LinvilleGorge

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.

To add to this, the Pats may not seem to fit that bill from the outside looking in, but Belichick is pushing 70. Even if they may not seem to have a "win now" window, Belichick does and he calls all the shots.

As far as I know.

It's gotta be a team that thinks they have a window to win now IMO. That's the only way it makes sense to trade a lot of assets for a 32 year old highly paid WR.

What never ceases to be hilarious is you posting absolute drivel from your high horse while avoiding taking any actual stance whatsoever other than everyone else other than you is an idiot.

We've already signed a veritable MASH unit in FA, might as well roll the dice on Malik Hooker. He's a way better option at FS than anyone currently on the roster. If he stays healthy, we get a significant upgrade. If he predictably gets hurt then we're no worse off than we were before. With his injury history he should come cheap.

Honestly, ATL is crazy to trade Julio while trying to make one last run with Ryan.

We gotta prove it. Honestly, more to the point, Sam Darnold has to prove it. We have a lot of young defensive talent that overachieved last year and should be even better this year. We have a ton of talent on offense and get the best RB in football back. This ranking is all about the very well founded doubt about Darnold being the answer at QB.

Because the same people who think Panthers fans can't move on from Cam trip over themselves to post any inkling of potential negative news about Cam.