Kelly the Dog

That was true before. Now that the News and other papers decided on a paywall, the idea that people read him doesn't exist. Those exact people are saying no freaking way am I paying for Jerry Sullivan. You saw that here.

I thought EJ had a chance. I never thought he would be upper echelon but I thought he could be a solid starter and was woefully wrong.

Fitz finally gets his chance. Let's see what he can do. I'm amped.

That was the craziest I have ever seen the stadium. Loudest. The Rashad game was probably the best because it was a win. The first one, with OJ and Howard Cosell was a great one.

If. They. Knew. His. Shoulder. Needed. Surgery. They. Would. Not. Have. Had. Him. Doing. Swim. Moves. In. Minicamp. Maybe you think a swim move is like the back stroke in a pool but it's not. It bears no resemblance to OTAs? You mean except for being an organized team activity in shorts and helmets and jerseys running drills and running generic plays from the playbook at half speed?

Yes, it was, it's called "Rookie Minicamp." Minicamp right in the title.

Minicamp is the same thing and you know it. Pretty weak defense, my friend.

Yep. Rex was telling him to lower his right shoulder when he tried to get under the RT and he would say, "What shoulder?"

Yep. They obviously knew about the injury. They talked about it and he did, too. They effed up the judgment as you said. I assume there was a decent chance that he could have played through the entire season, like he did his senior season at Clemson with the injury. But in retrospect, it was a mistake because he messed it up beforehand. Yep. I remember hearing that a few players wondered to each other why he was playing with his arm in a sling, but when he said it was nothing, they just ignored it.

Ummm....if they always knew about and had planned for the surgery, he wouldn't be out running hard in OTAs.

You are right. WEO is wrong on this one. Of course they knew about the injury, but the team and Shaq both planned on him playing right away. Shaq even said he had played with the injury the entire season already. Then something happened to it (which, granted, wasn't completely unexpected because of the injury) and then they decided to shut him down.

We had the receivers and we got rid of them all.

That is wholly true.

I watched every game. The vast majority of the passes he caught were swing passes or dump offs, and then he either had a huge lane and/or he made great runs and broke tackles or made guys miss. It's not like they were sending him out on 15-20 yard patterns very often or even targeted him that much. McVay ran an incredible offense.

It's really all about Mahomes. With Hunt, Kelce, Hill and Watkins they have a ton of weapons. I don't think anyone in the world knows if Mahomes is going to be great, very good, good or not so good this year, his first. I watched him a lot in college. I think they are going to score a lot and he is going to make a lot of plays that drives Andy Reid insane. That's not really going out on a limb of course. But the interesting thing to me is how Reid handles it. If he neuters Mahomes, which to me would be a huge mistake. Reid is going from a careful, mistake conscious Smith, to a wildly erratic but wildly explosive Mahomes. The Cheifs are going to be one of the interesting teams to watch this year.

That is demonstrably false. Plus he works as hard or harder than anyone on the team on each and every play. He's the only one to consistently run down plays from behind.

I admit that he did throw 3-4 nice passes in that game, his very best game, in which he was 10-20, and two field goals.

He's the third highest paid WR in the league. A perennial good team with a great coach just decided to pay him that much. He's still only 25. McVay said a lot of teams offered him a lot of money. Money talks in this league. They wanted to keep him. Read the article I linked above. They just decided that because of the offense they run, combined with the fact they are going have to pay Donald and Gurley and their DBs and others big contracts they couldn't afford 16m a year other teams were offering.

https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2018/03/16/nfl-los-angeles-rams-kansas-city-chiefs-sammy-watkins-free-agency-contract-offers/ McVay: "A lot of teams" were throwing a lot of money at Watkins, it wasn't just the Chiefs. Money talks in the NFL. That's how you know what teams think of you. It doesn't always turn out of course, look at Dareus, but it's as good an indicator as any.

Mcvay would tell you that Sammy was their #1 WR. They played him at that position, they split him wide and had him run the #1 WR routes, the defenses played him as the #1 WR almost ALWAYS putting a safety or shading a safety to him along with a CB on almost every play. Woods was the #2 and Kupp was the #3. Because of how the defenses played Sammy, which was evident in them if you bothered to watch, Goff would often look to Kupp because he was the matchup problem, which is how the genius McVay designed that offense. And McVay said Sammy was doubled all the time.

Not really.

You're absolutely right. On quick out passes of 6 yards or less. Otherwise, no.

There are ways to say this guy is a good teammate or good mentor or has helped me so much, and then there is football-washing that Mayfield just performed. That, to me, says TT really went far beyond what he was expected to do, kinda like Mayfield went far beyond what he was expected to say.

Lee "I don't cut" Smith? Remember that one? IIRC, he caught a pass near the sideline and after the play a lineman blocking downfield for him asked him why he didn't just cut inside of the block where the field was wide open and he could have got a huge chunk of YAC and Smith said, "I don't cut."

Fair enough. Cheers!