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Lockets deal is actually not that bad You'd be getting him for 4 years 43.3M with 3M (2022 guaranteed salary). After the 3M salary in year 1, the cap hits are 9.7, 15.3, 15.3. Even for 2yr 12.7 thats a bargain - and you can either restructure in year 3 or cut him. Lockett did 73 for 1175 and 8 TDs... He also did that on 22 fewer targets....

They had a pretty solid defense, and a fairly bad offense. My big concern is you fired a really good defensive coach in vic fangio, and replaced him with an unknown. I personally expect a drop off on that side of the ball... and honestly i wouldn't be surprised if the offensive jump isn't that great even with wilson.

Better than everyone else they've had since manning. and everyone else they had before that since elway.

He still won 5 MVP awards.

He has fewer MVP awards than Manning, will probably never catch brady in passing yards, and only has 1 super bowl. Better than Brees/Rivers/Ben - but worse than Manning/Brady.

He's Russ 2.0 - new and improved. Extreme RUSS! Easterby was with NE as team chaplain and character coach from 2013-2018. Then he became EVP of team development with Houston in 2019, and in 2020 became EVP of football operations. Russ Brandon showed up in 97, and became Director of non-football operations in 2006. Then was defacto GM in 2008 (with 0 football scouting or management experience), to CEO in 2010 when they hired buddy. Then he became team president in 2013. Buffalo went 2 years with a non-football guy as a General manager - and he was with the organization for like the entirety of the drought. He did oversee the sale of the team, and they ended up staying in buffalo, so we can thank him for that.

Yeah - but Signing bonus, roster bonus, workout bonus. Plus 8 games tax free - 5 seasons - thats 40 game checks that become considerably larger. Just using 5% affects the take home considerably 5 years of base salary of 3M - 1.5M for home games - $75,000 in income taxes per year - $375,000. That's 2.5% of your total earnings. Factor in any bonuses and it really adds up.

I think the patriots are more likely to go the opposite direction. Losing the offensive coordinator - not a ton of cap space... and they're projected to lose.... Starting corner - JC jackson Both LBs in Van Noy and Hightower Starting FS in McCourtey Starting linemen Trent Brown and Ted Karras... They can make space if they need it - but I'm not sure that's wise with how disappointing the team finished.

Passing to Holmes, Benjamin, Jones, Foster, Clay, Croom, and Ivory. On the line you had Dawkins, Ducasse, Bodine, Miller, Mills. Throw in Some Ryan Groy, and Wyatt Teller's rookie year. Don't judge a player who is without weapons and protection. I'd say the one who gets the pass this year is probably lawrence. Wilson looked so thoroughly unimpressive for me to consider there - the 10.3% sack rate indicates a bad line, but also that he doesn't know what he's doing. Most of their best offensive outputs had Mike White, Josh Johnson, or Flacco starting.

Right - like... Allen struggled with protection of a bad oline, and rookie pocket presence issues. He'd miss some easy throws, didn't know when to take something off his fastball. Traditional rookie issues. But the flashes were definitely there, deep throws, tight window throws, buying time and throwing strikes, the running ability etc.

The only thing to consider is that almost every player has an agent that will negotiate for a few offers and let the player choose. Its easy to say i will take less - til i see how much the dolphins will pay with no income tax.

Jackson is basically their offensive identity so id imagine pretty lucrative. Baker should be in the tannehill range but with a higher cap so... my guess would be 5 years and 30-32M?

Yep - while buffalo's defense was statistically #1 - they definitely were propped up by really just absolutely annihilating bad offenses. 53 yards and 4 first downs week 18, 109 yards and 6 1st downs week 4 (with 5 takeaways), Thanksgiving against the saints, the dolphins twice etc. DVOA takes into account your opponent - but putting your bottom tier opponents down that hard definitely factors in as well. The 4 games against KCx2, Indy and TB they averaged over 400 yards allowed and more than 26 first downs in all 3. The only one of those games they won they had 4 takeaways, and were 0-3 without (and 1-4 on the season with no takeaways). Figure out what you need to do to better stop those teams - if its pass rush, or linebackers, dbs, whatever.

Why would he re-structure? He gets 7 guaranteed no matter what.

Less man, more zone. They started to use more RPOs as the season went on to create conflicts at the LB position and create some space in the zones for easy completions. They also built more underneath stuff into the offense to Singletary - if your LBs are 10 yards off the LOS immediately take some free yards from check downs until they cover it. You also have Allen's running ability into light boxes when the defense is spread out. Screens usually are there to slow down a strong pass rush or blitz. The jax game was a failure by the oline and allen to account for a pass rush effectively.

Wallace was a UDFA. Lewis was a UDFA and never looked that out of place. Same with Jackson as a 7th rounder. I don't think any of them are like all-pros, but they could certainly have done a lot worse.

He still caught 107 actual passes on 169 targets. And I don't need to watch every steelers pass play to know that there are a number of trash Ben throws mixed in there.

So world cup is 2 15-minute periods. No golden goal so you get a chance to answer. If its still tied its penalty kicks.

It's entirely money/tv related. The playoff schedule structure isn't built for overlap. Games going on forever is a good thing to most football fans. I wanted to see more Allen in the buf/kc game. Even in the cincy game it would've been nice for cincy to actually try and get a TD not play weird FG football after the takeaway. Then you get to see if Mahomes can step up after the turnover and get them back in the game. etc. We miss out on a lot of stuff

It's the worst overtime in sports. Why have a coin toss? Just pick up where you left off. If you kickoff in a tie game with 10 seconds left you get Kickoff Kneel Coin toss Kickoff That's like 15 minutes of barely football and tons of commercials. Just have them run the 1st down play and then switch ends and go into a 10 minute OT period. Without the coin toss you eliminate the "coin toss advantage". The new one might be who starts with the ball, but even so - you start with the ball because you had the ball.

But do we need to use a 1st round asset to acquire a player is the question. It'd probably actually be most like soccer in the world cup. Except after the OT they would just do another one instead of PKs.

A 3rd receiver at like 4yr 13M with a 5th year option is also a really nice cost controlled asset. Depends on the depth in the draft at CB and OG to me whether i'd chance that. Also if they make a splash and sign a christian kirk it becomes far less likely.

Diggs had 164 Beas/mckenzie had 138 Sanders/Davis had 135 Knox had 71 Backs had 82 I don't know that the splits will be obviously - the same? I assume they'd want to give davis more targets in 2022 - but that 138 number for bease/mckenzie is largely unfulfilled. The depth behind them isn't particularly notable either.

If a highly graded player at WR falls I'd be willing to shoot a shot there. I'd probably prefer an upgrade at G/C though.

Lets end epic games with coin tosses? I'm not sure why there's a discussion. Hockey has a golden goal sudden death - but the fluidity of hockey makes this work. They'll also play for hours til it happens. Soccer usually has a full 30 minutes - but they also go to PKs in tournaments which is gross. Basketball has full 5 minute periods. I personally like the idea of an Elam ending - because i hate all the stalling/fouling/free throws at the end of games. Elam ending tends to force teams to just play basketball. NFL has a coin toss - where the winner wins more games than they lose (both in regular season and significantly more in playoffs). I get the idea behind not wanting to change it, but its playoffs, just play out a full OT period. You get more of the exciting stuff - 4th down attempts late in the game, game winning drives, etc.