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Yeah, we should be putting up close to 30 a game if everything goes right on offense. I'm just asking for good health for our players for once.

I mean, that's not a bad thing. He'll still be used a lot and you'll have your bigger receivers used to get TDs. Nothing wrong with that. That's a luxury IMO.

Same. He gave an honest answer. He didn't try to hide it. Now the question is, if the secondary struggles, will Ballard sign a FA or not?

Thanks for the updates @Restinpeacesweetchloe. You're the best as always!

Ravens signed Eddie Jackson today. He plays FS too. One of those things where you have to ask if Chris Ballard smarter than an actual GM in Eric DeCosta.

I voted a 5/10 right now. I love how the team is formed right now. I'd like to see someone stand out in the secondary and at the TE position in the next couple weeks. I would also like to see Richardson stay healthy through training camp and the team in general. I think we have a ton of talent and am looking forward to updates on how everyone is doing. The O-Line and D-Line are going to be great IMO. I'm looking forward to the WR/CB battles as well. If we stay healthy in training camp and have a few people break out in the secondary, my faith will rise for the regular season. These two things just happen to be our Achilles heel a lot of the time.

We are about to hit training camp in less than two weeks. There's a lot of positives right now including a great draft on paper, AR is healthy, deep roster at a lot of positions, and excitement for a new year with a lot of competition. There are some downsides though. The secondary is suspect, we have to wonder if AR can stay healthy, and our schedule is brutal this year. I'm curious what people's level of faith is heading into training camp. Could give something to talk about. Gave the option of 1 all the way to 10 on the poll. Let me know what you think, and feel free to leave a comment below!

One of those terrible random stats that no one would ever guess. Sorry that happened to both of them and you and your team.

To the bolded, it can definitely matter who signs someone first if both GMs are interested in the player. The issue is, the public usually doesn't know if a team that doesn't sign a player was interested in him because the GM isn't going to publicly admit he "missed" on a player. However, it happens a lot more than people think. We see it as Adams didn't want to play here or some other reason, but it could have been Ballard didn't offer enough. That's been a pattern for a long time now that's repeated itself and Ballard has admitted that he places a price on a player and won't go over that. So a big possibility is Ballard is just cheap and players are signing with other teams for more money.

I had him 3rd round too. He was possibly winning a starting job on the Vikings outside of Byron Murphy if I remember right. Had a bright future. Hate when this happens. As you said, only 24. Way too young to die. I just turned 37 July 1st, so that's scary to think about.

This was terrible. You never expect an active NFL player to pass away, much less someone who just got drafted a month ago. RIP Khyree Jackson and his teammates. Also my condolences to @NFLfan. Must be tough to go through this as a fan of the Vikings. This is a nightmarish situation. My best friend is a Marlins fan in baseball, and he had to go through this with Jose Fernandez. I thought Jackson was going to be a hit at the NFL level. Unfortunately, we will never know. Prayers to his friends and family that they can get through this tragedy.

I'll represent Colorado here. Nate Solder and Christian McCaffrey are the two best that I can remember. Solid G from the Pats teams, and the best RB in the NFL currently. Add Trey McBride to that as well.

I live in Colorado, so it wouldn't be in the news where I'm at. As far as the 2nd statement, I don't think the website wants to smear Mathis unless they are 100% sure he did something wrong. We aren't at that point yet.

@csmopar is a police officer, I trust his views on this subject. He's more qualified than us here.

They are trash compared to their peers at the NFL level that are also starters at their position. I thought this was obvious. Not sure why you are comparing them to me. Just like I mention with Ballard, they are not competing against me or any "fan", they are compared to other starting TEs at the NFL level. Most of which are better than them. I don't sugercoat things. Any of our TE's would be considered a bottom 5 TE starter in the NFL. That's just a fact. Every team is weak at certain positions. One of our weaknesses is TE, and yes, they are trash relative to the other starting TEs in the NFL.