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Well our offense the past 2 years has had a limited route tree. We didnt run slants drags and screens with the sole goal being to get the ball to watkins. It wasn't in roman's playbook. You see guys like landry, antonion brown, and others getting huge target numbers because that's how their offense is structured. They can all still make plays down the field, but their bread and butter is more short stuff. If you try to roll coverage to double watkins on a slant, a WR might be in single man coverage with no high safety on the same side. Or a TE can leak out behind them and get in a foot race with a LB. So you tend to just let them have the short stuff and try and consistently tackle. The roman offense seems to be more about attacking them in the run game, and going over the top when they cheat to stop your running game.

Why the Eli hate? Newton sucked last year, Russell Wilson wasn't particularly good, and Carr has only had 1 good year. Eli threw for 4000 yards and 26 TDs and that team can't run the ball at ALLLL. He had 4400 the year before.

We can always just tag him... There's no pricing yourself out of a tag.

I think they added his 10 rushing TDs in his total.

Slow ramp up from the injury maybe? I know they usually like to be extra careful in minicamps and OTAs.

Very true, can't teach speed - but you also can't teach instincts. He's some intriguing in the middle type of guy. Considering the injury though, I think it would be very premature to cut him at this juncture. Especially without extending your starting Mike backer.

Gotta let wood go i think. We paid Groy for an extra year, and we can draft a suitable swing guard/backup center replacement.

I dunno - he's a run stopper. Teams run the ball less, but they do still run it. I can't say he's... exclusively a short yardage player. He was SEC defensive player of the year... so I do think there's some natural talent and instincts you can take advantage of. Not to mention PB is a UFA, and we have ragland for 2 more years... so I think beane/SM want him to succeed. put 9 db's on the field and i will run on you every single play... just saying...

Would be nice... Honestly our depth at the position isn't bad. PB, 2 rookies (basically 3 with ragland), hodges/humber, and lorax who might be playing end/edge rusher by the end of the year with the depth we have as it stands.

3 downs? Probably not - and in some games his role will be very limited. However, he can tackle better than probably anyone else on the team and he isn't a terrible zone coverage player. Seeing as we had a ton of missed tackles last year as the year went on, he'll definitely get some snaps.

He'd have to be really bad... which no one has indicated that he has been. He's under contract for 2 more years and Preston browns a pending ufa. Would be rather short-sighted

People tweak hamstrings... it happens.

They are head and shoulders above the rest of the league. Doesn't matter who they're facing... 5 rings. They haven't had a point differential less than 100 since 2005. Top offense, near the top defense every year. Brady has won the division every year hes started since 2002. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nwe/

The same team wins our division literally every year. We could have like any other QB (brees, rivers, rodgers), and we're not winning the division this year. We drafted a QB each of the last 2 years btw.

dolphins at 3?! they have tannehill! EDIT - just read the note about disregarding QBs. I personally think Ajayi is overrated, but thats me.

i mean... it might? But he wasn't going to get the reps he needed here. So whats the point in keeping him?

I feel ya - i feel good about zay as a solid contributor. I think boldin waits it out a bit. Who know's though, we may have watched him run and just decided he doesn't have it anymore.

Yeah i suppose. I just feel like... the depth at safety was terrible last year. We lost Z brown, and gained ragland and hodges. Lost gilmore, gained white. Lost NRC, gained johnson. I worry about the DE's more than anything. Hopefully they're looking at that as the season approaches.

I feel like Whaley kinda... put us in a cap conundrum. We haven't been active in FA in the last what 2 years? We gave dareus ridiculous money, glenn is overpaid, and clay is massively overpaid. We even overpaid for Shady.

i dunno - we were 7-9 a year ago. Our highest paid player barely played, and didn't play well. Our highly drafted WR barely played. Starting safety almost died. 1st round pick barely played, 2nd rounder didn't play at all. Had a terrible lazy HC and AHC/DC. Why are we so much worse?

I mean - it sucks that we drafted him where we did. But Beane/Mcdermott saw you in OTAs... and apparently they saw enough. If you can't complete passes with no pads on, how are you going to do in a game?

I look at it like - if you end up moving on from Tyrod, you at least have the slight buffer of yates in 2018.

1140 yards and 11 TDs (no picks) in 4 playoff wins will get you a pretty hefty paycheck.

3 years in and get a pension? Thats pretty sick. He also made 1.8 million dollars and is only 26. Once he retires he should get like.. a free 20 grand a year. Only thing that isn't clear is - do you get this when you "retire" from the NFL? Or when you retire from like, working all together. And all this stuff: A Joint Replacement Program provides assistance to former players who require medically necessary joint replacement; A Medicare supplement program helps to pay for Medicare supplement insurance for those 65 or order and covered by Medicare; Life insurance for those under 55 years of age; A neurological care program with no out-of-pocket expense to retired players; A spine treatment program with no out-of-pocket expense to retired players; A discount prescription drug card; And priority access to assisted living facilities.

there are also some scrambles there. He had 95 rush attempts from the QB spot, i imagine at least half of those were scrambles.