11 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

Actually I think our safeties - and basically all around - need to be coached on how to tackle better. Both our safety injuries are due to making those brutal hits instead of wrapping up, which is harder but lead to more injuries. Love those awesome hits, better to be available

S's are watched closely for "targeting" Very tough position to play. How do you know(I mean at what point) is a receiver "vulnerable"? Total opinion call

9 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

As for Parsons, as a PSU alum wanted him in the draft, that is not how an alum should act

Too much time spent on the all prison team LOL

5 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

Don't get me wrong, I'm old school and love a vicious hit, but when you're risking getting injured maybe you should just learn to tackle. The game's heading that way anyway, along w/ towels up the butt.

Cox made a few nice plays yet PFF gave him really low rankings

2029-bubble ball

It's spearing if you lead w/ your helmet. Nowadays they look whether you moved your head away, so lead w/ your shoulder. Seems ok but these guys are so powerful they injure themselves making that hit. Watched them both.

3 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

Boyz thinking they can run JP a whole game? They have probs at both RT and LT - pretty good team but they're toast, t-shirt material

JP gonna find out how really old he is lol. BTW Parsons can suck it. Love to see Mailata pancake him on a run play LOL

Just now, mjkline1958 said:

It's spearing if you lead w/ your helmet. Nowadays they look whether you moved your head away, so lead w/ your shoulder. Seems ok but these guys are so powerful they injure themselves making that hit. Watched them both.

You get the flag if the receiver is "unprotected" IDK how that can be the defensive players fault. Those high QB passes make you vulnerable. That is the QB's fault not the DB's IMO

These guys are so powerful it's hard to wrap them up. Even today I can only imagine how hard it was to take down a guy like Barry Sanders, and you could hit a lot differently back then. Amazed their knees lasted.

Anthony Harris is back

Hate the " Road Runner" calls. Defense is supposed to stop mid air like in the cartoon

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This late in the season was surprised Harris was made available

Just now, mjkline1958 said:

Hate the " Road Runner" calls. Defense is supposed to stop mid air like in the cartoon

Yeah it's impossible to do

We signed Harris Tues, didn't you know?

BTW - you suck - have me looking at way too early mocks! A RB in the 1st according to McShay - not happening - it'll be a lineman but would like a secondary guy. HR loves his linemen and you can't blame him - it works! Look at dem boyz!

4 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

BTW - you suck - have me looking at way too early mocks! A RB in the 1st according to McShay - not happening - it'll be a lineman but would like a secondary guy. HR loves his linemen and you can't blame him - it works! Look at dem boyz!

I suck because you looked at McShay? LMAO Gibbs has to be on the board for the 30-31 pick I would think. I would like a secondary player there too,but BPA if we don't sign Sanders

Boyz in sad shape at S as well, claimed Mullens at CB, no real help. Still can't get over how well HR handled our roster this yr

I never look at mocks this early as I do a weight based mock and don't know what we're going to need yet - nobody does - so why waste my time? 

1 minute ago, mjkline1958 said:

I never look at mocks this early as I do a weight based mock and don't know what we're going to need yet - nobody does - so why waste my time? 

LOL so I suck? HAHAHAHA I need some of those meds. I look at them to get familiar with them so I know who to watch for on saturdays. If the NO pick is 5-Murpy. If it's 10-Bresee. Both from Clemson(DE and DT) so we're in good shape either way

8 hours ago, mjkline1958 said:

The double doink?

Had a bad thought if the schedule ran different  - like this game was last - we could "rest" our starters. 

Looks like Atlanta taking a dive demoting their QB. He's since left the team, supposedly has nothing to do with the knee.

I don’t think going with Ridder is taking a dive. Mariota has some good moments but always seemed to blow it. Opposite of clutch player. You know I think outside the box. I actually was thinking they should have started Mariota and then let Ridder finish things up before Mariota could foul up the situation. Benching Mariota is not a taking a dive move though, c’mon. You don’t really think that. Don’t think anybody really believes in Mariota. I actually like Ridder. He has some good qualities. Think wasting time on Mariota was just dumb. Take the lumps with Ridder and let him trial by fire. I could have seen letting him just getting some snaps instead of whole games to start the season. But he wasn’t a Trey Lance type situation. My opinion is far from fool proof. But I don’t see Ridder as that developmental type player as much. Don’t get me wrong, all rookies can grow, but he has plenty of experience. Just cater the O to his strengths(like any QB). My view of Ridder is starting level NFL QB. Not a mega ceiling. But good enough to build around. Guess they got caught up in some decent things Mariota did to start the season and started believing in fool’s gold. I just don’t like Mariota. Almost as any QB on the team. I can’t work with not clutch and always seemingly his destructive play. He does good things then follows it up with some game killing bone headed play.

