2021 NFL Season Thread Football • Page 169

Grady Jarrett getting that Aaron Donald money LOL

 

The Julio contract is wild...it pays him a ton of money in 2020 and extends that deal into 2021-2023; that essentially the extension is 3/66 with 64 million guaranteed. Julio is gonna see more money in 2022, in a deal he signed in 2019, than Kyle Van Noy will see in 2021 on a deal he signed 11 months ago.

 

it ain’t low key, it’s a mess and the Falcons need to clean house because of it.

trade Matt Ryan for a first (say what you want but if Stafford is worth a first, so is Matt Ryan).

Trade Julio for whatever you can get. Be bad, work on it next year

 

Bezos coming in

 

fwiw, re: this.

The Falcons should literally have nobody from that Superbowl team still on the roster RN. It's a mess and there is 100000% a culture of losing.

 

Wild how Pitts is almost exclusively being mocked to the Patriots or a team that already has a tight end.

 

That makes sense tho, because he’s a wr

 

Tryon and Etienne are horrendous picks. Outside of that and Pitts, that's pretty good tbh

 

There’s gonna be a lot of reaches on edge rushers

 

Cam someone post his draft?

 

TDN spent a few minutes talking about Pitts to Detroit and a Pitts/Hock/Golladay offense?

 

I’m sure goff who almost never threw it to tight ends would love that

 

I really do think catastrophes linger in franchises. The Seahawks haven't been the same since Malcolm Butler, the Falcons haven't been the same since 28-3. The 49ers are another where they prob had their shot and that'll be it for this iteration.

 

In fairness, would you throw it to tight ends if you had siiiiiiignificantly better WRs? Your original team already dumped your ass, you'll throw who I tell you to and you'll like it.

 

Very keene

 

that seems a little unfair to SF considering their entire team was injured last year

 

That play broke up Seattle and that game ruined Atlanta. More teams need to commit to full cleanings. GM, HC, QB all gone, start new, get a new culture in there.

 

I strongly disagree. Everything has to break right to make a Super Bowl run (relatively few injuries, get the right breaks in typically close playoff games), and for all of us mortal teams, that comes once, maybe twice, for consistently top 5-10 teams. Attributing it to “lingering catastrophes” or “a culture of losing” is a lazy way of saying “regression to the mean” IMO.

Add in the whole aspect where the top 5-10 teams churn a little bit year in and year out and maybe you could say that there were unreasonable expectations as a result that linger (“they made the Super Bowl last year so they must be good every year!”), but I don’t think these teams are soiled because of a bad finish in a Super Bowl

 

The Falcons have given up more points in comebacks than any team in NFL history the last two years. It is not regressing to the mean. The team has no fight in it anymore.

 

It’s regression past the mean. So you’d now expect positive regression to the mean regardless of changes (although you certainly want to also make changes to improve the deficiencies). I like the move to get rid of DQ - it was a move that was a year overdue and hopefully should help with some of that.

I just don’t like “tear it down to the studs” as the solution to bad seasons except for the worst teams or the teams that truly don’t have that ceiling because then you’re subtracting from the mean and hoping that you can build it up higher and that’s a dangerous game

 

I definitely think for a few years after, it lingers. I don't think what's going on with the Seahawks now has anything to do with Malcolm Butler since it's an entirely new roster, but in the immediate years that follow? It has to stick around. It's only natural to trust your coach less. WE HAD IT AND YOU CALLED A PASS! You're a socio if that thought doesn't cross your mind at least once.