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Eh - could end up being a hold out situation. I think they pick up the 5th year option and he becomes fairly expensive year 2 unless you can work out an extension.

I like henry - hes made strides. Paying a running back just never seems to work out though. If someone comes around that you like at a mark ingram type of price - I'm for it. Otherwise draft.

I'd say 53 - since there would be no like base salary changes based off of it. You would just have to take out contract things that factor in being active on gamedays. Practice squad players get a reduced salary, so exposing them to games for no additional money exposes them to possible injuries while being paid well below the league minimum and not actually accruing contract years. It's clearly said on here that it really isn't possible to just "not play your starters" - since 7 players can be made inactive... we only carry 9 Olinemen so someone has to play... we have 5 corners and 1 was inactive - someone has to play.

I find it very unlikely he would get the job there. Possible i guess? What about Pat Shurmur?

Stadium capacity was 80,024 back then. I know green bays is around there, but thats a lot for a smaller metro area.

Yeah - watching some of the highlights on that and it was like... a slant route had to be kind of on the money... a little behind the receiver so he didn't get lit up. You wanted them to kind of just catch it and stop right there. Same with deep posts and crossers... you couldn't lead your man into coverage or he'd get destroyed.

He lit it up with fitz and the jets.. then the next year that offense was just... a disaster. Decker got hurt, but they still had marshall, enunwa, and anderson. Forte and Powell. Fairly good o-line pieces. Defense didn't get as many takeaways, and the offense gave the ball away all the damn time. Recipe for switching from 10-6 to 5-11

Meh... Probably smart to move on from a guy who had never called plays before. 2nd stint in Miami - 3rd stint with Fitz... Lets be real guys, we all know how this is gonna go. 1 good year, 1 bad year and hes out.

Where do you stand on our own free agents in Phillips and Lawson?

I say maybe in an actual game - but week to week momentum? Not as much in football. Maybe like a lost season feeling creeps in and preparation isn't as good - but this was a pointless week 17 game. No momentum to be lost or gained there.

I wonder if allens just later on the reads on those types of routes so they aren't open when he goes through progressions? Or if Barkleys arm limitations forced them to change things up a bit to make up for it.

8-8... with no QB. I guess thats impressive. If they hadn't lost the last 3 games of the year maybe I'd consider him a coach of the year contender? Still - Denver finished 7-9 with a bunch of scrubs at QB too. Bears went 8-8 with Trubiskey..

He's clearly the starter there - 65% of snaps vs. 30 or below for everyone else and trended up as the season went along. Kroft being healthy helps add a 2nd TE who functions more do-all than someone like smith.

I thought he played pretty well... very active blocker in this game as well. Made some tough catches on the sidelines. He had a bad drop - but foster also had 0 catches on 4 targets. Considering Mckenzie seemed fairly dangerous with both speed and elusiveness on his runs and stuff (minus the drop), i'd probably have foster inactive? I guess it depends on the gameplan, do you want to use roberts in the mckenzie role, williams as a conventional X/Z WR, and carry foster simply as a gunner? Where is the need more important? Jumpstart the O with mckenzie? Or core special teams with foster?

Thats a lot of dough dude... Cooper getting 20m a year seems a bit scary when you remember the drops and inconsistencies. Ngakoue is going to get paid really really well. Armstead i guess it depends what he gets paid - he was a part of a beast D-line so... did the lightswitch go on and make him a double digit sack guy? or is he closer to the 3 from the last 4 years?

I'd probably look to target someone who may not be a FA. Look at some cap casualties and try to trade for them. Allen Robinson, Sammy Watkins (probably not, but i suppose stranger things have happened), Robert Woods (they need cap space to sign ramsay and... anyone else - he's one of the only guys who provides any cap relief), Goodwin (could probably be had for very little), Marvin Jones (They probably don't need the cap space that badly, but their defense is pretty bad and free agents are expensive.. wouldn't surprise me) - might be had for a mid-late round pick. Etc. I know we're likely to go WR in the first this year - but if someone jumps us... it'd be smart to have planned a bit more for it. We started the year with Zay, then Mckenzie/foster/roberts, maybe duke williams here and there. It's a position in need of a major improvement and i don't want the draft to be the sole area where we look at doing it, since FA happens before the draft.

I think he was fine leaving - the contract built in the out and he took it. I think he was under the impression that he'd get the jets or bears jobs that offseason. It worked out with him getting the Jags job - and he even put together a nice season there. But back to back failures with the exact same defense - and him being an offense guy? Time to go.

Right? Russ Brandon! It was what... a year and a half ago? Whaley's press conference? Was that 2 years ago? McBeane have turned this clown show around in a hurry. They're clearly trying to replicate in a way, what teams like GB, Pitt, and NE do year in and year out. They have stabilized this organization in a very short time, its really impressive.

I mean - even a coach who knows what he's doing. I'm not sure kitchens was ever the golden boy that they claimed him to be.

Yeah - i just remember the offseason after rex... it was like - why is whaley hiring anyone? Shouldn't he be gone? Or shouldn't we hire a VP to oversee - the pegula's are in over their heads... why is russ brandon still here?! etc.

They did what everyone thought was right - bring in a VP of football operations. I think he made a few mistakes in building the team (largely forgoing future for present success), but i also think keeping marrone wasn't the right move. They did bring him in as an heir apparent behind bradley after he quit buffalo, but i thought Coughlin would bring a new level of prestige to a coaching search. That whole thing about the NFLPA. He was alienating players and kind of forced ownerships hand. “In the last two years, more than 25% of grievances filed by players in the entire league have been filed against the Jaguars. You as players may want to consider this when you have a chance to select your next club.”

Gotta remember those stats are a bit funky when you factor in how few touches we were giving singletary to start the year. He also missed a few games. Gore was fine to start the year, but im not sure of a few things. He may have lost a bit of gas here at the end of the year, or he simply doesn't work as a change of pace back. He seems to hammer you until you make a mistake and then he makes you pay. His YPC has been atrocious the last few games, and it's got to be one of those things. Snaps are down, and so is his overall effectiveness.

And sometimes you n eed to be able to run out the clock on an opponent. The Falcons unwillingness or inability to do so cost them a championship.

Only essentially a contract for 1 game - plus he wont get paid if hes on the exempt list.

He was huge - but didn't pull down 50/50 balls with any level of consistency. He also developed some really bad habits with regards to work ethic and his hands weren't very good. Perhaps some of those things have creeped into duke's practices - not pulling in 50/50 passes, or dropping passes? If he's not doing those things in practice consistently, he's probably not worth playing since you probably won't call a play trusting him to do it. Yeah - 3 and 7 for a 4th year player with a 5th year option. Could do worse in a trade.