(03-15-2024, 12:24 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(03-15-2024, 11:51 AM)g1ml3t Wrote: Playing devils advocate: they learned from their mistake trading AJ away and are trying to rectify it with calvin. Not saying calvin is as good as AJ Brown, he clearly isnt.

Correct. This is an admission of failure. However, to be fair, both of these decisions were made by two completely different General Managers. Ran Carthon took over the General Manager role in Jan. of 2023. AJ Brown was traded the year prior under Jon Robinson's tenure. 

The only common denominator is ownership here. Amy Adams Strunk allowed a lot of this to take place. They're in a rebuilding phase. They believe they have their QB of the future in Will Levis. They have to try and give the kid a chance so Ridley was their best option. 

I still think, however, firing Mike Vrabel was a grave mistake. Also, they still have DeAndre Hopkins for one more year, and, he wasn't ALL that bad last year. They can also choose to draft one of the top receivers available next month. I wouldn't sleep on this football team at all.

Could easily be the 2023 clots in our division for the year 2024, pushing their play-off hopes alive all the way through the final whistle of week 18. Also, lawd have mercy if they [BLEEP] around and end up drafting Brock Bowers. I am telling you now. Bowers in this division with Levis' ability to scramble, break tackles and chuck it does not bode well for this division in the long run.

I expect them to be at the bottom of the division this year largely because I think ownership is bad and they seem to be making bad decisions in succession which usually doesn't end well.  Much will depend on if Will Levis is the guy.  I liked him better than most coming out, but I don't like him so much to say that he's necessarily a top 20 QB in the league.  They are kinda all in this year with him assuming they don't draft a new QB at 7.  Calvin and Nuk are going to get caught by father time sometime between now and the next couple of years so it looks like they are counting on Will to deliver this year which I don't see happening.

I think they find out this year that he'll likely never ascend to top 10 status and then find themselves in QB purgatory for a while because they won't be awful enough to earn a top 5 pick next year either. Poor tittians.

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