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that’s true but I don’t see teams struggling to find good dbs, and our system has a lot to do with it.

we’ve seen more then 100% turn over in scouts from 19/21 to now. even with different scouts we see the same problems. For one, it’s extremely rare that you find a top contributor from scouting at a position of need. Generally, teams excel at developing/scouting/using a couple positions and the majority of their young talent develops at positions of strength. For two, outside of extreme outlier players/positions it’s usually the 2nd year players who take massive steps. This is where roster management kills us. You could have the right guys, but not use them/keep them and each year repeat the same struggles even despite talent brought in. So who’s at fault? well the staffs have mostly rolled over. Mos, walter, and mac are the remaining common pieces. Mos’ weakness exacerbates walter’s issues. mos is 100% at fault, and walters is also 100% at fault. no splitting it. That said, it is walter’s job to mitigate and prevent compound issues like that. I will say that I feel like we’ve seen a bit of growth this year getting away from some of the issues. how much and if it’s enough, will depend on how the rosters look in the first month. I will add that the camp talent level the two years is trending in the wrong direction. And I think danny mac’s’ position is too cushy for how high he is in the org. I think we had a lot of answers at the positions of need this camp. But I think our roster direction is Atypical and risky. 3 ni wrs, 3 imp ol, defensive front etc. The only direction if this doesn’t go well is whole sale change at high level positions. We’ve put together a very strong potential roster. If our old guys stay healthy and if we play the proper young guys.

It looks like the available position player globals are our old friends Maruo, Hansen plus rookies to game play at DL yondjouen and miangue

I very much doubt it. Because that leaves us with 1 global on the AR, and 0 on the PR. This is a position we have not been in since the introduction of the global rule, and would leave us 1 injury away from not being able to complete a roster. Since you get up to 3 global PR spots, which are not counted against the PR, I expect Bailey and Andrews refused the PR. Bailey did dip for a good while in the last pre-season game; he might have gotten hurt and be out a long time as well. Yes, it does. And yeah, it is weird. Im sure we will now have to go through other teams' cuts to find someone for the PR.

I like poncius as a pick up but haven’t seen as much as i’d hoped. wallace is the only one who impressed among the young guys for me. he had a couple really good pass rushes too. But we kept all our imp lbs so we just didn’t have a spot or a path.

neither had any success in the run game, poncius was worse in pass protection and last year randolph was our best ol. I’m not surprised we finally picked between vanterpool and randolph. I like randolph better, but neither showed nearly well enough and vanterpool is more useful with how we will roster the ol. A pure pass blocking rt is useful, but I don’t think randolph was gonna turn into a roadgrader. Which vanterpool is, but wallace’s versatility to possibly be a rt long term and fill in in a pinch does make randolph even more expendable. At the same time, Bryant was worrisome in his limited reps. Media drooled over him in camp, but I didn’t see it. I worry he’s dropped off even more. I’m sure randolph will get a look else where, and very may well work out for another team. I’m a randolph guy, but the move does make sense. Especially since it seems like we might be filling up the ir organically and not really able to use it to hide guys.

I don’t think the chances eli is healthy to start the year is good at all. I think Eli, moxey, demski and vaval all go to the ir. Ceresna i think will play maybe partial banged up or atleast not 100%. I’m not sure our vet lbers are 100% either.

I’m not gonna flip a lid on this. Was prepared for a decent dose of durp. Womack made the team? how’s that lol. Lidster sent packing, why? is he able to go back to school? i didn’t think so. Cut Andrew’s? yeah pretty dumb. More tcf on the pr than i’d like. Should’ve used the ir more. Idk what more young could’ve done. But we gotta get some dt depth in a hurry.

I bet their favorite of Rano/Vanterpool comes down with a mysterious injury and sits on the 6 game lol.

Yep. Nichols too. Biggest concern isn't his arm, not by a mile. But for a QB3 who will do short yardage and could run some strev pack type stuff, He's a real good fit.

I think we could hide some vets on the IR instead of cutting them out right. Kyrie would be a prime candidate for this imo. I can't see us cutting Castillo. I think youd trade him. I also think they will want to season Lidster on the PR for a year. Sheahan could be a candidate, though I kind of doubt it. Im sure Nupunter will be on the pr. I could see peterson on the PR and MCI as the RB2. Maybe Clinton gets a spot and Ayers doesn't. (for lack of defensive use.) But I doubt that too. I could see Kelly losing his spot though. Lamont I bet is cut. I don't think the cuts will end up being the hard bit. Its going to be rostering the best talent. We have a few guys that are kind of close to each other in terms of development, and potential (Like the young DEs) so we could see some cuts there that surprise just due to the flavour that JY prefers. Specifically, Jenkins didnt get many snaps in game 2, might be hurt. But Reese is really the prototype of what I think JY wants opposite willy. Jenkins and Dixon both showed very well, but considering they were here last year and Reese is a true rookie, he was surprisingly close to them in terms of performance. Fletcher mightve been nicked up too. And Arnold really showed out. I'd be a bit surprised if Arnold isn't on the roster some way. We don't have a better back up imp DT imo. Or back up DT in general. He's a great fit, and would be very well served learning from Cerensa. Hell, with the injuries, Arnold could be playing starters reps in game 1.

Im betting by this time tomorrow we will know lol True. I'm pretty sure he had more throws/snaps than any other QB in the league in pre-season.

Man, a US game broadcast with a panel of Gruden, Johnson, and Flutie would be awesome.

On OB they it was mentioned that he told them he didn't want to run too much because he was told that wouldn't get him on the team. So he tried to run to throw. It did seem like he ended up running for his life and going back to more run threat.

No joke. I was pretty surprised. Clearly a real fan. Can you imagine being on the ham staff that turned him down in the job interview LOL Imagine if they got him to do panel work on some of the US/DAZN broadcasts?

my real concern, aside from the old boys club, is how many guys are about to make this club from the tub. We don’t get real injury reports, but it looks like a bad list to start the year. fletcher isn’t canadian. Wish he was. but agree with the names on dl. Both those dbs were on the pr too iirc. If moxley is out a while we might see both start. don’t love that. I like clinton. we gotta cut some fat at lber one day though. Singer will likely be the return guy while vaval is out.

love that fg angle lol

I wish perkins was like 22

Man bucky williams looking around for a guy to pick up while perkins is running for his life from the free rusher

The qbing the UFL is moderately better than our QBing was the last 2 years.

Thats a catch. Perkins needs a pair of 25lbs shoes. Force him to set his feet before he tosses it

Looking at too many reps for TCF

Dixon, Arnold, Fletcher, and Jenkins are all fully viable DL imo. I like Reese and clinton as developmental guys too. Our DL and CB spots are sorted imo.

Eh, we played almost no starters tonight. I wouldn't put too much weight on it. I worry we will be far from sharp to start the year though

Arnold one of the only guys keeping it together