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This Aussie is booming 60 yarders every time.

Is Cook going to dance all year or attack holes?

He's made 2 solid tackles so far. Very encouraging.

.....meanwhile our wrs are getting no work with Trubisky out there.

Great, let's watch the talking heads or Kermit shake hands while the Bills game goes on.

WTF?

I think he's just high....

More like 36-37.

There will be areas to watch or be concerned with. Will our C keep up? Will Bass figure it out? Will Cook clean up the drops? Will this wr group overachieve? But the most important question will be can McD keep half his defense off the IR?

After the draft and the fa acquisitions I predicted 11 wins and the playoffs. Now once camp has begun and more defensive injuries pile up I can't confidently say more than 9 wins. I just don't trust McD and the durability of his defense anymore. Josh will be asked to carry the team with mediocre wrs. I can't predict if Cook will lower his drops. JA's athleticism basically wills this team to 9 wins, but it would be pretty miraculous to get back to 11+. If McD can get 11 wins and a playoff berth, he's coach of the year (his 1st ever) in my eyes.

Of course we keep Dorian in there if he shines and stays healthy. If Matt returns in December, then we have some great vet depth in case someone else goes down. Bernard was pretty banged up by the end of last season. Our defensive players don't exactly have alot of durability late in the year.

The only thing that has value anymore is putting Mahomes on his ass during the playoffs. The rest is just noise. I couldn't care less about hits, pressures, hurries or setting the edge. Until we learn the value of sacking Patricia consistently, he'll continue to break our hearts every January. If our bar is finding pass rushers like Groot or Lawson, then we're already done.

I'm really starting to love our conditioning staff.

He's worth when healthy but he's rarely healthy. Your best ability is availability. Maybe he comes back in Dec and helps with a playoff push but I'm not holding my breath. He's likely going the Tre route.

We're screwed...no one is trading for an injury prone player. We're not eating 29M in a cut so all we can do is IR him and hope he can contribute in December? That's all we got. I'm sure Beane will be scouring MLB cuts over the next few weeks. It's the Bernard/Williams show.

Well if this is the case and I agree with you, Matt will follow Tre with the same likely outcome. I just wish our conditioning staff wasn't garbage.

Josh again "as usual" will be asked to be Superman and outscore teams with a marginal wr room and a RB who drops half his passes. Yay....we ask so much every year from this McDermott defense, yet they constantly get injured or underperform. We must have the worst conditioning staff on the face of the earth.

When the dust settles, McB will look back a realize how stupid it was to not draft at least one more wr last april.

He can't be any worse than our last Davis.

Pefivetfiveman....you know

Yup, they had every opportunity to draft a 2nd wr and they chose not to. No one to blame but themselves. Claypool is gone. MVS looks like a joke. Who knows what the hell we have in Shavers/Shorter? It's basically Kincaid and 3 wrs. Sign him to a cheap 1 yr deal and see what happens?

Yup....inside the 5, I'm targeting Kincaid or Coleman every time. This obvious long term issue is why we rely on Josh running it in so much.

You're right...if he continues to make focus mistakes, he won't even have that role. He'll be lucky to be a change of pace RB2. I'm hoping to be wrong but he's trending that way with Davis's play.

I think in the near future Cook will be relegated to a 3rd down RB. He's talented but lacks focus. Davis will be the #1RB down the road.

Too bad...he came in with a decent attitude. Now with him gone and MVS looking like stone hands again, we're starting to get a little thin at WR? This is why I wanted that 2nd drafted wr (Franklin) last April.