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Wasn't he only with Carolina after Beane/McD left?

We did try quite a few receivers out there this year - with varying degrees of futility. Benjamin had a 37% catch rate on 62 targets. Clay was sub 60.... zay was 55 (still a massive upgrade over 2017). Pryor caught 2 of 8 targets. Holmes was at 52.2. Nobody was pulling in 50/50 balls. Benjamin was dogging routes. Some of these guys had bad hands. I get that these are excuses - but in the sample size of 320 attempts (25 completions adds almost 8% to his number) they kind of add up. Inconsistent play and effort, as well as people just trying to learn the playbook. Hopefully a full camp as the starter, improved line play, and improved relationship with his receivers will boost this number.

Outside of Steve smith their leading receiver every year is almost always Greg Olsen. They finally invested in WR more with DJ moore. Benjamin/Funchess were low catch rate guys with no speed. Hopefully Buffalo is getting away from that strategy, as i think Carolina is moving on from that as well. Cam Newton is a former MVP - His team has made the playoffs in 4 of 6 years and he typically has his offense in the top half to top 10 in the league. He's probably also playing banged up more than most QBs during that period.

I think the thing he improved most before and after injury was his sack rate. Obviously he ran quite a bit on these scramble plays - but his sack rate went from about 12 (incredibly bad rookie rate) to about 3.5. Sack's aren't as bad as picks but they are essentially drive killers. 12% of drives were probably killed on sacks, and many others were probably killed with penalties or poor execution. He was able to get more comfortable in the pocket and make plays with both his arms and legs. His total lack of a run game to lean on both in college and the NFL, as well as a weak o-line at both levels makes it kind of tricky to judge from a completion percentage perspective. He's put in some pretty poor down and distance conditions by both unsuccessful running plays, countless penalties, and poor line play. He did have some trouble with what should be easy rhythm passes, so hopefully we see some improvement on that in year 2. If the defense gives those kinds of plays up, you have to take them and be accurate and precise with the throws to maximize the impact and force them to change their strategy.

That cian whatever guy is a cocky insufferable human, the worst kind of person you find on Twitter. He is literally wrong all the time and cherry picks plays to fit his narrative.

Michigan state sadly took Frank Reich's college record with a 35 point comeback over northwestern in 2006. I think Reich leading a comeback over a highly ranked miami team after getting shutout in the first half may be more impressive though.

Right? How good is he at baseball??

How do they go about keeping him? Like whats the roster strategy with keeping Foles? He has a mutual option for 20 million - and he can walk and get more than 20 guaranteed very easily. If you do franchise him or persuade to keep him on a deal, you either lock up a ton of cap in year 1, or are making a long term commit to Foles - thus forcing you to trade wentz. Wentz is also in year 4 of his deal - his 5th year option comes in 2020 so you still have to make the decision relatively soon. Philly is also projected 7 mil over the cap with foles option as it stands.

I wouldn't bring clay back. He had some pretty god awful production. Low catch rate, probably a couple drops, and isn't so good of a blocker. 4.5 mil in savings can be spent on his replacement and we'd probably have an upgrade. I don't think Shady will play to his contract, but he's still a solid contributor. He can still block better than 90% of running backs, he can still catch, and he's still tough to take down 1x1 in space. I think his days as a between the tackles 20 carry guy are over. We need an upgrade at the between the tackles runner over what i think we have on the roster. This too - i wouldn't get rid of shady without him losing his job in training camp. I can safely say that croom has pretty much passed clay on the depth chart at this point.

If tyrod was lighting it up this might matter to me at all... We had an alright team with no QB. Shocking that we didn't want to keep that all together to just ya know... Not win super bowls.

I meant as LJ's backup. Familiar with the Roman offense. Probably an upgrade over RG3 at this point with mobility. Started his career there too.

I LOL'd at that...

My guess? Kubiaks like - we got this with case keenum. And Elway disagreed.

