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I was also hoping for this, but only if Horn didn't want it, they're the two I'd have liked to wear it. I was also kinda hoping Mingo would take 11, seeing as he was #1 in college it would make sense, and if him and TMJ could end up being our WR combo of the future, them having 88 and 11 would have just looked good out there together I think.

I think you mis-interpreted my response I wasn't saying I thought he was a bust, just that I wasn't going to get excited about a player having a breakout year because of what a GM said about them in a post-draft interview. In the history of the NFL, I don't think a GM has ever said anything other than about how impressed they were with a player's development at this time of the year, it's pretty standard to hear what he said and so I'm not using that to get my hopes up.

Not that it's anything official of course, but Corral's Wikipedia page is already switched to #2, nothing on Young's yet.

Ideally our top 4 WRs this year will be Chark, TMJ, Thielen, and Mingo this season and while Laviska would be a pretty good 5th WR, Byrd would be just fine as our 5th as well. We don't really have a big bruising RB on the roster right now, and while we could still sign someone, I'd be interested in seeing what Laviska could provide as a RB. He already runs like an RB once he gets the ball in his hand and with his size and pass catching ability, I think he'd make for an interesting backfield mate to compliment Sanders. He's similarly built to Patterson, same weight and just an inch shorter, and runs with a similar aggression. I think it would work.

Boooo, maybe there is a decent amount of Horn jersey's in stock and he didn't want to spend the money to buy them all back, same reason I think CMC stuck with 22 instead of going to 5.

Any word on if Horn switched to 0? Really hope he does, think it would look cool on him and it works for CB's and WR's in saying nobody can beat or cover them. If he doesn't take it, I think it would look good on Mingo who wore #1 in college, and just kinda fits with his last name ending with a O.

The early years of the extension will have huge amounts of money going to Burns, but the cap hits won't be all that terrible. Even if we only sign 1 big Free Agent, that would negate letting Chinn sign elsewhere after the season, there isn't going to be another unrestricted free agent from this squad next year that could get a good deal. And we'll have enough cap room next year to go after someone good, finally getting rid of all these massive dead cap hits.

No, if we were trading Chinn, it would have been before or during the draft as we'd have been able to get a useful pick in a draft that we were lacking them. And seeing as he's going into the last year of his contract, they clearly have a plan to use him extensively this year and will want to re-sign him, or else he'd have been traded already instead of just losing him after the season. In most years it wouldn't be a problem to let him play out the contract as we'd get a compensatory pick for him, but not next year. We're going to have a poo ton of cap room next year and will absolutely be signing a top dollar free agent or two, and thus eliminate any good compensatory pick we'd get for Chinn if he were to walk.

Yep, from here on out, as long as Young is our QB, OL is the most important part of this team every offseason and making sure it is in a sound place. Right now we have a great OL in place with parts that we likely can keep here for a few years. I'd say taking an OL in the 3rd or 4th every year as possible backups is a good idea, and when we need to replace a starter, if we can't do it through FA before the draft, need to use a 2nd or 1st that year on OL. If Bryce stays healthy, in the future we can go a year without WRs or a RB, or even some things on defense if he's that good. But OL is something we'll never be able to compromise with him as our QB, can't risk it. It will be the position that we'll over pay for FA's if necessary as well, and I won't have any issue with it myself.

BMW would just be weird seeing as the Falcons play in Mercedes, which used to sponsor the Superdome as well.

He better not, that was the main selling point on him, that his processing and mental side of the game were next level and more ready than any other QB in recent memory from that standpoint. His negatives were his size and durability (nothing to do there but not get hurt) and that he doesn't have any truly elite physical traits (i.e. arm strength, speed, etc). Those are things that can just tank him as a QB if he can't prove them wrong, but the whole thing with him is that his mental side of the game was supposed to be so good, that those things shouldn't be issues for him. Sure, some early mistakes, but that better not be where he struggles or it will be concerning as that's what he's supposed to be so good at figuring out and overcoming. I'll take it the first half of the season, but if that's an issue late in the year, that's scary.

All sounds great, I'll believe the TMJ and Tremble when I see it though, sounds like typical spring coach/gm speak, they're never going to sit there and say "our players suck and we need better ones" and they're always going to talk up those guys that people know are in make or break seasons. I fully expect the TMJ talk to continue all summer long too and through camp, that happens every year with that type of player, anyone remember David Gettis? According to the staff and reporters, guy was a spring through summer monster who disappeared come Week 1.

I think this is more of the fact that it's a new GM and coaching staff there than anything, not that they don't want him as much as they'd rather see him prove it to the new staff and then just sign him to a new deal. He had a rough rookie year, but he was pretty good the last 2 years, I'm a little surprised they didn't pick it up, but I think it's just the new staff thing in the end.

It's not huge drama by any means, but it's something interesting to talk about for something that would never sniff a national broadcast game, and that's the kind of thing they look for in the Thursday night games. But the fact that we traded for him, then cut him mid-season and he ended up playing decent enough for the Rams to get another starting job and it happened to be in our division, it just seems like a TNF type of storyline to me. The game against the Bears could also fit that bill given the trade and I guess the Colts game could as well with the Reich storyline, but the divisional factor I think gives the Bucs game in Carolina a slight edge there. Especially when I look at the Bucs schedule, to my eye, there isn't an interesting story in their whole schedule outside of Baker with us, they don't play the Browns or Rams and not like they've lost or stolen any big players lately outside of ones who are no longer in the league in Brady, Gronk, AB. The next closest interesting thing I could see for TB would be against the Jags, just because they're both in Florida.

