BigDingus

Reminds me of everything else these days... Less color, less personality. Everything is either white, black, silver these days. I look at cars on the road, and almost everything looks the same. Interior of everyone's house looks the same. Restaurants & other businesses are changing logos to make them less interesting. I don't even "hate" these designs, I just look at them & think "yeah, guess I should've seen that coming."

That spelling makes it sound almost comfortable....a head cushion of sorts!

And yet they finished 11-6 & made the playoffs. Not everyone gets to play in the AFC East. They'll be better this year, while the Vikings are likely to be worse. Jordan Love was playing injured. Now they just added a star pass rusher. Their rookie WR Golden should also be very good. You may not think much of them, but I believe GB will win the division or just barely be edged out by Detroit. Either way, they'll be good.

I think it's a bit too early to tell. It's heavily dependent on what they get out of those draft picks. But the Packers believe they're in serious contention, and it's likely the Vikings take a step back this year. They should be competing with Detroit for the NFC West crown, and getting pressure on the QB has proven to be a game changer in the post-season. We tried to take a swing with Von, but it he was just too old by that time. If we had the cap space, I'm sure Beane would've considered that contract too.

I really hope next year there's a way to get us in a cap position next year where we could afford these kind of season-changing deals. The Cowboys were willing to trade within the NFC, against a team they play this year, and get rid of a player that's 3 years younger than TJ Watt. The contract is huge, but just like with QB contracts, it'll only look better 4 years from now.

Well damn, I was wrong. I was convinced Jerry would hold out & force him to stick around. Sucks that we didn't have the cap space to handle this...

Given all the jokes in this thread, nobody is going to believe me, but I've brought this up before. My coworker lives across the street from Micah's girlfriend & runs into him at least twice a week. You'd think his girl would go over to his house, but no, Micah goes & visits her place all the time. Only reason I'm bringing this up is because my coworker just saw him again last night. They only ever exchange small talk, and once he autographed a football, but just wanted to point out that Micah is still here in Frisco last I heard. It's also very unlikely Micah is allowed to visit other teams anyway, especially with Jerry acting the way he is. He's going to make Micah play out this contract or agree to the extension terms Jerry already offered.

I don't think Allen is much better as a downfield passer. He rarely hits anyone in stride, and most years he hasn't been very accurate on deep balls. Sure, Mahomes isn't throwing downfield much either, but I would say neither are very good in that area lately. Mahomes has that Brady pocket presence, where he's extremely elusive & has great awareness. Only difference is he can also scramble when he needs to. Josh is better as a legit run threat, and I think he's also better at making the best of broken plays. The biggest advantage Mahomes has is 1) Andy Reid & 2) he's great at the dink & dunk, finding the open guy who can then take a short pass into a long gain. I do think it's a bit silly how much people downplay Mahomes though. He's not putting up the numbers he used to, but despite that, he's still putting up basically the exact same passing numbers as Josh is. From a passing perspective, his "down years" are basically identical to Josh.

Probably going to be a Benford situation where Strong or Hancock end up being great DBs as later picks. However, I'm just going to hope it's Hairston, because damn do we need one of these 1st round picks to finally become a major impact player!

I thought there were only 20 seasons of the show, including this one?

None. If anything, the current roster still looks pretty thin on talent, so they could've cut down to 42 without losing much. But damn do I wish there was a better backup QB option than Mitch... I have zero confidence he can come in & hold down the fort in the case that Josh gets injured.

People are saying "wait 6 weeks & see what happens." That makes sense given we don't have any better options, but given he's already had the entirety of training camp + last season, I doubt another 6 weeks is going to dramatically improve his prospects. But he's on the roster now, people get injured, and we don't have any better options, so no need to cut him just for the hell of it. There's probably not much interest there, so what we'd get from a trade would be pretty worthless.

I'm not overreacting. They definitely don't WANT to have to use him. But I also don't think this shows much confidence in Bishop (or the safety position in general). If anything, maybe Poyer can come in & help teach these guys what an All Pro did to be successful.

Crazy that the Lions have that kind of success with so much cap space still available... and we're dead last in the league lol

Sir, it's "C'est la vie," meaning "that's life."