OT: 2024 Washington Commanders thread: change we can believe in!

[Ajax1995]

Terry, as a #1, is in the 2nd tier. He's not up there with Chase, Lamb, Jefferson, AJ Brown, on a pure dominance level. Guys in the past like Calvin Johnson or Cooper Kupp when he was healthy. So yeah, maybe we need a 1B, someone to take the pressure off TM. Because when teams focus on shutting down TM, they can do it, too frequently and we have little way of making them pay for it.

Hell, we could really use a dynamic TE like Kelce or Brock Bowers. Sinnott surely ain't it, yet. Unsure if he ever will be more than a swiss army knife type TE.

So you are saying if they had as few more all pro / future hall of famer types on offense they would likely be better? Interesting…

 

[Ajax1995]

I’d go after Tee Higgins. But I’ve been vocal about that.

Those that think “we have enough at WR” were drinking the Kool-Aid, IMO. Especially w injuries being so prevalent on the NFL landscape.

That said, of the WR’s that were dealt? Seemingly very few (any?) have had an impact — yet.

This team still needs like 4-5 new starting players (OL, WR, TE, DE, CB). Not impossible, and far better than the 15 or so it needed last off season.

But the work is not even close to being done. And we are seeing that.

Higgins is very likely going to be a FA after the season so if Peters wants him, with the idea that guys want to come play with Daniels, they should have a darn good shot at getting him.

The question is with his durability concerns over the last couple seasons is he going to be worth what he’s going to demand? Regardless, I don’t have a doubt they will add a significant upgrade to the receiving corps in the offseason.

 

[RedRocking]

Higgins is very likely going to be a FA after the season so if Peters wants him, with the idea that guys want to come play with Daniels, they should have a darn good shot at getting him.

The question is with his durability concerns over the last couple seasons is he going to be worth what he’s going to demand? Regardless, I don’t have a doubt they will add a significant upgrade to the receiving corps in the offseason.

There is going to be a bidding war for Higgins. I could see teams like the Pats, and Chargers also involved. So, will be interesting to see if those reports about guys wanting to play with JD are true. The price tag might get too high though - and as you said, durability is a big question mark with him.

 

[kicksavedave]

So you are saying if they had as few more all pro / future hall of famer types on offense they would likely be better? Interesting…

Well yeah . We're a borderline playoff team right now, with massive turnover from the team that lost 12 of its last 13 games last year. If we want to be a SB contender, the needs are there. This roster isn't going 14-3 and making deep playoff runs. The Chiefs, Bills, Lions and Eagles have the talent in the key places that we lack.

Its still basically year 1 of Peters, so you know, lets continue to give him time. Plus, our rookie QB is the real deal, expecting him to never struggle at all, because of his hot start, was never reality. I'm picturing him as a 3rd year guy, with better talent around him, just destroying the league.

 

[John Price]

 

[kicksavedave]

This would work much better with a WFT logo instead of the Redskins logo.... except, derp, its the same Commanders logo! Snyder and his crack marketing team!

 

[max21]

On the bright side my girl and I went back and forth till about Thursday about a DC weekend for the caps/devils skins/cowboys, would have still been fun but that’s about 1500 bucks saved.

 

[DWGie26]

On the bright side my girl and I went back and forth till about Thursday about a DC weekend for the caps/devils skins/cowboys, would have still been fun but that’s about 1500 bucks saved.

And a lot of emotions.

 

[g00n]

Too bad playoff games aren't on MNF

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Junks on now, parroting that we need a star WR opposite Terry…..

 

[Silky mitts]

The Giants aren't getting a compensatory pick for Saquon because they signed Drew Lock, who they aren't starting after cutting their QB with 7 games left, anyone that hasn't watched the offseason Hard Knocks it's gonna be even better with the context

 

[ynotcaps]

Well yeah . We're a borderline playoff team right now, with massive turnover from the team that lost 12 of its last 13 games last year. If we want to be a SB contender, the needs are there. This roster isn't going 14-3 and making deep playoff runs. The Chiefs, Bills, Lions and Eagles have the talent in the key places that we lack.

Its still basically year 1 of Peters, so you know, lets continue to give him time. Plus, our rookie QB is the real deal, expecting him to never struggle at all, because of his hot start, was never reality. I'm picturing him as a 3rd year guy, with better talent around him, just destroying the league.

Can't remember if I posted to this effect earlier or not (pain-med brain is a real thing), but the thing that the teams like the Bills, Ravens, Chiefs, Eagles, and to a growing extent, the Lions have that we don't yet is the benefit of having had a stable football foundation in place for a number of years: a well-integrated philosophy that manifests from player acquisition and development to on-field systems and schemes.

That consistency allows them to draft, develop, and acquire players that demonstrate the traits they value and mold them into the systems they run. And what that supports more than anything is not the development of superstars necessarily, but the depth that allows those teams to stay at or near the top of the standings year after year, even when they suffer the inevitable in-season injuries and the off-season loss of players to FA, retirement, etc.

What that portends for us? If we can keep our FO and the core of our coaching staff, we have the opportunity to be like the Lions -- a team that is well on its way to becoming a long-term marquee football operation, with a very clear philosophy of how they want to play and a FO that finds the right kind of players and pumps them into the system.

It will take a couple of years just because of the nature of the fact that it takes time to find and develop 53 guys who fit the philosophy. That would be true even if RR and the Martys hadn't been dog-shit talent evaluators -- even if their guys could play, there's no guarantee they would have been the right guys to fit the now, stable (please, God) football operation.

Luckily, we have the hardest piece of all to find -- a potentially-unicorn QB, who not only has all the physical skill you could ask for, but the work ethic and the demeanor that no matter how it seems, the game isn't over as long as he has a chance to win it. Now it's about adding those guys with "Commanders tags" or whatever the FO calls it through the next couple of drafts that when a Wylie or a Biadasz or a Terry goes down, there's a guy ready top step up who may not have the same level of talent or physical traits but knows the system and the playbook inside and out and has taken hundreds and hundreds of reps in camps and practices.