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Hoecht will probably be moved around. But his base position would be Defensive End, not Defensive Tackle. He was brought in to Pass Rush from the Edge.

Except he's perpetually injured. He's never played a full season. The Texans signed him to a 1 year, 4.75m prove it deal last season... and then he went on IR after the first game. Ended up playing 6 games all year, no starts.

Back at 1 year, 2 million. Yikes. Talk about a rough league assessment when testing the market.

And on the other point - if they decided to release Leonard Floyd before they had Joey Bosa on so much as an agreement (when they could have had him pen to paper, as he was released) - they were going to do that regardless. That was also coincidental. But the "story" of them looking dumb by cutting him because they thought they had Bosa locked up is more fun. Albeit surely inaccurate.

Cornerback is the last big thing to do before the Draft. Need replacements for Rasul Douglas and now Kairi Elam's roster spot as well.

No. He's not a reporter. Just a follow for follow fan. Any account that you can't find any credentials for and has a 16,000+ follow count v. 17,000 followers is an immediate red flag.

I think that would depend on what his market is and/or what the plan is with Benford's extension. Cornerbacks cost a fortune this year. And I feel like Alexander would top the list. I don't know that they'd pay what Alexander will cost and pay what Benford will cost at the same time. I'd be here for it though.

For the millionth time, that's a bs account. Not a real reporter. Just go through their other tweets. You'll see them announce deals that haven't happened. Doesn't mean we couldn't sign him, as he's still available (although I question his fit with a McDermott team). But there's been nothing to say that we are actually trying to make that happen.

I love these trade ideas for the top superstars in the sport. Like "Maybe we can get Ja'Marr Chase"? I bet there's fans on other boards that say things like "any possibility we can get Josh Allen?". Even amongst the players who are talked about being available for trade or request a trade - more often than not they aren't traded (see Myles Garrett and, to date, Trey Hendrickson). There hasn't been anything about Bosa. He's on Year 2 of a 5 year, 170m extension. A lot of these moves you're seeing San Fran do is so that they can hold on to Bosa, McCaffrey, and pay Purdy. They're not trading him. He's the face of their franchise and the best DE in Football. Even if he was made available - we just paid Greg Rousseau an 80m extension. We just signed Joey Bosa for 12.6m. We just signed Michael Hoecht to a 24m 3 year deal. We wouldn't then pick up a 35m a year Defensive End and give up the insane amount of picks it would take, that we'll need to use at other positions, after already addressing Defensive End in Free Agency and Extensions. If we were going to do something like that, we wouldn't have made all 3 of those moves.

This says to me that he didn't have a market. It doesn't make much sense for either side. I thought if anyone could use a change of scenery and a fresh start, it was Damar - after everything that hangs over his head here. And we definitely want to either start Cole Bishop or upgrade. With us bringing him back and signing Forrest - it tells me he didn't have any takers and playing for a roster spot here was his best shot at sticking. And I don't think that's guaranteed.

Oh, i'm sorry. I was looking quickly and missed that you were talking about Drafting a Running Back and not the trade value for Cook 😄

Agreed. I see a 4th being the ceiling for a Cook trade. Given that he's a Running Back, on the last year of his deal, and he's publicly stated he wants top market value dollar.

It's quite possible it was just to do things we've already done. We were over the cap coming in. We did the Josh extension which saved us probably around 11.8m. The Rousseau extension saved us 9.8m. The Von release saved us 8.4m The Oliver restructure saved us 10m. The Sam Martin release saved 2m. The Elam trade saved us 2.5m. And the Shakir and Bernard extensions saved us about 2m combined. So all of that probably put us around or just above 40m under the cap. But then we signed Joey Bosa, Josh Palmer, Larry Ogunjobi, Michael Hoecht, and Darrick Forrest. And re-signed Ty Johnson, Reggie Gilliam, Damar Hamlin, Ryan Vandemark, Alec Anderson, and Reid Ferguson. Without knowing the exact terms of how much we saved and how much the cap hits in are for each of them in Year 1 (or total for the 1 year contracts) - we probably don't have a *ton* of space left, even with the Oliver restructure. But maybe we do. EIther option wouldn't surprise me. That said, there are other things that we could do to save more. A McGovern extension could save 4.2m. A Dion Dawkins restructure could save us another 9.8m. And a Dawson Knox restructure could save us another 6.3m. But as we've seen in the past, just because he can pull all those levers doesn't mean that he'll do them all.

Whoever doesn't get Wilson or Rodgers will sign Jameis Winston as a bridge.

Oh, i'll take anything. Even if it was just the future 7th - that would have been fine with me. It's just to say that people who are like "wow - that's a lot!" probably aren't realizing it's (possibly) literally the 1st pick in the 6th Round for one of the picks at the bottom of the 5th.

It sounds like a lot, but i'd be interested to see where the 5th and 6ths are that were moved. We have the 1st pick in the 6th Round. So if we moved that for one of Dallas' comps - it really is like nothing.

Then you must be the type of guy who looks at a player who looks good at the Combine and thinks "Top 10 Pick!". He was a complete projection. He played a total of 21 games in college. Had one season where he had 646 yards and another where he had 569 yards. Great physical traits and of course ended up being a stud. But he was the epitome of boom/bust. He wasn't a Top 10 Pick.

He went 64th and we should have took him at 9? Sure, with the benefit of hindsight. Without it, Metcalf at 9 was insane take.

So now we're negating our best WR, that we just handed a big long term extension to, and wanting him on the field less, bc you want another famous name?

I was referring to this video where he specifically says "I can't handle the cold up there" to a Bills fan saying he should come to Buffalo...

Rumors were based on a fake "insider". Doesn't mean it couldn't happen. Although I'd agree a guy who is very good in coverage, but much less than that as a tackler is a great fit for a McDermott team. But there's no smoke to that fire. As for the poll question itself, I'll trust anyone that McDermott will think work, whether that's a big name FA, an under the radar FA, or a Draft Pick. One thing I will not accept is Rasul Douglas. He was atrocious last season. He'll be 31 this year and I think it's very likely he hit the wall. I'd take a return of Dane Jackson and a 2nd Round Pick over Douglas.

It's funny. I was just about to say it's wild to me how this re-signing has way more likes than the other three pinned signings combined.

If Trey Hendrickson ends up being traded, then that would be a fair thing to critique. But until he is, I'm assuming with Defensive End being one of the most picked through positions in Free Agency early by teams with needs that Cinci isn't interested in dealing him. They've got a ton of money (probably bc they don't like paying people). So if they wanted to do Chase, Higgins, and Hendrickson - they probably could. Even if they wanted to do only two of them, my guess is Higgins would be the odd man out first.

You're right. I was wrong. Productive wasn't the right wording. It was that his pass rush win rate last season was equal to Sweat's best year.