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  1. AgentDib

    Pete uncertain whether Jamal will be ready week 1

    1% is the difference between the 10th best and 7th best teams, and represents a very large number for any non-QB. Consider how many potential factors influence each game - 50+ players on each side, large coaching staffs, weather, officiating, injuries, and simple randomness. What would you...
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    Pete uncertain whether Jamal will be ready week 1

    There's an important distinction between hating Jamal Adams and hating the trade for Jamal Adams. It's possible to root for him to make a full recovery and an impact on the field this season, and also think the trade was fundamentally poor strategy for NFL roster building. The question here is...
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    Pete uncertain whether Jamal will be ready week 1

    Direct swap of Bradley McDougald for Jamal Adams. We then picked Coby Bryant with their 2022 4th, and they took Alijah Vera-Tucker and Garrett Wilson with our 2021 and 2022 first round picks (the third round pick was used to move up in 2021).
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    Pete uncertain whether Jamal will be ready week 1

    There's too much gambler fallacy in there for me. It's ill advised to trade important draft capital for players who are wanting a big payday. When you take a big gamble it's tempting to blame bad luck when it fails but the reality is that we should have been more patient. Sound roster...
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    Hawks play by play announcer is a real woman, cool…

    I have a hard time mustering up much enthusiasm for play by play announcing in televised football. Everything you need to know is on the screen already and the referees have mics. "That pass... downside.. and it is grabbed by Tyreek Hill! How did he get his hands on the ball?" just doesn't...
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    Espn analyst says we have a better roster than 49ers

    The unit grades (0.0-4.0 scale) are interesting on their own. I don't love the 40 points of precision on this and of course they are just one person's opinion. Too low for my tastes regarding our OL (1.1), CB (2.1) and Edge (0.9), and too high when it comes to our safeties (3.5) and DTs (1.3)...
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    Daayyyammm...Kenneth Walker III

    Just an example of high variance/high YPC vs. low variance/moderate YPC. Here are Kenneth Walker's actual carries from the first Arizona Game: +17 yards (right guard) +34 yards (right guard) +3 yards (left end) -2 yards (left tackle) +3 yards (right tackle) +4 yards (left tackle) +2 yards...
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    Daayyyammm...Kenneth Walker III

    As others have said, Hawks fans didn't mind taking more RBs because they knew we were shorthanded at the position with Penny and Homer leaving. We've also had two seasons out of the last five that were effectively sunk after we ran out of RBs. All modern offenses dabble in both zone blocking...
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    Why '23 will be better than '22: Front 7

    As I've previously mentioned, Curley Culp was a nose tackle. Alan Page played a little nose tackle. I certainly don't believe the statistic that you are representing as a fact. Since this is a discussion forum, my initial response pointed that out and explained why I did not believe it. Your...
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    2020 Hindsight on the 2023 draft

    So far I'd still be comfortable with selecting Charbonnet there. He provides the ideal short yardage counterpunch to Walker's elusiveness and sharing the load between the two gives them a better chance of staying healthy and productive. McIntosh will be tough competition for Dallas as the...
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    Why '23 will be better than '22: Front 7

    We can agree to disagree, but if you are presenting a highly unlikely argument as a fact with no evidence then telling me to do my own research is not persuasive. I listed Kennedy and Sapp as the two HOF DTs that I could think of being over 300 lbs, and both were prototype 3 techs. The truth...
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    Why '23 will be better than '22: Front 7

    I'm curious about the source of those facts, since there haven't been many DTs total who have made the HOF let alone NTs. Last I saw Fred Smerlas was still waiting and he was one of the best. HOF is very skewed towards sack production which NTs don't get enough of. - Culp played 0T at ~265lbs...
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    Jamals quad isn’t right a year later. Could miss tc

    It's fair to point out that the trade could have worked out much better than it did, but it's the process standpoint that many disagreed with initially and I still argue was fundamentally flawed. We tried to go too all in on 2020, perhaps due to the knowledge that Russ was on his way out, and...
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    Rob Staton on 710 MUST listen

    I agree on both counts. It's nice to talk about going BPA in theory but in reality need is also an important consideration. Trading up or down is an excellent way to address both.
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    Rob Staton on 710 MUST listen

    Would you have been OK with a Tackle at #6 if the front office had them rated as the highest player on their board?
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    Rob Staton on 710 MUST listen

    This is ideal in theory but I have doubts about whether a team can ever completely separate talent from need. It lined up for the Hawks to take a CB and slot WR because we also needed talent there. The value you get from drafting players only comes if you are playing them, and there are finite...
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    Huh. YAC matters. Who would have guessed?

    The other benefit of lower distance/higher YAC routes is consistency. Lockett is good for four to five huge catches every game which are often highlights. It's a more volatile playstyle, however, and on 2nd and 8 in the second quarter sometimes you just want a very high completion route with...
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    Dan Quinn's Magnificent Rotation of Eight

    The interesting thing about football is that we can wildly agree about how successful that front was but it's plausible to attribute the success to different sources. In my view it's easy to overrate Quinn as the one with the DC job when we won the Super Bowl. If you look at his defenses...
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    Jamals quad isn’t right a year later. Could miss tc

    Minor points maybe, but it hasn't been a year later and we knew from the start that this was a serious injury. Only half of NFL players who completely tear their quads play in future NFL games. Pete's updates have been cautious from the beginning and this is just more of the same. It was a...
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    No international games this season.

    I thought it was 9 away games this year? NFC West plus Giants, Ravens, Cowboys, Bengals, Lions and Titans. I realize this is just preaching to the crowd but it's 2400 miles from Seattle to NY and 3400 miles from NY to London. Each of our east coast trips is most of an international trip...
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