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there is still a mix, but yeah i think that's the gist of it. i'm good w that. give me an additional wr of any merit and better blocking, and we have a scary deep passing attack and can run the ball too (we were decent at it this year).

we can get trucked in the playoffs with less picks/cap than what we came in with the past four seasons. super necessary edmunds floating in the middle of the field with the TE uncovered underneath beyond the sticks can happen with whoever out there.

same here. i like to read good analysis, especially from a gambling perspective, but i find it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. the sort of regular way ex players who get treated like Gauss (like Sherman the CB) if they managed to crack 4 digits on the SAT is just awful. there are the occasional player or coach type person who gives something useful, but it's just drowned out by brain dead criminal blow hards carrying on. frankly, this is why i subscribed to The Athletic, but honestly that's turned into the same sort of main stream coverage i got away from. the only exception is that it's middlebrow midwit self congratulatory tripe instead of screaming and gossip. still better i suppose.

oh no bobobonators, don't leave us!

as of right now for 2023 jets do, and it's not close. the important thing to realize, and what will make beane a zero or a hero in the next 12 months, is that you can re set an nfl roster pretty quickly, you just have to get multiple hits in FA and the draft. d'quan and miller along w phillips and lawson were net net not expensive (miller is 17 a year for 3, but he's a monster, the rest were cheap) additions and they upgraded higher paid guys we sent packing the prior year. we need that at OL and WR, and to find some gems in the draft. i think gunner bill pointed out that kc reset their whole flippin team in 2 years, we can do the same.

to me it's 50/50 if this guy becomes a pass rushing monster or just flounders around as the most talented under performer. i don't know exactly what it is, but there is little kook to being a sick pass rusher, and if that's there you get immediate and obvious impact, and if not you just don't. jarred allen, max crosby, that guy who was in indy across from freeny (mathis?) all late picks, combine reports on all were like "meh, could play" and all of them were like day one monsters. maybe not their best top level production, but you could tell they had something. as over rated as the certainty of drafting OTs early (remember the mike lewis book and film?) and as well known the uncertainty of drafting an nfl qb is, i feel like sick pass rushers is just as unpredictable.

i agree, but i think there needs to be a bit of wiggle room for who is available. we can't have another offseason like the last two where we added basically jack to our OL, but if there is a legit top flight wr out there for us, im good putting a few more chips there and adding to OL w more "value". net net, we just don't have talent at OL, gotta fix it.

i honestly don't understand how people have disagreed with this.

personally, i think we have to let him walk to get some WR and OL help, but if we do sign him i hope he takes another step and stays hall of fame level till he retires a bill a long time from now.

dude, i remember reading long threads here and stuff on twitter about dorsey (who does not to improve on some stuff, for sure) being a horrible drop off from daboll, and the numbers WERE NEARLY EXACTLY THE SAME BUT WITH LOWER VOL. like, i think we squeezed the absolute best regular season record we could have in 2022-2023. 3 losses by a total of 8 points, vs teams that were hot at the time, two of which we avenged. it's just that when it came to the tourney, we sucked bad because our coaches decided to be pollyanna babysitters instead of actual football coaches and didn't prep anyone nor did they do anything to fix their obvious schematic holes.

at this point he's not great but he's good, which puts him WAYYYYY ahead of our DL draft schedule based on recent history. the more i look at where we have invested money and picks, the more i am convinced that the modern nfl, and our team particularly, needs stars and can fill in the rest w jags and draft picks. we have so many jags to jags+ (party due to their position, our d needs DL and protects CBs, so we shouldn't have a ton invested in salary of DBs, but we do) and not enough play makers. groot has a shot at being a playmaker, but the odds are long. at the very least he's a good player, and keeping a guy like him (at a premium position) can help us win a chip if he's aided by actual star playmakers.

ya, very few of my thoughts are even approaching original. it's pretty clear to me josh just didn't trust his guys near the end of the year. i think that's the reason for us just blasting the ball deep so much. if you can't count on precision on short routes, you risk turnovers close, so you might as well go deeper where the rewards are bigger and teh penalties are smaller. i think either mckenzie is always out of position, or josh has zero faith in his hands.

he's a pure JAG. allen has made brown and older beat up bease look like dynamic threats, when they are in fact very limited and can be erased by a D. he and mckenzie run just trash routes way too often and have bad hands. they just don't have any special talents or skills. upside take: an above average to good wr in his place would add a ton to our O

its crazy to me how a regulated trust can just get away with anti consumer stuff like an exclusive contract.

