oldmanfan

What did I write? Go back and ask yourself: what did he write? What I wrote is that they have to continue to evaluate and add pieces. The OP talks about breaking everything down. You don't do that with playoff teams, you evaluate and add as needed.

Playoff teams do not do that obnoxious T word that posters like you use to draw attention to themselves.

You do not tear down playoff teams. You continue to assess your roster and add pieces as needed.

Bottom line: he checked with the ref and the ref gave him the OK. Ergo, it was not a penalty. we of course have those here who claim the ref is wrong or that the player was lying, but no reason to take any of that seriously. It is a judgment call, the ref makes the judgment, and that's that. The ref makes the judgment because that is his job. The call on the back of the end zone pass? Could have gone either way. But, again, it is a judgment. And that's what refs do: make judgment calls. Personally I wish they'd get rid of replay entirely, and allow the teams and the fans to simply accept that human error can happen at times. I'm sorry some people want to have the world as all black and white when in reality the world is a series of grays.

It's like comparing two piles of gold. I think Brady is GOAT but Montana was clearly fantastic as well

Brady to me is GOAT. He didn't lose the game last night; his coach and D did.

He was a mediocre backup. But he's improved a lot. Had a great game tonight.

I was 4 years old at the Rockpile first game in 1960. Pretty much explains it.

I understand the question. It was relevant. A good question seem to me. But did he ask it in his usual snarky manner, and did that influence the answer? Seeing the tweets he sent after it, I think we know how he asked the question.

You are confusing a QB's record with a team's record. The Colts put squat around him and they still got to a conference championship. I live just outside Indy and watch Luck a lot. He is the real deal. If we could get a healthy Luck we'd be crazy to turn it down. You equated Luck with Bortles. I think most anyone in the league would say that's laughable.

30-6 Patriots. As much as I hate to call it that way. Belicheat will make Foles try to beat them through the air, and he won't. Rookie SB coach against the GOAT. And Brady will shred a supposedly good defense.

Jacksonville has the best D in the league. In Luck's tenure at the Colts the D has uniformly stunk. Comparing Luck to Bortles based on their team records vs. what they actualy do as QB is like comparing a Ferrari to a VW Beetle. IF Luck is available and IF after exhaustive medical testing it is determined he's healthy the Bills would be insane to not make the trade.

Interesting

I highly doubt this happens. And you'd have to be absolutely sure his shoulder is healed before thinking about it. and I highly, highly, highly doubt anyone in this board has some source that can give them any information of any value.

Who is this Eliot guy?

They certainly can use upgrades at spots. So can any team in the league. To say they're not really a playoff team when they were just in the playoffs denies reality. It would be worth it if the guy they get pans out. We don't know that yet. Unlike some here, if they give up these picks and the guy doesn't work out I will not retrospectively roast them for doing so.

They are a playoff team because they made the playoffs.

They may decide to release guys that they don't feel add to the overall talent base, and that they think can be replaced with younger talent. But they also have two other factors to consider: 1. They have a playoff team. Dismantling a playoff team doesn't make much sense. 2. They still need guys in leadership roles, and if Kyle retires losing him and Wood would have big leadership effects. So releasing all your vets wouldn't make much sense from a leadership perspective.

Why would you think this? We have no idea out of these guys who is going to wind up any good anyway. The idea of it being a disaster is overblown to me. Even under the best of circumstances first round QBs work out 50% of the time. None of these guys is a Luck or Elway type. I am sure Beane and his staff are doing extensive work on these guys. If they see a guy they feel they have to have I see them moving up to get him. And then all you can do is hope it works out. To use your terminology, what would be a bigger "disaster"? Using a ton of picks to move up and get your top guy, and not have him pan out? Or getting say the 4th guy you like, saving picks, and not have him work out? It's a gigantic crap shoot when all is said and done.

I don't see it myself, but Arians does have a little more experience in the field.

Where would you cap things? If one game is enough to cut a guy, why not one half? One quarter? How about the minute you make a bad play you get cut? You' d have to expand rosters to about 200 players but it would apparently make wishes of some fans come true. A young QB needs time to develop. Huh. Never would have thought of that. We'll see what he does next preseason and if he isn't improving he may lose his job.

Then don't renew. Get over yourself. One unsubstantiated report about Cousins and all of a sudden it's they're not getting a QB. Beane has said in a number of occasions a QB is a priority. See what he does and quit looking for excuses to blindly bash them. Exactly. And again I encourage everyone to read the recent article on Cousins in si. He is all about process, and reading it all I could think was how much in sync he'd be with McD

Maybe the agent is trying to drive the price up

We will see what happens. He'll get overpaid, as every QB in the league not named Brady or Rogers do.

I look at it as if we're playing poker. If I'm holding a solid hand, I don't try to draw to a higher hand and sacrifice the hand I have. So if (a perhaps big if) we can get Cousins, that's a solid hand. Trying to draw to a higher hand by trading a bunch of picks for a kid that may or may not make it loses me chips in the long run. It just comes down to how you feel about the guys in this draft. Too many people here keep harping on how we haven't drafted a guy high and it's time to o so. That's not the point. It's drafting the right guy, not just drafting a guy. If there was a Luck or a guy like that, I'd bee all in on trading as many picks as needed to move up. But does anyone seriously think Darnold or Rosen or Allen are that guy? I sure don't.