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is he straight done, or does he have juice left?

i think 40-47mm per year, 5-10 years, the team friendly bit will be how it is structured so that he gets cash up front, but it smashes the cap in the future, when it will surely be larger.

i dunno about ertz himself, but we need a top flight guy. Diggs showed what trash we had before, and how much he improved everyone. we need to have at least 2 TEs on the roster who can do damage, so we gotta get someone.

i think our D scheme needs to be retooled, and our O scheme needs to be adjusted. i say that knowing they prolly get themselves in a bind due to who they did and did not have. zero pass rush from any DL was a bust. i think they went out and bot packs of baseball cards hoping one of them would have a star rookie, instead they got nothing but JAGS. i do think our LBs got hurt by bad line play, but i am still thinking edmunds needs to be an outside guy, and i didn't think that until this year. on O, all our little WRs got banged up at the wrong time, and with moss out the cupboard was bare. diggs is insane, top 2 or 3, and beez is the best slot guy, but beyond that a never healthy brown and banged up rookie davis left us with just no people at skill position, which is why our O looked like it did last year on sunday. we absolutely must find balance and better interior blocking. im not talking 92 cowboys, but some kind of solid push in the gut. TE, RB, pass rush, and we are there.

bro, thanks for that, i did not know that. i don't think it's just star, but i think the idea is the DL get work done in 18 and 19, and that made the near impossible jobs of our LBs much much easier, so they could mess with TEs more effectively. I think going from star to pure trash this year was a big drop off, but addison is toast, shack was better, and phillips while not being a great one gave us bulk and some juice. edmunds got confused in pass coverage and bit like an angry dog on run fits all season, but a tweet from erik turner showed how the goal line run from KC for a TD had butler basically vacate his gap and just be a silly fat tool doing nothing, leaving 2 gaps for the RB and edmunds had to guess. i also recall carolina losing lucky luke for some of a season, and they didnt' drop off too much, but they lost hardy (the vicious kracken!!!) and they REALLY fell off. more than anything, we need a brutal d line, and aside from star and our goofs stepping up (oliver is the best of them, he has to get better, phillips needs to get a whole lot better, and zimmer has to show something to keep a roster spot, and epinesa of course) we need just a nasty disgusting pass rushing force.

of all of the top teams in the nfl, we are the most FA heavy one. i think we will be drafting guys to come up and impact the team, so a first year starter is the target in rounds 1 and 2 (maybe not week one, but by the end). the easiest positions for a rookie to start are RB, CB, MLB, and OG. we kinda need CB, but maybe not, we totally need RB, but maybe not in the first two rounds, and they love edmunds but i hope and pray they move him to a more edge focused roll and bring in a real fast and agile MLB. im thinking we ditch morse and brown (possible restructure i suppose, but given both were not impactful last season and both got hurt, i doubt it), at least 2 of our DL signed last year, and possibly 3, restructure houghs. I think we keep mongo (move him to C) and take a real shot at keeping williams, and in the first 3 rounds we get an OG, LB who can play both positions in our D, and an RB. I think TE, WR, and DL, along w DBs get picked in the rest of the draft hoping to find some starters. In FA, i think we go after a premier pass rusher and top flight tight end. if the price is right it wouldn't shock me if we also picked up an RB with skills that ours don't have. obv josh gets inked up w a monster contract.

he wasn't bad overall, he was awful. just terrible. like, not make a roster bad. he ran slow and into the wrong hole, just prior to the dropped screen pass he had a great avenue and got 3 yards out of it. the dropped screen pass is the kind of play that an undrafted or 7th round guy gets cut from a team for in preseason. he's the 3rd or 4th best RB on the roster.

agreed, but we can't disguise the font as well in our normal formation, and like edmunds biting or one guy filling the wrong gap (butler on the goal line, as erik turner pointed out on twitter) and the whole thing is toast. vs an O with limitations on what it can do, or when we can know what they do (this is where a lead helps) it is a good risk reward D, but it's too balanced for the modern NFL, it defends all of the field decently by design, but when someone is creative or baits us, it creates holes and doesn't attack or take away their strength well enough. that's what i mean about not being anti fragile, in too many instances a single guy getting beat or making a mental mistake kills us. that's why indy was able to truck us for 14 points super fast, and why kc smoked us, and why we didn't stop a TE all season.

i worry this has become an issue w what we are running now too. it's not anti fragile, a single mistake or guys who can't win one on one and we get trucked.

