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Which is extremely possible with Darnold back there. Saleh has done a good job of shutting down their offense. They have to get Purdy off the ground and cooking without hurting them with TO's. CMC will not be a factor in the run game at all but he can bridge that massive gap that Kittle being lost created by exploiting LB and S mismatches.

I would caution that it is highly unlikely BC will play in 2026 after that torn Achilles. If he does, he will miss a significant portion of the season. So we do need to attempt to replace him in some way. For some reason we just refuse to address critical positions for years on end. It's a franchise trait.

I agree with him on the "explosive player" focus. I am never going to say that I wouldn't want to add such a guy but I do think Canales offense is specifically tailored to limit explosive players from being effective. Also, same poo a lot of us have been saying for a while about Evero. His scheme has limitations when it lacks elite or at least near elite players. It doesn't disguise or attempt to get the best out of what you have on the roster, it's just going out and running his defense and hoping that some of these misfits work out more often than not. Hence why it is so easy to pick on the LB Corps and Nick Scott so frequently. Evero and Canales need more talent to work with, I think we all know that. They also will be a limiting factor when that talent is there. That's the bigger issue.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11806464/ Read through this entire thing and it is about as grim as it gets. QT = Quadriceps Tendon PT = Patellar Tendon RTP = Return To Play Highly encourage everyone to slog your way through the entire thing, it is worthwhile but I definitely came away thinking we need to be serious about a long term solution at LT.

You should absolutely trade any home grown, pro bowl talent for 2 firsts and a second. Everything after that disastrous mistake was inevitability. Also extremely glad not to be paying Brian Burns. He would not be producing in this defense and we would all be furious about it.

Darnold not playing will be a net positive for the Seahawks. Not being flippant.

I will say "not yet." I have qualms regarding his independence from ownership and also involvement with past FO mistakes under Rhule/Fitterer. To that note, his first draft in 2024 looked like a carbon copy of a Fitterer draft. An absolute disaster. The 2025 offseason was a mixed bag but the draft looks good early. I need to see better and better offseason results in 2026, 2027, etc.

Yeah, if the Pats running game doesn't get off the ground, they will be in a LOT of trouble. As good as Maye was this season, the Chargers gave him fits and this defense is far better than that one. The one X-factor that can hurt Houston is Maye's legs.

Corbett is most valuable provided Mays leaves or we make a mistake and commit a large sum of future money to him as a starter. If we can finally get a starting caliber center on the roster, Mays will immediately become the top backup to resign. Nijman is a good backup. We should attempt to get him back at a league minimum or similar deal. Outside that, we have to be serious about a LT signing or draft pick. We have no player on the roster that is capable of average or better LT play.

Morgan was also responsible for one of the worst drafts in franchise history with that 2024 draft. I think it's some of both. We have to hope he has another 2025 caliber offseason in 2026.

I think it's more empty than some will admit. But I also attribute some of that to Evero's piss poor talent evaluation and personnel management. I am not a believer in Morgan but Fitterer is a bar that hopefully will never be lowered.

They both have to overcome terrible QB's, though. I agree on the elite power of both defenses but the suckage of those QB's is something that has to be accounted for.

Yet as the FO has failed him somehow he has been one of the worst personnel evaluators on the defensive side of the ball. Both things are true. The FO has set him up for failure but he is one of the worst talent evaluators in the organization and proves it every offseason. Again, I don't think any serious NFL person would consider HC interviews as a serious measure of coaching prowess.

Stroud was pressured like hell against Pittsburgh and they are a FAR better pass rush team than NE. Collins being out will be a thing, for sure. New England is a less effective defense than Pittsburgh. I think it still comes down to which QB fugs up the least. Weather may be a huge factor with LA. Don't forget that finger injury to Stafford too. In that weather, no less.

Propaganda is the direct implication that this is he being used by the Panthers to spout a message. This is a poor example of that, in my estimation. He is far more likely to just be a homer. This isn't abnormal behavior from him. It's hyperbolic because you are spinning it as some greater thing from Panthers HQ, which is very likely is not.

There was only maybe two guys worth "significant" draft capital in this class, one of them went back. This class is deep on Day 2/3 guys.

Are you now equating best/worst rush defense with best/worst defense? Those are separate things entirely. For rush defense, depending on how you quantify it, he has been largely in the bottom third of the league his entire career as a defensive coordinator. As you can see, aside from his one year in Denver, he has never been above 20th in yardage. Now, there is context to consider which is most coordinators choose to run on him(24th-32nd ranked in his three year in Carolina). So, if you just simply look at Y/A, it has been a relatively mixed bag. Twice a top 15 defense but twice a bottom 15 defense. The thing the should make all this good/bad run defense a lot clearer is the right most columns. Evero's defense has always prioritized pass defense and confusing QB's. That's the core of his defensive philosophy, as has been reported relatively widely. As much as there are ample personnel issues on that side of the ball(many of which he contributes to with his below average talent evaluations) his defenses may never be truly elite in rush and pass defense unless they are stocked with defensive talent. Like....his Denver defense that he inherited was. To that point, if you look at all those rankings from the three years Fangio(of whom Evero is a noted disciple) it shows a progression of getting steadily better into the far more elite defense it is now under Vance Joseph. As far as his HC interest, recall that he was a hot commodity after Denver and that cooled significantly after his first two years here. I suppose if you count getting interviews for HC positions as a benchmark for being a good coach(most would not) then he is middle of the packish.

If you know your world history, you will know this has always been a charged word.

Lol. Propoganda has been a charged word for well over 100 years. Are you a vampire?

Darnold is such a limiting factor for any playoff team.

I mean with Caleb there would be no reason to have Darnold. That was one hell of a trauma inducing trade.

Correct. Boy wouldn't that be a "bad feelings" game. Interestingly enough, Ben Johnson probably has very little fire about that given that it all happened before his time there. Verus the fire he has for his divisional rivals.

So, basically your entire argument is Sam Darnold??? So one data point is now a "storied history?" Speaking of hyperbole.... 95+% of these "oh you'll see when he leaves he's gonna be eliteimtellingyouhewillbetheguy" episodes end up with crickets shortly thereafter because those players rarely excel elsewhere for players that the majority of the fanbase wanted gone. That is very rare.

You also have to be aware of your faults and Dave seems very slow to recognize and fix those. Hence why we are so often ill prepared and make poor in game adjustments.

You went hyperbole in the thread title, bruh. Propagandist??? WTF. He is a homer. We got a ton of them, Reddit's full of them, etc, etc. They all might be somewhat to very annoying but J. Stew has a pass that none of them do. He gets the Luke, Olsen, Cam, TD, etc pass of being one of us and also LEADING us. Also, the Huddle should really be more attuned to going after former players in the post-Dan Morgan incident era. We all may have varying opinions of Dan of some of the poo that gets thrown his way is absolutely unconscionable. Like the head injury jabs, etc. We have no reason to be doing that poo to our own. /rant