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I didn’t unlock anything like that but there was a threshold of what you asked for, if they came to you with it. You could always get overpaid. Hold out one more time. I had some drafts.

I feel like we need LOT so bad now that we would be duty bound if a qualified prospect was sitting there. My other desire would be trading down to get the right value in the first, if possible, and have some ammo to move up for a LB in the second.

Well, their guy wasn’t much better.

It depends. You won’t get hurt too bad, number one, with a solid target number two, if you are talking 19 to 16 or 17, it won’t be that bad and if you have number one right, you should be pretty straight. Coming 3 slots from 19 is not comparable to 3 slots from 6. Obviously.

It kind of rivals 2001 for that. We found every way to lose a game that year. Some of it was mind blowing. That team was not a 1 win team. This year? I’m not sure we had a single last second stunning WTF loss all year. Where we pulled defeat from the jaws of victory. Though, I am drinking and inclined to forget something. This team was not a playoff team. We slipped up and performed admirably in the wild card game, yes we did. So credit there but I don’t have much else. It doesn’t feel like a lock that we improve this coming year record wise, at all. The Icky injury just really hurt us. Every potential improvement we could pencil in is knocked down a notch behind needing to cover that.

We effing need to. I know where the holes are and edge and LOT are for sure two. But I really have missed having good LB play. That is my guilty pleasure pick all day. They only thing I would be good giving it up for is a really solid LOT.

There’s no way we are gonna know, if they address it it will be portrayed as a mutual decision, most likely. Whether it was 80-20 ‘mutual’ or 50-50 mutual. One thing I believe is encouraging is they know they have to do better and probably have a good enough rapport where this can be candidly discussed. I doubt this was forced on Canales. Yeah it could have been I just don’t think it was 100-0

As far as age, I doubt the Saints regret taking Shough, Different position I know, but if he is ready to step in? I expected not to like Person’s choices but I am good with this. At least, without looking to see who he passed on to take these guys. I can say, the last thing I want to see in the 1st or 2nd round is a WR or TE.

Alignment between the key people is always what you strive to have. The Seahawks fans were no doubt butt hurt over that SB goal line play. You know yourself we have fans that one mistake like that totally defines all future prospects with a player or coach. Every base has them. I will just cite the recent experience in Miami as a positive. He worked closely with a leading offensive mind, and a fuging project QB like we have here.

I agree. Good maneuvering by Dan to have it addressed this way. There may be a way to get Canales to be better at what he is weak on just with some competent help. If not, plan B is ready to hit the ground running.

I don’t see it that way. There is common ground from Seattle with Morgan, I think, and Canales and probably Idzik too - without looking it up. Canales worked for Bevell, having a guy there that has done your same job can really be a good thing. As that guy knows the job and has a perspective that someone like Idzik has yet to acquire. I put it this way, if you have done the same job you can be a better employee or assistent to the guy in it now. It is a personal anecdotal conclusion as I was an employee, and then a boss for pretty good while and when that ended and I was an employee again elsewhere, I was much better at it than I had been in my earlier employee days. The only way it could be bad on its face, to me, is if Bevell is out to steal the HC job, to undermine. Which I can’t assume is true. I do feel like Caldwell is likely pretty worthless. Capers slightly less so because he was brought in to help Evero who is still here. Not sure who Caldwell was brought in to mentor. It wasn’t Canales. I doubt we need either.

He also has interim HC experience with two teams. If it gets to that kind of place. I think it is a good move. Could be really good. We will see but I totally get it, personally. It doesn’t mess the cap at all, what do we care if the coaching payrolls gets bigger? Which as far as that goes, whatever offsets were in Reich’s deal allow you to fold Bevell’s cost into what is deducted because of what he makes with the Jets. Probably a wash, at worst. If we were even concerned about that

Agreed. They are fun if you are doing the mock. There was a site that would run a draft for you, and allow you to propose trades and I think would generate trade proposals as well. It was a blast to run a few of those. Especially with the trades- I was stockpiling so many picks, lol.

I would say he was probably valuable in the film room, or showing the young guys what you can pick up from it. But at the same time saw him as a training wheel that needed to be taken off.

You know it is possible for your two things to be true, and also for Bryce not helping the situation being true as well. XL was open a lot, not seen or at least targeted, and there were some poorly placed balls in the mix. I don’t see a soul defending or denying XL’s mental lapses which in a broad sense can include just about every mistake he made. The brain dead penalties and sideline stuff, right along with his drops. He failed the test in 2025. He was demoted with good reason. I don’t see anyone arguing against that.