true, and the did it very well. my issue with out D when we fall back to bad habits is it allows for no disguise, and it's easy for QBs to manipulate our LBs who seem to at time be asked to do not just something they can't do well, but the impossible.

something has gotta change, i think our interior blockers are trash. we need at least 2 upgrade on OL, in the interior. i really hope ford can be one.

even with our total junk interior blocking this game, a prime shady would have had 150+ yards from scrimmage on sunday. having close to zero at TE and RB is just too big of a hole, good thing is it can be fixed quickly

i read on there they might cut morse, sign mongo and move him to C. i fully expect that. cut brown, murph is OBV gone, cut or restructure at least 2 of the DL signings last season. i could see wallace getting a smallish tender, norman gone, kroft and smith gone, motor might not make the team, but it depends on who else is there. we need better interior blocking, better DL production, better TE and RB (i think those two are the easiest to improve), and we have to do something about LB/scheme. our scheme and players just don't add up to anything good right now, but i think mcd can fix that with a quickness

he's a pure JAG, it's just that motor is cheeks.

i don't know what they are going to do, but we need to upgrade as much of our DL signings last year as possible. we need a small improvement at CB2, i don't think sherman is fast enough for that (not at a good price anyhow). for RB, they either need to sign a guy for not too much, or draft somebody. i'd like speed there, but a power back who can move would be a huge get too.

im happy daboll apologized, it was in order. he was not as good in the playoffs as he was in the regular season.

oh, i agree with you from a macro level coach tuesday, but having 3 linebackers as base vs johson, who is sick coming forward but just cannot cover 1 on 1, would be a huge help letting us disguise and dictate. also, and i should have made this clearer, i don't mean going to a 2 gap 3-4 or something wild, i mean lining up and disguising coverage more different ways so that we have a shot vs a kc and can not be an open book. it could also let us bump guys, switch off, etc without just being beat before the ball is snapped. I think for this to happen, we need to hit a home run or two on new people. pass rusher, another db, either a new MLB or OLB, something i think can be added to make this work. if you look at how our d was 2 years ago, and how the carolina d under mcd was at their best, they made everything opponents did much much harder.

two things 1) the athletic has had multiple GMs and talent scouts opine that the new ideal way of building a roster is to get actual super duper stars and fill in the rest of the roster w youth and role players. This is in contrast to the i suppose new england model of having superior role players up and down the roster and just coaching them up into a force. the issue with that is you can't pay them all, and your run into a place where you have a young guy who can't make the team, although he might grow into a better player, because you've stuck your money into depth and breadth instead of a few sure fire stars (us trading teller is an example of that. if we had a star T opposite dawkins, we would have kept cheaper draft guys and see if one sprouts). the Rams are a good example of this, they have just super duper studs at DT, CB, and aim to get that at a couple other positions, and the rest of the team is pretty fungible. they aren't as good as they were a couple years ago, but even with goff hurt, and not being worth his contract, it is still a pretty nasty team. KC is the most shining example, two just stud DL, one sick S, and the rest of the d are JAGS and they are pretty sick. on O, it's one solid LT (first overall pick, but not the best), top qb, and two weapons our d didn't even begin to stop. they ripped us with some no one back up RB because of the threat of the rest of the talent. 2) we have a serious issue with our defensive scheme. we have the talent and the coaching to shut down baltimore in the wind, who only do one thing, but against any multiple O, we just struggle. they can play very solid vs a team like indy for 3 quarters, and just fold with a couple bad play calls late, or they can get ultra trucked vs KC. with who we have playing and our scheme, it's nothing but a guessing game, and against a talented team and/or a good coach, we don't take things away effectively. we sort of defend everything by design and try to tailor it play by play, and anyone getting wiped or out of position and we just get ripped on runs or missed tackles on a regular basis. they have played much better than the first 6 weeks, but if you look back at those games, the degree of difficulty they pose to opponents is simply not high. contrast that w a baltimore or KC D, they are both capable of re tooling and shutting down what they want vs an opponent, given them a chance to win. i really hope the ship can get righted, but the combo of who we are paying a tone of money too, and just zilch depth at LB and CB exposes us in a big way. both edmunds and oliver have lots of potential to end up as solid starters in the NFL for 10 years, but edmunds in particular is simply ineffective. he can be manipulated by a well run O to go where he leaves a hole, and does not make dynamic plays getting off blocks, breaking up passes, or blowing up runs. imo, to get past KC, we need to totally retool our DL, and rescheme our D. if you watch what we did on D the last 2 seasons, while we did get trucked the odd time, the d as a unit was much more consistent and was doing so with much poorer special teams and offensive play.

