Jay Roosevelt

Bryson Daily is an interesting player. I can see him being a great NFL weapon for a team with a creative enough coach that can get him involved as a short-yardage specialist and gadget player.

HELL no. He's got baggage off the field and has become awful on it. Why would anyone want him at ANY price?

We let Luvu walk and Shaq got injured. Thankfully Wallace looks like a keeper, but we definitely need to address the position in the future.

Doesn't matter; you don't pay big money to a RB who isn't elite. And while Chuba has been good, he hasn't been elite.

My rankings:

No to Chuba. Brooks is the guy long-term and you don't pay RBs big money; we should know that better than any team.

Brady Christensen is a pleasant surprise. If he can emerge as a long-term answer at center that's huge.

True, but you'd certainly take a young player putting up big tackles numbers in that case than having the same number of opportunities and not.

Honestly, this is probably our most promising rookie class through 6 weeks in years. That's not to say they've been incredible or anything, but there have been several regular contributors from the rookie class and we still have Jonathon Brooks to come who could be the best of the bunch. Low bar, yes, but I certainly prefer where this year's rookies are compared to the last several classes.

I have no real issues with Canales so far. He made the correct call to bench Bryce early and the offense has been solid despite working in some young guys at WR and TE and having a past his prime QB in Dalton. The defense is what it is; that's a talent issue and I don't put that on Canales or Evero. If anyone deserves the blame it's Dan Morgan, but even then he made the right call to invest in the offense even if it has cost us on defense in the short-term. I'm certainly not ready to say Canales is THE guy, but I don't think he's a core part of the problem either. He's doing about as well as anyone could reasonably expect given what he has to work with. We'll see how that changes as we move forward.

Honestly, I've only ever been to one game (2005 week 1 vs. Saints) and it was such a miserable experience between the heat, the stairs, the insane food/drink prices and the uncomfortable ass seats that I have no interest in ever going to another game in-person again.

It really isn't. The defense was great last year. We just have nobody worth a damn on the field between injuries and shitty drafting for the last 5 years.

Well at least we're competing. That's a step up from the Reich era. I like what I see from XL and the OL, especially with the injuries up front. But yeah, the defense is ass cheeks.

The hype said Alabama had the best OL in the country. I call bullshit. This line is trash. Also, hire a Pac 12 coach, get a Pac 12 defense.

Definitely useful for mental reps, but I do wonder if it can be expanded to be used alongside traditional practice reps. For example, the offensive players wear augmented reality VR goggles that show them what the defense is running, they run through the play, then try running it without the goggles and see if they made the correct reads. Or even have an AI-assisted VR app that gives them real time advice during a rep so they can practice making the correct reads/throws in different situations. The technology is probably a ways off from that kind of detail, but it's worth looking into, IMO.

What's the deal with Taylor Moton? Is he out for an extended period?

I've been wondering if NFL teams would start taking advantage of this technology. I feel like it's something that can absolutely help players in practice with the mental aspects of the game in ways typical reps can't.

A religious person being full of poo? Who ever heard of such a thing!

It'd be insane if instead of Devante Adams being traded to the Jets Aaron Rodgers ends up being traded to the Raiders

This. It's why the Greg Olsen trade was one of the best in franchise history. Having said that, TE is also not a position you generally see players come right out of college and perform at a high level at. Even guys like Kelce, Kittle, Goedert, etc. took time to become impact players.

So ironic that Jaycee Horn seems to be the only player NOT injured this year.

I've been saying this for years.

Well yes, we definitely had both a coaching and culture problem. But that doesn't mean Darnold would ever have worked out here. He never did a thing with the Jets either; if anything helped him turn it around it was spending a year as a backup in San Francisco and then going to another QB whisperer in Kevin O'Connell. The passing game under Wilks was barely functional and was only that because our running game was balling out at the time. Having said that, I don't think this lasts for Darnold. I think he may play better than his first few years in the league from this point forward, but I think much of what we're seeing this year is scheme smoke and mirrors.As for Baker... well, you've got a better argument here. Still, he had previously shown plenty of flashes in Cleveland (won a playoff game) and needed a career reset. He may well have worked out with a better coaching staff here, but there were no indications of that at the time.

You know damn well if we'd have kept Darnold he'd still be playing like ass today.

It's not ideal, no. But I still think the primary reasons for his failure have been that all the things he was supposed to be great at just haven't translated to the NFL in any way. When you're not spotting obvious corner blitzes and making simple adjustments to protection you've got problems well beyond a few inches of height.