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I’ve messed with some middle end gaming VR headsets in the recent past (didn’t own them). I think it’s extremely cool but I would never say it feels real. There’s way too much of thinking about how your movements outside the game translate to inside the game for it to get that immersive. I’m sure after using it for dozens of hours that may change, but I doubt the value Daniels gets out of it is that it feels “real”. I think it more so just does a good job training his eyes where to be and giving him different looks. Just a different, more elaborate way of “watching film” than anything else really. Which is cool, because everyone’s brain is different and people learn differently. Technology closing that learning gap and giving guys tools to max out their talent is an excellent use case. I have no information or idea about the exact setup Daniels uses though, or what software he uses football-wise. I would guess it’s proprietary and very different from what your average person can buy online. Otherwise it would be Daniels buying it for himself and not Harris buying it (or LSU providing it last year). Even the most expensive VR setups around are easily affordable on NIL money. So I’m guessing access to the program and football film library is probably extremely expensive. More akin to NFL teams buying access to PFF’s proprietary info than an average VR experience. I would bet it’s extremely expensive. Probably over a hundred grand to access (and personalize with your own schemes and plays) the film library and program. That’s just a guess. I don’t think it’s something you can just buy and play at home as an average person. Every team in the NFL these days pays PFF a yearly subscription of over 75k to access their proprietary information (not so much the player grades but the detailed information about snaps, formations, player usage, tendencies, etc. across the league). I would guess it’s more like that. An extremely expensive subscription

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 he has put the hat back on, we’re all safe

I would be pretty surprised if we didn’t have a productive rookie on our hands here. Daniels to Sinnott is going to be eye-opening

So glad to not be a laughingstock anymore. The Patriots hired Mayo without a real hiring process—he was Kraft’s choice all along. Joke of an owner dragged along by Brady and Belichick, spends this entire offseason smearing Belichick just to hire another “Patriot’s Way” sycophant (but one who will kiss his ass) with no real competition for the job. Drafts a franchise QB with Mayo and Eliot Wolf (not given the GM title) making the decisions. After the draft, with a coaching staff and a rookie franchise QB already chosen…now Kraft is holding interviews for a GM. What?

Yes when I called the NFL player a tiny pansy and speculated that an NFL team running a defensive scheme that calls for tiny pansies may want to trade for him, I was being deadly serious. They’ll have to find him in order to trade for him though—they must look at him straight-on lest he turn sideways and disappear!

This is the second time you’ve posted your theory that these monsters who have to eat professionally in their off-time to stay large and fat enough to even play their positions don’t actually need to be coming off the field. Everyone kinda ignored it the first time you said it recently but I just feel like I have to bluntly say that imo you’re just wrong. Or the entire NFL is wrong. But I’m banking on you being wrong. Our talented DL has gotten noticeably less effective and more injured when they’ve had to play more and more snaps. Payne has had a season or two where he was an exception but that’s extremely rare. These guys are mostly not even meant to be the size and strength they are. An insane amount of work goes into it, and the cardio takes a hit. I think it’s admirable to question common sense on long held beliefs in this league but this one imo clearly has merit. The best DL’s are those that can rotate in talented depth and keep the energy high

Since we’re looking for violent run-and-hit players in our scheme, I wonder if we can trade him to a team whose defensive scheme now requires tiny pansies. A straight swap, perhaps.

Tress Way’s been great during our down years. How much does that mean to me? Not that much, hate to say. A Punter can’t make a jersey number “significant” to me. It’s just not possible. Maybe performing at an elite level during a Super Bowl run would do it, I doubt we find out. Even #5 I still associate more with the horrors of McNabb than I do with Way’s very good punting.

I think @Llevronwas just referencing how every action Daniels was taking before the draft was being interpreted as him wanting to go elsewhere because he hated us lol, so the fact that he finally has a public appearance without the Commanders hat he’s been constantly seen in since draft night, that must mean he’s back to hating us!! And none of us are talking about it!!1! lol if my interpretation is right, it just didn’t land bc it requires realizing he’s referencing those two stupid ongoing twitter jokes, for his to make sense edit: I see my phone didn’t update the thread and we are now 3 hours past this event and it’s already been talked to death lol

I think there’s a non-zero chance that Peters, coming from SF, along with Kingsbury think there is a viable way to account for a mediocre at best OL via scheme: Daniels releasing the ball quickly (and using RB’s and TE’s heavily) can take a lot of the pressure off of himself. We’ve seen it before—Cousins coming in when the OL looked terrible in 2013, Brissett last year.

