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Unless you're a perennial All pro.. I think the line between good and great is squarely the scheme and the people around you If we put the right people around ed he will be great.. When we get thin and he's forced to play the one technique he gets banged up and he's not as effective Somebody like Kyle Williams could be good to great depending on his scheme and the people around him throughout the course of his career.. but he had some help... Marcus Stroud was a former pro bowler, Marcel Dareus was all pro... Mario Williams was collapsing the pocket When the line was just Kyle Williams he's not as effective

For me both Oliver and Rousseau are at the good-not-great level. After that things get interesting. Bosa could return to his former glory. Or he could spend the season on IR. Who knows? I never watched Hoecht very much, but I know that he's a very smart and versatile player who can play DE, DT, and LB. That means when he's on the field, the offense doesn't necessarily know what defensive alignment we're in, assuming we switch him around. He could be an interesting X factor. Ogunjobi seems like he could be a good depth piece though PFF only graded him a 49.4 last season. And then there's the rookies. If everyone is as good as we hope, this will be the best DL we've had in a while. But if our fears materialize (Bosa is hurt, the rookies play like rookies, Hoecht's versatility is misused, Ogunjobi deserves his 40s PFF score, etc.), then our entire defense will struggle. I'm hoping for the best but right now it all feels iffy to me.

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Maybe I buried my lead. Some posters say McDermott's record or success as a HC is only because of Josh, i.e. Josh is carrying the team, and McD would not be a good coach without him. It gets brought up around here a lot. I have heard people knock McDermott as a bad coach and in the same breath praise Sean Payton as a great coach. Yes, Sean Payton won one Super Bowl (his only appearance). He had future-HOFer Drew Brees for 15 years (5 of which were losing seasons). I never hear anyone say Drew Brees carried Sean Payton. And yet, if McD went 15 years with Drew Brees as his QB with only one SB appearance (and five losing seasons), he would be tarred and feathered here for wasting a HOF QB. And Payton has had some doozy playoff losses as well. It just seems like there is a double standard when it comes to McDermott. And no, I wasn't saying McDermott is as good of a coach as Don Shula. Just that Shula had 3 HOF QBs play for him (2 of the greatest QBs of all time), but no one says his success was only due to those QBs. We acknowledge that he was a great coach as well as having great QBs. And I wasn't trying to say that McDermott is an All-Time NFL coach by posting that list, I was just pointing out that all of these guys that we label as excellent coaches (who have won a lot of games and SBs or whatever) almost all had elite QB play. So, again, why do we not knock them for having great QBs, but with McDermott, all of his success is Josh and he would be terrible without Josh. There's no proof of that. He had an excellent run as a DC in Carolina, his one year as HC w/o Josh he took a bad team to the playoffs, besides last year, his defenses have been top 5 in scoring against, turnovers, etc. for like 5-6 years. If he were fired from Buffalo, he would be hired by another team very quickly. Just seems to me that there is more evidence that McDermott is a very good coach who is elevated by Josh, rather than a bad coach who would be nothing without Josh. And no, helping to find and develop Josh does not give McDermott a free pass by any means, but he also wasn't just a lucky bystander in the whole process, as some like to post.

He is suffering an mental illness but really on the other hand, he brought it on himself.

More good news.

I don’t take joy in anyone’s unfortunate circumstances regardless of what type of person they may be or portray to be. I wish that brother the best, hopefully he can find some happiness in his life!

I just checked, he has posted ELEVEN straight posts in the "Trump's lips are moving" thread. Talk about talking with yourself. What a child.

He has been unstable since high school. His antics are well documented.

My guess is this is just about a rehash of Brown's widely reported Chapter 11 filing last year rewritten to make it sound like it is new or, quite possibly based on MLFootball's reporting standards, they didn't even know or care whether it is new or not.

No I guess what I’m asking is about the “what Carolina believed” part

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Can't say I'm going to do a deep dive here. Not interested enough. But this time of year, predicting the future, I don't find this non-germane or inappropriate. It's a time of year when people are looking for content that might be interesting and useful. This doesn't really pass the interesting test for me personally, but I don't blame them for trying. If they are incomplete, that's another matter. But hard to be complete when you're trying to include rookies who've never seen an NFL field.

I actually think the Chiefs should be on that list somewhere with Chris Jones and Karlaftis, etc.

Billsfuk.c's nightly handiwork on full display. Why isn't he banned again?

Poor football focus.

UFL delays college draft to early September - NBC Sports https://share.google/7OWuleYj8BeWjbZwS

Here's the actual PFF link (not the Twitter link). It's not behind their paywall which is good because I see better content produced here daily by many of our excellent posters. I can't imagine having to pay for this drivel: https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2025-nfl-defensive-line-rankings PFF doesn't give any criteria other than to state "We're ranking the best defensive fronts in the NFL heading into the 2025 NFL season." For the Steelers they include new draftee Derrick Harmon and for the Browns they include rookie Mason Graham. While new veterans Ogunjobi and Bosa are included in the Bills summary, new veteran Michael Hoecht isn't mentioned nor are the three highly-drafted and highly-regarded defensive linemen Sanders, Jackson, or Walker mentioned. The summaries are so arbitrary and incomplete as to make the whole work virtually worthless.

Massive barrage of shlit explodes over the cesspool.

I guess McDermott should get more credit when you have Beane completely busting on the free agent and draft class of 2024.

Kinda silly when he has a win percentage of over .700