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2nd best game each week is toronto level attendance. Meanwhile the st. louis games are in line with the 3rd best drawing team in a bad week. St. louis is the only real drawing team. Most of the 10k attendance claims week to week are free tickets that don’t even get used. a big chunk of ufl games are only attended by friends, family, and 100 or less fans

very good chance. Maybe acl, or some critical hammy tear, but probably achilles. I kinda of get it with jsk. flyer on a guy we know well at a position that isn’t a need. High upside, fairly low risk. So long as we didn’t give him a massive upfront bonus. It would be nice to dive in on the younger guys that’s never been our mo.

A real champ over achiever. I loved that guy, soo much heart and just played his ass off. You can really see that trend in our D too. Smith, shay, ayers, and woodbey for starters. We have some other big dbs who are sam tweeners too. The secondary and second level have soo many guys that are modular and can play many roles from many alignments. The athleticism of our canadian defensive back ups is really tremendous too. We’ve gone from those guys being the outliers and massive luxuries to that being the barrier for entry. Most all the those candian D subs are not just athletic outliers, but they are tough nasty hard nosed football players. Not just pile of cross over athletes trying to make a go of it. That versatile athletic canadian defensive back up core, is going to be a major back bone to our defensive success this year and going forward.

Stuart has soo much upside, sam/lber body with the athleticism and raw tools to run with wrs and cover. I’d love to have him on the ar early to play teams and develop as an actual db. He was a great sleeper pick. Idk if we’d have to hide him. teams don’t usually poach rookie drafted canadians if you pr em. idr the last pr poach at all. Pressure should be on both hallett and kelly. Ball really over achieved last year and had some flashes. Kid plays his heart out.

lawler wasn’t a recruit he was a bc cut, but he was the best of a bad group of young guys. schoen was on fire from rookie camp on, tc was a bit more quiet as we had a lot of wrs getting reps then he did the same thing in pre season as he did in rc. You’re pressuring what it’s being based on. It simply isn’t as talent loaded as we’ve seen. Those bigger crops haven’t really panned out either, maybe someone like singer could step up and perform really well and our guys could stay healthy and it won’t even be an issue. But the reality is, this group doesn’t have the raw talent or the polish of groups we’ve brought in previously. Raw talent at wr really pops when you see guys in 1 on 1s and skelly. You can see the flashes very quickly and clearly. We just don’t have much of that this camp. Be it rookie camp or full camp this year. A bumper crop at a position doesn’t mean success. We’ve seen loaded dl/dt, lber, and wr groups before, that didn’t pan out at all. That doesn’t mean they we won’t have a guy who over achieves or is just a game day guy, but it is a bit disheartening. Imo, the cuts we’ve seen like smith who showed a bit early, is a strong indicator. We’ve seen 8 wrs cut and 1 new guy brought in. I expect we will ride with these guys and any one who doesn’t show out in pre season will be sent packing. I think we will cycle through cuts and continue to look to back fill wr talent. This crop might yield 1-2 guys who stick on the pr and that might only be for a bit. Pookie would be a strong case of a gamer. He had flashes but wasn’t lights out by any means. Even in the first 1/3, of his rookie year you didn’t think he’d be a 1k guy that year. I could see wilson taking a big step forward this year too.

jsk done for the year. soo much for the 2nd time around . I hope it wasn’t a signing bonuses front end loaded deal

I think our best use of the final offensive spot is a guy big enough to dominant none dl blocks, but athletic enough that they demand a lber/db tweener at best. When it’s a 6th ol, or a guy like daniels, we hurt the run game and limit zachs ability to put the ball where he wants (down field) When brady is at his best, he’s aiming and pressing the A gap but ready to one cut and hit the b gap or press off tackle. When we play a 6th full size blocker, Ds go to an extra dl. Usually a di with every other team basically carrying a di dl every game. That 1, reduces the gap size and window between the tackle. But 2, moves the off tackle point to a spot that is hard to reach before the second level closes the angle. Daniels as a replacement for the heavy set edge blocker role that eli used to come in for is great. Though im not sure he’d be an upgrade over schmekel in that role. I think daniels potential long term offering to zach as his pressure release guy is great. More than just dropping size I think he needs that mobility/movement training to be enough of an asset in the pass game. Daniels vs peterson for a spot would make sense if we are going heavy set base a lot. Though I really worry about how thin we would be with offensive play makers. We really need some one to take a big step forward as a play maker on offence. We have basically no ability to absorb an injury to an offensive play maker.

yeah I think the last wr will rotate in package for sure. I think we are likely to see more heavy sets than 5 wide sets.

pace is a good get.

kenny was pretty good in his first camp, he came here mid to late in the season and was on our pr after a camp with the lions. A lot of optimism as wide spread after his first year playing in 19, more people doubted bailey would be worth keeping around

peterson is listed twice, so one of him for one S. They’d probably go hallet, even though he’s toast. If mcis flashes at rb end up being for real we might carry one ni rb, we could use that spot to carry a 6th ol (ick) or daniels and run a full time te while a ni wr back ups and bumps cobb off

I think Pokey and White will be good, but itll take a while for every one to get on the same page as zach and the play book. Wr, QB, 2nd De. The spots to fill, and at this point Im ready for us to settle for the DE by committee. And I don't expect any thing of impact to be done at these spots all year. Honestly Im not worried about MCI as a blocker. He progressed a lot last year. I'm pretty confident he will do well. I'm mainly concerned on if he will become a usefull skill position player or not, his potential and draft spot are a lot to not make use of. He has looked better this camp as a tail back though. Novak I think they will find a way to get on. Kelly or stewart will make it as well. I think Kelly early, but I think we scored on Stewart.

