Idk how they measure impact of injuries, but:
- Allen’s season fell off a cliff statistically after his partial UCL tear.
- Von Miller was a huge loss. We really missed him in the playoffs.
- Hyde and Poyer were both All Pros the prior season. Hyde missed the whole year, and Poyer was gimpy and probably just playing because he had to by the end of the season.
- Tre White was an All Pro corner and taking up cap space, but never really returned to his former glory
- D. Jones made our run D respectable and he was sorely missed in the Bengals playoff game.
And there are many more…our entire secondary was backups for the first Miami game, and we ran out of starters on the O-line by the end of the game.
It was a bad injury season from my perspective. The prior season was much luckier.
The idea of a mechanical/robotic lion is sound. These AI tools are good for coming up with ideas, but you still need a human in the loop to create a good final product. For now…
You don’t know if they are those guys until they are drafted and play a while, lol. If you have a crystal ball to know how draft picks will work out, could you give me some stock tips?
Saffold was possibly the worst guard in the league last year. If we can get league average performance from his vacated spot, that would be a huge improvement.
Maybe they will if they view Hines as strictly special teams? Maybe they have one less WR active in that case?
Otherwise it will be Harris and Murray fighting it out for that last active spot every week.
Between Morse, Bates, McGovern, Boettger, and Torrence, I feel like we can actually put together a decent IOL.
Last year it was maybe our weakest positional group. Now I think it can be at least average and not lose us games.
Considering he gave up zero sacks his entire career in the SEC, I don’t think it is that easy.
We won’t be pulling him for run plays, but keeping Allen upright is more important.
Wasn’t Ford supposedly athletic? This guy is supposed to be an immovable object but isn’t considered athletic at all. He should be great in pass protection at least.
We were one of the worst short yardage teams last year (at least relative to how good our offense was).
We’ve effectively solved that. We will slam Harris behind Torrence and convert it every time. Maybe 1/5 times Allen keeps it and goes to the edge.
Derrick Dockery was an average tackle right? I’d take that over Spencer Brown.
He also apparently works an office job for TikTok. He has NFL Athlete as a job experience on his LinkedIn, lol.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/derrick-dockery-01a4b6134
Really surprised the Titans didn’t get into the bottom of the first round to get Levis. That fifth year option is valuable especially for a QB. Kind of a front office fail.