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and you start point fingers at teammates, or adverse conditions that everyone’s working through and as a teammate I might still chuckle at any individual joke but still think you are an immature clown that needs to handle his business better. id bet it’s real mixed bag on guys real opinions of him

meh. I think he’s fine both as a receiver and person. He has the pats game, and similarly some good jokes but he had a lot of bad games, finger pointing, and general lack of accountability that likely did nothing to help his development. I never got a great read in if guys found him funny or frustrating. Likely both I guess.

absolutely true even the most lopsided matchups in the nfl are like 80%-20% rare are you ever playing a slam dunk, even if you are favored. the only caveat I’ll add while thinking on this is we don’t know what would’ve happened in cincy, and that might’ve substantially effected the talking point very easily.

I think the issue is someone needs to step up, more than a volume issue

I didn’t watch a ton but what I did was enjoyable - a start.

im not sure how much history there is. Guys have come back from extended injuries. Otherwise what are we talking about, Vick? watson should have looked bad last year. Not just rust but being away from the current team all season had to be a challenge with joining a new club and jumping in with new WRs and a new playbook. He’s not a slam dunk but the browns could easily be a 10-7 team (or a 6-11 team) yea you add a comp pick to that trade, they could actually get more back in picks than they sent

favre bought the headline of “favre disputes claims and is fighting back” and then quietly withdrew from fighting back because he didn’t have a case.

weird we saw this rumored pregnancy well before his gf did, right? I think they started in like November of last year?

you may be taking his sarcastic joke a bit too seriously.

Also can we acknowledge the “pose” in question is standing with his hands folded in front of him. It’s as soft a pose as possible while walking the carpet. I’m not sure he could do less.

the wild card is all 3 of those teams had qb woes last season. If Rodgers, Lamar and tua are healthy, that’s good for a couple games each and suddenly it gets real close. im not sure you can count on any of them carrying their teams the whole way, but last year was basically worst case scenarios for all 3 teams at the most important position. we also have a big question mark with millers injury. even if healthy, hard to say they flip the rank but it gets real close on a few. I think it’s safe to say we are in the second tier with questions to be answered at important positions, but still a contender. Whether that puts us 4 or 6 on a power ranking isn’t too stressful though. Or it creates a spicy hot take that gets clicks from all the markets instead of a predictable list that no one wants to deep dive and argue

though they loved the lawyer putting out crazy claims allowing them to say “he lawyer alleges….” with all the sensationalism but none of the risk of finding their own headlines

he’s a fitz of corners. He has a role in the league but you never want him to be a cornerstone piece. He could start on a handful of teams but they may prefer giving reps to a guy with upside and as you note always seeking to upgrade him. As a package player he’s good and about as solid as anyone stepping in if there’s an injury or two. I don’t see him coming to be a 5th DB but we could do worse at 4 if there’s an injury or position swap

she can say no at any point and have the dynamic instantly change unfortunately not only did she accuse someone falsely, she had her attorney publicly try to wreck the guy in the most destructive manner possible. I don’t know if at some point she said no. I don’t feel comfortable giving her carte Blanche to accuse without more concrete information either though. It’s an unfortunate situation all around.

They are not a family. They are likeminded high achievers pursuing a common goal.

he could have the afternoon he was cut if both sides wanted. The nfl is stopping nothing.

also, to be fair, by California law he likely wouldn’t have been found guilty of statutory even if they slept together with her loudly declaring her age at a college party

disagree. Pass rushers, elite pass rushers, can disrupt a game immensely. We see weekly that the constant flow of young guys doesn’t cut it. You need a guy that wins.

I’m not the back

im not sure we are distantly off. Even 4th is outside the top 10% of teams. Hard to call a team outside the top 10% a favorite to win it, so that would be the starting area of that second tier of very good teams. saying that’s not a favorite but they have a shot seems to be fair for teams in the 4-5-6 -7 type of range. If Miller comes back early and reliable I’d put us right at the front of that group, if he struggles probably towards the tail of that group.

If his other choice is retire- “get paid 7 figures, hang out doing what I love with some friends, and mentor some guys” isn’t terrible. He will see the field but not any meaningful way without injuries.

I’ve got to think it’s essentially a coaching role at this point but we will see. id imagine more “he likes the route run like this and will key on that motion” than “hey Wilson, head to the bench”

I will say last year was a rough one unfortunately we kick off this year down Miller and still a big question mark with tre. poyer and Hyde coming off injury at their age will be question marks. Likely good but shy of their peak form. morse is a love tap from being out long term we have a good team but I think it’s safe to say it’s second tier (ie have a shot but not a favorite) unless/until several guys show they are healthy- and others step up (Davis, Kincaid, any guards, Rousseau, any mlb)

and now we don’t have a pass rush, and we remain dangerously thin at WR (can you imagine if diggs goes down?) and have no mlb so we added some concerns too.

I’ll chalk you up with being ok if he did it to you then. frankly I think we’d all feel assaulted if some guy grabbed us and did that.