kungfoodude

Not a high bar to hit though.

You keep beating that drum but it just isn't true. There have been multitudes of people in the league and around the league that talked about how he struggles with processing. There is literally tape there showing this and that it isn't mechanics. I have no idea why you continue to believe it's predominatly mechanics. He keeps struggling from clean pockets, as well. What you are saying is literally a fantasy.

I guess that is technically true.

Technically the bulk of our core players are inherited.

You need people to attend for there to be a parade.

17 people isn't a parade.

I think Teddy would have done better overall but I do think our offense would still be struggling without CMC. Our red zone stats are up slightly from last year. I do also believe the drops wouldn't nearly be as big of a deal.

Teddy had almost as bad of an OL last year and still completed passes at a high rate because he was much quicker to process the field and make the decisions. He just sucked at making decisions other than the most conservative possible one. So, I actually don't believe Jones would perform worse than Sam here.

They do get assigned randomly if you leave it on autodraft. I always suspect that was Hurney's biggest problem.

Neither of their statistics come even close to what OBJ did. It's fine to hate a player for being a douche but you can't take away their on field accomplishments. There have been few if any WR's that had as dominant a start to their NFL careers as OBJ. That wasn't being in a "market." He was legit one of the top 2-4 WR's in the NFL his first three years in the league.

Rhule has final say on personnel. This was a condition of him accepting the job at Carolina. This is a widely known and reported fact. Considering the money(and draft capital) we have shelled out for Darnold and Teddy, I am not sure resigning Cam could even eclipse how dumb we have been since(contract dependant, of course).

He hasn't been. He's been a bum most of the year.

He may end up clearing waivers. If he gets picked up, the team is on the hook for the rest of his rather large salary for this year(I believe). He has $15 mil/year in 2022 and 2023 but zero of that money is guaranteed. It's possible teams may just want to get him on an even smaller deal since he is a head case and injury prone. Remember that Antonio Brown never recovered his market value after all his hysterics.

Hey, he was 24 of 34 against Detroit. 26 of 34 if you count the completions to the Lions.

You do see some bulking up and some cutting down(Cam and Big Ben come to mind on slimming down). Outside of someone like Mac Jones, who was physically about as unimpressive as can be, I would say the majority of QB's are still in pretty good shape. Getting bigger and stronger might help for a bruising runner like Allen or Cam but that also isn't a recipe for longevity. If you think about the muscles being used for throwing a football, it isn't that you necessarily want them big and bulky. Hence why you don't see a bunch of swole up MLB pitchers.

Yeah, MLB doesn't stick out as much as QB/OL. Those positions are actively losing us games.

Well we started from absolutely nothing after 2019, so it will take time to address everything.

Picking Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Darnold and PJ Walker isn't bad luck. He inherited zero of those players. He pursued and signed all of them. That is 100% his fault. Bad luck is getting a rookie QB who has a injury plauged career. Bad luck is not overpaying a career mediocre player like Teddy. Bad luck is not picking up an ex-player and NFL washout in PJ Walker. Bad luck is not taking a three year NFL starting bust with well known issues reading the field and then trading for him. None of those decisions are bad luck.

Name another three time Pro Bowl WR in their first three seasons.

Yeah, I'd take Jones over Teddy at the moment but I get your point.

Well, he is on pace for a 4000+ yard season and at a 68+ completion percentage, as well. That's nothing to sneeze at, especially as a rookie. His TD production is pretty middling but the rest of his throwing stats are fairly solid to impressive.

Agreed. If he is cheap, he is an acceptable level of roster weakness. We have much, much, MUCH larger holes on the roster that are actually costing us games. Those need to be addressed first. So we'll probably go LB in the 1st round.

I am hoping he will have some extra fire in his belly to stick it to New England. His assignment this week will be much easier than Kyle Pitts.

Outside the last three years, his career average is 92.8 yds/game. Don't use him being a nutcase and banged up to diminish how good of a player he was. I remember people doing that to Terrell Owens too. I hated that dude but he was an all-time great WR.