PootieNunu

Yes we have been spoiled, but you don't need great LBs to be successful. You need guys that are willing to tackle and one of them needs to be able to cover. If we had better safeties Chinn could fill the coverage LB role. We definitely don't need LBs that are being compensated like they play LT.

They compiled those stats in one season, 4 ints each, 2 FF for luke, 4 FF for TD. they also combined for 17 passes defended that season. Those are great linebackers and I still would not agree with them having cap hit numbers of 18-19m Shaq has had 76 games as a starting LB and has managed 1 int and 4 FF with 17 passes defended, but people around here act like he is anything more than average. Telling the truth about a guy does not mean you hate him, it just means he is average. I do hate his contract however.

If you are in love with wasting 1st round picks on off-ball LBs maybe you should change fanbases. The WFT still likes reaching for LBs in the first round. I'm sure you would fit in around there.

The entire team had the same handicap, I am leaning more towards he is what he is. Maybe he ends up on someone's practice squad or as a 3rd TE for someone but his days of taking 65% of the offensive snaps are probably done.

This is quickly turning into tinderbox fodder, move this please. @LinvilleGorge

Just another guy who could not develop. He was hyped up a little coming out of college, but never amounted to anything. He had his chance and did nothing with it. No team is checking to see if we will trade Ian, he will be lucky to stick anywhere once/if he gets released. The amount of people that fail to realize a players true value can really be mind boggling. We don't go out and sign a TE and then draft another one if thought Ian could contribute in any real way.

The worst part of that is Teddy thought what he put on tape last year was good enough to be a franchise QB. The guy thinks it is everyone else's fault he failed last season. He wants to take no accountability for his piss poor play on the field.

Screw PFF, Sam has never thrown that many INTs in his career but now with better weapons and coaching he throws 18-19 ints?

Trade? I doubt there is any trade for Ian Thomas.

Its not hard to describe a off-ball average LB that has cap hits of 8m,18m and 19m respectively. He is not Luke or TD. He has 4 forced fumbles and 1 int in his career. What part of that is worth those cap numbers? I know he is a favorite of some for some unknown reason other than he has been here a long time.

I don't want to see anymore restructures for him. Replace him get the dead cap out of the way. We dont want an aging average LB when the team is ready to compete. Either ride it out and take the stupid cap hit or cut him and take the dead money cap hit. Either way its time to hit the door.

He is not whitehead bad, but with that cap hit over the next few years he may as well be. No way his production will match his pay. It was a dumb contract, another in the long line of hurney. If he was being paid 4-5m a year I would have no problem with him.

BB?

Regular people are not supposed to "splurge" like this..... Its only ok for rich people to splurge on stuff for other rich people..... This guy should know to stay in his place! /s

Who knows if those 4th down calls were his original calls or was Teddy calling an audible? Teddy thinks he is Peyton Manning at the LoS.

Those other guys also dont save us 2m by cutting them. Thomas is gone, we have no reason to keep him around. He could not manage to do anything noteworthy as the #1 TE, how will he be any better as the #3 TE?

If our coaching staff thought Minshew was better than Darnold they would have traded for him instead. Everybody knew Jacksonville was taking Lawrence, to me that says we are not interested in Minshew.

For sure.

For me it is the contract. If we keep him next year he has a cap hit of 18m, if we cut him he has a dead cap hit of 12m, we are already paying him 8m this year. I dont want the team to waste 20-26m over the next 2 seasons for an average LB. 20m for one season if we just release him, 26m for 2 seasons if we keep him.

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Let people be happy. If they have been together for 11 years obviously something is going right. This is no different than shaming someone for their sexuality. Now if he was 48 with a 15 year old thats a whole different thing.

Some people on the huddle obviously like overpaying off-ball linebackers. Shaq is an average starter nothing more.

Im ready for Wilson to fall on his face, or get put there by our pass rush.

Dead cap for cutting him next year is 12m, im not sure if he is a june 1st cut how much it is. If we do just outright cut him, we are going to pay him 20m for one more than likely average season.

Darnold is on the list once, they say he is the worst passer outside of the pocket. Lock and Wentz are very prominent throughout the article. Wentz is on it 3 times, Lock 4.