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I fully expect some halftime adjustments on D. This first drive will tell a lot.

Two years ago that's a TD.

That was a gift.

Hey, you guys in the stands need to shut the f up. Our mentally incapable offense can't handle it.

Big boi Shakir. Yeah baby!

We're so disorganized lol

If we score here we can get it back to one score at the half, and then we get the ball to start the 2nd. Let's not overreact yet.

Johnson over Davis.

Give it some time. It's only the first half of week one and some of those investments aren't even on the field right now, including our two best players.

When you're sending your edges out wide and there's no one up the middle, spy has to cover the whole field. It's an impossible ask.

At what point are we going to stop trying ultra wide rushes and leaving lanes up the middle. You don't do that against this guy.

Cook taking some big hits on this drive. Might need to throw the rookie in there to finish this off.

At least we're gettng push up the middle. Good sign!

Holy crap that was a bad throw.

Well...we look like a team that chose to rest all their guys in preseason because we were afraid of injuries.

Solomon will be taking his snaps prior to the bye week.

Nice job Douglas!

Also, he had someone open right in the middle of the field and looked him off.

Way too much time in the pocket.

Where's the contact????

Taron, wrap that ***** up and get back out there

Some good points in here but I feel like you didn't quite get the critique. The comp pick component is an acknowledgement that due to Josh's increasing cap hit we aren't going to be able to pay everyone, and so like it or not there will be home grown players like Brown (or Rousseau or Bernard or Benford, etc.) who we have to let walk in the coming years. Through that lens, is Brown the right guy to pay? I'd say there are legitimate reasons to think no considering his injury history and where he currently sits in our roster talent pecking order. If we did let Brown walk, we'd be replacing him with a B- calibre player in FA or using our 1st or Minn pick not the comp pick which would presumably be BPA. It'd undoubtedly make us worse for a year in that spot, but none of these decisions get made in a vacuum - there are opportunity costs each time we do anything due to cap and pick scarcity. I also say this acknowledging that at this time we have no details on the extension, and so any criticism is clearly premature. I will also add that it's possible Brown is turning into a valuable team leader behind the scenes, and so politically there may be motivations we don't see as fans. It's an interesting decision though.

I was low key nervous about this from the moment Milano went down, but I actually think Buffalo Joe will be ok if Dorian isn't up to the challenge. There's also a chance he's fantastic - easily one of the most explosive players on the roster.

Need to see the numbers but with Josh's cap hit going way up and other more important guys coming due for extension this could be risky. We need extra picks as you can't pay everyone and Brown signing a big contract in FA would've helped on that front.

Oliver had a bit of a down year last year compared to the previous two but he's better than an average starter by almost any calculation. As for our other DL, using PFF as a neutral reference, Rousseau had an 85 grade and AJ was at 80. That's way above average. Yes, we signed Von for a talent ceiling upgrade and it blew up in our faces. We were a bit unlucky there. Diggs was also a talent ceiling upgrade, and for the first three years he was easily a top 10 WR in the league, if not top 5. You don't expect to get top 5-10 players at their position picking in the bottom half of the first round. So yes, only getting four years instead of five of team control wasn't ideal, and the dead cap is way less than ideal, but we got all pro level play for a good chunk of it, and have a top 40 pick incoming next draft because of the Houston trade. Characterizing the Diggs trade/era as a disaster is a total misreading of events imo. Beane isn't perfect. He was the one who put us in cap hell in the first place, and as you point out, none of our top picks outside of Josh have become superstars. What we've had instead is rosters stock full of quality players, including those drafted in rounds 1&2, who are mostly above average for their position with a few guys like Taron and Milano who became top guys out of nowhere. I just don't see how anyone can make the claim that Beane hasn't been way above average.