Sojourner

Fair point. But don’t they deserve some credit for putting Josh in the position to become Josh? QBs are failed by their coaches a lot of the time. Josh certainly had his flaws and growing pains to be where he is now.

So, second rounder? Lol In all seriousness, i don’t think Barkley would have come here. 1) the money 2) if it’s between us and the Eagles, the team he can run salt into the wound of 2x a year was too palpable for any competitor that believes in themself.

Love the positivity. It’s insane that we went from a rebuild year, to fire and cut everyone, to we are on the upswing, to we are the best to our team except Josh, our OTs and Cook suck again. We had a great season and should be proud of it. Super Bowl or bust this year. If not, let the heads roll! You know, that’s probably what bothers me the most about that game… The offense was weird on a lot of plays. No pivoting from their standard go to. You’re playing the best of the best in the playoffs. Execution has to be perfect. Brady was a damn fine OC but a lot of the failings go on his shoulders for some of those calls. People give him a pass but the guy was on his way to possibly being a HC until he closed the door, hopefully he’s learned.

Im with you man, it’s not acceptable. Defense has let down the offense more often than not but it’s a team game. You win by the plays you make and lose by the plays you don’t. Both left some on the field and let Josh/Cook down.

Not 99/0?! J/K

He’s actually one of my favorite day 2 targets if I’m honest. He’s produced some quality and not been the liability that he showed early. That’s also indicative of his talents as even though they’ve not been great this rookie year, the FSU guys were pretty good in that secondary given how up and down the offense was. However, you’re on the money with that assessment. Definitley a better man scheme fit.

But it can be better. There is no can’t lol One TD is a better ratio man. Come on. Im not saying your wrong and even agreed with you that it should be a winning margin by all historical standards. It’s not, therefor it could be better? In actual fact if we are going by what’s unfolded. It could be worse… Chiefs dropped a few INTs and we got lucky with some fumbles. One was a turnover as it was on a 2pt conversion… You can do it either way?

Chiefs didn’t have Hopkins/Hollywood/Kelce/Pacheco/Worthy every game either. Not saying they would have scored 30 but it’s definitely not unreasonable to assume they could when you’ve got Mahomes back there. The defense is a problem. Agreed. But the measuring stick for Team A didn’t do _____ isn’t very accurate to use.

It’s not rigged I agree. But favor is definitley a thing. I saw a few mention the Bill Burr on Rich Eisen comment… “Not fixed but massaged”. I agree with that. Out of a parents children they certainly don’t love one any more than the other… but…

Well you can. 16/2 might have us in the superbowl lol But I get your point. It’s a decent and winning margin.

Lol what? He’s suggesting we already had Cook, a productive back in our offense, and didn’t need to spend the money on Saquon…?

I might be in the minority but the talent on the defense is more of the issue than the schemes and designs/concepts they run themselves. If they can grab a quality guy on the interior as well as another CB I think they’ll take massive strides to what we saw a few years ago. An aggressive defense is nice as it’s not allowing an offense to, in theory, dictate the game. However, when you have the right line play in McD’s defenses, it’s just as troublesome as you’ve got 7 guys to disguise, roll, invert or trap coverage with. The bigg st complaint circles back to talent again, they’ve put a decent amount into it prior to the last few years but we still have pretty much the same issues. Trusting they finally get the right players is a concern. On top of that, we know Safety is a critical part of the coverage schemes Sean/Babich run. They should be grabbing one of the litter that’s available in FA as it does seem to have quality available pre-negotiations. That might be a tough pill to swallow but Bishop is still raw and Rapp, as much as he has good play here and there, can be a liability to himself and his team with injuries.

Great write up. One guy I think changes the 20-30 range is Revel and how he is viewed after his interviews. I can see the Bengals going after him if he checks out. I think Barron is a stud but could be a better Safety than he is CB. Then down further to Chargers. If not the Bengals he’s in play there too. They need some help in that position. Where are you gauging FSU’s Thomas right now? I think he’s going to move up into the early second after the CB drills @ Indy as he’s shown success in zone and man coverages at various positions for Florida State.

No but he is a difference maker. Definitely not ideal for the system we run but you could make it work as he has the talent however would it be ideal to play him where he wants: continue the LB role that he’s in? Talk is they may be switching to a 3-4 scheme in Dallas and I would expect they switch him exclusively to an OLB role. He’s best as a moveable chess piece with freedom to attack different gaps and areas of the line. Would he fit here? I think he fits anywhere if I’m honest. The question is if you play him exclusively on the edge does he rack up the sacks you’d expect him to be getting based on years prior? I don’t think you’d ever know until it was happening/possible. It would be close though, guy is a stud.

