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I noticed this wasn't the only Nuclear Blast video that was suddenly removed... welp: Looks like the hackers (probably) deleted everything on the channel. Anyway, here's the audio 😕

Very nice, Cattle Decapitation always seems to deliver (Terrasite was just banger after banger). 🍻 When I'm in a doom mood I usually end up on stuff like this: A more recent one that I have in my playlist: If the prog style stuff is more up anybody's alley, this also-not-so-well-known-Canadian band brings the goods every time:

Well now there's a "teleporter" for me... these guys are from the town where I went to high school, I've heard this tune (and all their tunes) countless times, and I wasn't even a fan. I think they were a potentially unique band in that they were extremely popular locally in the city - heavily followed, beloved and attended, for years - before they ever blew up nationally in Canada, let alone globally. Maybe that's a little more common down there in the US. They probably reached their "exposure" zenith when Dan Aykroyd brought them on SNL when he hosted: Anyway I'm metal/death metal guy so probably not the most enjoyable stuff for people here. My kids are into "the rap" though, so I can share what's in here with them and see what they think. 😅

Yup agreed, but it sounds like this might be another level above just explanation with every secondary player working every secondary position... but I've never been to a pro practice so maybe others have seen that happen before? Let's be fair and say it's still very early in the on-field off-season and as "thick" as ever into the clickbait season. We'll see if the secondary comes out blazing when the actual playing starts.

I can see both sides of the argument around this. With the complexity of NFL defenses and wanting players to "not think, just play", I get teaching them one position and leaving it at that for the most part. But in a perfect world you have exactly what Golden seems to be trying to to get to here - everybody in the secondary understands everybody else's job on any given play, so they better understand how their responsibility fits in (and thus to some degree you hope to avoid freelancing/overplaying). And yes you would theoretically get plug-and-play generic "DB's" as well. Personally I'm glad he's trying to get there.

What I like about this draft is it appears to demonstrate that Golden is going to turn the defense into a linebacker-driven unit, i.e. the position should be expected to make active, attacking plays, hopefully on every down. I mostly say that because I personally enjoy watching it the most (and really want it to happen), but I believe it's the most versatile and extensible from a strategic perspective too. I really liked the LBs that we picked before the draft, which is nice (Schwesinger was my favourite, I guess there was no secret about him considering where he was picked). All in all, optimism abounds as it always does at this time of year. The key to the season will likely be what our new coaches can get out of the existing players who underperformed last season, on both sides of the ball.

This dude is basically the anti-Burton... solid, committed, mature, focused. He's my favourite pick of this draft, easily.

Agreed about Golden, he's not hiding much on the general level about his defense and I enjoy his pressers. As well from Stewart's comments I got the impression he was told the Bengals D will be "attack" style, which if true would be very welcome IMO.

I think this will be the answer to the question in the end. The versatile guys we have (it seems) are Ford, Kirkland, Karras (who isn't moving) and Patrick. The ones that we've at least seen swing out to tackle are Kirkland and Ford. Can Volson do that? We've seen no indication of it, so his value appears to diminish from every new angle you look at it. The only reprieve would seem to be if our new OL coach can somehow turn Volson into a super stud... is that happening? Otherwise, as many have pointed out here for a while, we're paying average starter money to a backup, which is just bad management.

If a guy can be a consistent disruptor while he's being coached up, that means he's playing regularly if not starting - opposite Trey, that's a good thing. For me, actual "project" means you can't put him on the field unless it's special teams or spot duty (granted that's entirely possible with any pick until you get them in pads). If we had Murphy on the other side I'd agree with all this, we can't have a disruptor who's learning to finish opposite a guy who doesn't really want to be there. Luckily that's not a problem (for now).

Run defending is as much collapsing your gap as making the actual hit. This guy does that consistently, but not always in control. Having a guy that can collapse from the edge is a luxury we haven't had - like I said, he CAN stop the run but he doesn't finish. All we can do is hope he can be taught hand skills and breaking down without thinking, which is something to be more optimistic about than hoping a guy starts liking football (Murphy).

I know we all feel burned by Murphy and many maybe suspect this guy is another one like him, but I don't think so. Murphy's issue coming in was he'd take plays off/seem disinterested/hot and cold, and indeed that seems to continue. This guy goes full bore all the time, can stop the run, he's just not a finisher in the backfield. It's a better pick than the Murphy one was but I understand the trepidation. If you consider him a replacement for Hubbard I think it's a fair comparison... except this guy has a MUCH higher ceiling.

How about 13? 😅

IIRC in his first interview after coming back Golden said it would still be a 5-2 base, but later it came out from a lot of "sources" that it'll actually be a 4-3. IMO as long as you have LBs who can cover you don't need to have the extra DB all the time. That's a personnel more than a strategy problem so it's fair to argue that it remains to be seen until they build the final roster, but it's also fair to argue that one should go with what Golden himself said last.