Charles Romes

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/10/05/after-making-18-tackles-brown-named-afc-defensive-player-of-the-week/

He looked great last year, until late in the season when he was pressed into duty as the featured back. His 24 carry 28 yard performance week 17 is what you will get if you think of him as a starter. A good change up relief back, not an every down back.

I'm not sure this is the worst offseason, even in recent memory. You have to consider 2009, when we fired our OC a week before the season, or who could forget 2014, when the brass finally realized we had no QB a few days before the first game.

Chris Draft is still out there un-signed.

On ESPN2 right now. Plays for Saskatchewan. 500ys 5TDS for the Roughriders last year. I never saw him as an NFL receiver but many on this board loved him.

The bashing Flacco takes on these lists is criminal. Has the best post season in the history of the game, then gets hung out to dry by the GM who takes away his weapons and replaces them with cast offs.

A stalwart underrated player.

The GOAT IMO. Watching him dominate for more than a decade I remember being so thankful and feeling so blessed he was a Bill.

Shady had at most 3 years in his prime left. If we don't make the playoffs by next year it was a waste

I wish people now would stop saying it was dumb for the Hawks to pass on 2nd down in the Super Bowl and not give it to the sure thing. That play was all about butlers incredible play. Would have been incredible just to knock the pass down. Lynch was a few carries from retirement when that play happened

Sammy for sure. He blew away revis in game 1 with the one yard game winning catch in which he created so much separation revis was no longer on the tv screen. He owned revis island game 2 and the whole league was talking about it.

Agreed - brandt still has got it.

That's what EJ said the first half against the Jags.

Exactly. You can't have too many good backs. Karlos may be too injury prone to stay in the league and mccoy is approaching 30. This is a need

Meh. Career backup ceiling of the ilk of cassell, henne, colt McCoy, Hoyer, etc. Played pretty well? They were a 10-2 team number 1 seed with Dalton a middller starter. They lost 3/5 with mccarron beating only the niners and Ravens.

If you have two quarterbacks you have none.

29 as a corner and you play hard ball after getting a tag? This guy does not have a sense of reality. He may squeeze out one more elite year if he stays healthy and is lucky.

Didn't Chip leave?

Yes. This year reminds me of 2007 at the QB position. Recall in 2007 JP was coming off his one good year. In 06 JP had a plus TD ratio a respectable 85 rating started every game and had the team picked to go 3-13 at 7-7 in the hunt down the stretch. Even though JP was seen as upward trending starter material the brass suspected he was missing that je ne sais quoi and we ended up up Bill Walsh's guy Trent. Trent did not work out of course, but for some tiime made us all feel better about ourselves.

USC is not Alabama. They should be happy about the additional exposure the NFL is giving their program.

Does anyone have a solid theory, beyond wishful thinking, why we should be better this year. We lost a bunch of good players replaced them with journeymen.

I heard american football had really taken hold in Germany. Still can't believe they can't make money off of NFL Europe which would be good to have again and solve the QB development problem.

What they should do is keep the rules the same with the modification that of you finish as the 7th or 8th seed with 10 plus wins you automatically qualify. The conference would then flex to a 7 or 8 team playoff format. Top seeds would have to play hard down the stretch to keep good teams from 10 wins. No one would complain it's too crowded since the only bad teams qualifying would be weak division champs which already happens.

As another poster noted this poll is bogus. There is no new open air stadium. That's what most of us want.

From a purist standpoint it is an abomination. It does artificially inject some excitement into the game. I wish these sports entities would for once take a long term perspective rather trying to maximize short term profits at every turn. In a few weeks everyone will be watching the greatest golf tournament in the world where corporate tents are banned and TV commercials almost nonexistent.