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This is voted by players so...

It's training camp in August. The most you're going to get chewed out is over the summer in my experience. Installing a new offense with a bare cupboard at QB is challenging enough, you probably do need to come at them sort of hard to get messages across and identify your leaders.

They did try this with Fromm, he was just really bad.

4th in the NFL in sacks, only DT in the top 10. Also top 10 in TFLs. 3rd in QB hits. 1 missed tackle on the year. He makes the entire unit go.

Throw rousseau in there too - he came back the week after von went down.

Singletary had 3000+ yards and averaged 4.7 YPC over the last 4 years. He's certainly not all-pro, but he's not far off Miles Sanders and David Montgomery statistically at all. You can do a lot worse. Moss on the other hand was injured at times, and wholly ineffective at others. There were numbers from college that seemed to indicate he was going to be a player outside of his RAS. Also RAS doesn't mean everything - you do want players who are good at football, not working out.

If rapp becomes a contributor- he also fully replaces dean marlowe in any capacity. Hamlin also was better than anyone else who played safety last year other than hyde and poyer. So... Assuming you keep 4, i don't see why you can't use him as depth. Poyer's primary backup is probably Rapp, and Hyde's is probably Poyer TBH. Keep the best 4 players, and i don't see that being Marlowe.

Drove my buddy to the hospital when he tore his - he wasn't in crazy agonizing pain from what i remember?

If he misses the entirety of training camp again? Probably. 🙂

Jets gonna Mets i guess

Not a fan of the guy - but sucks to see him hurt and not get roasted by diggs.

I think we could have done more to address RT - but Quessenberry played there a year ago, and they added shell. The goal is to get the most out of Brown at RT - if he fails then you know you need to use serious draft capital to replace him. You also bring in players who you think can both start in a pinch, and drive him to be a more successful player through competition.

Miami lost the last 4 games Tua started FWIW (and buffalo was the only game he played well in), and 6 of their last 7 games overall. They had some really solid offensive stretches... but the media seems to think Tua was unstoppable but when the games mattered... L to SF (3 turnovers), L to LAC (10/28 for 145 yards in a freaking dome), L to Buf (fine game, but allen was significantly finer), L to GB (i guess a mulligan for the undiagnosed concussion but... 3 interceptions and 2 fumbles is pretty bad in a must win game). To me it looks like McDaniel was figured out a little bit - and my assumption is they want to run the ball more effectively to counter what teams did to disrupt their RPO game. Chubb, Phillips, Wilkins, holland, howard, Jones were all there last year... they added ramsey. But that unit was 18th in yards and 24th in points allowed. If Ramsey is as good as he thinks he is that should be some pretty substantial improvement, but they are probably at least a little bit overrated. They have fangio now - who is a great coach... but he is the exact opposite of Josh Boyer. He blitzes far less and plays far more 2 high looks. Are Phillips and Chubb going to be able to make tons of pressure without LBs and S's coming off the edge? Are Holland and Jones going to be as effective of players playing high? Lot of stuff to unpack here, and I'm glad we'll get some film on them before we play them.

His cap hit next year already jumps from 11.5M to 29.5. Can probably convert some of it to a bonus and spread it across the deal, but the new money probably starts at probably 50M per year. You can take less when you're a bit older and you've comfortably made more money than you can probably even spend. But the first deal out of the rookie contract is when you chase a bag.

They were 9-8 (started 3-7) last year and their final 5 wins featured wins over houston, the jets, and titans x2. Titans added hopkins, jags added ridley - i think the titans got the better player in that comparison. They also lost games to Washington, Indianapolis, Denver, and Houston. Defensively they were 24th in yards and lost a pass rusher to FA. Ridley, Kirk, Engram, and Etienne is a nice group though, and lawrence definitely looked more confident as the year wore on shaking off the Urban Meyer season. They should win the division, and if Lawrence is better they should walk away with it pretty handily. But they also draw KC and Buffalo as their non-common opponents with the rest of their division, the AFC north is never a cupcake, and their defense is not very good at all.

I'd say I was relatively disappointed he didn't seize a starting position, but he played pretty well in the playoffs. Day 1 depth charts really don't mean much though as you gotta put pads on and get into it for coaches to get a feel for their role in a changing defense. All 3 of jackson benford and elam played a year ago with various results - who gets the first day with the 1's really doesn't mean anything when its a 3 man competition.

Well good thing its July? Its not babying or spoonfeeding - its earning your spot. Veterans who worked hard to get where they are respond to pressure from players like this. He's got his work cut out for him to start day 1 with a young player in Bates ahead of him, and guys like boettger and edwards fighting for a roster spot.

They better hope hes more hurts and less tyrod - or theyre both going to get fired.

Only way it happens is if they can keep the cap hit down. Asking price is likely a minimum 6 million... I did these with an attempt to get actual cap space created with the cut - replacement players salary figures into it and without cutting Morse, it's really tough. Can save about 2 million if you cut neal and keep austin. Save about 800k if you cut gilliam and keep morris or sternberger. But the big savings of about 5M would come from cutting morse and keeping mancz (while shifting bates to C). We'd then be a bates injury away from some serious issues in the middle of the line.

I just think you kind of know who someone is after 4 seasons - and he isn't worth 40M per year.

The insanely short average depth of target is a concern to me. His intended air yards per pass attempt of 6.4 was one of the lowest figures in the league - which likely contributed to a reduced interception rate, and reduced fumbles. The issue there is A - they don't have the horses to make that a truly dangerous offense (even with Barkley) and B - I'm not sure he's capable of stretching the field from the pocket. Between this limitation, their defense, their division, their success the previous season in 1 score games, I see them struggling to get much more than like 7 wins. He's tied for 10th with the AAV of his contract, and he just isn't a top 10 QB. Mahomes, Burrow, Allen, Hurts, Herbert, Rodgers, Tua, Lamar, Lawrence are clearly a class above him - then you have Cousins, Geno, Carr, Goff, Dak, Stafford and Kyler where if they aren't better, it's at least a debate. I expect rookies from this class to surpass him before the end of next season as well as guys like Purdy/Lance and potentially Pickett. It's not the worst contract out there (Wilson, Watson, probably Rodgers), but I just think this is who he is. A QB with short throw accuracy, who is a threat to run. For the price they paid he should be more than that, considering Heinicke cost 7M (plus athlete) and Minshew was 3.5M (short throw accuracy).

Oof - I'm shocked on that. What about player options? Like you guarantee yourself a salary if you pick up ur option - or you can opt out? Or you can play your way into a raise that way with some kind of contract escalator - you hit 1200 yards your salary for next season is higher than if you don't, etc. Trying to think about how to help the running backs out.

I'd probably blame rookie wage agreements made by the NFLPA. Basically a running back has no ability to negotiate a contract until they're either replaced or damaged goods (4-5 years). If you change anything, maybe you let them re-negotiate contracts earlier than the final year of their deal. Playing time requirements - snap% or something like that - would allow you to maybe negotiate/hold out after 1 or 2 years instead of 3 or 4, or void years off the contract. You can still replace the player, but the new player might then hit the same thresholds and thus become a free agent as well. Did his new 1yr deal negotiate in a no-tag agreement?

I mean jeeze - the guy rode a jetski? Whats next, a car? a bicycle?

They signed jakobi meyers, and drafted tre tucker. But they actually lose cap space by cutting him. I assume they spread it across two years and realize some savings. He did have some pretty bad fumble luck, coming off a concussion and injury affected season, and just generally wasn't as effective in McDaniels offense a year ago. Pretty sure he got his bell rung there when he spun into that hit. Not all fumbles are created equal, but thats a pretty big one.