I disagree with Mark about the nest. The offense does not have a sufficient infrastructure that gives me any comfort for a rookie QB (that I assume they’re going to draft). While the tackle positions appear fine for now, they need to get a center and stop f**king around. It’s not great that the OL looked as bad as it did during the tank year when faced against any decent DL (see Browns and Packers games). You need starters and depth in the interior but it doesn’t seem like they have the draft capital to address it all. Poles’ prior center free agent acquisitions were Patrick and Feeney (they cannot be starting games next year). The skill position group outside of Moore and Kmet is disastrously lackluster (Kmet simply cannot be your 2nd leading receiver). So far Poles has had more misses at the skill position than hits. The list includes: Byron Pringle (bad), Trestan Ebner (who?), Chase Claypool (bad expensive and gone), Velus Jones (perhaps Poles’ worst draft pick), EQ St. Brown (good only if you compare him to claypool), Tonyan (rarely used and tbh you only remember the drops), Roschon Johnson (organizationally overhyped which isn’t his fault but little usage so inconclusive), and Tyler Scott (I swear he dropped more TDs than had completions). Fields’ own rushing stats covered up another year of inconsistent rushing production from the RBs. The offensive coaching was…well most of the staff was fired so it’s not necessary to rehash them beyond bad and gone. Perhaps Waldron will be an improvement and actually develop a rookie QB. I don’t know. I do know he’ll be fired in two years if Caleb isn’t good. In short I don’t like the offensive infrastructure at all. There isn’t much beyond Moore and some young guys here or there. It kind of goes to show how much the offense relied on Fields doing something stupidly awesome (sadly we can’t live that way nor should it be his life as a pro). Now maybe poles can draft an OL but I do not trust him with the skill position players. I shudder to think how Caleb’s career pans out if Poles goes about it with as little effort as he did with Fields. How can I forget, keeping Flus has completely undercut any goodwill I might have given Poles. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play? Good ep. Can’t wait to hear from you two again.
I disagree with Mark about the nest. The offense does not have a sufficient infrastructure that gives me any comfort for a rookie QB (that I assume they’re going to draft). While the tackle positions appear fine for now, they need to get a center and stop f**king around. It’s not great that the OL looked as bad as it did during the tank year when faced against any decent DL (see Browns and Packers games). You need starters and depth in the interior but it doesn’t seem like they have the draft capital to address it all. Poles’ prior center free agent acquisitions were Patrick and Feeney (they cannot be starting games next year).
The skill position group outside of Moore and Kmet is disastrously lackluster (Kmet simply cannot be your 2nd leading receiver). So far Poles has had more misses at the skill position than hits. The list includes: Byron Pringle (bad), Trestan Ebner (who?), Chase Claypool (bad expensive and gone), Velus Jones (perhaps Poles’ worst draft pick), EQ St. Brown (good only if you compare him to claypool), Tonyan (rarely used and tbh you only remember the drops), Roschon Johnson (organizationally overhyped which isn’t his fault but little usage so inconclusive), and Tyler Scott (I swear he dropped more TDs than had completions). Fields’ own rushing stats covered up another year of inconsistent rushing production from the RBs.
The offensive coaching was…well most of the staff was fired so it’s not necessary to rehash them beyond bad and gone. Perhaps Waldron will be an improvement and actually develop a rookie QB. I don’t know. I do know he’ll be fired in two years if Caleb isn’t good.
In short I don’t like the offensive infrastructure at all. There isn’t much beyond Moore and some young guys here or there. It kind of goes to show how much the offense relied on Fields doing something stupidly awesome (sadly we can’t live that way nor should it be his life as a pro). Now maybe poles can draft an OL but I do not trust him with the skill position players. I shudder to think how Caleb’s career pans out if Poles goes about it with as little effort as he did with Fields.
How can I forget, keeping Flus has completely undercut any goodwill I might have given Poles. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play? Good ep. Can’t wait to hear from you two again.
Thank you, sir!! At least we’ll have a lot to talk about this off-season!