JawnyBlaze

“Burns is similar to Ramsey and Fitzpatrick, and he’s only 24. Good luck getting him.” Some people around here need to pay attention to that last line. Burns is a great player who’s going to be expensive when the time comes and he’s worth it. You don’t trade away premier pass rushers who don’t want to go anywhere.

If we win a playoff game? Sure, give him a consideration. Six or seven more wins? Nah, for that I’d rather get an offensive minded HC, higher potential. Six or seven more wins with this team would be an accomplishment no doubt, but not impressive enough to make me believe he could turn the team into a consistent winner. Worst thing that could happen is we get a franchise QB in the draft and hire a Rivera-like HC that handicaps the potential of the team.

I wouldn’t give a third for Mac Jones

Burns, Brown and Icky look like strong candidates with the only thing maybe holding them back being the good team bias. Horn and Hekker are also decent bets. Possibly Woods

Yep, if that’s what it takes. Good edge rushers don’t grow on trees. We let him walk who knows when we’ll get another one. We won’t reproduce his production in FA for cheaper unless we get super lucky and find someone who was just “misused” on their previous team or strike gold on a draft selection. The good DEs tend to go really high.

Good enough to give up the fewest pressures in the league

As the next top tier DE to get a deal, that’s how it works. He’ll be the highest paid edge til the next one gets a new deal

Oh yea let him finish. The nah was about him maybe being better

If anyone says they don’t want a QB because of where he goes to college and that college hasn’t produced any good QBs, everything else they say is utterly invalidated

He played well. Also threw some really off target passes. He is who he is and he played to the high mark of his abilities today. He was efficient overall and can’t ask much more of him than that. Doesn’t change that we need to spend our top pick on a QB though heh

Yea I agree with you but he had a few other good plays too. I don’t all of a sudden think he’s great or anything but he had a really good game.

Even Marshall actually looked decent today. A tough drop early but had some clutch catches later.

Yea we weren’t likely to lose ALL the rest of the games. This is a good one to spend one of our wins on.

They dropped a couple, no more than we did. Just one of theirs happened to be glaring. I saw that one as karma though, Evans knocked his defender to the ground midway through the route, looked like OPI. Defender didn’t just fall over, Evans shoved him.

Lotta people around here got proven wrong today. DJ balled out making people questioning his heart look foolish, Burns was all over the place (can’t stop the run HAH), Brown was the primary force keeping their run game stuffed, Foreman and Hubbard ran like their hair was on fire (making me look foolish for my comments about us obviously needing to spend a mid pick on a RB), OL did great against one of the best DL in the league. Even PJ played really efficient. Still had some terribly off target throws but very positive overall. Lotta heart on this team.

We came out strong today but I doubt it’s sustainable. Even with this win we’ll either still have #1 or close to it. If we don’t get the top QB (Stroud imo) then the second is still a great option (Young). Based on what I’ve seen so far I don’t want Levis really. Still plenty of time to see new production that changes my mind though

Hubbard has had a couple pretty runs so far. Good cut on that one

Yea or like on that play when he runs right into them behind the los

“Burns isn’t good against the run” lol

Yea, I was about to post similar. People tend to get stuck in past narratives. He was a little weak against the run his rookie year but he’s gotten quite good at it especially for his size. He uses his quickness and instincts to make up for lack of bulk.

Charles Johnson and Greg Hardy were premium DEs, but I don’t disagree with the sentiment. They are hard to find.

My eye test agrees with the analytics in this case. Seems like every time there’s pressure Mayfield would lean into it and fall over.

The Athletic had an article ranking teams’ pass protection. Panthers are #6, which is very good, but terrible in one regard: The first column is percentage of pass plays that pressure is allowed, we’re #6. The second column is percentage of pressures that result in a sack. We’re last. I put that on the QBs. Baker always seemed to try to evade pressure right into the defenders arms. The last column is total pressures allowed.

part one of three. I like these videos, I watch them for all QBs we might be interested in every year. Goes pretty in depth into strengths and weaknesses