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You are talking about gambling on a one year wonder playing for Robert Saleh. "Pro Football Focus graded Huff as a top-25 overall edge player but viewed him as one of the worst run stoppers among edge rushers, potentially creating a quandary for interested teams come March". A career high 480 highly productive snaps used in pass rush situations. Ngauake type player? The idea he would be more valuable at strong side DE is a bad argument. As a pass rush specialist what is he worth to Ballard? Or anyone? Will someone give him $25M fully guaranteed over the 1st 2 years? Our guys will grade his play.

It's not my intent to scare you but, I would absolutely fight for your 1st 2 picks. And that 3rd pick would be for Roman Wilson or Jalen McMillan. Forgive the spelling. We need a top notch interior rusher beside Buckner, and his under study. Love it! And a high quality C/G on the roster. Fries is a quality backup, but our QB will often have Fries drive blocked in his face, or beaten. IMO Fries gets good zone run blocking grades, but is absolutely not capable of drive blocking his man off the line in short yardage. We must have better at RG to maintain a good wall for AR in the passing game, and better run blocking for our $ground game. And give us a 4.3's running WR with that burst that can also stop on a dime. Please let Steichen pick the WR and tell Ballard/Dodds to just focus on the o-line.

A real treat to hear this story. Collie was very good at attacking zones, unfortunately Manning consistently threw him in harms way. Manning did the same to Dallas his first few years. They both got destroyed a number of times.

I counter that with our run game and Jonathan Taylor finishing up the drive. Touche! A really good offense needs that go to guy that can keep the chains moving in critical situations. Pittman raised his game to that next level this season as a complete player, a real warrior. I think he can be our Kelce.. ish warrior/leader/competitor. He will earn his paycheck.

So, "he is way more advanced than any of us thought"🤔. Many might say surprisingly more advanced. I would say that would be a cerebral surprise primarily, with a pleasant surprise with his shorter range accuracy. So with a full off season, summer camp, and some helpful regular season experience, a full season of classroom game preparation, film study, mental reps, trusting him desire for greatness and now time spent focused on watching his successful peers, you thinking he is more rookie like is beyond baffling. I expect him to surprise most again to quickly play more like a 3rd year player. I believe he IS very intelligent and wise and has a high ceiling. Accurate in tight windows with quick decisions, we will see. I was highly impressed with Jared Goff, but he just wasn't good enough. Baker, Stafford, Allen so good, our guy and his mates must be superb.

Mahomes playoffs 15-3 41 TD's 8 int 68% Manning 14-13 40 TD's 25 int 63% 7 times went to playoffs with No wins. Game over.

Spags blitzes worked to perfection, with Jones doing a phenomenal job also. JMO, if he were the pacifist that Gus is there were a number of great opportunities that Purdy would have nailed them on. We are stuck in no mans land with CB providing the talent, and with Gus and his staffs coaching.

I hear you regarding Franklin. But there is a difference with tackling compared to Angerer imo. Angered got drug for 5 yards. Franklin does get them down and hits hard sometimes. And what I see is like you, Zaire ain't no Singletary. He doesn't read, attack to fill gaps. He gets caught up on locks still 5 yards of the Los, as we get gashed in the running game. In the passing game he just stands there when a TE or back comes into his zone and they are wide open for an easy dump off and he never closes for a well timed separating hit. It boggles the mind. And I ask myself, who teaches this dung.

Nabers looks like he has the best of the best tools. Can't imagine he gets past the Bears at 9. Him and Pitt, get us a reliable TE, and a RG upgrade and the offense should develop into one of the best of the best. I pray they focus on getting the offense fixed 100% this off season, then attempt to do the D next year. I Trust that Ballard will half-behind it with his out of date approach.

Excellent analysis. Read like a Superman post, or perhaps NCF when he was younger.

I have NO DOUBT AR and his receiving core will spend extra time together for the rest of his career. He must keep that throwing arm healthy.

Polian should have built a defense and strong running game. Instead he succumbed to Mannings desire to be the greatest MVP winning player of all time. And he became the "KING" of one and done. 7 times he led us into the playoffs and couldn't win a single game. And all the Interceptions, the happy feet under pressure. Mahomes was chasing Brady with his over 200 passes without a playoff int. In Mannings Colts SB winning playoffs he had 7 int. Haha! We won in spite of his Super brain and Golden arm. Oops, how about those Saints!

So Steichen says he Gus, Rodney Thomas is terrible in single high, quit playing that excrement. Yip, AR can use his powerful arm to attack the whole field. And he impressed me how well he was processing things considering his lack of experience. We will see if Steichen can build something over the next couple years that can be relevant. Nothing new here, so pray Steichen can have great influence in FA and the draft. Be concerned though, what a huge Red Flag signing CB Baker. That means Ballard and Gus think their model is "sufficient". Oh joy!

