(03-03-2022, 10:29 AM)Bullseye Wrote:

(03-03-2022, 06:47 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Grammar police on patrol here, Bullseye.  I'm only telling you this because you're obviously a very smart guy, probably the best writer on this board, unexcelled in content and composition.   But I gotta say it, because you done this quite a few times, and I think you'd like to know.  


"Indicia" is plural for "indication."  You can't have "an" indicia.  


As to your description of last year's free agency as "...flaccid and disappointing...," those are exactly the words I would use.  I was very surprised last year when we drafted Trevor and hired Meyer and then didn't try very hard in free agency, even though Meyer said he wanted to win immediately.  I remember Meyer talking about how good our roster looked, and what I think happened was, he really had no idea what an NFL roster looked like.  And since he was used to college players, he took a look at our guys and thought he could win a bunch of games (due of course to his magical coaching ability).  Meyer basically said there was no "re-building" necessary, and that it was a one-year plan, which was obviously a supreme level of overconfidence in his own abilities and a lack of understanding of what a good NFL roster should look like.

I really thought Meyer would be a good coach.  Maybe that was just my natural optimism.  Man, was I wrong.  Waaaaay wrong.

It's like being the guy at the party walking around with his fly unzipped.  Ugh.

To save the board extended exposure to an unwanted (perhaps from their perspective) grammar lesson, for now I'll just say thank you for the correction and perhaps continue this part of the discussion in PM.

As for last year's free agency, I think everyone had sticker shock when the contract for Trent Williams was announced.  Though everyone identified LT as a position in need of dire upgrade, everyone forgave the team for not making the expenditure for Williams.  But to not even make a play for viable and needed TE targets like Hunter Henry or Jonnu Smith, and to sign a bunch of seemingly nondescript players in free agency (none that would be readily recognizable as difference makers or catalysts) was quite the buzzkill.  It was one of a long series of buzzkills we suffered last season beginning with the hiring of Meyer.

I was in favor of hiring Pederson last year when the Eagles fired him, and if Khan is to be believed, he went after him last year, but Pederson was interested in sitting out the year.  The UM hire blindsided me.  I did think he would be better than he was personnel wise, and wanted to see what his influence would be on the offensem so like many of you, I reluctantly gave him a chance.

Ugh.

I sure know I did. It taught me a valuable lesson. Teams lock up very good, young LT's. There isn't that many of them at all so when they do hit the market, they are older guys who are still gonna command a very large contract. Then you have to decide if you wanna pay that player money which will take up a large portion of your future cap when in reality, that player could start to be on the decline due to age. It's a slippery slope. 

I think the vast majority of the board was blindsided by the Meyer hiring and not in a good way. I hated the hire, but I gave him a chance. That blew up in all of our faces.

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(03-03-2022, 10:39 AM)Bullseye Wrote:

(03-03-2022, 10:35 AM)baggnsaggnbarry Wrote: https://twitter.com/gregauman/status/149...v33iQ&s=19

If that's him, he doesn't look fat at all.

If he's truly at 336, and he plays around that weight, I'm quite confident he could be a successful LT.

It doesn't change how I feel about him at all, but he is very noticeably thinner. He had a huge gut when he was playing at Alabama. If he is indeed 336 lbs, he must've been playing closer to 365-370 lbs. last season.

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