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Meh - hair of the dog that bit ya is the best way to get over a hangover anyway! Party!! 2018-2019 is our year!

I wouldn't give anything up to get him. I also put him either below or on par with Glennon and McCown as QBs I'd rather go into 2018 with.

Or that this could easily turn into ponder locker and gabbert and i wouldn't be surprised.

Hughes is our best pass rusher - we really cant afford to cut him even if his production doesn't necessarily meet his pay. Incognito and Lorax are on expiring deals, they can factor into 2019 comp picks if they walk (also incognito was a pro bowler - are we trying to get worse?). Lorax I could see - but his entire deal is basically non guaranteed. Why not see if someone can take his job? If we cut McCoy we literally have no running backs on the roster - and you save 3.7 million on the cap. Will his replacement cost more than 3.7 million? Probably. Will he be as good? Probably not. Ducasse and Miller cost a total of like 2 million. If we draft a potential replacement I'm all for cutting one - but only if a replacement is brought in. Moving Glenn will be tough - his value is super low and his salaries are high. I'm sure they still want to get out of some of the bad deals, and make some savings. But we are already carrying a large dead money amount for 2018.

I mean... is Allen that much better of a prospect than Jackson? Both raw, both have rocket arms, both will need to sit behind someone.

I don't think they want to trade all the picks they acquired.

With some Pink Himalayan salt. Or maybe some of whatever they put into bartolo colons shoulder. I tend to agree - I don't see Beane and McDermott trying to make a huge move up to the top 3 though. Yeah - they had like 0 run game in 2016 too. This year they upgraded that with Cook, and even though he went out for the year, they also added Murray in FA to add some meat to their run game. Their o-line improved a ton from 2016 - 2 new tackles and drafted a center. Interested to see where Minnesota goes with their QB situation.

I'd have my trainers take a long look at bradfords knee's before I'd even consider him. I don't even know what happened and he ended up on IR. He did shred the saints on MNF to open the season though

Unless you're trading into the top 3, you get no guarantee that one of your guys is there... You have to have packages ready in case a player you want falls though. There's always shocks in the top 10, and there will be trades. Where do keenum, bridgewater, bradford fall? What if the Giants really are planning on playing for 3-5 years with Eli? Ton of variables beyond cousins.

True - and he won the big games too. But his career numbers are worse than priest holmes, shaun alexander, and ahman green.

My big knock on Terrell Davis is that he was only good for 3 years. He was really really good for 3 years, but again - 3 years.

I just don't think we're the number one destination - but that's just me. There are winning franchises that need QBs. Denver could turn it around - its a franchise with a tradition of winning. Arizona has a new coach and David Johnson. NYJ have the money to make some moves in FA, and could add an impact player at 6. Minnesota could be in play as well - and they were in the NFC championship game, play in a dome, and have better weapons. Jax says they're out, but they could just as easily jump in if they can get out of Bortles contract. Miami could probably make some numbers that work if he wanted to play there with Gase.

Drafting a guy comes with 5 years of control - and he can't sign elsewhere. Cousins is a bidding war - you're bidding money as well as your city and organization. Why are we a better destination than anywhere else?

No - but i don't want to anoint him savior, or have to rely upon him to be the unquestioned starter. He has done nothing to earn either of those accolades.

It's hard to say - hes the same age as stafford and had similar numbers last year with worse WRs. He performed better than Carr, Flacco, Ryan, and many of the others in his bracket. Stafford got 5 years 135 million - an open market would likely dictate he get more than that. He could definitely approach 30m per year. Just adds to our consistent flow of dead money. We're already at about 18 million dead cap for 2018. I get that the previous regime made some mistakes - but at some point its nice to just have the player play for the money that you paid him.

If they keep him and draft someone you're using 30+ million of cap space on a placeholder.

Bradfords an interesting case. He's made a ton of money already - worked under a bunch of coordinators... I think he's just looking for a spot where he's actually the guy.

Either way he has all the leverage. Playing under the tag - he'll have the biggest cap hit in the NFL and a fully guaranteed 30 something million. He's also a guaranteed UFA in 2019 as a 4th tag would be around 50 million in cap space.

His stats are better than flacco, luck, ryan, and carr, and fairly in line with stafford. He has justification to get a payday similar to staffords 5 for 135. Stafford took that extension from the team he played for - this implies he wants to stay there and they want him there. If you're trying to out-bid others for his services, expect to pony up similar numbers. Cleveland and Jax can put together massive deals if they want to, so you can't be THAT far off and expect him to consider it. We're talking about millions of dollars in guarantees.

If he becomes available - or even in his negotiations with Wash - they start at the 5 for 135 that stafford got. If he's not tagged, id say 30 mil per season average isn't out of the realm. If he is tagged, he likely plays under the tag. It'd be impossible to tag him a 4th time - and then he hits the unrestricted free agency he wants so he can choose his team and get a massive payday.

Plus if they tag him - the trade offers won't come in until most of the best free agents have already signed. So their cap savings basically only help them in 2019 anyway, as they'll hang a 33 million cap hit. 2018 is a crummy year for them because they werent able to work out an extension with him.

His guaranteed salary will be very high no matter what, and the average will be around 30 million.

It depends what you think he is. He'd need to be brady to take that roster anywhere. If you can tag and trade him - you can package picks to move up and get a newer - cheaper QB who you can build around. I'm not saying let him walk for nothing. I'm saying I wouldn't build around him with that roster.

Right - and they will probably hover around 7-9 again. They'll have no cap space and more holes than last year. At least if you trade cousins, you likely bottom out and get a shot at a top QB in 2019. The Redskins are sort of in that bradford/Rams situation - they have a pretty good QB, whos overpaid... and the rest of the team is crap and needs to be blown up.

The franchise tag costs them 33 million of their 52 in projected cap space.... they don't have any talent at WR, or at RB. And their defense sucks. When does Washington just look at it and say you're just spinning your wheels if you sign this guy?