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Looks like it's nothing major with Kendre Miller and he should be back for the season opener. We can still use a camp body at RB for the final two games, however.

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I said to my wife that the way they kept attempting to run him up the gut, only for a lineman to whiff a block every time would end up getting him injured.

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I don't know about ya'll but I'm feeling pretty good today! :bng:

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Is this sarcasm? If so my detector is not working right now.

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Not bad, but they didn't give enough props to McCoy and Ruiz on the line and never mentioned that Carr never had a defense supporting him that was in the top 20 in the league while the Saints are easily top five at this point.

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No defense is ever easily top 5. Whether we were top 5 last year depends on which common metric you pick. We were 9th in points allowed, 6th in yards allowed, 5th in yards per play allowed, 31st in takeaways, and 32nd in drives ended by turnover. Overall we were not a top 5 defense last year. But even a top 5 defense has a very hard time repeating as a top 5 defense the next year, most don't.

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Gotta do better here. And you're right, we were NOT a top 5 defense last year. Some people just like to sugarcoat s***.

Takeaways.

We were only better than the LV Raiders in this dept for 2022.

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Some people may sugarcoat and other choose to smear their own **** all over instead. I'll take the sugar, thank you very much.

;)

:bng:

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I'd keep an eye on the Philly Feagles final roster cuts.

They have a few players that could start (probably why they were in the SB last season) on a lot of NFL teams. Specifically the offensive line.

James Hurst may take over Peat's :rolleyes: spot by mid season.

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Okay. Which of the players that the Eagles cut from this are starters on other teams? Or was that just hyperbole?

LT	68	Mailata, Jordan 18/7	72	KELLY, DENNIS U/Ind	66	Johnson, Roderick SF22
LG	69	Dickerson, Landon 21/2	78	Opeta, Sua CF19	73	Sills, Josh CF22	77	Good-Jones, Julian CF20
C	62	KELCE, JASON 11/6	64	Toth, Brett CF19	67	Tom, Cameron SF22	74	ANDREWS, JOSH SF23
RG	51	Jurgens, Cam 22/2	56	Steen, Tyler 23/3	76	Robinson, Tyrese SF22
RT	65	JOHNSON, LANE 13/1	63	Driscoll, Jack 20/4	50	Johnson, Fred SF22

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YOUR WORDS: Some people may sugarcoat and other choose to smear their own **** all over instead. I'll take the sugar, thank you very much.
[B]
SUGARCOATED :Altered to seem better than it really is, made more attractive.

Bon Appétit! SUGARCOATING **** DOESN'T MAKE IT CANDY. **** IS STILL ****, WITH OR WITHOUT SUGAR. ENJOY! :rofl: :rofl:

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Amen brother! People who sugarcoat come across fake, shallow, and insecure. People who **** smear more likely than not to keep it real. I’ll take real over sugar coat any day😎
Besides, there’s something to be said about a mf who takes shots at a member whom he knows has him blocked

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He may have already taken Peat's spot. Peat isn't able to put up a fight right now....again. :rolleyes:

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Them sammiches will get you one way or another !

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Yeah. I was about to say the same. There's no reason why Peat couldn't take over that swing depth position. He may stay healthy longer not starting.

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Good.

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I’m confused. Is that a meme describing Peat falling and getting hurt or the FO falling on their faces when they signed him to that absurd contract? Good grief he’s over paid.

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Does it matter? That’s some funny **** there.

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That video clip nailed it. He's a turn style and he always winds up on the ground on way too many plays. At this point I'd be happy if he is a quality backup this season. His contract makes him expendable at the end of this season. I hope wherever he goes they have a Popeyes. Right Boston? :wink:

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I don’t know why, but this video cracks me up. I sent it to all my Pat loving Poker buddies up here and told them it was an inside scoop video of Belichick teaching their offincive line blocking techniques!

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If this line can stay healthy they can be elite.

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Fat chance of that.

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No telling unless you have some sort of crystal ball.

Oh, but I forgot. You always expect the worst. ;) :D

:bng:

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Everyone keeps talking about how Aaron Rodgers is so much better than getting Derek Carr for the Jets. Let's see if people continue to say that after the season. They are delusional.

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I think moving to DAZN was a definite downgrade to the Gamepass.

