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Ladd is a slot receiver. If they drafted him, then he and Shakir have to share snaps and Shakir had a hard enough time getting his snaps in an offense where they want big boundary WR out blocking. Whether Coleman makes it or not, McConkey's skillset would have been redundant so they'd still be seeking boundary help. I do think Coleman would have had himself a much better season catching the dink and dunk stuff from the slot like McConkey got. The average depth of target disparity was enormous(9.9 to 15.2). It's reminiscent of the tantrums people threw over passing on Creed Humphrey. They owed Mitch Morse a lot of money, he was solid, he was a captain and since centers in the NFL spend a ton of their pass blocking snaps blocking air or just being a help guy.........what you don't want is to pay the top of the market for a non premium position. That's what the Chiefs are doing now. Give me Morse and McGovern over that stretch and I'm good. Slot WR is a non-premium position.

If he doesn't make a big improvement this year, then it's a bust pick. You look at what McConkey did, and then add in BTJ who we should have traded up for and its bad.

The Lance deal was an organizational flop from top to bottom. He had barely thrown 300 passes in 3 years at a Division I AA school. One year was good, albeit against weak competition. A blind man could have seen that bust of a QB walking into a room. With Purdy, you saw exactly who he is this past year. A middle of the road QB who isn't a guy that will carry the franchise. He's not terrible. He's better than at least half of the starters in the NFL. $53M a year though? Absolutely not.

Fields is the wrong example. Fields is actually awful. If you wanted to say, “I’d rather pay Geno $37M than Purdy $53M,” that’s fine and makes sense. Fields can barely complete a pass. He was worth Mac Jones level compensation last year. He’s horrendous.

Why are you comparing a a 6 foot tall 180 pound slot receiver with a 6'3 215 pound outside receiver? Its great a lot of you wanted Ladd but they weren't moving Shakir. Keon does need to get better but to compare him to a totally different type of player probably isn't a fair comment on his plah.

Yea I doubt that. But at least we didn’t get a video this year of Beane getting excited after a WR ran a slow 40 like we got for Keon and Gabe. I’ll call that progress.

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Amerks tie their series against Laval (MTL) 1-1.

You think Beane added defensive backs focusing on speed because he drafted a WR last year more known for his size and high end ball skills than his route separation due to lack of speed? Including Bishop who was drafted 30 some odd picks later in the same draft? This is going to be a long couple of months.

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No food born illnesses? Our local supermarket actually makes great pizza. I get a spinach-feta pie and keep slices in the fridge for lunch all week.

I'm pretty sure we got tickets to the last game of Allen's rookie season against the Dolphins for ~20 bucks a ticket the day of the game. That being said there's pretty much no amount of money that'll keep me from seeing at least one game in the stadium its final year.

By the way, Beane knows he blew the Coleman pick. (40 4.61) Since he made that pick, all the skill players on both sides of the ball have speed. At WR were have added Palmer (4.52 @ 6'1 210), Moore (4.35), and Prather (4.46), AT DB & S: Bishop (4.45), Forest (4.41), Hancock (4.42), Hairston (4.28), Strong (4.50)

The way the ended the Wild Card year was a full implosion. They started 10-1 ended up losing 6 of 7 and got blown out in the wild card game. It forced both coordinators to be fired and the GM basically dictating changes to the HC or he would get canned as well. The changes resulted in what you saw this year. What would you call that?

A lot of people in this topic are posting about their preference to watch the games from the comfort of their own homes, for relatively cheap. Let me just say, enjoy it while you can.

The Eagles didn’t implode. They lost in the Super Bowl and the WC round.

I think Trump Derangement Syndrome is just an easy label for someone to use in order to nullify the intelligence of a person who has any valid criticism of him without having a retort to their criticism. However, you have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The reviews really were cumbersome. The NLL needs to find a way to speed them up. And why can’t they find working mics for the refs? The good news is the Bandits take Game 1 by a 12-10 score and can secure the championship in Saskatchewan on Sunday. Also, Dhane Smith passes his coach, John Tavares, to become the all-time playoff scoring champ in NLL history.

