Coach Tuesday

It also could be as simple as, you have a smart QB with all of the athletic tools he'd ever need - you try to harness them all. Contrast that to what Arthur Smith is doing with a more limited passer - sometimes keeping it simple is the best approach and sometimes coaches get too enticed by athletic ability. Put another way, sometimes I think it's better for everyone, including the coaches, if you're boxed in by an athlete's known ceiling because it forces you to conform your system to it...

This dude is a Class A moron. He seriously is as dumb as a bag of sand.

I don't think that's at all how it works. These guys talk to each other all the time and a coach is rarely going to have on his list someone who he hasn't spoken to (directly, or indirectly via an agent or mutual contact) before putting them on their prospect list. Too much is at stake for a coach to do that without any kind of assurances or checks.

Yup. These requests typically don't come out of the ether. Another scenario is that he encouraged Judge to make the request because he was genuinely wondering whether/how much he's valued at OBD...

Historically bad QB class seems really premature to me - I wouldn’t write off Baker or Darnold yet and Allen and Jackson are already playoff QBs...

As was his dad articulate and intelligent. But there is/was an undercurrent of bizarre behavior. Brown Jr. showed up wildly unprepared for the Combine - the biggest job interview of his life - and was widely panned for having one of the worst performances of all-time. He benched pressed 14 times among many other bad testing outcomes, and offered bizarre explanations for it (for example he blamed his bench press weakness on his “breathing routine”). Good player but something is off.

Wonder if Daboll wanted to pursue it.

Tough SOB

No question. Just like his dad. A lunatic but he can play.

I guess - but he showed up pretty out of shape, he's a bit of a headcase already, and his dad was a MAJOR headcase as Baltimore well knows...

Offseason officially here.

Yeah this is where I'm at. I was actually looking at him the other day. He's a super-sleeper and might end up being the best WR in the entire class. If he falls out of Round 1 go get him - even if you've taken a WR already in Round 1.

He's a really interesting player for sure.

Who is that camera girl...

They need playmakers, 2-3 more of them, it's that simple. McD has built his program his way, now he has to have the courage to coach a team with some star players on it. It made *some* sense to build the team with vets in each position group, at the expense of talent, in order to instill a winning culture. I didn't love it but it was rational. Now his young guys have been to the playoffs and that approach needs to move aside in the interest of ADDING TALENT. Yes next year's schedule is tough but they're fortunate to have coaching continuity, a ton of cap room, and a bitter taste in their mouths. Add a pass rusher, some explosive skill on offense, God forbid an actual NFL tight end - and why the hell not us for a change?

BIG get.

McD isn’t the type to block these types of things.

I suspect getting benched bodes poorly for Foles and his massive contract.

You ever watch the Metallica documentary? They brought in a psychologist to help sort out infra-band issues and the psychologist started to believe that he was part of the band and they unified around firing him. All captured in the documentary. Pretty wild stuff.

By the time he got on the field this season he looked - how do I say it - fat. I don’t think he was ever in shape this year, likely because of the injury. That’s not an excuse by the way. I’d certainly cut bait this offseason.

Would be a home run signing for us and anyone who thinks otherwise or just looks at sack totals needs to watch some tape.

I’ve been suggesting this all season - Allen gets too amped up for big games and starts the game all jittery, he glitches. Houston was the first time I saw it later in the game (he usually settles down once he gets into the game flow). Beane sort of confirmed the issue during the postgame PC. No promise that this fixes the issue but it can’t hurt to try.

I.e., we need to be sure McDermott isn’t one of those coaches who fears actually having star players on his roster, with everything that entails.

DePodesta gets his guy.

This could really happen huh.