He would be in the pro bowl if our pass defense wasn't so bad. He's a great defender. Muma and Lloyd can learn a lot from him.
The way our offense took a HUGE leap this year. I could see our defense doing the same next year. Just need another piece or two to basically balance it all out.
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100 %…. Big time addition. And hopefully he can help mentor our rooks to maturity.
I will be honest and say I was pretty on the fence when we signed him, but boy am I happy how he has come along. A veteran prescence to our younger guys and has really been a leader out there. Worth every penny so far for sure.
I'm glad we signed him. I knew how good he was. And glad we outbid Atlanta.
Give some credit to the Falcons. They found him in the 6th round. That's amazing. Thanks again Falcons
It's really amazing how well we did in free agency this last offseason. All 7 guys we hired have been really good; some of them having career years. So many times in the past we hired a player and found out later, he was only here for a vacation. I think, while Baalke can get a little credit for free agency, I give a ton of credit to Doug Pederson for getting the most out of these guys.
(12-23-2022, 10:22 PM)Butters Wrote: [ -> ]I will be honest and say I was pretty on the fence when we signed him, but boy am I happy how he has come along. A veteran prescence to our younger guys and has really been a leader out there. Worth every penny so far for sure.
Same. I watched a couple videos saying he can tackle, but also left a lot of tackles on the field. He’s been rock solid this year and Lloyd/Muma can definitely learn a lot on how to play the game and how to set a good path for their careers.
What part of NC do you live in?
(12-24-2022, 11:00 AM)NCJag Wrote: [ -> ] (12-23-2022, 10:22 PM)Butters Wrote: [ -> ]I will be honest and say I was pretty on the fence when we signed him, but boy am I happy how he has come along. A veteran prescence to our younger guys and has really been a leader out there. Worth every penny so far for sure.
Same. I watched a couple videos saying he can tackle, but also left a lot of tackles on the field. He’s been rock solid this year and Lloyd/Muma can definitely learn a lot on how to play the game and how to set a good path for their careers.
What part of NC do you live in?
Yeah been really impressed how he has fit in to this defense.
Live right outside Winston-Salem
The pairing of Baalkie and Peterson has made more than a few good decisions. Perhaps they have a plan?
He has my respect. Dude is straight Wild out there.
(12-25-2022, 05:07 PM)Jag149 Wrote: [ -> ]The pairing of Baalkie and Peterson has made more than a few good decisions. Perhaps they have a plan?
Dude, I think you may be right! (Still need to see what happens this offseason... but the pairing so far looks good)
Pederson is a SB winning Head Coach that beat Tom Brady & Belechick with limp [BEEP] nick foles... (Edit - Had to self edit out that word... Didn't know it wasn't in the auto-mod filter!!)
Let's also no forget that Pederson saw something in Hurts enough to draft him in the 2nd round...
There is a lot of hatred for Baalke here. But maybe all that was needed was a true HC that could provide the proper insight onto what he wants the GM to go after. A GM working with a rudderless team where the HC has no real plan creates a problem. But if you have a HC that knows what works and what he wants, then the GM can go out and pick up those things that the team needs.
For me, I think the big deal this offseason is figuring out how to get out of this Cap situation without losing too many of our valuable players. I'm sure in this offseason, come february we can have more discussions about the UFA's that we should keep. So I'll leave that now.
But let it be known that there is a huge challenge ahead for Baalke in terms of how he's going to keep this roster strong while building on the needs we all know need to be addressed.
(12-25-2022, 05:07 PM)Jag149 Wrote: [ -> ]The pairing of Baalkie and Peterson has made more than a few good decisions. Perhaps they have a plan?
Their plan for 2022 was clearly to fix the run defense.
Oluokun, Fatukasi, Walker, Lloyd, Muma all played roles in making that better for the first half of the season.
The lack of pass rush and coverage ability that they didn't anticipate being so bad eventually made them shift their strategy and the run defense has suffered some as a result.
In the bigger picture, which I imagine is what you are alluding to, they do indeed seem to have drawn up a long term plan to build a team that can compete for the division. As much hate as Baalke gets, I'm kinda' excited to see what happens in the off season with cap management, free agency and the draft.
Currently (and this can change rapidly) it feels like we are only around 3 pieces away on defense and something similar on offense depending on how many guys we let walk.
I hope Lloyd becomes his tackling twin this year.
(06-22-2023, 01:24 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote: [ -> ]I hope Lloyd becomes his tackling twin this year.
Man, that would be glorious.
(12-23-2022, 09:21 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: [ -> ]Give this man your respect
https://twitter.com/BaldyNFL/status/1606...O0PL0nofbA
He reminds me of Darryl Smith and Hardy Nickerson, who were tackling ninjas. They routinely sliced between offensive linemen and made a beeline to the ball carrier. Foye's balloon-popping skills are from the TBrack school of strip-sack artistry.