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The Random Thought Thread
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JoeyFlex5
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PAIN
BoredMarine13
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JoeyFlex5
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Boujee asses. That’s fucked up. Give ocho a month to get in shape and I bet he could cook half the corners at the pro bowl anyway.
allblackraven
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Sandtown
Pro Bowler
JAAM
Hall of Famer
Unfortunately he would never take that. I’ll be so upset if he gets an OC job anywhere else but KC and we’d still have Roman. That would be mind blowing
Davesta
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You never know. If he gets signed here and Lamar’s passing game improves.. he’s Gon get bunk of the credit. Sounds enticing.
#SIIE
JoeyFlex5
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Ya know, harbaugh was rather… open ended in his answer about Roman…
Sandtown
Pro Bowler
Honestly Eric B definitely has some question marks as a coordinator outside of KC. I don't think he calls the plays and what KC does on offense isn't something a one man or one coordinator comes up with. It's not just Andy Reid either so ideally if a team hires Eric B and expect to replicate what KC does on offense then they may be setting the bar too high or I could be wrong. So you may get upset over a guy that may end up being a disaster as coordinator outside of KC but I honestly don't think it's wise for The Ravens to change the offensive system that has helped their quarterback become MVP. If anything I would just add new concepts and ideas then keep expanding from their.
JoeyFlex5
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The issue with Roman isn’t about adding ideas and concepts, fundamentally it needs to be reworked from the ground up, the counter to the defense is to crowd the middle, it defeats both the run and the pass game in this offense, and Roman tries to counter that by… also crowding the middle. Until Roman learns how to spread defenses too thin and distribute the ball, his scheme will be easily beaten.
BoredMarine13
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Ellicottraven
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Wouldn't it be poetic justice for Harbaugh to swoop in and steal him from the Chiefs?
Dom McRaven
Hall of Famer
And it's reasons like this is why we have a top-notch organization.
And we have to mention that players in this too. For the most part, we identify guys that fit the mindset and culture and that's why they thrive here. For every Earl Thomas that was a complete miss, there are 20 Eric Weddles it feels like. It's not often that we have generally bad people walking though the Castle doors.
Tank
Hall of Famer
We've taken a lot of grief in the past(especially "post RR") for recruiting and signing mostly high character guys, but as a fan you have to have huge respect for Steve Biscotti and the culture he has promoted from top to bottom.
EDC not gonna be happy looking at his first draft class at this point
Hollywood Brown
Jaylon Ferguson
Miles Boykin
Justice Hill
Ben Powers
Iman Marshall
Daylon Mack
Trace McSorley
He got one really good one in Hollywood. One eh starter in Powers. 3 rotational guys at best in Ferguson, Boykin, and Hill. And the last 3 are complete non factors, although Marshall has been robbed due to injuries.
Hollywood Brown
Jaylon Ferguson
Miles Boykin
Justice Hill
Ben Powers
Iman Marshall
Daylon Mack
Trace McSorley
He got one really good one in Hollywood. One eh starter in Powers. 3 rotational guys at best in Ferguson, Boykin, and Hill. And the last 3 are complete non factors, although Marshall has been robbed due to injuries.
2020 was much better with Queen vastly improving, JK Dobbins, Madubuike and contributors in Duvernay, Proche and Stone. Not sure what is going to happen with Tyre Phillips.
rmcjacket23
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Ain't a ton to like about the 2020 draft class as of now either. Queen played well down the stretch but certainly isn't the three down MLB we were hoping, Dobbins looks very good but obviously got injured, and the rest is just meh. I like Madubuike but he's not an impact player, Duvernay is basically just a kick returner, and we're getting very little out of anybody else.
What I think is notable, even including the 2021 draft, is that in 3 years, DeCosta really hasn't done much on day 3. Ben Powers has probably been the most impactful day 3 pick in the three years of his tenure.
I understand Eric was likely running the draft long before he fully took over the reigns, but we would usually get a pretty good player (or sometimes 2) on day 3 in a lot of previous drafts.
'18 we got Averett, Bozeman, and Elliott. Some later bloomers there, but critical players for us last year for sure
'17 we got Chuck Clark
'16 we got Tavon and Judon
'15 we got ZaDarius and Boyle (and Waller)
In the short span he's been full time GM, feels like we're improving on day 1, but doing worse on day 3, where we have a lot more picks.