Thanks for the read. Think he underplayed how good Murphy II looks (to a lesser degree, felt the same about what he said regarding Knight and Barner) to make the draft sound worse than it was.
He also takes the 'bad offensive line for 10 years' stuff at face value when it's not that clear cut. (2021 and 2022 they were below average but not garbage. They were probably at least okay--if not good--from 2018-2020 though offensive line specific stats are hard to come by outside of the last few years, but they were #1 in Time to Pressure in 2018 combined with being top 10 in run stuff rate. The fact that Russ took a lot of sacks and JS's comments about drafting IOL have really overly influenced this conversation.)
This was definitely a questionable off-season for FAs, but this was also his first time trying to get players for a brand new HC and he made good adjustments mid-season.
We'll see how he handles this off-season now that he and Macdonald have a season under their belt together.
It still irks me that despite the trade with the donkeys, they have a promising young quarterback and they made the playoffs in a division that was better than ours.
Yeah, but they were in a much worse conference. They went 3-3 in their division, we went 4-2 and we had the same overall record. It just happened to be that the top half of the league was very NFC heavy and we got to be the only 10 win team that didn't make the playoffs.
Yay us!