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Should have included him for sure. He plays a little over half the snaps as well.

Somebody’s got to get those snaps. Elam is going to start from day 1, but I’m not sure there’s another defensive player in the class I expect to get a lot of run this year. Rousseau is the only rookie last year who played last year, and even he was on the field just under half the time. Let’s assume he and Basham increase their snaps from 750 to 1100. That’s the equivalent of one full time player, but it likely comes at the expense of snaps from Epenesa, and he’s the only defensive player besides Dane Jackson from the 2020 draft who sees the field basically at all. That’s 3 years of draft picks where you can reasonably expect to get around 2,500 snaps from combined this season (roughly 13% of the total). That’s a crazy low number. It’s understandable in the context of this being the perfect time to go all in for a ring, but if I’m doing the math then so is Beane. If you’re not playing your draft picks, and the FAs you’re bringing in are all third contract guys, you’d better have a plan to tear it down and get younger soon. The key players on defense who are still young are Edmunds, Elam, and Rousseau. White and Milano seem young, but Milano will be 28 in July, and White will turn 28 during the season. The Chiefs were in this position a year ago and just watched Frank Clark, Bashaud Breeland, Daniel Sorensen, Anthony Hitchens, and Tyrann Matthieu all fall of a cliff when they turned 28. They’re all gone other than Clark who will be turning 29 in July. Other than that, the oldest starter is Chris Jones who is the exact same age as Milano. That’s a long winded way of saying that Beane is going to do some serious roster churn on defense next offseason. I have no doubt he’ll do it well, as he’s one of the absolute best in the business at forming and executing a plan. I just don’t see extending a 30+ year old Safety as being part of that plan.

Chiefs offered a used jock strap for him. Texans countered with half a pack of smokes. They met in the middle.

Crazy how quickly things can change in the NFL. They looked like a juggernaut early last season.

I’m an atheist when it comes to the salary cap, but I firmly believe that age catches up with everyone but Brady, and it tends to do so suddenly.

What kind of extension would you be willing to offer Poyer? He’ll be 32 when his current contract is up so that’s likely a limiting factor. I think Beane is going to be looking to push for a serious youth movement after this season, particularly on defense. Between Poyer, Hyde, Lawson, Miller, and Phillips, they’ve got a lot of older players playing a ton of snaps. What kind of extension would you be willing to offer Poyer? He’ll be 32 when his current contract is up so that’s likely a limiting factor. I think Beane is going to be looking to push for a serious youth movement after this season, particularly on defense. Between Poyer, Hyde, Lawson, Miller, and Phillips, they’ve got a lot of older players playing a ton of snaps.

Josh Gordon is so last season. Corey Coleman is the new hotness.

I’m obviously kidding. If he does manage to make the team, I doubt he amounts to much. Then again, they did trade up in the first round to get him, so maybe there’s something there.

Dude’s going to roast Elam in the AFCCG.

I definitely believe that was the case with Elam. He’s almost certainly a day 1 starter. Do you see any of the other picks starting either right away or taking over the spot for non-injury reasons?

Not that Relative Athletic Scores are a perfect measurement of athleticism, but Ross had a 2.64 which is far and away the lowest score I’ve ever seen.

Here’s your answer. The guy is broken and SLOW/unathletic. Hard to play WR in the NFL if you can’t run or jump.

This is the answer. We know the Chiefs got their preferred guy, we know the Bills got someone they coveted significantly more than the next CB on the board, and we know the Cowboys got got. Buffalo and Kansas City are both excellent at finding and developing DBs. I didn’t think we had a shot at McDuffie without a trade, and I thought we had about a 50-50 chance of Elam falling to us. I would have been happy drafting him at 30, and I think both will be excellent players.

Kansas City choked, but credit to the Bengals for capitalizing on the opportunity. The Rams CHOKED last week, but the Buccaneers still lost. Burrow is mentally tough. Stafford and Jimmy are soft. Think Cincy gets it done.

I don’t think he’s saying Mahomes was mocking Josh. He’s saying he thinks it’s funny to call Pat ratface.

Hadn’t heard that. Very cool, he deserved it.

Tip of the hat to Butker for making the 48 yard kick just as the script dictated. Guy’s a hell of an actor.

They’re going to beat him back to back years?

Nope

So I just watched each KC snap from the first half of last year’s game just to make sure I had my facts straight. White played man on Hill exactly one play. It was the third play of the game, third down. Hill smoked him on a deep post. Mahomes threw a strike, and Hill dropped it. I don’t think they went back to that matchup even once I the second half, but if they did it wasn’t very often.

So that whole part about the offense dictating where the ball goes applies to Sneed when he doesn’t shadow a specific WR but it doesn’t apply to White even though he plays primarily zone and I certainly didn’t see him travel with Hill last year. I think I see how this works. I’ll just agree to disagree.

So then is Tre your #1? He’s primarily a zone CB, so anything that’s true about Sneed not dictating who he covers would apply moreso to White, right?

I don’t know. He does a little bit of everything, and that’s what Spags likes in a DB. I do know that he lined up opposite Diggs on the boundary every play before Mathieu’s injury, and he mostly followed Diggs around the field in the AFCCG last year. I guess I don’t understand the rationale behind saying a guy can’t be your #1 CB unless he plays at the boundary a certain percentage of the time. It’s like saying Kupp isn’t a #1 WR because he lines up in the slot.

I just said that Sneed moved to the slot when Mathieu was injured. That happened in the first series. He covered Diggs for 7-8 plays. They had to change the game plan after that. It wasn’t Sneed getting Safety help on Diggs.

Sunday or last year?