MJS

I only care about the football games, to be honest.

The Clemson thing makes sense.

The playoffs are a one-and-done scenario. You can be the more talented, better coached team and still get upset in one game. That's what makes the NFL exciting. Get to the playoffs and you can win it all if you go on a nice little run. The best team in the NFL does NOT always win the Superbowl, in fact, often they don't. If you think luck has nothing to do with it, you are just wrong. Sometimes you fumble and the ball bounces right back to you. Sometimes a ball is tipped and bounces to the ground instead of into the hands of a defender. Sometimes injuries occur to key players. Sometimes inferior players can step it up to perform at a high level for a big game or for a big play, then disappear again. Sometimes the best players in the league have an off day. There are an infinite amount of variables, some of them you can control and some you can't. It it were like other sports and you play 7 games to determine a winner, we would see a vastly different outcome in championship wins. The better teams rise to the top with a larger sample size. But that's part of what I like about the NFL. Any team can put together one game to beat a superior opponent.

I don't know why "blame" needs to be a part of the conversation. There is this team called the Buffalo Bills that I root for to win. Sometimes they do well, sometimes they don't. Recently they have been doing very well and seem to be on the doorstep of winning a championship if they can tweak a few things and add a bit more talent, and play better in certain situations in the playoffs. I hope they can get there. I don't find the need to point blame at anyone.

I hear the Panthers as a destination a lot, but why would Watson want to go there? He has a no trade clause and the Panthers are in the midst of a rebuild.

Beasley was hurt. That's why he was avoiding contact.

He's been talking about all of these guys for months now. And this board talks about literally every single free agent, trade candidate, and draft pick possible, even the ones that don't make any sense.

And his stats have dropped off the past couple of years. I want an elite pass rusher too, but I'm not sure Mack is the one we want.

Can you tell me which teams in the NFL don't have a handful of core special teamers?

That's a pipeline we'll want to keep full. Keep bringing in young guys to develop. We're going to pay Diggs big money. We might not be able to afford another big contract in that position group.

You aren't claiming to be a QB guy with all this playing and coaching experience as a basis for your criticism.

Well that's fine, but it is 100% certain that Feliciano is way better than you, so I'm not sure how you can say that he sucks.

What does it mean to be an oline guy?

I don't think you understand the lack of talent in the NFL for olinemen. Feliciano will be starting in the NFL in the near future. There are plenty of teams who have much less at the guard position.

He just got injured too much and he is not starter quality, but he is a good backup.

The other issue is he has been making $18 million a year. I doubt he would get that much now, given his age, but I imagine a team will be willing to pay him $15 million, maybe? He has a ring already, so I wonder what his priorities are: winning another ring, or making more money?

They are going through a massive rebuild. There's no reason to keep him. By the time they are finished rebuilding he will be retiring.

It's a 5th year option. You use the 5th year option for two reasons: to lock up a good player for another year while you work out an extension, or to lock up a player for another year of evaluation who you aren't 100% sure about yet. Edmunds is fine. He works. He gets the job done. Moving on from him without having an immediate upgrade is not an option, which is why you take the 5th year option. Bringing in Wagner would be a huge upgrade.

You mess up every post, but nobody has fired you yet.

This is what I was going to say. Russel Wilson was hurt for a bunch of games.

Gotta say Bobby Wagner now that he is available.

Hey, I'd totally take him. I have no idea how much he would cost. He is a clear upgrade from Edmunds. Edmunds is not as bad as everyone claims, but Wagner is a really good player. He's 31 so we would only get a couple more years out of him, though. I defend Edmunds a lot, but he has clearly been an average player so far in his career. He is a physical specimen with high upside, but he has not lived up to that potential yet. A lot of people claim he sucks. He doesn't. But I would not argue with anyone who says he is average. So far, he has had one above average year and the rest have been average or below average.

He's the type of player who needs to go get as big of a contract as he possibly can. Maybe if there isn't a lot of interest he'll re-sign with the Bills.

Every single year in free agency. Good players get paid like elite players. Average players get paid like good players.

He is good depth. Sad to see him go.