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I'm not convinced Hyde is done, either. And there's still the Simmons one-year option floating around. Completely agree.

Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the circumstances leading up to the collision. If the DA can prove that he was boozing/smoking, and then driving erratically immediately thereafter, then he might have a problem with any crime analogous to what’s called common law DWI in New York State. It’s not unheard of for something like this to get resolved through a plea to a misdemeanor, or to multiple misdemeanors. If that’s your definition of special treatment, then . . . We simply may disagree there. I don’t think it’s outrageous to suggest no jail time for something like this. Based on what little I know he probably deserves a little alone time, but a big fine, probation with some onerous terms (no drinking, IID, no drugs, no excessive speeding tix, maybe even a curfew), and perhaps some community service probably does the trick, too. The problem for Rice remains that there’s a lot of people looking at this case now, and he has a raft of pending felonies that the DA may not wish to resolve through a plea to a misdemeanor. So this is going to take a little work.

Yes and no. Yes, they probably get a few more breaks than would others. But when something egregious happens (like this), or when the star athlete “big times” an officer, they get treated just like everyone else. Maybe a little more strictly, actually, because the eyes of the public then are upon them. For example, last year around here a certain mercurial star player acted like a jerk one too many times and found out the hard way that he’s no different from everyone else. Yeah, that’s gonna take some work to get to slap on a wrist territory. It’s not impossible, but it’s an issue. Particularly in view of the fact that there are a lot of “eyes” now on this case.

No. I didn't watch it. Once I realized how much better then NBA is than college basketball, the college game was ruined for me.

I agree with all of this, but I'll add that he had his own nonsense going on last year and he was a tiresome distraction to a lot of people in the building. Death by a signifiant number of paper cuts. I feel like I'm constantly getting new stories about this guy. It was time for him to go.

I think they moved in large part because they got sick of his nonsense (scab-scratching with Josh, storming out on McDermott, chronic lateness, refusing to enter the game against NE, idiot assistant arguing over bringing his makeup bag into the locker room, etc.), and in part because they'd rather have a cost-controlled 1 or 1A WR with Josh getting big bucks and the talent pool in this draft. It's the way to go. So I'm with you. Maybe OBJ on a reasonable deal after June 1, the rookie(s) we draft, and any we go.

I’m not at all involved with these guys but, from what I know, there’s truth to what I believe to be Diggs’s sentiment that Josh had to get his act together in 2023. That said, there’s also truth to the point that Diggs acted like a supreme a-hole this year. In the end, it doesn’t matter. Diggs is gone and on we go.

I look at the KC playoff game and keep thinking if we had one bigger receiver I’d take the layups all day long and let him beat on those corners and let the corners make the tackle. Deep stuff comes form that - wear them down, get them creeping, and hit the shot (unless it’s to Diggs, who dropped the shot it took them the whole game to set up). But your points about having ann intermediate or deep game are valid. We have probably the only quarterback in the league who can hit Diggs in Detroit on Thanksgiving. And that Shakir route that missed against KC in the playoffs is a throw that most wouldn’t even attempt. So there’s a logic in leaning into that too. I just want to have the ability to play and punish through the short game if we’re going to see the steady diet of two high again next year.

Well said.

Yes. Exactly right.

This. All day long. That’s my beef with 13 seconds.

I get the concern about turning him into a ball control passer, but I wonder if that’s the way to trend a bit more given how defenses play him. We’ve seen a ton of two-high shell, and maybe the approach to that is to run the ball (Cook is dynamic) and get it to guys who can break a few tackles (Shakir) or do something on a bubble. I completely agree with the point that we cannot abandon a deep game. I’m also of the mind that YAC is overblown, and that if we have guys catching the ball 15 yards downfield with their backs to the end zone I’m totally find with that. But that type of passing game probably isn’t going to be available with the way teams are playing us. So I’m all about getting guys who can break a tackle or run a corner over on completions underneath the shell.

Solid point on davis. They could have kept him if they wanted. That money was workable. But they simply decided that stuff like the Denver drop wasn’t worth the cap space.

Sulking is such a perfect word.

I don’t think they nuke the nominal #1 WR over a very recent tweet. This has been brewing for awhile. Trust me when I say that this guy turned into a supreme a-hole. I have no doubt that Josh signed off on this. In the end, they just got tired of his BS and dumped him. They couldn’t do it after his tantrum in minicamp, but they kept a lid on it and him and got value for him as soon as they could. Adios to a guy who didn’t want to be here.