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He actually wasn’t bad at all
I know he wasn't, and I know it was partially due to injury and partially because of the move.

I just found it funny he immediately validated my stance with his opening statement while then trying to contradict it. xD

Fuaga will be more than fine at RT.
I definitely wouldn't mind Goedert either, but given his age I wouldn't want to give him a top 10 TE contract. If we could get him more around top 15 money I think it's doable.

There is nothing wrong with having a 2nd TE who can create mismatches, and him being a decent blocker sure helps as well.

It would also lessen the need for WR, especially looking at the ones available in FA (really it looks like Shaheed or Pierce would be the play, and neither is a #1).
I have no issue going OL in the first round. My issue, which you've partially hit on, is moving Fuaga yet again. He was a very good LT in 2024. He had a down year compared to last at RT, but still a good year overall (some of this was due to injury). Now you want to draft another tackle and move him again?

People think it's really no big deal to move guys around, but left side to right is a HUGE difference in stance. Tackle to guard is a difference in stance and a HUGE difference in technique. It's extremely different playing on the outside than in.

This is the whole reason Peat had so many struggles because they tried to force him so long to play the right side and his body could never adjust. He moved back to the left and his play immediately improved. He eventually even got used to playing inside at LG instead of outside at LT (while he was an okay LT (faaaaaaaar better than RT or RG) he had issues with the speed rushers which is why they tried to move him to the right side to begin with).

So no, while there is "projection" Fuaga would make an elite guard there is zero guarantee he would actually be even a decent guard. It's a HUGE risk and you are risking wasting yet another pick by drafting someone else to play tackle yet again.

Draft someone who is actually an elite guard. Don't take a huge, idiotic swing and draft a tackle at the top. It isn't worth the risk.
Come on Nikki. Let the boys play!

re: FALCS FIRE MORRIS !

Posted by bonethug0180 on 1/4/26 at 11:12 pm to
The first 2 yes.

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Young QB that has shown some potential.
This one no.

They also do have a very nice defense, though they are lacking in a couple of spots.
It also fails all the time. There is a very mixed degree of success of this across the league. Recently it has been horrid for us. Why do more of what has been failing ever since Peat?
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Fuaga was not good at RT this year.
So if that's true that only goes to support the quit moving guys around thing since he played very well at LT last year. You are killing your own argument.
He is on his second contract with us.

In 2024 he signed a 1 year deal with us. After playing well enough but not crazy to get a huge contract, we signed him to a modest 3 year deal running from 2025 to 2027.
So basically not in MANY years has it worked, and that was many Oline coaches ago.

Also, Strief was RT in college, and was only successful for us at RT. Evans was a raw prospect at a small college.
There's only a 30 sack difference between them, and Peppers has 2 years played on Cam. That's pretty fricking close to equal production, though Peppers does have the edge.

Cam has been a monster his whole career as well, but has always been underrated by most.
Peppers had an insanely long, productive career, much like Cam. Super rare he missed a game too, just like Cam (4 his rookie year and 2 another year for Peppers).

Cam just needs to play for 2 more years to equal how long Peppers played. Probably won't hit his 159.5 sacks though, but if he could get to 145+ it puts him on rare air.
He's on his second contract with us now, for 2 more years, cheap for his position.
Okay name a guy we switched his position from college and he played well there.

Only one that eventually worked out okay was Peat finally settling at LG after CLEARLY never working out on the right side (yet being forced to play RT and RG for large periods), having been exclusively a LT in college. And that only took how many years?

re: Im a believer

Posted by bonethug0180 on 1/4/26 at 9:36 pm to
People are nuts if they thought he looked bad in preseason. Yes at times he looked like a rookie, but he was making BIG TIME throws even back in preseason. You could see he had the reading ability and the arm strength and touch to get the ball anywhere on the field from jump.

I get he may have needed more time to learn the playbook, but he always looked miles ahead of Rattler as a player on the field and imo it was still stupid not to start him immediately, even if it came with growing pains. Rattler never gave us the best chance to win.
I was limiting the talk to what he did on offense, because his value as a returner has always been obvious, though I don't think that will up his contract value as much as what he can do as a receiver.

It's definitely a plus, but not what gets you paid.
Did some more checking, and extending Jordan, Davis, and Olave, in addition to the restructures and carryover, gets us to around $76 mil in cap space, so yeah we can go pretty deep if we want to grab up certain players.

This looks like a thinner FA overall, but there are definitely certain guys at certain spots that would make sense to go in on.
Not likely to be a guard worth the pick at 8 (if we stay put), and we should NOT attempt yet another position switch with the guys we have, because that has largely not worked with any of them to this point.

You go bpa at 8 and get a guard in round 2 (or trade up into round 1 for the best one at the back end).
Going back to Shaheed and just how much being in Seattle may have tanked his value, he played 9 games for both teams (started 9 for us and 4 for Seattle). This was his stats at each:

Saints
66 targets, 44 catches, 499 yards receiving, and 2 tds

Seahawks
26 targets, 15 catches, 188 yards receiving

He did have 1 big run with Seattle for 31 yards, but was otherwise mostly a dud compared to how he was being used here. 40 fewer targets and 29 fewer catches is a stark difference.
He rarely played at down DE though. He was largely coming in as an OLB, standing up way more than not.

Last week was an exception, and his production dipped due to it.

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But yes, he rushed from that spot way more than not, so edge rusher would be an accurate description.
All the more reason to try to keep DD and Cam around.
We need to not try to keep making tackles play guard, guards play tackle, and centers play guard and vice versa. Fuaga is an excellent tackle. Leave him be.