MrEpsYtown

As crazy as it might sound, I see the Panthers throwing the bag of money at Daniel Jones. Born and raised in Charlotte, went to Duke, good fit with Reich, still young. DJ Moore is really good.

I am not surprised they didn't hire Wilks, but they screwed up.

Yeah I think that is where losing Beasley hurt. I thought Crowder looked pretty good early on as that intermediate guy, then he got hurt. That really intelligent and subtle route running was missing with McKenzie (who will never be that guy) and Shakir, who has a chance to develop into that. You have to consider bringing back a Beasley or a Crowder or similar guy in FA like Randall Cobb. Jakobi Meyers is a perfect fit but may be too expensive.

Steve Wilks, come on down

Yeah I think their personnel is tailor made fo a gap scheme run mix. That is when they are at their best. Their run and pass games are super vanilla, zero play action. As much as he sucks as a play caller, a little Greg Roman run game would really help their cause.

This was the knock on Davis when he was drafted, and part of why he dropped. And honestly it is a problem that it has not changed. Blame him and the coaches. Also blame them for allowing Hodgins to get away (essentially the anti Davis). Just poor evaluations.

Agreed. They have not shown the patience to let these IOL guys develop. With the Wyatt Teler thing (not trying to beat a dead horse) but they brought in guys like Quentin Spain and Jon Feliciano and draft Cody Ford. That essentially pushed Teller off the roster. They never let the guy develop. I suppose my point is that if they drafted interior O linemen every year, they still would have signed guys like Saffold and pushed the young guys off the roster anyway. The only reason you cut a guy like Morse if you are reallocating that money to a top guard and moving Ryan Bates to center. Otherwise they should keep him around and extend imo.

Agreed. He has elite ball skills, route running etc, that's why he was a first round pick. So guys like him are definitely the exception for me.

So the Frazier contract stuff is speculation (I Think). But I will say that from all accounts, generally, assistant coach contracts are 3 years in length and Leslie just finished his 6th year here. Again this is an assumption. He as originally signed in 2017 as DC. When his contract was up he signed a new one that named him Assistant head coach/DC. So who knows if that was longer than 3 years?

I am not a big cap guy, but I am not opposed to simple extension/restructure to take on two more years for Morse. He is still young. Concussions are something, but its not like its more risky because he is 33.

If Elijah Moore was mad about the offense before, just wait. Insert Michael Jackson eating popcorn gif thingy

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Wilks should 100% get that job. I still think they go offensive guy, but Wilks deserves it and earned it. Plus he got a terrible draw with Arizona.

My best guess based on no actual knowledge is that Steve Wilks is coming with Al Holcomb. I would be good with that. Yeah it's more Carolina guys, but they are far from yes men and they know what McDermott wants. Holcomb had a lot to do with the development of Jeremy Chinn as well as Luke Kuechly.

I'm out on tiny wide receivers who really aren't that fast to begin with, ie McKenzie, Marquez Stevenson. No thanks. This Tank dude looks like Calvin Austin to me. Got hurt did nothing. Dude's legs look like twigs. Find guys with elite ball skills, George Pickens guys, Drake London guys. Guys who are going to catch the football and make contested catches in traffic. That's what Josh needs. Guys who can win vertically down the field and go and get the thing. I know it's easier said than done, but enough with the ridiculous water bugs. Unless we are talking Tyreek Hill type build, strength and speed, these little guys don't get it done when it matters.

Yeah McKenzie has to go. No thanks. He's way past the expiration date. Shakir has to catch 200 balls a day.

Bernard can't cover anyone as a linebacker. So he is not the answer. Terrible draft pick. I like the Benford idea, but I do think they bring in a young vet for competition. Banking on Benford to make that transition after he only played in 9 games as a rookie at another position out of a FCS school is extremely poor planning.

