MrEpsYtown

I don’t get the Phillips love. I’ve seen it a bunch on here. Butler or Star will start with Oliver. Whoever doesn’t will get the other side of an almost 50-50 split. Phillips has accomplished nothing, looked small and overmatch, and is coming off a serious injury. I get that Phillips looks like Kyle and is all Bills Mafia and stuff, but they did not sign Butler to be a third string depth player. That’s Harrison Phillips. Edit: And I really like Phillips and would not count him out, but penciling him in as a starter at the 1 tech on a team with Butler and Star, and coming off a major injury just makes no sense.

I have to say that the affect a field goal kicker has on a game is not close to the type of impact a starting defensive end has on a game. A kicker’s impact on a football game is so completely overrated becuase the difference between a good kicker and an average kicker is so miniscule. Yes Justin Tucker is far and away the best. The rest are all pretty much the same. I think kickers were ignored and underrated for so long that the perception of them with fans has overcorrected. Probably mostly has to do with fantasy football. Yes they score points, but are useless without the rest of the team getting them in position to score points. There is no way that this pick is more impactful than the Epenesa pick. I like the pick and am excited about the player, but I have a hard time with calling this the most impactful move of the draft. There is a better chance that he does not even make the team than him being the most impactful move of the draft.

Totally agree. There is so much on these guys in the first place, drafting them, especially high puts more pressure on them to succeed. We even saw this last year with Kaare Vedvik. He was backing up Tucker in Baltimore and look so good in the preseason that everyone wanted him. The Vikings trade a 5th round pick for him and suddenly the wheels came off. Like once he was the guy, the pressure was on and he was terrible. Then he gets cut a few weeks laster and blows the home opener for the Jets. The worst thing the Bucs did to Roberto Agyauo was take him in the second round. It just killed his career, too much pressure and expectations and now he is out of football. Bass seems like a good get, and if we didn’t draft him someone else would have, but it does put extra pressure on the guy. But the results do support the idea that you should never, ever draft a kicker. Honestly I would have liked to see us draft Braden Mann there and get a kicker later, but I support the Bass idea and I think our roster is very good to the point that drafting a kicker is okay. Pretty good article that basically states that the results are so hard to predict for kickers that it doesn’t make sense to draft one. https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/memo-to-nfl-gms-stop-drafting-kickers/amp/

IMO it’s more: Hughes-Butler-Oliver-Epenesa Addison-Star-Jefferson-Murphy Johnson and Phillips in reserve If you really don’t want a team to be able to run the ball: Jefferson-Star-Butler-Epenesa If Murphy gets cut (I think it is likely) you either see more Johnson at End or Phillips at 3 tech with Jefferson at end Sub package you might see something like: Hughes-Jefferson/Epenesa-Oliver-Addison

Im interested to see who gets released and signed over the next few days. Keeping my eye on Hasson Reddick of the Cards as I think gets released. Could be a fit as a Lorax type of player.

What was it? Chan wanted a water bug or something? Utterly ridiculous especially knowing how good Lynch and Jackson were and seeing what they could become.

And I actually am in the minority that I think Stidham will be okay. Not great, maybe like Matt Moore with the Panthers good.

It certainly will never meet the masterpiece from last offseason. But man Zay really sucks.

Raiders gonna cut him soon. Maybe he could go join that damn ECU receivers coach with the Chargers who wanted his guy...hence why we dont have Juju or Kupp.

Danny Vitale gonna blow up.

Nah we should have drafted Earl Thomas in the 1st, then Gronk in the 2nd, Emmanuel Sanders in the 3rd, Geno Atkins in the 4th, Reshad Jones in the 5th, Antonio Brown in the 6th, and Alejandro Villanueva in the 7th. Many bad decisions made and players passed on that draft day in 2010.

Where is @Alphadawg7 when you need him?

Big nickel? 6-4, 225 runs a 4.4?

Hopefully Gilliam shows something and makes the practice squad. I think DiMarco plays out his contract honestly.

I could see bringing in Britt as another depth guy competing and recovering. He can play RT, G and C but was terrible at RT. Essentially you would be reuniting the Mizzou O-line circa 2013 with Morse, Britt, Boehm. But I am guessing Britt goes somewhere to start with the lack of good center options around.

They signed Dan Vitale who I really like. I think he is a perfect fit there and can be more of a factor in the passing game, plus ghey drafted Dalton Keene. They are in good shape there.

I believe the award is originally named after Martin Nance. Needs to stay there Imo. And I feel like its only for skill guys and has even more special significance if the guy looks like Sills or Brandon Reilly. For the record I was a huge Sills supporter and still would have kept him over Zay Jones, so I am not calling anyone out.

Agreed. It definitely won’t be Hauschka and Bojorquez...it could be Bass and Bojo, or Hauschka and Vedvik. Could also be Bass and Vedvik. Though, imo, it should be Bass and Turk, but that’s besides the point.

Oh God yeah not sure I want endure that torture again. Maybe watch until McGee’s kickoff return. Then probably advisable to shut it off. Ole Dick Jauron bend but don’t break.

How high do you guys think Gabe Davis would have gone if this was not such a deep class?

It’s hard to tell. Gilliam looks to be a pretty good blocker from all accounts. Posted a combine video of himself running in the 4.5s but it is hard to say how accurate that is. I think out of our UDFA, Gilliam, Adams, and Williams seem most intriguing. Unless of course we decide to sign Turk.

It’s a good comp in terms of their style of play, but Justin Smith blew up the combine, so he was a ridiculous athlete at a large size. He ran faster than Zach Moss with a 4.64. Smith was a little smaller and had pretty short arms. But play style was similar, Smith just a bit smaller and more explosive.

I mean, I added Diggs on Madden and he’s really good.

One good thing is that Austin Jackson, the guy the Dolphins drafted can’t block him. So that helps Going forward.

I honestly don’t understand how they get this stuff under the cap