we built our roster at times the same way we coached last night, timid. trading for diggs was a bit of that, but worked out great (trading for a guy instead of drafting one, that is). trading up to get allen was super aggressive, and an awesome move. Trading out of the mahomes pick to get a late 1st round CB, well that one was a little bit un aggressive. the edmunds pick baffles me. a couple guys taken later are better MLBs, i think they just fell in love w the potential. passing on metcalf but making moves for ford and knox strikes me as similar to not going for it on 4th down at the end of the half last night, but going for it from mid field on 4th and 1. like, it was an aggressive move to get the OL who might be better than he looked in college, vs the size weight speed freak WR. like ya i guess the % chance of a bust WR is slightly higher than OL, but the impact of ford if he got much better would have been what, a solid guard vs an injured below average guard? the upside of a maniac like metcalf is what we see in seattle, a game breaker. the other issue, perhaps above all, is we seem to have drafted and signed FAs to fit a rather ridged scheme, especially on D. instead of getting top talents and adjusting, we get what we get and try to fit them in 1996s latest and greatest D!

whatever their reason was, they didn't spend the extra time getting prepared, i can tell you that much.

on O, i do think we call what we call due to huge holes in our roster, OL does not play well in the run game, and against creative schemes in the pass game either it seems. our TEs and RBs are just straight cheeks. TJ yeldon is head and shoulders over motor, and yeldon is the definition of a nobody. on D, i think we call what we call in spite of holes in our roster, and it shows. i'm now fully convinced that edmunds is a bad MLB and needs to be moved or moved on from. schematically, we just ask our players to do things they aren't good enough at and have no answer intragame. prime brian urlacher at MLB and some kind of monster at DE might have made our D work last night, but those type of guys go to the hall of fame for a reason, we simply need some better players and scheme to use them better. the only upside i see is so much of our D are higher priced FAs so we can at least boot them and put the money somewhere else, but we need to just hit in the draft to get over the hump.

i gotta disagree w your disagreement! it was a tough play, but the ball hit his hands near the end zone, he had a decent gain and a shot at the endzone, and he folded. josh took a few bad sacks/intentional grounding that cost us a bunch of yards, but he also ran around and got out of horrible blocking from our OL a few times. we can't have him being jonny miracle back there while our skill talent fails to get open or fails to make a play when their number is called. beez and digs are the only guys who can consistently win their assignments, and kc had the silly idea to take them away as opposed to our superior strategy of letting our opponent destroy us with their best players over and over.

im not super worried about this. i am a huge huge JA supporter, and honestly think he has the god given talent and drive to be the best ever, but cap issues are a reality. the issue right now is our team is a couple few draft picks and a lot of free agents. some have been huge values (diggs, even with the cost of the trade, our two safeties prior to their new contracts at the least, beez, you might be able to toss in a couple more) but plenty have been meh at best or are declining in value now. we have a couple big hits in drafting, allen being the shining star obv, but guys like ford, edmunds, wallace, epenesa, knox, singletary, phillips, have so far just not been real impact players vs where they were drafted. we need an ozzie newsome type draft where everyone we get is a size speed weight guy who can play and is just nasty. teller seems to be that kind of value now (total 2020 hindsight, i didn't think he was special before) and we need a few of them.

aside from DE who can make an impact, i really am jumping on the move edmunds to OLB train. he has a ton of ability, but its just so clear he can be controlled by scheme and qb play by the other team into making mistakes, so he end up being ineffective way way way too often. i'd rather they try to work his talents into a different position where he can dictate, bumping and shadowing TEs, shallow zone stuff, and rushing up field. i suspect the decline of the tampa 2 style d has to do with the inability to get 4 DL who can create pressure by themselves, and the fact that MLB in that D is just a nearly impossible task.

read a stat on twitter from some KC analyst who cover 1 retweeted. they said that mahomes threw an average of less than 5 air yards and out of 33 or so attempts only 3 of them had a defender within 1 yard. also, cover 1 pointed out that if all of our red zone drives were automatic TDs, we still don't have enough points to win the game. the O was beat up and beaten up all game, and made mistakes, and had no balance, but at the end of the day the D was just rolled and we can't beat a top team w that trash out there. our entire D personal and scheme need to be retweaked to work better. mcD had a disgusting D in carolina for long enough that i think he can get the ship righted here, and he's reworked things quickly too, so here's to hoping he will that accomplished next season.