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He does a really good job of using his hands while the ball is in the air, he will make sure he has enough room to make the catch by stiff-arming the defender nicely and having enough ability to come down with the ball. He reminds me a little of Plaxico Burress when he came out, hopefully he will get some more yac than Plax. He looks like just what JA needs, someone he can go to for those mid level throws that's going to come down with the ball more often than not. Not going to take the top off the defense but if you like Duke Williams Tee should fill that role well enough to get a lot of time on the field in 2020. Then John Brown will get some more space to do his thing.

Bye Shaq! ?

The guy that plays qb for your team needs guys he can get the ball to and have them go the distance. That will help him get out of the hero ball mentality in the short term. Once he matures some maybe we can go a little more hammertime, but now we need the game breakers.

Obviously someone wanted him dead before he found out the truth!

Haha, if only the union had the spine to do it. 15 games, 3 byes. Wouldn't mind seeing the super bowl on presidents day weekend either. Seems like in this day and age more players will be "Lucking" out.

Hopefully the third and fourth positions in our dl rotations will be comp pick generators for many years. If we make them look good on short contracts it will.

Welcome to drafting in the twenties, ain't it grand? I doubt they re-sign Shaq but they might, I just don't think he has what they"re looking for from a burst/pass rush standpoint. I also get the feeling if BB really wanted him they would have made progress toward a new contract already. I haven't heard a peep about that. They have hopes for Johnson and I assume they will add someone who fits the athletic mold a little better than shaq. I don't follow college enough to give you an idea who although bandit was talking about a guy from Florida as having some burst.

I think we need at least one go-to target for josh, so if we don't have one or two by then yes. I assume we will have fa"s filling that need by the time the draft rolls around because they will be better targets, knowing where they need to be, the checks, etc. Older guys whose contracts can be removed from the books when we need to pay josh and the other draft picks.

Yeah, this seems about right. I would rather have Witten on a one year deal similar to what Gore had for us. Maybe draft a guy with some of those late picks that can sit on the PS for a year and hopefully make a splash the following one. Seems to be some of those former basketball/athlete around at times. Don't know if i'd dump kroft or smith though, I guess it depends on the value each one brings, if it's me I'd rather it be witten, knox and kroft rather than smith, especially if we upgrade the RT position.

He might not want to work for Kraft anymore - or be around that team anymore - there's been a lot of bad stuff going on over the last few years in that building and by those people.

I'm guessing he'll go back into retirement once Brady leaves. I think he was begged out of retirement for the last run with Brady.

Hopefully his qb will provide a reason for McDermott to trust him in a pressure situation with the ball. When Josh goes into hero mode the results will be like a box of chocolates. A couple more weapons will help and I think Josh made big strides this year, so hopefully he'll continue to improve.

Anyone know why they blew the whistle where Edmunds recovered the fumble? Didn't look like he was touched after he had control and he could have gotten up and taken off.

Would be nice if Josh can keep the ball on the side of his body away from the defender. As a qb, he seems to keep it in his right hand when running, but he has to learn to switch it when needed.

Well, between the interest in AJ Green and Antonio Brown we can say that Beane is well aware of the usefulness of a top wr, even if it's for a short period of time. I doubt he will let this offseason end without adding someone who can fill that role. And he may overpay, so everyone get prepared for that now. However you have to.

Disagree there too, he doesn't have the flat out speed. He is nice around the line of scrimmage and can get some chunk yardage but it will be difficult for him to carry our team offensively. I'm really hoping C Wade can learn the pass blocking assignments because I would really love the two of them as a one two punch.

Al Gore deserves all the blame for the internet, just leave it at his feet.

This kind of thing has been happening for a very long time - way before twitter - twitter has allowed it to be shared so now everyone knows what is occurring.

Disagree - in our situation. I would rather have had DK as a target for josh than having another OT. Josh would have been further along in his development because he would have had an option instead of playing hero ball. Basically I think he could have started to get the ball out on time with DK and would have rather have that occurring this year. Of course, it didn't need to be one or the other; we could have used the Singletary and Knox picks to move up into the bottom of the second round to get DK. I would have been ok with shady or cj anderson at rb and whoever at te this year to make that happen. Pretty steep price to pay but would have been worth it. We would have come out of the draft with three first round talents.

You're not the boss of me

I've had enough of Dawkins, ready for a replacement

I'm surprised there hasn't been some talk of them extending him already, or any of the guys they brought in on short term deals. Maybe there's a plan to replace them, but I was hoping to see Feliciano extended before too long.

For me the reason the minions from the pats*** don't work out is the total effort of the staff it takes to run the system. You need everyone on that staff to be giving the kind of effort that is difficult to manage for a lot of folks. I don't think any of the assistants don't understand what it takes, it's just impossible to find that many folks so committed in a year or two, because if it takes longer than that you're out of a job. This also happens to be why I believe brady is the not goat at qb, he is simply the best qb of the best system ever devised. If brady goes to another team he would flounder and look nothing like "himself" just as many of these former assistant coaches have.

Once the ball goes over the halfway line into the offensive zone, it can't willing be played back into the defensive zone. Would be quite a change (Americanization) of the game. I'd settle for bigger goals myself, 10x30 would work.

I get what you're saying, just sounds funnier with a drunk slur.