Kelly the Dog

Yep. That is why before every time I call jw a weasel, I first look for another person who agrees that he is a weasel, which doesn't take long. jw

In lieu of the estimates of $60-80m that Kaep just got in settling the case against the NFL, it's pretty brilliant of him to be asking for $20m a season to the AAF. He can then argue if no one pays him that he could have signed for $15m, like he was making in the NFL and then get the kind of settlement he did. If some idiot agrees to pay him that, he has even more ammo against the NFL. I guarantee that was part of his representatives equation, and it was really shrewd.

The $60-80m estimate came from officials of NFL teams, they would be in a position to know and have an educated guess. I would bet that number is pretty accurate.

That is not mutually exclusive from what we were talking about and what I was saying. All I was responding to was the fact that Beane and McDermott "knew" none of these guys were good and yet signed, and played and put their prize draft pick with them knowing they all suck. There is not a chance that happened. They thought KB and Zay and Kerley and probably a couple other guys were legitimate NFL players that would produce enough to win some games with a solid defense.

Not a chance they knew that. They thought some of those guys were very good and would produce, and they were wrong. The same way that McDermott thought Peterout was pretty good and would produce and was wrong.

I have said this before but it needs repeating. Every round of every draft by every team in every sport is the exact same dynamic and decision. You look at the top 1-3 overall players on your board at that specific time, then weigh those 1-3 against the top 1-3 players at position of need, and see how much the BPA guys are better than the PON guys, and then take that equation against how many players are left in PONs on the board. There is no such thing EVER as just taking the best player available automatically and there is no such thing EVER as just taking a player based on need. Every GM everywhere every time does the exact same thing. They will come to different conclusions obviously, but there is no such thing as taking the best player available without considering him against those other players. I do agree with your theories on stars and playmakers though.

Yep! And one of them was almost good!

I want a top, plug-in starter OL, and a top plug-in starter WR in this draft, one and two, unless we somehow get a #1 WR through trade or free agency, which seems unlikely. To me, there is a less-of-a-bust chance drafting an OL in R1 and WR2 in R2 than vice versa, although every player drafted in the top two rounds, especially this year, has a bust factor. And if shooting for the stars, a better chance at both becoming studs in that OL R1, then WR R2 order.

They do more. They cannot help themselves.

We need a boatload of help at WR. A veteran with skills is one of the many things we need, and a check-please Garcon is a viable cheap option for that part. We need either a huge FA/trade acquisition or top draft pick rook as a #1, a veteran, plus another young guy with actual skills and production to go along with Foster, Zay, and possibly Duke.

You gotta hand it to Beane, he sure knows how to rile up the fan base for no reason before they understand what might have really happened. I just hope they do not think they have just solved one of the four starting jobs they seem to me and others to need. FWIW, my Jet fan friends do agree that his hand was the main culprit last season and that he isn't entirely awful, which is a glowing recommendation.

Mrs. Maisel is a truly great show. Terrific writing, casting, acting, idea, everything. I really can't imagine anyone watching it close and not liking it.

I played golf with Eugene a bunch of years ago, and I was constantly waiting for him to say something funny, as I find him hilarious a lot of times. He was a very good guy and kidded around with us but never funny, as a lot of these guys aren't in their normal lives. Decent golfer but I wanted him to be hilarious.

I do, too. They are both pretty good in relatively thankless jobs. Benoit can put together some good analysis at times. Thanks for the link.

Andy Benoit? Same thing.

I like these hires. Dorsey should help Josh and there is a lot of QB brain power now between Dorsey, Anderson and Barkley to help Josh. And to think that last year McDermott and Beane thought it was fine to go into the season with Culley and Peterout. It was criminal.

Not that there are an inordinate amount of examples in this specific thread, but several times a year I'm amused by posters who are absolutely appalled and livid that some national or local guy they think and claim is always wrong, predicts a lousy season.

I strongly disagree with this. Watching the games specifically for this, he just didn't get holes. At all. Sure he could have got 1-3 extra yards on a lot of his runs if he just took what he could get, but he never did that. I don't think Shady of any year would have had a substantial more amount of yards. If you count when he had zero hole at all, stopped and reversed his field, and may have had more acceleration in his earlier years to escape the next guy right on him and turn the corner, sure, he would have done that a few more times. But the vast, vast majority of his carries, IMO, he was dead man running, almost immediately. He may have had a substantial hole ten times the entire year.

He could take all of the plays and routes that Jason Croom ran. It's not like Croom is a real TE.

I'll throw shade at them. I just want five of those linemen.

Nice article. Thanks for that. We have no idea what a lot of these guys go through sometimes. Rooting for a guy like this. Hope he can beat the press and get downfield in the NFL. Josh is a good QB for a player like this.

I understand that position, which is what most people here think and that's okay. My position is that he had a fluke game, and he shouldn't be the main backup at all, and that 90% of the posters here are going to say what the hell happened to him the next time he plays. If he plays four games IMO he goes 1-3. We want a guy who has a better chance of going 2-2. Anderson has a better chance. It's not something we can answer now. But even counting that great game, he is 2-5 with 10/18 TD/INT and a 68 rating. That's who he is.

I agree with all of that. I am just saying that if Barkley has to play again in a real game, we are not going to see the Barkley of the Jets game but much, much greater chance of seeing a Peterman-esque game. His problem with the Eagles and with the Bears, and I watched a few of those games, was not inexperience, it was his weak arm. He got away with several in the Jets game.

Both of them are there for the study room and to help Allen. It's a toss up between which one, this coming year, barring injury, will be the backup on gameday. I would bet on Anderson beating out Barkley for that job. Although we have seen McDermott become infatuated with weak-armed practice stars, which may make him choose Barkley. I said over and over last off season that Allen should start day one and that the absolute worst case scenario is that Peterman wows McDermott in practice and preseason because that is when weak armed guys can excel, and that he starts Peterman over Allen. And that is exactly what happened. I'm still not convinced McDermott knows much about offense, which seems crazy. But he did start Peterman twice for no reason, and it took him an entire half season to realize that an NFL team needs speed at WR. Then said publicly, "obviously speed helps."

That's not really the point. And he didn't really play all that well as his two best games were losses when he threw a couple INTs as well as got a bunch of yards. Another downside of him as a backup is in OTAs and camp and preseason, the WRs, TEs and RBs go from catching balls from the hardest thrower in the league to one of the very weakest. That makes the play completely different a lot of times. It's not the worst thing but it doesn't help. Just any average backup QB has a much stronger arm and gets the ball there. He's not good. He has a rag arm. He had a fluke game. If Anderson and Barkley are both on the active roster I imagine Anderson is active on game day and he stinks.