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Sounds like at least a grade 2, possibly grade 3 hamstring tear

Especially in Evero's defense, where if he is going to blitz it's going to be with an ILB. Shaq is a really good blitzer, but Luvu is excellent at it. I'm really, really hoping for a fun season.

Will be interesting to see how/if he adjusts his defensive scheme to accommodate the new offense. Rivera was always big on controlling clock and having a well rested defense, but having an offense that can actually run up the scoreboard can also provide his defense with one-dimensional situations where they can pin their ears back like he prefers.

Made me wonder the same thing (re: severity of Haynes' injury). Could also be a condemnation of the guys behind Haynes (YGM, Barno, and Johnson, though DJ is going to get the benefit of a season to develop).

Ian Thomas' biggest issue is that for every play that he flashes upside he levels that out with a play that makes you wonder if he'll ever get it. At this stage in his career, teams aren't going to be looking at potential. They're going to look at the lack of consistency. Hopefully he's able to flip the switch this season, both for the team and for himself.

Big, big win for the defense if he's stepped up and into the starting NT role. Brown, McCall, Williams with Anderson, Tuttle, and whoever the sixth defensive lineman ends up being (Kobe Jones?) sounds stout.

Combine that with the Bryce's size possibly being an issue and the aforementioned 17-game season, the team almost has to have a QB3 on the 53. If Bryce gets hurt, that guy that was the 53rd player is going to get cut for another back-up QB anyways. Mind as well keep Corral on a cheap contract with a much improved coaching staff. If he develops into a solid QB2, then there's the reassurance of a reliable back-up to Bryce and potential trade bait.

Ohhhh poo

It's worth noting that with the 17-game season and injuries still piling up at the QB position that if Corral can show that he can learn + develop, he'll be a Panther as QB3. The need for a 3rd QB has been seen for the last few seasons and with recent rule changes it's worth spending a spot on the 53 on a guy that you don't have to activate (but can still play should you need an emergency guy) on gameday. Dalton's contract has him hear this season and next. They can cut him next season, but I think the team is hoping to roll with the current QB room for the next two seasons. After that, they'll assess where they're at and go from there.

Washington had knee issues and Bowers syndrome

Will be very interesting to see if Kobe Jones and Eku Leota make the team as their names keep popping up during camp. Brandon Smith and Amare Barno might want to watch out for their roster spots, especially if they were more Rhule's selections than they were Fitterer's.

For folks on Twitter, I've used this list for the past few seasons to compile tweets for training camp and other news.

Unrelated to the Cousins/Burrow debate... Consolidated list below: $152M - CLE $138M - KC $136M - DET $133M - LV $131M - DEN $129M - BAL $122M - BUF, CIN, JAX $121M - NYJ $119M - ATL, NO $117M - ARI $116M - DAL $115M - SF $111M - NYG $110M - MIA $108M - LAC, HOU $107M - TEN, CHI $105M - PIT, WAS $104M - MIN, IND $101M - PHI, SEA $100M - NE, LAR $84M - TB, CAR $83M - GB

iirc he batted a pass at the LOS yesterday and has been getting a lot of individual work with coaches

I'm not aware of Cousins entire body of work (though I imagine I'm about to become more familiar with the research I'm about to do :P), but in regards to what you pointed out with the 2017 vs. 2018 Vikings there is a lot of context missing there. Such as: Minnesota's OL in 2017 ranked #6. In 2018 they plummeted to #29 after losing guards Joe Berger (retirement) and Nick Easton (training camp neck injury). The interior offensive line for Cousins' 2018 Vikings: Tom Compton, Pat Elflein, and Mike Remmers The three aforementioned interior offensive linemen gave up a combined 18 sacks. Compton (47th among guards) and Remmers (50th) together allowed 77 total pressures. Rookie 2nd round selection Brian O'Neill started at RT and allowed 31 pressures (but did not allow a sack in 531 pass-pro situations). The team's pass defense suffered greatly with the loss of 1st round selection Mike Hughes to a torn ACL in October which left an undrafted rookie Holton Hill to step up. Xavier Rhodes also happened to have the worst year of his career that same season allowing a catch rate of 65.2%. Cousins worst stretch that season came after the Bye week where the Vikings would eventually go 3-4 over that period with losses to the Bears (twice), Seahawks, and Patriots. The Pats were 8-3 at the time and would finish the season 11-5. The Bears went 12-4 and were only behind the Saints & Rams who had both gone 13-3. The Seahawks finished 10-6. None of these were bad teams with bad defenses. We all saw what a bad offensive line does to a QB just two seasons ago. Putting the 2018 Vikings record on Cousins simply does not match up with what actually happened. Joe Burrow was also 2-6-1 with the Bengals before he broke his leg in week 11 of his rookie season. He did not take them to the playoffs. That was his sophomore season when the team went 10-7 after signing Riley Reiff (Cousins' one solid offensive lineman in Minnesota) and drafting Ja'Marr Chase. Jimmy G could be funny to add to the mix now that you mention it... I wonder what the graphic would look like with him on there.

None of that has anything to do with the point presented in the video though. The point is that Cousins is labeled as somebody that chokes in the playoffs but when lining his stats up alongside Joe Burrow (who is seen in the opposite light) they look incredibly similar with the biggest takeaway being how much better the Bengals defense has performed than the Vikings. Nobody is debating his pay.

I'm expecting DBrown to absolutely ball out this season. With Burns drawing the double teams and Evero liking to send ILBs up the middle when he does blitz there are going to be a lot more one-on-one opportunities for him. If the offense can start getting out ahead of opponents, that's going to allow this defense feast even more.

Meaning that Evero likes to rush just four players so opposing offensive lines can key their double teams on the best pass rusher for the defense. In our case, it'll be Brian Burns. Hopefully that means that Derrick Brown or the edge rusher opposite of Burns produce more pressures and of course, sacks. Evero does like to use his ILBs when he does blitz, which Luvu and Shaq both excel at. With all of the disguised coverages giving QBs an extra tick to process things we might also start seeing more coverage sacks.

It'd be awesome if Amare Barno or Brandon Smith develop. My fear is that Rhule went with the same approach he did with his college teams: acquire a bunch of athletes and be overconfident in his staff's ability to teach them how to play football. Maybe with a top-flight professional coaching staff those guys can flip the switch. Kobe Jones has been popping in training camp from the DE position. He might sneak his way on to the roster. Brown, Tuttle, Williams, Anderson, McCall, and Jones could be a decent enough group to hold down the DLine this season. I think that Marquis Haynes Sr is going to perform respectably this season. Is he going to show out as "the guy" to line up across from Burns? I wouldn't go that far. He could do well enough though so that if we could get somebody out of Barno, Johnson, and Gross-Matos to show up then the pass rush might be "good enough" as gross as it might feel to settle for that.

Which says a lot because offenses are supposed to be ahead of defenses in training camp since they're trying out new stuff while the defense is mostly reading and reacting.

What I'm thinking as well. Having Chinn + Luvu on the field is going to allow the defense so much more flexibility. Luvu can be playing off-ball or rushing the passer. Chinn can line up at safety, nickel, or LB. Those two I think are going to be vital to Evero's scheme.

From Monday's practice, but so nice it's worth seeing twice:

Yea... I'm geeking over this team having and executing a modern NFL offense.