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You may as well say he became the raiders longest tenured kicker - most top scorers are kickers http://www.espn.com/nfl/history/leaders/_/stat/points not just a product of longevity though, they just score a lot http://m.espn.com/nfl/leagueleaders?groupId=9&season=2018&seasonType=2&statgroup=scoring&category=totalPoints id be hard pressed to say he could possibly be worth a first when you could simply pay the top free agent kicker a boatload and still come out ahead with the savings on even an average de, cb, wr on a rookie deal

Were you confused before this article?

A 20m signing bonus counts 4m against the cap. Just for instance.

With new contracts for any (or all) you could fit them if you wanted

Im going to go ahead and ask.... Why do you think the start of the process is the same as the end of the process? And does beane know about this rule given his interest in brown? We have 25-30m. We could do pretty much anything we dream of at this point if we really want to

Not to mention the dead money created by moving MD who would be a fine enough plugger til we get to the easy to cut portion of his own deal. The cap dedicated to run stopping DT is definitely high.

Hed have to flop massively to not have the spot. Even worst case he’s getting a ton of reps in a standard rotation, regardless of who is in the first snap.

Too pale. I think he’s more of a Brandon stokely. It’s tough though- just tried to look up the top 25 white wide receivers in nfl history and a good number of the photos were in black and white.

Define “big contract” for Hughes thats where it it all starts, right? I assume we’d all keep him for peanuts, but where does each of us reach our max. I’m not sure but think that’s the much more productive way to have the discussion

I suppose the debate is do you protect him or do you protect a guy like sills, the latter picked tight end, the new safety, maybe carry an extra cb or olineman. Especially with salary fully guaranteed if he makes week 1s roster plenty of teams carry 2 and keep extras on speed dial. If Barkley is #2 I think we’d be safe telling him to stay in shape and ready for a call that we would make worth his while.

You widely misstated the cap needed for the rookie class, ignored that often extensions keep flat or even can lower this years hit for a player as they want signing bonuses and those amortize and then picked a relatively arbitrary number for emergency funds. Basically you rounded everything up drastically and made it look like we are substantially tighter then we really are. We have incredible flexibility based on a huge amount of space left. We are nowhere near a situation where we going to run up to the cap with extending a guy or two.

No worries! And that ones not even a cap rule, it’s just a metric that website uses to give a clearer picture. I hadn’t noticed it before but makes some sense for quick references

The brush you’ve painted with is so broad that it actually hindered people from understanding the cap situation if they take you at the surface

Signing cheap insurance policies to flexible contracts you can get out of with only 90k dead money is very much how good teams operate. That’s less than a half of a tenth of 1% of our cap. Its akin to the effect on your annual budget of deciding to grab a dozen eggs at the store when you aren’t positive if you are out. Even if you don’t use a couple it’s not the end of the world and better than running out for pennies risked. Did you notice they all match? Looks like they define effective cap as the max remaining if carrying a full roster (so for future years a team with 21 players signed doesn’t appear to be sooooo far ahead of the cap because it factors in another 30 league minimum placeholders but in 2019 every team already has 51 guys calculated in)

DTs are always rotational and we got one that can make a big impact in that rotation immediately. you are also overrating Harrison Phillips On some level I’ve got to ask if you are really concerned about the shift in about 5 or so snaps a game between 2-3 guys?

In part, there are just sooooo many interchangeable guys that deep in a class. 6 ft tall, 200 lbs, can run at least a 4.6ish and catch isn’t that rare of a body type or baseline skill set and it’s a position a lot of kids gravitate towards. Mentioned it earlier- I can’t speak for that post but I think the comments less about him being bad for being religious and more about the idea that McD might overvalue guys that he relates to on that front. We’ve seen the commentary bubble up a few places (peterman for instance)

At this point I assume 1-5 are CB, JB, zay, Foster and Roberts with some confidence that leaves duke, sills, and I have a sneaky suspicion they add one more low end vet that has teams experience fighting for 6 vs practice squad. Not a knockout group but looks to be trending the right direction (knock on wood)

Are you really upset that they got their RB in the mid third when the “run started in the late third” (of course ignoring that we and Chicago both picked mid 3 rb) For Knox... well, I ascribe this one to the patriots method of finding needs and creating tiers of players. Once you get to the last guy in the tier you have to try to go get him. They clearly took a need but they waited until just before a perceived drop which is the way to do it if going for need

Though a small piece may be that 6’7 curse for qbs. Seems to not go over well and spook scouts. Im not saying 2 inches accounts for all but likely is a factor between being 3rd an off the board and whatever went ahead of tyree

I’d say the answer likely lands on film not on paper

Happens every year with a few highly mocked WRs it seems. I think it’s just a matter of #16 and #20 off the board at we being such a slim margin but only so many will be picked and by day 3 there’s a lot of dumb luck with fit, and scouts trying to grab pet project guys they fell for.

I’ve linked once or twice an article about an nba GM that doesn’t let his scouts compare guys (particularly non-traditional races for a position) to other guys of that race. Because even professional scouts jump straight to jordy Nelson, Edelman and welker for white receivers as an example. Or as we saw, with a black qb. its not so much a knock on the discussion but popped to mind as even scouts struggle to do cross race comparisons. I’d be curious to see some more comparables that aren’t a “less athletic Nelson” or thielen

We are officially in the phase of the offseason where duke can voluntarily lift weights at the facility, right? My point is that their commitment to him is so low and hands on contact with him so nearly non existent that he could’ve said that duke has the makings of a hall of famer and it’d ring hollow. Nothing he said tonight would make me think the passed on a day 2 WR or are cutting zay because of how they say they feel about duke. He’s a guy with talent but we haven’t even matched the first number on the lottery ticket yet. All he could do tonight was acknowledge that he was a lottery ticket. Everyone knows that. If you read more into (any) comments tonight, enjoy the high.

As opposed to not thinking someone on the roster can play?

Thanks!