WhitewalkerInPhilly

I'm a fan of Cantina Loco, especially the Korean style short rib tacos. I'd say Blue Monk, if it was still open. Sigh.

I have a buddy who is a Ravens fan, and he really wants Maclin too, but admits that their cap situation is bad. They can make it work if they start cutting players, but I think the offer here is likely better. We have more money to offer, and he would be working with people he's thrived with in the past, and they clearly want him. I'm not saying it's a lock, but for a one year deal I think we are the better choice.

So...any actual news about Maclin, or more bickering?

There actually is good reason for that. One of Schefter's biggest sources is the agents themselves, and they have reason to leak stuff all the time: maybe it's to show that their client isn't desperate, or that they did their job and gave their player options, or sometimes to drive up the bargaining price. There's a lot of smoke and mirrors to that side of the profession.

I hadn't heard about that. Yeesh. Yeah, that would do it. The only one who would give even close to equal cap space is Smith. They must not feel Mahonnes is ready to step in day one.

This is music to my ears. My biggest concern is that seems too low. Like other people mentioned, Woods got $7M a year. Even Goodwin got around $3M. Now, they can certainly add a lot more with incentives, which is what I suspect is the selling point. If Maclin takes a little less money on a short term deal, with plenty of incentives, working with people he is very comfortable with, it sets him up well for a biggest contract next year. I've been wondering about that. They really are up against the cap. In fact, Maclin's dead money has them over next years projection. I think they are going to try to take one more year at it, but they play in the West as well. I think if they struggle, they yank Smith for Mahonnes and start the rebuild. Of course Bucky would find a way to be a stick in the mud

I was under the impression that Shady new first, since he was visiting Maclin for the wedding, and began the hard sell immediately. Then, TT asked for his number when he heard what was up.

That's kind of my "best case scenario" idea as well. Our WR corps was really scraping the bottom of the barrel last season, and it showed. In particular, the combo of Sammy (true #1 when healthy), Maclin (burner, who would appreciate being matched against the #2 cb again) and Zay (heavy slot use) and you have a 3 WR set that I have difficulty taking off the field. As for the D, I agree about the back end having problems, but Darby and White should be decent 1 and 2 options, and Hyde is versatile enough to do a lot of things, and hopefully the front 7 cranks things up to help them out.

Also, as I'm thinking, there's probably another tie to Maclin as a possibility: McDermott. In Philly, the players who played for McDermott while he was an assistant coach and DC have raved about him, and both Shady and Maclin were drafted the same year that McDermott took over as DC. I wonder if there's any pull there.

I mean, we could maybe swing both, but for the WCO I would rather have Maclin.

I hope it's reliable. We could certainly use him, especially if we want to be running the WCO next year we desperately need more players.

I think KC is looking at this next season as a wash. They went up big to get Mahones, who was always seen as a project. Now with Maclin gone, I have a feeling well have a nice draft pick in 2018. But yeah I would take Maclin in a hot second.

Honestly, this is a signing where I have no idea how people are finding much of anything to gripe about. We had a big hole at WLB, and while I know PFF isn't perfect it's a decent indicator, As to why he was still available, it looks like he had a slow start, and then was backing up a very good Novarro Bowman. It probably scared some people off. I honestly don't see Ragland as a SAM. I know that it's a difference that breaks down with how commonly we go to subpackages like Nickel and Dime, But Ragland has some cover skills, but is best as a midfielder. I don't see him as an edge sealer.

Do I believe that Doug Whaley had a sub par record here? Yes. Do I think that he walked away with more class than some people, despite some personal feelings of anger? Also yes. Do I think that the journalism of TBN sports has taken such a swan dive to think they would rip him for areticle traffix.... AHAHAHAHA OF COURSE

Well, that is one way to get around the restrictions, lol. Look, maybe it's a dick move, and will make him few friends if he ever tries to reconcile being in the service. They did pull one on him, but I don't know if he knows the land mine he is resting on. Of course, he's Air Force, so he might not. Either way, sign him now on the cheap Billy Beane!!!

Normally I'm the first one to jump on the anti-Brady bandwagon. But this is silly. Players play through the protocol all the time. That said, yeah, I am remembering the drop we saw with Manning, and Brady will be older than that this year. I think there is a reason why they are betting the farm to build as potent a team this year.

I wouldn't say roasted. But I seem to recall that Darby played rather well in his first outing vs the Colts when he had a safety rolling to help.

That's crazy, I heard so many times that he had a cannon for an arm. You'd think he would be able to get at least one shot off.

From what I read, deferment was a thing right up until this season. It makes sense. Yes, the Air Force doesn't gain a member on active duty, but they gain a ton of free publicity. The NFL gets a huge story out of it, especially with their military appreciation stunts. Then, once the deferment is over the AF still gets their guy.

Actually...Rivers and Big Ben are in the back end of their careers. I think TT is a better investment going forward. I honestly don't see why people go that crazy for Carr. Wilson...well, I would take him. Just note: the deal that he signed is the reason why the Seahawks went from being dominant from 2013-15 to barely crawling to wild cards.

Dang, for a thin LB group that would be a great pickup

I think he's going to be ok. ACL rehab at the long end looks about 9 months, which he is at now. That gives him, what, two and a half months before training camp, plus OTAs? He is slower than Keukley, but he did have a great sense for being in the right place at Bama.

That is an odd situation. But if they can snag him, it's an excellent low risk high reward situation. If he is allowed to play, he is the second mid round receiver I wanted them to take in the draft. It he can't he still falls outside the top 51 si it doesn't effect the cap.

I think you could also include making sure the correct number of players on the field. I loved Rex's bravado, but I think you can easily give a game or two to a lot of management decisions he made. The challenges were especially infuriating, when he would challenge to have an opponent's first and 10 become a third and short. There were so many that even if you said, "well yeah, the refs are wrong..." it seemed to be inevitably followed by "...but come on, we are wasting a challenge here?"

Look, I'm honestly not expecting him to have a 10 sack season. But it's a team sport. If he can set the edge against the run/keep a blocking tight end busy and handle a RT on spread packages, that leaves one of Kyle, Dareus or Hughes in one on one, and that is going to generate sacks.