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we've had plenty of poor DL signings, but Addison is frequently thrown under the bus here and I just find it weird. Especially so given how hard Hughes dropped off from when he was getting 10 sacks a year back in 2014.

Diggs was a good player on a favorable contract. I give Beane all the credit in the world for that one. Of course his cap is way up now, but we had an out if he didn't work out. Andrews may have been a UDFA, but he's still making half of what Morse does. when you pay a guy like Megatron or Donald, does it really matter or not if you drafted them? Maybe they're more willing to pay on a bad team, but if you're giving them market rate, how is it actually helping you?

There will be plenty of new Jake Fromms to choose from this year who will make rookie minimum. There's no need to go get one that has pee stains on him. I say this as someone who loved drafting him.

The toughest part is I don't blame Beane for his drafts here. Counting on drafting elite players is pretty impossible. How often is the best player in a draft taken #1? once every 10 years or so? And that's arguably the easiest spot because the only one impacting your selection is you. The bust rate for 1rst round players is incredibly high and it only gets worse from there. The worst part about the draft is when you do actually hit, you often can't afford to keep the player you struck gold on. The best case scenario is that you get a player that outplays his contract for 3 years, and if you have a couple of them doing that, you may be able to make a deep run. By the time year 3 of their deal comes around though, you're either dealing with a big money extension or a holdout. I would much rather deal those 1rst round picks for proven talent on favorable contracts, go out and spend the money on the players that have proven they can play, and then use the draft to keep your depth chart cost controlled, so you aren't making a guy that sees 40% of your team's snaps the 13th highest cap hit on the team. Aside from that, I believe it's important to find players who play above their contracts. The Patriots have been doing this for years. David Andrews has made $15M over his 7 years in the league. Over the same 7 years, Mitch Morse has made $38.5M. I would want to retire as a Bill if I were him too.

I don't get the hate for Addison. He still had 7 sacks this year and was a 9-11 sack per year guy when we signed him.

In 4 years and 41 draft picks, it's happened once so far. Twice if you want to count Wyatt Teller. Personally, I'd prefer to forget that one.

Maybe the most accurate description of Beane I've ever read.

There are better fits.

This is a win for us. Beane just got a free pass to make a better move.

The money we're giving this guy is insane. He's making more than Phillips got.

it wasn't that long ago that Jason Verrett was being talked about as a top corner in the league, but it was 3 season-ending injuries ago. I'd take a cheap flier though.

The folks who think we lost the SB because we lost to the Chiefs are making wayyy too many assumptions. It's pretty disrespectful to a Bengals team that beat the Chiefs, who beat us, to think we would have walked all over them. It's even more disrespectful to a Rams team, who beat the Bengals, who beat the Chiefs, who beat us, to say the same. We weren't that close to winning the SB this year - at least not in any way that didn't require 2 ghost victories in addition to the Chiefs game. Our loss to the Chiefs is undoubtedly because we had less difference makers. How could it not be? The game didn't need to come down to a single play. With better players on the defensive side of the ball we could have stopped them any number of times, but we didn't. We didn't have those players, so instead it came down to the smallest of margins. If we played that game 100 times, we definitely win some, but I don't think we're beating them over 50% of the time. They can simply do things we can't, as could the Bengals, as could the Rams. Now, the Bengals holes were too great for them to overcome, but they still made it a 3 point game with a roster that wasn't anywhere near as complete. Regarding "why don't the best teams win it every year", see my next post about the Pats dynasty.

This is bizarre. I was more than happy to let him walk at projected rate, but for $4M/per I would have been ok with him being the first guy off the bench. Maybe we didn't offer him anything.

it's the goal, but you can't really expect it. The best you can expect is to be in contention most years. Winning it all takes a bit of luck in addition to being talented enough to do it. You could argue that we aren't talented enough to do it yet, and that we'd require more luck than most to win. That's my particular stance. Beane needs to do more, McD needs to do more. If they got better and still didn't win it all, I wouldn't blame then though, and I'd let the band stay together forever. The New England Patriots went 10 years between Super Bowl wins with the greatest QB, Coach, and dynasty the game has ever seen - including with a team that went undefeated until they hit the wall in the SB.

I'm also in this camp. I'd like to believe you can find a guy that can do what McKissic does as a UDFA or on a vet minimum type deal. I have no idea how fast he is, but he looks quite unimpressive in his highlights. He hasn't played in great offenses, but he's also never made an above average impact. I'd rather have 1 star like Jones that can throw a team on his back when it matters most, more than a team full of jobbers that can beat poor teams through depth and fail against superior competition. We saw it all in the playoffs this year. The Bengals have massive holes and they were able to get tot he show based on performance of their top-end. The Chiefs have also been doing this since before Pat Mahomes got there. The Bills are built a bit too "polite" with a bunch of hard workers that don't possess what it takes to get them where they need to go. In order for us to win a Super Bowl with the roster as-is, I think we'll have to get pretty lucky. We're good enough to get back to the championship a certain percentage of the time, but teams like the Chiefs, Bucs and Rams have shown what it takes to get the job done, and we're trying to tell them all that they're wrong and we know best. I don't feel great about that.

I would have much rather had McKinnon.

This is a horrifically bad take. So unless the players they draft turn out to be studs, the approach is wrong?

If we sign Bobby Wagner, otherwise it's doubtful.

The best thing about playing for the Jaguars is that Miami is about 5 hours away.

all due respect, but there's no way this is anywhere close to true. Last year PFF ranked us 14th, and I can't possibly see how we improved there. I think Edmunds was worse this year than he was in 2020.

No excuse for him either, though at least he's played well during points of his career - often for long stretches where he looked like one of the best players on our defense. That's something I've never been able to say of Edmunds. Of the two, i definitely prefer Milano.

That's way too much money to pay a backup LB. Edmunds is not a player we should be looking to keep at any price as our starting MLB. He's a liability and a key part of a defense that couldnt stop KC when it mattered most. He defines anti-clutch.

I figure Diggs gets around 20M which would put him among all the top guys. This deal is stupidity to a Haynesworth level, and I imagine most clubs will balk at this being the normal for a 3rd tier player.

looks like the Jags got him: https://www.profootballrumors.com/2022/03/jaguars-to-sign-christian-kirk

Beane talked about adding speed. Landry is the opposite of that. I'd rather just keep Beasley (and I don't want to do that), for what I'd have to imagine is similar money.