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2016 Draft- Who ya got?

Mathis and Ihedigbo had great 2014 seasons. You guys were being dicks. You had no clue they would actually regress.

And plenty of old guys play well. charles woodson leads the league in picks. 31, 32, 33, 34 it's all the same.
 
What bullshit. Just explaining what happened.

injuries. They are factual. Both new injuries and old injuries lingering after surgeries

Guys like Adrian Peterson are all world after an ACL tear. Tulloch and Bell can barely run. Check Peterson for HGH.

I noted the regression of Ihedigbo and Mathis. It was surprising after 2014. Reiff too.
Laken, Swanson and Abdullah are young. They get one year.

My predictions were based on better health and without surprising regressoin. They didn't meet their potential clealry which was and always will be 11 wins.

We'll see how they finish and hopefully they can get a LT and 2nd stud pass rusher.

so you are comparing the 1 player in 100 that came back great from an ACL, a RB who was one of the all time greats, to Joyce Bell...who wasn't even good before the injury!

Most of us weren't fooled by the good play by Mathis and Ihedigbo last year. Last year was the fluke and most of us tried to tell you that...but you don't listen. You claimed Chris Houston was a #1 CB until the day he was cut...you never listen!
 
Mathis was good in 2011. Ihedigbo was solid in other years including 2013 with Baltimore. So you were misinformed.

You had no clue they would regress.

And Reiff and Warford were bigger surprises anyway.
 
And then the Alex Carter injury complicates Mathis too. Terrible luck there.

But Jason Jones, Ihedigbo are free agents. Lewis and Whitehead too. Walker and Ngata

We'll add new younger pieces. 10 draft picks and plenty of money in free agency.

Good building blocks in Ansah, Slay, Quin and Levy
 
Yeah, compare Mathis to Charles Woodson. Good call.

Woodson's a HoFer, and he's a freak of nature. Mathis can't move.
 
Mathis and Ihedigbo had great 2014 seasons. You guys were being dicks. You had no clue they would actually regress.

And plenty of old guys play well. charles woodson leads the league in picks. 31, 32, 33, 34 it's all the same.

again...you are comparing one of the all time greats to Mathis...who was never good. You are picking the exceptions...exceptions who are all time greats and trying to compare them to average to below average players. You think a 31 year old LB who was average at best is going to come back like Patrick Willis in his prime! You are delusional!
 
Mathis was good in 2013 and 2014. You ignored this.
Tulloch was good in 2011-2013. You ignored this
Ihedigbo has been a solid player and good in 2014.

Ngata and Levy didn't play one snap together. This defense had no chance when that happened. Plus the 20 turnovers in 8 games.
 
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Everything I said should have been the most probable.

We are in the weird fluke scenario of a season where there are too many injuries and surprise regression.

Can't wait for 2016.
 
Mathis, an old CB that showed regression in the second half of last season.
Ngata a guy coming to a new system and an old DT age, especially for a big guy.
Ihedigbo a guy who had a career year, that essentially had done nothing prior going back to his old ways?
Reiff, really isn't playing much worse then prior years.

Anyone who saw regression coming knows the game. I called mathis and Ngata, Thought Ihedigbo might maintain a higher level of play due to being a contract year, but not surprised he couldn't recreate career year.
 
Ngata is a stud player. He should be good. Injuries derailed his development here. Such bullshit he becomes an average DT. He's only 31. Plenty play better at that age. Never hurt much in Baltmore before this. The injuries are bullshit. Plus no Levy behind him. That is so huge.

Mathis was good in 2013 and 2014. He did not regress down the stretch

Ihedigo should at least be solid. And he's good for the most part in run defense. We'll replace him now though.

You need two pass rushers in this league though. Get a stud young DE or DT.
 
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Mathis, an old CB that showed regression in the second half of last season.
Ngata a guy coming to a new system and an old DT age, especially for a big guy.
Ihedigbo a guy who had a career year, that essentially had done nothing prior going back to his old ways?
Reiff, really isn't playing much worse then prior years.

Anyone who saw regression coming knows the game. I called mathis and Ngata, Thought Ihedigbo might maintain a higher level of play due to being a contract year, but not surprised he couldn't recreate career year.

The only one who didn't see it was the guy who called this team "holeless"

You know the guy...the DSF Village Idiot!
 
I should have been right. This was surprise regression. THERE WAS NOTHING TO INDICATE REGRESSION BASED ON 2013 AND 2014. NOTHING.
NGATA,IHEDIGOB AND MATHIS COMING OFF GREAT YEARS
 
11-5 deserves lofty expectations the next year. We'll get through this and add talent to get double digit wins in 2016.
 
Levy back and Laken/Swanson development. Add a LT

Add a DE

10-11 wins.
 
And all your negative ienergy wishing Mathis, Ihedigbo and Ngata to suck didn't help either. You're probably glad Ngata, Walker, Levy and Carter got hurt so I couldn't be proven right.
 
And all your negative ienergy wishing Mathis, Ihedigbo and Ngata to suck didn't help either. You're probably glad Ngata, Walker, Levy and Carter got hurt so I couldn't be proven right.

See that's where you are wrong again. I would love nothing more then for you to be right. Everyone wants the clueless cheerleader that thinks everything is great to be right. That is ideal. Everyone wants every player to have career years. Everyone wants Y7Staff to be a top 5 QB. Everyone wants year two of the system to be amazing. Everyone wants DT 2-4 to be greatly improved. Everyone wants an old CB play like he did in the beginning of the previous season. If the clueless cheerleader is right, everyone is happy.
 
Everythign I said was based on something. we were fucking 11-5. Wake the fuck up. Optimism was justified.

But now you can ignore all the injuries and blame it all on Stafford (when 14 of 20 turnovers aren't his fault)

Levy and Ngata healthier, Mathis and Ihedigbo and Quin could have had better years.

It wasn't clueless cheeleader. It was telling you guys what the fuck happened and how well they played. Then injuries and certain players let me down.

What should happen, doesn't always happen
 
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Yawn. So played out. I honestly doubted how you would keep this up when the team fell to 0-4, and now 1-7, but you have. So I can't deny you are one of the best trolls I've ever seen, even going back to some of those old ESPN boards.
 
your blaming of Stafford and ignoring of injuries is played out.
 
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