RyanC883

no, crazy rule, you should be able to trade the entire cap of a guy. dead, alive, zombie, whatever.

yeah, no worries ending that, and glad to. But bumping them does almost the same thing, even if the guy eventually catches it, the time it takes to get off tics away. Yet we didn't.

what? was he bad? I think that was the excuse, which is a poor job by Bean.

but jamming a player takes time off the clock as they have to run a route. Okay, no more "holding," but we should have jammed Kelcie and Hill.

well, I could see Daboll suddenly stopping ours. hahaha.

no, but this is a unique situation. The Steelers have no QB. Unless they get Rodgers somehow. Crazy you can't trade the dead cap. I always thought it was a "punishment" for signing a guy and then being like, oops, and cutting him.

this is a good point, but we still lost. I feel like the teams that lost to the Bills in the AFC in the 90s. I hope your right, then other teams have narrowed it also though (LA, Cincy, PGH actually if Rodgers is there). Also, I think Cincy upsets KC. You pulling for Cincy now?

clearly not as much as you. I know you have it for cutting some guys, I thought it could be traded, guess not?

yep, but we don't have anyone like that. Ultimately, McD needs to do that, and didn't. but we have light and fast guys who can cover TE's, like Kelcie, oh, wait, nevermind.

how you don't have a LB hitting Kelce at the line is unreal. You can't let him start his route free. Yet, we did. We need an aggressive DC. Hopefully Frazier is gone. We have personnel issues in the front 7, but Fraizer did nothing to mask those. it was just mind blowing. Stupid prevent D. no pressure on mahomes, and Kelcie with no one around him.

I'm not sure Reid had to do much. Liked McD being aggressive early, but why you don't squib kick with your defensive playing poorly and a loaded offense on the other side that only needs a FG is mind-blowing.

could we take some of the salary, i have no idea.

I have to respectuflly disagree, wrt Bean's early picks. Oliver was picked at 9, you need an instant impact player, not developmental. Ed dropped from 1st overall in most mocks to 9, there was a reason, he was a developmental player. Brian Burns would have been a better pick, or Jeff Simmons. Later in the 1st round that year, Bean picked Cody Ford, passing on Elgton Jenkins. Edmunds was a total reach, given that we could have not traded up and taken Vander Esch or Darius Leonard. Groot and Boogie (inactive most of the year) were not a BPA, Barmore would have been more impactful, esp. given the need for run stopping on our D, or Freiermuth at TE with Knox; or Nick Bolton, who played well against us again today; or Creed Humphry. Bean has missed an AWFUL LOT in the 1st 2 rounds. I wouldn't blow the whole thing up, but Bean needs to add talent to the front 7. We are in win-now mode, do what hockey teams often do, trade 1st rounders for proven vets. We don't have developmental time. We have like a 5-10 year window. yep, was open all game. Never solved by Frazier or our great MLB Edmunds. that's something, but also nothing. dude, relax man. we are arguing about 1 win here. I think we had a harder schedule this year. We don't beat KC the first time w/o Allen, or the Pats in the regular season at all, and the Panthers and Falcons games become awfully close. Heck, the Jets game at the end of the year.

i don't know, why not? depends on if the Steelers are in rebuild mode. The Steelers are another team, if Rodgers is there, another challenge. Hopefully Rodgers stays in GB, which fails to put a winning team around him. yep, I think the best way is FA. I could only think of Watt, but there might be FA's available.

i totally agree there is not always an upside. I mean, this could turn into a 90's Marino situation. That would suck. But, on the other hand, we could add a few players and this could turn into (I don't have a football analogy) but something awesome. Washington Capitals finally winning with Ovechkin? (as a Pens fan I hate to use that analogy, and I'd like to win more than once).

https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2022-free-agent-rankings-free-agency as FYI.

well, true. but how do we improve. we treaded water this year basically.

agreed, OL was better when Bates was playing. But they are not elite, and we are like 1 injury away from total disaster. I'd even take a center in Rd. 1 if he is BPA (I can't recall who, but there is some college center projected in Rd. 1). I also like the idea of adding Shrieff or another type OL

forgot about that. What a freaking joke. Bean has been fine in FA, you're right. But Oliver at 9 is a bust, you need an immediate impact guy at 9. Knox was a good pick, he seems to be better in later rounds. This year he took Groot and Boogie, while our "rival" snatched up an all pro OL and great LB. Said LB made plays today, Groot was invisible. He reaches in the first rounds of the draft.

yep, guess he did. We would not go 9-7 with TT this year. I think we just value Allen v. the other players differently. that's fine.

Ok, offseason time. Not going to talk about one game. Here is what I have seen this year: 1. We have a STUD QB. Allen backed up one great year with another. He balled out at the biggest times in the playoffs. 2. We severely lack on OL, DL, and RB. Motor is great, but we run Josh too much for a reason. We need a true no. 1 back like Mixon, or at least someone who can rotate with motor (similar to what KC does) 3. our recent draft picks have not been BPA, but reaching for DL to stop KC. Oops, didn't work. 4. We have added some impactful FA's (notably Diggs, Sanders, Beasley). So, what should we do. I think we trade 1st picks for impactful players on rebuilding teams. My dream (unlikely) is to get Watt from the Steelers with 3 first round picks. More realistic is to get perhaps a vet OL or DL, or LB in FA. I don't think we can keep Edmunds, someone will overpay for his "potential." (can we still trade him?) We have the hard part (elite QB). How do we solve the rest (notably, OL, RB, and front 7). ?

sorry, had to give thumbs down. Baseball, I can't even. Lacrosse soon. Gary Gait as SU Coach! Women's team also looks good.

Sean will be here unless Bean fails to add impact players for him and he gets axed with Bean. We have to draft impact players or, I'd see what PGH wants for Watt. That guy takes over a game on D like no one since, well, Bruce. Send Edmunds (they can have 2 Edmunds again) and 2-3 firsts. We likely pick later in the first, and Bean blows those anyway, so I expect it's not much loss for us and a huge gain.

well, they were 10-6 in 2017 with career backup Alex Smith as QB. true they were around him, but I think I've seen this in other games. You need to close the escape routes. One way is sending a LB or DB late. We did nothing. You can't send 4 v. Mahomes and expect anything of consequence to happen.

oh, ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as the OT rule. Such as half-assed change. Let's give both teams the ball, but, um, not if the first team scores. Half-sudden-death, half not.