WhitewalkerInPhilly

I hope it's reliable. We could certainly use him, especially if we want to be running the WCO next year we desperately need more players.

I think KC is looking at this next season as a wash. They went up big to get Mahones, who was always seen as a project. Now with Maclin gone, I have a feeling well have a nice draft pick in 2018. But yeah I would take Maclin in a hot second.

Honestly, this is a signing where I have no idea how people are finding much of anything to gripe about. We had a big hole at WLB, and while I know PFF isn't perfect it's a decent indicator, As to why he was still available, it looks like he had a slow start, and then was backing up a very good Novarro Bowman. It probably scared some people off. I honestly don't see Ragland as a SAM. I know that it's a difference that breaks down with how commonly we go to subpackages like Nickel and Dime, But Ragland has some cover skills, but is best as a midfielder. I don't see him as an edge sealer.

Do I believe that Doug Whaley had a sub par record here? Yes. Do I think that he walked away with more class than some people, despite some personal feelings of anger? Also yes. Do I think that the journalism of TBN sports has taken such a swan dive to think they would rip him for areticle traffix.... AHAHAHAHA OF COURSE

Well, that is one way to get around the restrictions, lol. Look, maybe it's a dick move, and will make him few friends if he ever tries to reconcile being in the service. They did pull one on him, but I don't know if he knows the land mine he is resting on. Of course, he's Air Force, so he might not. Either way, sign him now on the cheap Billy Beane!!!

Normally I'm the first one to jump on the anti-Brady bandwagon. But this is silly. Players play through the protocol all the time. That said, yeah, I am remembering the drop we saw with Manning, and Brady will be older than that this year. I think there is a reason why they are betting the farm to build as potent a team this year.

I wouldn't say roasted. But I seem to recall that Darby played rather well in his first outing vs the Colts when he had a safety rolling to help.

That's crazy, I heard so many times that he had a cannon for an arm. You'd think he would be able to get at least one shot off.

From what I read, deferment was a thing right up until this season. It makes sense. Yes, the Air Force doesn't gain a member on active duty, but they gain a ton of free publicity. The NFL gets a huge story out of it, especially with their military appreciation stunts. Then, once the deferment is over the AF still gets their guy.

Actually...Rivers and Big Ben are in the back end of their careers. I think TT is a better investment going forward. I honestly don't see why people go that crazy for Carr. Wilson...well, I would take him. Just note: the deal that he signed is the reason why the Seahawks went from being dominant from 2013-15 to barely crawling to wild cards.

Dang, for a thin LB group that would be a great pickup

I think he's going to be ok. ACL rehab at the long end looks about 9 months, which he is at now. That gives him, what, two and a half months before training camp, plus OTAs? He is slower than Keukley, but he did have a great sense for being in the right place at Bama.

That is an odd situation. But if they can snag him, it's an excellent low risk high reward situation. If he is allowed to play, he is the second mid round receiver I wanted them to take in the draft. It he can't he still falls outside the top 51 si it doesn't effect the cap.

I think you could also include making sure the correct number of players on the field. I loved Rex's bravado, but I think you can easily give a game or two to a lot of management decisions he made. The challenges were especially infuriating, when he would challenge to have an opponent's first and 10 become a third and short. There were so many that even if you said, "well yeah, the refs are wrong..." it seemed to be inevitably followed by "...but come on, we are wasting a challenge here?"

Look, I'm honestly not expecting him to have a 10 sack season. But it's a team sport. If he can set the edge against the run/keep a blocking tight end busy and handle a RT on spread packages, that leaves one of Kyle, Dareus or Hughes in one on one, and that is going to generate sacks.

I have a suspicion that this is the case as well. I am acutely remembering first half of the last Super Bowl. Brady looked pretty damn shaky there. He obviously leveled back off in the second half, but it reminds me of how Manning just fell off a cliff. In the 2013 season, Peyton looked amazing, setting records in yardage and touchdowns, only to suddenly give out in the Superbowl. The next year, again, a very solid season but when the playoffs rolled around you heard rumors of him losing sensation in his fingertips and they went out pretty early in the playoffs. In 2015, well, he made Brock Osweiler look like a viable starter for the future. He was out of the league in 2016. That was a very steep decline. Manning was 39 in 2015. Brady will be 40 when the season begins. I know they play very different games, and I'm not expecting Brady to be bad. But Belicheck pretty much went against their standard teambuilding process this season: trading draft picks for players, so much so that they traded out of the first three rounds. They are stacked with talented players this season where they were content to make due and try to find hidden gems. From all this, I do think this might be Brady's swan song. One last season with the best of the best around him to make history and try to make his run almost impossible to match.

I am pulling for Byrd, especially since we did little to convincingly shore up WLB or safety in the draft. If we go big nickel, or even just normal nickel we could use him as our centerfielder, while Hyde can be the nickel or box safety as needed.

This is a favorable comparison. Matthews has been the best receiver the Eagles have had the past two seasons. He does sound like more of a slot guy, but since we are going to a WCO with a lot of rollouts, he should fit very well.

I can live with that. We moved up and swapped a late third for a fourth

I'll take it! I had him highlighted as my next target at wr. I don't mind that we traded up for him.

I think I figured put why I'm disgruntled. I don't mind having White. He looks like a good fit for the system. It fills a hole, and he should be able to compete immediately and likely win the starting job. The problem is, that's what you say about the second and third round pick. We made a conscious choice to move out of the range of high impact players for a good player. I'm not saying it's the wrong choice, it's just that White looks like a second round pick that we took at the back of the first.

I take offense to the idea of Philly fans being like Jerry Sullivan! Jerry throws stones, we only throw snowballs!!! Yeah, he couldn't let that go

Yeah, I get why you are upset. I know you've been stumping for Mahones, and now we traded away so someone could take him.

Egggh. I'm not a huge fan of the trade either, but at the point where we were picking, I think we were already missing out on premier talent: Corey Davis went at five, and Williams at seven, so those were my receivers. I don't know if Lattimore is that much better than White. Still, Foster was on the board, as was OJ Howard. Most of the guys I thought would slide to the 2nd round because of character concerns (Conley, Peppers, Foster) all went.

I would say that the third this year helps a lot. Of course, I was going to suggest taking a CB in the 3rd...