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I completely agree with you. 100%.

Maybe Buffalo didn’t want him. Didn’t heath Farwell leave in a similar manner after 13 seconds?. Maybe Bobby Johnson, too.

That comment makes me think of Dorsey losing his S in Miami early in the season over McKenzie. If we want better YAC then we should focus on the screen game.

Didn’t Josh, after Beasley returned, say something to the effect that there were concepts we didn’t run this year because nobody besides Beasley (who is in the autumn of his career) could run them? Not a good look for Hall, and maybe for Beane. But it may explain part of the thinking in not renewing/extending Hall.

Or McD wanted him gone and didn’t screw up his career by firing him.

The fact that he didn’t get an extension tells us that McD wasn’t heartbroken to see him leave. Based on where the guy was living in OP, I suspect he wasn’t making a ton of money. (He’s not one of the guys who lives in Birdsong, or in one of the new build areas.) And, the WR group probably was the second worst position group this year behind safety, so maybe it was better for everyone to move on.

His action was the most important and valuable action in the NFL this year. He deserves it. And Kobler had a front row seat to his life-saving work.

Exactly what I was thinking re: Fromm. In any event, I think we're in UDFA territory on that issue given our relative dearth of picks.

I think that was the day the Challenger exploded. I do believe Buffalo had an earthquake that day.

Felt it in OP.

Trubisky, if he comes relatively cheaply.

I’m an optimist by nature. And I believe that if you’re not failing, you’re not trying. We gotta be smart and defiant in the face of defeat. The best path forward is to double down on Josh, hope that some scheme tweaks are enough on D, and keep on pounding on that rock. It will break one day. And the harder we hit it, the sooner it will break. Never, ever give up.

To whom and for what? If it’s the Hunter Renfrow deal, yes all day long. Renfrow scores touchdowns.

I’ll chime in after FA and the draft. At this point, as long as McD is sincere about the honesty comment in his post-season presser, Super Bowl. Fix the o-line, re-tool the WR room, and hope that we outscore teams and the D is good enough with tweaks in coaching and philosophy. Also, I suspect we’ve reached the stage in the “culture” process at which we’re going to see some scumbags come into the locker room because they have a desirable combination of talent and economy.

Mahomes flopped. 58 gave him the opportunity. Weak all around.

We drafted a press corner in the first round last year. Lucked into a really good zone corner later. Then we proceeded not to press, and scratched the zone corner for the press guy so the press guy could play zone in the divisional round.

I don’t watch film, so my observations of this guy are based on game play, and specifically pre-season game play. He’s obviously undersized, and he plays surprisingly slow. I thought Spector played faster than Bernard in the PS. Maybe the hope was to use him on ST, have him in an NFL SC program last year and this offseason, and get him primed to be LB3 this year and an eventual Milano replacement. I don’t know. Based on this year’s performance, I have no idea what’s next for him.

This isn’t going to go over well but, aside from Poyer, they all sucked. Hamlin included. No matter who they put in there it couldn’t be figured out. Bad angles, sloppy tackling, brain cramps. It was one thing after another. Say what one will about McD, he turned this team around and he obviously knows what he’s doing. If he saw this guy all year and thought he had to go, then I’m all for it. It’s not to say that we don’t need to change the depth there—maybe we do. But I trust McD’s judgment that coaching in that position group was part of the problem.

I appreciate he was asked to make chicken salad with subpar ingredients, but aide from Poyer the safeties were not good this year. We lost the 1 seed because of Cam Lewis’s brain cramp. Then went through Johnson and Marlowe and Lewis and couldn’t find anyone who could cut it when Poyer was out. This was an easy one for me. The more interesting question that’s coming is whether they blame Chad Hall for the mess at receiver, or whether the receiver room is adjusted this offseason. (Or both, I suppose.)

Informed speculation. But speculation nevertheless. He suspects they’ll both be back. Time will tell.

I don’t think it means anything other than, no matter what happens at DC, McD didn’t want Salgado around next year. Nothing more, nothing less. If they are going to nuke Frazier, they probably won’t do so until after any HC position at which he might have a look is filled. Probably the same with Dorsey. If he’s on his way out, then it won’t happen likely until tomorrow since Carolina hired Reich only today.

The tweet is meaningless. I’d be dumbfounded if the contract expired before the Super Bowl is scheduled to be played. The better question is whether the contract expires, say, February 28, 2023. In other words, the big issue is whether Frazier is under contract for next season.

This makes a ton of sense.

We blitzed on the Chase TD. Didn’t get home.

The buck stopped with him in Denver. I can completely agree with you that he is a skilled offensive coach. I disagree about the mess in Denver. He’s hardly alone with respect to culpability. But he is responsible.