“Can’t believe Augie didn’t serve us hors d'oeuvres himself”

Didn’t say it was accurate but his weight has more value than others who cry about it. Why? Because you have the ability to be fined as an active player? Doesn’t take that much thought process as to why guys stay quiet or the ones who don’t do it in an indirect manner. I’m open to listen to someone who’s in the HOF and player 15 seasons. Doesn’t mean I agree with him or not.

WR was the strength of last class and while it was we didn’t do as great as we hoped for immediate impact. This year is quality for interior guys. Especially the type we needed. Hope we get it right as Dewayne Carter was solid against the run and flashed the pass rush game collegiately, didn’t meet the expectation even when the bar wasn’t very high.

Parsons is a player I could get behind if you can’t get Crosby/Garrett. Cowboys defense would be even worse without him, falling apart territory.

30. Benjamin Morrison CB | Notre Dame 56. Eric Ayomanor WR | Stanford 62. Alfred Collins DL | Texas 108. Cobee Bryant CB | Kansas 131. Kyren Lacy WR | LSU 171. Tyler Cooper IOL | Minnesota 175. Craig Woodson S | California 179. Barryn Sorrell EDGE | Texas 206. Rylie Mills DL | Notre Dame 208. Jackson Woodard LB | UNLV

And that trade worked out wonders. I just don’t think Cleveland ever become willing to trade him unless he forces himself out or has a serious injury. They have said on numerous occasions he isn’t for trade and their GM just reiterated that a few days ago by saying they’re trying to get an extension done that essentially will have him retire as a Brown. Piggy back off that, Myles said many times last year the team isn’t that far off from being a contender and that he felt the year was just unlucky in terms of injuries that took place to the QBs and Chubb. Id love him, he has stretches of absolute dominance. When he’s not dominating he’s still great. Maxx is just as good. The next best get.

With the fact he’s getting another DPOY I’d bet that asking price might even be more.

Still think he’s a decent player just not $20m+ which is probably what he’s projected to get when his deal is up and the salary cap adjusted again. 22.5 in 4 seasons for that price? 4m a sack of the numbers stay consistent. Rough.

He might be the “secretary of defense”. He was giving the LBs and secondary appointments with the ball carrier all game.

I’m not disagreeing with you or anyone. At all. It’s just we seem to be absolving the offense of failings that actually lost us the game and deciding to lump the whole outcome as a defensive failure. It was a team failure. Pre-AFCC hypotheticals: Strength for strength. Their defense vs. our offense. Who would you take? Go weakness for weakness. Their offense vs. our defense. Who would you take? Again, us losing games more often than not is indicative of our defense. They are out biggest let down. Will never argue against that but you’re talking about a seasoned team that just got fully healthy the final weeks of the season. They can put up points, just hadn’t done 30. If you saw that unit they fielded for the whole year, I’d bank on it happening at least one or two out of the 17. Put it in baseball terms if we won games on the basis of pinch hitters and closing pitchers all year but they lay a dud in the championship series, it’s acceptable? Basketball, down 1 need a bucket. Our best player that can penetrate or hit a quick jump shot is also a 95%+ FT shooter on the year. We draw up a play that has him drive low elbow for a quick pop. Lane is open and the better opportunity arises. Fouled from behind with no conversion on the attempt. He goes to the line. 0-2. Is it acceptable? It’s a team sport. Our strength in the bigger picture blinked. See the bolded:

And that’s fair. Not saying anyone is wrong and it’s something there’s validity to people who agree offense or agree defense. This is the question I say to a lot of people though who are so abhorrently against it being the offense. Not saying you’re not btw. If this falls on the defense then how many games did they win or lose in the regular season? Conversely, how many games did the offense win or lose? It’s a team sport. You know our weakness. The defense should be better. I will never deny that. But it absolutely comes down to expectations. I went through the game week thread for the AFCC. The vast majority of fans were essentially saying “we just need them to get a couple of stops or turnovers”. That was many expectations. By that standard request/hope, they did that in the second half. But then the yard stick is moved even further cause they want to blame it entirely on one unit. Our offense wasn’t great to start the first half but gets a pass. The offense left lots of points on the field by repeatedly forcing a scenario that KC had essentially already dictated wasn’t going to work. The play calling in the final drive involves leaving our best skill position on the sideline when there was plenty of time for him to be a focal point, couple that with two poor throws by Josh and a dropped pass on a blown protection change into a miracle heave. We need better players on defense or at least the ones we have to show up when it matters. We also needed better offensive play calling and execution and we win that game. Blame falls on both for the loss imo but offense is the better unit.