seantaylor=god

Yeah- if we are planning on running press man, we probably need a bunch of corners, maybe ST Juste can do it but Forbes would be pretty much useless there. CB is a huge need. I hope we address it in FA and the draft.

I still think we address LT in FA or even a trade for someone like Bolles, who is in the last year of his contact with Denver.

I think the media caught up to the film on him and also he tested really well and looked good at the combine. He seems like he can do it all at TE and went from like a 4th/5th in mocks to as high as late 2nd. He definitely caught my eye at the combine.

Maybe add Patrick Paul and Kingsley Suamataia? Then you have all the big OTs covered from mid first to our seconds.

Bowers didn’t participate in the Georgia Pro day (didn’t at combine either). Claims to still be recovering from ankle, and is planning to workout for teams in April before the draft. I wouldn’t be able to say where he will go yet because he measured small (6’3 243 at combine). He film is great but that’s not great size for a TE. I would be really interested in his athletic testing.

Mike Williams from Chargers could be an option, the Lynn connection and he is a big time player (when healthy)

Summers are great though!

I think the Howell trade makes this even more likely. I think there will be a OT run. Trading up from 36 in second to a late first round pick (25-32 picks) would cost between 590 and 720. 36th pick is worth 540. Our 3 3rd rounders are worth 255, 200, and 100 respectively. Trading 100, which is practically a 4th, to get the last OT and get a 5th year makes a ton of sense to me. I would also consider it for a pure BPA guy who slides before KC or Baltimore can grab him.

Yeah QB should be like 50% of their grade. They fail.

Pittman should help on teams. Could hurt some of our depth ST guys- they may not make the squad now. Pittman played 80% of Detroit's special-teams snaps in 2023.

I think it has less to do with the QB psyche than pressure on coach/decision makers. If QB1 struggles, coaches could start looking at QB2 with more interest when they should be investing all of their time in making the QB1/coach relationship work. Sort of like if you were married but your ex girlfriend lived next door… But I also agree generally.

He’s just going to blame Snyder like Shannahan did. And revisionist history about all the players he wanted but somehow didn’t get because of Snyder. I wish he would go coach college where be might do a decent job versus being a ESPN talking head; no one should care about his opinions.

Yeah I assumed Ridgeway would be our backup. I thought he was ok here.

I agree with your first point; we don’t have true pass rushers (maybe Fowler). But literally every player we signed improved our run defense. It’s a huge strength of Ferrell, Chin, and Luvu. Not sure about Armstrong. The defense will be at least average.

Playing devil’s advocate-SF has had to play all their QBs before due to injury and GMAP could want 3 quality QBs on roster. Or they have a possible trade worked out for Howell if a team doesn’t land the QB they want in draft.

My hope now is we hold Howell until preseason and trade him for a 2025 2nd or 3rd when a team has a QB injury.

FA isn’t over yet-Keim said to expect more moves and I bet one is a CB or FS our coaches like.

I think there will be more pass rushers than 3. Darius Robinson, Chop Robinson most likely and some other freak athletic surprises. Also, Jenkins at DT, IMO.

Exactly. The figures they came out show how little we are paying and he can still catch passes out of the backfield even if we don’t use him to bang between the tackles anymore. We have other RBs who can carry the load. Just need to give him some touches on 3rd down, etc. I see it as a better McKissic with upside.

Do you think we try and platoon Ferrell (obvious runs) with Fowler (passing downs)? I love the roles they are getting guys for. It’s shaping up to me a really solid group. Opening up pure BPA in draft.

Also he played C in college, so position flex <hides while everyone throws stuff>

Yeah probably getting paid like 4/4/8 with first two guaranteed and last year either getting renegotiated to extend or cut if he’s bad.

I’m surprised we aren’t more interested in Tannehill. He would be my choice of backup.

Interesting. Maybe we have a possible trade worked out with Vikings or Denver for Howell

This is crazy but hear me out: Patriots want Maye and have a draft day deal worked out with Commanders. Assuming Caleb goes 1, Commanders swap picks with Pats and Pats take Maye and sit him for a year. We get Patriots 2nd rounder and take Daniels. Wouldn’t be my preference, but interesting. Could work because you can actually trust Pats and Commanders since it’s one pick. Commanders could even take Maye and then trade him for pick 3 and second rounder. But there are a bunch of running QB backups out there. Tyrod Taylor, Mariotta, Tannehill, etc. Why take a pure pocket guy? You can’t have two totally different offenses. To me, this says they like Maye or someone like Penix.