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If Spotrac has it correct, then he got most of his signing bonus up front, but a small portion was deferred to March, and there are offsets for his roster bonuses. So basically, he took the deal that his previous representative said was silly for him to take, even though the #2 pick this year and the #1 pick last year took similar deals. Nobody won in this one--both sides look like fools. The Chargers dragged their feet and didn't negotiate for a long time, and Bosa's side made a mountain out of tiny pebbles that won't even matter since the deal is fully-guaranteed.

Yep--that's why I liked Kirby's suggestion of Lelito if he gets cut.

For a very long time, I thought I was the only one that noticed this--it drove me nuts.

Well then, apparently the holdout was constructive...or, you know, they could've done this a month ago.

Good call.

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I think he's el done-zo

It bothers me that I'm not allowed to have a differing opinion on Flutie unless it stems from a belief that Johnson was a better QB. My dislike of Flutie is mutually-exclusive from Johnson. You're doing the same as you accuse me of doing by quoting the team's offensive rank. They were a top-5 rushing team with a top-5 defense those 2 seasons; he was playing not-to-lose football from the QB position. And no, I would be extremely disappointed if Tyrod Taylor put up the same numbers as Flutie this year. Sorry, but I'm hoping for better than 57% completions with 20 TDs and 11 INTs (his '98 numbers). I'm definitely hoping for better than Flutie's 1999 numbers, when his completion percentage dipped to a shade over 55%, and he threw 19 TDs to 16 INTs. Those numbers are pedestrian at best. He just wasn't very good, and if Taylor has similar numbers, I'll say that he just isn't very good (for the record, I expect he'll be better--he was already better last year by a sound margin). Fact is, Flutie won because he benefited from having a very, very good team around him. I'm glad he was here, because Johnson was a train wreck that couldn't get out of his own way, but as I've said for a long time: if the best thing you can say about your QB is that he's better than someone terrible, then he can't be very good. Maybe there were some folks for whom that was the reason, but most folks I saw were fine giving Tyrod the bridge deal that he got based on the eye test, not on him being the 8th alternative to a glorified practice game. PS--not trying to dig at you here; I'm sure you know that.

My boy Alex Van Pelt still getting left out of the discussion.

I'll do better next time Seriously though, I wasn't aware that we disagreed that often. Again, for me, it's not that he was bad--it's that he was a jerk (arrogant and a bad teammate). I also feel that he was wildly overrated. Good enough not to lose isn't good enough.

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I'm glad you love it...he wasn't a good QB, and he wasn't a good teammate. His best NFL season is nearly identical to JP Losman's best NFL season; he won 10 games because he played with a top-3 defense. He never duplicated that in any other NFL situation because he never played with an elite defense again. That he was good enough to not lose (and better than the alternative) does not make him a good QB; that he was a jerk behind the scenes is a fair reason to dislike him.

Opinion or #scoop?

Isn't it the activist's (read: Kaepernick's) responsibility not to align himself with groups that deliberately inflame the situation and dilute the discussion? I think that's my beef with this--if someone is going to protest, I believe the protest should be in reference to real, actual problems and that the individual(s) should be educated about what they're fighting. If he wants to be taken seriously, aligning himself with that group isn't going to help.

Harvin's best year did not even sniff what Gordon did in his 2nd year in the league. At Harvin's best, he produced 1,300 yards of total offense with 8 TDs, plus another TD on returns. Gordon's 2013 season saw him net 87 receptions for 1,646 yards and 9 TDs in 14 games playing with the likes of Brandon Weeden. He's on another level than Harvin.

That's exactly what I said.

The movement that he is invoking with his quotes and hashtags has very much made those exact insinuations...even going so far as to take violence to police personnel that have absolutely nothing to do with the events in question. That issue, of course, is separate from the question of whether there's a real smoking gun regarding a lack of prosecution against police who are found to be in the wrong in shooting incidents--against white or minorities.

I waas referring to Kaep. His exact words: “This is what lynchings look like in 2016!” he wrote on Instagram accompanying a video of Sterling’s shooing. “Another murder in the streets because the color of a man’s skin, at the hands of the people who they say will protect us. When will they be held accountable? Or did he fear for his life as he executed this man?” "There’s a lot of things that need to change. One specifically is police brutality, there’s people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. The cops are getting paid leave for killing people. That’s not right. That’s not right by anyone’s standards." That sounds an awful lot like generalization to me.

To be fair, is it any different than an extreme minority of police that unjustly harm minorities somehow being representative of the whole? Both are wrong.

Indeed.

I know I consider Kirk Cousins starting out 3/11 for 30 yards against the team's 2nd stringers to be a serious indictment. I'm really worried about those 3rd stringers though, when they have to face starting offenses in the regular season, they'll be in real trouble...it's worrisome when the 3's give up 3 TDs to a starting offense.

And I wouldn't take issue if Kaep mentioned any of those topics as his reasons. Instead, he says that police officers are out there murdering black men consistently, which simply isn't true. In fact, black folks are statistically less likely to be victims of deadly force by police. I said at the beginning that I don't care if he doesn't stand up for the anthem; his choice. I take issue, however, with nebulous reasoning like "black oppression", which is then backed up by falsehoods.

Or Wes Welker, Vince Wilfork, Ben Watson, etc. I think the point that diggz is making, however, is that NE seems to be ahead of the curve as a team that prefers to let guys go before they hit their decline, and would rather another team get production out of them than hold onto them to the point where they aren't producing on par with their salary.

I actually wanted us to draft Martin with our last pick--he's got a cannon leg. I don't think that there's a job for any kicker other than Carp this year though, especially if Kroy Biermann makes the final roster, since he can emergency kick if necessary.