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Yep. Cameron Wake didn't even start playing in the NFL until the age of 27 for example. Julius Peppers has racked up some 73 sacks (almost half his career total) after turning 30.

Minus the part about having a dominant edge rusher/defense.

It was a little of both. D was terrible for some stretches. And they finished the season ranked in the bottom third for yards and ppg. They certainly were not a top 10 or even 15 defense that carried the team every game. I could see that for sure. Hope I am wrong because that would probably mean Allen is playing well.

He'll also need to learn to get low for leverage to shed blocks and make tackles. At 6'5" that is no easy task.

Yeah I forgot about Streater. One of Streater/Holmes/Kerley is definitely being cut I think. Ray Ray and Coleman are both young and have too much potential to not keep.

Either Holmes or Kerley will be a surprise cut. My money would probably be on Kerley. Ray Ray has played very well so far and imagine he can do a lot of the same things Kerley would do for us but with the upside of being much younger with more potential. Before pre-season kicked off i thought Kerley would be a lock simply because he was the most experienced receiver on our roster. Coleman probably makes it simply because of his speed and Allen's arm. Man what we would give up to have Goodwin on this team still.

I think they are getting behind their all pro CB and his comments against our QB.

It's a total crap shoot. 50/50 the professional evaluator is right and 50/50 some fan on the street is right. Not to mention their is the grey area where both sides could make an argument that they were right and the other was wrong. It's no different then trying to make the right draft pick.

Coaches and GM's get evaluations on players wrong all the time. Browns were about to trade a second or third rounder for McCarron until the paper work got screwed up. That's just one of many instances teams have looked to overpay with picks or money for a player.

I'm assuming if you wanted to cut him in 2015 then you would have also wanted to cut him in 2016. Unless you had a change of heart? I think the fact that we had a GM in transition and a new GM that didn't arrive until after losing Goodwin and Woods in free agency but before trading Watkins complicated things. Maybe Beane would have kept one of or both of Woods/Goodwin knowing he wanted to move Watkins. Or maybe if Whaley stayed on through the start of the 2017 season we would have kept Watkins which ended up being a healthy year for him for the most part. All in the past now.

We had neither Hogan or Thompson in 2016 which was Goodwin's final season with us. IIRC, we lost Goodwin and Woods in the same free agency. We should have probably had the foresight to keep at least one of the two. And didn't Harvin retire halfway through the 2016 season? Our depth was greatly depleted by the time we could have made a decision on Goodwin.

Let's wait till Brady actually hangs them up before we declare that. I can just see us going into the 2022 season saying this is it, Brady is going to decline this year...

Just like the phantom PI against our guy in the Jags/Bills London game a few years back. NFL is going to have to allow penalties to be review-able sooner rather than later with all the increased pressure being put on the officials.

Yeah, but why would Seattle even offer up a second rounder for Brissett? Guy isn't that good. Plus Wilson has been pretty durable.

Hopefully 15 years from now we just view it like Tom Brady's combine photo. Poor guy hasn't been told yet that he's been drafted by a CFL team.

It seems like Mahomes has a big arm on deep throws. Where as Allen has a big arm on all of his throws. Meaning he throws with greater velocity on those 10-15 yard throws than a player like Mahomes.

A couple of differences that come to mind: 1. Jalen is an all pro at his position I believe. Regarded as the best corner in the game today. KB is far from the best WR in the game today. Might not be fair but the better you are at your job the greater margin of error you have in any outlandish comments you may have. 2. KB criticized a player who was league MVP and lead his team to the super bowl all while KB was injured. Jalen is criticizing a player that is at this point in their career a complete unkown and does for better or worst have a lot of question marks regarding ability to perform at the NFL stage.

Rodak has Ray Ray being cut. I can't see that happening.

Yep. And we did a terrible job of preparing and protecting Peterman last year in his first start against the Chargers. One of the first three teams we will play this year. I'm fine with sitting Allen for the first quarter of the season unless he is looking unbelievably good in the preseason.

Gilmore was excellent for the Pats week 6 on ward or so. So no surprise.

The last time i was this excited to watch pre-season football was when we had Tyrod battling it out with EJ and Cassel. Can't wait for this three way competition to get started. That's brutal. Maybe throw Peterman out there for the first three games.

Kerley and Benjamin are the two locks to make the roster IMO. Kerley is the most experienced receiver we have, has the most career receptions and yards and is still under the age of 30.

The last time we had a completely open three way competition at the QB position it worked out pretty well for us with Tyrod rising to the top. Hopefully we get a similar result this time around but with a QB that can continue to improve each year.

My gut feeling... McCoy will get a hefty suspension from the league. But be found innocent of all charges if any, in the court of law. Just not sure there will ever be the smoking gun that links McCoy to this. And you know he is going to have a very good and expensive team of lawyers.

I love Moulds even though my first memory of him is getting stripped against Miami in the wild card game after hauling in a huge catch on our opening drive.