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I wouldn't be surprised to see him back here after the Giants inevitably end up releasing him from their 53.

I'm guessing it was a typo and he meant to say 'hit in the face', as in the ball going through his hands.

Fact is, John Brown was a one trick pony. Straight line speed. Never questioned Emmanuel Sanders replacing him for a second. Sanders is a complete receiver. Much better route runner. Light years ahead of Brown on contested catches and not afraid to run across the middle and get hit. With age and injuries, Brown's one skill has eroded to a point where it doesn't make up for his inadequacies in other facets of the game like it used to. Will always look at his couple years here fondly. But his time has passed.

Just as I posted two posts above you, I doubt they do that and not bring in someone to at least take their spot on the Practice Squad. You don't want someone else to get hurt and then you're down 2 players on your roster and behind the 8 ball on getting someone prepared to play for this team.

He's more of a Nickel Corner. Unless you're planning on moving Taron to the Outside on a number of plays, all you'd be doing is taking Taron off the field for Robey-Coleman. Not sure how that really helps. Also have been seeing a lot of people saying we'll just be bringing someone up from the Practice Squad. And of course we will. But someone will almost certainly be brought in to take that person's place on at least the Practice Squad. And rules being what they've been the past couple seasons, that can be anyone.

Yeah, this regime has proven time and again that they prefer players with familiarity over overall talent. See: Hart, Bobby 😆

A common statement in the wake of today's news on Tre'Davious White has been "I'm sure they'll bring someone in for depth". It's possible they stay pat with who they have. It's also possible they poach someone off another team's Practice Squad. But in the event they go the veteran FA route, I thought I'd take a look at what's out there. Below is a list compiled from NFLTradeRumors.co List of Top 100 Available Free Agents - along with their ranking on the list overall and their age: (https://nfltraderumors.co/top-50-2021-nfl-free-agents/) 9.) Quinton Dunbar, 29 21.) Daryl Worley, 26 22.) Gareon Conley, 26 27.) D.J. Hayden, 31 31.) Prince Amukamura, 32 52.) Blidi Wreh-Wilson, 31 56.) Dre Kirkpatrick, 31 72.) Akeem King, 29 78.) B.W. Webb, 31 Quinton Dunbar was brought in for a visit with the team in late September of this year. Daryl Worley was a member of the Bills from 11/3-12/9/20 before being poached from their Practice Squad by Las Vegas. So I'd imagine if we were to make a FA addition, one of them is the most likely move. Anyone have a preference from the list or an idea of someone on a team's Practice Squad?

Misdirected hostility much? Like I said, I wasn't as worried about running it back as others were as I felt Wallace was underrated and Dane showed a lot of promise his Rookie season. But in losing White with very little depth behind him, when there were opportunities to improve the situation, at the very least in the Draft is now a very dubious decision and there's really no arguing it anymore.

When Beane opted to run it back and not improve CB in the offseason, I was okay with it so long as everyone stayed healthy. Now we're in a situation where there's no one available in FA that can make a difference and we're past the trade deadline. Now his decision to sign no one as well as going 2 DE's and 2 OT's with his First 4 Picks and not choose a CB until the 7th (who isn't even in the building anymore) looks INCREDIBLY bad on him. Especially when you consider Basham and Doyle are non-factors.

Singletary - 68% of snaps Breida - 32% of snaps This needs to change to at least 50/50. With as hot as he was in the 1st half, it was driving me insane seeing series after series in the 2nd half with Singletary. He wasn't bad last night. But I couldn't help but think that on the one big 10 yard run he had that Breida would have taken it to the house if he had that hole. I don't understand McDermott's undying loyalty to him and refusing to see anyone else as the lead back. Even in post game, when the media was asking him about Breida, he cut them off to say "I think BOTH backs were great today".

He's unvaccinated and caught COVID - so it will be when he's 100% Could be next game or he could be gone all season. No way to know.

How has he not been being evaluated and treated regularly? This isn't the first or even the second time he's shown schizophrenic behavior. I understand he's very good at Football. But this is going to be a very bad look for the League if something terrible happens or happened. If you were going to bring him back to the stresses of being an NFL star after you determined he needed a mental health evaluation and then after he showed up at the team hotel threatening to shoot someone - he should have had to have been forced to see a team psychiatrist or psychologist on a weekly basis that stayed on top of medication and evaluating whether he was a danger to himself or others for the length of his contract. Maybe they did do this and this incident still happened. But if not, again it's going to be a real bad look.

Down Star and Zimmer - we're nowhere opposite Oliver. Vernon Butler and Harrison Phillips are bad. Just plain bad, no way around it.

It's more than that. When he's in, we get solid play out of the RT position. When he's in, Daryl plays RG and handles it pretty well. When he's NOT in, Daryl handles the RT position poorly and Cody Ford at RG is a complete turnstile. I'm not here saying we definitely would have won if the O-Line was correct and we had Star and Edmunds instead of Klein and Butler. But to look at how we've performed at full strength and how we performed today and say it doesn't matter is foolish.

