JaxJoe

Here’s a scouting report on the new DB: https://www.fieldgulls.com/platform/amp/2018/9/2/17812968/seahawks-on-tape-simeon-thomas-scouting-report-cornerback-nfl-roster?utm_campaign=fieldgulls&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&__twitter_impression=true

Wes Martin and Adrian Peterson are scratches?

I like JP Holtz. Good blocker and good hands.

That was my thinking here. Move Doctson to Z and have McLaurin and Richardson gain a lot of DB attention with their speed and Doctson might be more open.

So, Cody Whitehair is getting $10.5 mil a year (avg). Between Trent Williams ($12 mil) and Alex Smith ($20 mil) and a supposed $12mil for Scherff, that adds up to roughly $44 mil between three players. Now, the Cap this year is $188 mil, right? So, aside from dead cap math, that leaves about $94 mil for offense if all things are equal. So, a little less than half of what our offense should be allocated is going to just three players and two of them likely will never play for the Redskins ever again. This is where I think the FO has really screwed up.

Redskins 9 Eagles 7 I think it’s up to Manusky. If he unleashes the hounds early and often, and Case gives up only one turnover, I think we can hold the Eagles to one touchdown and we get three field goals.

None taken. The reason I compared the two is based on size and speed. Smallwood runs in the 4.4s - pretty fast but not as fast as Love. Smallwood is 5’10” and 208 lb and Love is 5’9 200 lb But the Bryce Love I’m talking about is the 2018 Love, not the 2017 we all wish he could return to. It’s a bit of mystery to me why Love’s production fell so dramatically between the two seasons especially when Stanford returned four of their five OL. Love was nursing an ankle injury for most of the season but to me it looked like he still had the speed, just not the shipping-lane sized holes like in 2017. He played in 10 games before tearing his ACL in the final game of the season. What one sportswriter said made the most sense is that defenses played Stanford to shut the run down with 8-9 in the box and those running lanes got more narrow. And, because Love isn’t built to skip or bounce off a defender like Guice can do, Love just got worn down.

He may also be insurance in the case Love doesn’t return this year from injury. Smallwood seems like a Love clone - small and fast with decent hands. http://www.nfl.com/draft/2016/profiles/wendell-smallwood?id=2555461

I can’t figure out why we didn’t at least try him at Z. Last year was Doctson’s best catch percentage but I assume his progress wasn’t good enough; 56.4% from 44.9%. That’s pretty poor regardless of which round he was drafted in. I’m OK from moving on from Doctson but am cautiously optimistic in our very young and nearly inexperienced group of receivers.

I thought Holtz has to clear waivers by tomorrow but Wilson and Brailford are on the 53 and can go on IR which will free up 2 more spots. But I’m not 100% sure

I’m thinking it’s McLaurin/Davis at X, Richardson/Harmon at Z, and Quinn/Smith at Y?

Outside of Richardson, that’s a mighty young and inexperienced group. I like that the coaches chose the players who played the best... I think these guys will be just fine.

Are we only going with only one backup tackle? Geron barely can play left tackle and I don’t think he got any reps at right. I was hoping Timon Parris would make it.

I thought Reeves outplayed Apke by a long shot and Reeves played +70% of the snaps on special teams. I thought we’d see the last of Apke.