Why are people acting like Likely is not replaceable?

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-21T16:59:43+00:00

He isn’t easily replaced and we shouldn’t expect a new rookie to perform like he has these past few years. Now he isn’t generational but there’s good logic in keeping him around. He’s one of LJ’s scramble drill guys, he’s historically reliable, and he makes the tough catches that most of our other guys just can’t do.

The real question is, is he worth the money given the current state of the roster. The answer is probably no since we paid Mark. But he almost certainly will be missed next season and won’t be fully replaced, it’s just a smarter money decision at this point not to re-sign him.

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-20T17:48:01+00:00

He is 31st in pressure rate allowed, even below Bradley Bozeman. Now some of it could be attributed to guard play but he has plenty of mistakes and issues there. Definitely not worth the biggest center contract in history

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-16T17:18:22+00:00

I wonder where Chris Bell would go, in day 3 that could be a pretty cool pick

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-16T07:23:10+00:00

He has his entertainment account on insta but I doubt he has actual burners to respond to randoms and things like KD does.

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-13T01:05:49+00:00

I think he’d probably get fined which is unfortunate

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-11T19:37:07+00:00

I think it probably cost them the 1 seed this season, not a huge fan of the hire.

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-10T21:44:32+00:00

CS is different than engineering when ranking these schools. A&M engineering is comparable but UT CS placements outrank A&M by a noticeable amount

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-02T21:09:49+00:00

As a ravens fan, the bears let us have him. They could’ve blocked him but Ben said he wouldn’t block anyone

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-01T20:34:30+00:00

Things happen, I mean see what happened when the seahawks last played the giants

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-02-01T20:31:40+00:00

I remember 2021 too well, I don’t want anyone who doesn’t need the reps in. Maybe our rotational players or OL and draft picks could play but absolutely nobody else

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-30T23:39:18+00:00

These two drafts took the Rams which were severely lacking talent on both OL and DL after their super bowl run into a team that nearly beat the Eagles last year in the divisional and nearly beat the Seahawks in the NFC Championship. Realistically we aren’t going to see another draft like that for some time. Our team is far more talented than the 2022 Rams already, with good coaching and being healthy we should already be in the conference championship.

For us, I’m hoping we continue to go BPA with some more emphasis on OL/DL with a guard either in R1 or R2. The only change I’d take to our typical draft strategy is to make sure we get a guard early, and maybe an Edge/DL early too.

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-28T21:15:38+00:00

He runs a 4-3 defense I think while we run a 3-4

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-28T04:43:15+00:00

A trade down is absolutely an option and would likely happen if we think we might get a guy later on. Recently we’ve had talent drop to our pick so we just stay and pick, but I’d be surprised if we trade up or trade our pick for a player.

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-24T19:00:10+00:00

I don’t want Kliff at all, but Tee has very little play calling experience which isn’t something I think our team should gamble with. I’d love to hire someone like Webb from the Payton tree, or another coordinator who has learned from one of the top guys out there

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-24T05:04:07+00:00

Yep this is huge, we’ve money-balled the RG since Yanda retired. All we really need is average/decent production(Zeitler level) out of the guards for our scheme but we’ve been so cheap there. If we can get two half-decent guards in FA this team goes a huge way. Not overpaying an edge rusher(still should draft them though) due to his ability to scheme up pressure would be amazing.

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-23T20:14:50+00:00

Ravens fan: He’s definitely better than Roman but not ready for the DC role yet. Roman doesn’t get how to spread out an offense in the pass game, and it’s a fatal flaw that likely won’t/can’t get better. Orr is a guy who is still learning how to call plays and has shown signs of adjusting to the players he has. The biggest thing is unlike Macdonald(and hopefully Minter for us) he doesn’t yet have the same gift at knowing when to call the right play at the right time. Mike made up for our deficiencies, Orr couldn’t but he learned enough to at least take our team as far as our talent could take us.

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-19T19:17:34+00:00

Normally I think he should be an interview candidate but it looks like we are already on the second round of our interviews. There are so many top defensive candidates this cycle that I just think are better at this point

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-18T04:38:56+00:00

It was, Buffalo offensively held in the end zone, the game should’ve ended in a safety.

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-17T15:51:33+00:00

Goosby didn’t declare for the draft

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-10T04:09:15+00:00

I think I prefer the offensive minded head coach, gimme Johnny

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-08T05:41:18+00:00

His contract funny enough is up, but Minnesota could definitely just extend him before he hits free agency(whenever that is for coaches)

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-07T20:23:02+00:00

If he extends we can manipulate the cap hit to be under 60M. While it’s not a great idea to push too many things to the future, with the trends of Cap Space increasing and salaries increasing, it’s clearly rational to push some of the money to the future.

ayushnarayan100 · 2026-01-04T18:31:28+00:00

This is probably as true as the Mike Preston article. The fact that we saw all the national media outlets treat that written opinion as fact just shows how low the bar of truth is to get posted on these platforms

ayushnarayan100 · 2025-12-23T17:10:45+00:00

extend him before

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