MasterAwesome

I just find it funny and ironic that the same posters who say "You need a QB to compete" (and rightfully so) are also very critical of Rhule for his record against winning teams...as if they can't see the connection there. All Rhule does is overachieve wherever he goes. I'd love to finally see a good QB leading one of his teams.

Is that a Joe Person inside scoop?

What kind of logic did you use to come to that conclusion? More like we basically traded Greg Little for this dude…and if he’s truly a “bad kicker” then we’ll presumably cut him and get our pick back anyway.

Rob Schneider on stilts maybe…he’s 14 inches shorter than this dude.

Did you stop reading after the first line of my post? Lol.

We don't have three threads on this? Did I miss one...is it four now or something? Or is your attention to detail lacking to where you inferred something beyond me commenting about how many threads we have regarding another team's QB?

THREE threads now on the Broncos' QB lol.

I don't recall people outright criticizing Gano's leg strength, but maybe more of an insinuation tied to Rivera's reluctance to let Gano attempt 50+ yard FGs...particularly in 2017 when he led the league in FG% but had only ONE attempt beyond 50 yards. That should have been more an indictment on Rivera IMO...it was always evident (to me at least) that Gano had a strong leg. He was pretty routinely among the top kickers for touchback percentage.

If Darnold is truly being "coddled", then the Steelers dialing things back and resting their starters (primarily the defensive ones) would probably make Rhule more encouraged to play Darnold.

Hopkins went for 1500 yards and 11 TDs in 2015 catching passes from Brian Hoyer, Ryan Mallet, TJ Yates, and Brandon Weeden. If you picked any other receiver, I would probably agree with you.

Lol this extension will have no impact on DJ's negotiations. It's laughable that you think his agent is gonna use Robby's middle-of-the-road contract as a baseline for negotiations...he was always gonna use the Hopkins/Julio/Keenan Allen/Tyreek Hill type contracts as the starting point. You think his agent is gonna be like "Well....Robby got $12.5 million/year and we both know DJ Moore is at least 75% better than Robby, so we want $22 million/year". Modest contracts don't set the market for players like DJ Moore.

Just remember there were actually people who were genuinely trying to say last year that Mike Davis was just as good...like I actually wasted about 10 minutes of my life having to refute that claim against people like Jim Bob Cooter.

The overall argument that Darnold should be getting more reps in preseason is fair and there are definitely some compelling points you could make for that. Unfortunately, what sparked this whole back-and-forth between you two is that you were doing a pretty terrible job making your argument. Your premises were largely nonsensical. -You said the fact that we ran it three straight plays at the goal line instead of opting for a playaction pass is a testament to how the team feels about Darnold (i.e. they don't trust him in that situation). That may be true if your objective of preseason is to win the game...which is why people have been questioning your understanding of preseason. Rather, preseason is about evaluation - and if they choose to keep it on the ground for 3 consecutive plays at the goal line, then chances are, they feel relatively comfortable with Darnold's ability to execute in the red zone and would rather evaluate the o-line/running back's ability to punch it in from the 1. -You also suggested the fact that we aren't playing Darnold much at all in the preseason means the coaching staff doesn't trust him. In reality, there's generally an inverse relationship between the amount of a player's preseason playing time vs. the level of trust the coaching staff has in him. If a coach is leaving you out there for the majority of the game...chances are, he's pretty unsure about you.

He’s gone FULL Clark Kent now…he has fully embraced the dorky high schooler look.

Once we poach a solid kicker off another team’s practice squad this year, the balance in the universe shall be restored.

I cringe to go all “Huddle realist” for a second…but we’ve technically only allowed 3 sacks all preseason and so the vast majority of our o-linemen have allowed 0 sacks lol. I’d be interested to see the pressures. Christensen I bet has the most or nearly the most pass-blocking snaps of all our o-linemen and he certainly passes the eye test, so not trying to take anything away from him. This just feels a bit incomplete as far as a statistical snapshot.

Hell yeah brother, we’re just a couple of straight shooters who call it like we see it!!! Grier was straight up TRASH tonight! Did you see that deep ball to Terrace? He had to catch it at a 47 degree angle to his body, everyone knows the optimal angle is 49 degrees…pathetic. I would’ve cut him on the spot. And if you disagree, you’re just a homer-a&$ Grier Gobbler trying to stifle free speech and this AIN’T the marketplace of ideas for you!

I obviously don’t strongly follow the Ravens’ preseason games but I don’t think you win 19 straight preseason games on accident or because you legitimately have the strongest depth of any team like 5 years in a row. My guess is they try a little harder in preseason than most teams…Harbaugh is probably big on “winning culture” or something, i.e. winning in the preseason carries over into the regular season.

Today on the Huddle I learned Grier was absolutely awful in the first half on his way to an 11-13 144 yard stat line. @TheMostInterestingMan who says you still can’t learn new things on the Huddle? You should issue a retraction.

Oh yeah I ain’t surprised at all, nor am I even complaining or upset by it. I thought it was more funny than anything.

I mean we have a 12-page thread based on a single tweet about Darnold going 19 of 36 lol.

On a day where our defense dominated the Ravens in practice (including 5 interceptions), the hot-button topics on the Huddle: -DBO sign -Haruki Nakamura -WFT’s new name

Woah they're killing infants now? I didn't realize that abortions were being performed after birth now...that's pretty nuts. Must have missed that report on Newsmax.

FTFY

So then just flat out release these 8 candidates and see which ones poll best and narrow it down that way. This whole "we have three finalists already selected but we're not telling you which ones, it's a secret!!!" seems really counterintuitive.