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Take it with a grain of salt... He's the same moron who was screaming that the Bills should have fired McDermott when he benched him. Kornheiser is as big of an idiot as they come.

While I agree with the negative yardage point of your post, I do credit some of that to Dennison. Not all... but especially in the first half of the season, you could see a definite difference with the same RB and same OL, with the exception of Dawkins (who IMO is better than Cordy anyway)

In a heartbeat. I'd honestly give up more than that it it was a possibility

no. no. no. no. and even more NO.

Unbelievable. I made the decision last night that I will not watch another patriots game. Ever. Not a playoff game, super bowl, not even a game against the Bills. That game was so blatantly and clearly one-sided as far as officiating goes... how are there not investigations into this kind of thing?

But Chad said the offer had already been made. Vic must be wrong

I feel like Sean McDermott is way too structured to have fired him if he didnt....

Trust the process!!!!!!! Thank the Good Lord.

Good point. I'd have no problem ditching Cordy, especially with how well Dawkins played this year. I guess it depends on the cap hit, though. However, Beane has showed that he doesnt really care about the cap hit.

That's where I'm at. Just don't like the idea of giving up EVERYTHING... including the picks that we got for getting rid of Sammy and Darby... on an unknown, unproven guy... not when we have so many other holes to fill.

While I agree with pretty much your entire statement, you also just confirmed my point. You said, "Just a minor upgrade at QB would have had us winning that Jacksonville game not stuck with just a FG." Which is what I was saying. A minor upgrade, someone halfway competent, has us winning playoff games. I don't see the need to mortgage the future of the franchise, hoping you strike gold, when a "minor upgrade" (your words) is what is needed to be playoff-competitive. Trade away one of those picks to move up a couple, OK i'll bite. But don't give it all away.

While I agree with you......... Jacksonville.

I don't believe that to be entirely true. When he was DC in Carolina they got after the QB like crazy. They also had Luke Kuechly, Thomas Davis, etc... He was also fortunate enough to have Josh Norman. I look at it like this.... He and Frazier did a HELL of a job getting this secondary to cover for the D-line.

Oh I'm absolutely looking for a homerun.. But how much are you willing to give up for it? A great rookie QB does us no good if we can't put the pieces around him. Let's face it... The games we lost this year were lost mainly for three reasons - QB play, O-line couldn't protect, D-line couldn't get pressure. O-line and D-line aren't getting any younger. What I'm getting at is if we have to give up both 1sts and both 2nds to go get our "home run" guy, what did that solve, especially if we can't protect the kid? If there's a good one available at 21, say Baker Mayfield, I am 100% all in on taking him... But I'm not on board with giving away all of our capital to reach for one. I guess I feel like missing wont be as bad at 21 as it would be if we had like the #8 pick and freaking blew it. It'd be real bad if we gave away 3 more early round picks and still whiffed on the QB.. That'd put the franchise back several years.

I couldn't agree more. But It's funny how one player can change that entire perception. Before we acquired him, it was "This WR corps is a joke, worst in the league, bunch of scrubs" yada, yada, yada. We get KB and now everybody "loves our core of WR's." And I'm not picking on anyone, because that's the way I genuinely feel, too. It's just funny to me how one guy's "star power" changes everybody's perception.

Should we do it like Cleveland? Just burn our 1st every year on a QB, play him for a season, then draft another? Look, I'll be the first to admit that we NEED a QB. We are a halfway-competent QB away from being a real contender IMO. Just halfway freaking competent. However, drafting a franchise QB isn't that simple. If it was, everybody would have one.

You literally said "the same thing the franchise has done for 20 years, NOT reaching for a QB" We've done it at least twice that I can at least call "a reach"... We've drafted others as well. Your statement was just plainly not true.

Seriously? JP Losman wasn't "reaching" for a QB? How about EJ Manuel? What world have you been living in for the last 20 years?

Out of that list, Cousins. Although if for some reason the Niners find a way to screw up getting Jimmy G. signed, I'd take him in a heartbeat over Cousins. This team doesn't need Brady. We just need a halfway competent QB.

^^^^^This. McD did it with a roster of guys nobody else wanted. A team that the national "experts" said was tanking. Marrone has a top-tier defense and good receiving weapons.

Guys like Cadet and Murphy have shown this year that RB talent is fairly easy to find if you had to come up with a 1-year stopgap solution.

Thanks, Don, for the insider info!

Exactly. What if Dalton doesn't make that throw? What if we had gone 9-7 and missed the playoffs? How much does the cloud of a now 18-year playoff drought discourage FA's from coming here vs. a team that just made the playoffs, even though they might have had the same record.

Wow. very definition of a hit piece. " It didn't look like Belichick's last regular-season game as the Patriots' head coach, but several coaches and staffers later remarked to one another that it felt as if it could be. "

That wasn't the question...