Jay Roosevelt

Meh.

Steve Wilks would have lasted about as long as Frank Reich did. He's had two DC jobs since leaving here and was fired from both; let's not pretend he's the second coming of Vince Lombardi. Would he have been better than Frank Reich? Of course, but that's not saying much. Darnold was a free agent after 2022 and was highly unlikely to choose to re-sign here under Wilks or anyone else. And even if he had, he would never have developed into what he is now. The difference for Sam Darnold was the year he spent as a backup on San Francisco under Kyle Shanahan and then going to Minnesota under another offensive guru in Kevin O'Connell. Had he re-signed here instead he would be a backup QB on some random team right now instead of preparing for the Super Bowl. Do you think it's a coincidence that we had both Darnold and Baker Mayfield and neither produced here, but both became franchise type QBs after leaving for better situations elsewhere?

I'm pretty sure if they planned all this that far ahead of time they wouldn't put it on a poster.

Sam Darnold was never going to be the player he is now in Carolina under Matt Rhule.

Don't particularly care to have either one. I'd rather just get whatever pick we can for XL. Maybe there's a team desperate for WR help that will overpay for a young player they liked pre-draft, similar to Dallas giving us a 4th for Jonathan Mingo.

He was sandbagging. fug him.

This is pretty much 100% my thoughts as well.

Not with that schedule, no.

I'm not arguing that Linderbaum isn't a better player than Mays, just that the difference isn't as much as people might think. At least not compared to the difference in cost between the two players will be. In any event, I don't expect the Ravens to let him get to the open market.

I'd honestly rather just extend Cade Mays rather than pay what it'd take to sign Tyler Linderbaum.

So we get two 3rd rounders if Evero gets hired?

Anything stud player in the front 7 will help out. The secondary isn't bad, but we have to get some more juice upfront and at LB.

And yet the Texans offense has only gotten worse since he left. His first season was by FAR the best of C.J. Stroud's career. Not saying he's the best O.C. of all time or anything, but he was doing something right.

The Texans have badly botched their situation on offense. They had an awful OL in 2024 so what do they do? They trade the one player on the OL that was good (Laremy Tunsil) and fire the O.C. who was helping Stroud develop into a good QB. C.J. Stroud looked absolutely broken yesterday. Like he just wanted the game to be over with. Maybe Ryans was threatened by Bobby Slowik? That could explain why he gutted the offense and redirected all the resources into "his" side of the ball on defense.