colin

to me there are too big changes from last year's OL to now 1: edge control. houghs could rip up the pitch and get almost sacks like no one's biz, but outside of his outside foot was often pretty free country against us. adding shaq who really was the best edge setter we had for a while, and miller in place of houghs gives an actual fundamental improvement in our DL play that can stop big screens and runs. 2: big drive pass rush. we got lots of sacks vs trash teams who were falling apart, but we tended to not get sacks vs good teams when we really really coulda used em. how man times was mahomes open to get tackles and you see some bills player flailing around just missing him in the play offs? if miller can shut down a drive in each play off game with a solid sack, that frankly mighta been super bowl victory for us last year (it certainly was for the rams). so it doesn't really matter how the d looks right away (barring total melt down of course), or what the pff stat rankings for whatever are at whatever point. we had the number 1 d in the nfl, and lead in like 4 different categories, and it wasn't good enough and we knew it wasn't good enough. stats don't always tell the story, we'll know prolly by mid season if we built this d up to be where we want them.

maybe the process was the friends we made long the way.

Not me man, i can't take losing all of them myself.

id love to see it, but it might blind me it would be so surprising. he's pretty awful.

he's not fast, so i don't like that part, but josh allen with a screen game, and some kind of threat of a run is a freaking nightmare. doing what we did vs kc in the playoffs early, where we put in the runs and short plays as body blows to set up the big hitters, is a lot easier if you have your wr's running deep and the RB running a good route underneath with some space.

he played really well but got bounced off of his prior team too. spain seemed to have an issue like that too. a lot of big guys get a contract and lose motivation. i dunno if it's just the feeling of being a giant ogre of a person, or entering the smash gauntlet every single day and getting tired of it. Smith, the guy who made all pro as a DE and DT in the same season was the 4th overall pick by cincy, but basically didnt' give a crap there and left for SF where he went from a decent player to a monster in a human skin suit.

i like where your head is at, but is that star cut in the cards? honest inquiry, i've read that it is possible, and that it doesn't make sense. to me, Star was not available enough and while he has a ton of God given talent, he's just not into being the best football player he can be, so i could get used to him walking. also, i SUPPOSE the upside of having all these JAG DL we had at high prices means we can sort of upgrade or stay even at the position while saving money. i still think we need chandler, but i could see the front office believing there is enough upside for AJ and basham and groot that they sort of don't get him, but i think that would be a mistake.

im still torn on this, but leaning more no. the contracts we are seeing this off season tell me that we over pay our line backers and under pay our WRs.

i think we need to get faster, both on O and D, not sure getting landry does that for us. i think mcK does that tho. he's faster than his 40 time. i think we need one more fast guy on O, and a solid pass rusher, and we are as close to golden as we can be. i really think kromer and the new OC, along w year over year improvements on the OL are gonna mix in a running element that was not as consistent as it needed to be, and instead of needing JA17 to be super man, we are gonna lower the level of difficulty for him and the super man stuff will be the icing on top.

as said above, williams is not a kromer guy (gets off balance, misses reads sometimes and blocks the hash mark, while being a fairly talented veteran), this guy is. kromer likes em nasty and agile, morse it think is just an overall solid pro, bates is really cheap vs his quality at G, our LT is a good one. i think the giant rookie we have at RT (2nd year next) is a kromer guy because he's raw and coachable but freakishly athletic. i kinda hope ford is too, but he just seems like a total dud.

its was said above, but i'll repeat it because that's what it do: there is a big change w cap'n lawnchair (i like him, it's just too funny of a story to let up on). he has a strong idea, knows what results he wants, and likely has the confidence that he can coach guys up to get them where he wants them to be. dabol's upside is his creativity, his downside is he doesn't have a solid "bread and butter" (another term i have beaten half to death). i think w a younger/newer OC and veteran coaches under him and above him, we got a more standardized approach. i think that fits us best since JA17 is the king of off script playmaking, no need to write in too many tricks into your fight plan when you have a heavy weight who can throw 1-2's from 30 different angles at blinding speed.

the more moves i see the more i am convinced that we need chandler jones, and we need our draft to come up gangbusters. by the end of the season, we want to get a starter at some combo of IOL/DT/CB/TE/WR (Wr assumed we have a beaze cut and starter can mean our 3rd wr getting some burn). i figure our 1st and some kind of trade up in the 2nd or 3rd should get our IOL and WR, and either CB or DT, whomever presents the best value.

