2020 Our Year For Sure

I like the sound of this. Could keep us from being desperate in the draft and keep Manny Lawson out at SLB where he belongs.

It wasn't so easy to defend in SF. Woods ran faster at the combine than either anquan boldin or Michael crabtree. They are possession receivers both and we're already far ahead of the game with a unique talent like Watkins. The real difference is they had the best o line in football. It could help a little if we had someone a bit taller or a bit faster but the difference is being conflated. We actively work to pass the ball as little as possible and when we do it's often play action. Rex and Roman are going to live and die by the running game.

Funny I feel the exact same way. Every single season of the drought I've desperately hoped I'm right, this year I desperately hope I'm wrong. Maybe it's a good thing.

Offensive line. It functions well because it's well coached but if it had all pro players it would dominate. Roman has been this guy his whole career, he can't suddenly morph into Bill Walsh. Not under a head coach who does nothing to encourage that sort of adaptation. I'm not an ol purist like it seems but this is who we hired, and where we're at. Jmo

Yeah strange how they rarely say that about black guys. He does seem to have vastly improved against the run which takes work.

We could use depth at a number of places and only have so many picks. It's good to have a vet imo to compete for a roster spot and push the youngins.

ha too true

I hope so. With dareus at one end we just may be able to get by with Bryant, Wynn and this dude at the other.

Some interesting analysis of biermann. They make it sound like he's a high motor guy who works hard to improve and has gone from a liability against the run to making it his strength. However they say he's lost the ability to cover backs or tight ends following an achilles tear and is a limited pass rusher. Good special teamer. At 250 pounds I wonder if the staff sees him as a backup to Lawson. http://www.thefalcoholic.com/2016/2/22/11082164/will-kroy-biermann-receive-another-contract-in-atlanta

Ah I see you now. That could work. Thanks

Just need some kind of replacement for the onside kick. I doubt the league will want to lose it as it keeps people tuned in to the end.

Sammy was getting open with all the attention in the world on him at times as well. That guy is something else.

Thank you for doing this.

Lmao God Jones was so bad at tracking rainbows. Graham just sucked in every way.

I'm skeptical but also can imagine it. Lets hope your signature is right. After all we did go 8 and 8 last season in year one with 2 complicated schemes. I do think we'd have been in the playoffs with hue though we'll never know for sure. I don't know how many pieces on defense we really must get right away. We may be fine with a linebacker drafted high and a nose tackle in the mid rounds, no? That'd give us the ability to work on the o line and/or wr at the same time.

Good stuff here. I'll add that I see this draft as a key one for Doug. If John Miller works out, he and Darby alone are a decent take from a draft with no first rounder. But the next two years are pivotal and we'll need more than that. We can't do anything in free agency this year and provided we can re sign our own, won't be able to do much in FA next year either. Meanwhile we're trying to reshape the roster for 2 coaches who do things quite differently than their predecessors. To me this is the time for he and the scouts to step up and prove their mettle, work with the coaches and get the young talent they need. Thing is I feel good about that, I think he'll come through. Whether the coaching staff can capitalize is another question.

I'd love nothing more than to be able to apologize for my share of the Rex vitriol. I really believe that if Rex and Roman have a path to competing for a championship, it starts with building that bully the Skipper talked about when he came aboard.

Fair enough. I think he's a good GM who's been held back by coaching staffs he didn't get to hire, but gotta acknowledge that it's perfectly debatable until we actually start winning. It's good to hear from both sides.

Yeah I don't understand that at all. He can't get away from us. Giving him big guaranteed dollars now would actually be taking on risk, with no potential reward.

You may have been but other teams were not, and much of our fanbase was not. He got a pro bowl guard for nothing and deserves a share of the credit. Those were all good pickups.

All good moves imo. Robey was a good player pre Rex, Lawson was an excellent signing. Incognito was such a no brainer that Whaley was the only GM in on it and people were shocked at the time.

I like the bigger active roster, never saw the point of inactives.

Hughes, robey, Lawson, Carpenter, incognito, Tyrod, Orton, McCoy, Clay, Darby?

Franchise tag. There's no reason to pay him now.

From your lips to God's ears. I can't shake the image of a Bills offense armed with Roman's full expertise but with an offensive line right out of 1970. Or the hogs, or the emmitt Smith cowboy line. To your point in another thread, defenses are built differently today. Some of them have 235 pound Mike linebackers. We could physically dominate. We may be so damn difficult to stop on the ground we find that Watkins, Clay, Woods, and maybe a minor addition at wideout is just plenty. Thing is the team is already managed this way. Roman runs constantly and throws little, Rex would rather get the ball at midfield and run the clock out on himself at the end of the half, than risk an offensive mistake. If we're going to be a grinder of a team from another era we may as well do it right. Hopefully Dr. Dray allows Greg to get more from certain formations than he could last year without a quality blocking te.