You just repeated what I said, we are in agreement on the story lol You may want to delete this, the new sticky from Jumbo specifies not to talk about the looks of player’s wives, girlfriends, etc. FYI. Trying to keep things family friendly. I tried to keep my commentary about the Dax Milne/Zach Wilson purely academic for that reason lol

They need to not let this kid touch the field until his foot is 100%. 105% even. I don’t want to be going into next offseason saying “and don’t forget about Newton, we haven’t seen him in the NFL yet but that’s like having an extra 1st rounder added to the roster this year!)

Pretty cool look behind the scenes. Hope we eventually get some of this regarding our trade back with the Eagles. Things that seem clear from this: 1. Sinnott was our only guy at that pick we had to have 2. Damn the Jets loved Corley, and it was really tough for them to get anyone to move back to 72 from the mid-50’s. Shows how much value teams placed on that area of the draft, where we managed to get up to 53 from 78 due to our 40 —> 50 trade back. Makes that deal look even more slick from Peters, that was an extremely coveted tier of players.

In the context of an experienced and long-tenured scout, that would tend to make me think that he didn’t “love” anyone at QB at that time. I don’t think guys like him fall in love that easily before they have a chance to dig in, especially given how process-oriented we know he is.

He already told that part of the story lol, the rest of it is that he called his wife and told her what a stud Peters was

That’s awesome. That’s the 3-cone I wanted to see

Are you sure? This is the post that had me saying that:

NFL loves Jayden Daniels I’d assume from this clip that Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVay or Kevin O’Connell especially does lol

The OL isn’t good. The QB play has been bad here for most of 30 years, lots of the bad OL play has actually been 50% due to bad QB play. Including last year. The OL isn’t horrible.

A entire year of Jayden Daniels’ development has a tangible value to us imo. Potentially waiting until next offseason could slow down his development. Maybe it won’t! But the more comfortable he is, the more help he has, the earlier, the better imo. We need to get him to a skill, production, and leadership level—while he’s on his rookie contract—that allows us to compete in the playoffs. And do well enough there in the next 4-5 years that he’s worth paying top of market money to at the end of his rookie contract. So investing in (and even overpaying) weapons now to get him to that point where he can carry us later, when his weapons will necessarily take up less cap space as he eventually take up more of it—it’s hard to put a price on that imo. If he doesn’t develop into a monster QB, that’s bad for us. There’s a tangible value to juicing his development even if it costs us in the short term. The short term is when we can afford it anyways, though, looking at our roster and cap space. I wonder if the disconnect here is just how good some of us think Aiyuk is. He’s not JJ but he’s basically a top-10 WR in the league imo. There’s also a unique modifier here in Daniels’ close relationship with Aiyuk. That’s a fairly rare opportunity to support your franchise QB (who is known to be more of a lead by example guy than a rah rah guy) and get one of his guys in there to support him (and hopefully help him put up video game numbers). I wouldn’t overweight it in the calculus of the situation but it’s definitely worth mentioning.

On Aiyuk: I’d give SF a 2025 3rd and 2026 4th. Make the 2026 pick conditional on production and getting an extension done. I’d happily pay market value for him on an extension—for a 3 or 4 year deal, not longer. We have plenty of cap for the next few years and nobody to spend it on unless we go hog wild in FA next year after Daniels shows us what he is as a rookie. Very few people currently on the roster will deserve or earn that money in that window. Most of our promising players are either too old to be seriously paid again in that window or too young to be seriously paid in that window. We’re really in a spot right now to get Jayden some pieces to accelerate his development and act as force multipliers for the value of that #2 pick we just used. People balking at the idea of using that cap space on a vet right now aren’t really thinking it through all the way, imo. Other than Cosmi (who should be extended now btw) who is really on track to need that earmarked cap space in the next few years? Nobody we just drafted will be eligible for new money until going into their fourth season. The value I place on giving Daniels the best chance to develop on his rookie contract is immense. I’d also look into OT help, for those who think prioritizing WR is dumb. It’s not a zero sum game, necessarily.