Jay Roosevelt

I hope so. He's easily the second best WR on the roster; I'm not entirely convinced he's not the best, but it's hard to say with until we get a better look at TMac.

I'm convinced this organization doesn't like receivers that can actually catch the football. Mark my words; they'll trade Thielen for peanuts and trot out XL as our WR2 and have David Moore playing WR3 while Coker rides the bench.

Bring you ass to work. fug Minnesota.

poo. Really hope we don't trade Thielen now. Don't need XL out there dropping passes again.

God doesn't give a poo about football.

Our defense just got better by default with Shy Tuttle being released.

WHY????

Wouldn't mind having Sam Franklin back. Was always a great special teams guy.

I can't fathom there is a living human man between the ages of 20-40 with two arms and two legs that wouldn't be better than Jack Plummer.

If I were a bubble player I wouldn't consider myself to have made the team unless I'm still on the roster at the end of September. Always a lot of movement during that first month or so.

Well, you'd like to think there's a better plan in place for QB1 but if you don't have one, yeah.

I wouldn't assume Fitzgerald has won the kicker job just yet. We could very well opt to bring in someone else once the cuts start coming in.

I'd rather hang onto "pretty good" players than trade all the "pretty good" players we have for picks that we'll use to draft players that are "pretty shitty."

We should be cycling through QB3s every 1-2 seasons until we find one worth developing into our QB2. Bring in the most talented UDFA or late-round options available until we find a functional backup. Jack Plummer was... not it.

Hopefully the Jack Plummer experiment is over.

I'm suggesting they're just as likely to be scrubs as they are to be good players. That's just the nature of mid-round draft picks. You're as likely to get an Troy Pride, Jr. as you are a Chuba Hubbard. Realistically, you're probably less likely to get a starter after round 3 than you are to get a guy who will end up cut after year 2. We're entering a season that is crucial for Bryce in terms of either ascending to franchise QB or being a confirmed bust. Now is not the time to take away the one known quantity at WR that we have, no matter how confident we may be in the young guys.

As opposed to having a roster full of random 6th round scrubs who can't play?

Keeping good players surely isn't the problem. Neither is not having more late-round draft picks.

My take on this is basically this: why give up a quality player for the NFL equivalent of a half-empty bag of peanuts and a $1 scratch-off ticket? An aging player, yes. In a contract year? Yes. But still a quality player that can help us win. If they come with a serious offer that provides good value for us then it should be considered, but 5th and 6th rounders are cut every day. Even 4th rounders are coin-flips most of the time. Now, if we get closer to the trade deadline and are floundering and have little to no shot at the playoffs, then you have to consider even a lowball offer at that point, if for no other reason than giving a respected veteran player a chance to play meaningful football in what could be his last year. But right now? Teams that trade away starting WRs a week before opening day for crumbs aren't serious about competing, let alone winning. We traded Christian McCaffrey for below market value; we were forced to trade Brian Burns for less than market value because Fitterer threw any leverage we had out the window when he turned down the Rams insane offer and then failed to get an extension done. This after we traded away D.J. Moore as part of the Bryce Young trade instead of Burns, who we'd end up trading for just a 2nd rounder anyway. We've seen way too many talented starters traded away by this team over the last several years. Is Adam Thielen in the same category as McCaffrey, Burns and Moore? Obviously no, based on his age alone. But he's a good and dependable player who has been penciled in as a starting WR all offseason and if nothing else is a very good slot receiver. Why give a player like that up for a late-round pick that will most likely end up being used a player who will end up being a backup at best? Not only does it send a horrible message to the locker room, but it sends a message to the rest of the league: we'll trade our starters for peanuts. Give us your worst offer!

Tyler Huntley wouldn't be a bad option at QB2 if Dalton is expected to miss a good amount of time.

If it's a top-100 like the one NFL Network does that's based entirely on the previous season, not having Derrick Brown would make sense considering he only played in 1 game. But if it's a general top-100 player list? Yeah, no question Brown should have made it. You can make a good argument for Jaycee Horn, Robert Hunt, Damien Lewis and Chuba Hubbard but I don't know that any of those guys are full-on locks either.

Zero reason Ransom shouldn't be starting, but I fully expect them to trot out Nick Scott.

They shouldn't. Coker is a legit #2 WR and should get those targets.

A considerable turn for the worst? Seriously? How do you figure? He played very well and only missed one game due to his knee. And he likely would have played that one had we still been in the playoff hunt. I'm sorry, but you're reaching here.

You do know that most NFL players have to manage chronic wear-and-tear-related injuries once they get into their late 20s, right? This isn't unusual. There's a difference between long-term management and dealing with a major injury. Do you think they'd have paid him this much if they hadn't had the knee thoroughly examined and were comfortable with what they found? Honestly?