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Assuming Milano is gone next season, would you want Williams to start or would you want to bring in someone else? If it’s the latter, which is what I believe, then I would not put him in bold.

For clarity, the Bold players were meant to be impactful starters that have positively contributed this season. I'm not talking about a quarter or two of good play, like Groot or Coleman. But players who have overall received positive graves and are seeing a healthy amount of snaps. I'm not looking at their entire career. I would not consider Bishop or Coleman to have made an impact on this team as of yet, even as starters. Now, is that coaching? Maybe. But considering they were both drafted in the second round, albeit just last year, would you say they have come anywhere close of producing to their expectations? Hawes, Davis, and Williams are not starters. I understand that roughly a third of your roster aren't going to start and this team operates with a heavy rotation at most positions. I'm not saying these guys are terrible either. Honestly, I struggled not putting Taron Johnson in bold, but he also hasn't had a great year as of now either. But Beane has been talking about getting impact players for years, yet his drafts have typically found anything but that over the past few years. Have we hit a home run in the past few years? Torrence is probably the best drafted player in that time spam, with Kincaid showing potential this year. I don't find that to be acceptable.

There’s no part of me that believes Brady knows how to utiilze a #1 receiver in his offense. It doesn’t matter if we trade for someone else or not. At first I thought Diggs fell off a cliff, but seeing him in Texas and New England, as well as just how all of our receivers have faired since he took over, makes me believe Brady is the issue.

You were totally right to call that out. I cant believe i missed that. I was just messing with you with my response, hence the 😋 I bolded the players that are starters and that we are happy with. If you think Coleman and Bishop have lived up to their draft status as of now, we can agree to disagree. To me, the percentage of moves made by Beane over the last three years that have paid off is less than expected.

Yeah, but they already killed that when they adjusted how teams had to line up years ago. This new rule didn’t really make it worse.

How ***** dare you 😋 Oh, not in the slightest. McD can go too for all I care. I just wanted to focus on the singular here, multiple focuses typically go off the rails.

And yet we only scored 14 last week 🤬

I honestly like the new kickoff rule. Injuries are down, there’s some excitement, and over 80% are returned. I think they got this one right.

For a penalty that some say happens on every single play, 10 yards is too crushing to a drive. There’s no malicious intent, nor is there fear of injury.

This^

Which leads me to believe that McD is not worried about his job at all.

Okay, I'm in the sky is falling section with most people, but even I'm not rethinking if it was a good idea to let Edmunds walk. Edmunds did not deserve the contract he got and had zero big play ability. Benford isn't playing great right now overall, but he is still making the occasional play.

This feels different to me that our prior two game losing streaks for a variety of reasons: 1 - We've looked bad for 4 games now. This is more than us just being "off" against a good team/scheme 2 - Josh clearly looks rattled and defeated. He's been bottled up before and made bad decisions, but this looks different on a cerebral level 3 - We are playing incredibly sloppy and undisciplined, to which the players can't even guess as to why Overall, it looks like this team has just lost their culture and everyone but the FO seems to notice.

Is that really why? Have the coaches spoken to that? Just curious

Add Groot and Knox to that

All I’m saying is that we don’t know if Hairston or Strong would have been good enough to start.

I would argue Walker is now the starter with Oliver now, with Jones and Sanders as backups. Coleman was meant to be Palmer is a third if their starters, as it’s just him, Shakir, and Coleman. Samuel is a rotation piece. We have no idea if Hairston was going to start. Strong was a long shot, and only was seeing action because Hairston got hurt and Tre is slow. I’ll give you the LBs, but when are they ever healthy? Relying on them is a sin. If your draft picks get hurt, while unfair, that tends to fall on the GM. And none of his top two picks from the last two years are doing anything. Now, with ALL of that being said, I’m more worried about the culture than the roster right now. Josh looks absolutely defeated. These guys are starting to quit and lose faith. We’ve seen way more injured teams play harder than this. I think McD and Beane might be at a crossroads, even when we get players back. But you also assume no one else will get injured, or injured again.

I'm not dumping on him and think he could have a solid future. I only bolded the players that are starters or making an impact. He needs to earn his roster spot at this point.

AJ has been dead to me since 2024.

I thought about him, but he's still our 3rd TE on the depth chart. He could grow to be more after this season, but as of now, no.

