kungfoodude

I tend to agree but he is young enough in his career that he could become a Ryan Fitzpatrick type occasional starter.

But he can block very well and even catch a ball once in a blue moon.

Or how about something that leans into what he is pretty solid at, make him a FB/HB.

It hasn't happened often but it seems to happen at the most inopportune times.

Yeah, I mean I understand the attraction. I don't really particularly care what version of winning/success we choose. If we want it to be a high flying passing offense, a balanced attack or a smash mouth running attack. Or, even better, maybe just some good old fashioned changing it up based on the opponent you play. I just want to win again. That's what I really want. Even this year. I don't care about the #1 overall pick. We are still gonna end up in the top 5-10 regardless of how many of these winnable games we take. There shouldn't be an excuse for not grabbing 1-2 QUALITY starters with that kind of capital.

Show me an elite defensive coordinator that has had as bad of a unit as we do. If you watch our games and see our blitzes, it's blatantly obvious why we rarely see any success.

We aren't a terrible situation for Howell but I think his best bet for being successful long term is doing what he is now, riding the pine. If we want to being Dalton back for a couple of years and Howell can be had cheaply(4th round or lower) to sit behind him for that time, that's probably a path to success. Of the games I watched for Howell, he definitively showed he needed to be sitting and learning for a while.

Teammates like winning and being competitive. There is zero question at all that Russell Wilson is a better QB at his best than Justin Fields. Fields peak is closer to Russell's lower/mid level of QB play. The question is, if Wilson still has any left in the tank after Denver.

I did include 2nd and 3rd when I looked.

Fields takes care of the ball a lot more than Howell, however. We would need to know if Canales can break him of his Winston-esque gunslinger mentality. If we can't, that's going to be a problem

The difference is that it's clear that Fields is a big limiting factor in their offense. It's blatant when you watch the games. He's just limited in his capabilities as a passer. Russell shouldn't have those.....if he isn't washed up.

Well your football opinions are pretty awful, TBH.

I wasn't counting our home runs. Those everyone knows.

PFF is indicating that Fields is not the guy from the Steelers we need to trade for. Nope. He isn't the QB we need from them. It's the other QB they have with a much better career winning percentage, similar career QB rating and at times considered an elite player by much of the Huddle. It also happens he is in the last year of his deal. We need to go out and get.....

It would never be at the Lamar level just because Lamar is also an elite passing QB and Fields is a bottom tier passing QB. It would be a LOT of loading the box and daring him to throw against us, I suspect. It would be kind of fun to watch us load up heavy and just start mauling people. Probably not super successful ultimately but fun for a bit. Truthfully, he doesn't fit what Canales wants to do at all, IMO.

Our drafted WR closet has more skeletons than a serial killer. You missed Colbert. I guess one could argue Carruth but those circumstances were....unique. Oddly, we have had a couple of underappreciated 2nd rounders with solid careers. LaFell and Samuel. Not star players but good journeyman role players that were worthy of those picks in the end(mostly not for us).

He is likely to be on his last legs as the starter there. Tomlin has as much as intimated that. I would say he has maybe 1-2 games left before they roll out Russell.

I mean, I would be okay with Fields at the right price. You have to understand it is going to be a downgrade from Dalton in terms of the passing game. He would add an element of explosiveness to our already pretty decent running attack but he would aid in stunting the growth of our younger WR's, as he is a bottom quarter of the league passer. Just understand that choosing him as a future starter would be a pretty dramatic offensive limitation in the passing game. He is not likely to ever ascend above more than a slightly below average NFL passer at his peak. I mean, still way better than Bryce but....

I mean.....we also allow some of the most time to throw in the NFL. We are sort of asking them to work miracles.

I think a 4th is unlikely. Adams is a little different scenario price-wise because he had a very limited list of suitors. That always impacts trade value.

The offseason is gonna be interesting. They are gonna push him to restructure. I would say for his sake, he might want to play ball. If he doesn't and it keeps going this way, this will be his last stop in the NFL.

It's pretty early. I am encouraged by XL playing better and Coker should be getting more reps. He has been leaps and bounds away our most impressive rookie. It's a lot of "wait and see" overall. If at the end of this year at least two of these guys look like viable starters for next year and for reasons other than "don't have anyone else" that's a start.

You are inserting arguments I haven't made. The Chargers are definitively better but they were also far better than us last year. However, they ended up being a bottom 10 PPG and yardage defense in 2024. We were in the top 10 in YPG and bottom 10 in PPG. Harbaugh ball improved their defense and will likely(TBD) net improved W/L results this season, as well. I don't expect them to be a Super Bowl team in year 1. I don't expect playing a little smarter and beating Atlanta is going to catapult us to being a .500 team either.

We have at least 2-3 more years of top 10 drafting so we have to be sure to make those picks count. That's the sort of foundation that can get us to being a consistently winning team and possibly a contending team. Hopefully the 2024 draft went well. I am extremely skeptical of that one but if it did, that could very well be step 1.