WhitewalkerInPhilly

I'll happily eat my crow on that one too

Part of me wants to set reasonable expectations. A lot of promising 1st round tight end prospects haven't really exploded over the last few years. Hockenson and Pitts haven't set the world on fire and it's unreasonable to expect Kincaid being better right out of the gate but I am really liking the move to 2 TE sets. Obviously I want him to be Kelce 2.0

Or he wants to win something

After getting a good look at the reports on the guy, and with what we had seen up until that point I can't imagine this move as anything but a net plus. Going in, the model seems to be to have one big hole clogger in the middle (Poona Ford) and one gap penetrator (Oliver) to let one LB attack and one LB cover (Milano). With Taylor Rapp and Taron Johnson, along with a stable of CB2 options I think the plan was to decrease the importance of MLB as much as possible with a lot of heavy nickel/dime looks. Getting a guy who can be an average state is better than what we have and will not be the lynchpin of the defense. That's going to be the safety group (I think) New coach, player over 30, injury history, cap space in a cut...yeah it's a common story. You just see it more at the opening of free agency

1) I think that Kincaid will effectively settle into a niche that Cole Beasley managed for about a decade: a reliable 3rd down chain mover, but with the added benefit of being a big body to let him be a red zone threat and get 4-6 TD a year. 2) Torrance will be a solid starter for 4-5 years until he gets too expensive and we let him walk.

Splenectomy. I'm sorry, it's a touchy see subject

It's very hard for me to be angry about signing a veteran who is even average at such a vital area of need with a setup that he can get a few weeks to fully rehab and learn the system and then pay him vet minimum.

I think that speaks depths as to the quality of the Cincy offensive line

Let me tell you: I took the odds with "Bills win 10+ games" and ran with them. In terms of expectations I think some is real and some is manufactured. The Bills play the Eagles, Chiefs and Bengals on the road. We lost a home game to a London matchup vs the Jags. As much as I hate admitting it, the Jets and Dolphins threw money around this off season and look better on paper while we split with them last year. But a big part is the 7 month long silly season and the need to keep talking about something . Which is how we got endless speculation on how Diggs is unhappy, how McDermott is losing the team, about how Josh Allen has regressed. On the flip side, national media has never gone broke hyping a NY team and the Aaron Rogers acquisition was a big splash

If memory serves there's a Marriott not far away in Conshohocken. FWIW, Manayunk is about as far NW you can go in Philly and still be in the city limits so it's an interesting place. It's been gentrified as hell since I lived there but there's lot of bars and the local equivalent of Nietzsche's

Tir Na Nog is where the Downtown group meets. Blue Light bottles will be at hand. How long have you guys been meeting there? I lived off Green Lane, close to the regional rail line for 2012/2013. It would suck to have missed you If memory serves, that bar is right along the Manayunk regional rail line. Otherwise you're taking an Uber up the road way that Philadelphians consider one of the worst traffic routes

They used to under the DirecTV model. Thanks I'm planning to share it with my sister

My stream worked on my phone, laptop and my XBox without any glitches or resolution issues. Right now I'm saying that alone is worth the money. That and no longer worrying about janky streams and viruses from sketchy sites...or so I've heard. 😝

Is you open a premise with a question the answer tends to be no.

I just got a message on my FanDuel that for a $5 bet (I was making anyway) they send a promo for $100 off

I'm probably going to bite the bullet and buy it. I complained for too long about "why can't I just buy a streaming service of Sunday Ticket?" That balking at the price now rings hollow

The NYP is frequently entertaining. It is rarely, if ever, useful.

I don't think that numbers will fully show his impact. 600 yards and 8 TD would be at the high end of expectations, and I would be thrilled if he hit that. Diggs is still going to eat, but I like this as a 1-2 punch

they did some last week in the Diamond formation. That you can switch that to 11 personnel by putting Knox in line and Kincaid in the slot, or Knox and Kincaid on opposite sides as ends, or put them on the same side for an unbalanced formation, or send one to the line to block. You can attack a lot of ways once you get a personnel grouping that you like on the field.

I mean, I would personally say that Kincaid is the best because of what it can do to the offense in terms of options. But yeah, it's pretty darn good

I think he got tired of doing the hard work and getting nothing but grief from some haters. This way the site actually makes some money

I know we are a little gunshy on the Swiss Army Knife TE after the Charles Clay experiment but I believe that Kincaid is what they envisioned. If some of the work we've seen over the last few days is any indication, we can put Kincaid in the backfield, in line or in the slot depending on the situation.

Is that his stock or our collective nethers every time he touches the ball?

I legitimately think this will be our base set. Not to say there won't be wrinkles and situation sets but if the offense is clicking and we want to trap the defense in hurry up I see 12 as the one we keep trying to impose our wil with. The fact that we can switch it to 21 or 11 to attack a mismatch makes too much sense to me

Same. Not just about how he looks as a passing target, but it looks like his arrival has turned on the creative juices. Diamond formation? I've never heard of that before. Crazy presnap motion to get mismatches that jailbreak Diggs? Yes please. We don't need a hyper efficient offense, we need to let Josh be able to pick a matchup he knows his guy will dominate