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I'd be furious too - there was a really good chance that 3 of the 4 QBs would be off the board by pick 4. This would've driven the trade-up price up even further than the amount the jets overpaid. We kind of lucked out that the giants went for barkley, and that the broncos liked chubb.

I remember him making some plays - seems like a solid athlete.

Yup - Not sure why looking at that roster gettleman thought they just needed a running back to get them into the playoffs.

Then i wouldn't necessarily be opposed to it. He's still learning nuances of pro football, but he's got guys like lorax and hughes to kind of help along with the pass rushing maneuvers.

They know they need a quarterback. The problem is young QB's do better with good WRs - like Jarvis Landry for Baker.. Hopkins for Watson.. Hill/Watkins/Kelce for Mahomes.. If the plan was - draft a rookie this year, sit him for a year, and 2020 is the year to compete, then i guess it makes sense. They'll now have tate, rookie QB, barkley, some solid o-line pieces, and a good chunk of cap to spend. Their defense isn't great - could use some pass rush, as well as secondary help. But i think i get what they're doing. 2019 isn't going to be great... But that gives them a high 1st in 2020 to address pass rush or improve the offensive line. 2020 is a "compete" year, but its not like a super bowl type of team. ODB wasn't pushing them to a super bowl in 2019 or 2020.

I mean - they invested in him the player. He's been injured a ton the last couple of years and their LBs have been some of the worst in football. They need to move on.

What does Edmunds bring as a pass rusher? Usually the SAM rushes a decent amount, and also has to rotate in at DE during some of the nickel packages.

Well the big problem wasn't the disguising - it was the 2 gap system for guys like kyle and dareus etc. Penetrating d-linemen were instead responsible for just eating up blocks. Mario had to cover a bit as a 3-4 OLB, and just generally didn't like having to rush standing up. I think the defense as a whole was more affected by the 2 gap system though. They also implemented a ton of checks in the defense, so there was a lot of gap switching and coverage switching pre-snaps. This results in second guessing and mistakes.

I'd like to see hock here. Has buffalo ever had a good tight end? Let alone the next like witten or something.

No one's trading a first for rosen

They're literally where we were in 2017, minus the trade chips. After we dumped darby, watkins, ragland etc - we were a foregone conclusion to finish dead last. Tyrod and the defense won a bunch of tight games, beane used the picks to get us a QB moving forward. But everyone essentially considered it the worst team in the league. We made the playoffs that year (with help, and with being blown out several times, and probably wouldn't have if we didn't have Tyrod - especially after seeing peterman/mccarron/glennon and all the other bad QBs who were available)

Must have been a team scout who never watched him play.

Bojorquez hopefully pushes him too. I just want to not have the worst punter in the NFL, and i feel like we have settled for that since crossman came on board.

I'd role with all 4 and cut dimarco. McCoys off the books in a year so it doesnt matter.

His value has tanked - i would think itd be a third at this point. Not to mention you're trading from a position of weakness - people know you don't want this guy as he provides you no value to your team this year. Trading him pre-draft tells people who you're drafting, but it maximizes his value. If you trade post draft then teams know you are just dumping him. Zona has to eat some dead money if they move him - but its better to move him and not have him become a disgruntled backup where he tanks his value more than he already did with a poor rookie year.

The depth chart guys like stanford and thompson could be upgraded. The depth behind poyer and hyde could be upgraded. We still don't really have a starting 3T DT yet. along the o-line we could use some youth other than dawkins/teller. We have 1 NFL caliber TE on the roster. We still carry a FB. We have 3 really old backs with none under contract in 2020. Our sam linebacker is 36. Not to say cut any of these guys, but we could use some young talent in depth roles. Needs come draft time - Pass rush help (Hughes and Lawson are not under contract beyond this year) - a starting caliber DT - A running back to groom - a TE - usually want a 5th corner on the 53, and improvements behind poyer/Hyde, linemen.

If they're going Murray it makes sense to move him now to get the pick. Nyg have an extra 3rd now and it'd give them a possible building block

Ray Ray was drafted to be a returner/weapon. He was neither. So we signed a weapon in brown, a slot wr in beasley, and a returner. He's in all likelihood cut - or PS depending on who sticks to the roster and who we already want to designate for the PS.

Rosen's year was rough. I only remember even seeing a few highlights at any point during the year. While Allen came back from his injury and had a few good games, and limited his sacks (7 total sacks in the last 6 games) - Rosen was sacked 45 times on the year, including 16 in the last 3 games of the season. He had 73 more attempts and a higher comp% than allen (55% which is low for his depth of target) but only 104 more yards. I think both will benefit from some new targets, and some improved offensive lines. Daboll really moved towards an offense that allen could execute towards the end of the year to build confidence and create some offense. Rosen led the worst offense in the NFL, and everyone who had anything to do with his selection and development is probably gone. He could use the change of scenery, but I'm not sure Miami would be best for him.

Good addition - our returners were not good a year ago. We were forced to use Hyde as a Punt catcher at times last year. We were middle of the road to straight up bad last year at kickoff and punt returns. Returner helps special teams for sure - hopefully Hauschka can get back to form. Punter should still be looked at - Schmidt and Darr were awful, and Bojorquez was pretty inconsistent.

so jordy, williams, brown - still need a TE and a RB but they're better than they were.

I feel like sometimes its sort of like pitchers in baseball - you pad your numbers during the year against mediocre ones, then hit .200 in the playoffs because you only get to face solid pitchers. During the regular season you get to play mediocre teams and you can just rely on talent alone. Once the playoffs roll around typically the best coaches, the best defenses are still around so its tougher to have the same impact in the stat column. QB kind of trumps everything. If you don't have one you probably stink.

If you consider yourself a super bowl contender - and I think that they do - you want to have a higher end backup. If Rivers were to miss 4-6 games with injury (very unlikely) and you can't win at least a few of those, that could be the difference between playoffs and not. And you can't win the super bowl if you don't make the playoffs.

The cap itself is 188.2 - so any worry of dipping below a cap floor is not warranted. Allocating in the rookie pool of 10ish - we still have room to make a splashy signing and then bring in low cost players to fill out the camp roster.

3 oline in the top 9, and Alex smith's contract - that makes sense...