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Singletary is a good runner. Pretty solid vision and good contact balance/elusiveness. The issue is he’s bad at pass blocking and pass catching so you can’t really be a versatile offense with him on the field. He shouldn’t be a starter due to those limitations but he’s the best runner we have.

Yeah, the 2022 pick has turned out pretty much as bad as it could have for them lol. I think it was a worthwhile gamble for them; unfortunately they don't have the right coach in place but Fields was always likely to have a bit of an adjustment period to the NFL. He's a really talented dude but the stuff he was doing at Ohio State was relatively primitive and the supporting cast in Chicago has kinda fallen apart this year. Hopefully the new coach is able to get the most out of him.

They traded up from #20 by using their 2022 first round pick (which appears likely to land in the top 5-10).

The Saints have one of the best defenses in the league this season and the Bucs also had like none of their weapons playing last night. Brady threw for 375 and 4 TDs in the first meeting.

Damn. That sucks so bad for him being in a contract year too. Big loss for the team too. He’s been their best WR for years now IMO.

He shouldn’t be our gesture back long term, but he’s been our best runner all season and has actually run it pretty well when he’s had opportunities.

Lamar is great. They’d be nuts to let him leave. This isn’t a Baker Mayfield situation where it actually might make sense to move on.

I missed the game yesterday but man Huntley must have improved a lot from his previous appearances if this thread exists.

I checked out of curiosity, Edmunds is currently rated the #45 LB out of 83 per PFF. That's the best ranking he's had in 4 years. 2018: 67/91 2019: 47/89 2020: 74/83 2021: 45/83 I've seen mentions of Devin White a lot; he's generally been worse per PFF. He does make the splash plays that Edmunds doesn't, but having watched almost every game of White's career; he too ends up out of place a ton, but he's surrounded by far better players in the front 7, including Lavonte David, who is as good a LB as anyone in the league. Devin White: 2019: 67/89 2020: 62/83 2021: 74/83 My personal opinion: I assumed we would pick up Edmunds' option and I think we'll likely re-sign him but I disagree with both of those things. To me, he is the exact kind of luxury we can't really afford to keep on this team.

They'll get called for interference if the pass is thrown to them and they make contact while the ball is in the air, but basically, illegal contact becomes legal once the QB leaves the pocket, so yes, the amount of time Allen spends outside the pocket would presumably be some sort of factor in this but I doubt it's enough to explain that large of a gap. I'm curious where Allen's 82 number compares to everyone else. That tweet only shows the top few QBs.

Players will almost always agree to this form of restructure as it locks in more money for them long-term. I suppose it isn't a guarantee that they will but it would be shocking if any of them refused. I think releasing Poyer is the worst of the moves that I've listed and don't think it's necessary. This was more an exercise of listing out the options. But the argument in favor is that we spend more on our safeties than any team in the league (granted we have one of the top 5-10 safety pairings in the league) as well. As far as replacing him, most starting safeties make less than the $6.7 million that would be saved by cutting him, so it's very possible to find a starting caliber safety with that money. Again though, not a necessary move for us to make and why create a hole where we don't need to? I think Beasley is probably one that we should consider, though again, it may fall into the unnecessary category. He'll be 33 next season and has taken a step back this season. It's possible he just falls off the cliff so to speak next year and he's paid like a #1 WR when he simply isn't that. And yes, you'd need to just trade Edmunds for a draft pick to net the full $12.7 million. You can certainly net better players than Edmunds with that money unless next season is finally the year his potential turns into reality. I think trading him is probably very unlikely, partially because I think McBeane like him a lot and also partially because I think it'll be difficult to get good picks for him at that figure.

That's why I mentioned some of the moves I had listed were probably not ideal or necessary. Just showing the different options at our disposal. Cutting Poyer definitely falls into the unnecessary category. If I had to make an argument for it, it would be that we spend more on safeties than any team in the league and it's arguably just not that valuable of a position. But our safeties are also one of the top 5-10 pairs in the league without a doubt and they're two of our biggest playmakers. As I showed though, we have plenty of other moves we can make to create cap space if we wish to and most of them wouldn't hurt our team all that much; certainly nowhere near as much as losing Poyer would.

Hughes and Addison are already factored into us having $10 mil in cap space. There are a lot of levers we can pull to free up room though; some that are relatively painless (cutting Darryl Williams) and some that would be a bit more painful (cutting Beasley). Just messing around with Spotrac's Manage Roster feature, some money saving moves (including some that probably aren't ideal or necessary): Restructure Diggs - $7.1 mil Restructure Tre - $7.1 mil Restructure Dawkins - $5.3 mil Restructure Star - $3.4 mil (can cut him and save a little bit more but it's not a big difference) Restructure Milano - $4.8 mil Release Morse - $7.5 mil Release Darryl - $5.3 mil Release Beasley - $6.1 mil Release Poyer - $6.7 mil Trade Edmunds - $12.7 mil Add up all of that and we're at $76.6 mil in cap space.

