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Um, that’s not true. The goal is to beat blocks. Avoiding blocks can easily lead to being out of position and “blocked” without even being touched. Also, many times, taking on the block allows the rest of the team to make the play. We’ll see how he does.

Actually, the weaknesses in his draft profile (avoiding blocks and needing to play with more passion and energy) says not a dawg. If you think Kuechly was a dawg, Wilson is probably your guy.

So true except that the huddle has been way better at picking players the past several drafts. It’s well documented. We’ve hated what seems like most picks the past 3 years. When was the huddle wrong?

Wait, so this guy’s weaknesses are that he tries to avoid blocks, not take them on and beat them, and that he needs to play with more passion and energy? How does that say “dawg”? Pretty sure Luke was a big Wilson fan. I’d take his word on LBers over Morgan’s, every single day.

You must not be enjoying this.

Dude our drafts since 2018 have been complete poo. Hurney got a couple 1st rounders and after that it’s been poo. I wouldn’t be incorrect in saying we may have the worst drafts in the league in the past 3 drafts and it doesn’t seem like it’s getting better. Our scouting department is bottom of the barrel, period.

Gotta love when our top of the 3rd round pick is lauded on the draft as someone who will be an immediate help on special teams. SMH. Why has the past few years of drafts felt like we were trying to add depth to a SB winning team instead of hey let’s try to go BPA and get us some good starters.

The same scouts/GM crew were afraid of Tre Smith’s history and we took a long snapper and a big fat guard, neither of whom played at all. I’m very afraid that this draft is setting up like 2018-2023 drafts where most picks we’ll look back and realize how many pro bowl level guys we could have easily had.

Let’s be honest, at 39, we had our pick of CBs starting with the 3rd ranked DeJean. We also had the 2nd and 3rd ranked Cs available too. The 2nd best RB was available at 65. You don’t have to be a Debbie Downer to think that a RB who ended his season with an ACL tear might have not been the best choice. I was fine with the trade down to get the 2025 2nd but a RB in round 2 is not who I would have wanted.

Benson is the 2nd best RB and he’s probably going to be there at 65. It was a reach considering the best best pure Cs went one pick before and a few picks after. We are sinking all in on Young and that could seriously bite us in the ass for years as I think we are not getting the best value. Don’t be surprised if we grab a TE at 65.

Welp, we went RB at 46. I don’t like it at all. It’s like Miles Sanders all over again. Meanwhile both stud Cs are gone. C in the 2nd and RB later is much better than reaching early on RB.

I really hope we didn’t want a RB at 39. Sorry, but we passed on a lot of guys that I think we’ll regret skipping. If we had to trade back to 46 that means we were a little off on who we thought would still be there at 52.

I don’t like this thought process. That’s Fitterer in a nut shell where trading CMC and Moore is due to fuging up trades and feeling like he had to get picks back of course Fitterer basically doubled down on sucking by trading our stars to “make up for” and then doing nothing effectively just trading CMC and Moore for nothing. That said, I like the trade down getting a 2nd next year. I just hope we don’t think about making up for things. It should solely be about still getting the same value at 52 and then getting another pick as a bonus. It will again come down to us making a good pick.

Hopefully he does, just not super happy. With all those QBs and Pearsall/others, we had some cherry choices at 33/39. I think I would have preferred a CB considering guys who’d normally get a 1st round grade other years. As much as I wanted a WR, just not sold on XL so Id rather have taken surer options at CB, C and heck even LB. It feels like we reached again just for Young and without our 1st this year and 2nd next year after trading CMC, Moore and Burns and losing some D players to FA, we can’t afford to take players with any limitations.

This is what worries me. We fall in love with a guy. 6 QBs and Pearsall go in the first so there’s no run on WRs at the end of the 1st and we still get the guy we promised we would take. We haven’t done well with taking guys we like who do not stand out at the combine drills or the Senior Bowl. It doesn’t feel great to hear that evaluation now. I hadn’t seen that before. Oh well, still have a couple picks today but I feel like XL is a hope that he does well versus feeling like we got a stud who will excel no matter what.

2023 - This was a TE heavy draft and there were several productive WRs taken after Mingo. This was a GM error. 2021 - GM error again. Great IOL including Humphrey were sitting there. If we went Slater/Humphrey we could have had Garrett Wilson in 2022. 2017 - Not a horrible pick but injuries hurt. Even with missing 1.5 years of games, he’s still playing and has 4100 rushing/receiving yards and 29 TDs. We’ve done a lot worse. 2015. All I can say is better than TMJ and Jarrett. The rest after Smith don’t warrant discussion.

