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With the 1st Pick in the 2026 Draft....

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9 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Right now we have a top 10 pick LT who is showing improvement as a pass protector, two top tier guards, an aging but still top shelf RT, a top 10 pick at WR, a proven veteran RB. I mean, the cupboard is far from bare. Drop rookie Cam on this roster and it's probably similar results. 6ish wins and overall competitive but the D usually finds a way to give up more points than we can score.

Rookie Cam would have faired well with this opening schedule of 2025.  Probably 3-4 wins through the first 7 games.  

Cam auto increases the odds for more explosive pass plays (we are the worst in the NFL).  The arm and play extension is in a different universe.  And Cam paired w/ a solid RB is just a problem for a defense.   So Cam auto improves a bad D because Cam is going to have them playing fewer downs vs Bryce. 

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4 minutes ago, CRA said:

Rookie Cam would have faired well with this opening schedule of 2025.  Probably 3-4 wins through the first 7 games.  

Cam auto increases the odds for most explosive pass plays (we are the worst in the NFL).  The arm and play extension is in a different universe.  And Cam paired w/ a solid RB is just a problem for a defense.   So Cam auto improves a bad D because Cam is going to have them playing fewer downs vs Bryce. 

I don't honestly know if the record would be any different but I do know that we'd be competing. We wouldn't be going out there and just getting dog walked.

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I don't honestly know if the record would be any different but I do know that we'd be competing. We wouldn't be going out there and just getting dog walked.

rookie Cam was just such an anomaly....it would have been a problem for all these bad teams we got early.  Cam actually had a tougher opening schedule in hindsight and was still a problem for those folks.   Only 3 of the opening 8 finished w/ losing records

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rookie Cam was just such an anomaly....it would have been a problem for all these bad teams we got early.  Cam actually had a tougher opening schedule in hindsight and was still a problem for those folks.   Only 3 of the opening 8 finished w/ losing records

Yeah, people talk about the crazy offseason of his rookie year and what he could've done with a normal offseason but I honestly think it kinda helped him and us. Cam was just so different than any other QB in the league at that time that we were kinda able to just take the league by storm offensively early on because in part because of the crazy offseason not allowing our early opponents to prepare for specifically for Cam and we did a good job in the preseason of not showing anything we planned to actually unleash once the games started for real.

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7 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

He's basically a Dillon Gabriel/Stetson Bennett level prospect at the NFL level. But every now and then one of those guys turns out to be Brock Purdy.

If we are looking in the later rounds, Haynes King is the guy. Big arm, great mobility, and let's be honest he has the clutch gene. I think he is totally underrated.

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On 9/28/2025 at 4:07 PM, mc52beast said:

We’re not picking first again. Young will get benched, Red Pistol will win a couple meaningless games and we’ll be stuck in 7-10 range. I’m just about done with this franchise.

I actually hope this happens. It means we don’t have as many holes as you think.  Just address the QB position in free agency and the Draft. 

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3 minutes ago, Jaxel said:

If we are looking in the later rounds, Haynes King is the guy. Big arm, great mobility, and let's be honest he has the clutch gene. I think he is totally underrated.

I love that guy as a college QB. I honestly don't think he's an NFL QB but with a late round pick? I mean, we've definitely made dumber picks.

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