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if they both got tossed from an after hours place, makes me think there might be a first over advantage for dude w the mouse on his eye, and darnold might get in some trouble. if he gets say suspended for 4 games, does he lose his checks for those? given what he makes, and if this guy in the pic can sue him for some money too, this little fisticuff could cost darnold like 5MM plus! that's insane!

if a decent speed rusher somehow falls to us at 30, and we get some big mean ugly for the gut of the d in round 2 or so, and i suppose RB, CB2, and G or TE or whatever later, im calling that a sick draft.

if not having star beside him is the reason he mostly disappeared last season, then oliver isn't that great and star is pretty friggen good. ill say it again because i like to read myself type, but if a player doesn't make players around him better, and instead just reflects whats' there, he's not great and he might not even be good. this makes me not so hot on oliver and edmunds, given how they are our front 7 talent 1st round picks, and just haven't been consistent difference makers.

this is just it. instead of getting a calvin johnson type murder machine wr who can be open while being grabbed, the biggest return to our O with all of the hard to cover WRs and JA17 lacing ropes is getting some kind of real production out fo the RB and TE positions, pass and run. i suppose they are just convinced knox is about to turn a corner, or that new guy the signed is a sound player, but a couple outlets a game to gash the d would be the body shot compliment to the head kick ko's our O swings all day.

the goofiest thing is watson could have just paid for these scenarios to happen. he could get some kind of wrangler to set it up so it seemed legit or whatever his particular paraphilia is, and not hurt these women nor mess up his once shining future. what a sick freak.

well, the fastest impacting/easiest to transition to the nfl positions are RB CB MLB you can get day one starters at those positions all over the draft, w CB being the most valuable position, and thus often the higher pick. im quite sure we won't take an MLB early, so to get a day one starter, we need CB, RB, with a small shot at DL or OG, but i suspect the DL and OG left at 30 will be a cut below the top RB, and possibly below the CB they want (i just assume our FO can spot a DB from a mile away, and if a guy they think is a day one starter is there, i suspect they grab him, maybe even trade up). the above aside, that kinda leaves RB. if we get harris at 30 and he is what he looks like, athletic w good vision and a bruiser, that's a huge huge addition to our O. him on a screen or running against a light box will make it really hard to play d vs the bills. if our blocking soldifies (and it should, given we are bringing everyone back and cody should be healthy and ready) and we get like even average TE production, i think kiper is right that we might be one impact RB from a chip. ill trust the process on this, but i expect to get a starter at RB or TE, and (by the end of the year) CB in the draft. if we get DL (and i think we have to draft a big guy for the middle, but perhaps not first pick) it will just be a rotational guy (as all of ours are) and LB will be a backup anyhow.

GOLD!

well, this draft is oddly important. we've traded up with mixed success (one huge win, one one, one maybe win, a couple losses), but it's clear beane and co like to deal on draft day. if they have their scouting down right, i'll trust them getting what they think is an immediately disruptive edge rusher, which is who i think we'd trade up for. the only other trade up value i can think of, is another tre white level corner who can paste on the other side, letting mccorch play wizard with the front 7 and create pass rush that way. while a pass rusher is the most glaring need, if we can get young tre like production out of a rookie contract, that really is a no brainer. with the rotation we have on DL, although i don't think we we have now fits the bill, we have a shot at manufacturing pass rusher. our cb2 will be on the pitch basically every snap. mega lock down corners on a mcbean D is a scary sight.

like they used to say in drag racing, there is no replacement for displacement. attitude aside, rosen is just physically not nfl material.

if he's cheap watkins can 100% help our team. speed and physical ability fits all shemes. if he catches 30 passes on the year, he'll break a couple, those could win games. having a secret weapon or formation (and you know dabol loves that stuff) for the playoffs or the best teams would be huge. assuming we don't do anything to improve our pass rush (we still need at least one more quality DL in the guts, im assuming Star isn't about to be who he was his first 2 years in the nfl) having one extra gear on O, even if it is monthly and not weekly, might be all we need.

the post in this thread about him being trade bait if it comes up i think has it right. someone's qb is gonna go down in training camp or pre season. when that happens, mitch for a pick or even a player gets very very tempting. still have fromm if the worst case occurs.

