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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm sure some RBs are worth early picks. I hope other teams avail themselves of them. Meanwhile, watching Caleb Williams college video to reassure myself that he can, in fact, throw a football to the spot he intends to throw it.
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    I don't care if the defense gets 40 dropped on them by CJ Stroud. I just want to see Caleb Williams look competent.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    You don't think the defense significantly improving last season and going 7-6 after an 0-4 start counts as showing something?
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    two things I've changed my mind on since obsessively watching all the film reviews 1) the first sack wasn't on the C. It was 50% rg and 50% qb 2) Keenan allen was way better than I gave him credit for, was easily the best wr on either team
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    This is that implied hierarchy stuff that I 100% admit I have a blindspot for. I'm sure I'm the one who is wrong, I'm just surprised. If i was just introduced to someone and literally the next thing I said to them needed a direct address, I'd probably use "Mr. Smith" or "sir." But the whole point of last names is that they're less familiar than first names. I would have expected that kind of reaction from calling him "Dan." I would not have expected it for calilng him by his last name, which is literally what he goes by in the title of the show (I assume he still does anyway, I haven't listened to it since it was Boehs and Bernstein many years ago). Semi-related, I hate when people on message boards call athletes or celebrities by their first name. It feels weirdly too familiar. You're not their friend, call them by their last name.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Calling him by his last name is too familiar? Weird
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Honestly, I think it's just bad qb play exacerbating ordinary mistakes. Teams that get good qb play forget about their mistakes because the drops are followed with another good pass that regains what was lost.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't see any scenario where Eberflus seat is even a little warm except maybe Williams balls out + defense collapses + another bad run of losing close games late.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't mind Jones out there, but I would definitely agree that I would rather have Scott than a special teams specialist out there as a WR. He'll get his shot this week.
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    I thought the defense looked a little better than I expected in week 1. Dexter is establishing himself as an adequate starting DT, and Taylor as a situational pass rusher is exactly what we needed. I still think good qbs will exploit our non-cb1 secondary more than Will Levis can. But I don't care if the defense struggles. In the 2020s nfl, you will sometimes need to win games where a good qb puts up 25+ on your defense. Hoping that never happens isn't a viable strategy. Just give me some points and show me that week 1 was a fluke and Williams isn't always going to pee down his leg and spray balls in pressure situations. Obviously i want him back asap, but I don't think we lose anything immediately with Odunze out. Watching the film breakdowns has convinced me that Allen was a lot better Sunday than i initially gave him credit for, but Odunze was simply a non-factor.
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    Why would we need to draft an RB when we have Ian Wheeler? /s Obviously, no, we should never take a first-round RB. And I agree OL and DL are obvious priorities. I could maybe see LB or Safety too. And as crazy as it sounds, I'm greedy and would take another WR if we really liked one at our pick.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    His biggest punt was a net of 48.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Trenton Gill career: 38.5 yard net average, 3.5:1 ratio of inside 20 to touchbacks Tory Taylor in his debut: 36.3 net, 3:1 ratio of inside 20 to tbs A punter is a punter is a punter
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't think it was *as* bad as people are saying. The interior is the weak part, for sure, but I would give them a D+ for the game, maybe even a C-. There were a few brutal mistakes for sure. Both sacks were on them, as was the batted pass on third and goal A few plays they got blamed for by fans weren't on them, like the FB whiffing a block on a blitzing DB, or Williams picking the wrong arm slot when faced with a DL on a screen The percentage of acceptable pockets was about average overall, and the running game got going in the second half. Just like Williams' stat line would look better if other people hadn't screwed up, the offensive line wouldn't be getting this much heat if other people had done their jobs.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sure, he could have had a better stat line with some better luck. He could have also easily had 2-3 picks if it goes a different way. But the funnier angle is that the Bears winning kinda screwed him. If they were still down 17-3 in the fourth quarter, he probably matches Jayden Daniels' stat line
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    https://youtu.be/3KzQmc0iE1U?si=dlYrFbyTHaFcKQc5 I don't think Bo Nix is terrible because of one game, but this game highlighted all the reasons i think Bo Nix is terrible.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    I did end up watching the film breakdowns, and it was pretty much what everyone already agreed: Williams looked overexcited and sailed throws, and there were major breakdowns by others that cost him chances to make big plays. Fixing either would have made his stat line palatable. A couple of the balls that I had as bad throws were actually miscommunications with the WR (one of which was *definitely* Odunze's fault). His reads were good enough. He looked like he was making accurate pre-snap reads and identifying conflict defenders correctly in real time. He could speed up just a tiny bit in the pocket, there were some plays where he hitched a bit when he could have immediately hit a throw, but that's probably always going to be part of his game.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    We'd certainly be talking about how the NFL let them score two different touchdowns on consecutive plays without letting the other team get a possession in between.
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    What was the second drop besides the Allen end zone drop?
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    I think I'm gonna pass on this one. That's too much misery porn even for me
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    If he had done well, we'd have 30 posts in a row talking about how great it is. And it wouldn't bother you as much.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think people try to manage their feelings by finding people to attack. "This is bad for my sports team. I don't want to feel bad about that. But if I yell at the people saying it's bad for my sport team, I'll feel better."
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    It wasn't *that* much of a sieve. The run-blocking was abd, and there were like 4-5 plays where the pass protection broke down, which is too many to call it a good day. But there were a lot more acceptable pockets than not. I don't super trust official NFL pressure statistics, but they had Williams pressured less than average yesterday, and I don't think they're wrong in this case.
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