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09-23-2020, 09:04 AM | #16 | |
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I'd have tried hard to do it this year but without camp I understand why they didn't. Next year his base actually drops to $5.8 million so you might be able to stomach that. If not, you can post June 1 him and save about $6.5 million (with about $4.4 million in dead money the following year). |
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09-23-2020, 09:05 AM | #17 | |
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It's also interesting that they didn't try to clearly upgrade Hitchens or Niemann but brought in a guy in Gay that actually will play Wilson's position. |
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09-23-2020, 09:07 AM | #18 | |
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It looks just like last year at this time when they were running all over the place instead of just playing their spots. |
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09-23-2020, 09:09 AM | #19 | |
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09-23-2020, 09:14 AM | #20 |
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Yes and no.
Weirdly, Veach was pretty far ahead of the curve for the price-tags on off-ball linebackers. They jumped exponentially almost immediately after Hitchens deal. There was some potential for that to actually be a really nice contract for the team with some surplus value there. And even where it is, if he could just be an average player, the contract wouldn't be a real boat anchor. The bar for that contract to be fairly forgettable isn't really THAT high, especially since the structure made the first two years quite cheap (so forward paying a bit on the deal through the rollovers). When you consider the cap credits created through rollovers rather than any individual cap year, his average cap hit over the first 4 years will be right at $8 million. That's a little high for an average off-ball backer, but it's not something we'd care about if the guy was playing at, say, Marvcus Patton's level. The contract isn't REALLY the problem - the damn level of performance is. He just absolutely HAS to be better than this. |
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09-23-2020, 09:48 AM | #21 |
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What drives me crazy is Willie Gay Jr. is riding the bench because he is "raw" and needs to learn, but watching the All 22 makes me question if any of the veteran LBs know what the **** they are doing. There really isn't any harm playing him for like 10-15 snaps a game. I ****ing hate that it seems like the reason Hitchens is playing because of his contract. Because he is not a good LB.
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09-23-2020, 09:55 AM | #22 | |
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09-23-2020, 09:58 AM | #23 |
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Have any of our LBs made a single big play all year? On defense, not on special teams, that is. A tackle for loss? A QB pressure? A pass knocked away? How about just a solid, square, open field tackle?
The lack of big plays aren't even it. It's just the complete lack of execution in the basic stuff. Ekeler is an underrated RB and can be slippery and hard to bring down, but come freaking on. If they were messing up the simple stuff but occasionally chipping in a big play of some sort, that would be one thing. But they're not. Like, at all. |
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09-23-2020, 10:00 AM | #24 | |
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He was never great, but over the latter half he played pretty much exactly to that 'average, credible off-ball linebacker' level that I think we'd all pretty much find acceptable. Obviously not ideal, but tolerable. So the staff doesn't want to bury him and prevent him from finding that form again. And last week's game was so nip/tuck the whole way that any trial by fire could've proven disastrous had Gay just completely shit the bed on an assignment. I get why the situation is what it is right now, but Hitchens can't have infinite rope, nor can Wilson. At some point those guys have to start playing better or we have to go get a veteran FA who can be in meetings for 4-5 weeks and maybe step in over the latter half of the season to replace one of these guys. |
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09-23-2020, 10:00 AM | #25 | |
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But among the starters, I can't recall anything. |
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09-23-2020, 10:01 AM | #26 | |
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09-23-2020, 10:05 AM | #27 |
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I think that plan was because it would be easier to get him in the lineup. Responsibiities being simpler than at Mike.
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09-23-2020, 10:13 AM | #28 |
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Wish we had gotten Queen but what can you do?
On the other hand we’ve held opponents to 20 both games. We do that all year and chances are better than not that we’ll be 16-0. |
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09-23-2020, 10:13 AM | #29 |
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Don't care if I get ripped - Matt House might not be all he's cracked up to be.
The read/react from this group is horrible. They don't read keys consistently and are often flat-footed far too long after any given snap. The poor tackling is one thing, but it is evident that part of the mental game is missing and this is showing up with slow/late reactions and bad angles/shortcuts being taken in pursuit. Block defend is also bad from this group. I get it is early, but some of this is just poor fundamental football. |
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09-23-2020, 10:52 AM | #30 | |
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