“Misdirection”

It would be bad leadership to not give EB an interview on Harris and Peters part. Even if they know they don’t want to go his direction, it’s a bridge and reputation builder to allow EB to say he interviewed (and is still interviewing) for HC gigs. There was already an article somewhere about how EB didn’t want Howell, suggesting Brissett instead, so he’s already on top of washing his hands of it and finding the next gig.

To read that even kdawg appears to be jumping off the Howell train fills me with both sorrow and clarity lol theres 3 games left to prove otherwise I suppose, but I’m finding peace with going QB in R1 the more Sam struggles down the stretch I mean we all thought the Texans had one of the worst rosters in the NFL coming into the season and all they do is draft a blue chip rookie QB and a blue chip DE and now they’re 8-6 and in the playoffs

Not great! Wonder how this correlates to overall passing volume and a drop/attempt type ratio, and how we’d then rate to other teams with similar volume. Chargers/Chiefs seem likely comps anecdotally.

Phillips has this one backwards if we take the words at face value

https://x.com/nickijhabvala/status/1696942589297975438?s=46&t=W7yH54O4h8F4gGNkSxm8hA

Wildgoose, Castro-Fields, and Toohill (might also be others) were waiver claims by Ron at similar times of year in the past. So I disagree with your premise that this is typical Rom behavior. I think they just liked their guys 🤷🏻‍♂️ doesn’t mean that’s the right decision by him, but if he’s done it before and didn’t do it now it’s not just comfortability. Another observation, every year we seem to have a back of roster WR/PR/KR battle. Pre-season heroes we can’t release or they’ll get claimed. Every team has a ton of WRs and there’s always gonna be guys that get cut that fans love. Based on the list of waiver claims, not a single WR from any team was claimed. Chiefs made one 7th round swap trade with Smith-Marsette but that’s all I can think of more likely, guys that are released will have competing practice squad offers if they showed out at all

I’d say this thoughtline didn’t age past about a week given the major premise of this past episode we’ll see if they continue to make it a theme and slow play it but so far I like the direction

Perhaps. But I quite like the idea that all have a connection to the force it’s more about your training and openness to it. some may be more naturally gifted (just like any athlete or prodigy of our world) but it doesn’t mean others can’t try (or even excel) if they devote themselves to that path. Kanan on sabines force connection: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8Y18FVC/

They made a distinct point for the robot who has constructed every Jedi lightsaber in the last 500 years (encompassing 10s of thousands of Jedi), to say “wow you’re probably the least force sensitive person that I’ve ever seen to walk down this path” it’s not like she’s out here force powering fools and reading minds

Watched the first two episodes. Very much rebels season 5 feel to it. Loving the castings by and large, Sabine is the heart of the show so far. A shame about Ray Stevenson. His gravity sis undeniable also live action chopper, our favorite murder bot, is perfection

On all the time with the exception of watching a comedy movie or show. Ruins punchlines

@Voice_of_Reason sorry to steal your thunder this year on the hindsight picks thread lol Look forward to you etching your takes in virtual stone with the rest of us

yeah but even then Howell would have low first 2-3 year cap hits in an extension like they did with Hurts, likely even lower. You can work around that. Unless they go full Kirk with the franchise tags again 😂 let’s not make that mistake twice the bigger immediate cap concern is if Howell fails and they draft a high QB with a decent salary up front but even that won’t be terrivle

Winger seems more like a Ted replacement than a Tommy replacement. I like it

Fuller is not injured or awful enough to be outright cut. He’s an average NFL corner with stretches of above average (and below average) play. Volatile like all corners. He’s 28. Makes a decent amount but if they really wanted him gone he has too much value to just release. Hell either be traded for a mid/late pick, walk in FA for a potential comp, or get signed to an extension to bring the # down. I suspect nothing happens til ownership is resolved.

Having worked in the industry it’s all about location, the best seats suites and perks go to those who get in early. As soon as things are official it’ll be a waiting list for the best items, it’s a gamble like anything else. and honestly, 99% of suite sales will be corporations in the area. These are expensive. not sure for Fedex, but we used to sell Wizards/Caps suites for $3-$10,000 per game depending on opponent/date. To put your name on the suite and access to all 200+ events in a year, would be easily $500k investment.