The issue with Roman is - its more complex than maybe it needs to be? Tons of formations, tons of running plays - all this means is it tends to take longer to get plays in. This gets you to the line late... this makes it harder to set protection, use pre-snap motion, and even get the snap off in time. It wasn't just Tyrod, he had the same problems in SF. It's like the opposite of mcvay - who wants you lined up while he's still in the headset. If he can clean up that aspect of his game-calling i think he'll do just fine. His offense is tailor made for LJ. The 3rd read is like... always to run. You have a high sack rate but tend to actually not lose a ton of yards on the sacks. Take some deep shots - lots of hitches and out routes. Easy reads - its there or it isn't. If it isn't, RUN. Tyrod Taylor Reunion?

I say keep him through camp and let him earn a job. He still has value to me as a 3rd down style guy - can block, can catch, still tough to tackle. I think his days as a 20 carry bell cow are done though. The 7 million we save by cutting him isn't money that we need at the moment. I mean - bring in others. He should feel like his job is on the line... because it is.

Some guard we've never heard of who ends up being. i dunno - fine. haha

Not what i was trying to say - Im saying a lameduck GM isn't making the call. It would be McD. And i don't think he fancies himself a QB evaluator, especially when he only saw him at a pro day/combine. But appreciate the sass for no reason.

Jameis just seems like... i dunno- he makes a fair amount of good throws. But man does he occasionally have some stinkers. And just generally a few times a game you go... what are you doing?! walking into sacks, throwing into coverage, sailing throws over the middle, poor ball control

No such thing as QB Purgatory. Tanking or trading up are both options.

1 - We had a lameduck GM who we didn't want drafting our QB of the future 2 - Mahomes was a Junior and didn't attend the senior bowl. 3 - McD drafted mostly players who attended the senior bowl with Milano the main exception (Tre White, Zay Jones, Dion Dawkins, Nate Peterman) I don't think mahomes would really thrive here without Reid TBH - a seasoned QB coach and Offensive guy. Not to mention our trainwreck of a line, and our utter lack of weapons. Imagine that no look pass bouncing off of benjamins chest ? And our defense would be pretty lousy without white and edmunds. I'm not sure we'd be like... drafting another QB, but I'm not sure we're much better off than we are right now.

I love that Brandon is gone. He really was like a dark cloud over the organization - we were 6-10 this year and i feel like we have a brighter future than we ever had in the past.

Size works really well if there is some semblance of effort - especially regarding blocking. But beyond just blocking - shedding press coverage you will have an advantage with size. You also obviously have height advantage for jump balls and 50/50 passes. None of this matters if you can't run routes to get open, or catch the ball. The size receivers we brought in could not get open OR catch the ball. AJ Green, Mike Evans - to a lesser extent Funchess, M. Williams, Golladay, and Sutton. When these guys are getting open, and making plays - very hard to stop those offenses. They're a mismatch on every play and if they're physical blockers its even better. Can't stretch the field without size, and you'll struggle against press coverage with only speed. Route running and hands really are the most important assets though.

I don't think he's married to Winston. I think they could be in play for Foles, Carr, even Tannehill.

WR coaches often want to be QB coaches and Coordinators. We have a couple openings now - and i do think Culley has his eyes set to be the replacement unless someone else were to be brought in.

I mean - the key is constantly re-upping the pipeline. Trying to identify young up and coming coaches. Daboll and Culley seem to form the nucleus of what they are trying to do moving forward - but if Daboll were to get a HC job I assume they are intending to groom Culley to replace him as primary playcaller? He worked under Reid as the WR coach for what 20 something years? The other option is outside the organization - which is always tricky especially with them likely wanting their own QB coaches etc. I wonder if Derek Anderson is using his Bills job to try and learn more about coaching as well to someday kind of follow in a similar pattern. Back-up QBs seem to head in the direction of coaching more than broadcasting.