Mickey

And the year before that he played in only 9 games and before that, 7. I think we can do a lot better than an oft injured, geriatric has-been on the way to his last rodeo. This team isn't about flashy, instant upgrades, it's about long term investment in players that can help us win today, tomorrow and beyond. There are better, younger TE's available in the draft and on the FA market than a guy whose main attraction is that he was a top fantasy performer four years ago.

This mentor things is way oversold. They aren't Jedi. It's the NFL, not Karate Kid. Bruce Smith didn't have a mentor on the roster, neither did Kelly. Who was Thurman's "mentor", Rob Riddick? We need playmakers, not hand holding "mentors".

What is the obsession with has-beens this off season? He hasn't had a decent year since 2016. The man has 13 years in the league. We need to build for the future rather than invest in what's left of the past.

I wouldn't be surprised if they did just that. The sample size is small but Beane does have a history, albeit a short one, of trading up (Ford, Edmunds) to get his second pick.

Giants Game, 14:20 of 2nd Q. Screen attempt to Knox. Watch it and weep. Four lineman and Knox against 2 defenders yet run so badly that the play was dead from the git go. Pretty odd screen design that resulted in the lineman being behind the target rather than in front. Josh had no choice but to fire it into the dirt. No idea if Knox ran the wrong route or if the lineman didn't have a clue what they were doing. It's possible Knox was supposed to run in the flat and have the linemen fire out at an angle to just get there in time to make a block. They did that for a short gain earlier in the game to Singletary. If that was the case, its not really a screen, just a short pass designed to get some beef out there to help the receiver get some yac.

Reading your posts is like digging sand out of the crotch of my speedo. I gotta give you a 2, decidedly below average. You're a nice guy though, I'm sure. ?

No I don't but if you have game pass, check out the play at 14:24 in the second quarter of the Giants game and you'll see what I mean. It was a screen to Knox with 4 blockers on the right side. The 4 lineman are at the 30, all going after the lone defensive lineman in the area creating a mass of 5 large bodies between Josh and Knox who was just beyond that group at the 33. There was a DB bearing down on Knox ready to nail him. Josh wisely ditched the ball as he couldn't get it past all those bodies without lofting it which would have sent Knox to the hospital. Horrible design. We had a receiver and 4 lineman against 2 defenders and yet the play was impossible. I don't know if Knox was supposed to be behind that group or if the lineman were supposed to fire out ahead of him. No idea if the play failed because Knox didn't know what he was doing or if the play design asked to much of the lineman to get that far out quickly enough to get in front of Knox. As it was, with Knox well beyond his convoy, the play was dead.

My only complaints about the coaching are the screen game and blitz pickup. Screens are a critical tool to have in your toolbox and we don't have it. We had a few successful screens, enough to show just how potent they can be when you can pull them off. For the most part though, our screens get blown up before they start, forcing Josh to ditch the throw into the dirt to avoid a disaster. As for blitz pickup, too often there were way too many free runners. The QB can be responsible for one free runner; to either make him miss or get rid of the ball to a hot read but you can't expect him to do much with two and three free runners coming through. I think we have the players to be effective in these areas though I doubt Singletary will ever be much of much use in pass-pro. Our coaches have to figure out why our screens are so sickeningly bad and get it fixed.

Just the worst.

It's common sense to blow 9 million on a WR who finished the last two seasons on IR and hasn't played a game of football since November of 2018? Do we even know he can play at all let alone be a difference maker? That was no average ankle injury he suffered, the ligaments were torn and clearly did not heal when expected. It would be irresponsible to spend that kind of money on a guy who might never see a single play in a regular season game when we have tough decisions to make on guys we already have who had great years and whose contracts are up. Crappy teams take gambles like this hoping to get lucky. Fools buy lottery tickets which are a waste at any price. Trust the process. Build through the draft, sign your good players. That's our philosophy. People are drunk over the fantasy that AJ Green of 5 years ago can be ours for a song. Absent a time tunnel, it aint gonna happen. https://www.foothealthfacts.org/conditions/chronic-ankle-instability

Seems that if there was ever a year not to gamble on an injured, aging veteran receiver it is this year, with the best WR draft in years just a few months away. Whatever happened to the accepted wisdom of "building through the draft" and "keeping your players"? I'd rather use that money to keep Lawson and/or Phillips. Isn't signing a guy like Green the exact kind of "irresponsible decision making" that McDermott loathes? The real argument for Green is not how much he costs but what are the facts about his injury? Is he battle ready or is he not? How much mileage is left? Is he the AJ Green of 2 or 3 years ago and does he have 3-4 years left in the tank? Or, is he the broken down vet that missed 29 games over the last 4 years?

