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Chucklez

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  1. All so long as AR5 works out! Which I am more optimistic of than the alternative, but it does all heavily hinge on that!
  2. Not to completely boil your post down to this, but I just wanted to reply to this specifically. I could easily see Irsay letting Ballard go if we dont make the playoffs this season, bare minimum. I don't think that is a hot take at all anymore. It is finally put up or shut up time for Ballard. For the record, I have always liked Ballard and his approach, i think he was severely hamstrung by the Luck retiring situation for a long time, but that hasnt been a valid excuse for a couple years now. I think he has been unlucky with the way some things have broken (I find it hard to believe that we dont win at least 1 more game last year if we had Isaiah Rodgers in the backfield - we were hemorhaging yards in the secondary last year - just one example). But it is absolutely no excuses, 100% put up or shut up time i think.
  3. Keeping a consistent core is very arguably getting better. There isnt much of that i nthe league due to how free agency typically works and there is proven historical success for consistently running it back with core players. Especially when you consider that last season we nearly broke into the playoffs with Minshew at QB. Come on man. This is a good team.
  4. In the great words of Monty Python: And now for something completely different. We have to assume we are looking to bring in at least 1 vet CB right? If the Snead trade doesnt happen, surely we are looking at Fuller or even bringing Stephon Gilmore back for 1 more year? What you guys think?
  5. Im keeping this one saved, purely because you seem SO SURE he is a bust. I want Richardson to succeed because I'm a Colts fan, but now I want him to succeed even more just to prove you wrong. This is a bad take that ultimately might end up being correct, but I dont't think for the reasons you are stating.
  6. I think both. I really liked the look of Hull before he got injured last season, I think he takes a step up into that #2 role, or at least a timeshare with whoever #3 is until he is fully back up to speed if he isnt already. And i think that doesnt stop us from drafting a RB in like the 4th or 5th and taking a swing on someone. Though i do hear that this is a bit of an iffy draft for RBs, so maybe we find one in FA still, but i think the aim here is for Hull to be RB2.
  7. Waiting for that outside CB signing announcment (as well as either a re-signing of Kenny Moore or also a vet slot CB replacement). Our DBs need an injection of talent / vet leadership in a bad way. I dont want to impede the young guys from learning too much, but we cannot head into the draft with what we have now as our "vets".
  8. It ws 1.7% drop rate, which is still amazing. We took Josh Downs last year who only had a 2% drop rate for his draft.
  9. To the bolded, that's just not happening. If we had been negotiating a contract extension and he still had a few years left on his contract, maybe.... But the FA price tag will drive his price up closer to £22m - £23m per year I reckon. Still worth it for us, we need him (and another WR threat in general) in a bad way.
  10. I'm not so sure that the Trey Lance / Brock Purdy model is one that the 9ers even themselves planned on themselves.... Brock Purdy was the literal last pick in the draft. If they thought so highly of him before they saw him practice and play and get to where he is now, why did they leave him until the last pick in the draft and risk losing him to someone else? Hindsight is always 20/20 and they can say this was their plan all along, but come on, do you really believe that? That was a case of pure 100% luck for the 9ers.
  11. There is no way on god's green earth that mathis doesnt make the HoF. He was very arguably better than Freeney. The stats certainly say so, Freeney was just the first round pick, so always had the spotlight on him, Mathis had to earn his spotlight, which boy did he... Both we awesome, im not dumping on Freeney at all, more just shining a light on Mathis here: Per 16 games averages over their careers: Freeney: Tackles: 21 Sacks: 9.4 FF: 3.6 (takeaways): 0.3 Mathis Tackles: 33 Sacks: 10.3 FF: 4.3 (takeaways): 1.5 If Mathis isnt in next year, we should all start a riot.
  12. I don't think the maturity level that a vet backup QB brings is why they are mostly sought after for young QB's to develop. I'm sure it is a nice bonus if some of that maturity can rub off on a young buck QB who needs to grow up a bit, but I'm fairly certain their biggest asset to the team is the knowledge of the game that they bring and to help the young QB learn the playbook, how to read defenses and ultimately just help them break things down and learn the position.
