Charles Romes

With ratings plummeting and the league desperate for feel good stories we may be seeing a lot more looking the other way in upcoming years. You want another example? Remember Peyton Manning's awkward excuse for juicing was that it was his wife and not him that actually took the drugs? Seems like many parties conspired to miraculously restore his pristine league legend and cash cow stature. Expect Brady to break the 40 barrier like no one else since Barry Bonds.

Things that look forced when EJ does them look natural when Cardale does them

On the one hand its amazing how many people on this board give Whaley a free pass in view of all of the "unexpected" injuries when all he does is sign older and/or injury prone players. On the other hand Harvin was incredibly productive early last year - on pace for a 1000 yard season - before the injury.

Have to agree if the season ended today. To be on the brink of a 5 game winning streak with all the street free agent types on the field was miraculous and only explainable by good coaching and scheme.

When you have a chance to win the whole thing you have to go for the jugular. Calvin Johnson or Brandon Marshall

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/10/05/after-making-18-tackles-brown-named-afc-defensive-player-of-the-week/

He looked great last year, until late in the season when he was pressed into duty as the featured back. His 24 carry 28 yard performance week 17 is what you will get if you think of him as a starter. A good change up relief back, not an every down back.

I'm not sure this is the worst offseason, even in recent memory. You have to consider 2009, when we fired our OC a week before the season, or who could forget 2014, when the brass finally realized we had no QB a few days before the first game.

Chris Draft is still out there un-signed.

On ESPN2 right now. Plays for Saskatchewan. 500ys 5TDS for the Roughriders last year. I never saw him as an NFL receiver but many on this board loved him.

The bashing Flacco takes on these lists is criminal. Has the best post season in the history of the game, then gets hung out to dry by the GM who takes away his weapons and replaces them with cast offs.

A stalwart underrated player.

The GOAT IMO. Watching him dominate for more than a decade I remember being so thankful and feeling so blessed he was a Bill.

Shady had at most 3 years in his prime left. If we don't make the playoffs by next year it was a waste

I wish people now would stop saying it was dumb for the Hawks to pass on 2nd down in the Super Bowl and not give it to the sure thing. That play was all about butlers incredible play. Would have been incredible just to knock the pass down. Lynch was a few carries from retirement when that play happened

Sammy for sure. He blew away revis in game 1 with the one yard game winning catch in which he created so much separation revis was no longer on the tv screen. He owned revis island game 2 and the whole league was talking about it.

Agreed - brandt still has got it.

That's what EJ said the first half against the Jags.

Exactly. You can't have too many good backs. Karlos may be too injury prone to stay in the league and mccoy is approaching 30. This is a need

Meh. Career backup ceiling of the ilk of cassell, henne, colt McCoy, Hoyer, etc. Played pretty well? They were a 10-2 team number 1 seed with Dalton a middller starter. They lost 3/5 with mccarron beating only the niners and Ravens.

If you have two quarterbacks you have none.

29 as a corner and you play hard ball after getting a tag? This guy does not have a sense of reality. He may squeeze out one more elite year if he stays healthy and is lucky.

Didn't Chip leave?

Yes. This year reminds me of 2007 at the QB position. Recall in 2007 JP was coming off his one good year. In 06 JP had a plus TD ratio a respectable 85 rating started every game and had the team picked to go 3-13 at 7-7 in the hunt down the stretch. Even though JP was seen as upward trending starter material the brass suspected he was missing that je ne sais quoi and we ended up up Bill Walsh's guy Trent. Trent did not work out of course, but for some tiime made us all feel better about ourselves.

USC is not Alabama. They should be happy about the additional exposure the NFL is giving their program.