Random Commanders Thoughts

Looks like Jayden may be able to play on Sunday after all.

This is a game most bettors would stay away from until later in week.
 
Bulldog said:
Looks like Jayden may be able to play on Sunday after all.

This is a game most bettors would stay away from until later in week.
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Correct.
I jumped on it because I believe the drop off from Daniels to Marriotta is not that great at this time. I’m sure that’s also an unpopular opinion. But I think this offense can operate just fine, for a game or two, and with our backup.

We also get an advantage that no one really knows what a Kingsbury offense looks like with the backup. We saw what they did on the fly Sunday, which may have not changed much after the injury. Now they have a week to prep, so we have the advantage of surprise there.

(I also think we’re seeing a lot of typical hype over reaction with the bears right now, which you see in the betting markets every time a team unexpectedly does better or worse)
 
Wow. Agreed, not completely shocked, but still an eye opener when a first rounder gets cut. But hey, Peters and co know what they are doing.
 
Exactly.

Got to be someone on one of the other 31 practice squads that would help the team out more.
 
I third the "Wow!"

I never want to celebrate anyone's firing. They hurt. OTOH, I love how ruthless this team is and how they seem to reward performance. Peters and Quinn really seem like they don't give a fig about draft position (maybe because they aren't their draftees) they have made so many statement moves. Davis' and Forbes demotions are without doubt statement moves. They had several others during the offseason as well. Previous regimes, with no coaching staffs and new front offices, felt obliged to keep these underperforming players, sometimes for years.

Davis lacked something that prevented him from turning his potential into production. I don't know if it was buy in, effort, or something else, but while it is sad for him that he lost his job, I have to imagine it is a good message to send to the team.
 
If you would have told me in January that this team would move on from Davis, Dotson, and that Forbes would be a healthy scratch who didn't get many snaps without any high priced free agents or trades to replace them... I wouldn't have believed you. In some respects, that's super-ballsy. In other respects, it's a no-brainer, but the kind of no-brainer that is so hard to do. Cutting losses at the risk of embarrassment is something many teams shy away from.
 
I think it became clear in the Carolina game with Baptiste on IR and Dorrance Armstrong inactive that Quinn and Whitt Jr. decided to play Jalyn Holmes at DE for meaningful snaps opposite Dante Fowler Jr while Davis had absolutely ZERO impact on the game.

We signed Holmes from the Jets practice squad last week and he comes in here and basically plays regular snaps while Davis is rotated in and out?

Bottom line, Jamin Davis didn't contribute on the field to this football team in any material way this season.

The players that have been cited in this thread that were holdovers from the Rivera regime have basically played themselves off the roster.

It wasn't a gutsy move for the front office and Quinn, it was simply making evaluations and acting accordingly.

That's what good teams do.

A year after Johnson took over the Cowboys the only veterans he kept were Michael Irvin, Jim Jeffcoat and Nate Newton.

They jettisoned almost all of the other players off that last Landry roster in 1988.
 
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Your first year is the best time to get rid of guys you didn’t bring in, that you don’t want to have to answer for later cause you kept them around for a 2nd or beyond year.

They kept him on the roster until a window closed on another player and they needed a roster spot.

Juxtapose that to multiple franchise tags and a compensatory 3rd round pick for Cousins. Like him or hate him him he’s a top 1/3 of the league qb that’s started for a contender every year since he’s left. We got a compensatory 3rd after 3 years of dysfunctional drama that included the GM purposefully mispronouncing his name during negotiations.

Now look at a team that reminds me of the 2023 lions that will run through a brick wall for their coaches and their teammates. Tell me there isn’t an agent in the business with a star client looking at being a free agent next year that doesn’t have Adam Peters name at the top of his first call list when the new league year begins.

I’m not old enough to remember the first Super Bowl. I mean I vague remember what it’s like to Ben a 6 year old in the area but it’s not like I was consuming front office moves and coaching press conferences…

Organizational competency is like porn - a specific definition isn’t easy but you know it when you see it. It’s nice to see it for the first time. Sucks it took till 39 but I am sure happy I see it.

(sucks Davis didn’t work out but like everything else under Snyder - water under the bridge, don’t care to put much emotion into any of it ever again)
 
Jamin Davis has all the measurables and looks like an NFL player standing on the sidelines.

The trouble is he was never able to process the speed of the NFL game or master the mental side of preparation for it.

The team drafted him to be a middle linebacker but a year in he still didn't have the playbook down and couldn't make the calls.

Then they moved him to outside linebacker where he got lost in zone coverages and was a liability.

This staff moved him to rush end and hoped his natural talent would allow him to produce some tangible results, but after seven games still zippo.

He reminded me a lot of Devin Thomas, the former #2 pick years ago who was cut and had produced large as life numbers at the combine.

The trouble was he couldn't play wide receiver.
 
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