Ballard has shown beyond a doubt that he knows how to build a chumpionship roster, and Gus is waiting and waiting and Yada Yada Yada to learn how to mix it up. This is in my notes anyway.

Perhaps I'm disremembering it, but I recall that he was jumping up and down on the sidelines, warming up, proving his calf was good enough to play. He was rubbing it in the Colts and fans faces. It was a big I Quit and there is only one person responsible for the news coming out when it did. He took the season off and still got paid his $25+ M. All class.

You're funny. Smith gets $13.6M in 24 with a $6M cap hit. Do the math. And we would owe him $16.75 in 2025. He graded overall 80+, which makes him a high end RT. He is highly tradeable. Not happening.

Pittman had 30 year old Diggs numbers. With Our 2nd string QB. Not sure how Buffalo, who is more than $50-M over the cap would absorb the $31M dead cap hit. This deal is given a big zero.

As much as I like Grover, paying him say, $12M, I would look hard at options in FA for someone that gets more penetration.

Considering Rodger's is the only CB that was very good in coverage that Ballard/Dodds has supplied us with in their many year tenure, i thought they were hasty in cutting him. Players mess up, take a big hit sitting out a year, go to whatever counseling the league requires, then get reinstated, probably with conditions. Roger's explanation doesn’t pass the smell test for me. And the Taylor bet is damning IMO. The new rule is a minimum of a 2 year suspension for a certain level of infraction. I think he qualifies for that. Some gamblers lose, first your $$, then your clothes. You were so close kid.

Sorry, but we defend with Ballard's defensive philosophy. He failed with Turray, Lewis, and that other forgettable 2nd rounder. That is on him/Dodds. Now we finish 3rd in the league in sacks with his 2nd go round and you want to pick on our pressure rate that is only 6 a game fewer than San Frans. It's foolish to not weight that they play from ahead and have much better back seven talent. Kenny is our only supposed coverage back seven talent out of seven and he gave up 5 td's. That, is a big number. How in the world can the great Ballard be so inept drafting secondary. We are not sufficient where else? WR, TE, LB.

So if I get this right, SF defended 3 more passes a game than us. They averaged 6 more pressures a game out of 37 passes. Sure that would help. Apparently you give no consideration to them having 3 All-Pros in their back seven. Oh boy nice take. Gee, I figure they played from ahead quite a bit, forcing teams to throw more than they probably preferred. Yea, it kinda work's that way. Mathis/Freeney. Gosh, I sure do hope Ballard/Dodds/Steichen can build us a great offense that gets us leads so WE can Unleash the Dogs. Football 101 You see, we watched our team pressure QB's, yip I watched it every week for years and years. Maybe you saw some of it too. Check out Doomsday, the Fearsome Foursome, the Purple People Eaters, the Steel Curtain. 85 Bears. Our Ballard/Dodds D philosophy/talent seems hopeless. Pure mediocrity.

Just for fun. 568 total passing attempts for our opponents. 211 total pressures you listed from your PFF list. You know we had more. 51 sacks for our Colts. 1 for every 11.14 opponents attempts. 48 sacks for SF. 1 for every 12.94 opponents 621 pass attempts SF has 2 All-Pro's in their defensive backfield providing better (pressure coverage) than our miss mash, and they had 2 superior LB's. Ballard/Dodds deserve what grade supplying our back 7 with talent? No better than a D? Our rush was really good with our first 6. # 7/8, Bryan and Johnson were F's. And that mattered. Better coverage = more sacks and pressure. Do you really think Ballard/Dodds as drafters would be hard to replace? Personally, I'm very dissatisfied with their defense philosophy. We are stuck with this cr dodoo.

Looney tunes. Perhaps he is doing what his boss asks him to do, and his 8.5 sacks was good. Overall, he IS a good player and should continue to improve his knowledge base.

Or, Minshew historically doesn't have the arm to attack a great deal of the field. So we didn't get to see what the potential is for anyone in our passing game. Yes we desperately need another really quick fast receiver. Let's hope.

I believe KC has been carried to their SB victories by Mahomes. Manning was carried to Both of his SB wins by his D and running game. His Colt SB win over Rex Grossman, came with 3 TDs and 7 int. Combined for the playoffs and SB. Denver was even more D and running game. Brees SB victory, no Colts fan will forget his pick 6. This does make me wonder how many MVP seasons he failed to win a playoff game. He did have 7 playoffs where he lost the first game. One and done. It was great watching Marvin destroy the opposition. One of the all-time great route runners, great hands, elite speed, Manning elevated his game over time to keep up with him. (Fewer flutter balls) I could go on regarding Polian keeping him in offensive weapons rather than building a D. But it's to deaf ears.