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I wasn’t high on Herbert (I was clearly wrong). I thought he didn’t live up to his hype in Oregon. Burrow was a one year wonder technically (it was just a historic year) which is the negative on Pickett. I like Howell probably higher than I did Herbert coming out (and I’m an Auburn fan not UNC). Howell looked great last year and still kept his team competitive this year with little help. I don’t know enough about Strong. I don’t rank any as high as Burrow, but he was also number 1 overall which (hopefully) we won’t be picking. I was concerned about Murray’s size coming out, but he proved me wrong. Basically if there is a QB we are high on, we should draft him and then continue to build around him.

Chargers had no line and drafted Herbert, Bengals did the same with Burrow, and the Cardinals did the same with Murray. You need a QB to compete in this league, once you have that you can build around them. Going into next year with Darnold plus a rookie OG and this line won’t change this franchise as much as a potential QB can. It should have been addressed as soon as we parted ways with Cam or the following year, but we can’t keep trying random stop gap vets and assuming we will be fine. I get that we need to fix the line, but we are missing the most important position in sports and have only one early pick to try to correct it.

Yeah, then he went to the Bucs and “game managed” another Super Bowl. In fact this “game manger” is leading the league in passing yards and TDs. Stop with that nonsense…

I was always a big Jim Harbaugh fan when he coached the Niners. Not sure if he would leave Michigan or not, but he was a solid NFL coach.

Minshew would have been a good vet backup, but not the guy for all season. Trading a 5th for Minshew and drafted a QB would have worked. We would still have our 2nd and 6th this year plus not waste that money on Sam’s 5th year (still blows my mind).

I’m ok with it. Like people are saying it pretty much had to be someone on our staff. Nixon also has plenty of NFL coaching experience (more that Rhule). Let’s see how they come out after the bye week. Hopefully he pushes for BC to start at LT.

Is that the year Stafford won a playoff game?

He has more NFL experience than I thought.

Howell has the tools to be great too. You are correct though, we need a QB first IMO. It’s how the Cards did it with Murray, Bengals with Burrow, and Chargers with Herbert. Ignoring the QB position again and building a solid team with a random vet throwing the ball will keep us out of range from getting a top one the following year unless we give up a lot of assets like the Niners did… You pretty much have to draft your signal caller in this league.

Huh? The only thing they have in common is the college they played for. That’s like saying Joe Burrow = Jamarcus Russell.

I mean that happens anyway. It will be a penalty with a possible ejection if they do. They just need to change the rules, but it’s going to be hard to tell if they are stumbling or not…

Lol right?

Yes! The only CB we should be interested in extending is Gilmore and that’s if the contract is reasonable. We have Horn, Henderson, Bouye, and Taylor who look solid going into next year. We need an average MLB and OL, OL, and OL!

And Horn over Slayton, but we could play this game all day….

Well yeah it’s possible Bill himself could come here and struggle. There is just a lot lower chance of a proven NFL head coach struggling than a new one.

That fake slide is a slippery slope. Although Patrick Mahomes incorporated the fake going out of bounds and grabbing a few extra yards move he does.

Big Ben hasn’t been good for a minute and is very injury prone these past 5 years or so. Tomlin has never had a losing season. 14 straight years with no losing seasons (tied a record). I would gladly welcome that here. He got handed a team by Cowher, but 14 years of success shows he is the real deal.

I heard they might get rid of Tomlin this offseason. Would be weird to see him and Big Ben gone at once. If that happens Tepper might be very interested in Tomlin since he is a Pitt guy…

Who are you wanting us to get?

They are going after Howell.

I wasn’t high on Mac, but the man is playing in the system by the team that drafted him and doing it very well while winning. That’s pretty much the name of the game. If he is that good in any system then you draft him and implement the system around him. Kyle Shanahan was very high on him and was torn about taking him at 3 and Kyle is one of the better offensive minded coaches in the league. If we drafted Mac would he have been that great this year? Doubt it, but we would overhaul the line and pickup a coach that implements that system as either a OC or Rhule replacement.

Saints have a coach (that hurt to type) and offensive line. All they need is a QB. We need a coach, QB, and line…