ForJimmy

Insurance companies are a joke. Always trying to weasel out of the service they have been paid to provide.

Sorry you definitely aren't wrong. The problem is our offense isn't some star loaded offense either. The acquisition cost to acquire Young skews the draft picks quiet a but plus if you go back a couple years earlier we went all in on defense. That class should be carrying us as vets right now. To me the dead cap hit and the assets used on Bryce are neutering this roster right now. We paid out some OL this offseason too so yeah the defense is getting neglected this past couple years. I just don't think they are much worse that last year's defense, just have a lot more injuries. TLDR version you are right! Plus several other factors.

In the past Jewell is a 100 plus tackles player in Evero's defense. He hasn't looked like it this year so far and he also got hurt already...

Yeah we paid out for our OL. Dalton is cheap, Chuba is cheap, our weapons are cheap, Young is on a rookie contract. Hunt and Moton are eating a chunk of our salary, but honestly the $51 million in dead cap is what is making everything out of wack. Moton is making a lot because we pushed his money back, we paid out for Hunt, and just paid DB (earned money).

I think we draft an edge early (if not our first pick) to pair with Clowney his final year. Wallace will be one LB and we either use Jewell his last year or try to sign another one. I'm curious to see how Dane Jackson looks as Morgan has been high on him and we can keep him through 2025 if he looks decent. We absolutely need depth and every position. I doubt it can be fixed in one offseason.

Again this isn't gutting a defense during the offseason. We replaced Burns with Clowney, YGM with Wonnum, paid out to retain DB, signed Dane Jackson to replace Dante, signed Fuller to replace Bell, signed Jewell to replace Luvu. Half of those are considered upgrades. The draft is going to be skewed because we traded up and went all in on a QB. We wanted to rent a defense in FA and build an offense. Clearly it didn't work...

Icky is actually playing well this year. I’m not sure I’d move on from him yet…

To those who are staring we “gutted” the defense. Do you think Burns is much better than Clowney? Is Dante Jackson much better than Mike? That just leaves Luvu who we tried to retain but he wanted to play for Quinn. We tried to replace him with Jewell. Luvu was decent but I don’t think losing him “gutted” our defense. It’s two things IMO. 1. Our defense was overrated last year. Our offense couldn’t score so most teams just ran down the clock after they got a decent lead. 2. Our defense had little depth and is banged up. DB was our foundation piece and our run defense can’t rebound without him. Dane Jackson was penciled at CB2 before he was hurt, Wonnum should be a capable starter, Tuttle has missed the last couple games (that’s 2/3 of our DL), Fuller had missed the last couple games, and now both Shaq and Jewell are hurt. That’s over half our starters on a team with little depth.

No more trading away picks. Just keep developing JT Sanders…

DB being out deflated our defense even more than it was. Hopefully some young guys will look serviceable and give us something to build on for when he comes back next year.

Our cap is going to be tight next year. Corbs and Horn’s contract are coming due, plus do we let DJ walk? Vet edges are pretty pricey…

Yeah no more trading away picks for players. There is no shortcut for this rebuild. Just gotta take it on the chin. Wonnum is average and we could really use average right now. Rotate him out with Johnson and Clowney should help.

I don’t recall XL being a body catcher in college. Maybe it’s just some rookie nerves?

The problem is Mingo is probably our best blocking WR by a good margin.

The only thing I could see is him being a CB that takes a couple snaps a game on offense. Either as a decoy or to get him the ball in space. The Pats did it with Vrabel and I remember us getting Peppers a few looks in the redzone.

Having him play with Clowney for a year would be nice.

I’ll say this, IF Tepper was the main driving force behind Bryce then I seriously think he will let the football people pick their QB. Now if Fitt was the main driving force than convinced Tepper, that’s a completely different story. Not saying this happened but imagine owning a team and preferring Stroud, but the football guy you hired rolls with Bryce…

I’ll take either of them or an elite defender. Maybe a top pass rusher…

I like Ward a lot. Sanders is a good QB. He has been playing it his whole life with top trainers helping him get better. I think he has a lot of maturing to do at the next level and I think his dad is going to be a distraction. Regardless I doubt Prime lets him play here so it’s all for nothing.

They had 9 wins last year with that starting QB missing half the season. I’m not sure that would be bad not to mention they just played KC to the wire this year. They have talent, two great WRs, and a top tier QB. I definitely wouldn’t overlook them.

You could also argue Beck has a lot more talent around him at UGA than Ward does at Miami.

So you are saying TMac gets drafted higher than Hunter?

You saw right through Beck from the beginning!

He has always been a great runner. His progression as a passer has been impressive!