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  1. What you said reminds me of this play: Play 26: Play Grade B+. Completion for 15 yardsp. Outside receiver just ran an out and Maye put it on him. NFL throw there. Easy read. 1:1, off coverage. Receiver pushed like he was going deep, then broke the route off and the ball was right there. Absolutely beautiful completion in the timing of the play. He made this throw look easy. And it’s not. But he made it look like taking candy from a baby.
  2. That might be my fault, at least partially, because I broke down every play in the game in a massively long post a few weeks ago and reference that breakdown a lot
  3. In fairness, he had 8 drops on perfect passes which would have greatly increased his completion percentage. I think there was a period of time in the second or third quarter where there were 3-4 obvious drops in a row. No QB is perfect coming out of college. They’re all unfinished. They all need to work on mechanics and none of them are running true pro style systems. I like to see what they are capable of. If they show capability, then in theory, good coaching can help them improve and maximize their potential. Edit to add: in no way and in no universe was Maye responsible in any way for the loss. That loss was on the UNC defense and to a lesser extend the entire supporting cast. The OL is horrid and the receivers dropped big play after big play after big play. They needed Maye to be perfect. And he almost was. He had by my recollection 3 bad balls the entire game. The lost. And it wasn’t remotely his fault.
  4. And therein lies the problem. He’s inconsistent. I’m not nearly skilled enough to tell you why. Mechanics? Decision making? Brain fart? Dunno. But he CAN make the throw. And he had about 5 throws just as impressive in that UVA game. Timing throws driven 40 yards in the air. But he also misses stuff you wouldn’t think he should miss. If he didn’t miss the stuff he shouldn’t miss he might challenge Williams for the #1 spot.
  5. To be clear, I could find plays I really liked with Daniels. He had a few beautiful fades which were money. I think I prefer Maye because I think he could offer more versatility from the pocket and good escapability and ability to create. He has shown he can throw timing routes and make NFL reads. However Daniels can take the ball to the endzone from literally anywhere on the field himself. If he gets half a step, he’s gone. He has good mechanics and good touch on the deep ball. What scares me about Maye is his inconsistency. In the UVA game, he missed 2 wide open deep TDs because he just flat over threw the receiver. Why? Dunno. He hit 2 also. Maybe it’s because hitting a target 50 yards down field is hard? But he missed throws he should make. What scares me about Daniels is he doesn’t have the option for all NFL throws. And has to be presented as a runner. And is tiny and I am concerned if he has 170 rushing attempts (10 per game on either scrambles or designed runs) he’s going to get blasted and get hurt. But I like both. I have a slight preference to Maye. But I won’t be upset either way.
  6. The first play in this cut up is one of the throws which I loved from Maye. It’s a post play, receiver splits the safety and the safety, Maye fires the ball between the defenders. He reads it properly, notices the outside leverage of the DB and the late coverage of the safety. Puts the ball on time where only his guy can get it in a small window. if he’s half a beat late or doesn’t have the ability to drill it in there, this is an incompletion or the WR is wrecked. This is an NFL throw and read. This throw is not available to every QB in the league. I don’t think Daniels can make this throw. Maybe. But he would need to really step into it. McCarthy might be able to. I assume Williams could make it, but I honestly haven’t watched one snap of his ever. I don’t know about Penix or Nix, I haven’t watched them either. You can watch or skip the rest of the video. The first play is the one I love.
  7. I like Bram. I really do. But read his show summary, the second part. I haven’t listened yet. Talk about tin foil hat theories. EDIT: I’m pretty sure @SoCalSkins thinks this is a totally reasonable conclusion.
  8. Y’all posting from that moron Thor Nystrom JUST TO **** WITH ME aren’t you? I hate you all.
  9. I would like to point out to Mark Ein PFF grades the Vikings off season as an A- after they let Kirk walk for nothing but a possible 3rd round comp pick and signed Sam Darnold. So. Appreciate the nice words from PFF. They’re still channeling the inner stupid of Chris Collinsworth.
  10. I haven't looked, but I know there is both a cap/spending floor and also some type of limit on how much you can roll over. I have no idea what these are and don't have the time to research, but I'm sure Peters knows. I wouldn't be surprised if both of those numbers are playing significantly into the strategy: spend only what we have to and roll over as much as we can to next year. They can't fix everything in one year. Keeping cap flexibility and ability to spend with a young team as they are building it is a HUGE advantage and accelerates roster construction. Flip side, eventually you should spend the money to "go for it."
  11. They could also re-sign him at any point if he wanted to play. His wife, however, in a pretty funny and very down-to-earth instagram post kindof announced his retirement. "BREAKING NEWS: Charles Leno Jr has officially accepted a new role as a stay at home dad. Nurse Jen activated. Thanks for everything Washington! Y’all have embraced our family with open arms these past 3 years through some super difficult times & we will forever love y'all!" I think he's retired, and I think he's fine with that. He had to have hip surgery, so who knows if/when he could play again. They also went through a family tragedy during the season, and I wouldn't be surprised if Charles just wanted to stay home with his family for a while. I would. I doubt they want to trade one of their 2nd or 3rd round picks for a player when they have the possibility of picking a player with them or packaging them to move up to grab a player at a need position in a higher tier. Build through the draft, they said. TRADE YOUR PICKS! we say. NO! They said.
  12. The problem with flipping Wylie to LG is you open a hole that you can't fill at RT. I think Wylie is irrelevant. If they could have signed a player better than Wylie at RT which fit within their strategy, the fact Wylie is on the roster wouldn't have stopped them. That guy didn't exist, so they didn't sign anybody. Also note: he's NEVER played on the left side. And from what I've heard from OL players over the years, that's not the easiest thing to do. I remember Grimm saying it at some point, though I don't remember the context or when. He said it screws with your mind because literally everything is backwards, and all of your technique is backwards, and everything you practice which becomes muscle memory has to be re-learned. I have no idea if that's true or not. But I'll trust Russ Grimm on the nuances of OL play, even if he played 30 years ago. Not that it can't be done, and isn't done, but it's not that easy to do. And Wylie isn't THAT good where I would think he would make the transition easily. So I think until they draft a guy or sign a true RT, Wylie is the RT. And that will be fine if they get a good LT and they do more things to help Wylie. His biggest problem is he can get set-up. And then he gives up huge sacks at the worst times.
  13. I'm just don't know what they could have done differently and still fit into their overall strategy of not overpaying for veterans, maintaining cap flexibility in years to come, and not signing guys who are old and injured. The challenge is the tackle FA market just stunk. And it always stinks. Because you don't let good tackles hit FA. So, they could overpay for an "ok" tackle or sign an old, oft injured tackle. We just overpaid for an "ok" tackle in Wylie. Why do that again? They have to draft a LT. If they have to package picks to go up and get one, that's what they have to do. I'm just going on the premise they're going to get a starting LT in the draft for the single and sole reason they don't have a warm human being with a beating heart who can play LT on the roster currently. I know you don't draft for need. But when you have 0 players at a position your hands are kindof tied. Were any of the tackles available appreciably better than Wylie? I am not so sure. And they would have been more expensive. Which says more about the tackle market than it does about Wylie. And again, I don't think they want to have 2 rookies at tackle spots + a rookie QB. They got stuck because Ron has performed roster malpractice on the OL for 4 years. They needed 4 new starters. That's really tough to do in one off-season. You want to draft your tackles. It's really hard to draft both a starting right and left tackle in the same draft. I think they're going to probably draft 2 or potentially 3 tackles. But that doesn't mean they would be ready to start this year.
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