im confident we win the division, but these moves make the pats a much better team. at their best, they always had two solid TEs. watson and graham for the first 3 sbs, gronk and murder inc for a minute, and now they have these two guys. i know it's hack at this point, but we really really gotta figure out our TE coverage. hope our DL play improves so we can get back to 2019 form.

i rule nothing out, him trying to get a handy isn't exactly ken winslow jr type deviance, and houston trying to strike out at him isn't impossible. that said, if houston is doing this, it will totally poison the well with him, and quite possible other players as well. maybe there is a morality clause in the contract, and they just want to get out of it?

aside from cap discipline, i think the idea here is it opens the fake punt some w his athleticism, and gives us better results from mid field to pin the enemy back. given how little we punted, it does make sense to save money there. also, we kept mattlewitch, so i think our FO really likes our coverage team, a guy w a bit more accuracy and hang time vs howitzer leg might suit us better.

if not pass rush, i assume we may throw money at TE, RB (if it's a value, i fade it a bit) or just some real stoutness in the gut

that sharp content, it don't stop!!!

not certain i agree with that, but to be honest it comes down to how shaq's contract was done. if it gave us wiggle room then i say he was the better choice, but ya if it's bonus heavy then i see your point. obviously some mistakes on the DL were made. stats and such aside, shaq and phillips (not to mention Star) were bigger more physical guys. That adds up on blockers making it harder for them to get up and blow out our DBs and LBs. and the lesson learned here, not at all forgotten by bean based on his off season moves this season, is the FA never helps the team he goes to as much as he hurts the team he leaves (obviously there are big exceptions, but that's the rule). the above said, i still have a suspicion we will take at least one other shot at a real pass rusher, and draft a plug for our DL, i also think we get some kind of RB/TE or even both in the draft.

adding star might could bring us over on D, but i really think we need a pass rusher and perhaps more beef upfront. cb 2 is a need, but i think mcbeen can pick them off a tree, without a ladder. on O, either cody ford just balls out and shows improve, or we just don't get good at run blocking, unless we draft a G who moves guys to the bench. RB and TE production is still our biggest need on O, and while a better OL is a real nice push towards that, you generally have 3 guys at each position who can play, and 2 who can be on the pitch at the same time, so i think we need to add at least one guy to each of those roster spots. it is possible, imo, that our OL just plays better, mainly w ford getting his game up hard, and adding a single TE and RB who can do things no one on the team can right now gets us to where we need to be.

HOUSE FROM DOWNTOWN!!!

based on what my cbs sports app just updated me w, looks like about 14-16mm (accounting for bonus and such and such) over two years w the third year being a bit bigger, so pretty normal. i may be off, but i think we are perhaps one more restructure on someone away from having money to sign a real TE or pass rusher in the open market, or an OK TE and a more of an ok De. either edmunds, epenesa, or somebody has to step up if we don't get anyone new (i suppose we could find a diamond in the draft) for our D to be as effective as it was in 18/19

agree w vader and dr dawk in this thread: we took a shot at watt, a real one, and we blew out one DL, and price cut two of them and our C, as well as cutting brown. we inked up milano. this tells me the holes my fantasy off season would have created basically aren't gonna be there. w star coming back (big assumption perhaps) as we sit right now, we have a better DL than we had last season, and possibly as good/better than what we had in 2019 (i fade that tho). so, perhaps we can draft someone in the gut to just be a physical force in the rotation, and go out and throw some green at a real pass rusher. our FO found some magic in 2018 and 2019 on D, perhaps they can rub the genie lamp again and get another top 3 D for us. throw in some RB/TE production and im talking chip all season! i like it.

he's a sick player, but w gabe, beez, and diggs, we have some quality at WR. we need to diversify our attack on O. we already have josh running it and extending plays, an RB who can catch and do damage, and a TE who can eat are the best returns for us. obv, line play, particularly inside, is a need and might just help one or two of the items above.

based on this, the cuts, and the restructuring, and an aggressive but controlled attempt at watt, it's pretty clear to me they are loading up the team for a chip in the 2021 season. some kind of better RB and TE production on O (interior OL being a big part of that IMO), and some beef up front and more pass rush on D gets us there.

Stepping into albacore happened the right way! i figured he was gone, and we'd draft a guy. at this point, it is very very clear our DL play has to improve as our back 7 is staying put.

i thought a big part of the appeal was that his bonus was already paid, no? if we convert some of his current year salary to bonus i think we could manage, at least that's what i thought when i barely looked into it. i say there is a way!