Bleeding Bills Blue

I think the splits are the important part - I tried to look it up but i couldn't find these posted anywhere. If his first 10 split is solid to good - that's the most important aspect to a RB of his style. Stopping on a dime and getting going quickly.

Starting lineup better, depth WAY better. Most of the starters from a year ago couldn't sniff this roster.

Gonna need to - Wilson plays a lot like rodgers. Its what you do after the route that gets you targets sometimes.

Same - Dimarco as a core special teamer? The 5th back is a core ST more than ever playing.

I guess I'm saying he'll have a role. But it's likely going to be taking dimarco off the roster

Don't we have several young wide receivers?

If they can take his job in camp than let them. We didn't spend a tremendous amount fo draft capital or money to get the guy. Best players make the roster and will play. Really? I think he's actually pretty good at it. Probably much better than Gore and yeldon. Never seen singletary block but something tells me isn't great. I think dimarcos the cut. 15 percent of snaps a year ago and I don't remember any impact plays with him on the field.

I just see it as the best players see the field. I don't see this kid coming to training camp and taking two future HOFers jobs. If it was Barkley or something sure. But it's a 3rd round pick from FAU.

I think they saw value on the board. They clearly weren't tremendously high on the wideouts - hence signing two free agents and drafting a tight end and back instead.

Only yeldons under contract after this year. The draft is as much about the future as it is about plug and play.

He was third though, and played mostly once McCoy and ivory got banged up

Carry 4 on the 53. Singletary wont see the field unless someone's hurt. He's a 3rd round pick, why do people act like it's a guarantee?

Still comes down to grades - if we like one of the WRs way more than the others you may want to pull the trigger. Last time we did this we did zay over juju tho so...

Now i'm not sure what he's saying but - could he be referring to football?

Yeah - the Gronk factor was that they could roll out 22 personnel with Burkhead, Develin, Allen, and Gronk. You would then at least need 3 LBs on the field or you risk getting run over in the run game. They then just spread them 4 or 5 wide with gronk and edelman on the same side and force your LBs to cover all over the field, get you out of a blitz formation, and force you into man coverages/single high looks where you have a corner or safety covering gronk 1x1. Which is a recipe for gronk to eat. Harry will be more matchup driven - teams with weak corners or teams that scheme to take away edelman with safeties. Just chuck them up to harry on the sideline.

They traded a first for cooks, but thats as close as they have come. They also have traded out of the first entirely quite a few times actually.

Harry is their 1x1 on the outside guy. They always have a guy that does that, they used gronk in the playoffs in that role - but its why they brought in gordon originally. If you clog the middle of the field they like having a guy who they can use to exploit those single high safety looks

I mean - they haven't extended him yet so the financial commitment is minimal. He's a great football player, but he sounds like a real POS on that tape. If he gets cut, who in their right mind would sign this guy? Talent's talent sure - but the things he said... directly to his girlfriend... are pretty messed up.

I wonder if it isn't included in the guarantee due to offset language.

Not sure - it wasn't included in the dead money number the 49ers would assume upon a release/trade - but usually these contracts are fully guaranteed.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/solomon-thomas-21744/ We would owe base salary and roster bonus - signing bonus would be paid by SF. So 2yr 7 mil with an option year that we wouldn't pick up unless he turned into a great player - not a rotational piece.

Plus it's nice to get the guy now so you can get him some time with the 1's before next year. They were 4-12 last year and their defense was a dumpster fire. Super bowl bound, they are not.

It all comes down to the QBs - if there's an early run that's awesome from a BPA perspective. If there isn't a run, hopefully someone wants to jump Denver.

Tannehill has the lost season in 2017 - but when healthy, his numbers are a lot like carr's. They both throw a ton of short passes to boost their comp%. Both were highly overpaid by a guy who no longer works there ( i think tannenbaum still has a job, but its not signing players).