No one was willing to take a risk on Johnson. McConkey did not go in the first round, meaning he also wasn't a slam dunk. You can't play the hindsight game outside of the first round .

I was debating leaving Josh out of the percentage, but figured I'd get called out either way.

Nope. They got their PSL money already.

Looking back at all the offseason moves to support this team the past three years is a lot more eye opening than I expected. I went and bolded all the players who are contributing this season in a meaningful way, it's a scary sight. On draft classes alone, you could argue Beane should be fired. 3 total starters from the last three drafts. That's horrific. Add to that the new contact extensions that we can't get out of, and it looks to be time.... 2025 Draft Round 1 (30th overall): Maxwell Hairston, CB, Kentucky Round 2 (41st overall): T.J. Sanders, DT, South Carolina Round 3 (72nd overall): Landon Jackson, DE, Arkansas Round 4 (109th overall): Deone Walker, DT, Kentucky Round 5 (170th overall): Jordan Hancock, DB, Ohio State Round 5 (173rd overall): Jackson Hawes, TE, Georgia Tech 2024 Draft Round 2: WR Keon Coleman, Florida State, No. 33 overall (from Panthers) Round 2: S Cole Bishop, Utah, No. 60 Round 3: DT DeWayne Carter, Duke, No. 95 (from Chiefs) Round 4: RB Ray Davis, Kentucky, No. 128 Round 5: C/G Sedrick Van Pran-Granger, Georgia, No. 141 (from Panthers) Round 5: LB Edefuan Ulofoshio, Washington, No. 160 (from Packers) Round 5: DE Javon Solomon, Troy, No. 168 Round 6: T Tylan Grable, UCF, No. 204 Round 6: CB Daequan Hardy, Penn State, No. 219 Round 7: G Travis Clayton, International Player Pathway, No. 221 (from Chiefs) 2023 Draft Round 1, Pick 25: Dalton Kincaid, TE, Utah Round 2, Pick 59: O'Cyrus Torrence, G, Florida Round 3, Pick 91: Dorian Williams, LB, Tulane Round 5, Pick 150: Justin Shorter, WR, Florida Round 7, Pick 230: Nick Broeker, G, Ole Miss Round 7, Pick 252: Alex Austin, DB, Oregon State 2025 Contract extensions James Cook: Signed a four year extension Josh Allen: Signed a six-year, $330 million contract. Khalil Shakir: Received a contract extension. Terrel Bernard: Received a contract extension. Greg Rousseau: Signed a four-year extension. Christian Benford: Received an extension. 2025 Free agent signings Joey Bosa: Signed a one-year deal. Larry Ogunjobi: Signed a one-year deal. Joshua Palmer: Signed a three-year contract. Darrick Forrest: Signed a contract. Laviska Shenault: Signed a contract. Dane Jackson: Signed a one-year deal. Kendrick Green: Signed a one-year deal. Reggie Gilliam: Re-signed to a one-year deal. Damar Hamlin: Re-signed to a one-year deal. 2024 Extensions Taron Johnson: Signed a three-year, $31 million contract extension. DaQuan Jones: Re-signed on a two-year, $16 million deal. Dion Dawkins: Signed a three-year, $60.5 million contract extension. Taylor Rapp: Re-signed on a three-year deal. Will Clapp: Signed a one-year deal. Quintin Morris: Re-signed to a one-year deal. 2024 Signings Curtis Samuel: Signed a three-year, $24 million contract. Casey Toohill: Signed a one-year contract. Mike Edwards: Signed a one-year contract. Mack Hollins: Signed a one-year contract. Nicholas Morrow: Signed a one-year contract. Mitchell Trubisky: Signed a two-year contract. David Edwards: Signed a two-year contract. 2023 Signings Signed QB Kyle Allen: Added a new backup quarterback. Signed G Connor McGovern: Signed WR Deonte Harty: Signed WR Trent Sherfield: Signed G David Edwards: Signed OT David Quessenberry: Re-signed OL Ike Boetger:

They aren't going to fire him in season. There's also no one on the team to replace him I tell McD that you have until the rest of the season to keep your job and allow him to pull any levers he wants. If he can right the ship by the playoffs, okay, If not, he needs to go. We owe it to Josh.