BullBuchanan

Would have really liked him.

The Chad Pennington that won CPOY twice becuase he needed science to build him a new shoulder?

This is hilariously bad. if you're going to sign Justin Fields, you might as well just take the cheapest guy you can find and spend the rest of the money building up your trenches and then draft 5 QBs.

Life gets in the way of my TBD posts sometimes. It's on my list of things to remedy.

Oh man, I was going to post this is who the Bills would target yesterday! I would have looked like a fortune teller 😅 Except that I figured they'd target him because he would be a cheap option. I thought an offer would be 3 years for $12M total. Right now this looks like a crazy overpay unless they know something he hasn't put up ont he stat sheet.

The Mahomes contract actually makes a ton of sense to me. They signed a 10 year deal and locked him up the rest of his career at the QB money from 4 years ago and the restructuring is going to give them a 2020 cap hit in 2028. If they did that with Allen, I'd be all for it. I just want to see moves that give the team advantages to get better It seems like we're still over the cap, and with our current roster, we haven't talented enough to win. I don't love that combo. Of course they'll get under, but it seems like we passed on the marque additions at WR and DE. That makes me think they disagree with the notion that they need an infusion of talent, and instead they believe their lack of postseason success is a fixable problem with the talent currently on the roster. To me that's very, very concerning.

Cool, glad it's finally being acknowledged after nearly 10 pages of people claiming otherwise. Agreed. I want Allen to be our QB for the rest of his career, I just would have expected a proper extension. Isn't the whole point of a long term contract that ideally you start to reap the rewards of inflation on the back half of as money gets cheaper? If you're not getting that benefit what's the point? Would have made more sense to me to give him a 4-6 year extension at something life $65m/yr that takes him near the end of his career. Now we're paying him more this year and we have to do it all over again in 4-5 years.

Yesterday his average annual contract through 2028 was $43M. Today that same contract now costs $55M. Help me find the "discount" there.

What discount? They paid him $100M a year for his 2 year extension.

Right, I just don't understand effectively giving him $100M a year for 2 years when he had 4 years left at a much cheaper rate. Seems like the team didn't really benefit from this deal and it was just a flat out raise.

I don't get this deal. They're calling it a 6 year extension, but it's really just a 2 year $200M extension. How does that make sense? Why not do an actual six year extension?

I wouldn't have supported a contract like that at all for any DE. The Browns spending $76M on two players just to be one of the worst teams in the league is bananas.

I hope so. I just think our Dline needs its two best players to be guys not currently on the roster if we want to be able to make that final step in January & February. I would have loved a guy like Clowney making $10M as our #2 DE, and use that extra money to acquire someone like Dexter Lawrence or a premier EDGE.

They probably either believe that because they aren't SB contender, or they're glad we did it to ensure we don't become one.

And that will keep happening as long as we can't get to the QB.

We've gotten more than anyone ever thought possible out of Benford, Hamlin,Lewis and Ingram and Dane Jackson before them - all 6th, 7th, and UDFAs. They're look just as effective back there against elite teams, if not better, than when we had prime Tre White.

I agree that stopping the run is important, but finding those guys is a lot easier, and historically a lot cheaper, than finding guys that can sack the QB. I really like having a guy like Rousseau on a rookie deal or somewhere around $10M/yr. The opportunity cost of paying him pass rusher money is that now you have to pray you find an all-pro EDGE in the draft when you're going to be at a disadvantage. I would have rather went after a guy like Garret and then drafted a Rousseau replacement which would have been far easier.

McDermott's specialty is maximizing DBs. There's no way I'd pay a DB top money when we've been able to effectively turn day 3 picks and UDFAs into competent players. Spend that money on the trenches.

Did I say that? Why? he has 4.5 less sacks total over the last 4 years and one less forced fumble. Rousseau is clearly a tier above him, but you're paying an extra 325% for that extra tier. Crosby meanwhile is making like 60% more than Rousseau, and that's including diminishing returns for premium players.

How is it a team friendly deal? They paid a DE who has never eclipsed 8 sacks 20 million US dollars. If they signed him to the deal Bernard got, that would be team friendly. AJ Epenesa is almost as useful in the passing game, and we signed him for 6m vs 20m.

there are 30 other teams with zero super bowls too?

$20M for a guy whose primary skill set is stopping the run in 2025 and a guy who you can guarantee will be AWOL when you need him most? C'mon.

I guess they're gonna try running it back for the 6th time.

Stefon Diggs, Amari Cooper, and Curtis Samuel having their worst stretch of games as pros isn't a tell? How about Dalton Kincaid regressing to be one of the most useless receiving options on team? Brady has done two things really well. He's gotten the run game going (helped significantly by our OL improving and James Cook getting strong enough to break arm tackles), and he successfully coached Josh to be smart with the football and take what the defense gives you. He's still as far from an offensive mastermind as an OC could be, imo.

Except an onside kick actually makes sense in the context of the game,a s every kickoff features a live ball. A 4th and 15 onside kick makes the NFL look like some arena league.