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Maybe Curtis Samuel at 27 is a different player than Curtis Samuel at 29 with a lingering foot issue. he would hardly be the first gadget smurf to lose a step and basically be a zero overnight and out of the league shortly thereafter. I don’t have a crystal ball, but I don’t think Samuel will hit 500 yards in a season ever again, let alone 776.

He doesn’t have to have 1000 yards to have an impact imo. A guy like Curtis Samuel wishes he could average 400-500 yards here.

Maybe they thought Reagor was WR4 and may have been willing to trade up for him. Higgins does fit their player profile at WR to a Tee lol so that tracks.

I don’t think about it at all. Diggs was the proven commodity. JJ was the fifth WR off the board. I think there’s no guarantee we take JJ if we hang onto that pick. And seeing how Diggs helped Josh ascend in what was a critical year into a perennial MVP candidate and the best QB in football, I would never ever consider doing a “do-over”

I mean, we could have offered two 4ths and a 5th. It didn’t need to be a third.

The offense isn’t doing enough to have the lead for the 1 seed or the divisional title thus far. the offense hasn’t done enough historically to beat the Chiefs or Bengals in the playoffs. I have questions if the offense is enough to win a game against the NFC opponent in the Super Bowl. Folks seem to forget that even those Brady-Pats teams that didn’t win the Super Bowl were still stomping teams with bad QBs left and right (including us). That shouldn’t be the bar anymore. the 2013 Pats had laughable outside weapons. Gronk got hurt. Their offense was 3rd in points. They lost in the AFCCG putting up a weak 16 points. They weren’t good enough to win the Super Bowl but they were good enough to win 12 games.

The pressure has gotten to him. Internally, I think everyone understands that Josh is great. I also think ownership thinks that McD is great. That kinda leaves a big old target on Beano’s back when they start playing the blame game. A GM going on local radio ranting about how he found his QB almost a decade ago and that they don’t need a WR and then like 2 months later restructuring contracts to try to trade for a WR is actually ludicrous. IMO, that’s part of the reason why he is very extension happy with his drafted players. He's trying to build some W’s. You start running a hardline with guys like Bernard or Rousseau or Benford and insinuate that they may not be worth a big second contract here, and folks may start asking about the guy who drafted them in the first place.

Does WGR get to call Beane and ask him some follow up questions lol

He would probably have been pretty good. We saw that when he had maybe the best 4 weapons in totality with Evans and Godwin and Gronk and AB. Nobody said Touchdown Tom was carried to that Super Bowl victory when his defense crushed KC.

He’s hardly the first excellent QB to owe some credit to good defensive performances in the playoffs. There was a guy in NE who is the GOAT who famously had some great playoff defenses.

Thats not how restructures work. Taron got more money up front. He didn’t take a paycut

Sounds like Josh has a really crappy defense in the postseason. Not sure how that makes Joe Burrow crappy.

We all know Joe Burrow was drafted #1 overall to ostensibly the worst team in football and had them in the Super Bowl 22 months later right

Browning looked okay 2 years ago. It’s not really novel at the NFL level. Jalen Hurts benefits from all star receivers. So does Matt Stafford. So does Burrow. So did Tom Brady in Tampa. Great targets make QBs look better. There’s an OBVIOUS corollary there that is flatly rejected around these parts, but say the emperor has no clothes in Cincy. That’s crazy to me.

Not sure what the downside is. We reformed Richie Incognito for a few years.