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I agree with your comments -right on about the defense!

No it wasn't. Most teams should at least be able to pay two guys at premium positions near top of the market money even with your QB getting elite money. I think the Eagles just did. Outside WR is a premium position. It's on the Bengals now to nail the draft and find value free agents.

There are LOTS of examples, but I will go with this one A thread Homey brings back every evening. 84 posts...........................62 by homelander..............................3 by the next highest. He is talking with himself.

Cook's relatively low mileage (in college and the pros) is a positive with respect to the RB age cliff, but also a potential negative with respect to his overall evaluation (why hasn't he had a larger snap % thus far in his career). The safest bet in my opinion is to help Cook go bonkers in this contract year, and allow him to move on with dignity. That seems like what Beane has in mind. Then Davis and Johnson and another rookie (or other low-risk acquisition) steps up. And so on and so forth.

Not everybody fits in these categories. But they explain a large part of the motivations and anger behind each party.

never thought for minute that he wouldn't. And y'all wanted this.

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Signing Tee Higgins was such an asinine move. An absurd failure in roster construction and salary allocation

I'm afraid that you are wrong on this one mam.

No one, well, except for American Taliban Jennifer Buteau.

It;s gonna be alright

Rodgers DOES seem to me like the perfect QB to maximize Metcalf, in that he throws elite slants, boundary fades, and back shoulders. Rodgers will wear out single coverage if he's got a legit "#1" he syncs up with. I don't know how much RPO Arthur Smith intends to implement, but that seems like one way to give Rodgers and Metcalf the stage to shine. (Also relies on a decent running game; stay tuned there.) Am I remembering correctly that Rodgers historically hates pre-snap motion? I'm curious how that aligns with his OC, and how ANY contemporary NFL OC could justify LESS pre-snap motion these days. I get that simplicity can allow a team to play freer and faster, but I believe you gotta try to give your guys some easy reads and manufactured advantages whenever possible. (Remember when Pittsburgh's last franchise QB eventually hated being under center and running play-action off of being under center, because he didn't like to turn his back to the D? How did that serve Pitt's offense down the back stretch of his career?)

He'd lose $5m if he doesn't play. It might be worth it if he played at a premium position with a longer shelf life. I don't think he'd ever make that $5m back in a second contract. I'd be very hesitant as a GM to sign an almost 27 year old RB who played less than half the snaps two seasons ago to a top of the market deal.

Why presume the numbers won't be better? He has tons of room to improve in the passing game in particular. You are giving him LeVeon Bell first-team-All-Pro cred like he has been catching 75-85 passes per year and stoning blitzers. And even then with Bell teams saw that the one RB that pulled that and got paid ended up returning rusty and unmotivated and was subsequently a mega-bust of a signing. Cook's best bet is to prove he is a team player and is improving so teams feel comfortable giving him more guarantees in free agency. Saquon did that and got paid in free agency despite a down year statistically in 2023. I'd be surprised if Cook thinks he's going to be worse this season like some of you just presume he will.

Shockingly, hiring white incompetence leads to... more white incompetence