Failure forces self reflection. The bigger the failure the more reflection required. Many teams have taken the next step as a result of an implosion. Eagles are an example of that. Our regular season success has promoted a run it back attitude. Again, I don’t know if that’s good or bad. A McD coached team is going to be + in the turnover battle almost no matter what. Partner that with an MVP QB and we will never really implode. That’s not a bad thing, but it might not be a good thing either as far as change is concerned.

McConkey vs Shakir is not a comparison that bodes well for Shakir unfortunately.

As you all know, like many here, I was not a fan of the Coleman pick. I had him rated as a late 3rd or 4rh rounder. The fact is, if you can't get open in college, you are not going to get open in the NFL. And that was shown last year. Outside of a couple of plays where he was kind of schemed open and a couple of slants, he didn't make a lot of plays within the structure of the offense. He made a couple plays deep down the field on scramble drill type stuff, but within the design of the play, it was rough going. He was slow and had terrible footwork at the top of routes which allowed defenders to close extremely quickly if he did create a half step of separation. The way I see it, to get anything out of him, 2 things need to happen. First, you have to use him on routes where theoretically he can win (using him out of the slot more as well). That means slants and short to intermediate stop routes. Look.....we would all like him to become a complete WR and win down the field. I just think that he is limited physically and will never create the separation you would hope for. That leads me to the second thing..... Coleman himself needs to realize he's not going to beat any CB in a foot race down the field and he has to make the decision to play physical at the top of routes. With his size and strength, he needs to start playing bully ball to create separation. Put him in the film room and have him watch every snap of Anquan Boldin's career. Boldin couldn't run worth a darn either, but he had a long, successful career just bullying DBs with his big frame and strength. I am not sure Coleman will ever develop into anything other than a depth WR at best. In a dream scenario, he figures it out and he becomes a WR2 option, but he has a long way to go to get there. Rooting for the guy to do it because he seems like a great kid and I always want guys to succeed. It would help our offense dramatically if he finds a way to take a big step this season.

McConkey had about double the target share than Coleman. If you take Coleman's stat production and (unscientifically) extrapolate that to McConkey's target share they'd have almost identical stats. I'm probably higher on Coleman still than most. He's got so much room to grow and he's in arguably the best organization in the NFL to do that.

I don’t mean it in a negative way. I just think when talking about the Chiefs and Eagles and even Niners, we have to consider that they have changed defensive schemes (and in the case of the Eagles, offensive schemes) at least once if not multiple times in their routes to multiple Superbowls. Now to be fair, it hasn’t always been positive for those teams. The Eagles defense in 2023 was horrific after they lost their coordinator. The Bills hiring Dorsey almost sank 2023. There is for sure potential downside. McDermott is an excellent coach imo and has only gotten better as a Bill. And it sounds like they are bringing in new ideas defensively. But to me, defense is the ultimate “sum of their parts” aspect of football. If you had to rank importance of the Eagles or the Chiefs becoming clutch defenses, the #1 would be coordinators, imo. #2 would be the talent acquisitions and switch outs. Heck, we even saw the same thing with McD. He cut all the Rex weight, gutted the roster, and had the defense playing at a HIGHER level with some good FA adds and draft picks.

I don't think they make the Super Bowl with Fields as the starting QB a year and a half ago. Purdy is a faster processor who can go through his reads quicker avoiding negative plays. Would I have paid him that much? No. A Baker Mayfield contract would've been more appropriate. You could say the same thing about Love, Lawrence, Goff, and Tua. He's better than Fields though.

It’s a ton of money, but I think it’s fair. He’s paid at 7th highest per year, which is about in line with his actual talent level. I’d say he’s right in the top 10 range and this basically sets the new mark for the 10th best QB in the league. Prior to last year, I would have argued he was about even with Goff, but Goff was great last year so I can’t say that now, I have him above Tua, so it’s all about right in my mind. Good for him, from Mr. Irrelevant to generational wealth. He landed in a good spot and did his part to get where he is.