45catfan

Draft defense, TE in FA.

One-year wonder that has feasted against bad teams/defenses and disappeared versus quality opponents. Lots of YAC on TE screens. Has a few of highlight reel plays, nothing that has me feeling the need to bang the table for him. Fairly athletic and has soft hands. Better than anything we have now, but I wouldn't take him any higher than mid-round of the first. I would say the top Edge, ILB or safety before him.

Me too, but i think it's going to happen. I think his inconsistent play isn't $50M worthy and the team isn't there yet, nor will be by this offseason. We have given that guy the freaking moon despite the huggers trying to poke holes in that sentiment. Top OL, Two 1st round WRs, a 1-A /1-B RB and decent TE play. Yet we don't have a 'Travis Kelce' at TE so that should somehow afford Bryce some slack. How much more do we have to load up on offense before this dude is held accountable to his garbage games? Hell, when he has a great performance, it's BRYCE'S win. When he sucks, the defense did bad, missed FG, WR dropped a ball etc...

FA TE is the only solution this offseason. We pass up the TE unicorns every April that has one every...fugging...draft, EVERY ONE! However this draft isn't the one to go all-in. The Oregon kid is good, but not a unicorn. I've been on the TE1 quest since the 2018 draft. So this offseason is pushing a decade for my TE1 quest. I think we keep trying the Kittle or Kelce route where you take a future HOF TE on day 3 of the draft....kinda like stumbling onto Tom Brady in the 6th round, you know, great odds! I haven't even looked at the TE FA list. I'll do that shortly and give my thoughts.

Bryce will get the 5th year option because he probably was always going to. It's rare top 5 overall QBs don't the option, if not an outright extension, outside of being a complete and utter dumpster fire. I've conceded the 5th year option argument a while ago, but I'm not budging a damn inch on a long term extension. He can't get in his feels when hears the outside noise to 'prove himself' only to follow up said redemption game with a 100 yard, 0 TD and 2 INT game.

You can't have $50M QB play in a couple games a year to earn the a 50M/year long term deal. Like the guy said in the video, not to long ago all we wanted Bryce to do was hand the ball off to Rico. Bryce is on a VERY recent hot steak and all of a sudden now we want to give him a Josh Allen contract? Y'all have got to be high.

We throw mud at the wall for TEs and what has that gotten us? At least we finally gave up on the Ian Thomas experiment. I've been asking for a first or second round TE since the 2018 draft.

Lol, too early. I've been tinkering with mocks for a month now.

Two shot plays on 4th and manageable. Defenses are going to try to stop the run against us. Besides that, one other attempt much beyond 10 yards and it was incomplete. Roughly half of his passes were near, at or behind the LOS.

At this frame, no, but it is apparent Tet just hit the jets as Legette gets a perfectly timed rub on the DB and he drifts down field instead of heading to the sideline. I'm pretty sure that was an improvisation and not play design, but it worked out in the end. Again, 1-on-1 coverage. NFL QBs are supposed to make these throws more times than not.

Wide open. Excellent play design. ANY starting NFL QB should be able to hit this throw. This this the only big throw I would remotely call a dot. Single coverage and Coker had his man beat. The help from the center of the field is way too late. The other so-called dot. Again, wide-ass open. So of the three so-called "dots" Bryce threw, in reality it was actually one.

Kris Jenkins was an absolute beast for a few years. But yeah, top 2-3, no question.

His late round trades and offseason FA pickups are looking good. His drafting ability is still in question/incomplete at this time.

They should have kept Darnold. FWIW, I had McCarthy as QB6 in that class. I didn't like his tape that all that much. Even if that was their guy for the future, they should have kept Sam as the bridge/mentor QB. Seattle sure is happy about the Vikings decision to part ways.

I wonder if he retires or tries to catch on with a playoff contending team? I doubt he wants or is wanted back in Carolina. Too many young WRs developing and the veteran Renfrow hasn't seen much action at all since the start of the season.

Would like to think so, but they got lined up late and only had a few seconds to get the play off. I'm still shock their sideline didn't call a time out.

To be completely fair, Brown was a Marty Hurney pick. On brand, Marty crushed the first round selection and crapped the bed with the rest of the draft (Jeremy Chinn withstanding, but he's not on the roster).

Dave 'What do we have to lose?' Canales.

If we have a good offeseason (draft/FA) and finish shoring up the defense, It could very well be that we enter 2026 with QB as the weakest spot on the roster. That's crazy!

I predict we will go 4-0, 3-1, 2-2, 1-3 or 0-4.

Scott basically raked/scraped the would be tacklers off of Corum. Had he just checked up, Corum would have been down.

Who knows? We have both the Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold revenge games looming. The Saints stink, but are eliminated from the playoffs and playing at home. The Saints want to spoil our playoff chances and the other teams are trying to make the playoffs. I know that no team its going to take us lightly anymore, so the Vegas line isn't in play.

Yep, not to mention people wanted the guy we picked up on waivers sitting on the practice squad over Brown too. Conventional draft wisdom is you don't typically draft a DT in the top 10 unless yiou have a generational talent. Brown was/is and folks refused to see it at the time because of a few low RAS metrics.

Dude changed the course of the game twice yesterday as a DT. Freaking amazing! I'm not sure if he got a game ball or not, but he definitely deserved one.