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Lions released FS Louis Delmas and "On the open market, Delmas immediately becomes a top-six option in a free agent safety class led by Jairus Byrd, Donte Whitner, Antoine Bethea, and Chris Clemons." http://www.rotoworld...$6m-in-cap-room Any interest in case we lose Byrd?

Yes stevie of past years.

I wouldn't say it's completely black and white. Decker produced an OK season before Manning in 2011, but being worth 9m/yr? No. I could see him putting up numbers like Stevie without Manning - approx 1000yds and around 6-8 TD's. I just don't see him putting up 1,300+ yds and 11-13 TD's w/o Manning...unless of course he ends up with another future HOF like Brees or Rodgers. Stevie makes around 5.5/yr? Paying Decker more than 7m/yr would be way too much, IMO.

100% agreed.

ESPN New York expects free agent Eric Decker to command "No. 1" receiver-type money, or "at least" $9 million per year. LOL. Does Manning come along with Decker? If not, no thanks. http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/5819/eric-decker

The results are too good to be true? No. Did they go undefeated this season? No. Did they blow everyone out in the playoffs by +20pts every single game? No. What about Jim Harbaugh? He was in the NFC championship game this year and in the super bowl last year. Poor jimmy, he mustve gotten a bad batch of PEDs for his team this season. No personal offense but your PED advantage conspiracy theory is baseless and offends the mind. Are some players on the Hawks on PEDS? Of course they are, just as they are on every other NFL team. When seattle goes to 4 straight Super Bowls or goes undefeated, or wins every game by 20 pts maybe you can start your conspiracy theory then. Seattle did nothing this season that hasnt been done before. They are an awesome team with awesome talent with a coach that works for that franchise.

Where was the talk that hackett will be a good HC one day? We dont even know if he'll make a good OC.

Carroll is also jacked up on the sidelines all the time. Maybe hes on PED's too? Teams take on the personality of their coaches many times. Look at harbaugh and the niners. The saints with payton The Bills with marrone. Obviously.

I would be ecstatic about Watkings and pleased with Matthews.

If you think the Hawks have some sort of cutting edge advantage with a PED program that other teams like the Cowboys, Niners, Giants, Jets, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. don't have you're in la-la land. Do you honestly think the Hawks players are revolutionizing the league with a PED program while other teams like the niners and Pats drink creatine from a sippy cup?

Maybe he thinks April still coaches us too?

Yup. Agree completely. The same could be said about Russell Wilson. As great as he is, you could probably argue that any QB in the top 15-18 would've had similar success this season. They're definitely not a 1 man show on either side of the ball.

Are you advocating that the Bills should not resign both Dareus and Byrd? When Dareus hits FA, you bet you're butt he's going to want top 5 money for a DT. 110% guaranteed.

Don't like that. What in the world did Syracuse ever do that warrants hiring their entire staff?

Agree 100%. Lets hope Marrone passing on Ryan Nassib for EJ Manuel will produce similar results!!!

Well I agree with you. Spiller is turning 27 this season in August. When his contract runs out he'll be 29. Whoever signs him at that point will be getting a whole lot of puking after he turns 30

LMAO!

As far as I'm aware, CJ Spiller is signed through and including the 2015 season. So if that's the case, next year will be a HUGE year for CJ in my eyes. If CJ can't reproduce what he was able to do in 2012 under Gailey with Hackett in back-to-back seasons then maybe we can try and trade him going into his final year (2015) to a contender like the Saints who would actually know how to utilize his talents.

Completely agree. I still think that Carroll's time at USC really gave him a major advantage in talent evaluation with respect to the new wave of players that were coming into the NFL. College coaches spend more time recruiting players than they do coaching.

Dareus we need to extend; CJ not so sure. B/c there's a very good chance that the Hughes we saw last year under Pettine will not be the same Hughes we'll see next year under Schwartz. It's the entire personnel vs. scheme argument and it's worth having IMO

We'll see, but probably pretty satisfied. No doubt we need to see an improvement vs. the run.

If Hughes falls off and returns to his Colts form, will this be an indictment on Schwartz? Or will it show us just how good Pettine was? I'm always of the belief that you cater your scheme to match your personnel. Of course Schwartz has his own way of going about things, but if he becomes so stubborn that certain players can't succeed then there's a problem. Under Pettine, we saw multiple players on this team have some of their best seasons ever: McKelvin; A. Williams, Hughes, Dareus, etc. - it seems to me that Pettine's influence caused almost all of the ships to rise, not just 1 or 2. We'll see what Schwartz does.

I constantly find myself drooling whenever I think of the Hawks and how good their team was this year, and quite frankly how solid they have been over the last 3-4 years (since Carroll came on). The Hawks have drafted really well since 2010, but one draft in particular stands out to me: In 2010 (Carroll's first year), the Hawks drafted RD 1 - Okung; RD 1 - Earl Thomas; RD 2 - Golden Tate; RD 4 - Walter Thurmond; RD 5 - Kam Chancellor 4 of those 5 players were critical components of this team and even Walter Thurmond contributed substantially as the Nickel CB earlier this year. You can't possibly do it any better than the Hawks did it in 2010. Yes getting Lynch in a trade turned out to be a good move for them and yes drafting RW in the 3rd round pretty much put them over the top, but that 2010 draft set the foundation for a team that would come to win the Super Bowl 4 years later IMO. Icing on the cake thereafter for the Hawks was another solid draft in 2011: landing Richard Sherman in the 5th round; KJ Wright in the 4th round; and Byron Maxwell in the 6th; and lastly Malcolm Smith in the 7th. Looking past Sherman, all those other players also made major contributions to this Hawks team that won the Super Bowl and are all very solid players. And last, but certainly not least, another gem of a draft in 2012 which pretty much propelled the Seattle Seahawks over that final hump: Rd 1 - Bruce Irvin; Rd 2 - Bobby Wagner; Rd 3 - Russell Wilson; Rd 4 - Robert Turbin. I mean WOW is all I have to say. Tip of the cap to Carroll and Schneider - some of the best drafting I've seen in a long, long time. Will Marrone and Whaley's 2013 Draft be the beginning of OUR Super Bowl run? Hopefully 4 years from now I'll be able to create the same thread and state how EJ Manuel in Rd 1; Robert Woods in Rd 2; and Kiko Alonso in Rd 2 put us on the path to greatness.

B/c you have the luxury of hindsight now to determine who truly was the BPA.

Or maybe trade him and TJ to Indy for TY; that way we finally get the WR we were supposed to have gotten on draft day.