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Maybe you didn't mean to quote me? I just literally said there are only opinions of how the team or players are preforming. No one here can call their overall evaluation fact as some posters are attempting to do.

Evaluation of players is rooted in opinion. If it wasn't, there would never be a draft bust. So "watching film" doesn't somehow make an opinion of a player fact unless you are his position coach or coordinator and know the play call and know his exact assignment each and every play.

Kirk Herbstreit is excellent. Wish he called NFL games. The two he did this year were great. I also like Gus Johnson. NFL commentators just aren't as good. Romo and Nantz are the preferred pairing. I don't think anyone else is even close.

All cap issues, draft capital etc aside... I would love to see Quinnen Williams on the line next to Oliver. Really, you could put anyone next to him, he's a monster. Jets are misusing him in a 3-4 and the price is a 2nd rounder (allegedly) for a guy who was 3rd overall in 2019. Rookie deal... help where we need it most...

All I know is that Pats fans have gotten real quiet and I think after that beat down we'll probably hear much less about the Pats from now on.

What do you mean "versus?" Williams in the 1-tech and Oliver in the 3-tech. Oliver will need a 1-tech next to him or he will never be productive.

Washington Warthogs as in the A10 Warthog. Silver Sharktooth helmet with the Olive drab would look good. Appropriate name, not offensive to anyone, perfect for a team based in the military capital of the world.

You do realize that players can rotate in and out right? Teams can run different packages? No? Ok.

In all your years, you've never noticed a running back cut back?

Upside: Long, massive and rangy defender — great arm length, explosiveness, athletic profile and size-speed combination. Can't draw them up too much better for the position. Great athleticism on display at combine shows up on tape too. Natural strength is impressive, and he's got a lot of room to develop and get stronger. Keeps his feet moving and can pivot and change directions with ease. Closes on the ball in a hurry. Will break extremely fast on underneath passes thrown in his area. Watch this film-study play where Edmunds reads the eyes of Miami (Fla.) QB Malik Rosier and breaks on the drag route to break up the pass nicely: https://giphy.com/gifs/ZcbIem1AaGDlSTwCaV Can pinball off blockers and keep his momentum going toward the ball. Squares his shoulders nicely and plays with a downhill thump and purpose. Effective rusher who can scream off the edge, arrive quickly on a green-dog blitz or loop around on stunts. Explosive when working downhill, especially in the run game. Sets a good, hard edge against the run, especially in goal line and short yardage. Tackling is strong, especially for such a young player and particulary in space. Closes nicely from depth and hits his targets. Scrapes down the line, keeps his balance and can shed blocks on the move. Wraps up and closes the deal with his condor wingspan and good burst. Rarely whiffs, and at the very worst he can slow down ballcarriers for others to finish off the play. Has template to be a good coverage player. Rare that a 250-pound player can check backs and tight ends in man coverage, but he can carry them past the second level. Even occasionally matched up with receivers. Has the athleticism to be a Tampa-2 "Mike" and drop into deep zones. Loose hips — can turn and run in a flash. Will read quarterbacks' eyes for tells. Tries to bait them into throwing to his man, knowing he can make up the distance in a jiffy. Highly productive player. Always seems to make 2-3 disruptive plays per game. Clean medical history — no known injuries at Tech. Strong character marks from NFL teams. And he's still not there, yet. What I do find interesting though, is that I have faced considerable criticism for suggesting that the staff start moving him out of the MLB spot and give him opportunities to rush the passer. And that's what our defense needs, right now. After nearly 2 1/2 years he is still struggling to diagnose plays and is not trusting what he sees. No reason not to give the kid a shot at making some plays, build some confidence.

It will be interesting to see what Dabol does with a back like Bell if he signs here. And McDermott will be adding another big personality to the locker room. Trust the Process.

There isn't anyone better on the interior of that line. Not to mention, people don't understand his role to begin with. His role was to get into the backfield. The stats were just a bonus honestly. He was a disrupter. 9.5, sorry. Let's find some more hairs to split lol Face it, this board doesn't know anything about football. People arguing against Phillip's importance to this defense are just butt hurt that he signed somewhere else. Proof is in the pudding. This defense is worse without him and Shaq. That's the fact of the matter.

Well if you talk to any of the "experts" on this board, Jordan Phillips wasn't any good to begin with. Double digit sacks and constant disruption in the backfield isn't important in McDermott's bend over and break defense.

