Matt Holm

Seattle sports fan, chess hobbyist, fan of synthwave, heavy metal, and small cars with large engines. Wins are not a QB stat.

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@elitetakes_ *3 solid OL

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@elitetakes_ OL rankings are as much about reputation as anything else. E.g., Seattle has 4 solid OL in Cross, Zabel, and Lucas, plus 2 more above-replacement starters in Bradford and Sundell, and you’ll still have people ranking them in the 20s on account of the lowlight reel in their head.

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@AngryMariners Can’t make a playoff run without an immeasurably disappointing follow-up year.

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@WrestleOps It would really be something if Sami was to suddenly become a Paul Heyman Guy. There’s a lot of poetry to be had there.

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@MelendezNo78098 @SleeperSeahawks Was listed at 5’11” 180 on draft night.

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@jxlewxii @DrPhilDP @DT_SoWavyy @NFL_Researcher It was pretty outstanding at the time, especially when you consider how much volume Barry Sanders was commanding in that offense.

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@hawkmania4 Depends on the scheme being run. If we’re running a Pete Carroll offense, give me Geno for his mobility and arm talent. If we’re running west coast stuff or a Sean Payton offense, I want Hasselbeck.

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@WoahJimJimbo @wilburhookshand Hell, you could put the game in Martin Stadium and they’d be backed up all the way to Colfax.

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@Heath1986Heath @gauravakh @BrettKollmann Ok, but Valhalla after a World Cup game?

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@MarinersSUR Probably about time we stopped targeting LHP specialists and just went after dudes who hit both.

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@AEngineerReacts @ACTakes @BrettKollmann Literally any NFC North team.

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@TheRealForno @JasonHarmonNFL Even a step down from where it was, with Charlie Johnson on the blind side instead of Bryant McKinnie.

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@shaggyboy223 @luireigns Got one of the last Jim Johnston themes, too. The kind of situation that only 2018 WWE could have bungled.

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@SeahawksForever Cowherd almost comes across as a little too self-aware at times. I do think he offers more genuine takes than most of the names on this list, but when he goes off the reservation, it’s almost always in the “exactly what you’d expect him to say” kind of way.

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@goatlave2 Cardinals will jump one tier just by the nature of how their team is built. Even if they get swept by the division, there are still 5-6 games on their schedule that are easily winnable just by running the ball well and Budda Baker forcing one turnover.

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@TheJasonKandel I don’t recall many outright misses on first-round picks. Rashaad Penny was the second coming of Shaun Alexander, except that his leg injuries started in year 1 instead of year 8. The only outright 1st-round bust I remember is LJ Collier.

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@levitt_isaac @JaguarGator9NFL Which is doubly crazy because Evans and DJax played together for a year or two, and Evans was the clear WR1.

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@_danchu If you wanna go back further, I could throw out Deon Butler, Marcus Tubbs, and Lofa Tatupu.

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@colbatron84 @SharpFootball The Drew Brees Chargers might have a claim there, too. Setting aside Antonio Gates, who had yet to fully break out and was a TE, the Chargers were rolling with Eric Parker as their X, with old-ass Keenan McCardell and Reche Caldwell rounding out the top three.

They went 12-4.

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@Oreofirelight @MendozaDimes15 @codenamejun0 @blakebooming Depends on the process. The defense was pretty healthy overall last year — more so than you might expect with as many veterans as they have on the front seven. Wouldn’t surprise me if there was some attrition this year, especially now that two of our top 3 edges are 30+.