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pitts claims it was about the falcons signing of heyward today and was not trying to create expectations. Who knows. the falcons will owe Matt Ryan a bonus in about 90 minutes though. So we will find out real soon.

and if we don’t take it back it’s a dead cap hit because it’s paid money. this thread is not a good one

the Saints have kamara and Thomas, a solid defense and were one drive away from the playoffs with one of the more horrific situations I’ve seen between injuries/covid. They were close with 3rd and 4th string qb play.

Saints restructures this morning just cleared enough for his salary CJGJ just cleared his Twitter of all Saints content i think it may be a done deal

likely heavy signing bonus. A 20m bonus only counts 4m this year, for example

theres no way anyone involved thinks that 120m will be paid, so why do you?

And honestly, retire or cut if being real.

So 4 year, 17m per and some extra noise at the end?

id bet the back end is not expected and there primarily to spread bonuses out.

I can’t vouch for this particular one, just the first of many to pop up: https://www.nfl.com/news/2022-nfl-draft-compensatory-pick-projections-for-every-team it’s relatively simple. You total up qualified signings vs losses and the net is the volume of picks… if you lost more you reduce the lost list by cancelling similar value players on the two lists the remaining guys get slotted up by average salary against thresholds for each round. Not publicly shared but it’s basically in line annually with a couple percentage points increase to go with salary cap inflation so most good projections nail the volume of picks and only really miss on round if the guy is right on the cusp of the projected value. Essentially just missing where the threshold will land in their projections (ie last year a 7.8m player was the lower round, 8m landed the higher round, so where will an 8.25m guy split to next year) if you follow the process it’s easy and some teams value it enough to put it in high consideration. You have two guys valued the same, go with the one that helps the equation and not just a random gut tie breaker for signings or roster cuts

Only thing that comes to mind is “hometown” as a Clemson guy. If looking for a softer landing spot to avoid drama… but New Orleans would give him the key to the city the day he shows up too so… we will see.

realistically the below is your list when you filter out recent restructures, etc… and several are not particularly valuable, but could be throw ins if the GM of the texans liked them McCoy-CJGJ are a commonly mentioned pairing. Or CJGJ and turner/adebo Erik McCoy Paulson Adebo Payton Turner CJ Gardner-Johnson Cesar Ruiz Pete Werner Adam Trautman Ian Book Zach Baun Landon Young

kamara and Thomas would be highly unlikely. MT is heading the recruitment committee currently. id circle defensive names on the roster if speculating. CJGJ for instance.

it is possible that tweet is not 110% accurate. Not all are gospel. They may have given Watson the courtesy based on his interest in his home town and wanting to drive up other offers from the division rivals. Atlanta could be interested in the similar end game of hitting the Saints/panthers.

they just restructured Matt Ryan creating 55M in dead money to move on this off-season. to get a 10+ year starter is still worth trying to maneuver that but it would be nearly impossible even in our very flexible age of cap manipulation it’d be 90M to have to shift around in dead money from Ryan and salary for Watson.

yes, because you acquire talent via non qualifying methods and often see those guys through the expiration of their contracts so they later do qualify for you on the way out. minus the websites that can project them at they end of the qualifying window with over 95% accuracy

because nobody writes that letter with the expectation of staying. hand your boss a letter saying you can’t wait to see what your career will hold two weeks from now and that you are appreciative of the opportunities he’s given you

kamara, Thomas and a top 10 defense? I’d put the Saints up there I can’t see the falcons. The Matt Ryan contract makes it utterly impossible, right?

Drama queens at qb this year. All over the league.

I don’t think he’s a bad player, but surprised we are so far getting slower, generally will be the first to admit I overvalue speed… and not super stressed… but surprised we didn’t add any jets on either side yet.

Kromer has turned some mediocre tackles into great guards. not holding my breathe but not a coach I’d rather have trying.

They work the system and let contracts expire while signing non qualifying guys

What exactly do you expect our rotational backups to suddenly be if signing affordable vets?

frankly it’s cheap veteran CB3 money.

missing the market on a relatively volatile asset isn’t suddenly being a joke - it’s an educated guess