The lessons of 2025

[Discobob]

Well.... I learned that the Key and Peele skit was crap apparently



This was one of my lessons from 2025, so it's related!

 

[Conn]

That's one of my biggest fears with the bromance Quinn and peters developed.

Will peters have the balls to force changes that Quinn doesnt want?

Yeah, I get it’s a weird idea but I’ve been posting a lot about the potential concept of “over-collaboration” in our current structure. AP was the Prince That Was Promised GM candidate who waited for the perfect opportunity and then pounced to come here. Take the reins, buy the groceries YOU believe in, and create the expectation that the staff will scheme around the talent provided, period. Remake this roster in your image, not in the image of coordinators and assistants who may fail and leave. They’re coaches. There’s no reason to believe they can evaluate college talent like scouts can. Take their input on desired traits and skill-sets, but this whole thing where over half our draft consists of guys the coaches pounded the table for…kill it. It’s not working.

And I suspect it leads to us overvaluing these ST’s-focused guys. Coaches love a young guy who contributes on teams, there’s nothing inherently wrong about that. But we’re consistently using valuable mid-round picks on guys who primarily project as ST’s studs who could possibly develop at their position. Instead of just taking potential starters who may be harder to activate on game day until they develop. Feels like it lowers our ceiling. And that feels like a possible result of over-weighting what coaches want and are comfortable taking a risk on, just as an example.

 

[Faithful Fan]

Lessons learned from 2025?

Don’t get your hopes up because of one lucky season?

Should have taken Drake Maye over Jayden Daniels?

Don’t pass this misery on to your kids?

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

Prince That Was Promised

He thought he was the Prince who was promised.

He was wrong.

 

[DazedSkinsFan]

I certainly don't want Harris to be that meddling owner that causes more harm than good, but I certainly hope he tells AP that if we have cap money then don't be afraid to go spend it. Spend some damn money in 2026 and bring some talent in here!!! Im not saying stupid deals that handcuff us, but spend more money than we did in 2025. We can't build a super bowl roster in one off season, but if we spend some money and hit on a few draft picks we can definitely improve this roster.

 

[burgold]

Maybe this is a 2024 lesson, but it bears repeating.

Don't trade for injured players.

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

I would be beside myself if Harris involves himself in the management of the team before his third season ends. We just escaped an overbearing owner who inserted himself into the management of the team. I'd have to think long and hard about whether I'd want to waste more time being a fan of the team going back into the 30 years of madness we were praying to be rid of.

This A thousand times this. You don't clean house of even fire the head coach after 2 seasons.

All this talk about the receivers not getting separation but I'd to introduce another possibility. Jayden is not seeing open receivers or for whatever reason not throwing to them. Aikman said he had Layne but took off instead. Fans at the stadium insist Luke was getting open. Any thoughts here?

 

[Chris]

At least Whitt will be able to smell the stink of his defense from close up this week. 🤣

 

[formerly4skins]

Looking back on the 2025 season so far, I think i’ve got two big takeaways...

First, it's pretty clear that Jayden Daniels health is going to be a career-long storyline. The dude can obviously play, but he’ll always have that lean frame and we’ve seen it struggle to stand up to the violence of the NFL...upper body injuries, lower body injuries, and just the general wear and tear are already causing him to miss time in year 2. That ain't a good.

Second, the NFL is still all about speed...and if you don’t have it, you’re toast. We've learned the hard way that having a slow, plodding linebacker...like Bobby Wagner has become...in the middle is just asking to get eaten alive. And if your edge rushers can’t scare anybody or get around the corner, you’re basically bringing a knife to a gunfight. Whitt certainly hasn't done his side of the ball right with his coaching, but I kind of feel like the horses just aren't there no matter what he does with the scheme.

 

[Discobob]

Looking back on the 2025 season so far, I think i’ve got two big takeaways...

First, it's pretty clear that Jayden Daniels health is going to be a career-long storyline. The dude can obviously play, but he’ll always have that lean frame and we’ve seen it struggle to stand up to the violence of the NFL...upper body injuries, lower body injuries, and just the general wear and tear are already causing him to miss time in year 2. That ain't a good.

To your first point.... I'd like to address the folks that would counter that argument by saying...

- He needs to learn to throw it away
- He needs to learn to slide
- He has to protect himself better

Those are all great ideas, but it's very likely that he isn't going to be able to meaningfully change the way he has learned to play football. He has years of training that says, "F-it, I'll do it myself!" That's very difficult to turn off.

I think the front office has to just assume that he's gonna play this way for the next 3-4 years - whether you like it or not. As such, we need to build around that fact... solid investment in viable weapons (WR, RB, and TE), Oline, and offensive coaching. All of these things will cut down on the likelihood that he injures himself. I understand that our defense is a laughing-stock.... but we are going ABSOLUTELY nowhere without Daniels.

If you make me choose in the offseason.... I'm gonna go with bolstering the offense at the expense of the defense because of this dynamic.