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i think this is a result of our talent and our scheme/coaching. we have stone handed clowns in knox an davis getting lots of passes, and we have late in the year changes w the new oc and a complicated system, so guys have to think and react a bit more than in say a shanny system where the guy goes to the one spot and gets a ball at one exact time. i suppose the coaches could also like train these guys to catch better, but at some point it's set in stone and doesn't have much room. davis and knox are both just not natural pass catchers. cook just has a terrible habit of not looking the ball in.

id take ridley at 10 for next year over a long term 22+ a year deal for higgins.

does hill really get 30 a year? these numbers are bananas, B A N A N A S

not me, im going to detract and with them defeat!

imo if mcd misses the playoffs next year, someone like johnson could come in ala dungy going to indy w manning and just be gift wrapped a race car ready to run. we should be past our biggest cap hurdle next season, and will have a bunch of new young talent and less heavy contracts. i don't think it's that likely tho, because mcd has shown he should be able to get decent performance on d from lack luster talent through the reg season, so any improvement on O and we are basically a better team next season than this season.

rogers better hope wilson doesn't find his mom's number somewhere. the tables can turn quick when young zach is in the cut. i will say, i thought saleh was a blow hard fake media guy (reminded me of how ditka turned out to really be), so im not shocked what was reported in the story. worrying about the giants getting better coverage, bad reports, it's all pretty pathetic.

lol, my bad!

i dunno if im missing something here, but brady was OC in the nfl before, and babbich has been dc on two different teams before coming here. neither of these guys are rookies at their new job. i'd contrast this to the start of 2023, where dorsey really was a rookie OC, and our hc was also our DC.

andy has a philosophy of killer qb and oline above all, and he's done that. he poured picks and signed to big fat contracts o linemen. he simply won't field a team without premier talent on the oline. mc d, as close as i can tell, wants qb (got that) and DL and dbs above all. we have had mostly hits on the DB side, but our safety super value is over and the guys aged out. white getting hurt at corner doesn't help there, and us getting elam while kc got mcduffie really stinks, we've had pretty great db play throughout. the DL has been another story. so many picks and fa contracts to replacement clowns, or slightly above who get platooned and replaced w junk far too often. von getting hurt took out the player who mighta gotten us over in 2021 (before we signed him) and maybe even in 2022 (when cinci trucked us). it's really close, but kc has hit on more draft picks than we have, misses on basham, kinda misses on aj and groot, and elam, means we had to go sign floyd and von, and trade for douglas.

i think we get a wr in teh 1st, and a trade up is likely, maybe even a big one. i think we might get a big body running back, maybe a c if one is a value, and the rest of the picks will likely fill out holes in the d. i figure we'll have like 7 or 8 picks to spend on D, we should be able to get 5 or even 6 contributing players at S and DT/DE with those. any position needed we can fill in w cheapo guys like we did with shak, phillips, ford, etc

joe marino had a lil breakdown of bean's 2023 offseason, was graded pretty well. we basically got lots of cheap FAs to contribute, and the people we let go weren't people we needed/missed. our players who will be exiting (with maybe the exception of floyd and aj, but they fell off so hard late and got hurt that it brings down their over all value imo) don't seem far above replacement, and were ghosts or hurt come the kc game. i think we can get similar and if a rookie or someone steps up large perhaps better results with scrap heap guys this offseason too. big resources/dollars should go towards wr on O, and true impact players on D. a cagey safety running a 4.6 who doesn't make big plays is not where we need our cap or picks going. LB and CB seem pretty set (even if we ditch white, who's been barely more than zero for 3 years now), dl and safety are what we need, but i think we can draft bodies and sign a guy here and there on the cheap.

so lamar is trash in the playoffs, this is known. what im wondering is how the hell do the ravens always get such big nasty talented guys? they always have pro bowl guys all over the spot, and their backups and so on are all so physical and fast. remember last year when cinci had to beat them twice with their terrible back up qb playing? it took miracle plays for the bengals to beat them both times, and that bengals team smoked us.

aside from scheme issues, mcd is too addicted to smaller, older, and unathletic players. they get worn down, and injured. i know gunner bills will say williams shouldn't be in football because he doesn't know how to line up, but our only stop of kc came when get got the nod over a man who literally decided he should no longer play football. im not saying mcd needs to be as good or creative as billicheck on d, but he should have some kind of adaptability so that he doesn't need to bring players out of retirement to start in the playoffs (same with our o last season with beez and brown getting taken off teh couch as we were super bowl hopefuls). the mix of some kind of super complication that evidently keeps our more talented young players on the bench, with a simply predictability that has us dropping huge turds in the playoffs just gets old. we def need a new dc.

