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  1. we now have two DEs on heavy incentive contracts (von obv, but marino reported that AJE can hit 10 a year vs 6 if he hits game and sack numbers), and groot who is looking for his first big contract too. part of me thinks most players should be on incentive based contracts, but the reality is stats that trigger payouts don't always reflect quality of play, and these guys take significant injury risks, so it's not exactly a totally fair situation. I think this is quite unique in pro football. does anyone else recall players with massive incentive based pay, or multiple ones on a single team in a single season before?
  2. we have 4 de's (kingsly, miller, aje, groot) and 2 DTs (oliver, jones) on the entire roster. we'll go with 8 or 9, i suspect 8. we'll add like 4 or 5 guys via street FA guys and the draft. i think we spend a top 4 round pick on a DT, maybe as high as 2nd, and then there will be a fight between who's left to prove to the FO that we should run with 9. if we sign another reasonable DT, like the one mentioned above, i think it guarantees at least one trade up in the draft. FS, WR, backup OT and interior OL, and any kind of super high RAS guy they like will be the draft picks. could also see a DE get drafted if they have upside and play special teams. if we don't sign another kinda starter level guy, then we will draft as many as 3 DL IMO.
  3. i read this in a backhanded way, where the implication is that mcd can win after we fire him, long into the future. i chortled.
  4. 7mm 1y w an option to make it 2 years for like 5-6 more, effectively. that's cheap and basically gets paid out by what we save trading bates. they like him and rapp, so it makes sense (both deals)
  5. before he got hurt, T bernard was filling up the stat sheet like a monster. douglas had sick stats for us for how short he was with us, he looked the part too. oliver had top level DT stats. allen speaks for himself, and the sack/win rate % for our Oline shows them to be a top tier unit. cook had as mentioned top 3 YFS, and he kinda didn't play for the dorsey part of the season. not to mention Taron who was voted 2nd all pro, and milano who in the prior season was an all pro. im not saying these guys are elite (except josh, who i fully think is the goat) but in terms of observed performance they were in the proximity of the category at least. we have to fill in a starting safety, find some way to (continue to) rush the passer, and get another playmaker (a real one) in the passing game on O and then we have the roster we need to have won it all the past 3 seasons. on D, we have to smarten up and not become total pushover goofs in the playoffs, injuries basically made us crap out vs kc, but my boy dorian came in and showed us aj klein shoulda been fishing, not playing.
  6. my read is we run a scheme that takes away the big long stuff and is open to being misdirected and eaten up underneath (see all of our playoff losses vs reg season stats) so i think our brain trust figures they can scheme decent guys up to run the system, but need play making ability because if we don't make plays we just get ground up. rapp seems to be out of place in coverage but has a green light and brings some lumber, so i suppose they figure he's going to improve in the former, but keep the latter in his second season w us. our safety play was garbage in the kc home game, save one lucky hit by poy to get that turnover.
  7. i'd extend (2 years i recon) and spread that cap hit out.
  8. mccoach obv hates starting or even playing rookies on D. there have been a couple exceptions, but that's the theme. based on that, and the fact that i presume tre is gone and douglas, elam, and benford will be getting a ton of burn, we have a fairly young secondary. i'd expect a rookie safety paired with poyer (maybe on a cut, maybe on a restructure, i dunno) to be the most likely outcome. similarly on the DL, i think we sign at least 2 FA vets (maybe even 3) and draft 2-3 guys and play the vets more, at least until it is blindingly obvious that the rookies are better than the vets.
  9. if one of the big 3, or if the bills see it as a big 4 or something, are there at 12, im quite certain that BBB will at least kick the tires on what it would cost.
  10. the 2025 savings matter, contracts and dead cap can be shifted there. this is the quintessential getting younger and cheaper. they are looking at places to avoid putting out contracts that don't get value. the obvious ones are tre, miller, knox and to a much lesser extend milano (bad value last year, as he was hurt, and is often hurt, but is a legit stud ow). but every little helps, and saving 5 sticks on a guy in 2025 who they think doesn't help the team more than the RFA they have on the roster now opens things up. we are going to have to put some cap money into the dline. maybe draft 2 or even more guys, but we have like 4 guys on the roster, and need 7 or 8 at a bare minimum. we will not be having 2 and 3 rookies on the DL in games on a consistent basis, so either throw money at d'quan (i dunno, older and hurt might scare them off) or some other 1 tech, and we need another back up 1 tech, and a back up 3 tech, and at least 1 more DE too. that money has to come from somewhere.
  11. so, does anyone have the specifics of how much of a jerk or whatever he was?
  12. this and his wiggle and how hard he drives to get yards makes me think a lot of prime beez when i watch shakir. beez also got wiped by good man coverage. i think we need a man killer, big fast w hands. route running is a good plus, but i want a dk metcalf type who can run 3 or 4 total routes but still open things up and put the fear of god into the d. if dbs have to turn and run vs josh, he can hit someone about a mile away, and can run w the best of them too.
  13. i'd trade him if the cap hit wasn't huge and we got tremendous value. but the cap hit is huge, and he's a great player at a lower valued position, so the value we'd get for him would very close to certainly wouldn't be huge so doesn't seem like much there. to me the greatest ability is availability, so while he's one of our best players when he's healthy, he misses enough games to be a concern. that said, he's prolly worth his contract plus to us so what would you trade him for? another expensive player or picks which may or may not work out?
  14. i understand that this won't happen, but i'd much rather college sports were pure amateurism with actual students playing the sport and we had some minor league football for the (vast majority) of "student athletes" who are much heavier on the athlete side.
  15. i like ras a gul, and i hope we keep him, but the monster in the room is he's wrong side of 30 and just got hurt. i think they off him an extension w some savings, and he takes it or walks.
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