the arm on that boy is shocking!

i remember back in the day when baseball salaries outstripped other sports, people would talk about how an all star getting whatever was ok, but a left handed 2nd baseman w .209 batting and 6/23 HR and RBIs getting 2mil a year (which was a lot of money at the time) makes no sense is why payrolls blew up. Cousins is the transubstantiation of the generic just above average guy cashing out like a maniac. he's good at somethings, not good at others, and doesn't have the upside of the young guns which really puts him right at like 16 of 32 starters. from a football fan perspective, he's as dull as a rainy day in the north of england, but as a statistically interested person, he's the perfect player! broooo, imagine if we let him walk? he'd have gotten an aaron rogers contract, but longer. i wrote my above before seeing this, and i think you might be bang on here. the legend of cousins carries on unabated!

that's a fair point. i would love metcalf, but chandler jones is my offseason goal

id love metcalf, but not if it cost us resigning oliver or davis, but i suppose there may be a way. number one thing for me this offseason is chandler jones. i think he can be gotten for a reasonable level given how good he is. he's exactly what we need.

we are being coy!

the british incorporation of slang terms is great. perhaps the most literal nation on the planet (washing up liquid, people carriers, lifts, go to the toilet, etc). they incorporate various slang terms (seems like a lot of them are west indian in origin) as quite well defined parts of speech but are baffled by the sort of looser more intuitive way that americans use slang (however, they also don't tend to constantly misuse words based on assumptions that other people using those words knew what they were saying, like middle class, and exponential). instead, they seem to invent entirely new sectarian languages like cockney slang and polari. if football was played there like it is here, there would be some unique football language that no one else understands.

lol, this is all of course the divine comedy of a racial spoils system where the boundaries get fuzzy (contrasted with ethnic distinctions which dominate the rest of the world and are the historic norm). it reminds me of the old obscenity/pornography law debate where someone said "i can't define it, but i know it when i see it". it gets interesting when two people look at the same thing and don't both see it. i do remember reading somewhere that this guys is a real wunderkid wrt to blocking and running and preparation, pretty similar to the rams HC. this guy isn't as handsome or cool as mcvay seems, but being young might prove to be a big asset for nfl coaches. soon, if not now already, they aren't managing squads of millenials but squads of zoomers, who often identify and relate move via internet subculture(s) rather than anything else. i remember ditka was on tv after his failed stint as the new orleans HC, and when asked about what was different with the players of that day vs before (who at that point would all be no younger than youngish gen x) and he said he didn't understand the low self esteem they had because when they made a mistake they would say "me bad". of course, they were saying "my bad" which is simply a claim of ownership, and one could read as a promise to focus more and do better next time, but it was entirely lost on ditka.

im still a die hard bills fan, but outside of the bills (and like the odd playoff game, but that's even slipping) i don't care too much. 3 hours a week to watch the bills is all i like to spend watching. i browse this board, but that's cuz im at my desk at work.

if he retires this soon im putting (ahead of) in the same group and justin smith and dan hampton. two guys who just brought a wrecking ball from snap number 1 in the nfl and just impacted the game in in an almost unfair way. there are and have been lots of great DTs in the NFL, but few could just make basic plays offenses regularly run become useless.

the rams clearly are and were the better team, they dominated the cinci oline, were just monsters on 3rd down, and manufactured scores with a mash unit of WRs. but boy oh boy do they make a lot of mistakes. the one long TD was pretty clear OPI, but the number of just bad throws to covered guys short of the sticks hitting the ground, the Bengals WR just snaking through coverage and guys turning the wrong way, and sloppy special teams make me think they aren't a focused and disciplined unit overall. id like the athletic or someone to cover exactly what changed for the rams DL in the 2nd half, and late in the 2nd half it seemed. they went from not doing much to destroying the hapless bengals.

lol, it makes no sense, i feel like i'm taking crazy pills

i agree w you dude and think this fishing for excuses for a guy who shot a woman walking into her office is sad and woke. that said, i don't think he killed someone, did he? looks like he just hurt her, not killed her. people often treat mental illness like witchcraft, it's a magic thing and when someone is under the spell then they are being mind controlled and nothing they do is there fault at all!!

are you high? what on earth does your response have to do with my post which you quoted? how do i want to go back to 2017?