Richard Noggin

I don't wish to be a jerk, but I'm having difficulty understanding this post? Both hamstrings AND calves are on the BACK of the leg. Hammies are problematic AF for speed guys, and can def linger. Calves are less prevalent for smaller, speedier athletes, but can definitely linger nonetheless. As some have pointed out, an ongoing calf issue CAN absolutely be a precursor to an achilles injury. For what it's worth, I'll vote on the side of achilles tears being MUCH less demonstrably painful than ACLs, for example. I recall Marino and Takeo Spikes as examples of guys who very calmly knew immediately what had happened and didn't writhe in pain much at all. People have pointed out other similar examples.

Destroying Hackett as a HC last season is entirely justified. He was COMPLETELY unprepared for the scope of the job. For the layers of details and logistics and planning and organization. As suggested by Payton, the Broncos struggled just to RUN a professional NFL offense play-to-play, making substitutions and getting play calls delivered down the chain in time for the players to diagnose and execute (or even snap the ball at all). Early in the season, especially, it seemed almost unprecedentedly dysfunctional. That being said, there are MANY quality NFL coordinators who failed as head coaches. So it's still possible Hackett can be successful letting Aaron Rodgers run his GB offense in New Jersey. Might even be the best hire the Jets could have made at OC, with Rodgers aboard. Out with the LaFleur system (that Rodgers excelled in but didn't always love) and in with the overt Aaron Rodgers system (not hugely different, schematically, to be honest).

Very reasonable interpretation of those macros. To be serially cut, of course, also involves being serially signed, though innit? I don't have stats to counter your position that he's a scrub. Except for the number of times teams have signed him, including very recently by an organization who has some first-hand insight on him and/or trusts those prior evaluators who've found some value in him at the very back end of the roster. There might be analytics and/or film breakdowns of his on-field play the past couple seasons. My own perception was that he made a solid 5th or 6th DT who has flashed enough in preseason and spot duty to be a relevant guy in the position room.

I think if it happens again, then we'd all hopefully realize Stefon Diggs has been right all along. Can't lose in the playoffs for a 5th straight season, with this team, without lighting ***** on fire.

Diggs was in midseason form for this press conference. Incredibly charismatic. Said a LOT without actually revealing much. Damn near perfect. Had some fun with the aforementioned JW in a way I found refreshing. Chef's kiss.

To think games started and snaps somehow tell a meaningful story about a player's potential is wild. This isn't 1993. He could be out of the league mid-season, for sure. He's not some star in waiting, most likely. But to present those two macro stats as meaningful analysis remains silly. That's my point.

Replacement-level guys get cut. But then re-signed. That happens. Doesn't mean your presented stats were at all meaningful paths to assessment.

It's important to always be like this, yeah? Guy seemed like a solid, physical, replacement-level DT to me, which is important long-term if Jordan Phillips is initially in your starting top-4. Gotta dive deeper into analytics and especially subjective film study to identify gems at the bottom of the depth chart. Can't be lazy/arrogant and rely on snap counts and tackle totals, of course, for prospective depth and PS candidates. That would be silly af.

100% what I thought of when reading @BuffaloBillyG's assessment. Can either of you compare that to Evans for my uninformed self (giving me a comparison across unified evaluation)?

Say...more?

Wish there was a contemplative reaction emoji, like a "hmm" reaction. I don't love the 1st paragraph, but I might like the 2nd paragraph very much?

Which is also super dangerous. Extreme acceleration and extreme braking are both difficult for normies in normal vehicles to react to safely. I get the appeal. In my teens I drove muscle cars, supercars, and foreign touring/rally cars. It's so easy to get yourself or someone else into trouble faster than they or someone else can react to safely. I had enough sense (and good fortune) not to make a big mistake. My worst driving moments were actually with VERY utilitarian rides, oddly enough. Less focus, maybe? I'm rambling.

Nothing in this post explains how Metcalf intakes enough calories overall and proteins more specifically to sustain his extraordinary mass. The diet DOES make SOME sense for keeping his body fat under effing 5% or whatever insanity it must be, given his cardio output and that he's not relying on pre-shoot/show dehydration to look shredded. But no way does this abbreviated, amateur diet allow for enough calories going IN without some other kinds of supplementation (going off the vague diet parameters and the very specific physical traits of this particular athlete). He's too monstrous (while being so active) to be on a natural, restricted calorie diet/regimen, is my own amateur couch analysis.

Don't thirst trap me. Provide a little more actual context and original thought so I can make an informed decision to click on that link or not.

REALLY difficult to poke holes in this particular comparison. Not sure I've seen it framed this concisely.

Interesting, and obviously you're not the only one saying this. But we've got Johnson and Hamlin playing safety, a four man rush that just does NOT get pressure, and everyone is criminally exhausted. So the QB knows exactly what he's seeing, his linemen have the advantage against overheated big men, and the receivers are on the same page with their QB on top of the home field advantage. Gotta disrupt that somehow.

They singled him with White in the RZ later in the season and got burned (guess you could argue the safety should have been there to disrupt the inside leverage Hill chose on that play, but like all things we're just fans who don't really know who to blame or congratulate for any single play).

But all the MORE REASON TO ATTACK and make their jobs easier/more defined. When you've got elite talent on the field, you can afford to let your guys just beat their guys straight up. But when you're fielding backups and exhausted starters, it makes sense to help them out a little. It's not about the results as much as it's about the tactics, in a discussion like this.

That's a diet for a normal person trying to stay/get lean (minus the candy lunch). An elite speed athlete who burns SO many calories in a day wouldn't be able to maintain so much mass like Metcalf does without untold daily supplements and substances. I believe MANY young guys in the league have terrible diets, especially the guys with the hummingbird metabolisms, but they don't get or stay so ridiculously yoked while also being in NFL WR condition. At least, not without lots of unreported additions to the published diet (not all necessarily prohibited, but seriously, come on).

Never meet your idols/heroes.

McGovern for Martin, straight up. Well played, Beane.

Actually, yes. Kinda just like those guys, but without the plus physical traits (although I question if Dak has any plus traits at this point...never forget him being called the "black Kirk Cousins". Hilarious.)

The obvious counter to this irrefutable evidence of Cousins essentially being a top-10 QB during this golden era of passing offenses is the question: "So what?" His numbers are solid, but to what end? Has he put the team on his back to win the "big" games? Has he been transcendent under duress? In some ways, he has. But like in regular season ways, in 1pm ways, in home ways...he's mostly thought of as the ultimate stat-padder. Prolific, but only statistically. (He HAS orchestrated some impressive comebacks, no doubt.)

The issue with that blanket tactic of "throw a 1:1 sideline 9-route" on heavy pressure 3rd-and-shorts is not that it's completely misguided, as it was the right read given the play calls and the defensive attacks...it's that Dorsey seemed not to anticipate such heavy pressure schemes and therefore design in and correctly time some comebacks, outs, digs, slants and crossers as pressure man-beaters. He, like Daboll before him, seemed to be stuck on a specific and rigid plan even when it didn't always match the moment.

SUPER incomplete analysis, as while the author casually mentions the looming potential deals for four young Cincinnati stars, he never really accounts for that absolute train-on-the-tracks inevitable cap collision because they're all looking only for 2nd deals (they're young)? Their ages won't diminish the cap implications and required sacrifices elsewhere. But I guess it will likely mean those sacrifices are smart and sustainable due to the on-field value such prime-aged players should provide...