CanadianCat

Dang, I forgot how young he is.. after listening to his interview the other day... we have a LOT of reasons to be excited about him. He's not even done growing yet!!!

I dont think we are a playoff team yet and Im ok with this. I think there are a lot of really strong teams in the NFC and I think we need another year of development before we hit on all cylinders. I think the development of our team coincides well with the anticipated regression of the other NFCS teams. We need 1 maybe 2 years to build, they have 1 maybe 2 years left. Im very optimistic for how this team and organization is being built.

Yeah but you can make this argument about almost anyone.

Exactly, he should be... They did expect him to be there. If you watch the Panthers Confidential Matt Rhule did a mock draft for Tepper and Fitt and mocked him to be available. Him being there was not a surprise.

Thats a good point, but I would disagree a bit. I think they liked Sam better than the value of Fields at that draft position.

I think I have been overly high on Tremble and his predicted output but your assumption of 275-400 yards is probably accurate. Good analysis.

Jets are 28th

Probably right.. lets hope they play better than expected. https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-ranking-all-32-nfl-offensive-line-units-entering-2021-season

Im excited. He's boom or bust. Either we got a 23 year old Franchise QB or we will get a top 3 draft pick.

I think this is pretty bang on. I do like that they have a logic to their system but they also fail to take a step back from their spreadsheets to see if it actually makes sense.

I actually tend to agree with this list. WE are excited about our guys but we dont have an overly exciting group of proven guys compared to teams a head of us on that list. That said we have potential to be higher on the list but as of now we dont. People need to temper expectations... we are still in rebuilding mode with a QB that might land us a top 3 pick next year.

Denzel Perryman How he looks in coverage.

Haason Reddick. I would like to know how he looks in comparison to Burns. Im slowly getting more and more excited about him...

Seeing how Fitt worked the draft makes me excited about every future draft.

yeah and if it is we will likely have a top 5 pick with arguable the best FO working the system.

... yeah thats what I meant... need more coffee.

I totally agree. The safer play would have been to keep Teddy and hope he improved. But he never seemed like a QB you could truly build around. Darnold is a high risk high reward. He could be terrible and if so we pick very high next year. BUT if he hits he could be the type of player you build around. IF he hits Joe Brady is the hottest coaching candidate on the market next year. If he doesn't well Tepper signed off on this move so we keep looking but our coaching staff is still stable. Some people might say it costs too much but we were not going to use that money on any other position that was more impactful to the team this year. IMO this was such a good gamble no matter how it turns out.

Im very excited about the leadership and direction of this team

Im trying to think about who is our biggest rival and I think that changes through the years... In our prime, around the 2015 team I would have said that Seattle would have been our biggest rival team. The Cam vs Russel and Luke vs Wagner. But I feel like that has fizzed out. The last 2 years I could maybe see that being the Saints (cause fugg'em Saints).. or even the Bills/WTF with all the Carolina connections. This year... Im not sure who feels like the biggest rivalry game. Who do you guys 'feel' it is?

Oof that was painful...

...I was not trying to make a definitive statement..

Your not wrong about this being basically the same as last season in terms of trying to salvage a broken QB. Its boom or bust and we busted last season. I get frustrated with people that post here that are overly critical... its the friggen offseason in Pandemic Season 2 here.. lets try to look at the upside...

I agree he was a high upside low downside QB. I think the biggest reason people arer upset are for 2 things that are not his fault. 1. He was the QB following Cam. 2. He got paid more than what people felt he should have. The team threw a dart on him and it didn't work. Its the same situation we are in this year with Darnold. Taking flyers on high upside QB's is always worth it.

To be fair to Teddy he never lost us games.... he just never won them either..

Amazing interview