Lol, honestly these posts almost looked like satire. Just 8 handle IQ stuff.

Lamar is terrible in the playoffs, just stinks. Looking at that board linked, I legit think a fair number of the posters there are mentally handicapped. Some were at least cogent, and some had what read like hilarious inside jokes about the excuses for Lamar.

I hate kc so much. Sadly, playoff Lamar seems to be showing up just in time. We'd be smoking these ravens, even w the UPS guys on d

we pretty much have to make him dc cuz of this, right?

and 20 weeks in he hadn't figured anything out to perhaps earn a start over a man who has no place on an nfl roster? we had a single stop, one single stop, all day. williams made one, was robbed w a cheap call, and came out and made another to force a punt w the season on the line. and once again, you are simply making a just so argument without considering what we saw, we saw certain defeat with aj, plays by williams, and plays by elam. what was elam going to do, allow the same zero stops that we were giving up? oh noes! and as i mentioned above, we can't prep a guy or make a change in the scheme? simply not possible? mcd is said to live at the facility, i think all evidence shows he is too stubborn, at least at times, and was clearly so vs kc until it was too late (he did put williams in)

either we consistently get players who are just soo stupid then can't play football (which means we are fools in player evaluation) or our scheme is a bit too clever by half or it's a combo of that and mcd just not trusting new guys but instead leaning too hard on vets and not being flexible on D. either that or we don't actually know how to coach basic football. i think it's pretty clear w guys like williams and milano not getting burn early, rotating cbs and OTs, and guys like cook getting sent to the gulags off of one fumble that mcd is slow to trust young guys or just is a bit too much of a perfectionist. my evidence: elam vs pitts and williams vs kc made full on great plays. maybe they don't get a start over a full roster, but guys who are really too hurt to play should not be in over them.

imo he hasn't written it yet, if it is to come. if he did something like change as needed on D vs kc to allow guys like elam and williams to contribute since our starters were all hurt, and it had some kind of effectiveness vs kc, then we win that game and he looks like a genius. he needs to deliver that in a post season game for me to say he's shown his best. ironically, our d got way tougher when williams went in over the ghost of klien (yes i know they swapped 25 and maybe slightly dift positions and assignments, but the room was made on the pitch). elam made a huge play in the prior week too.

the solution is to not be so mired in a scheme which at all times requires players that you don't have (due to not signing them or injury). a dc should be able to come up w a d that doesn't require benching a wrecking ball in favor of someone who is no longer a pro football player. kinda reminds me of the knock on rex, his scheme was too demanding and not enough guys could run it. billacheat has come up w entirely different ds for different situations (what they came up w for the rams in the chip was a master class). i've had issues w our d structurally in the past. the proof is in the pudding, and we've been cheeks in 5 straight play off losses.

the rooney rule has goofy aspects to it, but it gives teams a really good cover to talk to people in a situation like ours. normally, brady would have earned his stay, so going out and talking to guys would potentially create some static back home. since you HAVE to talk to some minority candidates via the rule, you'd look like you were discriminating the other way if you didn't also look at other guys (minority or otherwise, you can't just like talk to one minority coach, it seems too much like following letter and not spirit of the rule). in the end, you talk to a lot of people w ideas, and you can sort of grill your internal guy with the ideas you hear from other coaches. the team has to do so, so brady can't take it personal and no one like josh or others who just want to see him hired can say it's the wrong move either. the down side is what we are seeing, since 2022 every single team has changed oc, assistant coaches will not stay for long.

that's a really good point. if he replaces 11 and 28, then we can draft a banger back in like the 6th round or something and have our RB room complete, and rookie can go to st if needed or whatever. joe marino of locked on bills mentioned we went from being ranked 1st in special teams to not so good in one year. aside from bass losing his damn mind, hines was the missing bit. big returns win games, and who knows, maybe the kid can use his insane speed on o once in a while. i have much more faith in brady or his replacement than dorsey

i watched the vid on the post above mine, he really doesn't look like he has 4.27 speed.

4.27 40 is legit burner speed, is that a college game program factoid or an electronically timed legit result? we need various people all over, but to me this offseason we need 1 rb and 2 wrs, including at least 1 wr who is a day 1 starter. beyond that, we need S, DE, and DT most of all. wr 1st and 2nd round (we did that w DEs, one of whom blew, the other is decent) and we need to hit on both. beyond that, im all good with just filling out the roster w players in positions we can use.