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Diggs Davis Bass Jackson This Draft gave us an elite WR1, high end WR3, top end Kicker and a CB2 capable player. That’s a solid draft. Id give it a B. Agreed that if either of their Day 2 picks panned out, this would be an A

Rams last year, Eagles this year .. Two teams that absolutely had to get to the Super Bowl to warrant the level of investment into one season both made it.

Not sure why anyone is clowning the Niners here .. just way too much to overcome. Josh Johnson is not playable as a backup .. I guess one could question SF for not having a better backup, but they’re on QB3.

If you would’ve told me Purdy would have a perfect completion percentage and SF would still lose … I wouldn’t have believed you.

I think it means drafting RB’s without elite ability is pointless. There’s some elite guys and then there’s a ton of guys dependent upon their OL.

Meyers or OBJ and any of the OL mentioned. If they re-sign Edmunds, I don’t want to see any mid-high tier investment on that side of the ball in FA. Absurd if they go out pay for a Safety. Transition Benford and let’s get on with our lives.

Watching the Eagles Defense makes me hate our Defense so much.

This past draft is so strange… Kaiir Elam looks like he could be a future CB1, but we only have limited looks because of McD’s bizarre obsession with a rotation this year. James Cook, ditto, future RB1, but we stuck with the lesser talented RB for much of the time in Singletary due to experience and trust. Khalil Shakir looks like a dynamic WR… took forever to find a role for him. Those are 3 very real potential building blocks that we may have hit on. Nevermind the Benford draft pick who, at least looks like good CB depth, at best he may be a legit Safety next year. One could surmise we may go into ‘23 with 4 starters from that draft … and real reason to be excited about all of them. Then there’s the Bernard pick. Just infuriating. Made no sense at the time and a year later the picture doesn’t look any less blurry for his role on this team … unless his role, as a 3rd rounder, was always depth/ST linebacker.. in which case, wow…

I highly doubt they would ever move Dawkins to guard. He’s still good at LT and is part of the core right now. They should move Bates to LG, as that was the position he played really well in before we got Saffold. Then I wouldn’t mind at all going RG & RT on Day 2. If they want to go C round 4, fine by me. This OL needs serious investment this off-season. I don’t rule out Brown making a jump, but he needs competition. WR is where I’d go RD1 unless a slam dunk OL is there. That all being said… we know Beane doesn’t like going into the draft with glaring holes. We did last year at CB, but I have a suspicion that Beane signs a legit WR2 to make sure if we strike out in the Draft, Josh isn’t hung out to dry.

I hate to agree with this… but I do think we are softer than the Bengals. I’d say that’s VERY obvious.

A good bit is coaching and scheme. Allen was getting pressured on everything .. immediately .. blitzes from all over coming untouched, normal rushes, 3 man rushes … they were on skates all day.

I agree it may not .. but Bengals and Chiefs both watched their QBs get rocked behind bad line play and went out and invested heavy in OL. Then again, I’m rapidly losing faith in our FO to keep pace with those two organizations. Ours are better than most.. but seem a step behind the two we’re chasing. By shear will.. Allen gives us a chance against KC, but Cincy is just running laps around us at the moment.

Neither, but I’m open to Hines if they have a plan for him as an actual RB. James Cook, maybe Hines and a Day 3 pick. Singletary is a perfect example of the “good, not great” players this staff pays far too much to litter all over the roster.

Fine … If we have a 4th straight year where the Defense is a liability in the Playoffs, McDermott should be fired. He wants to hitch his wagon to Frazier, so be it … if they fail, he goes down with the ship.

I hear what you’re saying, and logically it makes sense, but nobody trusts this defense in the playoffs .. and that’s with very good reason. Three straight years of a heavily invested in defense being a complete liability in the playoffs. If all we get is a “run it back” and Salgado is the only guy taking a fall…. McDermott better hope and pray that next year goes differently because nobody will have any patience for a fourth straight year of this…

If they do... huge indictment. KC's DL isn't much to write home about. It's basically the Bills DL (post-Von), without the rotational depth, but they have Chris Jones. Chris Jones... the guy we drafted Ed Oliver in the Top 10 to be.