this is an example of why i don't hero worship players (i might gas them up when they play well for us, but that's just fun!). most of these guys are trash, garbage, or scum. the fact that most of them go broke after making millions is enough to look down on them, let alone the criminal and moral stuff. they look at the fans as good when we pay for them and root for them, and i look at them as good when they play well for my team and that's it. a fair and equitable arangement!

he's a jag or a jag+, but nothing more. can pass block and runs hard, but no speed and a total liability in the passing game. w allen forcing the entire nfl to D him w light boxes, a decent rb and OL should be able to just mash away for yards, looking like how mixon looked against us in our last game (behind pure practice squad scrubs no less).

agree w teh above, does feel like a scapegoat move. i haven't heard that they re signed the ole turtle yet, so i still hold out hope that he's gone. im thinking they brought danna in because they expect to train up some new safeties which we will likely be drafting. i really hope it doesn't come at the expense of WR and OL help, but if it did i would be anything but shocked.

not sure how feasible this is, but i'd like it if we could sign a solid LT (knowing it would cost some) so that we can kick dawkins to LG, or move him to RT, or what have you. Dawkins, Morse, Hyde, Poy, Edmunds, Tre White, Oliver, Basham, AJE and once his contract is up Von will all be off the team in the next 2 seasons or so IMO. We have option value on the DL on rook contracts, so maybe one or two will be kept, but these are guys we should either replace in the draft cheaply when the time comes, or via FA. as far as FA goes, i think we do quite well in value signings (jones and initial py and hyde contracts being stellar) and out right star signings (von and diggs, altho we also traded for Diggs). I think we will be better getting our stars via trade or FA than hope and a prayer drafting. obv happy to get some drafting, but i think we've hamstrung ourselves mostly on re-signings. Hyde and Poy new contracts, White 2nd contract, Dawkins, and the combo of Milano/Knox/5th year options on liver and edmunds. not saying those last 4 were bad individually, but the combo of them w our roster construction has put us in a goofy spot.

if the D doubles diggs, knox isn't great at getting open quick, we have no screen game, davis is not a route runner, mckenzie is not trusted nor should he be, so who is getting open with a quickness? compound that with not snap to snap horrible play, but just total jail breaks once in a while, and you got yourself a bad line stew going!

this guy is 38 and was a physical NFL player who got the most out of his talent/speed. is he even older than jerry houghs? if the lights aren't too bring for him, he'll be in a sweet position wrt credibility and energy/relatability.

the d needs pass rush, the rest can be filled in schematically (assuming we run the same one). we need WRs and OL. not sure i'd pay for a RT, would rather pay up for solid interior guys (more than one) or a LT which would let us move dawkins to RG, bates to C and ditch morse, and then we some options on the right side, including the draft. i'd go ham and extend guys to sign another solid wr. letting edmunds walk is part of that. daquan jones (who didn't break the bank) being out kills our run d, miller being out killed our pass rush. that tells me we need to pay guys like that, and not the back 7 guys we love over paying even tho our scheme protects the heck out of them.

so i can't believe this hasn't been mentioned, but the reason why this is a problem is it gives the O an advantage and stops the D from timing the snap when the clock is nearly out. if it was a hard penalty at 0 seconds, then the O has to be more honestly about when they snap, getting lined up and set sooner, and less room to audible, and it gives the D a real shot at timing the clock as well as the snap count.

the net stats of allen vs burrow in the game where they crushed us weren't all that different. after a fast start where our unprepared d had their pants down, it all came down to quick hitter passes and running the ball for a million first downs. we basically locked them down w man coverage, but faser is a decrepit turtle of a man so he made sure to keep the area around the yards to go marker open and free of bills players. burrow is a great and skilled qb, but he's a lot like matt ryan to me. he's very good at doing what he's supposed to do, and as long as there are good plays called and great playmakers he can tear a d up. if any of that is gone or the pass rush gets to him, it's kinda over tho. allen is superman rescuing our trash franchise and dragging us kicking and screaming towards the promised land.

he'd be great if he said less. he just needs a good editor.

so, this guy could be a coach or run camps. he knows more different nfl approaches and playbooks than anyone else. he could also bring in, no joke, like 300 different nfl pros and coaches at any time. imagine if he were your uncle and you had a d1 scholly? he could tell you EVERYTHING. i personally want him to be an analyst or something like that, want to know what he's learned, and funny stories.