SmokinwithWilly

I really don't want to be the only team to win their division 3 times with a losing record. Being the only one to do it twice is bad enough.

From what I remember it was for 2 future 1sts and an upcoming 2nd. For a non QB, that's a haul of an offer, if true. The problem is once we declined it, we lost any leverage with Burns to not make him a top paid edge rusher. As good as he was last year, he has never been a complete edge player. He has always been susceptible vs the run as we saw over and over. The picks may not have been top 10, but 1st rounders are valuable when you're in the middle of a rebuild, which we were, but Fitterer was in denial trying to act like we were only a player away from being a SB contender. It really is amazing how terrible of a GM he was. Of course, I also don't put it past McVeigh to put out a fake trade offer just to fug us over in contract negotiations because we wouldn't trade him away. God Fitterer's ability as GM was worse than swimming in a 3 week old construction site porta potty.

It's happening some, but not something I would bank on at this point. Only about half of players injured return to the NFL and of those, less than 25% return to pre-injury form within 2 years. I'm fine with keeping him, but for now, any contract has to be short term, incentive driven until he has some post injury game tape.

Very unfortunate but I think an important lesson to be learned. Certain positions, QB, blind side tackle, green dot LB, are positions that need to be constantly in search of a 1b. They're just too important to be lackadasical regarding depth.

I think it all depends on the level of healthy. He's going to need to play some sort of prove it contract before he gets a big LT payday. If he is fully healthy I expect someone will offer him a contract as a tackle, but it won't be the top 5 contact we were expecting to pay if he hadn't gotten hurt.

Icky has never really had the lateral quickness to be an consistently efficient pass blocking LT. I see him being able to slide inside to guard and thrive there where power is relied on more than side to side movement. It's not like pro bowl level guards make chump change and he has/had the power and short range lateral movement to be a dominant guard.

I think we played the odds. While not a guaranteed career killer, it's highly possible he can never play LT again. If it was an ACL tear it may have played out differently.

I thknk bringing in a new OC also had to do with Canales being extremely slow recognizing what was happening on the field. He couldn't be HC and OC effectively and it showed.

Not really if McVeigh thinks he's the future at QB. Sit him a year, let him learn behind Stafford. Rams have one more run with him as QB. They're taking a shot again.

I liked him when he was at Michigan because I'm a Wolverine homer. After that...

I haven't been a fan of his for a very long time, not that i ever really was. He seems to love the power, not the sport. It's more about the money and the experience has suffered greatly IMO.

They're both members of the same rub n tug club.

Only people that have to decide are Tepper, DC and Morgan. I just hope they see enough to make a definitive decision one way or the other. I don't think I can take a 5th season of waiting to see.

Good to hear. Still wish the pick would have been Frazier but if he doesn't turn into another Eric Shelton in our draft history books, I'll take it at this point.

If Canales gets fired mid season it's going to be extremely difficult to replace him with any coach, especially if Bryce is returning as guaranteed QB1, which may happen with that 5th year option in play. I'm not a big DC believer, but firing him AND keeping Bryce if he has a lackluster season would put us as the most undesirable coaching destination in the NFL. Any new coach would have to be given the freedom to pick the QB to fit his system. We don't need to repeat the Frank Reich debacle.

I genuinely don't care if Bryce is good or bad, just be one or the other. If he turns the page and becomes a franchise QB, awesome. If he becomes another 1st round bust QB, not awesome but somewhat good because we, and by we I mean the front office/owner know it's time to move on. I'd say the same thing if it was any other QB on our roster.

Create a new protonmail account. Its the only way I could get it to work. I even went old school ancient aol email I originally made after taking 20 of those free 3.5 inch disks from blockbuster.

Good to hear if for nothing else than a healthy life after football. Hopefully he can return and defy the odds of that injury.

Atlanta should offer the most potential in a trading partner. After what he's done in the sphincter dome, that's gotta be worth 2 1sts and a 2nd or 2.

I hope there's a silent deal already in place. Let DC and BY ride or die together while SMcD takes a year off. If it fails, DC goes, BY goes and we start over with SMcD.

He's the Mike Shula of the NHL.

Also possible this is why we were turned down by so many coaching prospects. No new coach is going to want to be locked down on who his QB is going to be, regardless of play.

I think it might be possible too that he got disgruntled after being nearly benched. He showed out and saved his body for the contract he knew wasnt coming from the Panthers.