https://x.com/i/status/2008646279522656649
Only took us a year but we got him. @Thats2
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Oh this is excellent news
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JMan was on that one too:
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McLaughlin was one of the more universally liked prospects in here, especially once he came with the discount
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This is a stroke of genius. I honestly believe he has long-term starting potential at C. And as a really good one too.
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As do I.
I wonder why Cincinnati let him go? Maybe he was dealing with the “year removed from achillies injury” decline to his play?
It could be that they didn’t want to, but he chose to come to us. Kind of like the Kingsley situation. Hard to blame him given those two choices. Hopefully the Achilles doesn’t have as negative of a long-term affect at iOL as it might at safety for Branch.
That said, I highly doubt he’ll hit the ground running. Still probably one for the future. We can hope, though. He’ll be, what, more than a-year-and-a-half removed from the injury by the start of camp?
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Cool. Now I’m more intrigued by my Ryan Bates strategy. He’ll be cheap and can be functional at Center or Guard and from his experience in Buffalo has experience in a somehwhat similar run game and just practiced in Ben’s system (well our’s really) for a year.
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Will he take a year contract?
I’ll have to give him a call.
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On November 19, 2024, McLaughlin ruptured his Achilles tendon
Yep sounds like a Lion !
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What does this even mean
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We are taking a no risk shot on a good player coming off a serious injury. I don’t hate it. Nothing to lose.
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If he makes a good recovery, he can be our future starting center.
No risk whatsoever for a potentially game changing reward.
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I like him better than Kingsley and I was always pretty high on Kingsley.
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Seems like hey we are trying move
https://x.com/footballguy_al/status/2008724677322305843?s=46
Encouraging to see so much focus on the smarts/recognition. We missed that. Hopefully that Achilles heals.
If so then you pay your IOL costs are around $3m for the next two and maybe three years depending on the Frazier/Mahogany competition.
Massive in terms of mitigating the money crunch.
I still think we’d need to add some veteran one year interior presence of course and I think we’d absolutely need to go for a high end veteran Decker replacement in that scenario.
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