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A few changes are coming for sure. Being a playoff caliber team as well as one proven to give anyone a chance to earn a spot is going to pay dividends with our ability to attract talent for the practice squad.

We won our division last year and now we have 11 rookies on our 53. Four are UDFAs. 20% of the team has no NFL experience. It’s what you might expect during the first year of a rebuild.

Sure but that player won’t likely be on the game day active list. You can always bring up a player from your PS when needed. Or has Hayden Large been some special teams standout we haven’t noticed?

The initial version of the 53 has some interesting situations. Just 4 LBs kept with Elliot as #4, Sanborn and Hyppolite both cut. I expect one or both back on the 53 or practice squad. Could we also be planning on signing another LB who was cut? 5 Safeties kept around. That doesn’t seem like a long term situation either. 5 CBs…with the new guy on the 53. I’m ok with that. I’d expect Beanie Bishop to get added to the PS while he serves out his suspension and we see what we have with the new guy. 5 DTs: Grady, Jordan VDB, Gallimore (wasn’t real impressed by him in preseason), Loving, and Street. I was critical of Grady’s play last year and not sure what to expect this year, but I’ll admit having him mentor two young and talented players in VDB and Loving is an ideal situation. 5 DEs: Davenport cut likely goes to PS. That’s odd for the former 1st Rd star, but nice you can do that with these veterans now. Congratulations to Kromah for making the 53. Daniel Hardy rounds it out but seems like once he’s primarily special teams focused especially if Davenport is on the PS. 5 WRs: Kaden Davis is likely a PS player. 10 Oline: Ozzy is on the list so that’s great news. I’m less enthused about Benedet as a backup OT this year but I can see him easily being the 6th Oline Ben uses on those rare plays when he goes heavy. 4 TEs: Keeping Hayden Large around surprises me.

agreed. Some players get the big money and that’s it.

More or less all of it although Overthecap just shows his cap hit as 1.075mil, there was no guaranteed money. Contract was listed as $1.2mil value so my guess is there was some type of bonus in there that he didn't achieve.

I don't see how any of that is the coaches fault.

Wills was cut. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him on the practice squad. More importantly this tells me the team has confidence in Ozzy return.

I feel the same. Of course I like both Loving and VDB. Overall I feel the depth at DT has improved but not the top end, that is with or without Dexter. This clears room for the young guys to get snaps and grow so we can know exactly what we have on hand by next offseason. Dexter wasn't going to change between now and February and was not going to be re-signed. That is more important as we head into the next offseason. This is a win now league and there are a lot of coaches who will always prefer to hang onto the veteran over giving rookies playing time. This coaching staff is 100% willing to bet on themselves and their ability to develop young talent. I've only seen highlights of CB Phillips we picked up. Clearly there's a reason ATL doesn't want him so we'll have to learn the downsides. However, I can see that he is an extremely quick athlete. Definitely has that quick twitch you prefer at NB but he hasn't performed well there in ATL. He's not tall nor long enough to really defend boundary throws. I'm curious to see where we try him out first but either way he adds some talent, depth, and experience at the bottom of the roster. Interesting to note that he replaced Jaylon at Utah so that little connection along with Al Harris might help get him back on track.

How many teams will be willing to go single high safety when Loveland and Zavion are on the field?

+1

Get Kyler some vitamin D. Demonstrated to reduce soft tissue injuries Also been shown to reduce concussions and CTE I only posted this in case folks have family playing contact sports. Now back to football https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12962981/

I don’t read FB nor Twitter because most of that stuff is from bots. I look at the Twitter posts from humans of course with practice videos. Most people have no idea how easily they are being manipulated. So I stick to this little home grown community and I feel I’m far better informed.

I don’t think there will be an overhaul. We have our starting safeties. We will still have Jaylon Johnson. And I’ll guess one of Stevenson or Muhammed on the other side But it’s possible both If Stevenson grows up. I think somewhere amongst the current group we have our starting LBs for next year. If VDB continues his trajectory he’s a likely starter at DT next year. We need to add another starter. DE. Sweat will still be here. He’s good not great but we need to add not subtract. Booker will be here but could be anything from DE2 to DE4. Same with Turner. Again we need to add a starting caliber player. I expect one of the these needs to be addressed via FA. Big needs remaining LT and DE or DT. Ozzy could still end up a good LT. Not listed Kyler Gordon He’s ours if we want him.

The last training camp practice just wrapped up. Now we head into the final preseason game where several backup spots are in play. Bring on a lunch break and my phone i’m not in a position to do a full 53 But I want to get the conversation started Oline. I think we keep 10 but could just as easily see 9 if Ozzy is close to returning. I’ll need to see the game to make a decision on Wills vs Benedet. 10 would be the team hedging their bets and buying time on the LT competition with both Wills and Benedet. Kaden Davis makes it as the 6th WR. Dline 9. Grady, Dexter, VDB, Gallimore, and Lynch. Booker, Sweat, Dayo, Kromah. Lynch is place holder until Turner is ready to go and he has lined up at DE at times. I listed Kromah but he still needs to earn it in this game.