RandyMarsh

I have no idea what the draft looks like next year other than Green but hopefully for our sake it shakes out like how it did this year. Some of the perceived top guys(House,Rocker,Mclain Watson to name a few) managed to fall to about where we are likely to pick so if we're lucky we can still get a premium guy despite picking outside the top 10.

Lamar Jackson missed todays practice after complaining yesterday his hip was bothering him from flipping in the end zone Sunday. The team said he was sick and that's why he missed but I wouldn't be surprised if it was indeed his hip and they are just covering it so Lamar doesn't get heat. Anyway just figured I post that since we play the Ravens on Sunday and it looks like there is atleast a chance Lamar won't be 100%. Of course with that said him at 75% could probably still carve up this defense.

I remember him as a player with the Guardians but not sure of his background in the office/management.

I bet Inge could've accomplished that feat if given the chance, atleast the 03-06 version. I think he wouldve been capable of handling short, maybe not full time but he'd be good enough to play there a couple dozen times a year.

Speaking of Cade I find it funny how quickly the narrative changes after we get him. All year all we heard was how he was a borderline generational talent and at the very least one of the top 3 or 4 guys to come into the NBA the past 10 years. Now all the sudden of no fault of his own he has turned into just another early draft pick. Case and point on ESPN the other day they actually asked who would you take between Cade and Anthony Edwards and one of the talking heads picked Edwards. A year ago people said Edwards was one of the weaker number 1 picks in recent memory, then he goes out and has a so so rookie season and now people are picking him over the "cant miss prospect" in Cade? What changed people's perception other than him becoming a Piston?

Just an FYI we are currently projected to pick 13th in the draft. Its looking like barring a collapse by us or a team behind us like the Padres, Phillies and Reds(each have 4 less losses than us) we will be picking between 11th or 14th. After 4 straight years of top 5 picks this is gonna feel a little strange.

I dont think the offense is far away and I think they can win with Goff at the helm. They obviously need a WR or two but i think if that get that coupled with Decker shoring up the line(assuming he transitions well to RT and I think you can have a solid offense. I dont think it would be some high octane big play type offense but the type that ground and pounds with the run game and use that to set up play action and open up the middle of the field. The problem though is that the offense just doesnt have much margin for error cause the defense is atrocious. I think in and given game we may be lucky to force a punt or turnover 4 or 5 times at most so the offense either has to score TDs every chance they can or at worst have long drives that chew up a lot of clock. And just for the record Im not married to Goff, if a guy comes along in the next couple drafts that looks like the real deal I wouldn't be opposed to drafting him, I just don't think we should be all in on QB just cause we feel we need to get one for the future and end up with a Blaine Gabbert, Josh Rosen or Daniel Jones.

Keith Law picked his minor league awards and he gave player of the year to Witt followed by Adley. After them to be had a "other players of notes" portion and Greene was the first guy listed. He was pretty complimentary of him saying that his defense in center is better than he expected and said he could see him staying there atleast for the next few seasons. Said you could make the case he was better offensively than Witt and Adley but he picked them cause of their position and added defensive value. Unless I missed it I didn't see anything on Tork.

Yeah I dont get all the Romo love,I mean he isn't terrible but I don't think he is some game changing analyst like people treat him as and what he is being paid. Also I find it annoying how often now he tries to tell you exactly what the team is going to do when they are lined up just cause people on social media thought he was the smartest guy in the world the first game he did it. Now it's like he goes out of his way to do it and I find it annoying. If you want to break a play down post play that's great but I don't need you to tell me where each receiver is going and where the QB intends to throw presnap just to prove to people that you can read playbooks.

While it would be great to get a superstar at that position but even if Kriedler or whomever can play solid defense and be close to league average offensively it would be a big upgrade over what we have been throwing out there.

They are 35-33 against teams in the playoffs or playoff races, the teams that I constitute as being in the race among teams we faced are those top 4 AL East teams, top 3 AL West teams and the Cardinals and Reds. I would venture to say not many teams have a winning record against all those teams.

I hate to play what if but boy what if we got off to a 14-18 start instead of the disastrous 9-23 one? Our record would be flipped at 78-73 and assuming a couple of those extra wins came at the White Sox expense we'd only be 5 back now.

If we could get Story for 3/60 or even 3/75 then I would gladly take him. I just dont want to commit 8 years or 200million to him.

I thought the clock management was perfect, the Hockensen play may have took a little too long to develop but you want your opponent to get the ball with no time left and that's exactly what happened and would've happened if they scored a td too.

I chalk mine up to nerves, even though Im posting to essentially the same audience I feel a little more tension while typing, surely this is the same feeling a player feels when going to a new team.

I'm not sure if he is or not but personally if we can't get Correa or Seager than I'm not interested in signing any SS long term this year. Those are the two who I think will be stars going forward, the others will just be over payed guys with plenty of flaws. Not interested, so if we can't get those two I'd have no problem rolling the dice with current guys including Kriedler and see what we got.

I posted this in the old ancient forum but it is September 20th and we are still technically alive for the playoffs. I never would have thought that was possible back in April.