacker.

Not to mention the whole "checks and balances" thing is a proven management model.

Yowch

Aaron Rodgers would win them some games but could cause collateral damage within the organization that would make sure they stay a wreck for the next decade. I believe there are a lot of folks within the Green Bay organization that would breathe a sigh of relief if he ended up in Gang Green.

Me, too, brother, me, too.

Not a damn thing.