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Friggin' Lonnie is teaching people how to play football and Bucky Brooks is deciding what players won't be draft busts. Stranger than fiction.

You can poke holes in every individual check against Phillips. Problem is.........there are A LOT of checks against. He has potential but concussion, other injury, 3 years of no production and one year of just modest production since HS...........I think people are trying to Montez-Sweat the guy UP the board when he hasn't exactly ran up numbers for multiple years against an SEC schedule.

Nearly retiring due to lingering concussion issues is what should push him down the board. The poor play in that UNC game is just a reminder that the floor is very low on that prospect. One season of modest production and other past injuries are also checks against. Von Miller was time-tested and healthy and not a full size defensive end. I am all for taking chances on pass rushers but I watched every Miami game this season and was not impressed. He's a developmental 22 year old prospect who I suspect would have a better chance of reaching his ceiling if drafted in round 3 or 4 where he has some incentive to be the best he can be within the first 3 seasons of his contract.

College basketball is actually great at the top this year. Gonzaga, Baylor and Michigan do it all and aren't all a bunch of one and dones. IMO, lotta', lazy bad takes on hoops in this thread to be honest. On it's own merit it's the most entertaining and athletically impressive of the 4 major north american created sports. Also MLB is absolutely stacked with talent and youth enrollment in the sport was skyrocketing for 5 years pre-pandemic so the "dying sport" or "old man" sport narrative on baseball in this thread is not true. It's the only sport that can be played everyday and has a huge advantage in the sports entertainment world because of that, even though there isn't anything resembling parity. I love the intricacies of football but parity is what makes the NFL compelling to the average viewer(and gambler). It couldn't survive playing only 8-10 home games per year if there was a perception that the league was stacked against all but a few big markets like MLB and NBA. If the NFL ever catches on more globally it will be because of it's unique parity/partnership between teams.........not the sport itself.

You are assuming that teams are offering up the money and he's just picking and choosing. The market is about to be flooded with more free agents than ever in league history. We assume NFL owners are competitive and won't collude.........but they all gotta' see blood in the water and might be practicing some "encouraged" austerity the way that MLB just did when they thoroughly swindled the MLBPA in their most recent free agency. Rule of thumb with free agency...........volume on the board reduces what the players get. I am certainly not even making the assumption that JJ even has $10M per season offers in hand at this point.

The "we must focus on the Chiefs" mindset is over-simplification. What the Chiefs exposed were problems the team had most of the season. Easy to forget how much they struggled to put teams away defensively for 3 months because they had some late season games that skewed the perception. The issues only "re-emerged" against Indy and were greatly exaggerated by very poor coaching and a lack of poise in KC. They are a solid roster with an elite QB but they can't just focus on filling holes because new ones will always emerge. They can address the needs in free agency but the draft should be as it always should be.........the place to find high ceiling players at the most expensive positions early and then getting bpa on day 3 and UDFA. Beat the Chiefs long term by drafting better not by drafting to match up with them. Those players might not be difference makers for 2-3 years and a lot can change in that time.

The stadium in Vegas is less than a mile and only a 12-15 minute walk from Mandalay Bay, depending on the traffic at the two intersections you have to cross to get to the walkway over 15. That's not a bad walk. Not sure if they could have made it a lot more convenient and still have been able to handle traffic and have the access to 15 and parking capacity. The Hockey arena is right behind NYNY but the parking is a nightmare on game night because they share the casino garage for parking and the bottleneck is incredible because that garage isn't designed to handle that volume. Jams up traffic on that corner of the strip. They had to put the Raiders stadium away from the strip.

Just have it at Frontier Field in the spring when it can be done (more safely) outdoors. Common sense. People always gotta' find something to "hope to not" be outraged about.

Watt isn't elite anymore. But elite level DE play costs about $23M per season now.....not $10M-$12M as some have speculated Watt would be paid.......... and there aren't even any elite 4-3 DE's on the market. If you want "elite" QB's, LT's, DE's and CB and WR you pretty much gotta' draft them(or trade for them) and use your team control leverage to get them inked long term the way the Bills did with Tre White.

