Bonnet and McGee gone

[pantherclaw]

2 hours ago, Malt Liquor said:

We need offensive tackles. That is our weakness right now. The two that we got are serviceable but some how we need an upgrade at that position.

I guess this will be the canned response anytime Gettleman signs a non-tackle. 

Responses like this - especially this part of the offseason, when anyone signed most likely won't even make it past the first cuts - make no sense. 

But don't stop crying about it though.

[DamnItJake!]

never heard of the them is that like a bee in my Bonnet and Willie McGee SS from the St Louis Cardinals? :)

[tiger7_88]

4 hours ago, KB_fan said:

Most of us clamoring for tackles are not talking about an upgrade for Oher, Remmers & Williams.  They're all servicable.  But the problem is there is not any backup behind them.

Imagine a scenario where Remmers gets injured and has to miss 2 - 3 games...  So, we put in Williams.  Who then is your backup tackle?

Behind Oher, Remmers & Williams we have guys with either NO NFL experience at tackle, or VERY BAD experience (Foucault) at tackle.

It's a BACKUP many of us are crying for.  Doesn't have to be great, just better than what we've got, which is pretty much nothing.

If we lose a starting OT, we have William (or Remmers if Williams wins the starting job).

If we lose a *second* starting OT, our season would be well and truly screwed no matter the amount of non-starting, merely adequate, backup tackles we have on the roster.  I would imagine in that case, they'd just slide a guy outside from the inside and plug in a backup in the middle.

[CarolinaNCSU]

Tobias is a good dude with blazing speed, actually went to my rival high school and then played for my college team.

 

No shot to make the squad, but he's got the speed and return abilities to make a few plays in OTAs/camp if he were to stick around

[The_Rainmaker]

32 minutes ago, tiger7_88 said:

If we lose a starting OT, we have William (or Remmers if Williams wins the starting job).

If we lose a *second* starting OT, our season would be well and truly screwed no matter the amount of non-starting, merely adequate, backup tackles we have on the roster.  I would imagine in that case, they'd just slide a guy outside from the inside and plug in a backup in the middle.

Thats why we have to start drafting quality players that can step up like Klien did for Luke. Gotta be 2 move ahead 

[KillerKat]

Will Beatty would be a nice backup plan

[2jakefansinva]

4 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

At this point, every time we try to figure out what is going on, or get stoked about a new pick up, they go and shuffle the deck again.

I think I'm going to just sit back and watch until we get to training camp. Something tells me there will be a few more shuffles yet to come.

Someone pass the popcorn.

Gman spoke of this in his presser a few weeks ago.

He spoke of how tough it was chosing the last 5 roster players 85-90.

He mentioned how Belicheat kept that part of the roster fluid.........

trying to find that diamond in the rough type player.

Id expect things to be quite interesting moving forward...........lots of competition.

 

[Mr. Scot]

6 hours ago, Malt Liquor said:

We need offensive tackles. That is our weakness right now. The two that we got are serviceable but some how we need an upgrade at that position.

There are 32 teams in the NFL, and right this moment, they all have 90 players on their payroll.

Anyone who's still unemployed as of now has been deemed not good enough to make a 90 man roster by 32 different GMs, including our own.

They've effectively been judged to be not as good as a little under 2900 other players, a solid percentage of whom are really only camp bodies anyway.

Do you really think there are upgrades to be found in that pool?

[Mr. Scot]

6 hours ago, KB_fan said:

Most of us clamoring for tackles are not talking about an upgrade for Oher, Remmers & Williams.  They're all servicable.  But the problem is there is not any backup behind them.

Imagine a scenario where Remmers gets injured and has to miss 2 - 3 games...  So, we put in Williams.  Who then is your backup tackle?

Behind Oher, Remmers & Williams we have guys with either NO NFL experience at tackle, or VERY BAD experience (Foucault) at tackle.

It's a BACKUP many of us are crying for.  Doesn't have to be great, just better than what we've got, which is pretty much nothing.

Look across the rosters for every other team in the league and you'll find a similar story.

I doubt any team is four deep with solid players. Heck, a good many probably aren't even three deep.

That's today's NFL.

[KB_fan]

7 hours ago, CarolinaNCSU said:

No shot to make the squad, but he's got the speed and return abilities to make a few plays in OTAs/camp if he were to stick around

Sounds to me that we're actively trying out speedsters for our PS to find a guy who can become a PR next year if/when we lose Ted Ginn.

[tiger7_88]

11 hours ago, The_Rainmaker said:

Thats why we have to start drafting quality players that can step up like Klien did for Luke. Gotta be 2 move ahead 

We do have a quality player who can step up at OT (as I said, either Remmers or Williams, whichever of the 2 isn't the starter).

[The_Rainmaker]

8 minutes ago, tiger7_88 said:

We do have a quality player who can step up at OT (as I said, either Remmers or Williams, whichever of the 2 isn't the starter).

Who will be free agent along with Oher if contracts don't get exteneded next season, we should avoid having a "revolving door".  Its not like injury just happen to one player we could lose  both OTs or OT & OG . We should have well rounded OL like Dallas when the team runs 50% time  have the best dual threat QB with a top 5 RB. The interior is solid but we need to build the outside.

IMO we are going to double dip on OTs next draft. 

[tiger7_88]

1 hour ago, The_Rainmaker said:

Who will be free agent along with Oher if contracts don't get exteneded next season, we should avoid having a "revolving door" 

IMO we are going to double dip on OTs next draft. 

Yeah, both Oher and Remmers are playing well, but I don't see any team giving either a jackpot payday to get them away from us. As a restricted FA if someone had REALLY wanted Remmers this year, they could have taken him (though it would have taken a 2nd round pick beacuse that was the tender on him if memory serves). So obviously no team in the league considers Remmers worth a 2nd rounder or they would have signed him this year.

And I can't imagine anything but maybe HUGE money tearing Oher away from Matsko again.

Gettleman just may double-dip at OT if he considers the draft pool deep in OT talent. But I guarantee you he won't if he doesn't. If its a very very shallow well of OT talent, he probably wouldn't draft an OT at all if we're still picking at the bottom of every round.

[top dawg]

17 hours ago, KB_fan said:

So, here's the burning question.  What nicknames will the two Byrds on the WR corps have to distinguish them?  Given the size difference, one could think the new Byrd could go by Big Byrd....  and maybe Damiere is Road Runner?!

Ha ha! Big Byrd.