TheLeviathan

Alright, I love this sort of thing, so I'm going to dig in on nick's topic using Spotrac's "Manage Team" tool. Restructures/Cuts: Brian O'Neill - Convert part of salary to a bonus and add one void year - cap hit goes from 26M to 15M Release Garrett Bradbury (Save about 3.5M) Total Savings: 14.5M FAs: Release Cam Robinson, Sam Darnold, Aaron Jones, Stephon Gilmore, Shaquill Griffin, Jerry Tillery, Dalton Risner, Jonathan Bullard, Brandon Powell, Johnny Mundt, David Quessenberry, Dan Feeney, Trent Sherfield, Jihad Ward, FAbian Moreau, Patrick Jones, Cam Akers, Brett Rypien, Ryan Wright. Resign: Theo Jackson - 3 years 9M Cam Bynum - 4 years, 60M Byron Murphy - 4 years, 60M Jalen Redmond - 2 years 3M Kamu Greiger-Hill - 2 years 3M Daniel Jones - 1 year 7M Nick Mullens - 1 year 2M Cap Space entering FA: 47M Sign Trey Smith for 5 years 110M Sign Ryan Kelly for 2 years 15M Sign Calais Campbell 1 year 5M Sign Javon Kinlaw 1 year 5M Sign KJ Osborn 1 year 2M Sign Kristian Fulton 3 years 27M (Will have to adjust yearly salaries a bit, but all doable) Draft: Trade pick 24 and 160 to Philly for 30 and 94 Pick 30: DT Deone Walker 94: CB Will Lee III 100: HB Cam Skattebo 139: HB DJ Giddens Roster: QB: JJ, Jones, Mullens HB: Skattebo, Chandler, Giddens FB: Ham WR - Jefferson, Addison, Nailor, Trishton Jackson, Osborn TE - Hockenson, Oliver, Muse OT - Darrisaw, O'Neill, Rouse OG - Smith, Brandel, Ingram C - Kelly, Jurgens NT - Walker DL - Phillips, Campbell, Kinlaw, Redmond, LDR OLB - Greenard, Van Ginkel, Turner, Asamoah, Richter MLB - Cashman, Pace, Grugier-Hill CB - Murphy, Fulton, Blackmon, Hill, McGlothern S - Jackson, Metellus, Bynum, Ward K - Reichard P - Who gives a ****, sign a guy You probably need another cheap OL and CB to round out the group.

The ultimate failure is frustrating, but I try not to let that stain the fact that I had fun watching them this year. Someday, we'll get the whole package!

That Dak contract seems impossible to move off.

I don't love that KOC felt like he gave up and kept Darnold in there. If he gave up, he should've put in Mullens. I don't love the 4th down call, both strategically or schematically. It did feel like the moment was too big for his team and that part is on the coach for preparedness. I put that all on KOC and he should learn from it. But I can't blame him at all for the game plan. They did have run plays and short/quick passes called. As you say, the QB passed them up. Most of the sacks came after 4 seconds. There isn't an offensive line in the league that holds up that long on a regular basis. It wasn't pressure most of the time...it was pure....I don't know what to call it? Frenetic brain? There is no rational reason to pass up that JJ screen. To miss checkdowns to TJ and Jones all over the field. Nailor over the middle. The only explanation is a complete mental breakdown by the QB. It's what happened last week and it happened again. He literally crashed the car as the race began. It was a level of incompetence that no game plan could overcome.

If I built the best race car ever, spent weeks training the driver not to drive into walls, had everything prepped and ready to go.....and the driver takes a hard left into the wall....all my work will be lost. I may even look like part of the problem. But I didn't actually whip the wheel to the left and hit a wall.

Maybe Cousins had a more eclectic series of games than I remember. I just feel like (so it's more emotional than a logical argument) that the misery that was Sam Darnold the last two games felt more gut-punching than Cousins ever did.

It was, but my recollection is that Cousins tended to make the big moment mistake. Huge turnover. Throw short of the sticks. Throw a pick. That sort of thing. Not have a catastrophically terrible game from snap one. It might be pretty demoralizing as a defense to watch your offense keep going out there and your leader and QB looks that freaking terrible. Not even a turnover or a big play feels like enough to get them across the line. It felt like that at home on the couch in the Detroit game. Darnold was so bad they handed him the ball inside the ten like 3 times and still went 0-fer. That has to hit your psyche at some point. Or maybe not, that kind of pressure is unlike anything I've experience personally.

It's amazing how we went from Captain Checkdown in big games to Captain Never Checkdown in one year.

Jones was fine, but absolutely this needs to be a focus.

11 pressures on that many dropbacks isn't as much as it sounds. High end pressure teams are generally between 35-40%. So 11 normal pressures on 40 drop backs isn't an insane number. You'd like it to be better, obviously.

Here are two stats to support your point: Of the 24 pressures, only 11 came before 2.5 seconds. He averaged 4.73 seconds holding the ball per sack.

I hope, for his sake, that this is the case. It doesn't fully explain how frozen and frantic he was, but it at least helps protect him a bit as a person and a pro. Gives him a shot to keep playing ball.

The postgame on KFAN had phrases like "I hope he takes what he learned with him"

Man, I can't say it anymore than that first play shows. WR screen left. Jefferson is open. And Darnold stands around and takes a sack...while looking right! It's like calling HB screen in Madden and thinking the real play call is the deep shot on the other side. It's a level of bad QBing that simply defies explanation.

Sign DJ Reed. Sign Trey Smith. Draft DT. JJ balls out.

Sam Darnold did with 60 minutes left...

Plus side....this helps our draft position!

It honestly feels like he knows his QB is a hot mess.

Nailor is there. That throw was going to get Nailor killed.

I'm still 95% this is Darnold's fault...but I have no idea what that route combo was with Hock and JJ. Akers was open in the flat to the left.

Is that what that is!

He just missed a pass two feet in front of him on a quick game. For those that want it to be KOC's fault. Then tried to get Jones killed.

When we got that fumble return for a TD!

My understanding is that one must first score a "touchdown". I'm unfamiliar with this concept however. I'm assured these elusive "touchdowns" are good.

I think he's down, sorry to say.