MasterAwesome

Dang…you anticipating that many serious injuries that we’ll need some backup carts?

Yeah I mean there was definitely a lot to hate about Marty and almost all of it justified. The annoying thing is that when essentially your entire personality and post history here is informed/defined solely by your hatred for Marty Hurney (and previously Ron Rivera), don't try to desperately present yourself as this bastion of objective enlightened thought who has transcended the feeble and pathetic emotional whims of mortals. Own that sh#%...be like "yeah I f@#%*(*@#&%ing despise Marty with all my being and as long as he is our GM, I will continue to predict that we will suck and every signing will bomb and every draft pick will bust". Hell, I can respect that much more than someone who thinks he's above the fray but is low-key probably one of the most emotional posters here. Anyways...this is WAY more Marty talk than this board deserves. Thank god we can close that chapter and move on. Well, never mind...this is the Huddle where we still dwell on drafts from like 9 years ago.

Season 15 of the Mr. Scot Anime is freaking wild...who could have seen this twist in his character arc. From criticizing every move of the FO (down to if the vibration frequencies in their breathing patterns were off by 1-2 Hz) to this, dare I say optimistic mentality of "let's all just STFU and trust the FO and see how this all plays out". WILD. Guess he really did despise Marty that much to have completely flipped his philosophy.

That wasn’t directed at you…I think you must have posted like 10 seconds before I did, cause I didn’t even see yours.

Dropped the one-armed interception…#bust

Well….he actually enjoyed watching his team win, even the Lions and WFT games. So you know he definitely isn’t a Huddler.

No one has even mentioned his versatility beyond pass-rushing. He’s also an elite Special Teams gunner, just ask Ron Rivera!

I suspect there's a decent chance Kenny Robinson might "slump" his way back down to the Practice Squad. Didn't seem like they thought particularly highly of him considering they waived/signed him to the Practice Squad during the season last year, only to promote him presumably out of necessity a couple days after Burris was injured. I guess it's a positive sign that he stuck around after Burris returned but he was still primarily relegated to Special Teams. The main thing working in his favor IMO is how little depth we have at safety.

Injured Free Agent o-lineman? Get his agent on the phone NOW!!

True but also I don’t even think it necessarily makes sense to compare Kerr and Jones because Kerr’s release didn’t even coincide with the Jones signing, so it’s not like our FO was thinking of it in terms of a direct comparison. Kerr was released over a month before Jones’ signing. Jones was signed presumably because we had a big hole at DT that was contributed in part by the Kerr release, so it seems pretty irresponsible to have released Kerr before a contingency plan was put in place.

The Zach Kerr release is my #1 by far. The dude flashed a ton last year and was on a very cheap contract.

They didn't have to go that bold...

The majority of Huddlers LOVE living in the past, so I'm surprised they're not eating this up! I guess being middle-of-the-pack is kinda boring...if we were in the 30-32 range, I am sure this thread would be at least 14 pages long.

Linville for the past year: Teddy will never be a franchise QB cause he just doesn't have the arm strength to make the necessary throws. *Panthers trade for Sam Darnold* Linville: Well...arm strength really isn't that important ya know. Just look at Will Grier!!! *mic drop* Le sigh indeed...

But did we practice our red zone offense?

Christensen is already probably trying to fight for LT pay!! (kidding...I know rookie contracts don't work that way)

I don’t understand which part of what you said is exclusive to LT over RT. I’m sure teams want their RT fending off DEs too lol.

Why would arm length be required at LT but not RT?

https://youtu.be/FHBZ6mIB4jQ?t=565 Here's the only game I can remember him playing LT (2019 against the Packers). He was moved to LT late in the game due to injuries I believe, but that link should take you to his first offensive snap in the highlight video. The highlight video on YouTube is all I can access unfortunately, I don't know if there are any videos out there that'll show footage of every snap. All in all there was definitely much more bad than good IMO, but I doubt he had taken many (if any) snaps at LT in practice so he was kinda just thrust into that role. It also rained/snowed late in the game so definitely suboptimal conditions all around for him to be getting his first exposure to the position.

Where are you getting the Ryan Mallett > MVP Cam Newton QBR stat? I am not seeing that. I see him at 55 and Cam at 61 in 2015, which you can definitely argue is WAY closer than it should be but I don't know enough about Ryan Mallett's 2015 season, i.e. his o-line performance, opposing teams' defenses, etc. which again, are all factored into QBR. Tom Brady I imagine has been dinged on QBR for playing in the worst division in football for almost his entire career. Opposing level of competition is one of those metrics that's factored into it. As for Lamar Jackson: I imagine that has a ton to do with it.

I’m not gonna make a value statement about how useful QBR is, but just to clarify: QBR is supposed to be more a measure of efficiency than a flat assessment of their statistical performance. It doesn’t really make sense that you’re simply looking at all the statistics that are included in the conventional passer rating (pass yards, TDs, INTs, completion %, etc.) and ignoring every supplemental variable factored into the QBR and being like “see, QBR makes no sense at all”. QBR is supposed to account for things like the strength of the opposing defense, the difficulty of passes, if the QB was pressured during their throw, their rushing stats, whether they’re piling garbage time stats, reducing weight for YAC, etc. You’re just making an apples to oranges evaluation of QBR based exclusively on the criteria for traditional passer rating.

Yeah I was just being facetious and poking fun at the contingent of Huddlers who start clamoring for us to tank around like Week 5 in October. If Darnold had us in position for the 1st overall pick all season and then “blew it” by beating two playoff teams in the last three weeks, the whining wouldn’t stop for at least 5 years.

Are you trying to trigger the resident haters even more?

Yeah probably...although I'm not sure it'd be deserved. That would make Brady 1 for 2 on QB reclamation projects so it'd be hard to attribute Darnold's success to Brady versus the Jets just being that much of a dysfunctional dumpster fire. You would expect a genius offensive mind to milk something out of Teddy rather than just see him perform the exact same he has in every previous season. As much as people like to absolve Brady of all culpability because of Teddy: a good OC either has to work around the QB's limitations, or, if the offense sputters again and again and again and again because of said QB limitations, then you HAVE to at least try something different. I'm not saying he should have benched Teddy and tried Walker/Grier since that traditionally isn't an OC's call, but hell....try SOMETHING different. It was the same issues every game that never got addressed.

But to be fair, Wilson had Brady “Stonewall” Christensen - greatest LT in the history of college football and future NFL first ballot HOFer!!