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Put Huey P Newton on the helmet. With his AK.

I read that but didn’t take it as an indictment. Maybe it is. Tbis is what I took heart in seeing.Actual acknowledgement of his inconsistency: "Based on our conversations, his excitement for what we have and where we are and the steps we were able to take last year," Canales said. "But also knowing that moments in different games, it wasn’t our best. Can we be at our best at all times?" D

It certainly is shaping up to be a pivotal year. About effing time.

Imma go with based on his exceptional greenness. There is nothing but upside. Theoretically. If he is a of above average intelligence he should be able to grow. Right now he seems to be on a Wilks type level where there isn’t any real innovation but the leadership thing is strong. There is a place for that. I want more out of him, football wise, but am not really expecting it at this point.

Gonna drop this in here. 1st half is lots of LB eval/analysis clips, some more off the radar names. Middle is Luke. The back half is a ton of geek analytical mixed with promoting Sumer Sports. May not be for everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neBltQ3roiw

Yeah except the QB could throw a curve ball they would have to swing at. If he flops this year are they really thinking a T will fix it? They better be thinking a QB will fix it. This is why a proactive OL stance serves our interests. Another variable is that next year, all these QBs might push a lot of great players down the draft order. If somehow QB is covered, it could be good for us.

2 plays in 3 years tell me a short yardage power back is unnecessary. got it covered

I am no oddsmaker but I’d have to guess 50% on Moton making the entire schedule. On the other side, if Walker goes down? We are in rough seas.

DE would be good. Agree on LB, want to agree on WR. Okay…just a general thought… our GM was a high level MLB. Our offensive coaches have WR roots merged with QB coaching. I think we should be expecting each of them to help us identify talent in their wheelhouse a round early. Even two rounds. Morgan ought to be able to look for a linebacker - in particular - and sometimes find, guys who have less hype but actually could sub for the hyped guys and not miss a beat. And you take them later and cheaper. Canales and Idzik, ditto with the WRs. We shouldn’t have to spend crazy assets to have quality on these rookie and lower interest FA deals.

I look at it like get on top of the situation. Stay ahead of it. If it costs you a year of not drafting a starter at number three WR in the first so be it. We need new blood there in 2027 if not 2026, and need to get some OL on rookie deals. At the same time the big picture is considered, we have a QB that has yet to earn an extension and you can go glass half full if you want but he had about half the good games that he needed to have. Fewer, IMO, but the point is he is not a lock to earn an extension. Which would really put next year’s number one in play for QB and take OT off the table. So I think it needs to be on the table this year.

Do it Dave. Let’s have Air Bryce. I wanna see it.

I swear that is about where I am after years of listening to him evaluate the young guys. You want to get get a good WR? Don’t listen to Steve.

We have needed a pounder. Chuba is a good back but not that back.

They were dead on about Mike Sanders.

The fact remains.

I felt then, and now, that Gettleman was using flawed logic with that catch radius/tall approach. It was the QB not the receivers, he was inaccurate. High. He missed his target. If you raise his target trying to get in the area of where he had been missing then you are chasing yesterday’s calculations. The new target is higher, and will now be missed by the same amount until/unless you fix the delivery mechanism. Cam won’t be a HOF but he could have been if he had gotten his mechanics straight.

And yet at the same time, he learned stuff from Rivera, I would guess.

Okay I’ll set myself up for a bunch of Bryce crap here but what I have real questions about is the OC, and the HC both have backgrounds as receivers coaches. I figured we were in good shape there but it has been pretty unspectacular. I think T Mac was sort of a gimme, you don’t need a lot of deep understanding of WR to see what he is. Why can’t people with expert level insight into the position get us someone skilled deeper in the draft? They have to keep using 1st rounders? Either they don’t know poo or the QB is the problem. IE he can’t function without top talent. And is slow with that to be honest. XL is sort of a beast and has made some great plays along with the bonehead stuff that people focus on. Who is it that can’t figure out how to use him? The coaches? The Qb? I am not trying to say he is great but at the same time he has been mishandled or misused since he got here.

Lol at his hand. I think the guy knows his stuff however many games he started. He is still immersed in the league and the sport. Kind of a boring delivery compared to some people but I think he has substance on his side.

I think Wallace’s body part that needs improving is his processor. I feel about him, almost like most feel about XL. He is never going to be that guy.

I do, in the 2nd. If we want one we probably have to, and I want one.

I want an ILB this year. And I really like seeing what Brian Baldinger thinks. He was killing it on Derrick Brown this year. Last year. He is apparently is going through every position for pre draft evaluations. This is video of his ILB evaluation. Put other videos here too if you want.

I am trying to remember when I EVER said reach for need. My thing if someone falls you jump, if you can trade back a few slots and get help at the right value and pick up some ammo to move up from 51 which I think is outside the money zone, then you do that. Take a WR later. Plenty of capable WRs have come from the 3rd round. Though this year I would go for C there if there was a reasonable choice. Take a TE if you must. I see more reason to take WR than TE. I think you give guys drafted two years ago and last year a chance to develop before cancelling them. I think it is kind of unrealistic to throw everything all in on offense in hopes of going deep in the playoffs after an 8-10 year, even if it did have some nice bright spots in it. And outside of this argument but relevant to it, I am bothered by Canales and Morgan and their apparent posture that we have arrived and are now in the big boy club. I don’t know where that comes from. They are out there talking like they are winners at 8-10. Backing into the playoffs in a real convoluted tie breaker scenario. They had some good games, yes. But the big feather n the cap, the LA Rams matchups, did you see what the Rams did? They didn’t fire the coaches but they fired their defensive backs. Bryce beat them yes, and it was pretty, but it was kind of like the Bucs and Mike Evans picking on our decimated secondary in 2022. Someone (Wilks) went down for allowing that to happen and they went down in LA too. Wr aren’t as good as a whole lot of homers think we are. Shore up the trenches. I think too many fans buy into it because they are so starved for anything that looks like a winner.

I think if McD had been where he was when he went to be a HC, development wise, and had time traveled to be hired in 2011, we would have been better over the long haul. It is just speculation, so big deal.

And it was about time. Precious little had been done. Scourton and Princely last year. A 2nd and a 3rd. That almost levels out what was spent on Bryce alone. Almost. So okay, you are caught up there. Not counting DJ and allowing a 3rd to wash that 2nd 2nd rounder we paid to draft him. Then, you can start with extra 1st and 2nds to tally that up. And further, if we spend the 19 on offense this year, it makes 5 straight years (!) of denying the defense a 1st round contributor. I don’t see how you can argue that and don’t know why you would.