LinvilleGorge

Crazy how well the NFL has marketed it's draft versus all the other pro leagues. I honestly had no clue the NBA draft was being held today.

I absolutely think he has the talent. I just hope he can put his past injury issues behind him. His injury history was probably the primary reason he was available where we picked him.

Waste of talent. It's gotta be frustrating for coaches. This isn't an isolated case. Every coach has guys in training camp every year who have the ability, but not the desire while having to have tough conversations when releasing guys who have all the desire in the world but lack the ability.

It's amazing how Denver has marketed itself as a mountain town. People get very unpleasantly surprised when they get out there and find out that Denver is actually very much a Great Plains city that used to have great mountain access until traffic became prohibitive. When I moved from Huntersville to Lakewood in the fall of '07, Charlotte traffic was WAY worse than Denver traffic. Like not even close. We bounced up to Evergreen in early '08. Within five years, that traffic situation had pulled a complete 180 and Denver traffic had gotten WAY worse than Charlotte traffic.

Yeah, the difference with streaming services is that it doesn't get constantly crammed down your throats. Stuff you don't really care about (for me that would be things like the summer Olympics, network news, reality TV, etc) is just a lot easier to tune out and forget about. Honestly, if it wasn't for social media I probably wouldn't even know the Olympics are actually going on right now.

I don't know if they're going to get him signed. They're playing games with his contract with offset language and bonus payout dates. All the precedents are working against them but they're evidently dug in. Wilson's family isn't exactly hurting for money. If there's someone positioned to give them double middle fingers and just re-enter the draft next year, it's this guy. Long story short, the names and faces in the organization might change but the Jets are gonna Jet.

Kelvin "It's Always Someone Else's Fault" Benjamin. Remember when he was going to light the league up once he could get away from Cam and play with a QB who could "place the ball better"? How's that working out, Kev?

I can honestly say I've watched none of the Olympics. I honestly love cutting the cord. No satellite/cable/network TV is absolutely refreshing. Everyone should try it out.

Except when we're winning late season games when we're already out of contention. That was one of Ron's specialties.

Given his talent and our OL situation, I'd be surprised if this isn't the case.

If we fired Brady after giving him two seasons with Teddy Bridgewater and Sam Darnold, God help us getting any offensive mind worth a plug nickel to even interview for his vacated position.

I've been saying it for years. Earl Thomas was the key piece to the Legion of Boom.

It's possible, but most of these guys are at an age where they're nearing the end of their athletic prime and/or have a significant history of injury. Guys like Reddick sign short term to try to leverage a good year into a big payday. I'm sure we tried to get him to agree to more than one year.

I get it, parents of autistic children want someone to blame. I just wish they realized the "science" behind those claims was debunked long ago. It was a straight up fraud by a British doctor trying to position himself to profit from it.

Denver's population growth and the reality that there's only two roads all of the Front Range is trying to head up I-70 or 285 every weekend. SLC's draw is that it actually is what Denver tries to position itself as - a major city with the mountains in your backyard. When you land at DIA, you'd think you were in Kansas. The mountains are waaaaaay over there in the distance. In SLC, you're 30 minutes from a ski lift.

I'll start getting excited if Sam is looking good at the end of October. I need to see him having success after teams get ample film of him playing in our system. There was a lot of excitement around these parts last year after we went on a three win streak to get to 3-2 but I never bought it. QBs often look good in new surroundings until opposing DCs get film to study and that's where the rubber meets the road. If Sam doesn't look good early with our weapons and the benefit of surprise... oh wee mayne. If he's still looking good after 5-6 games that's when I'll start to believe we might actually have something.

That doesn't get said unless it needs saying. These guys know their every word is scrutinized.

App State would seem like a great fit. Probably the coolest location that would work in the region. I just think Tepper is really hung up on this whole "one team two states" thing. He really wants to include SC in everything and Boone is a rock's throw from the VA and TN borders.

What could've been... I'll always wonder where we would've gone as a franchise had KB not torn his ACL that preseason and then came off the rails after losing his mom. He was emerging as a dominant WR. Instead, he veered off the path, got lazy, and that laziness directly led to Cam's career altering shoulder injury then he blamed everyone else for his problems.

The only time we've ever had a legit true FS were the Deon Grant years IMO. We've historically fielded more SS types (and to be fair, most of them weren't very good either). I think we're okay at LB this year, but Reddick is on a one year deal and Perryman is on a two year deal that can easily become a one year deal. All those LB and OL signings we made were short term bandaid solutions more so than long term roster building solutions.

Yep. If Sam works out, awesome! That's by far the biggest box checked. We're still going to need help at OL, LB, and FS even if everything works to plan.

Fan excitement hinges on Sam Darnold. The fans got sold crap in Teddy last year and they're very much in wait and see mode on Darnold. If he shows promise in preseason excitement will tick up. If he doesn't, Tepper is gonna see a lot of opposing colors in BOA while daydreaming about the excitement that a Justin Fields pick would've brought to the fanbase. We'll see how it goes. As fans that's all we can do.

Shocker that after three straight losing seasons that fan excitement is low.

Much like a certain former RB, losing his mom really seemed to bring out the worst in him.

Yep. It's be a big risk to let him go into this season without a long-term extension. If we have confidence in Darnold, we better extend Moore right now.