LinvilleGorge

Might? The used vehicle market has been absolutely stupid for most of the past year. If you have a diesel truck that runs, you can probably get $20k for it. A Jeep that runs? At least $10k. Same for a Toyota truck or 4-Runner. Running Land Cruiser? That's at least $15k.

He's shifted his argument to "last season technically wasn't last season".

Literally no one considers "last season" to be the season before last. Last being the most recent season.

Yeah, it's getting a bit too Super Bowlish IMO. The Super Bowl has become such a spectacle at this point that sometimes it's difficult to recall that there's a football game being played.

Jacksonville has already confirmed they weren't allowed to make their pick until 7 minutes into the clock, at which point it took them three phone calls to get Trevor to answer.

UNC was competitive against TAMU despite missing their #1 WR, both 1000+ yard RBs and their best defender to opt-outs while TAMU had zero opt-outs and we're playing to prove they were snubbed from the playoffs.

Did I say him? No, I said his competition. NDSU would not have beaten UNC. They barely beat Central Arkansas in Lance's only game. I'll never defend dook or state. fug them. They can lose to NDSU.

Yep. If Fields is a hit Darnold is gonna have to be as well for us not to come out of this off-season looking like morons.

If Jones or Fields turns out better. It's very easy to see scenarios where they come out of this looking every bit as bad as the Bears did trading up for Trubisky. Time will tell. Maybe they're brilliant, maybe they're idiots.

He might. So much of the evaluation process - especially for QBs - comes down to the interviews.

Honestly, I think Fields made the most sense. Lance definitely has talent, but man... they bet BIG on a guy who just hasn't shown a whole lot with his arm and did all his running against guys who are going to be HS football coaches or accountants.

There's no point to a smokescreen. They either changed their minds or the reports they were considering taking Jones were off. If they're claiming it was a smokescreen, then that pretty much confirms they changed their minds which they'd never admit to.

Meanwhile, Shula's plan after an abysmal 1st half... "Men, we're staying the course. We'll change absolutely nothing. They'll never see it coming. They'll never expect such a wildly idiotic approach!"

Yeah, if a guy is blowing his assignments bench his ass.

I'm not familiar enough with Moore to comment, but I agree about Brown. He seems like the worst possible stylistic fit for this type of blocking scheme.

And since this is a thread about the OL, we all remember what else happened during our SB season. A very poor man's Von Miller ate Mike Remmers alive in our lone regular season loss clearly showing us his inability to handle a speed rusher. Did we learn anything from that experience?

We saw the exact same thing from Rivera against the Giants in our SB season. We were absolutely blowing them out when they realized - wait, we know where Josh Norman is going to be... let's just move OBJ around and keep him away from Norman. He proceeded to damn near single handedly beat us in an incredible comeback effort.

I'm not sure that we've ever had that. IMO, the difference between good coaches and great coaches is that good coaches can field a great team when given a roster that fits well to their scheme. A great coach can tweak his schemes to fit the talent at hand and field a great team even when the roster may not fit what he'd ideally like to do. Phil Snow impressed the hell out of me last year. I thought he was likely going to be in over his head in the NFL. But that guy took a rag tag mismatched defensive roster and fielded a not terrible defense using a scheme that really didn't jive with what he was known for running. Our D wasn't good, but it was a long way from being the worst D in the league and honestly that's what I expected it to be.

Good organizations do. You have to. There's only one position on the field that eliteness is required to consistently compete for championships. Specific positional weakness can be schemed around at every other spot.

It's awesome to have guys who are truly elite players in that you could put them on the field in any system and they're going to be great. But the salary cap dictates you're not going to have many of those on your roster. The next best thing is to target guys who are very good at specific elements that fit your scheme.

As an NFL QB? I don't know. I always felt he was underrated as a college QB though. Good at everything, great at nothing, and almost never made mistakes to hurt his team. Just a damn good college QB. I'm not sure if he'll make it in the NFL though, even as a backup.

I had a feeling we might draft Keith Taylor after he had what was in my opinion a strong showing during Senior Bowl week. Same with Shi Smith. I guess Rhule and company agreed.

Interesting timing for sure. Hard to imagine a young guy on the tag buying a home in the area unless a long-term deal was imminent.

Before I clicked the thread, I was thinking 7ish. IMO, they're spot on with this O/U.