Second best winning percentage in NFL history. Lost SB II to Lombardi's Packers. Knocked out of the playoffs by the Immaculate Reception. Got knocked out early in the AFC Championship by Bubba Smith one year resulting in the Colts going to the SB. Threw for over 400 yards in another AFL Championship, losing a close one to Namath and the Jets, the ones that went on to win the SB. Lucky he was not. He did throw 6 TD passes against the Bills, in the fist half, a feat

SF, just because watching them win it all with a QB he used to have on his roster would be pouring acid into that empty place that used to house Bill Belichick's soul.

We already have a really good thing going. Raw as hell out of the draft and in Allen's second year we secure a play off spot with 2 weeks to spare and were within a play or two of winning the division and securing a first round bye. He can be even better and I think he will be even better but don't lose sight of the bottom line, he is a winner. Our WR's need to be better, our O-line needs to be better, our kicker needs to be better, etc. Lots of room for improvement on this team, including Josh, and that is the exciting part, we had a great year and we have lots of room for growth.

I am not sure why you would bank on Kroft being "fully healthy" or that he would be available for 100% of the preseason prep. His immediate past suggests nothing of the sort and I have to wonder if the only reason he hasn't been hurt again is that he hasn't played much. Generally I don't buy the "injury prone" thing but Kroft may make a believer out of me yet.

Kroft hasn't been healthy for two years now. It's a gamble that he can stay healthy for any appreciable amount of time. And if the best we can say about the rest is "seems to be over his penalty streak" or "will hopefully stop dropping the ball" then I'm not impressed with the TE room. If you watched the games this weekend, you saw TE's like Kelce and Graham deliver onc clutch play after another. Maybe Knox is that guy but TE is such a key position in modern offenses that I have no problem adding a draft pick at TE. We wasted a lot of time thinking that Zay Jones would get over his inability to catch the ball consistently. I hope Knox gets over his but I would definitely like to hedge that bet.

Those TE's, apart from Croom, were a big part of why we were second in the league in dropped passes. I would have no problem adding a guy like Cole Kmet in the draft rather than hoping, like we did with Zay Jones, that experience will cure our butter-fingered TE's. I think Knox might be the only one of them that might develop into a good pass catcher as he had some great catches to offset his drops.

Fred Jackson 6"-1", 216 > Devin Singletary 5'-7", 210 I hope you are right but at his size, I am not optimistic.

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Unfortunately, he is a liability in pass pro. I think the coaches are going to be caught in a constant no-win situation with him. We lose a great play maker when he is not on the field but when in pass pro he is going to get Josh killed. I don't know that all the coaching in the world is going to enable a guy who is 5'-7" to take on a blitzing backer at 6'-2", 245. Physics.

Is it just me or does it seem that all year, Josh's best passes in the most critical situations were dropped?

Larry Fitzgerald - 4.63 Jerry Rice - 4.71 Chris Carter - 4.63 Anquan Boldin - 4.71 Me - 8.64

He has made a ton of plays all season doing the exact same things. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. And it wasn't a random lateral, he was trying to get it to Knox so we could maybe, you know, score points and win the game. I remember seeing Flutie do the same thing only successfully. It's easy to critique choices after the results are in. If he gets it to Knox, he is a genius. If he pulls off a houdini like escape on the blitz as he has done many times before, we'd all be applauding. Despite what anyone thinks of his play which was certainly not perfect, he got us to OT in a desperate situation at the end of regulation and he had us in position for a game winning FG until that ridiculous call on Ford.

I am not sure what is wrong with his play at the end of the game. My recollection is that he got us to OT and then in FG position, if barely, to win the game until the non-blind side blind-side bs call.

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