I feel like the yare all looking for a kenny lawler clone, as if to prove we can pump them out so it wasnt a mistake letting him go twice. I cant believe how few young imp wrs we have in camp right now. And they are all very similar. Atleast throw out some one line daniels and see where he winds, what we can do etc.

Marks looks like TCF tbh. I don't get what our scout team is doing when it comes to looking at WRs.

He is. And he could be a beast on D.

you can say that again. I spent 3 hours driving through it. I’ve never seen a dust storm like that here. That was soo bad. and when he tried to get urban to do the play by play but just dead silence gross

the weather this year is insane, and it’s probably going to be weird all year.

I wonder if we see the 2nd end opposite of WJ be filled by committee. From what I've seen Dixon and Jenkins have the inside track but aren't exactly lighting the world on fire. Nuer and KMB are going to be in need of reps, imo Bailey might actually be the next best guy right now. Dixon and Jenkins both also have the size and some ability to play a bit of 3 tech in a cheetah pack and 4i in the 30 front. If we end up with a DL of Wj, Lawson, Ceresna, Dixon or Jenkins, then Bailey, Nuer, Schmekel. We could end up not using a DI on the DL. It would be even better if some one like Hooper stepped up and was able to round out the back end of the roster.

Idk how we can afford even 1, especially if its just a teams guy. We are now loaded with teams guys.

I really like Allen. His ceiling is immense, and he was instantly a very useful player. That said, we are also instantly better if Griffin is at sam, and kramdi at S. Kramdis game fits better at S, and griffin is extremely good covering from the lber spot. Such a hard position to be in for JY. If the game slows down a little for Allen this year, he likely has the kind of year and launches his into the NFL and onto an AR as a back up. We did, but that was with like 6 DL and 3 imps, with no back up imp WR and with 1 less imp lber. Lber has become a trap spot on the roster for us. With last years NI lbers returning (Novak, Shay, Smith), plus Boulaine and clark drafted this year, we shouldn't be dressing a 3rd imp lber. But Ayers is a baller too. Id rather cut Ayers though, then lose Allen, Woodbey, or Griffin. Looks like he lost weight overall and added some lean mass. Daniels might not run well enough right now, or maybe they just want to limit his intake for now and let him adjust to a role he can fill right away then broaden him out later.

Yep. Id hope that means Allen sides back to corner, Or that Griffin does. DB is going to see some really tough cuts. WIth a DI used at Lber for teams, K, and KR, the last spot really should be on the DL if not a WR. But we also have Allen, Woodbey, and Griffin with out a roster spot in that case. I love Ayers, but Woodbey can do soo much more on D. And Griffin is an excellent db. I wouldn't want to lose either for Ayers. Maybe not even Allen given the volume of league starters and NI talent we have at Lber. I dont think we can translate camp to final roster intentions with the mafia, and it's still early. I think health and who is willing to sit on the PR will dictate a lot of what we do breaking camp.

We saw a lot of tweaks and gelling around the rest of that team. The OL gelled and over came a bunch of injuries/guys being pressed into duty. The DL did too as we worked in stove with drake more and did some 2 imp dt looks with him and of course the secondary was heavily overhauled.

Mos talked about it in yesterday's presser a bit. Yep, organic PKDs are great. When it comes entirely at the expense of everything else, it costs you a lot. But where a PKD on first down, when the other team converts is wasted, a qb hit/hurry/sack has a cumulative toll and you can easily get to the point where the qb is broken mentally if not physically. We saw us do that to the whole league for 2 years, and have seen zach and others here get to that point. I don't see a lot of WJs drops being called. When it's a called drop from the edge, you see a couple of hard steps to the back field, then a back peddle and you gain depth. The goal is to get the dropper to just under the shallow routes, which creates massive issues for the QBs. This is how we saw WJ get picks and deflections into pick 6s in the past. I haven't seen WJ climb that far back in a long time, though. With the player having the option to rover you see a lot less depth in the drop, and more screening action like on an inbounds pass in basketball. Which is what we do see WJ do a lot. We have had such a strange defensive roster since JY took over, Im not sure how much is his design and how much is just him making the best out of what he gets. We got away from the Fangio 6 style drop cover almost entirely last year. JY does want to play some match zone stuff with a bubble where DBs mirror routes, stay in back pedal as long as possible, make reads and then come up to play on the ball. But I don't think we've seen him married to a front or pressure package. We've seen 30, 40, 4+1, heavy blitz packages, but not as much mixes. We see prolonged runs on schemes then overhauls. He very well may view the front and pressure portion as utilitarian to what the secondary does and needs. Upside as well. if two guys are pretty close in calibre of play, but one is a rook and one is a 4 year guy its reasonable to expect that the rookie hasn't peaked and the vet has.

mos certainly loves willy playing the lanes. I’ve never heard jy talk on it but he can’t be against it. but he didn’t get to play that under hall. I mean, i love good pkds at the line too. when it comes with in the flow of pass rush it’s great. Even if the whole rush is stalemated dropping back is brilliant. At the expense of disruption it’s not worth it. no one does that in any league or level for a reason. consistent disruption not just sacks but pressures, hits, hurries and pocket collapses are too valuable. having that half the snaps of the game vs 1 pass knock down a game or less is a horrible trade off.

I understand what willy is saying and that he isn’t going to say yeah i’m over the hill. no way he feels that way. He has been significantly diminished the double teams and lack of a push from other spots on the line. He hasn’t been double teamed like that, because he doesn’t consistently push into the back field. He steps out if he can’t get an angle with a lead he coasts back and plays for the knock down. When he does get pressure his ability to finish sacks is one of the worst of any league starter. Not to mention getting his lunch eaten in option runs plays. We will see what he has left with some guys around him who can open game up for him. I’m sure it’ll be the best we’ve seen from him since jj left. But i expect his mixed useage, freelancing, and run vulnerabilities to continue.