thebandit27

Great. Sign both Peters and George Fant and I’ll be happy with the RT situation. Ford goes to LG, Nsekhe is your game day swing OT. Fant is OT4 and Bates is IOL behind Long.

Weren't we having the same conversation about Peters last year? Are they really more willing to deal him now after Dillard’s relatively lousy rookie season and no Vaitai to step in? I suppose they may be...

I’ve got it projected at 5 years, $82M. $56M fully guaranteed $25M signing bonus Fully gtd base of $10M in 2020 and a gtd roster bonus of $2M Fully gtd base of $10M in 2021 and a gtd roster bonus of $1M Fully gtd base of $8M in 2022 Cap hits are 17,16,13,17,19 for 2020-2024 Dead $$ hits are 56, 39, 23, 10, 5 for 2020-2024

I assume you mean judging draft needs...and my opinion is that you should not be drafting for need in round 1 anyway. Draft to stock the roster with superstar talent at critical positions.

Too early, but this team needs a RB1a badly

Do folks realize that Olsen had 58 receptions last year? Our TE group combined for 46 ?

This would be all about helping to develop Knox (and Sweeney to a lesser extent). I wonder if they’d keep Smith for blocking; I think Kroft is a goner either way. Curious if they’ll IR Croom again for obvious reasons...

Fant is my guy. I think there’s a chance he becomes a legitimate starting tackle and ends up a huge value.

There’s no reason to think that Sammy hadn’t worked harder after they picked up his option. I mean, he did play 15 games and lead the Rams with 9 TDs in 2017. I guess my point is that unless they truly felt that he was detrimental to their team culture, then there was zero reason to rush to jettison him. And if it was about effort and attitude, then trading for KB was brutally hypocritical in that regard.

He was only going to lose Sammy because they chose not to pick up his 2018 option...that’s what I was saying. He created that situation. And no need to be sorry. We don’t have to agree on it. ?

Oh yeah, big hit. They’re just not exactly stuck with him no matter what.

Until he got hurt and the team mismanaged it, he had nearly identical numbers through 2 seasons to Julio Jones. He was doing just fine at that point. Beane did not have to deal Sammy because of the cap. He chose to when he could’ve kept him with no issue. He then traded for a less-productive (and now out of the league) WR who cost the same amount of money. Why? Call Sammy what you like, but I’d 100x rather have him for 17-18 than Kelvin Benjamin.

Yes, that’s exactly my point. We can’t simply say “one guy did this and the other did that” in a vacuum.

He had 1,060 yards on less than 100 targets playing with Tyrod Taylor in an offense that threw the call less than any other unit in the game in 2015. That’s WR1 performance all day.

Sorry, but they created that situation themselves. They could have kept him for 2017, picked up his option for 2018 (same $$ as Benjamin), and transition tagged him for 2019 without any long-term commitment whatsoever. When Sammy’s QB needed him to make a play in the playoffs, he did it...repeatedly. When John Brown’s QB needed him, he couldn’t manage to drag a foot. I’m not stumping for Sammy, but let’s be practical about our comparisons.

McDermott is a tough guy, but there’s not an NFL coach anywhere that I’d bet on against Saleh. That dude is a monster.

They can cut him after 2020 and gain $8M in space.

They get nearly $20M for Dareus alone. Yes, I’ve been a big trade-for-Campbell guy for a while now. Point is that Atlanta really has nobody to cut and get to at least a manageable situation. Jax can get close with one move. Minnesota will likely refuse Griffen’s option and get close. Assuming they end up dealing Campbell and cutting Dareus and Linder, they’ll have $40M+. Not thrilling, but like I said: manageable.

Nah. Wave goodbye to Dareus and an injured center and Jax is ok. Atlanta really can’t cut anyone and get their quickly.

They have the worst cap situation in the NFL.

I thought we covered this: #boozeandfire

I missed the 3rd and some of the 4th. One of my 6 year olds must’ve had something with food coloring, because he had an epic meltdown rage tantrum for no reason at all. It kept him, his twin brother, and his baby sister up for an hour. Made it back just in time to catch the entirety of the comeback

Booze and fire. What else is there to say? Marino and Kelly were very close for their whole careers.

I’m sure they can find a LB or two in FA. The type they need isn’t hard to come by. I also hope that they re-sign Stanford. He looked decent in place of Edmunds at times, and that would keep 3 non-starters that know the defensive scheme in the fold in Stanford/Thompson/Joseph. Add a solid FA like my boy Elandon Roberts and we’re good to go.