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HomeskillitMoorman

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  1. 22 hours ago, 1ManRaid said:

    Just saw a recent QB ranking list by some supposed "expert" football writer that had Allen at #20 and Jimmy G in the top 10.  Also had Burrow at #26 despite never having played a snap in the NFL and Allen not getting ranked in preseason when he was a rookie.

     

    Jimmy G is just going to get that automatic big market respect. 

     

    I agree that Jimmy G is limited and definitely not top 10 and I'd take Josh over him...but I think this kind of ranking is expected.

     

    If we're looking at it really honestly, Jimmy G did just come off a SB appearance. He had a stacked team around him, no doubt about that. But to gain that kind of respect and publicity, you gotta win a few big games.

     

    Josh is 0-4 (I think? Unless he missed a game his first year) vs the Pats including a big stinker at home last year when we had some hype and the football world was watching and kind of threw up on himself in the 2nd half vs the Texans in the playoffs. 

     

    We're going to need to see him flourish on the big stage, like the game vs KC, for him to move to the next level of hype. Obviously a strong showing if we're in the playoffs this year will help too.

     

    Ultimately I'm not concerned about the rankings and stuff though. I think Josh has shown nice progress since the halfway point last year. I just hope to see the volume of designed runs for him come down, I could see him being worn out by the end of the regular season if not. 

  2. I would've waited on this one given the length. I kind of just thought this was going to bring his contract to 3 or 4 years

     

    I think McD's a good teacher of the game but he's far from one of the best on gameday and hasn't done well going up against the better coaches and teams. 

     

    Hopefully it works out. As we've seen, you don't necessarily always have to have a top echelon coach to win it all. 

     

     

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  3. I'm in the camp of this being click-bait in the extremity of the headline.

     

    But the actual concerns raised are legit. If we're being real...Josh hasn't played well against top competition namely the Patriots, and in the case of the playoff game, pretty much threw up on himself in the 2nd half against a bad secondary. My issue has moreso been with the deer in the headlights look he's especially had against the Pats, especially in the home game. That was really hard to stomach.

     

    That being said, he is very talented and I think he's better than the numbers bear out, as controversial as that's become to say. But I have my concerns about him making the leap to the next level too, and I think that's fair. We'll see what happens this year with Diggs and hopefully the o-line will take a step forward too, that's actually my biggest worry going into this season. It's our weakest unit IMO and really the only issue I've had with Beane this offseason. 

     

    But I agree with one of the posters above that it's become very polarizing in the sense that there's such extreme opinions about Josh, whether it's that he's a star already with no questionmarks and then the group that think he sucks. I don't think either is right yet. 

     

     

     

     

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  4. 18 minutes ago, uticaclub said:

    If they really cared, they would provide scholarships for minority grad assistants to get guys on track to be head coaches. I always felt that more white guys are in coaching because they learn at an early age their future in football is off the field

     

    This too. The programs for the league need to run parallel with a ground-floor effort if we're ever really going to have any kind of equity in this space. 

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