A player here or there is greatly underestimating the importance of having Brown at RT and Williams at RG instead of Ford at RG and Williams at RT - as well as Star at 1-Tech instead of Vernon Butler/Harrison Phillips and Tremaine Edmunds instead of AJ Klein. These are MASSIVE dropoffs that change the way both sides of the team play entirely.

The Good News: - When we have Daryl Williams at RG and Spencer Brown at RT - the Offensive Line is solid. Not amazing, but solid. The offense performs at a much higher level with that stability on the Line. Getting them back and in the right spots will help immensely on that side of the ball. - When we have Star Lotulelei on the D-Line, the entire Defense performs better. This has been obvious in practically every game he's been on the field this season. His ability to eat up Lineman consistently makes everyone play a little more free. - We were down Tremaine Edmunds. And outside of a handful of plays here and there or a game here or there when everything is working around him, AJ Klein is a huge dropoff. Getting back Star and Edmunds will help immensely on that side of the ball. The Bad News: - With both Star and Brown's personal decisions, there's no telling when we'll get either back. Brown will be out for at least the Saints game. Star could theoretically come back for New Orleans, but it will be less than 14 days and who's to say he'll be up to it. - Both could easily be put back on the list again for at least 10 days for a simple exposure. - Tremaine Edmunds seems like he's on the right path. But with a Hammy, he could go back down at any time. - McDermott's decision to insist on banging a square peg into a round hole by consistently putting out Cody Ford at RG and Daryl Williams at RT with Spencer Brown out doesn't seem like it's going to change. All logic pointed to not doing that again today and he did it. Sure enough, it looked like garbage, just as it has in the past. So I'm not convinced he's going to change this way of thinking if he didn't after seeing it a couple times already. But for the love of God - put Williams at Guard and try something else at Tackle. Please! - We have ZERO depth on this team. Apparently, Ryan Bates, Tommy Doyle, and Jamil Douglas are so bad that McDermott refuses to give them a chance at RT - even though Daryl Williams is a turnstile there while being a decent Guard. AJ Klein is not good. Period. Asking him to fill in at LB outside of in a pinch is always going to bite us. We're also nowhere with Harrison Phillips and Vernon Butler if something happens to Star or Oliver. All in all, when we have our best guys out there - we're at least competitive with good teams at full strength like the Titans and Chiefs. Today we were just too short handed and made terrible personnel decisions on top of it. We may have still lost had we had all 3 guys we were missing and had McDermott not continue to make boneheaded O-Line personnel decisions. But it wouldn't have looked like it looked today otherwise.

We could very well be out Star, Edmunds, and Brown on Thursday as well. We'll definitely be without Brown. With Star being unvaxxed and being positive, there's no telling he'll be okay even if we're past the 10 day mark, and Edmunds has a hammy and you never know with those things.

This all boils down to an issue that we can't discuss on this board. We operate as a different team when we have Spencer Brown on our O-Line and Star Lotulelei on our D-Line. Their choice is derailing our season.

Moving Daryl Williams back to RT is just as big of a concern to me. After looking pretty decent there last year, he COMPLETELY fell off a cliff. Moving him inside, he's been fine. Especially with Brown in the lineup. Moving him back outside in Brown's absence, he's been even worse than he was at the start of the year.

I'd imagine someone like Bates or Doyle will start over him. But as much as he's hated, I think it's a better idea than moving Williams back to RT. He's played horribly there this season and it messes up the continuity of our line switching guys around all over the line.

He's Just a Guy. People have been screaming for the past two years it's all on the Offensive Line and that he's got a good average. But the average is skewed by garbage time runs. When it counts, it seems like he's always being stuffed. And even with a "bad line" - with as pass heavy as we are, there should be runs to be made with most defenders playing the pass. The fact is defenses don't fear him. They don't respect him. They play him with 4 Lineman, almost never loading the box, and he still can't get the job done. Beane went into the offseason not blaming him and not blaming the Line. Bringing back the same personnel on the Line and the Backfield. And nothing's changed. We're nowhere in the running game.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Were you watching the games we played with Brown out of the lineup? It was God awful line play. The game plan had no effect on Josh having no protection in front of him every single time he stepped back to pass. Daryl was given an extension for his play at RT last season. This season? He's been so utterly terrible at RT, that they moved him to Guard and started Spencer Brown instead. And when we shifted him back there following Brown's injury - he was even worse! Ford was benched for terrible play, Feliciano was playing terrible and is now on IR. I don't know what Offensive Line you've been watching or what depth chart you're looking at - but I couldn't possibly disagree with your assessment that we have a ton of depth and are capable without Brown any more if I tried.

You call it bedwetting - I call it realism. Did you see the OL without Brown? Now we're walking into a game with Indy without Brown, Lotulelei, Edmunds, and possibly Milano. Optimism is great. But you'd be kidding yourself to not be concerned.

This doesn't give me a lot of hope that he'll be back in time for either The Colts or The Saints 😔