ImfromClayton

I understand this opinion from fans that watch on tv every week, or fans that sell their PSLs for every game. as somebody in that stadium 10 Sundays a year, I wanna win.

I know it’s not the main idea of this thread, but my goodness Scott fitterer was bad bad.

If we are in the top 7 we will get a player that can really help us. I think that's all but certain at this point. two quarterbacks will go and then we could def use one of Mason Graham Travis Hunter Will Johnson Abdul Carter T-Mac

I don't think people understand just how poor the offensive line was in the Darnold/Mayfield years all the way up to last year. We'd have been better off punting on first down.

The poorly managed teams are so bad this year that I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't come up at offseason meetings. It hurts everybody's bottom line for the bottom of the league to be this terrible. Mike Silver (wrote this article) has some really interesting stories from those meetings. I heard him speak on PMT once.

I don't want to move on from Ekwonu. Finding a left tackle is really hard to do, and it has haunted this franchise for many, many years. That said, he has not played up to his draft slot. He's been pretty solid this year, but he's definitely not a pro bowl guy. I think our biggest problem today was that their defensive line players were a lot better than our offensive line players regardless of scheme or play calling. There's very few teams in the NFL where that is the case, but even though the cowboys are not very good this year, they still have a good pass rush, and we put ourselves in a position where we had to throw it. Most teams have not been forced to throw the ball against the cowboys this season.

I love the candidate list, but we have to infest some draft capital and $ on that side of the ball if we want to be successful. Hindsight is obvious, but if were just going to let teams motion and shift away from Jaycee, yes, half the field is eliminated, but if they don't need that half, it doesn't really matter. Also, losing Derrick Brown is killing us. If teams are willing to stick to the running game, we can't stop them.

The Cowboys defensive line was really good, but with all we have invested in our offensive line, they have to play better. Cade Mays is not a center. He wasn't good today, but he shouldn't be there in the first place. Ekwonu has a great story, but we got fooled again drafting the local guy instead of the best player available. He's not awful, and he had an extremely tough assignment, but he has not played close to his draft slot. Chuba had no chance to do anything and you could tell Bryce became frustrated.

I'm pretty sure he has 4 sacks and 3 of them came in one game. I didn't hate him as a primary run defending Edge, but I'm not mad about letting him walk. He had one good game. The seahawks paid Matt Flynn because he had two good games.

So he's letting the football people football, and the product is improving instead of deteriorating? Who in the world would have believed such a thing.

If we can actually turn it around, I can forgive him. To his credit, he's clearly taken a step back and let the football people football. He had to learn the hard way though. When we make the playoffs again, I'll forgive him formally.

I hate to find myself rooting on the offseason again, and I am looking forward to watching us these last few weeks. That said, we are effectively out of contention. I am very interested to see where we spend money, and where we spend draft capital. We get 95 back, but DT has been a massive weakness for us this year, especially in the run game. We also have hurt at edge, but when some guys got healthy, we we've been better there, but not great. I think linebackers and secondary have overperformed, but Mike Jackson, Xavier Woods, and Jordan Fuller are Free Agents. I'm not sure I'd resign any of them, and definitely not for big money. If they want to play on team friendly deals, let's go. On offense, the line has been really good, with Center being a glaring weakness. We could really stand to add in the RB room, the TE room and the receiver room. Lots of needs, but a good o-line can hide a lot of ugly.

We have some winnable games left. The schedule is bout to lighten up tremendously, and we are playing good ball. I think this is counting a lot of chickens that haven't hatched yet.

First: You can fix body catching. He's just got to put the work in. Second: I know I'm going to get some poo emoji's for this, but his drop rate isn't that high, they just all seem to come in big moments. I do wonder if that's fixable, because that sounds mental to me.

The time spent watching Andy was invaluable to him. You can just see he has such a better handle on what he's supposed to be doing. In college, he was so good, and his team was so good, he didn't have to do as much pre-snap as he is doing now. What really excites me is the way he's doing this. It's not raw ability, it's chess. He can play this brand of football for a long time. For the love of god let's keep investing in the offensive line.

Couldn't agree more. We have to take BPA. I'm not as high on the edge players as you are, but that's fine, we all have opinions. I think your list is the pool of players that we are choosing from. I am of the opinion that we will win a couple of games, which is going to drop us in the 7-10 range.

We may be able to keep it close if Bryce has another good game. I just see them dominating with their ability to run it, and our inability to stop the run.

There’s a thin line between “emotional leader” and “distraction. while I do think throughout most of Sam’s career he’s been an emotional leader, I think he’s crossed the line over to “distraction” this season.

I really am not as concerned about position as I am concerned that we get a really good pro bowl caliber player. It is critical that we hit with this pick. The good news is, the positions that this draft seems to have an abundance of talent appear to be our deficiencies. I think travis hunter will be gone, but I'd love a good CB, DT, or Edge. I could see the top player at any of those positions reaching us except travis hunter. T-Mac is the type of talent that I would be thrilled if we drafted. While I'm not sure WR is where I want to spend this draft capital, he looks like a guy that's going to play for a long time and break some records. Reminds me a lot of Mike Evans.

I don't know how anybody watches this team this season and has this take. We are miles better than we were week 1. If we were slightly better he would be in serious contention for coach of the year, and he should be. My only concern right now is that we win too much and lose draft position to get even better.

He's had bad penalties on special teams in back to back weeks in one score games. I don't get the love affair. He's a captain.

I am all about this. Weak DE/Edge draft. Pair Mason Graham with Derrick Brown. Need a CB2, and we are cooking with peanut oil. Some of the young edge pieces we have are playing well since getting healthy. I wouldn't hate a WR, but I think the next step for this team is improving on Defense.

Not going to sugar coat it, that was unbelievably bad from Eddy. That said, the specialist on both teams were very poor tonight. Punters and Kickers. The fact that we saw so many bad punts and kicks invites me to give him a pass, and I will for now. I'm not sure what it could have been though. It was very windy at kick, and the temp dropped quickly, but that was just a bizarre game on special teams. And Sam Franklin, you are a captain, please stop committing stupid penalties in one score games on special teams.

Absolutely best case scenario. We aren’t winning the Super Bowl, we just absolutely kicked their ass, and we maintain draft position. there’s a lot of people in New Orleans, Atlanta, Tampa, and Chicago hitting the “oh poo” button.

A Quarterback in this mold is and was always going to take a long time to develop. I think he still has quite a bit to go. We didn't draft him for his foot speed or arm talent. We drafted him to be the leader and commander of the offensive unit. and he is growing in that capacity on a weekly basis. Being smart and being able to make the correct adjustment and get your team into the right play and being able to get the ball to the right spot is the most important thing an NFL quarterback can do. You can scheme around it, you can simplify, you can try everything, but those skills make a dominant NFL quarterback more than anything else. More than anything else, that's what the Montana's, Brady's, and Manning's do. And those are the ones you want. What we are seeing with Mahomes is a guy that has the brains, unique arm talent, and above average foot speed. He may go down as the greatest. I don't see that in Bryce's future. He's got a long way to go, but he's showing he's capable of being that game managing, offense controlling guy. While that type of quarterback is the most dominant, it also takes the longest to get them game ready, and if they don't ever get to a dominant level, they often don't pan out. So it is a risk.