4 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

I never look at mocks this early as I do a weight based mock and don't know what we're going to need yet - nobody does - so why waste my time? 

SO you don't already know we need a youth infusion on the lines? You need to wait to discover this?

4 hours ago, joemas6 said:

Which NFL team do you feel has 4 quality safeties?

We went through all TC with pretty much just Epps. He’s starter quality. Not going to go overboard on being all star player or anything though. Then lucked into Blankenship from nowhere. Usually you’d think a guy like him would normally start on PS. But our S room was so pathetic it was just obvious to give him a roster spot. I’ve arguably been Blankenship’s biggest supporter here. But what level is ‘quality’ really? Out of nowhere rookie with potential is how I’d label him. Think he’s a keeper. But year one contribution I wouldn’t want to be put in position to make all my plans relying on him. Perfect type 4th S option. One S goes down he comes in on Dime packages. ST contributor type. But he actually was our number two S. This was how the master plan unfolded for this season. S position was ignored. Blankenship was an unexpected gift. Part of no master plans. But is your point that you don’t think any DC should be able to rely on Dime packages in today’s NFL? I have to completely disagree if that’s your logic. Just so we are all clear, Dime is a personnel that requires three S. Pretty much always have at least two S on the field. With a very common package of three S any DC interviewed I’m sure could go on and on about how crucial that package would be to utilize. 

Two S every down. Any other position do you believe in depth? Here we are talking a third S to backup two different positions. Seems very crucial to me. Just as a backup. Then factor in a third S actually would contribute on D right away as a starting Dime S. Then factor in the benefits of a speedy third S backing up the slot also. That’s just so much a third S brings to a D on gamedays. A complete SB winning team would be more ideal to have that out of nowhere surprise ,Diamond in the Rough,Blankenship come in as the Dime after one S goes down. Think you might just be stuck way back decades ago NFL. The evolution of the game for so many years now has Nickle D as the base defense for everybody. That’s 5 DBs. I think Dime is very much needed. Gannon been hamstrung there. Now he should have gone with Blankenship over Wallace. So that’s on him. But Dime as been a liability for us. Watch our one loss. Watch how much our third S is targeted along with our backup slot corner. Over and over…pretty much all that Washington accomplished. Converted third downs so consistently there. They had total confidence it was money in the bank. 

So the offseason master plan gave us one S in Epps. Is that the point we are discussing? Or are we adding in the Diamond in the Rough Blankenship as a known reliable quantity? Everybody saw we had a glaring hole at that position group. Not sure what’s even to debate there. So glaring that a S trade was mandatory before the season. Traded for one and had to just start him week one with zero practice here. Great trade….but we had to trade for some S. We didn’t just trade for him to add another talented player. We were trading for a S…point blank. Were going down the list. If it wasn’t him ….it was the next guy. And on and on until we added somebody. S room cabinet was bare. I thought we all noticed and saw this the whole time. 

OMG GB - you really do try to draw anyone - even me - into an argument just for the sake of it. It's one of the reasons I don't partake on this board nearly as much as I used to. There's way too much bs in this world and frankly I don't feed into it. Now if you'd like to talk reality, that's different. Dullass, Vikings making moves - you know, stuff that matters. Me not looking at next yrs draft this early EVER, well that's different as it deserves none of my precious, irreplaceable time. We all have priorities and until it's time next yrs draft simply is not usually one of mine. I do appreciate your turning me on to certain players, for me not yet knowing the needs makes it improachable as I don't have the facts. Doing this well this late in this season and finding ways to make it even better - which HR is surely doing - is where my head's at.

So now it seems the only case you can make to defend Rosie plan on the S room would be that you had strong feeling on Wallace being a very good player. Your belief that he was going to step up and be a very good third option. Don’t know where those thoughts arrived from. Other than from the point of his draft-ability. His college play basically. Because he hasn’t looked good on this level. Just hasn’t ever. So I’d say he was a terrible option also. Not saying we had to just bail on him before this season. But he’s shown no signs. All hope…things will click with him. 

Just now, mjkline1958 said:

OMG GB - you really do try to draw anyone - even me - into an argument just for the sake of it. It's one of the reasons I don't partake on this board nearly as much as I used to. There's way too much bs in this world and frankly I don't feed into it. Now if you'd like to talk reality, that's different. Dullass, Vikings making moves - you know, stuff that matters. Me not looking at next yrs draft this early EVER, well that's different as it deserves none of my precious, irreplaceable time. We all have priorities and until it's time next yrs draft simply is not usually one of mine. I do appreciate your turning me on to certain players, for me not yet knowing the needs makes it improachable as I don't have the facts. Doing this well this late in this season and finding ways to make it even better - which HR is surely doing - is where my head's at.

LOL you said I suck,who's drawing whom?