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Would be incredible but I think he’ll go much higher than that

Don't foresee New Orleans letting him go and I think he's vastly overrated as a player.

I think Jameis will probably get another year in Tampa but if he doesn’t he’ll likely have a starting spot somewhere else.

Only thing I saw was mentioning that he had worked hard the past few weeks and deserved the increased reps he saw against Houston. But they also made it pretty clear they're upgrading at WR this offseason.

The 4th and 27 is indefensible. DiMarco lining up out wide is. The idea is that we generally motion him (and RBs and sometimes TEs) back in and that allows Allen to see what kind of coverage the Texans are in. In some of these cases, we broke tendency by actually snapping it with them out wide.

Breaking it up into chunks of two tweets at a time:

My guess is we go Edge or CB in the first round. Not remotely close to the first round, but if they come out, I have a gut feeling that we end up with one of these DBs: Levonta Taylor - former top CB prospect that's converted to more of a Micah Hyde-type role with elite athleticism Amik Robertson - undersized guy that plays at LA Tech, but he just plays his ass off and I could see McBeane liking him

I totally agree. I’m just saying people expecting him to be possibly the fastest non-Ruggs WR in the class are probably gonna be disappointed.

The Athletic has him at a 4.55. ESPN has him at a 4.59. WalterFootball has him at a 4.52. He's not an elite speed guy at all. Nobody views him that way. Feel free to tag me if he actually is in the 4.3's. I think people tend to think WRs are faster than they really are and he's no different.

I like Shenault, but there's no chance he's a 4.38 guy. I would expect him to come in a little slower than a 4.50. If he beats a 4.50, he's done well.

They were already huddling up before the backups came on the field, which means they wanted to discuss it before they made an official ruling.

100% agreed. They obviously screwed up the ruling at the end of the day. I'm only trying to point out that they purposefully made sure that the official call on the field was a touchback because had they come out of that huddle and called it a touchdown, there's no way it would have been overturned.

It's hard to give specifics on this because it's never been a big deal before. But for example, I'm sure you've probably seen instances where a runner is down near the goal line and one ref signals TD while the other signals that he was short. Then they have a huddle together before ultimately making their call. And then if that call is a touchdown, they review it. In this case, they huddled up and decided that their call was a touchback (which was wrong) and therefore, no review. It sucks because we literally saw the one official initially rule a TD and then another ref initially call a penalty, but after their huddle (with the backup refs), they ultimately decided on a touchback and no review. The only part that hasn't been done before is having the backup refs run onto the field to interrupt them and I suspect they did that because they knew if it was called a TD on the field, they couldn't overturn it since there was no rule to support overturning it.

They do this literally all the time. It's no different from picking up a flag in their eyes. They had a conference and then ultimately decided the call on the field was a touchback, not a scoring play. Therefore, no review.

That's why the backup refs ran on the field. They got the ref to change the call on the field so that it didn't need to be reviewed.

Has Spotrac never paid attention to a coaching search before? This is totally commonplace.

I would argue that DK was a gamechanger from day 1, just not in the traditional, 100-catch per year, kind of way. The threat of him changes the way the defense has to defend the Seahawks basically every play.

Yes, I've watched plenty. I would expect that the majority of catches for basically every receiver are not go routes. He's still going north-south more than almost any other WR in football, and that's backed up both by the eye test and the numbers.

As I said in the lead up to the draft, I would argue that aside from potential health concerns (which you and I wouldn't have a clue about), he was one of the safest prospects in the draft. At the absolute minimum, it was easy to see he'd be what he was this year: a very dangerous vertical threat and a very dangerous contested catch threat. On Day 1, he was immediately a mismatch for pretty much every corner in the NFL. Obviously Seattle hopes he rounds his skillset out so that he can impact the game in more ways; but from Day 1 without improving on anything from college, he was going to be a guy that you basically pray drops the ball or you send a safety to help over the top and therefore open up the offense for everyone else. Edit: That's not to say that he'd be considered a good pick in the top 10 if he never improved on anything, but his floor (aside from potential injuries) was that he was going to be a very good deep threat that opens things up for his teammates every single play. That's better than a lot of picks end up being and would have helped our offense a lot. Edit x2: Also just FWIW, I did have Oliver higher on my board than DK. But DK was my next choice and both of them were top 7ish prospects IMO.

I think it was a mix of Texans adjustments, Bills energy wearing out a bit, and Watson just settling in. Watson was flat out missing a lot of open receivers in the first half (as in, not seeing them) that could have gone for big plays. He also didn't use his legs nearly as much as he did in the 2nd half. On top of that, the defensive line just didn't get home as consistently in the 2nd half, and even when they did, you could tell they had lost their edge (i.e. everyone doing the air guitar celebration after every big play early in the game versus being stoic in the 2nd half).

There’s always Ryan Finley’s though that justify those statements ?

I’ve been pretty consistent on this from the get go...I like Cody Ford. Liked him before the draft, happy to have him on the team. But DK was IMO a top 5-10 prospect in the draft and would have addressed a huge need here. Thankfully this upcoming draft class is very strong but DK was right up there with the guys that are already out of reach for us.

I think they’re all relatively replaceable honestly. Spain was the best of the 3 main guys this year imo, but could also argue that Ford should be at guard and Spain’s presence likely prevents that so -shrugs-. I won’t mind if we re-sign the big 3 but I won’t be upset if they walk either. Think we likely sign them given our cap space though.

Understood it isn’t always called that way, but there have definitely been forward laterals that we’re called. This is no different. The rule book clearly states that an intentional forward fumble is considered to be a forward pass. And in this case, it would be an illegal forward pass. I also don’t think the refs knew if Plaxico threw it forwards or not since it was very close to being a downward spike.

I’m still not sure I am. The rule book says if the ball touches the ground in the end zone at all, it’s a touchback. It doesn’t say it needs to initially land in the end zone. Maybe that’s the way it’s enforced but it’s not the way it’s written in the rule book. Those are the alternate refs. He almost certainly was talking to the league office and they sent him out there to make sure the refs didn’t actually go through with enforcing the rule.