He's athletically gifted but I was shocked to see him listed as a potential mid-first round prospect. I'd put him in that Cameron Wake category in that I think the best way to get production from Phillips is to have a carrot dangled in front of him......and a first round contract might just extinguish his desire to fight thru early struggles and injuries and become a good NFL DE. Rousseau is more gifted but he is very inexperienced. He went from a nobody transitioning to the DL to considered as a potential #1 overall in 2021 in the span of about 3-4 months in that 2020 season so the personality evaluation is going to be big with him as well. Opting out was understandable but it raises the question of how bad he wants to be a great football player because he needed those reps to help transition to the NFL.

Building for the long haul is having an elite QB and then juggling the roster every year. Winners don't have the luxury of worrying about getting younger.

I think Klein and Edmunds would likely hold down the starting LB spots if they lose Milano. Klein is proven and played well last season. Dodson and Matakevich(likely) will be back for depth as well. Assuming they tender Boettger and keep Morse......If they lose the other 4 OL free agents they then only have the unproven Ryan Bates and the previously bad Cody Ford(and previously inactive Tre Adams) on hand to fill those spots so more likely they would need a rookie to become a starter there.

You generally need long arms if you are going to stay in the pockets of a top edge rusher. Whitworth had them, Nelson not so much. I suspect the Colts will draft a tackle with the standard 35"+ arms. Nelson to LT reminds me of Bruce Matthews to LT.........best game of Bruce Smith's career.

1) He almost quit football due to concussion issues at UCLA. 2) Check out the tape against UNC. Those two items should cure the swoon.

Dominant is the word you are looking for. Dominant. Dominance. Predominant. Why people want to take the "n" out of that word I don't know but I would argue that it WAS a dominant win. Not as dominant as the Chiefs over the Bills because the Bills couldn't get off the mat for 2 full quarters, but dominant nonetheless.

4 seats together is a lot anywhere other than the corners of the upper deck........even when the team was lousy.

Meh. One guy is worth 5 years of a teams draft picks and has 10-15 years left...........the other is nearing the end and wasn't worth much in trade with a nearly $18M cap figure next season.

In baseball terminology do people with abandonment issues get hit by a pitch and think they hit a single? It's a long way from the coal mine and abandoned on a street corner to $7 billion for the Pegula clan........wouldn't call that a simple 4 bagger.

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I didn't say that. My comments were specifically on the NFL and NBA. But: https://novacapsfans.com/2020/09/30/ratings-for-2020-stanley-cup-clincher-lowest-in-three-decades/

It was a significant overhaul of one of the league's worst defenses. The Bills defense was actually pretty good. They had a very poor game against KC.........people want to point to the talent like they need to add 3-4 high quality upgrades to the defense to be able to compete........but the jimmies and joes on both sides of the ball should have done better than they did. It was a meltdown by coaches and players alike. Chiefs now own the real estate in the Bills heads that the Patriots did prior to 2020. That's the bigger obstacle.

Disagree about what, exactly?

SJ13 is a good example of the "concept" you are talking about........he wouldn't have been option #1 on many teams........ but he was also in steep decline by the time the Bills got rid of him so I wouldn't use his production after Buffalo as an example. Logan Thomas is not the #1 option for the WFT like SJ13 was for the Bills, though. That guy is Terry McLaurin.......a stud WR. Thomas was given a chance to convert to TE because he was the top TE recruit in the nation in HS (and later considered the possible NFL #1 overall pick at QB in college). He's a really exceptional athlete for the position. I don't expect him to become a true superstar TE like Kelce/Gronk while pushing 30 now............but while you may think that he just got over-targeted, and therefore overrated, the same argument was made about Kelce early in his career with KC. He averaged over 100 targets per season from 2014-2016 when the Chiefs had no outside passing game(literally 0 WR TD's in 2014). His game didn't decline switching from a pro bowl level QB in Alex Smith to a great one in Mahomes with great WR targets.........his production actually increased by about 30%.

I don't think the Bears are a likely destination.