Always A Commander Never A Captain

Tez has hand issues but at least he's got more catching confidence than DJ Chark. I believe Chark was almost exclusively a basket catcher into his belly in college.

Mayes 2023 was played on a bad ankle. He hurt it early in the season but I'm not sure which game. Supposedly it got worse in the last few games of the season.

Does Tez have a plus catch radius? Doesn't seem like it. He drops a lot when he has to extend past his frame. He is intriguing though, and I would be tempted to grab him in the 3rd.

All of this my guy is best and the other guys suck always leaves out Caleb Williams from the slander! What happened to equal opportunity? Take your shot at him too! Chicago will rue the day they didn't take (insert desired QB here) over Caleb and thusly gifted (insert desired QB here) to us. They will! Mwahahahaha!

I mean, that's why Mahomes and Rodgers are so good. Throwing off base is like most of Caleb Williams appeal too. But he doesn't have quite their arms. It's a bad thing unless you're good at it

I think it's a bit more difficult to say. I also lean Stras but he was hurt a lot. The innings pitched difference between Stras and Scherzer is suprisingly small given the years in the organization. I think Stras might only have 1 more seasons worth of innings pitched than Scherzer? It's also difficult to separate them as they were both Ace's during the lone World Series run. Scherzer had 39 WAR to Stras 31 WAR. I know who was better isn't the argument, but that much WAR does help show that Scherzer contributed to the team for a long time. I guess my point is, there's too much overlap between Stras and Scherzer and it doesn't feel right to anoint one as face of the franchise pitcher over the other. In comparison to Ryan Zimmerman, I don't think there's any question on which batter is the face of the franchise. It's him.

Wood and Lipscomb to AAA is good at least. Did he mention where Morales is and what he'll play. AA and 1B? Almost all of our pitchers are JAG's. Gore has potential. We've got Cavalli coming. Maybe there's still an argument for Gray? But until Cavalli that's like 4 of 5 starters who probably would not start on better teams.

So Michael Davis's contract numbers came in, he's right now just barely our highest paid corner at $3.6 million. Forbes is at $3.5 million and St Juste is at $3.4 million. That's more money for Davis than I thought it'd be.

I doubt it is, and we'll probably sprinkle other coverages in but we do know some things. They have said certain spots are billed for more Man coverage and less Zone Chinn (SS/LB) and Luvu (LB/Blitzer). Odds point to a fair amount of shell coverage over the top, mixed with man underneath. Some of that Man could be the basic zone pattern matching which turns into Man, and maybe Forbes wouldn't be bad there. But offenses could still attack that and force Forbes into more straight Man pre-snap if they want to. I think the coaching flexibility is in how they use the middle of the field. The DL, the LB's, and the SS will have extremely flexible roles that shift on opponent/down/distance/etc, whereas the outside CB's and the FS will be more rigid. My guess is they build the weekly defense around pressure packages, getting to the QB, and then fit what coverages they can in behind that. That's pretty different from what we've normally done for schemes, which often felt like building coverages first and then try and keep the QB contained in a slowly closing pocket.

I think Sanders was more a product of a loaded Texas team than anything else. Putting Sanders numbers in RAS and we get:

Mockdraftable says his spider chart compares really highly with Jahan Dotson. 92.3% similarity in testing/measurements.

I read the onside kick has another change. Instead of it being 5 players on each side of the kicker, it's now 6 and 4. So teams can kick to the strong side or fake it and kick to the weak side. I don't know if that really matters, but it could be a fun tweak?

It's lying season, but Peters has implied they do not feel desperate enough at OT to do that.

Who could get a draft boost from the overhauled kickoff? Xavier Leggette maybe?

Not sure where else to put this, but how much does the new Kickoff rules change people's roster designs? They overhauled the kickoff and the change seems pretty drastic.

Supposedly bettings odds now have McCarthy as a realistic shot to be drafted #2.

That's a lot, but not unreasonable. Paints a bleak picture for early 2nd round for us, as WR is in a really big weak spot for a Klif Kingsbury offense.

I don't think he's more athletic than Alt. Alt has really light feet, and that's the major reason (in my mind) why he's getting drafted in the Top 15 picks. If Fisher was actually at Alt's athleticism, we'd draft him at #36 and not think twice.

Rosengarten in the 1st round? Wow. I kind of want to move him to Guard instead of OT, but I do like him. I'm not seeing it with Suamataiea. I think he's nowhere near ready to play in the NFL. I know we need a developmental OT, but I'm not sure what he shows on tape is going to be that easy to fix. For clarification, CLSkins is saying he's a 1st rounder. Are you also think Rosengarten is a 1st rounder and if he falls to #36 or #40 you'd take him (unless Paul is also there?)

I'm with you. I think Blake Fisher goes in the 2nd round and not the 3rd.

If Lipscomb makes the team, I don't see how they rationalizing giving him less playing time than Garcia. Maybe they could cobble it together over many spots, but Garcia isn't the future at 2B anyways.

He'll get that opportunity and will likely win as a 2nd round rookie probably needs a bit more time to fix glaring mistakes. Who ends the season as a starter is TBD. But Lucas and Wylie are opening day starters. There's a limit to what we could fix, at least the IOL shouldn't be a massive weakness.

Titans are really going in on Will Levis being the guy.

So minus arguments of the Top 3 QB's... What QB that we aren't going to draft that you are oddly rooting for? I think Penix could have a surprisingly solid (but not dominant) career. Wherever he lands I'm curious to see how he does.

Hey, Trey Lipscomb is still around! They might actually start a rookie! There was a thought Zach Davies could be the 5th starter, that's done now. I forgot Hassell was still in camp, he's been hurt for a bit now (again). Why did they send Bleier and La Sorsa down, they were doing great.