Assuming we open the year against Houston like I expect, I think our Thursday game this year will be against the Bucs (but if we don’t open against Houston, that will be our Thursday game). Panthers-Bucs in a down year for the South with Baker playing against us just screams Thursday Night Football. Lots of storylines there for a non big time matchup, that’s generally what they look for with the TNF schedule.

Hunt would be a nice one to have, but he does a lot of similar things that Sanders does. I think Fournette would be a better complimentary piece to him and be the guy to come in when we need 1 or 2 yards for a first down. I think we need a CB though, if we can get Peters at a decent number, I'd be all about that.

Exactly If you think of a lineup as a chessboard, Chinn is going to be our Queen, the piece that is most versatile and can be used in numerous ways depending on the situation. We're too stuck on explicit positions, but in today's NFL, having a guy like Chinn is so valuable. When we play the Falcons he's likely going to be used as the guy covering Pitts, but when we play a team without that kind of TE he's probably going to be used as a pass rusher. If we play a team with a WR room similar to ours, he'll be the Nickel taking on guys like Thielen or Mingo, big physical slot WRs that would be too big and strong for most CB's. If we play a team with a speedster like a Tyreek Hill, I'm guessing he plays a little deeper in a hybrid LB/S type of role to allow one of the true Safeties to play even deeper in the defensive backfield to protect against the deep ball. I'd imagine Evero is salivating at the multitudes of how he can use a weapon like Chinn, not freaking out because he doesn't fit into a neatly defined box of a single position like so many here are.

Everyone is way overthinking things Chinn is a freaking playmaker and an athletic freak, if you don't think the coaching staff has a plan in place for how they're going to use him, you're fooling yourself. He might not get an explicitly named position that he stays at, but he's going to be on the field for almost every defensive snap unless he needs a breather. He took snaps at darn near every position on defense in the past few years, not out of necessity, but because he can. He's going to be used differently week to week and even play to play, he can rush the passer, he can play the run, he can cover the TE, can cover many WRs as well. Having him on the field will help keep offenses guessing as to what he's doing on any given play, and subsequently, what the rest of the defense is doing. Teams won't know if he's rushing the passer or dropping into coverage on any given play, he's going to be very hard to account for pre-snap.

Yes and no He's not meddling in the decisions, including how much weight is put on tests like the S2. But I'm quite sure it was discussed during the HC interviews and I'd assume Reich showed a positive attitude towards using tests like that in evaluating prospects. So while Tepper's love of the test isn't directly impacting the decisions being made right now, I'm sure it plays a factor at a higher level.

Are we watching the same clip? He didn't have his hands inside the shoulders on the chest, he had a full on grip on the jersey on the top of his shoulders and clearly was pulling on his jersey as the defender was trying to pull away from him but couldn't because of the fistful of jersey. I like the pick, not bashing the player, just saying it was a weird clip to use to talk about liking a pick as that block there will draw a flag 99 out of 100 times.

I like the pick and with Corbett not likely to be ready for week 1, think he could start for us to open the year. But weird clip to use for a tweet that is meant to compliment him, that is a clear and blatant hold lol

This is why I'd have liked to see us sign Jamaal Williams if Bryce was going to be the pick, those 1 yarders are his specialty and would have been a useful tool in our arsenal. Wouldn't hate adding Zeke if it could be done cheap, but I think if he was going to take a small contract, he'd go to more of a contender before us. Wouldn't be against adding Fournette for those either, or possibly Latavious. Maybe Tremble can figure out how to take handoffs during training camp? He could work well in those situations if he can get the exchange down in camp.

Didn't realize we play the Bears this year, I guess there is an interesting story there as well and could see that being a Week 1 matchup, but I still think the Texans are the most likely week 1 game. As I said earlier, I can't see the Colts playing either us or the Texans in week 1, they want to get those rookie QB matchups and AR has a much lower chance of starting week 1 than Bryce or Stroud who should both step right in and start Week 1. I'm both rooting for and against playing the Lions on Thanksgiving. I'm a Detroiter who is an Arizona alum with almost all my friends being Spartans, and Arizona-MSU play on Thanksgiving day this year already. If we played the Lions that same day, there is a chance friendships could get ruined if one side won both games hahaha. But man that would be a really fun day for my friends and I if we got those games back to back (both games are on the same channel I think).

While I agree on Carr and think the Saints are the team to beat in the division going into the season. Young shouldn't need much time to play well, if he does, that would be a bit concerning. That was kinda the selling point on him, that his mental grasp of the game was on a level not seen before and he was plug and play right away. Yea, he'll have to adjust to the speed of the game, but again, if he's so far ahead mentally than any recent prospect, he should adapt just fine seeing as a number of QB's have had great rookie seasons in the past decade or so. As everyone said, everything else the same about him, if he's 6'2" 215 lbs, he's such a clear cut #1 prospect that the Bears trade Fields and draft him instead, the questions were always about his size. Sure you can point to a rookie year with Lawrence where he struggled, but the Urban regime was a mess and he had even worse weapons than Bryce will have this year with us and he has a more than competent coaching staff. I do think many here are expecting him to be a Pro Bowler as a rookie, and that's a bit lofty, but he really shouldn't take too much time to play well.

Supposed to be cleared by week 1, but even then, he's not likely to play this year unless Goff gets hurt. But if Goff were to go down (or suck) and they play Hooker, he has the potential to put up goods stats with the weapons in that offense. Purdy only played 6 games last year and was a ROY finalist, not likely to replicate that again, but if anyone could, it would be a QB with Hooker's ability. Now, him having better odds than Levis, that I don't understand.