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[movingtarget]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vyBFe-pCpU

 

[SHAD0W93]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2042645422439628809

View: https://x.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/2042645422439628809

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Who is the "front office" exactly? They use Sheila Ford as a trigger, but she isn't the GM, Brad Holmes is, and executive VP. And above him sits Ron Wood who is the president and CEO of the org. She's considered active in team and league issus, but with this many layers I seriously doubt Ford made a call saying "low ball that long haired #34! I need the cash!" Granted, they had the cap space to pay him what TB did, but they have to keep building a team for the present, and future.

I think Simms is right.

 

[Nomad]

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Strange article claiming that there's a lack of fanfare & hype on Mendoza because of the style of QB he presents. Article states that Mendoza is presented as a "traditional pocket passer" along the lines of Brady, Goff & Ryan as opposed to the dynamic, highly'mobile pocket passers/dual-threats like Mahomes, Allen, Maye, Williams, etc.

I'm not sure how this conclusion was reached. Granted, Mendoza isn't a dynamic scrambler/running type QB but he's far from immobile & would take off running as opposed to getting sacked or having to throw the ball away.

Last year at Indiana he rushed for 276 yds on 90 carries (about 6 rushes per game) & 7 scores. Comparing him to some of the other top passers in this class, he had 3 times as much yardage as Simpson had last season at Bama & more yardage than Beck & Nussmier had in their careers at Miami/Georgia & LSU, respectively.

What I've seen on tape is Mendoza can scramble out of a collapsing pocket, and you give him a lane...he's gone.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Draft can't come soon enough. Between articles like that. The endless mock drafts and trade proposals. The only other story is the hubbub with Vrabel and Diana Russini having a fling (oh no!).

 

[Nomad]

View: https://youtu.be/MsWOLd0BL8o?si=rrefuF9YCz8UWRS1

Excellent, short video on dual-threat QBs (it's a few yrs old so Allen's MVP isn't metioned). Interesting commentary from McNabb, Cunningham, Kordell Stewart, Young & Tarkington

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

That was cool. Agree with all those old guys. The game has forever changed and the day of a genius QB sitting in the pocket picking apart a defense are over. Everyone from here on out (or until they radically change the rules) will be a true dual threat or highly mobile. As RGIII pointed out a couple years ago, this creates true 11 on 11 football.

Cool seeing McNabb. Liked that guy a lot years ago. Very dynamic and ahead of his time. Had he won that SB over a superb NE team, he'd be a HOF candidate. This play is not from the SB, but I remember when it happened, and it's still amazing to this day: