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DT Kevin Williams has all those minus DPOY (but had DPOY-worthy campaigns and his 5 all-pros were all first-team). Years after eligibility, he's not in.

Just like the NFL gave the Rams their recent SB, everyone knows that. Luke Wilson’s penalty was BS. League wanted to force an LA SB in LA. (They tried to give LA Rams a SB a few years prior with the aforementioned Saints call, but the league never thought wonderboy McVay would only score 3 points on his own in the big game).

These two just don’t have that dawg in them. Janes cosplaying Tarzans.

Adams' mockup is good, but these are truly great alts:

Sooo... Why only make part of the uniform visible in its unveiling? Incompetency or intention to build suspense? The latter would be odd because it's an alternative jersey.

Obligatory.

I like it, more so if they could have tacked on another year. Keep your identity: keep your speed. With an aging Hill and Mostert, and also some good but ~unproven speedsters, Waddle is the one player to which I'd be confident giving an extension.

I’m in favor of players allowed to be paid (with the caveat it doesn’t come majorly from student fees). And I am for players who are top prospects acknowledging their worth and priorities when they sit out of bowl games. But it sucks for us as fans. The constant annual portal mess sucks. The realignments destroying cultural, geographical ties sucks. The negative impact of non tier 1/2 schools sucks. The potential fallout of other sports programs at many universities sucks. The media/etc downplay of any non-championship season or non-top 5 team sucks. Until this year, the playoffs have sucked hard so even it - something that could’ve been cool - has sucked. ——— But to be fair, I haven’t liked CFB for some decades now.

Just because your team’s #4 (and #3, no less) are worthless doesn’t mean all WR 3/4s are as well.

You're free to do as you say (i.e., dig for evidence); until then, I have no idea what you're on about. But yeah, I consider Seattle to be SF's biggest divisional threat. Their roster is inarguably better than the Rams', and Seattle has produced better head-to-head results vs SF.

This is all fair.

This is what every fan of every team says about their later acquisitions. "He was a day 3 pick but he wasn't a day 3 player" equates to hoping/projecting the player will reach his uppermost percentiles of outcomes - same thing I said in the post prior. You know exactly what it means. When it comes to player character evaluation, we can only go off of what little access and reports we're given. It's harsh and faulty to do this off of so little, but there's little alternative other than throwing it out entirely, but with QBs character is too important to not consider. And while you have your reports of Rattler being a high character at SCar, there are as many reports of the opposite at Oklahoma, not stemming from a reality tv show but the team and university. We'll have to wait for hindsight to see which reports become indicitive of Rattler's long-term character; that said, reports exist that legitimize concern over his character. Feel free to dismiss this as I don't care to further widdle down this microscope on a random backup. Certainly. This is a good general plan of action. Of your curated group, only Dak had any character concerns (i.e., his DUI that was later dismissed) and the other four (and Dak over time) proved to be extremely high character players (if not all quirky). Weird to curate such a list when we were just talking about character concerns... in this aspect, Rattler is more akin, and in this way alone, is more likely to fit in with other late round selections: Stetson Bennet, Kellen Mond, Jake Fromm, etc. It goes without saying that character is only a piece of a many piece puzzle, and I don't care to glorify it beyond reason. Outcomes exist where both of the following are true: Rattler is a low character QB; Rattler is a good+ starting QB.

Not an NFL game, but I've always felt the love for CFB's '05 Texas-USC game is extremely over-saturated. The actual play between the teams wasn't particularly special (many national championship games since have had better). VY's historic run for the win was nothing most QB's can't do. It feels like it's heralded because its football's outlet for the general Texas-Cali hated/rivalry. Also because Texas is purported and treated like a tier 1 football program and 05's their sole championship in more than half a century. To this day, that game has allowed multiple non-charismatic to be major tv personalities: Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush in their commercials and as analysts. This is treatment not really given to any other players/programs since (nearly 20 years removed), and it makes it feel like the CFB world never moved on from what was a rather average (though close) champion game.

The percentile outcomes for both are almost exclusively backup, though. And I'd muuuuch rather have a player and person like JT as my backup than Rattler. Rattler as a 4th-round role of the dice for a cap-stricken team isn't a move without potential payoff, but you're hoping for an outcome that's only in like Rattler's 90+ percentiles; the Jets' taking JT in their context is a very safe move.

Go ahead and dig. Not sure what the Rams did of note last year. Also, it's illogical to reference last year as a way to project for this year (whether explicitly or not) while also projecting the Rams to finish above the NFC champions.