Watkins101

Roll players??? That’s a laughable take. Dennis Rodman was the best rebounder in NBA history, by a wide margin. That’s not something Jordan did. There have been analytics articles that have claimed Rodman was the “MVP” of the league some seasons, based on a statistical analysis of what stats correlate to winning (offensive rebounds was a big one). He was a 2x Dpoy. Scottie Pippen was a 7x all star and led the league in steals one year. Those aren’t role players by any means.

With this defense, it only takes one bad game on offense to get knocked out, and the odds that we’ll have 1 bad game out of 4 playoff games is much higher than 50%.

With our run defense, Montgomery and Gibbs scare me. It would not surprise me if they ran for close to 200 yards against us.

Hall had more total yards last season than Cook, and is outpacing him this season on a per-game basis. First impressions also matter and Hall was extremely dynamic before the injury his rookie season, averaging 98 total yards per game and ripping off 5.8 yards per carry as a lead back. Cook started off as a second string back and had a lighter workload, so it makes sense that he’s viewed in a better light like that.

Gabe Davis being inconsequential in the playoffs is a pretty wild take IMO. The 13 seconds game he set the record for most TDs by a Wr in a playoff game, and had the 9th most yards all time. Outside of that game he was significantly less effective, but he averaged almost 70 yards and nearly a TD per game. He also made a lot of difficult catches in the playoffs, I distinctly remember a couple of great toe drag catches against Indy in the playoffs.

Or Bass-ically a 50/50 shot of making a field goal.

1. Steelers being up 3 games on the Bengals. Not surprised that the Steelers defense is at the top of the league, but I am surprised their offense has produced enough to be undefeated so far. 2. Vikings being 3-0. Sam Darnold at QB and a tough schedule so far. Enough said. 3. Washington beating the Giants 21-18 with the Giants getting 3 TDs and the commanders getting 7 FG. Not the way you’d expect to see that score. 4. Jayden Daniels with a 80.3% completion percentage, topping the league. Any player with an 80%+ completion rate is shocking, but it being a rookie is even more so.

To be fair, last year he had: the best Rb in the league (not really even a debate, 300 more rushing yards than anybody else, 2nd in receiving, only off by 30 yards), the best TE in the league (though Kelce was close), and the ~3rd best Wr Duo in the league. The Wr is more of a debate, I put the dolphins and eagles ahead, but the Vikings, Bucs and maybe others have an argument there for sure. Regardless, it’s still a high end unit and the 49ers definitely have the best group of skill positions on offense in the game right now. Jimmy garrapolo had virtually identical stats in 2019 without having CMC or Aiyuk on the team, but he’s definitely not a “can carry his team” type of player.

Now? No in the off-season? probably

I’d be a little surprised if other teams would want the baggage Watson Carrie’s if they’re not getting a star QB. Signing him near vet minimum? Maybe. Trading for him? probably not.

To be fair, aside from Thurman Thomas, none of them had a Qb in the same ballpark to play with as Josh Allen. They’d face a lot more stacked boxes than Cook.

By the end of his 7th year, Reid had already won a Super Bowl, and the year before was 1 play away from beating the Pats to make the Super Bowl. By comparison, McDermott has made 1 conference championship, in which the team was down 38-15 in the fourth quarter. Through his first 7 years, Reid had 2 seasons of elite QB play, while McDermott has had 4.

I don’t think we’d get any more than a 6th for Clapp, as a depth (6-7) offensive lineman on most teams. We already have plenty of mid-late draft picks(with expected comp picks we have 3 4ths, 5th and 2 6ths), so trading our key depth for another doesn’t make sense. Clapp has played center and guard, and if any of our 3 starting interior lineman get hurt, he probably slots in the lineup (either at guard, or shifting McGovern to guard and taking over at center). We got lucky last year with a healthy oline, but shouldn’t count on it again this year. Quality Oline depth is more important than an 11th draft pick with little trade up value.

2nd worst season, ideally the Vikings are worse.

Except 0 LTs in the NFL make 30 million, the most expensive is at 25, and only 5 make 20 or more. There’s 1 DE that makes 30 or more, and only 12 that break 20. Wr is closer, 3 make 30+, and 18 make 20 or more. No team is spending anywhere near that kinda money on 4 players.