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Did it in college and can play that role now, he probably won’t, but he’s proven he’s absolutely mediocre without somebody taking the blockers off him, might as well let him just hold the point of attack and let the real talent go after the QB.

Ever consider they aren’t? Ed has proven he’s a nobody and he can play 1T, so why not let him? Let a guy with actual talent go up the field and push the pocket.

I would be pumped to come away with Will Johnson in the 2nd, even if it requires a trade up. With all the passing in the league, I don’t care if you have 6 starting CBs on the roster, you can’t have enough. More realistically, there are a lot of WR and S options left and adding one of each in the 2nd would be great. This team NEEDS a starting FS and I’ll argue to the death they don’t have one and the SS isn’t much better until Bishop proves otherwise. Rapp is a solid back up, the fact he’s starting and doing ok is a testament to McD and a sad state of affairs for the talent in the secondary. In my opinion, the back field had exactly 2 guys who are starters in the league playing last year and they managed to do really well considering everything. I’m not a McD fan, but he gets A LOT out of DBs. Give him more talent and let’s see what he can do.

I agree, to me there was a large contingent of players looking like spoiled brats with their clothes. Golden looked/acted like the biggest Diva out there to me, but it is what it is.

He’s wearing the same crap everyone else is. If you don’t like him, fine, but the giant chain/belt buckle necklace is the thing this year apparently.

I was excited at the chance to get Johnson, but the medical reports must be bad for him to slide as he has. I like what I see from the highlights here, he’s definitely explosive and flies to the ball. Hopefully, he stays healthy and McD can maximize his talent, could be an awesome pick.

Sure wouldn’t surprise me if he got a guest spot on a team for a US tournament over the offseason.

might be an interesting project as a Dawkins replacement.

I wish that was a joke.

Yet they haven’t brought Cooper back.. hmmm

Please sign this guy, there’s not one safety on the roster that can hold his jock strap. It’s a huge and immediate upgrade. If I have to watch Hamlin get burned one more time I’m gonna hurl.

He’s faster.. in a foot race and the race to crazy and broke.

Thats what I’m saying when I say I don’t think he fits in that conversation. He’s been great and done it a long time. Records fall when you combine elite level play and longevity. Frank Gore is a great example of a fairly average player getting to records through longevity. Gore was good, don’t get me wrong, but if he had a typical length career, nobody is thinking he has a shot at the HOF. That’s just insane. Agreed on all fronts, he was amazing, it’s like he saw things that nobody else did. I liken his style to a great point guard, who also could score. Maybe a Steve Nash or Jason Kidd kind of thing, where yeah they CAN score 40, but they are more happy to drop 18 pts and have 15 assists.

ON PACE to, as in, needs to maintain a pace that is nearly impossible to maintain for the next decade, avoiding injury, etc. That’s the key to everything. Extrapolating stats means nothing. It’s like saying James Cook is the best back in the NFL after 2022 because he averaged 5.7 yards per carry and if he got the 350 carries like a lead back, he would have 2k yards. (BTW Barkley averaged 5.8 YPC last year on 345 carries, that’s INSANE), it doesn’t matter until you do it. I do agree on one account though, I don’t love it when guys who are just “good” break records purely out of longevity. I look at baseball a lot for this one. Eddy Murray is a HoF player bc he has 500 home runs, he never had more than 33 in a season and finished the last 6 years of his 20 years as a guy that really should have been replaced, but those mediocre years let him get enough stats to make him appear like one of the all time great home run hitters. There are countless guys like that out there. I don’t feel like Ovechkin falls in that category. Last year was a down year, but he has rebounded and should finish this year with over 50 goals and a positive +-, and even last year 31 goals isn’t terrible, it’s just not up to his standards where we expect him to have 50+ in a full season.

I like this summary of it best. Ovechkin is one of the greats of the game. Gretzky likely wouldn’t be quite as good today because the level of athletes is just different, but to my eye, he’s still the best to ever do it. Guys are bigger, faster, stronger and more specialized now, but Gretzky is more like Brady, not the greatest athlete, he just saw things differently. He was a true wizard out there, more like Crosby than Ovechkin in that respect. I take absolutely nothing away from Ovi, can’t see that goal record really being broken either, it takes such insane dedication and no doubt luck, to be able to play so long at such a high level and avoid injury all the while. To do what either accomplished is nothing short of amazing. I would say the sack record is NEARLY unbreakable, you would need 14 years of exceptionally high level play to get there. Thats averaging 15 a year. To do that from 22 to 36 with the athletes they play against today, it’s a really tall task. Impossible? Nothing is impossible, but to put it into context, Myles Garrett, the best DE we have seen in a long time took 8 seasons to get half way to Bruce. At that pace, he needs 8 more years of that same pace to catch him. If he can’t maintain pace, he’s going to need to play productively until he’s 40. The odds of any of that happening are just astronomical. Von Miller is the leading active player for sacks at 129.5, you know he’s not adding 70 more. TJ Watt is the next realistic guy at 108, 8 years in to his career. No offense to any of these guys, but I just don’t see any of them getting within 3 or 4 full SEASONS worth of sacks in comparison to Bruce. The level of competition is too high, not only that which they are going against, but from competition for their spots on the roster. It will be interesting to me to see if Mahomes or anybody for that matter can match Brady’s rings. I think if anyone can it will be Mahomes simply because of the start he’s had and the passion he plays the game with. I could see him playing to 40+, if he can add like 2 more rings in the next 4-5 years, he’s got a real shot. Hopefully, JA stops him and wins the next 4 in a row to redeem Buffalo’s 4 losses in a row, but we will see.