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I’m a fan of his, but he’s also going to turn 24 next season. The last 2 MVPs were younger when they won the award than Burrow is today. What would Lamar Jackson or Pat Mahomes have looked like playing QB for LSU this season? I’m guessing pretty good. He’s a great prospect, but he’s not a slam dunk.

People can’t even spell Mahomes correctly yet. Give them a few years to figure out Burrow.

Mahomes is the best QB in the league, but he’s nowhere near the best deep ball thrower. It’s probably the weakest part of his game. He’s still pretty good at it, but it’s one of the few areas of his game that he could improve.

If you can’t hit the deep ball with consistency, you’d better be really, really accurate on the short and intermediate stuff to thrive in the NFL. And there’s no rule against being good at both.

He also has a tendency to tuck his throwing elbow close to his body and short arm deep throws. That’s a much bigger issue than his footwork.

Russel Wilson and Drew Brees throw beautiful deep balls. This doesn’t vary by season, and Allen’s deep ball misses weren’t due to lack of weapons. That isn’t to say he had great weapons, but he misses open receivers routinely. If his receivers weren’t getting open deep, you might have a point, but when he misses open receivers by 3-5 yards, that’s on him and him alone.

I hate the Broncos, but Denver has great weather.

Maybe, but this is a playoff team. Are you comfortable lining up third and goal from the four down by 4 points with a minute left and a rookie sixth round pick in the backfield? I’d feel much better with a Gordon or Gurley who are proven TD machines.

YPC is about the least important stat that still gets heavily used. In the last 4 seasons, Gordon has played in 53 games. He has scored 47 TDs and averages 100 yards of offense per game. He can block. He can catch. He can run. He can get the tough yards. Most importantly, he can score. Unless you want to watch Josh continue to take hits in short yard situations, you need a guy who can do what Gordon does, because there’s currently nobody on the roster who can.

I will never understand the Carlos Hyde fascination this place has. What makes so many here pine for a 30 year old journeyman RB who was just released in favor of Shady McCoy?

Of course Beasley belongs in the WR conversation. The posters I responded to were complaining about including guys like Travis Kelce in the conversation because he’s listed as a TE. If a WR is an eligible receiver who lines up wide of the LOS (which it is), then of course players like Kelce belong in the conversation. Dude has 200 catches in the past two seasons. He doesn’t get them as an in line blocker. He gets (most of) them by lining up in the slot or flexing out wide just like Beasley. You can’t discount the production of guys who line up in the slot or split out wide simply because they may have lined up next to the Tackle and run blocked three plays earlier. To put it another way, Kelce took more snaps lined up at WR than Mecole Hardman did. If Kelce catches 60+ passes a season from the slot position, he belongs in the conversation as a WR.

Sure, but that brings him up to 8 fumbles total over his last 4 years and roughly 1,000 touches. I mean it could turn out to be an unusually high number for Singletary, but we know it’s abnormally high for Gordon. I'm a fan of DS. He’s a uniquely effective player. I just think he was used exactly right this season. I strongly suspect you would have seen diminishing returns very quickly with more carries.

He’s perfect in his current role, but defenses don’t have to worry about him ripping off a 70 yard TD run. He’s also not the guy you want getting the tough yards in power sets. He also isn’t a guy you want to spend a lot of time picking up blitzes. You probably don’t want him taking a lot of hits, either. in the NFL, there are small backs who get the bulk of the carries because they are really fast. There are slow backs who get them because they are so big. You aren’t going to find a lot of small, slow backs getting 60 snaps a game, though. Let him be the guy who comes in here and there to give the defense a little different look and them get him out of there once they figure him out.

Just to be clear, you’re in favor of winning 70-75% of your games for 15 years straight, making 9 Super Bowls, and winning 6 of them? I’m a writer for Hot Take Weekly, and I’d like to interview you.

Singletary isn’t a lead back unless you like fumbling and getting both your RB and QB killed.

Brown and Beasley have more room to improve than Hill and Hardman because Diggs is better than Watkins. Got it. That makes perfect sense. Sorry I didn’t catch on more quickly.

A slot receiver is not a wide receiver any more than a full back is a tail back. Wide Receivers line up out wide and on the LOS. Slot receivers line up in the slot and off the LOS. TEs line up on the end of the line. Pretty simple stuff, but if being pedantic is your thing then you may as well go all in with it.

Why get 10 TDs when you can have 2?

Don’t worry. As soon as he signs, the entire board will suddenly decide he’s great.

What a weird comparison... Rivers and Brady are going to make $50,000,000 combined as starters on playoff contenders next season. Matt Barkley has been in the league since 2013 and has 2 wins in his career. He’s barely played, and when he has he’s thrown more than twice as many INTs as TDs. He’s the NFL equivalent of a white flag.

Hardman was a rookie who started 5 games last year when Hill was hurt, and Tyreek was a RB in college 5 years ago. Hardman turned 22 last week, and Tyreek turned 26 the week before that. Brown and Beasley have a combined 14 years of experience in the NFL and will turn 30 and 31 years old next month. How in the world do you come to the conclusion that Brown and Beasley have more room to grow than Hardman and Hill?

Funny how the same people who want to split hairs and say that Tight Ends who line up in the slot and split out wide at times shouldn’t count as WRs want to include slot receivers as WRs. If you only want to include bonafide Wide Receivers in the conversation, then you can’t include anyone who doesn’t line up on the LOS.

Why is everyone on this board so against having a competent backfield? Singletary is a nice piece, but he’s got some huge flaws. He doesn’t have the size to be an every down back, he fumbled 4 times on only 180 touches, and he doesn’t have the speed to house it when he gets a crease. Yards per carry is an over-valued stat, especially for a guy getting only 150 carries on the season. Yards between the 20 yard lines are cheap in today’s NFL. A RB who isn’t a true workhorse needs to be able to score. If the line can get a back to the secondary, 20 yards of field position isn’t enough, especially when you don’t have a back who can pound it in during goal line situations. Singletary isn’t that guy. Hell, Gore hasn’t been that guy for years for that matter. The result is that the team had to rely on Allen and his legs to rush for scores, and that’s not a long term recipe for success. Gordon can change the scoreboard. That’s far more important than a couple of tenths of a yard per carry. Two yard TD runs don’t help your average, but they win games and keep QBs from taking hits. I can 100% guarantee you that you’re not going to have a team play in the Super Bowl that only has 4 rushing TDs from RBs all season long. A guy like Gordon will help both Allen and Singletary play to their strengths.

He’s turned the ball over 3 times in the last 3 years out of 771 touches.

Going to be tough to sign Tannehill after the Titans just gave him a huge deal a week ago.