I was finally able to find film of Quadir Copeland and Justin Taylor's IMG team. Only one game so far, so obviously dealing with small sample sizes, but my skinny on the two of them: Copeland: Impressive passing ability, but pretty much is always attempting no-look passes instead of just making the game easy for himself. That carries over to his shots as well; all 10 of his shots were at the rim, but he finished just 3/10 as they were pretty much all difficult shots where he had to contort his body to shoot around the defender. Shot 7/7 at the free throw line! Racked up 5 or 6 offensive rebounds Couldn't have been worse on the defensive end unless he just sat at half court cherry picking while his team played 4 on 5. Taylor: Shot 1/3 at the rim, 1/3 from mid-range, and 2/6 from the 3 point line. 5/6 at the free throw line though! Moves pretty well off-ball and makes his decisions to attack or keep the ball moving quickly. Comfortable shooting off screens and his mechanics are mostly good. There's 1 or 2 things I might nitpick but he's further along in that regard than Copeland and Chris Bunch. 2nd biggest player on the team and plays the back line of the zone and finished with 0 rebounds as far as I could tell. We definitely have more of a need for Copeland's skillset, but if he doesn't change his ways, there's no way Boeheim (or whoever could theoretically replace Boeheim next season) will play him. The good news is it's really as simple as him just deciding to play with any effort and I think his ceiling is pretty high if he does. Taylor is the most polished of the three recruits that I've seen so far. The rebounding is obviously scary considering what we're experiencing this season, but his offensive game is good enough to potentially play as a freshman.

First half was the best ball movement and tempo we've played with all season. Second half we reverted back to iso ball again and just fell apart.

I’m afraid Villanova just gave everyone the formula to shut down our offense. Just play tight, stay at home, don’t help. We don’t have anyone that can get by their man. The best we can manage is contested floaters from the Boeheims. We might be okay enough in the regular season to survive but anyone that really game plans for us should be able to make it difficult for us to score and we obviously know our defense isn’t good. We unfortunately lost the one player that was able to create easy looks for people.

Another day another embarrassing effort on the glass. This is I think the 3rd time this season we struggled to grab even 50% of available defensive rebounds.

I don’t think it’s squarely on anyone. It was a 4 point game and a lot of mistakes made. Any one of them fixed could have flipped this to a W. Coaches made some mistakes, though I think as always, a lot of people are mad at a bad result rather than a bad decision. Skme great plays and potential TDs were taken off the board by drops and missed reads. Just a lot of self inflicted wounds last night and that’s especially unfortunate considering how close it was and what the stakes were.

Watched my first Chris Bunch game today. My basic take through one game is that he's more of a run and jump defender than someone who will get down in his stance and go to work. Could make him a decent fit for our zone and press, but he didn't really disrupt anything defensively either so sort of a mixed bag. Seems like there might be potential there though. Offensively, he essentially plays as a spot up shooter and he shot 3/8 from 3 in this game. Having said that, he shoots with a very wide base and his lower body and upper body aren't really working together; I suspect that Boeheim will make some significant tweaks to his jumpshot. He's already considered a good shooter for a high schooler, so maybe cleaner mechanics will turn him into a great shooter. Or it could always go the other way too. At any rate, him showing up at Syracuse with a different looking shot is my personal expectation. Outside of the jumpers, he has a high and loose handle; I don't think we'll be leaning on him for creation any time soon but he did have one or two nice passes in this game. He seems to be in the same sort of mold as Woody Newton, who I did not like in high school, but I think Bunch is more talented at this point in time.

Edwards has shown really nice touch around the rim, but maybe more importantly, just keeping the ball high when he catches it is absolutely huge and it’s an issue that has plagued almost all of our big men over the years. Still too weak on the glass (but that can be said about pretty much all our players) but he’s improved a lot over the off-season. Cole finally got it going in the 2nd half too. Once he starts shooting like his normal self again, it should hopefully change the complexion of the team.

The definition for blind side block has nothing to do with being blindsided. It’s purely about the way the blocker is facing and the force of the block.

By the letter of the law, it seems like the correct call to me but my god, what a stupid rule for plays like that to be a penalty.

Huge performances from JG3 and Jimmy last night. Pretty gutsy win after we predictably went cold in the 2nd half and let them take the lead. Also, coming out with what was essentially a 1-3-1 zone was one of the most shocking things I've ever seen from Syracuse.

Kadary has mostly struggled for Seton Hall, including losing his starting spot already. This team would look so much better if we had someone like him that can beat his man off the dribble and get into the paint though. I think we pretty much all knew Boeheim was playing Guerrier to his strengths. The issue is that Guerrier wanted an opportunity to expand his game to show off NBA traits. Unfortunately I just think he doesn’t have NBA traits. Shocked how bad Oregon has been as a whole though.