There is no reason for him to play a single snap of pre season. Its beyond useless.

Turns out its hard to be in shape when you have freaking pneumonia

Not really. He's been pretty consistent from like last August till now. Typically regulars will take more vacation at this time of year since its a dead period with only one major local team in season at the moment and football in the full on dog days of the off season.

Pass. He's on the verge of washed and we already potentially have one of those in Lattimore. You only want so many mercenaries.

Sheehan is still on. His show airs regularly from 10-1. He's just on vacation at the moment.

We emphasized run stopping in the off season. I think the plan is to try to manufacture pass rush with blitzes and hope improved secondary coverage helps as well.

He looks swole af while still being lean as well.

The league isn't ready. I'm putting money on JD as MVP now.

An elite QB puts your floor at 9 wins. Its basically impossible to not have at least a .500 ish record if your QB is top notch unless you're just ravaged by injuries like the 9ers last year (and I question if Purdy is really top notch I think he's more in that 2nd tier).

I mean the Bengals won 9 ...

Logan Paulsen ironically hit the tougher schedule point in his latest podcast. Short version of his points:

A. You don't know yet if this team is an established contender. You need at least back to back seasons to showcase that.

B. Doing last minute heroics are easier against teams that aren't ...

Yeah we faced some scrub QBs last year. Its much tougher this year, but we're still gonna have the better QB in 16 of the 17 games (Mahomes being the only I'd say is better).