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I may regret this later but I’m 100% in on the dolphins trading up for tua. Would be about the riskiest move possible for them.

it’s not even great passing. even with the benefit of misdirection he’s a 50% guy. And if you look at the playoff throw the only reason it wasn’t 7 was the throw being way off. Dude got wide open and ended up having to wait for the ball (and defender) to get to him.

Teddy is you 9-7 bridge, taysoms your 2-14 but sell season tickets guy i think they genuinely love having taysom as a contributor but would be SHOCKED if anyone thinks he’s the answer The only explanation if it goes this way is a full tank but keeping fan enthusiasm higher than some other third tier free agent that would be too obvious a tank I believe Brees will come back to beat out Brady in the record books though.

it’s interesting as looking at OBJ, Sammy probably showed much more professionally. Even if good reputation Brandon cooks has been a handful since coming into the league. Probably about as talented a class as there could be but is mike Evans the good guy of the group? In the spectrum of personalities Sammy wasn’t half bad.

do you always feel so persecuted?

we absolutely do need to spend just not sure if the highest paid guard/center combo with him and Morse is the premium ROI for the dollars. I like a good interior line but seems we have options to save here and spend elsewhere

Meh. I always thought he would be as good or better than the last LB to make the roster or the pick received. Didn’t save money. id have been fine with him as depth and in “and short” packages. that said, not losing sleep over that one

oh I’m not saying he’s anything to brag about but simply the dumpster fire wasn’t burning quite as bright as many portray. Plenty of issues with the guy still.

He seems like a buffoon but the stuff I made fun of last offseason generally worked better than I expected. i still think it’s the wrong move, but I pause slightly before totally mocking it and will simply remain skeptical

if you reset and start taysom you are selling tickets while tanking. I can buy a more extended package for him but even as number 2 you end up having to cut his special teams and power running and he becomes a limited receiver with great athleticism that you can’t make full use of. if he’s just a utility player he’s at his most dangerous. Great for moving the chains with potential of explosive plays. As soon as he’s an every down qb (or could be one at a moments notice) he loses his use of what makes him special. would be interesting- as much as the athleticism is tough to duplicate, the mental side is fascinating and I think very rare. feels like I’m beating him up but amazing he sits in a qb room, special teams meetings, and the wr room. Not to mention running back packages. It’s amazing that he has the time in a week to keep up yet alone be impactful. just don’t think he has the arm talent to be every down

he is 7 of 15 in his career so far. So I see why you think that. he’s a fun piece and one of the more interesting free agent stories out there but he’s running a very limited route tree, and not a reliable passer. He’s a tank in short yardage. I’d be down to add him as a gadget but I can’t imagine anyone thinks he’s a true qb.

still not buying it

still comes out ahead in that equation, honestly

because you obviously don’t say “yea I took a violation in order to make sure the opponent hit a symbolic threshold.” it’s disrespectful to your own team but more importantly tarnishes the actual gesture. You just let it go unsaid.

I try to buy it but why didn’t he get more reps? Especially with drew out?

by good I meant he’s an above average player but not a star (yet). I think more touches, and as you mentioned cleaning up a few pieces of his game, and he could be great. I may be skewing impact of day 2 RBs a bit high as a benchmark (I think RBs in day two are tremendous value for most teams)because truly I didn’t mean it a knock to say he was good and they hit on the pick (on the 50-50 he was the winner and ford the wait and see)

35-31

a third is still a pretty big wild card for most positions. But relatively reliable at RB. And hunt comes with risk. I think it’s a fair tipping point in there for his max value. Like 3-4 I’d guess some team would agree

Ed O looks good (as he should as a top 10) ford - meh singletary - good... 50-50 on day 2 is fine.neither big bust or boom. A good and a work in progress. the rest: perfectly fine swings. Let them work through the system and grow and 1-2 might surprise us. if we change coaches in a year (Not saying we will) this class has potential to fall apart fast, but with stability could be solid.

Minimum spend has nothing to do with being competitive and everything to do with players ensuring that enough dollars are promised to float their way

where in are the limits drawn on where you can cross over from celebrating the best of lives to acknowledging the worst? were comments about Michael Jackson’s scandals off limits? when OJ passes can only football be celebrated? aaron Hernandez’s suicide? how many hours or days before it’s discussed? its a clumsy and messy issue dealing with celebrity deaths in the social media age. Especially ones with serious accusations. There’s no one size fits all. The family of his accuser probably feel a bit crummy with each celebration of him the last decade or so. Perspective is a hell of a thing and if you had been raped by a man in power you may appreciate seeing some acknowledgement today. that said, I won’t pretend all bringing it up truly have good intentions in their hearts either. You just kind of have to roll with it being a spectrum when you invite a billion people to the discussion

I think culturally we pretend we know these guys a lot more than we really do. Makes us all part of the team to do so. I’ve tried to shift away from “Kobe’s amazing” to “Kobe’s tenacity on the court is impressive” as we don’t know much about any of the people in their day to day but certainly can admire traits. It’s one I backslide on a lot, as it’s so culturally ingrained though.

by giving a team an asset (pick) of value- sure. Ok boomer right but if the team with limited cash flow was loading up on day two draft picks and the cowboys are getting an extra couple vets... is that bad? all you do is move it on the balance sheet and treat it as any other cap. 1 team has 195 the other 205 and any rollover or 3 year averages are based off the adjusted numbers.

it just underscores that outside of getting a solid HC/QB combo the rest is just assembling talent and there’s no one way to do it.

plus, it’s public knowledge