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    Steelers approach Jags about a Trevor Lawrence Trade

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    1 minute ago, mushypeaches said:

    Honestly, if I were the Jags, I'd hop all over this opportunity.

     

    Somebody wants your underwhelming, uninspiring QB on a big fat 2nd contract?

    All while you won like 4 games last year and starting over with a new GM & coach?

     

    Yes, you're gonna eat a lot of dead cap, but might as well do it while you're already horrible

    Because really, if you don't have a Top 5 QB, but are paying someone like they are, then you're really nowhere now, and nowhere for the foreseeable future

     

    Would easily be able to do it since they would likely have a rookie QB under contract and not paying that position

    The Salary Cap Issue

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    1 hour ago, JP51 said:

    the game I think is that the cap will go up every year... almost like borrowing money with low interest and pushing it out hoping you make more money with the money that is paid out over time... in the end there will be big dead cap money owed when those players leave etc...  

     

    Essentially yes...the GM's know the cap is going up every year due to the TV contracts just signed.

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    The Salary Cap Issue

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    1 hour ago, Billsfan4588 said:

    I stumbled past this post on twitter today:

     

     

    I'm by no means a cap guru. I don't understand the purpose of a "salary cap" if you're going to allow teams to manipulate it to this extent anyway. It shouldn't be this complicated, either have the salary cap as a simple number that teams under no circumstances may surpass on a yearly basis, or get rid of it completely. 

     

    I don't fully understand the void years tactic, I've heard from others that it involves more risk because you may end up with a lot of dead cap in the future. I don't understand this (mainly as an arguement/defense from eagles fans here in downstate NY). 

     

    It seems to me that this tactic could just as easily be exploited by teams with owners willing to shell out more $, which again, sort of defeats the purpose of a salary cap. Today, joe burrow was mentioning along the lines of him wanting the Bengals to do the same thing this year (spend lots of $ and use void years) citing the Eagles as the example so they can keep both Tee Higgins and Trey Hendrickson. 

     

     

    What say you all, join the fun and manipulate the cap, try to buy a chip or stay the course? I'm personally shocked by how few teams are willing to exploit this tactic to the extent the Eagles do. I imagine it's not as rosey as it seems if you know how these financials work,  or else everyone would be doing it! 

     

    Signed,

    Salty Bills Fan surrounded by annoying Eagles fans

     

     

     

     

    Essentially void years allow them to spread cap hits out over extra years even tho that player will not be playing for the team...it's like signing a 5 year deal with $100 million guaranteed, but 2 are void years, meaning instead of having to pay a cap hit of $33 million over a 3 year contract, you can pay a cap hit of $20 million over 5 years.

     

    However those void years then have to be accounted for with the player not on the team.

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    Kurt Warner's analysis of the Super Bowl

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    4 hours ago, HappyDays said:

    Kurt Warner broke down all of the Chiefs passing plays from the 1st half and I found his analysis pretty eye opening:

     

     

    His analysis has nothing to do with Philly's defensive scheme or the supposed dominance of their DL (which if you watch the video was not quite as stark as it appeared at least in the 1st half). His take is that Philly's defense should have been easy to scheme against, but Reid/Nagy's concepts were poorly designed, so that combined with Mahomes just being off created a disastrous performance. When you watch it, it's uncanny how Philly's defense is almost exactly the same on every play. They didn't do anything crazy, just played with discipline and fundamentals.

     

    My take watching it back is that there are a couple of instant wins by the DL, but mostly what's making Mahomes antsy and uncomfortable is their contain rush. In the 1st half there is really only one instance - the INT Mahomes threw from his own endzone - where an immediate pass rush win had a major effect on the outcome of the play. But because Mahomes can't escape the pocket and FEELS pressure as a result, he starts making bad decisions and bad throws. And because his WRs aren't immediately open, it gives the pass rush time to get home. One play in particular sticks out to me near the end (at 44:44 in the video). Mahomes has time to stay in the pocket and launch a bomb to Worthy down the left sideline who gets a full step on his man 1v1. But he feels pressure before it actually gets there and runs out of the pocket to the right which kills the play.

     

    So I don't come away from this tape thinking we need to radically upgrade our entire defensive roster or go all in on finding an elite pass rusher to overcome the Chiefs. You beat them by not letting their WRs win in 2 seconds or less and by keeping Mahomes in the pocket. It really is that simple. You can't expect to totally shut them down like Philly did unless Reid and Mahomes happen to have a bad day, but you certainly won't give up 30+ points if you play them like that. And on the other side of the ball you have to build an insurmountable lead while KC's offense is figuring things out.  Philly did that by getting a big WR matched up against McDuffie and throwing the ball downfield.

     

    I think we're one legit secondary player and one legit defensive lineman away from being able to execute the same game plan that Philly did. Not to the same degree of success, but enough to keep them well below the season-high production they're usually getting against us.

     

     

    The issue is we DO this during the regular season and hold them to around 20ish points and win.  We CANNOT do this during the playoffs...why is the burning question.

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    It's the defensive line, stupid!

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    8 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

    It’s both. Our DBs have never been physical enough early in routes. We typically allow WRs free releases, even in man. We have got to be more aggressive in our coverage come playoff time.

     

     

     

     

    Tre used to be physical as f**k

    The Eagles beat the Chiefs by doing the opposite of the Bills

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    2 minutes ago, FireChans said:

    For sure. 
     

    For all of his greatness, this is the second Super Bowl where Mahomes has shown he can be pretty flappable.

     

    he wasn’t the only problem but he was an absolute problem. Throwing at Kelce’s knees etc etc. they truly did collapse after that.

     

    There was some of that even in the Bills game during the regular season...they were getting after him pretty good in that game...first INT on the 2nd play was caused by it. Not to that extent obviously, but we have seen it

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    The Eagles beat the Chiefs by doing the opposite of the Bills

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    1 minute ago, FireChans said:

    Is the tape out?

     

    I felt like the Eagles mixed up zone and man looks pretty significantly. Notably, both of Mahomes’ picks were on zone reads.

     

    I think their gameplan on D was different but I wouldn’t go as far as to say opposite 

     

    All of it started from Mahomes being pressured quickly all game long and almost seeing ghosts because even when he had time, his feet were not set properly because he was expecting to have to be on the move

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