kungfoodude

I am gonna have to disagree. You don't sign someone to a large contract extension if you don't want them.

I think that is a price and attitude thing. Reportedly he was a bit of a handful for Shanahan, although admittedly not enough to not sign him to that big deal. I also think this may be much ado about nothing. If we plays this season, I suspect they will likely not move on from him.

The injury argument against him was strong but as others have pointed out you chose an injured RB of all things. Wilson was EXTREMELY CLEARLY a better football player than Wallace outside of injury/health concerns. We often seem to whiff on these sort of players(Trey Smith, etc) when we should be making these sort of moves. This is why I railed so much against our FO and their pursuit of RAS/Underwear Olympics champions over great FOOTBALL PLAYERS. Now with all that being said.......Wilson has started 8 total games in his career. He is technically piling up these stats as a backup player. Had we built our roster better, Wallace might have the benefit of being a backup player racking up stats surrounded by better LB's, as well. Instead he is getting abused game in and game out as a starter before he is ready to be such.

I mean you literally are attempting to justify our -60 differential as unimportant in your first post in this thread. Well, having a negative point differential(to the tune of -3.8/ppg) through 11 games is a very strong indicator of being a bad team. If anything, we have largely been overachieving stastically. The on field results also bear that out. So if we end up, and I think this is likely, as a 7-8 win team, with an even more substantially negative point differential at the end of this season how would this statistic not matter? Point differential is the most basic statistic in existence that one can look at to largely guage the results. You do need to score more than your opponent to win.

Yeah, it is wild that we keep clawing back and thriving with all these different lineup combos and players coming and going. Say what you want about how some things have gone over the past few years but our roster construction is exceptional. We really have loaded up on guys in free agency and through the draft that really fit Rod's system. It's gonna come down to the usual things, I think. Can we elevate our play in the playoffs? That's the big thing we have lacked. Eventually we just hit an opponent that can dig deeper and scrap harder than us. It's funny because we always have these teams we cannot seem to get past in the playoffs(Bruins, Tampa, NYR, Florida) that we eventually outlast and outbuild. I guess possiblu that will be the way we win a Cup in the end. Just outlast and outbuild them all.

He is shaky at times. Scary AF to watch. Yeah, he loses focus too easily.

Man...that was stressful.

Goddammit Miller. You dumb fug.

Man...Bussi is scary but solid.

Bussi with a butthole puckering save. Sheesh.

Yeah, without being 100% on defense still, I do get it.

Dammit. fuging 5 hole skate deflection again.

I don't think it's anything crazy.

Svech!!! Hell yes. Let's keep rolling.

Great period. Almost an amazing period. Keep the momentum up in the 3rd and finish these bums.

Eh....we don't know the situation. Could be a rest thing for all we know.

JarvyShorty!!!

Man it is great to have Chatty back.

I can't take credit for him. I called him overrated. Guys like Fannin, Arroyo, Gadsden, Taylor, etc I was all over. I genuinely thought Warren was overhyped. 100% wrong there. Hype confirmed.

You have spent a chunk of this thread arguing the opposite. I am perplexed by your tactics.

Yeah, it was so wild to see him literally work out so much he ended his NFL career.

Shades of the Super Bowl in 2015. Boy we like to leave our tackles on an island....

Yeah, it was such an insanely luxury pick. You know what makes it look so much more insanely bad? Rico Dowdle. So we get one of the most productive RB's in the NFL for pennies on a one year deal. So why was it necessary to draft an injured RB again? Just Panthers poo.

Yeah, I was on that bandwagon as well. I liked Egbuka and Burden as my other top guys at WR. I will say, as good as some of the WR's in this class has been, the TE class has really lived up to the hype. There are a BUNCH of impact rookies at TE.