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Considering (in our country) the social media Karens are all total spazzes, I can see why they got offended 😂 FWIW Brady was complimenting Allen when he made the reference.

Ha, well I don't disagree with your first post stating he arrived last year, and I certainly am not the only one who believed in Shakir, but most people didn't see it that way. A lot of people felt like he wasn't going to be able to replicate what he was doing without Diggs drawing double teams. There were lots of people all over this board including in this thread, other WR offseason threads, my thread in season about him last year, etc that were either throwing shade at him, doubting him, or limiting his ceiling as more of a role player than anything else. Some common push back items were that they felt he wouldn't be able to get open enough with his short arms, that his efficiency would fall way off with a bigger sample size, etc. Most saw him more as a complimentary piece that would likely struggle without a bonafide WR1 on the field. But this year he has proved all that wrong and really arrived, not as a complimentary role player, but as a goto player who makes plays every time he is called upon. He has shown he has elite hands, elite YAC ability, runs as tough as any WR in the league too. He also blocks well, does all the dirty work, and is completely unselfish. So he still took it up another notch this year and became a bonafide star IMHO

Ok, I came to write something sarcastic and funny...but stopped here. Wasn't going to be better than this one. Kudos this was primo 👏 🫡 Bahaha that is premium mod work sir, thank you as this thread is hilarious

Midseason check in and an obligatory shout out to Shakir coming off another excellent game Now back on a 1000+ yard pace again. After setting the NFL record for most targets in a row with a completion already earlier this year (29) he has now caught 50 of his last 52 targets which is just insane efficiency. Despite missing a game, Shakir ranks are: Yards - 21st - 421 yds YAC Yards - 5th - 300 yds Some other ranks: YAC per Rec - 7th - 6.8 yds Catch % - 1st - 94.4% Now factor in the first 3 weeks too: Week 1 - Allen only had 2 pass attempts up until the final 2 min of the first half and finished with 18 completions to 9 different guys. Week 2 - Was the Cook show and offense took a vacation second half with Allen only passing for 140 yards in a blow out win. Week 3 - Josh completes passes to 10 different receivers in another blow out win where offense takes the 2nd half off. So he has missed one game, was limited in another, and the context of the first 3 weeks limited everyones volume opportunities in the offense. And he still has been this good. LFG! He has become one of my absolute favorite players to watch play

Yeah, and its unfortunate for Diggs, never want to see someone go down with this kind of injury. I was also really looking forward to sending him and Houston home in the playoffs too. I got nothing against him, but it would have been fun to see us end his season in his "grass is greener" season with Houston.

Hahahahaha touche´ and I concede you did

I mean they had to do something, their receivers couldn't catch a cold against the Browns. This is a great midseason pickup for them. Instantly their best WR IMHO, so don't love this for us, but for the Ravens this was a great move. I was actually shocked KC didn't go after him instead of Hopkins personally. Also good for my fantasy teams lol

Richardson can't hit the broadside of a barn, so no surprise. Makes this matchup more legit for us though. Still expect a win, but with Richardson it was likely a blow out as our D would have chewed him up. Flacco can at least get the ball out and get it to his guys, so makes the Colts a bit more dangerous as they still have some good weapons there. So I am going from expecting a 3+ score blow out to just your normal multiple score win of 10+ points.

Yes this is correct. I was actually wrong myself about this yesterday and someone cleared up my misunderstanding of it for me. I had mistakenly thought that when Beane restructured him that it gave him another big guarantee still next year. But the poster who cleared that up and explained to me what really happened stated he only had $3.5M guaranteed next year and nothing GTD the 2 years after that. Houston took his $3.5M guarantee from next year and added it to this year boosting his salary up this year an additional $3.5M.

Hahaha but who did it better 🤪 Also I feel like we aged ourselves with this old reference haha

That’s a long list lol and what is hilarious is that some of them are trying to gloat about their negative takes on the WRs being right because of the Cooper trade while ignoring how wrong they were on Keon (and some of them on Shakir too). Selective and cherry picking memories some people have lol

Except Coleman has done most of his production (including 100% of it against Titans) with Cooper off the field. Colemans breakout is substantially more because Allen and Brady have trusted him more and more and giving the kid more opportunities. Not that the Cooper addition wasn’t good, I was all for it. But this idea it’s been Copper opening things of for Coleman on the field isn’t that accurate. And I point this out for two reasons…to show how much more potential is still there as Cooper does get more integrated into the offense and to give Keon the proper credit he deserves for his play too.

hahaha awesome

I didn't even read the post...I just hit the agree emoticon as that was the only emoticon you had not gotten yet of the 11 options and wanted your post to have the rare perfect 11 out of 11 emoticon responses 😂 But TBH, I am reading now and I don't actually agree. I would rather the starters click and blow them out then get out of the game early and get rest and avoid injuries while the backups come in and get mop up duty.