Because of the time difference to Finland - I usually don't watch games live. Previously Gamepass would cut all of the commercial breaks from the archived games, but DAZN doesn't bother with that and just leaves them in. What is even worse is that DAZN doesn't show the original commercials, but instead just plays generic NFL visuals with grunting and cheering in their place.

Also the quality of the streams seem way worse and I did read from somewhere that DAZN uses 1080p broadcasts which it then converts to 720p to save on server costs - 720p in 2023 is just unacceptable when the broadcasts should all be in 4K.

And don't even get me started on the default video type being the highlights when you start an archived game, so if you're not quick enough to change the type to full game when the video starts - you could be in for spoilers. Also, joining a live stream doesn't have the option to start from the beginning, but instead it just goes to live action and you have to manually rewind the stream to the start.

I'm seriously thinking of cancelling my subscription, but I just haven't found a viable alternative if I want to keep things above the board.

It's crazy that NFL talks about expanding the game to international viewers and then gives us this minimum effort crap.

Sorry for the rant guys...

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This is the place to rant !

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We invested a lot of high picks on this offensive line. If they stay healthy and gel into that potential then the analysts are right. I'm hoping they do.

Trevor Penning, LT, R1 | 19
Andrus Peat, LG, R1 | 13
Erik McCoy C, R2 | 48
Cesar Ruiz RG, R1 | 24
Ryan Ramcyzk, R1 | 32

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The fact that Peat was a 1st round pick a long time ago means absolutely nothing today. We might as well call up Janikowski and throw him in at center so we can say our entire oline is 1st round picks. If anything its a problem that our oline has no scrappy underdogs who were mid round picks or later and worked their way up, only more entitled players who were drafted in the 1st or early 2nd round. It would be better to at least have a mix, and if Peat gets beat out we will somewhat. Our Super Bowl roster had zero 1st round picks on oline and the oline was much better. We won a ring off of being able to take mid round picks on oline and mold them into pro bowlers. I will never understand why for some reason we stopped using mid round picks on oline (except that figure skater from oxford a few years back who did not make the team) and made it rain for the pillsbury dough boy.

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Gotta say I don’t think the Saints “stopped” doing anything Bako. Here is a list of our last 15 years of Oline drafts :

2023 4th Round OL
2022 1st Round OL
2021 6th Round OL
2020 1st Round OL
2019 1st Round OL
2018 4th and 7th Round OL
2017 1st Round OL
2016 No OL drafted
2015 1st Round OL
2014 6th Round OL
2013 3rd Round OL
2012 6th and 7th Round OL
2011 No OL drafted
2010 2nd and 5th Round OL
2009 No OL drafted

And this does not include undrafted free agent signings. As you can see, it is a mix of high round picks, as well as intermediate and late round picks. Landon Young, a player who is expected to be part of our Oline rotation this year was a sixth round draft pick.

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Crazy how it's been 8 seasons already.

Peat & DJ Humphries (AZ) are the only offensive lineman from that 2015 draft class still with the team that selected them.

Probably Peat's last in New Orleans.

BTW, Stephone Anthony (pick #31) was in that same draft class/rd 1. Huge swing and a miss there.

It happens ;).

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Peat will probably lose that spot to Hurst this year. No biggie.

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Lets continue:

2008 5th Round OL
2007 3rd and 4th Round OL
2006 4th and 7th Round OL

Only the 3rd rounder is a bust. All three 4th/5ths start in the Super Bowl, and Strief the 7th is our top backup and eventual starter. Those picks, going oline 4 times in rounds 3-5 in a 3 year period, are as much as anything what wins us a ring.

Then we go oline in the 3rd-5th only 4 times in the next 15 years. Five if you count TQS. One of those mid round picks hit on all pro Terron Armstead.

Oline is 5 starting spots, about 20% of starters if you go 11+11+k+p+kr. So on average a team should pick 3 oline in rounds 3-5 every 5 years. We have hit bigger and more on those picks than any team. And since 2009 we have made less of those picks than any team. It just doesnt make sense. We paid major draft value to trade in a lunchpail oline that won it all for a primadonna oline that cant stay healthy and all we have to show for it are a lot of stanford college sweaters covered in little debbie snack crumbs.