  13. Stroud is replacing Mahomes, for some reason Minshew is replacing Lamaar Jackson.
  14. I think he isnt humble and he is a bit of a whiner actually. Remember that offensive offsides call against the chiefs vs the bills (which the guy absolutely 100% was offsides, on offense.... like it wasn't even close), and Mahomes absolutely threw his toys out of the pram and blased the officials during the game and after, despite it clearly being the right call? Then the altercation with Justin Tucker before the Ravens game, totally unecessary. Mahomes thinks he's bigger and more important than everyone else, and it's starting to show through. I personally think he is a smug and smarmy little baby man and while I dont think he is overrated, because he is ridiculously good at football, I don't like him as a person from what ive seen at all. As a person outside of that, I cant really say because I obviously don't know him personally, he might be a good dude overall, but I just dont buy the narrative that he is humble and a total saint.
  15. This, especially while we have Richardson cheap. We can definitely attritbute some of that saved cap towards a good backup. Not Jacoby Brissett levels that we paid for a backup, but certainly enough for one of the better backups in the league (which Minshew is).
  16. Sam E. ain't the one guys. I never understood the fascination with him on this forum. He has done literally nothing, ever, to show me that he is the correct choice for the backup position. He couldn't beat out Eason for the backup gig for cheese's sake. The best option we could possibly have for a backup would be Minshew, assuming we could entice him to stay. Outside of that, the backup QB is not on the roster and we would either need to draft a new guy. or go get someone.
  17. So excited to see this team next year, so long as we make the right moves around AR and the OL stays intact. I think Pierce would have had a much more productive season with AR throwing the ball. He was so much more willing to take the deep shots that Minshew was. Minshew missed an open AP so many times this season, I feel like AR is making the throw to AP more often than Minshew did. Jelani Woods coming back next season could be huge for this offense too. Dont sleep on him. AR will have watched and learned a lot from being on the sideline this year, and considering how we all though he wouldnt be mentally ready and then he came out and played like he did, I think we can expect him to be even smarter with the ball next year. We could absolutely be a sleeping giant for next season. I think the defensive backfield absolutely needs addressing though.
  18. Yeah the insurance companies telling doctors how to practice medicine in particular is just pure insanity. I live in the UK (I have dual nationality) and you can say the NHS is flawed (which is it), but id take this slow flawed machine over the US system 100/100 times.
  19. Go watch Painkiller on Netflix. There is a reason they are overprescribing them, and it is disgusting. The US healthcare system is disgusting and frankly we should all be ashamed of ourselves for letting it get to this state.
  20. The 9ers went through a lenghty stinky period where they were bad (2003 - 2010) with a 3 year decent bump, then bad again from 2014 - 2018). The Patriots are a couple years into their stinky period and they will be bad unless they get incredibly lucky. (We all know why they were perenially in the playoffs, and he no longer plays in the NFL). The Steelers are LUCKY to have made the playoffs this year, they still won 10 games, but they were lucky to get in. Tomlin is a good head coach, they just need a QB and they are sorted. This is the only team that I will grant you has been continuously good for coaching and management reasons. The last time they had a losing season was 2003 (literally 20 years ago) and that was 6 - 10, not even a total flame out, and the last time the had a WORSE than 6-10 record was 1988 and that was 5-11. The truly last time the Steelers FLAMED out and had a season worse than 5-11 where you could say that they really sucked, was aaaaaaaaallllllll the way back to 1969 when they went 1 and 13.
  21. To the bolded (and to nod to South Park), the choice between a Turd Sandwich and a Giant * ain't really much of a choice. My point is, we can do better than BOTH of them.
  22. Love was starting to develop into something this season, he may be in the very good column by the time we face them next year.... depends. Cousins will be back for the Vikings too and he is capable of putting a team on his back and winning a game singlehandedly. Not as consistently as others, but he can do it too. Could be a sneaky really tough schedule next year.
  23. Our defense against the pass is terrible. Against a competent pass def, this will be a problem for them. Watch Stroud struggle against the Browns next weekend because they WILL take Collins away.
  24. Of course a large swathe of the NFL Landscape could change by next season, but that Home schedule looks a bit savage. Dolphins and Bills will be very tough. Steelers and Lions will be tough. Bears have been on the rise, and will have some top top picks in the upcoming draft. As for the away opponents, Jets with A-Rod might be a totally different beast next season, The Packers were on the upswing too, and the Vikings will have Cousins back. Not as "easy" as this season on paper, but we should be better too with AR back, and continuing to develop (we all hope). Should be a good season to watch, when we finally get there. In the meantime, these playoffs this year should be interesting. I'm expecting a Ravens - 9ers rematch of the 2013 Superbowl.
  25. Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
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