The Lindy's Pro Football Review 2019 just hit the newsstands this week in all of its glory. Some good reading, they have a review of every draft pick & I use it to get grades for teams and their units for analysis of games ATS for pools. Anyway, the LAC review is done by Jay Paris ( UT writer) & very insightful and interesting. Plus there is best in the NFL at position, unit & their predictions for conference champs and SB winner etc. Here are the findings.
Prediction
#1 in AFC - lose to NO in SB ( that would be a great SB but winning it would be better)
Offense
#3 Offense overall
#3 passing O ( CLE #2 after getting Odell Beckam fyi)
#4 rated QB (pocket passers)
#2 Possession WR Keenan Allen
#6 All purpose RB Melvin Gordon
#12 Depth RB Austin Ekeler
#4 Rushing O overall
#2 C Mike Pouncey ( Maurkice is #1)
#12 LG Dan Feeney (gets good praise every year) * no other OL ranked in top 15
Defense
#9 D overall
#5 and #7 DE's , Ingram and Bosa respectively
#12 DL overall
#4 WILL Thomas Davis
#5 CB (1s) Casey Hayward
#10 (2s) Desmond King
#1 SS Derwin James
#3 Secondary overall
Some good praise. #3 O and #9 D is reassuring and I think fair. Overall the weakest units were the OL and LB but they still got an avg grade.
Big deserved praise for Derwin James. Russelll Okung usually ranks as one of the top 15 LTs. He must have had a down year in their eyes. Our grade was 71.5 ( higher better) , KC 68.5, DEN 66.5, OAL 61.5 . So some parity but OAK does look in still rebuilding mode looking at their roster. They still need help on the DL and at LB.
Prediction
#1 in AFC - lose to NO in SB ( that would be a great SB but winning it would be better)
Offense
#3 Offense overall
#3 passing O ( CLE #2 after getting Odell Beckam fyi)
#4 rated QB (pocket passers)
#2 Possession WR Keenan Allen
#6 All purpose RB Melvin Gordon
#12 Depth RB Austin Ekeler
#4 Rushing O overall
#2 C Mike Pouncey ( Maurkice is #1)
#12 LG Dan Feeney (gets good praise every year) * no other OL ranked in top 15
Defense
#9 D overall
#5 and #7 DE's , Ingram and Bosa respectively
#12 DL overall
#4 WILL Thomas Davis
#5 CB (1s) Casey Hayward
#10 (2s) Desmond King
#1 SS Derwin James
#3 Secondary overall
Some good praise. #3 O and #9 D is reassuring and I think fair. Overall the weakest units were the OL and LB but they still got an avg grade.
Big deserved praise for Derwin James. Russelll Okung usually ranks as one of the top 15 LTs. He must have had a down year in their eyes. Our grade was 71.5 ( higher better) , KC 68.5, DEN 66.5, OAL 61.5 . So some parity but OAK does look in still rebuilding mode looking at their roster. They still need help on the DL and at LB.
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