Poor personnel moves in the offseason and poor drafting on the defensive side of the ball is finally catching up with us. Trent Murphy, Jerry Hughes,Tremaine Edmunds, Ed Oliver, Josh Norman, Levi Wallace, not guys that would be feature players anywhere else. Then you lose guys that were productive like Lorax, Shaq Lawson, Jordan Phillips and you don't even attempt to replace that production. Klein and Addison and Butler aren't it. I was really hoping the defense was turning a corner after the Raiders game but I think we might've just caught the Raiders on an off day.

A lot of us that follow the draft were pointing out how little experience Josh had coming out of college. JUCO and then only a year or two at Wyoming. All the other QBs had at least twice as many snaps at the NCAA level.

Edmunds has 14 tackles for loss in 2 and a quarter seasons... might be time to start thinking about upgrading at the MLB position.

I mean, game came to the end, crazy plays being made all over the field, catastrophic injury to a star player, what more do you want?

Pass rush. Even half of Bruce Smith would be a huge upgrade on the outside.

Giants/Cowboys came down to the very end so I'm guessing it was much better than Browns/Colts.

Well it could be weakness but it could also just be a lack of education. Watch my 600 LB life, you'd think you would have to be a damn millionaire to be 600 LBS but really these people are from poor communities with poor education and they eat what's advertised to them. Food is also a big problem because a lot of the terrible things people eat are family recipes and things they ate as kids and it's handed down from generation to generation.

Well we aren't going to get that in this round that's for sure lol This is also true. Problem is that the advertising is built to feed you garbage. I know NYC is trying to ban large sodas and ***** like that, but maybe we should take the approach we did with tobacco and not let Kellog's and General Mills advertise garbage to our children? We know sugar is just as bad as smoking and drinking.

Frankly, from what I've seen from these lunatic progressive groups, their plan is to defund the police so they can kill people that don't agree with them ideologically. They are terrorists in every sense of the term. What's worse is that they are using Black communities as their battle ground. They absolutely do not support Black Lives Matter, they are using Black people as human shields to defend against any questioning or dissension from the mainstream media or people within their ranks. It allows them to label everyone else a bigot so that they can vilify the people they disagree with while not answering for their own bigotry and crimes. I think the retaliation isn't going to come from good ole boys like leftists think, but from the Black community itself. There were already posts locally (Rochester) from Black people on social media wondering why rich suburban kids were coming into their neighborhoods to loot and destroy and then disappear back to mommy's basement in the suburbs. Why after they painted RESIGN in the street the white kids were all using it as a photo op for Instagram and Facebook. Let's face it, that's all it is to these affluent kids who grew up in the burbs. Social media driven non sense. They want to virtue signal and show all their friends how woke they are in comparison. They want the likes and the hearts and the retweets etc. It's a shame really, because people with this much free time on their hands and this need for activism could be volunteering at rec centers and schools in the inner city and possibly making a positive difference in the communities they claim to support.

Uh... ok? At any rate, we as a country are going to have to have a conversation about sick leave from work. One of the big cultural issues we have that caused this to spread rapidly is demanding people work unless they are near death or dead. It's so ingrained in us that we feel like we are letting down the place we work for if we don't show up. I don't know how you change that but hopefully we start to see it move to the forefront when it comes to preventing this type of thing from happening again.

But was it his own actions? Or the actions of those around him? I know at my job at least, everyone's gotten comfortable because we are around each other every day. Problem with that is you don't know what everyone else is doing when they aren't at work. You can only assume they aren't needlessly putting themselves at risk of exposure.

The masks are virtue signaling. That's all they are. Under Cuomo's current regulations, COVID is non transferable once you sit down at a table in a restaurant. In that situation, the only person that could give you COVID is the filthy peasant serving you, in which case the peasant must wear a mask at all times, along with the ones in the kitchen, even though it was proven a month or so into the pandemic that it was not transferable through food. https://www.cdc.gov/condomeffectiveness/latex.html#STD "Laboratory studies have demonstrated that latex condoms provide an essentially impermeable barrier to particles the size of STD pathogens." "Laboratory studies have demonstrated that latex condoms provide an essentially impermeable barrier to particles the size of HIV." Your post is hyperbole. And completely false. When use properly, condoms actually work, where as masks, when used properly, do next to nothing to stop the spread of COVID.