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i thought parker and jacobs played well last year. walker was decent too. that said, the back seven is still an issue. dt is an under the radar issue too, but there we have to hope levi improves. brockers may be finished in the way ngata and harrison were when they were here more than one season. the new scheme may help, plus the additions on the edge should obviously help too. the seattle game and the eagles game were reminders of how it can go really wrong for this defense if they cant stop the run.

i dont know if melifonwu ends up at corner. he played some corner last year and got burned pretty badly. but he waa coming off an injury and was a rookie, so plenty of time to grow.

in 2020 he was in the bottom 3rd of the league in yards per pass thrown and he had robert woods and cooper kupp. they were good, right?

he's a lot like nakobe dean. people were concerned about nakobe dean being too small to play in the nfl without being injured, well, rodriguez is the same height and weight as dean. theyre both small and fast. hopefully he can put some weight on and be a player in a couple years. he profiles out a lot like JRM. that's not a bad outcome for a 5th round pick if we get that out of him.

goff had one of the lowest yards per pass thrown in the league last year. there was a lot of checking down, dinking and dunking. i think a lot of that is on goff and - as has been mentioned - why the rams moved on from him during the season and then traded him for a qb who throws downfield quite often and quite well. that doesnt mean goff cant succeed, but it is a potential red flag for his future success in pushing the ball downfield. we all saw goff last year, we dont need to pretend he was good. he wasnt.

okudah was bad before he got hurt, then suffered a devastating injury and missed an entire season. if we get anything out of okudah at this point its a bonus.

ohio state ad proposes that college football break away from the ncaa, with its own set of rules. he still gives lip service to the idea of "academic requirements" which 1) ha, osu academics; and 2) i guess you have to do some sort of lip service to that and still have it mean something to be associated with the school. i mean, $3 million for a wide receiver? all power to you, but for old guys like me, it really takes the shine off the college game to hear stuff like that. just make it the minor leagues and call it a day.

lol. the opposite of barrington: pilsen.

i wasnt. i assume from your postings that you think they're all racists so the fact that they are would mean you think they're real christians. lol. i think urban christians and rural christians have more in common than you might imagine, even if some vote for trump and some for bernie.

what was your case again? that i dont know "real" christians? i'll let them know. most of them are really racist, does that make them "real" to you?

speaking of grifters, here's rick wilson.

i come into contact with christians all the time. evangelical christians even. half of them are dyed in the wool bernie sanders supporters.

the picture being painted of christians in this thread is of a useful steteotype by people who dont like them. and i am the furthest thing from a christian.

let me watch this season and then i'll decide what i think the lions need next season. i watched jarad goff throw ducks all season long (even at the end when he was better), and spend half the year having zero pocket presence. literally turning around in the pocket and running. after campbell started calling plays he got better in the pocket but he was still throwing ducks amd checking down all the time. i hope he improves next year. i dont think he was good last year, even if he was adequate at the very end.

well sure. its almost like people are people regardless of what political party they support. some are good, some are bad.

i know its not your position, but it is the position of others in this thread. also, lots of churches do all sorts of charitable work. because you may believe that you shouldnt rely upon the state for support doesnt mean youre not charitable or dont care about those more unfortunate thab yourself. the picture that is painted in this thread of christians is based solely on liberal stereotypes. again, im not saying you, but others certainly are.

lol.

and good limousine liberals will still fly in airplanes, drive gas guzzling cars, send their kids to private schools, and move to exclusive lilly white suburbs. people are hypocrites.

yes we should. we also shouldnt lie to ourselves and think were doing these poor minority kids a favor by killing them.

you dont hear evidence refuting a made up hypothetical? of course you dont. its made up.

rangers score so the refs decide to give the pens a 5-3.

the best is the "the ones who will really suffer are the babies". yes, i'm sure they'd much rather have their brains sucked out while theyre still in the womb. that's much more preferable.

actually it's not. its another "mike pence is going to turn america into the handmaids tale" liberal fantasy.

man, the rangers are physically giving it to the penguins. dont worry rangers fans, when the pens start cheap shotting you the refs will do nothing...

as a certified goff skeptic, i would say yes. if he performs well. i just dont expect him to.