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Any normal team is trying to better their roster, occasional misguided millions is just part of the business on the way to making much more than that. The salary cap 'should be' just a guidepost for the team owners- where you build your desire-able product is maneuvering within that cap. Except for Ralph. Always a ba-jillionairre, playing with this team as if those extra 200 bucks were going to ruin everything. Do you know how much talent he let go, and how much avoidable heartache we've had to endure because of miserly thinking you embrace as, brilliant?? When a player takes a reduced salary, they're doing it because they haven't lived up to expectations, are probably targeted as a potential cut, but believe they can do better and get a good payday in the future. This is not complicated. The team gets a cap break, and the player has a better chance to live to fight another day.

Very good, Ralph- you've just saved your company millions in out-of-pocket expenses, but you haven't reduced the cap hit one microbe by cutting the player. Now you propose to re-hire the player, adding to that cap hit you took ZERO cents off of. Do you think there's a reason why you never see that happen??

If a team straight-out cuts a player they are responsible for the entirety of guaranteed monies and the cap hits which come with it. To then re-sign the player you are adding new guaranteed monies to THAT total.

You can't cut a player then re-sign him at a lower price-point for cap reasons. Saving on the cap is really the whole point of salary restructures/reductions unless Ralph owns your team. )

Too Texas-y, also, the Washington Snyders just has a better... mouth-feel to me. Makes me want to go to a ballgame and buy a pretzel.

And the message is, 'don't be a ***** dimwit, and go get the damn vaccine- we've got a good thing going here...' Stupid isn't a point of view.

Ze Germans are just lucky we don't have a crappy team named after one of their cars.

Can we send a more competent team than the Jags to exhibit our sport to unfamiliar international audiences, ferchris'ssake.

Been a while since I got my full rental's worth... Tombstone Apocalypse Now The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Trainspotting The Wild Bunch

Maybe there were some devil's advocate debates that Whaley has spun around or something. No way a 40 year scout looks at EJ's college play-by-play and thinks, "Awkward, inconsistent and brutally inaccurate... I've gotta have this guy." EJ Manuel is a pick by someone who saw a few crazy-good plays, got a scouting *****, and no blood left for the upper brain. Whaley

I'm coming from the stodgy old NFL voters perspective, not mine. Mahomes is ahead of Allen, Rodgers is Rodgers, and Brady won it all. Tough to jump any of them in establishment eyes, imo.

5th QB, maybe 4th ahead of Wilson, but topping Mahomes and the established QB's (AR/RW), and the SB winner is maybe a year away. Josh hasn't knocked anybody off any podiums... yet

If we had our current uni's, JP could've been a star. Those Donahoe things ruined many a career.

5th QB

There are brief moments in time I truly miss, as I root around in my dust-knoggin. The window was really short- before the record 'execs' learned to tell us that 'grunge' was really Pearl Jam, and some 18 other variants, That said, before music was exploited by the cynical, there was such an explosion of fantastic stuff- the crap I scoffed at at the time, see Breeders, Cannonball... anything Smashing Pumpkins) I would Kill to have be pop music nowadays.

Frickin Jamarcus Blubbotard. We were stuck in a period of stupid and inbred, like all NFL teams come across at some point, but that guy had a chance to mess up the AFC... but we just got more and more Patriots******

What do lions have to do with Detroit, btw? I can't name a singl car, car part, nuffin

C'mon. He got us to the freaken playoffs with Charles Clay, Deonte Thompson, Zay Jones, Kelvin Benjamin and Nick O'leary as our receiving 'threats'. McCoy and Mike Tolbert in the run game. That's lifting Mt. Everest right there.

Sometimes I skip to the last page when I open a thread for the first time. this time it was a mistake

Give the Astros* hell!!

I'm cheering for him to make it here, but one way or another, he's gotta be taken off the 'Excluded from playing American Football' list.

Guilty as charged. And in an on-topic note, the Raidahs... alway had a soft spot for then. With Madden, Fanseca, Al- used to be the closest modern entity to an actual living and breathing pirate crew now it's like some floating giant mutated amoeba, but still somewhat mesmerizing.

Which 3 teams are you hoping we lose to?

Former President Trump inviting Kaepernick to discuss race relations is right up there with Rodman meeting Kim Jong Un to discuss world peace.

Him and Addison are already committed to the Eagles for Ertz and a 6th, post June 1st.