Yep and above average starters. Chubba, Donte, Tremble/Thomas, BC, etc. are/were “starters” in part because we didn’t have enough talent. Those type of starters don’t really improve us. I’ve posted this before. I think we have to get 4 quality starters from 33, 39, 65, 2025 1st, 2025 3rd (should be top of round) and the rest of our picks. That’s just to keep us afloat and get somewhat better. 5 or 6 and Bryce not being poo, is what we need to contend in the division. If we get some more miracles like Iky acting like a 6th overall pick and Horn playing the entire season in 2025+, that would help.

Hmm, Lamb, Chase, Waddle, Jefferson, Wilson, Olave, Smith and Aiyuk just in the last 3 drafts. Even last year, you added Flowers and Addison, but it’s way too early. The amount of WRs taken in round 2-7 plus UDFAs way more than round 1, so saying most good WRs come from 6 rounds and all undrafted compared to the pool of 2-5 guys every year, isn’t a fair analysis. Also, his 27% seems low in the last 3 or 4 drafts. Add in 2024, which has 3 seemingly stud WRs probably in the top 10, and his argument loses more value.

No issues with your post, it just slapped me back to reality again after you were posting about getting a rookie C (and a WR). Helping Chubba, Miles and Bryce and also knowing if we go C and WR, it means we still have holes at TE and all over the D and our RBs/QB combo is likely the worst in the NFL. Ugh, we really need to hit our picks this year and next. We can’t miss any day 1 (next year) and day 2 picks.

I’ll never understand the amount of threads and attention that uniforms get. Sure, I want the team to have cool ones but some obsess about them.

The SB had some head shots not called including one on the key fumble return for a TD, but week 1 was the horror show where they truly let poo go. That was the same year as this San Diego game.

I do think that his rocket arm was going to fade earlier than others because he, more often than other QBs, threw without his feet set well because he could. I think he was more of an all arm thrower than most and he didn’t hold back. I think that stresses the arm/shoulder already. People seem to forget that he wasn’t healthy going into 2017 and he had shoulder surgery in the offseason. TJ Watt didn’t help and might finished up 2018, but it wasn’t the start of the issues. It’s just that Cam was still able to throw with velocity in 2017, but it didn’t last long at all. One other note, Ryan Vermillion’s career didn’t really end well so I’m not sold on the fact that Cam got the best care either. He went from surgery pre-2017 to not being able to throw deep at all in 2018. Kawann Short’s career ended with his first shoulder injury. Never came back.

If Cam hadn’t landed awkwardly he wouldn’t have gotten hurt either. The DB got through the entire team. I’ve watched the play many times and there was a supposed emphasis in the league at the time to avoid crack back type blocks where players often get hurt. They were supposed to be protecting QBs but for some reason the ref who had an easy view of the play didn’t stop it. Even in live mode on my couch, I thought the DB was down in the end zone. The ref should have stopped the play immediately. It was a 2 second review. Did you ever feel like even after the SB and week 1 at Denver that the refs ever erred on the side of protecting Cam? I don’t and I do believe a whistle comes out quickly if it’s a QB the league was concerned about protecting.

I’ll never stop replying that KB did nothing wrong. He clearly touched the defender when he was down and there was a ref that was a few feet away. It was also KB who touched him while down so I can’t blame him for knowing the play was over. If you don’t recall, that play got reversed very quickly as it was completely obvious that the DB was already down on replay. If Brady was QB, the ref blows the whistle right away. Cam didn’t get calls and there’s no reason refs would want to protect him. There was an emphasis on the refs to blow plays dead because of injuries and dangerous plays. TD got his suspension for hitting Davante Adams almost exactly 1 year later. I don’t care how people feel about KB overall, but Cam hurting his shoulder was 100% on the ref in the end zone that decided to let the play continue.

I don’t get the comp of Wiggins to CJ. CJ wasn’t good at anything. Personally, I just want another CB who can cover and stay healthy. Worrying about run support over coverage doesn’t make sense to me. Gimme Deion all day over a mediocre coverage guy with great run support. If a team is running that much against us, it’s because we are already 2 scores down.