We agree on this. I appreciate QBs being graded for things like “interceptable passes”, like when “you know who” led the league last year but they were all dropped lol. Much like examining pass rush win rate etc. We have some man/zone PFF grades that evaluate stickiness and awareness. But what’s the defense equivalent advanced stat for interceptable throws? Gotta be a statistical way to separate the Joey Porter/Carlos Roger types from the Forbes/D Hall types in the way of measuring ball skills, aggressiveness, etc. Have to imagine even the best corners only truly manufacture 3-4 INTs/year by themselves without any flukiness on the play. sorry my posts here are more ramblings on the statistical possibilities and nuances than disagreement with either of you @KDawg or @Spaceman Spiff lol

I do think there’s an element of scheme knowledge/comfort ability with Kendall that we are ignoring. He’s been in the system for years and that isn’t immediately replaceable by somebody off the street.

There’s a consistent theme of folks breaking down corners lately where we’re discounting interceptions as just QB mistakes or luck and that won’t happen in the NFL. Which is fine and fair. But it does happen. How many picks in the NFL year to year are a QB staring down, a bad throw, a tipped ball, WR falls down, a hail Mary gone wrong etc. Or, rather, what % of NFL INTs are the result of masterful coverage, baiting a QB, or elite catch-point skills on 50/50? Or however you’d describe INTs we want to give credit for.

Taking the 5th year option isn’t just a price comparison between that and the franchise tag. it’s actually much like our fears when RGIII was on the option. That it fully guarantees for injury. it’s more likely given the recent injury that he could get hurt substantially again… if so we’re screwed. Also helps to motivate him as well. We feel it worked for Payne, and gotta assume after 3-4 years they know what motivates Chase by now.

Someone else mentioned this too, I’d have definitely made the Broderick Jones trade if a 4th is all it took. like that you stuck with the same stacking of OL and DB as we did in actuality, just flipped the order on its head.

this is me with the exception of perusing the comprehensive draft thread here for some insights lol don’t really consume any other draft content outside of the RAS guy on Twitter In real time I just knew we had a corner need and Gonzales was highest rated and made sense. Didn’t know anything about Forbes. In hindsight of learning more about each; I actually like what we did.

Fair point as to the exercise, certainly not a perfect projection for that reason. Take it a different way then. Presume everything is the same with our picks except for the one round you’re evaluating a selection. Ex) We take Forbes R1, where do you go R2? Ex) We take Forbes, Martin, Stromberg, where do you go Round 4? You seem good with Forbes and Stromberg. Most interested in your Round 2 thoughts tbh

Doing this exercise actually I realized I’m happier with what we got than expected. All that time you spent researching these prospects, I’m surprised you don’t want to even attempt at least the real time version. You certainly had thoughts throughout the draft thread, you’d have made exactly the same picks in real time off of your board?

Got some support for this idea in the draft thread but didn’t want to muddy up the conversation. This thread is to stake your claims as armchair GM and see how we’d have faired if you were at the helm. Should be fun to look back on as we get to next years draft and onwards. There’s two ways to approach this: 1) Real-time (who I would’ve picked while watching live) 2) Hindsight (who I would pick knowing how everything ended up) Real-Time 1st Christian Gonzales CB 2nd Darnell Washington TE 3rd Dawand Jones OT 4th Braeden Daniels OT/OG 5th Israel Abanikanda RB 6th Ivan Pace LB 7th Max Duggan QB Hindsight 1st Jack Campbell LB 2nd Cody Mauch OT 3rd Ricky Stromberg C 4th Nick Herbig DE 5th Darius Rush CB 6th Zach Kuntz TE 7th Cory Trice CB My approach was to use the trade up we made. But feel free to use our original picks, or base a hypothetical trade up another team made on the actual compensation used. @JamesMadisonSkins I’m expecting absolute hypothetical trade chaos for your take and will accept nothing less