If he's not in this team's future plans, there is zero reason to have him on this team next year. The investment on this team needs to shift towards the Offensive side of the ball. We have a DT eating up 11M of cap space. That could bring in a top tier IOL to protect Allen. If they re-sign Edmunds AND keep Oliver, this team is doing such a disservice to Josh after what we witnessed last Sunday.. and for most of the year honestly. I'm legitimately resenting McDermott for the fact he's a Defensive HC yet still needs so much above average investment on that side of the ball... it should be the opposite.

We'll see.. I don't think Rodgers is the guy he was a few years ago. Still very good though. Jets would be giving up quite a bit, I'm sure, to get him... and who knows how long Rodgers wants to play and/or can play at a high level for. That said... Jets would be LEGIT next year. Along with the Bengals who will, again, be top tier. Bills will be in a dog fight for the division (although I'm still taking the Allen-led team) and looking up at Cincy unless some out of the box changes are made this off-season.

Broncos hired Hackett to get Rodgers. Got Russ. Jets hire Hackett to get Rodgers. Derek Carr, confirmed.

If Tre is going to return to his pro-bowl caliber status, it will happen next year. It is what it is. No point in worrying about it now. Our Defense is going to be very dependent upon Tre, Von and Hyde all returning to the type of high level player we pay them to be post-injury recovery.

Yes. I don’t even care if we get a 7th back. Just get his cap hit off this team.

I'll be very interested to see how the Chiefs look against the Bengals this weekend. We were very clearly exposed by Cincy, but I'm not so sure they won't do the same to Kansas City. The Bills and Chiefs both have flawed rosters outside QB. The Bengals (outside OL injuries) are in the mold of San Fran and Philly. The Chiefs have a better shot because they don't have a rookie OC and Spags is 10x more suited to coach up modern day Defense than the stale/played out Leslie Fraizer Defense.. but they have far more weaknesses than this current Bengals squad. Cincy is a perfect storm of hitting on picks, hitting on FA, still having a rookie QB contract AND the blessing in disguise of the Burrow injury year to get that elite WR they otherwise wouldn't have, which is really what makes their Offense so absurd with already having Higgins and Boyd. Bills really screwed up their chance to compete this year by making poor roster construction decisions in last years off-season and whiffing on the Epenesa, Basham and Oliver picks over the course of a few years.

Would love that. Bring back someone like Marlowe for a vet min and have Hyde/Benford as your starting Safeties. Can bring back Dane Jackson and have him as the 3rd outside corner backing up (hopefully) White & Elam. Taron Johnson in the slot, with Siran Neal as depth. The Secondary and DT are places we could save money this off-season and not need more than a couple Day 3 picks to stock up depth/rotation. Edmunds is the one guy who likely needs to have his replacement addressed given the absurdity of the Bernard pick last year. We, for some reason, have Milano's backup on the roster but not Edmunds.

I'm perfectly content rolling into next season with a DT room of Jones/Settle and then two JAG's/Rookies to rotate in. We get Von back, and the DL potential is just going to have to be contingent upon Von coming back healthy and the same guy we saw before he got hurt. I'm also perfectly content letting Edmunds walk. I don't hate the idea of re-signing him, but if he goes, our Defense simply starts to look like a lot of defenses... some talent/some deficiencies. McDermott, as a Defensive HC, should not need all this investment on Defense. It's utterly ridiculous and the only way we load up Allen for next season is by accepting a few downgrades on Defense. He still gets a Defense with the following: Von Miller Greg Rousseau Daquan Jones Matt Milano Tre White Taron Johnson Kaiir Elam Micah Hyde I mean, come on... figure it out.

Emphatic NO Emphatic NO Development?.. Undecided: The DL has been an abject disaster in terms of scouting/development. This staff is pretty good at elevating secondary play to this point. However, this year showed that may have been more due to Hyde/Poyer than anything else. That said, Hyde & Poyer weren't "Hyde and Poyer" until they came here. The fact we're even asking this question, when we were the only team in the Divisional Round with a Defensive HC is so unbelievably frustrating.