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2 minutes ago, pwny said:

I kinda want them to take a swing at Hudson and move Linder back to Guard. Gives us two large upgrades at starting spots and gives us some much needed depth moving Cann to a backup role. 

 

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3 minutes ago, JiffyJag said:

Sounds like Golladay is a Giant

 

lets see if the other WR dominoes start to fall 

The guy that tweeted it has 200 followers it looks like. Josina did like it on Twitter, but hard to tell.

Hope it gets done soon though. He's definitely not coming here, so I'm ready to figure out what happens with Juju/Samuel. Seems like we at least discussed something with them over the last few days.

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It's pretty interesting looking at how the new regime views the old regime/what they did.

This FA period is clear. Dave wasn't a bad drafter/his eye for talent was fine. It was all about team building.

Outside of Griffin, all these guys signed were quality role players. They evidently view most of these young guys as their "horses" so to speak. Hendo, Jack, Allen, Chark, JRob, Shenault, the OL, etc. Development+better coaching is how they think this gets turned around.

@pwny more than anyone has said it, but the view from the new regime is the team building is what failed us (along with no QB). Interested to see how it plays out.

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21 minutes ago, .Buzz said:

It's pretty interesting looking at how the new regime views the old regime/what they did.

This FA period is clear. Dave wasn't a bad drafter/his eye for talent was fine. It was all about team building.

Outside of Griffin, all these guys signed were quality role players. They evidently view most of these young guys as their "horses" so to speak. Hendo, Jack, Allen, Chark, JRob, Shenault, the OL, etc. Development+better coaching is how they think this gets turned around.

@pwny more than anyone has said it, but the view from the new regime is the team building is what failed us (along with no QB). Interested to see how it plays out.

Good take.  There are no wow signings here, but they did significantly improve the roster.  All of a sudden were going into the draft with a roster that looks, dare I say,  ok.  Not great, but certainly way less glaring deficiencies. 

-charles 

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1 hour ago, .Buzz said:

It's pretty interesting looking at how the new regime views the old regime/what they did.

This FA period is clear. Dave wasn't a bad drafter/his eye for talent was fine. It was all about team building.

Outside of Griffin, all these guys signed were quality role players. They evidently view most of these young guys as their "horses" so to speak. Hendo, Jack, Allen, Chark, JRob, Shenault, the OL, etc. Development+better coaching is how they think this gets turned around.

@pwny more than anyone has said it, but the view from the new regime is the team building is what failed us (along with no QB). Interested to see how it plays out.

One of the things Urban has talked about is how he doesn’t like the “wait until he gets his guys in here” talk. He finds that mantra and that type of team building to be disrespectful to the players you already have and to the process of team building as a whole. So he’s walking the talk here. Give a fair evaluation to the guys on the roster and work from there. And give them a fair chance to buy in to the system and culture. 

 

There are so many moves that this team is making now that they just wouldn’t have made in the past. Making it a priority to have a backup RB to a guy who looks like a star? Signing a starting WR *and* a clear depth guy? Bringing in multiple DL to compete for the same spots? Making a priority out of strengthening the special teams unit? There’s no way Dave would have ever done any of that. And he certainly showed he didn’t want to keep any of the past regime guys and flushed almost all of them out immediately. Urban as showed a commitment to keeping around the depth guys that seem worth the value to keep around.

Their ability to draft is going to go a long way towards deciding if this regime is successful or not, but thank God that we’re no longer only using free agency to acquire starters and always letting our depth go away. It’s like they expected that every season was going to be as healthy for us as 2017 was. And when it showed that 2017 was absurdly unlikely, every other season fell apart. 

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