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Oh my sweet summer child, you ain't seen poo. *Smiles in rebel yell and lovely ladies*

Sleep Token has filled all of my music listening time. For months now.

Well, wrap it up boys. We going 7-10 this year. Am I doing preseason week 1 right after one possession?

Give me Suzuki first. Guy is gonna be a baller

No I'd say 30 spots are likely locks. Everything else is probably a question mark of fit and effort. Somebody is currently a #2 who could slide to #3 or even cut before the end of the month. That's the point.

Very simply, our starters have to look good while out there, and I want to see everybody who isn't a starter playing like their career is on the line trying to earn a spot. That is it. If I see anything else, I will be very disheartened.

Tell me the percentage of say, 15th that year.

He only missed a couple from 50+. Truth is, we didn't get many chances to gamble those. Our offense was abysmal and the last thing you want to do is ask your kicker to attempt a 50+ yarder every offensive possession because it is just harder to do consistently. That's how you crush a kicker's confidence and break him if he starts routinely missing those. He was automatic up to 40, and very accurate up to 50. Eddy wasn't the best in the league but he definitely wasn't the worst. The only thing hurting him was his declining FG% year to year. If he has an up spike there in his last year, even just a bit, he's still here

Eddy was fine tbh. Historically good. Unless he doesn't have it in him anymore, need to kick those tires maybe

Kickers are fickle beasts. It's easy to check out mentally as a specialist. Finding a consistent K, P, or LS is harder than it seems. That's at any level, and at the professional level it's harder because so much can be determined by a single special teams blunder (such as our first Superbowl). You ultimately have to take the best available option each year until you find the guy who gets his numbers in practice, tries to perfect his craft and doesn't shrink when the moments come in game. It's not like a QB or LB where you can develop him at this level. His leg strength is what it is, his mechanics can be tweaked to maximize his accuracy and drive, but he's not going to go from a 45 yard range to a 60 with accuracy suddenly. This is why you'll see teams randomly burn a draft pick on one. Going back to 2000, only 49 kickers — now including Moody — have been drafted at all. And of those, only five were taken in the first three rounds of the NFL draft. However, because the NFL draft is also longer now than it used to be, Moody ranks only sixth in overall picks since 2000 — the Cardinals took Bill Gramatica in the fourth round, 98th overall in 2001 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/jake-moody-49ers-nfl-highest-drafted-kickers/hlxek3a3ggjwlvxaibq5bm64

I think it's time we, as a fan base, cleanse ourselves of the curse of the former Panthers Jimmy. Pickles can't hurt us now. There's a new Jimmy on town and he has actual talent and it's best we just call him Jimmy. I know it stirs up some deep emotions, but it's time. Lol

Put simply, this board's primary base was people here from the beginning until around 2015. The ones who came because Cam never stuck, save for a couple. The rest of us are now 35+ years old with jobs and families in an economy that sees us making more than double what we made 10 years ago and being no better off for it. We just don't have the time to invest in this place.

People are really concerned that a rookie came in and didn't have the right mentality out the gate, admitted it and is now saying in no uncertain terms that he is committed to doing better? Wtf is going on?

I just want Rodgers to play well. I think it'd be a better story. Crazy ass Aaron Rodgers winning would make the sports media lose its mind as they want Pittsburgh to compete and be successful but they want Rodgers to fail but they acknowledge him being a good QB again is best for business.

Something everybody who played high school football in NC under any coach worth a damn learned in June: hydration begins 24 hours before you go to practice. If you're not pissing clear the night before practice, you failed. If you don't wake up to two glasses of water, you've failed. If you don't drink water before practice, you've failed. If you don't drink water between reps, you've failed. If you don't drink water during planned water breaks, you've failed. This is very easy to do. You're gonna be running behind connex boxes and trees and bleachers mid practice sometimes and that is far more acceptable than cramping or stroking out and going to the hospital.