No offense, I laughed reacted to your post because that is wildly a lot to give up for a 33 year old player. I think we learned our lesson with Von already. Day 3 pick, sure lets talk. But all of that above is unrealistic, especially since Beane already traded his 3rd rounder.

I know, I just tagged you in a post and said my bad. I had a different understanding of the void, I thought it was Houston that wanted it voided and that after Beanes restructure of Diggs last year that he still had a big guarantee next season. I was mistaken and not afraid to acknowledge that when I am. So again, my bad

Ah, well maybe I am mistaken and misunderstanding the contract in terms of the void. I thought after Beane restructured him that he still had a big guarantee next year and that Houston was the one that wanted to void it to make the trade happen. Thanks for adding that context, that was new information to me and can see now why it wouldn't make sense to say he willfully took less money. So my bad, I stand corrected if this is accurate. @Einstein's Dog - This new context Mater just added seems to have cleared up where my disconnect was. So my bad, although I do still do feel Diggs primary discontent and main reason to get out was about his waning belief the past 2 seasons this team would get over the hump before his career was done.

Yeah but he was a safety, not a NCB in KC.

I get what you are saying, but there is a lot of misguided concern about this 5th year option. The reality is that Keon was never going to get to that 5th year option unless Keon doesn't prove to be a long term player here they want to pay a bigger 2nd contract to. Keon is playing with an elite QB, so we will know if he is a guy worthy of a 2nd contract long before we get to that 5th year option. And if Keon does establish himself as a legit starting WR here long term, Beane would never let him play on his 5th year option where Beane now has to compete with big FA money to resign him after the season where WR money has been a bit stupid in FA. So even if we had stayed put and took Keon in the first, the 5th year wouldn't have mattered anyway if Keon proves to be a long term piece as Beane would have extended him after year 3 or 4 anyway. And that was the knock on him coming out, he was much more raw than any prospect expected to go in the early rounds and only had 1 season in his 5 seasons in college where he had any production. Legette also said once camp opened he wished he had studied the playbook harder too leading up to camp. Doesn't mean he won't eventually get there, he obviously has a high ceiling. But for Legette to get there he is going to need to learn and figure out what it means to be a professional and dedicated to his craft. The fact he mentioned that is a positive sign though for him in that regard. Then again I say every day I should go to the gym more and still don't 😂

Haha yeah, that was so good, surprised it wasn't talked about more on here. I was dying when I saw it

Ah yes, that is a good pull, although like you said he didn't play exclusively NCB like Taron does, but a nice pull none the less.

- "Tastes Great!" - "Less Filling!" - "Tasssstes Great!" - "Lessssss Filling!"

Agreed, and just furthering Taron's value, I am not sure I can recall another NCB that impacted his defense individually as much as Taron does here. Im sure there has been one or some, but honestly can't think of one that was as important and impactful as Taron is in this system for this defense.

IMHO: We should beat fins by double digits We should beat Indy by double digits - probably a blow out We should beat KC by more than 4+ points We should beat the Niners by 7+ points We should beat the Rams by at least 7+ points (blow out if they trade Stafford and Kupp) Lions are the worst matchup for us in the NFL right now IMHO. We struggle to stop the run, defend the screen, and have a history of good TE's going off on us. Lions can do all that amongst the best in the NFL. This is the one game that scares me. Screen game with Gibbs, Jameson, and even Montgomery scares me against our team as we still can't seem to defend it. Our best chance is getting to Goff, which we can, but if they counter that with getting the ball out early and short to Gibbs, LaPorta, Montgomery, etc it can be a big problem for our defense. I just hope our key players are healthy for that game on defense. Then of course, there is their ability to run the ball too in any fashion from pounding it to explosive out on the outside. I mean Lions just scored 52 points with Goff throwing for just 85 yards in that game.

I like your top 5...however, I would put Shakir as number 2, he simply has delivered every opportunity he gets and is among the best in the NFL in a number of receiving categories right now. I would also bump one of Brown or Dawkins (they have had a pretty equal season IMO, but probably bump Brown just because Dawkins plays the more important side) and replace them with Rasul Douglas who has been excellent this season again. Honorable mention is Bernard, but he can't make the top 5 when he can't stay on the field. So my list would be: Cook Shakir Benford Dawkins Douglas