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Yeah Lamar also has an almost preternatural ability to avoid big hits, so I don't think it's a very apt comparison because Daniels has not shown anything like that.

I'm concerned about injuries and his propensity for pulling his eyes down and running so often once pressured vs. buying time with his legs and finding guys downfield to throw to. But those two are very much linked, because if he does keep running so often once pressured and moved off his spot then that's going to lead to more runs, more hits, and more potential for injury.

That would explain a lot.

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You would know better than I do...but from a few miles away, it just feels like the team is a year or two ahead of schedule. We shall see!

Uh, if you are dependent on that to happen; you will lose. I wouldn’t depend on a goper to vote for Joe. Their hive mind will have most of them voting Trump anyway. The best you can hope from those Haley voters the either skip voting for president or don’t vote at all.

Watch either show and you'll see what I mean...

Just giving a heads up. This old geezer may not be as sharp and as energetic as he once was, but he's still got something left. It just takes a bit longer for the oil to get up to the crank case these days. Anyways, I've been working (on and off) on a comprehensive post-draft poll the past week. I hope you guys and gals like it, and take it. Been putting a lot of thought into it. I realized after day one of the draft and the reactions of some, that it was best to wait a while before I posted a new poll. While the majority were fine, some people's feelings were really raw, for good reason, and I was very mindful of that. I noticed that even a few of our very best posters/members were hurting bad. The forum needed time, not some poll that might be interpreted as rudely twisting a knife that was already stuck deep in their belly. I couldn't add to anyone's pain. We all heal in our own way, and in our own time. Anyways, it's been a week for things to sink in and I think we'll get less emotional/angry responses now, than we would have a week ago. Semper Veritas! Above all I seek the truth. My intention is to post the poll by Friday. Which means, if anybody has any suggestions, including possible questions or areas of concern please post them here and put @CommanderInTheRye along with it so I won't miss it. I hope this turns out well. Cheers! EDIT: I have a major question for anyone that can answer it: Is there a way to end the polling at a certain time/date, and if so how do I do it?

I, personally, do regret passing on Beebe. That's going to bite us later.

Exactly, Just like Matt Damon and Crypto.com. 🤣

It would have been wrong to reach on OLs in the second round, but that wasn't the situation we faced. IMO Suamataia and Beebe were BPAs and value picks over Sainristil and Sinnott. And if you don't like them, three other tackles went in the second after our picks aside from Suamataia and you could have made a BPA case for each of them in the 50s. But personally, I had Suamataia as a huge value pick in the 50s, and if he and Dawand Jones were out starting OTs, with Cosmi, Biadasz, and Beebe in the interior, we're looking at such a different future for the offense. That's the OL I would have built with zero benefit of hindsight, and if I can figure that out from my couch, our FO should be able to blow that out of the water. If anything, I had Sainristil and Sinnott as mild reaches in the second, although I think I could have been too low on Sainristil and that he could be another Terry McLaurin. To my credit, I was the first one here to spot Sainristil and start gassing him up in the thread. I've always liked him, I just think the draftnik community got too high on him and didn't accurately bake his size limitations into his draft value. And we did reach on Coleman. At that pick, Beebe should have been a no brainer. And if you don't like Beebe, then Zinter, Amegadjie, Wallace, Adams, McCormick, Van Pran, and Haynes would have been better options too. TBH, I think Coleman was a fifth or sixth round caliber pick. I don't think his film is any good, and IMO both Braeden Daniels and Ricky Stromberg had better film than him.

RE: this draft class You cannot reach for the sake of reaching. That is how you get in trouble with classes. Where I think we semi flubbed the draft was passing on Dejean (and Kool-Aid) and trading Dejean to the Eagles. I do like that we netted Sinnott there. But I don’t like that we handed the Eagles a strong DB and an hell of a return man and as a DB consolation took an undersized slot DB (who I think is going to be pretty good, by the way. Just not something I viewed as a need/reason to give up a quality outside CB for) I really think the Chig UDFA signing DOES soften the blow a touch. And makes me like Sainristil’s selection more. Magee is a specs/developmental guy. I am meh on that but with new specs rules he may be a bigger addition than anticipated. I am completely unmoved by the Coleman and the DE pick (I should really attempt to remember his name). But that doesn’t mean they are bad picks. Luke is going to be interesting. I don’t have much of an opinion there, yet. I’ve said repeatedly that I see two for sure hits, one that if he hits is a superstar and a bunch of risky selections. Newton and Sinnott will be fine. Daniels is a superstar if healthy. The rest? We’ll see.

Chip's fears can easily be put to rest from his position by making sure the Constitution is followed, as he promised in his oath. If that is all any of them do, then we'll be fine. ~Bang

I was banned during the draft last year, I never gave a take on it in real time. I thought Forbes was a Jahan Dotson style reach of an early second round talent getting picked mid first, not as bad as Jamin was, but would have had several OL ahead of him even in that weak class, particularly Anton Harrison and Dawand Jones. I liked Quan Martin and Braeden Daniels, although I think he reached on Daniels by a round. I picked Daniels in the ES mock and got him in the fifth, at what I felt was fair value. I hated the Stromberg pick, and I would have picked Olu Oluwatimi over KJ Henry. On the whole, I felt like Ron at least tried to address the OL issues, the problem is he picked the wrong players. The even bigger problem I didn't see coming was the collapse of the defense and the quiet quitting of the entire organization. I don't feel like Peters actually tried to fix the OL at all. But I do feel like he brought in a vastly better and more motivated coaching staff, and probably did genuinely fix the defense. I really shouldn't be seeing parallels between this off-season and last off-season though, and I shouldn't be using Rivera's work as a bar for Peters to clear. Peters had this off-season absolutely teed up for him to hit a grandslam, and I think he crushed it with the defense and flubbed it with the offense. That's my perspective even when I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt on his QB selection. Of all the offensive coaches he hired and players he signed and drafted, the only two moves I really liked and would have done too if I were in charge were hiring Anthony Lynn and signing Biadasz. It feels to me like we basically had a defense heavy FA where we got a bunch of nice short term pieces, drafted two studs on D, and hired a bunch of great coaches for that side of the ball, but got swindled on almost all of the decisions we made on offense. I hope I'm dead wrong. I hope Peters isn't as green as he comes off to me. I hope Jayden is a superstar, Kingsbury isn't a con man mercenary, and that Coleman, McCaffrey, and Sinnott were all hidden value picks and not reaches. I'm not nearly as alarmed right now as I was during the first off-season of Ron's tenure, but I don't have the confidence in the work this regime has done that I was hoping for.

I'm not concerned about Coleman personally. I'm in awe someone that size can move as well as he does. My only issues are his hand usage needs to get better but it's not a liability and he struggles with inside moves, which is pretty common from what I can discern from doing this.

She def has lost any message she had. Right now all she can say it "I don't discuss meetings I had".... except she does exactly that in her book apparently, except maybe she's being honest now and everything in her book is a lie. And, BUY MY BOOK.

Come get your boy, Ix.

Since I have a gluten allergy I could not partake in all the options but... Escargot in garlic Duck breast with peaches and mixed vegetables Raspberry souffle with rhubarb compote (this is done somehow gluten free).