RandyMarsh

Just an FYI we are currently projected to pick 13th in the draft. Its looking like barring a collapse by us or a team behind us like the Padres, Phillies and Reds(each have 4 less losses than us) we will be picking between 11th or 14th. After 4 straight years of top 5 picks this is gonna feel a little strange.

I dont think the offense is far away and I think they can win with Goff at the helm. They obviously need a WR or two but i think if that get that coupled with Decker shoring up the line(assuming he transitions well to RT and I think you can have a solid offense. I dont think it would be some high octane big play type offense but the type that ground and pounds with the run game and use that to set up play action and open up the middle of the field. The problem though is that the offense just doesnt have much margin for error cause the defense is atrocious. I think in and given game we may be lucky to force a punt or turnover 4 or 5 times at most so the offense either has to score TDs every chance they can or at worst have long drives that chew up a lot of clock. And just for the record Im not married to Goff, if a guy comes along in the next couple drafts that looks like the real deal I wouldn't be opposed to drafting him, I just don't think we should be all in on QB just cause we feel we need to get one for the future and end up with a Blaine Gabbert, Josh Rosen or Daniel Jones.

Keith Law picked his minor league awards and he gave player of the year to Witt followed by Adley. After them to be had a "other players of notes" portion and Greene was the first guy listed. He was pretty complimentary of him saying that his defense in center is better than he expected and said he could see him staying there atleast for the next few seasons. Said you could make the case he was better offensively than Witt and Adley but he picked them cause of their position and added defensive value. Unless I missed it I didn't see anything on Tork.

Yeah I dont get all the Romo love,I mean he isn't terrible but I don't think he is some game changing analyst like people treat him as and what he is being paid. Also I find it annoying how often now he tries to tell you exactly what the team is going to do when they are lined up just cause people on social media thought he was the smartest guy in the world the first game he did it. Now it's like he goes out of his way to do it and I find it annoying. If you want to break a play down post play that's great but I don't need you to tell me where each receiver is going and where the QB intends to throw presnap just to prove to people that you can read playbooks.

While it would be great to get a superstar at that position but even if Kriedler or whomever can play solid defense and be close to league average offensively it would be a big upgrade over what we have been throwing out there.

They are 35-33 against teams in the playoffs or playoff races, the teams that I constitute as being in the race among teams we faced are those top 4 AL East teams, top 3 AL West teams and the Cardinals and Reds. I would venture to say not many teams have a winning record against all those teams.

I hate to play what if but boy what if we got off to a 14-18 start instead of the disastrous 9-23 one? Our record would be flipped at 78-73 and assuming a couple of those extra wins came at the White Sox expense we'd only be 5 back now.

If we could get Story for 3/60 or even 3/75 then I would gladly take him. I just dont want to commit 8 years or 200million to him.

I thought the clock management was perfect, the Hockensen play may have took a little too long to develop but you want your opponent to get the ball with no time left and that's exactly what happened and would've happened if they scored a td too.

I chalk mine up to nerves, even though Im posting to essentially the same audience I feel a little more tension while typing, surely this is the same feeling a player feels when going to a new team.

I'm not sure if he is or not but personally if we can't get Correa or Seager than I'm not interested in signing any SS long term this year. Those are the two who I think will be stars going forward, the others will just be over payed guys with plenty of flaws. Not interested, so if we can't get those two I'd have no problem rolling the dice with current guys including Kriedler and see what we got.

I posted this in the old ancient forum but it is September 20th and we are still technically alive for the playoffs. I never would have thought that was possible back in April.