Aside from Safety:

1.) Bring Fries back. Smith and Kelly could be cap casualties... I'm not sure. I read they could restructure Nelson, Pittman, Buckner, and some others and gain like $50m+ in cap space.

2.) Justin Fields in the context of being tied to AR (neither are my preferred style of QB). Other 10 guys don't have to adjust as much, true 1:1 competition. If neither pan out... we're at ground zero.

3.) Draft Tyler Warren. If he's gone, could have an interesting toss-up between TE Loveland and S Starks. However unlikely... I have seen some scenarios where CB Will Johnson drops, in which case he trumps those two.

4.) Draft a RB, no FA. There's a shitload of 3rd and 4th round RBs this year.

Pretty sure that Fields is staying in Pittsburgh

I agree with the premise that Holland may be a good safety signing. But what is the definition of ballhawking to you or dammy? For me ballhawking, would at least indicate a DB that creates interceptions.

Yeah, in that case, probably just a semantics thing. I didn't use the term myself, but I'd consider it a sideline-to-sideline guy that keeps QBs from challenging as much because he reads/reacts and explodes to the ball. Stuff that does complete is tackled quickly. What were they, 4th best 20+yd completions?

Just gets to the ball with authority, may or may not rack up INTs. Whatever we call that.

I understand everyone's prespective that they want to fill holes for the 2025 season but....it will not matter.

We don't have the right guy at QB, IMO. If we don't fill the biggest, deepest and most important hole first, none of the rest of the bandaids matter.

I get why we are rolling one more year with the status quo. We drafted him at #5 overall and you have to give him that third year to play. But, again IMO, that 3rd year is not going to look any better than years one and two and we will be in this exact same position in 12 monthes having gone 8-9 or 9-8 missing the playoffs and drafting #13, #14 or #15. We don't have the right QB to succeed.

So, on that note, my hope for the off-season is that we get younger and have more pieces in place so when the new GM, HC and QB are all found in 2025 for the 2026 season, we can start over hoping we found our new QB of the future.

And, please management, stop using the RAS score as your sole metric for player acquisition.

Technically AR has 15 QB starts, so not even a full season of games played. I'm not ready to say he's not the right guy at QB just yet. Once he backed off his stance of working with his guys in the off season, that showed growth and gave me a glimmer of hope.

Apparently AR has swallowed his pride, separated friendships from success and will be working with Josh Allen's team this off season. Again, that is just a glimmer of hope. But I believe that the common consensus was to write off Josh Allen after his 1st season as well.

How did that work out?

Assuming whatever kept him out at the end of the year is a nonfactor in 2025 can Smith's contract be reworked and move him to right guard? He had decent scores as a run blocker and could tranlate better as a run & pass blocker from the interior. Running the ball inside consistently and stopping inside pressure would go a long way to getting the best out of AR.

Fries could come back healthy and ready to play and that isn't bad for competition or depth.

Kelly to me is the one to go. His run blocking was pretty poor last year and believe Bortolini will develop quickly.

Fries played very well before getting hurt last year. If Smith's play has regressed to the point that he's not able to play RT well enough, he should be cut or take a massive pay cut and compete for the RG spot. I thought Goncalves showed himself more than capable of starting at RT.

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George, you talk too much ...... 37 posts in 8 years ...... I'm surprised that the moderators don't have the "Post Whore" moniker attached to your profile.

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I hadn't heard that. That's actually really encouraging. I wonder if he had a come to Jesus moment or if Steichen sat him down and convince him to move on to coaches w/ more proven success.