I mean, they just played a game in which one of their biggest issues was getting to the qb (who they didn't touch). So for him to match us up with an edge guy is a response to that, which makes some semblance of sense. I figured he'd go O-line, but I also think he knows that this regime is not going to draft a guard in the first round. It just isn't happening. Right now we are probably looking at WR or defensive player in my opinion. I could see they taking the RB if he falls. Would not be my favorite move, but he is a game breaking player. I could also see them taking one of those left tackles if they fall. But I can tell you with confidence, it is not going to be a guard and very unlikely to be a RT.

Just too vanilla in both the passing and running game. Josh was rarely throwing to open receivers, that is a scheme issue. When the Bills were at their best in the run game, they were running gap scheme stuff. The offensive felt like entry level vanilla Nate Hackett garbage.

Just poor drafting. When you look back at the 2019, 2020 and 2021 draft classes and look at some of the players they passed on, they just whiffed in their analysis of players and identifying talent. For example, 2019 they wanted a D linemen and took Oliver over Christian Wilkins, Jeff Simmons, Dexter Lawrence. They just missed Josh Allen. They passed on edge guys like Brian Burns, Montez Sweat, Rashan Gary. Most of this board wanted freakin Andre Dillard. We all know what happened in round 2. Round 3 they draft Singletary two picks before Terry McLaurin. Missed out on Maxx Crosby, CJ Gardner Johnson. Took Vosean Joseph 1 pick before Dre Greenlaw. It’s poor analysis and development. Its not cherry picking. It’s a pattern of poor drafting.

My thing with Risner as I mentioned is that they passed on him when they could have easily grabbed him in 2019. They had an O-line need and they hosted pre draft visists with Risner, Nate Davis, Greg Little, Elgton Jenkins, Erik McCoy…they passed on all those guys and took Cody Ford. Now you have a different OL coach, so philosophies have changed, but Jenkins is the only guy in that group who meets their current athletic type and he already re-signed for big money. Perhaps they really liked Risner and those other guys, but believed that Cody Ford was a true right tackle. Side note, I really would love a do over on that draft. The only real hit is Knox. They grabbed the wrong OL, DT, DE, LB…I mean there are so many all pro dudes at those positions and they struck out despite having needs there. Huge whiff.

Another guy I would not mind is Vance Joseph. Wilks, Flores, Joseph in that order for me. I feel McDermott will never hire a 3-4 guy like Fangio. Those other guys have coached in multiple schemes. Issue with Joseph is that I do not think Von is a big fan. But Wilks should be the guy

Van Denmark has some potential as a swing tackle, though a move to guard helps him. His negatives coming out focused on his inability to handle speed rushers on the edge. Anderson is a very raw prospect, not too many starts in college. I think he is better suited as a guard. Both are interesting projects, but I don’t think make a dent in the rotation next year. To me Tommy Doyle is the much more interesting prospect. But i do hope those guys develop into functional depth.

Steve Wilks or Brian Flores. Wilks’ has shown versatility as a DC, players love him, and he worked for McDermott, so I think we will have better continuity. I am huge Flores fan and I think his attacking style and versatility would be a welcome change.

McDaniel, Stefanski, and Taylor are recent examples. Mike McDaniel was San Francisco's OC for one year (he did not call plays). So the argument can be made that Dorsey has more experience than McDaniel did when he got hired. Kevin Stefanski was only an OC for one year before in Minny the Browns hired him. (He was interim OC for a couple of weeks the previous year). Zac Taylor was a the OC in LA for one year (did not call plays) before being hired in Cincy. He did have some brief time as an interim OC in Miami when Bill Lazor got fired. Dan Campbell has never been an OC. Was a tight ends coach. Nick Sirianni was an and OC for three years before being hired by the Eagles. It is important to note that he did not call plays for Frank Reich. Arthur Smith was the Titans OC for two years before getting hired by the Falcons. Kliff Kingsbury was never an NFL OC before being hired as a HC, but he was a college HC. Defensively, Brandon Staley was DC for one year before getting hired as a head coach. Vance Joseph was a DC for one year before the Broncos hired him as HC. Steve Wilks was a DC for one year before being hired as a HC. Brian Flores was a never a DC before being hired as a HC.