Alphadawg7

I think TJ Watt is slightly better overall player personally than Myles. It’s very close obviously, but I would personally take TJ over Myles. I do agree compensation would be similar though and they would likely be the top 2 in terms of compensation. Donald is probably the greatest DT ever, but yes age and how much longer he will play will lower his compensation in this question posed by the OP.

It’s TJ Watt for sure. He’s the most dominant and disruptive defensive player in the NFL right now, even ahead of Donald who I would say is a very close second. Parsons is interesting, but only 1 year on his resume, so I think Watt would fetch the most.

And some notes as to why you chose Charles Cross

Personally, if I am a team like the Falcons, I stay put and either take BPA or trade down and compile more draft picks this year and next. And if I really want a QB, a guy like Howell or Ridder has a good chance to be there in the 2nd and I don't think there is much of a gap between them and Pickett or Corall IMHO. The only guy I would take early is Willis. If I am going QB early, they better have a very high ceiling if they aren't some sort of slam dunk prospect. But even Willis isn't someone I would even trade up for unless I was desperate to get someone this year. Carolina is in a bit more desperate scenario IMO, so I can see them trading up from 6 to insure they get their guy. They have a good defense and a lot of playmakers on offense. They are a QB away from contending in the NFC. Where as teams like Detroit and Atlanta have a lot of holes to fill, they don't need to reach for a QB this year either as they at least have guys who can hold the job down for one more season too. Although with Detroit, you can make a case that being able to draft a QB without having to spend big to trade up is also appealing, so they may just go ahead and nab someone like Willis if they feel he is worth taking there vs risking not having a high enough pick next year to get their guy and having to trade a lot to move up if they want him. So they are kind of the wildcard right now IMHO at the top of the draft.

I think Willis will go top 7 personally, and may even see a team move up to get him. I don't think anyone feels good about trading up for any of the other QB's though. I gave Matt Corrall some consideration at 8, but ultimately, I felt no pressure to go QB here given we have a lot of big needs and think Mariota is a capable 1 year starter if need be. Falcons plan should be not to reach this draft and take the BPA on the board as they have holes every where. And to me Corrall and Pickett are a reach at 8 (I like Corrall's upside a little more than Pickett personally). Yeah I cant see him getting past Carolina. I dont know what Detroit will do either, but I think they are going throw some smoke regardless about Willis to try and get someone to give them a nice trade offer to move ahead of other teams to get him.

Yes, but I don't expect him to be there in the real draft either. Its a deep WR draft, to be able to pull the trigger with the 8th pick for the highest ceiling QB in the draft without having to do a pricey trade up would have been too much to pass up.

With the 8th pick of the 2022 TSW Draft, the Atlanta Falcons select: Garrett Wilson, WR Ohio State With a lot of holes on both sides of the ball, we aren't interested in trading draft capital to move up in the draft for a QB. There are some QB's in the draft we find intriguing that we like, but with the only one we were willing to take here now off the board, our focus is adding more playmakers to the offense and we are going BPA and taking the top guy on our board in Garrett Wilson. His polished route running will not only be an important weapon for our QB Mariota, but will also take some of the defensive pressure away from our talented TE Pitts. The Seattle Seahawks and @Rock-A-Bye Beasleyare now on the clock with the 9th pick in the draft.

Meh, I’d smoke him. First one was a bad throw and got lucky it hit hole. When you Air Mail a cornhole on an open board that’s like hitting a 3 off the backboard when you weren’t aiming for the backboard haha

Honestly, it’s gonna depend on the flow of the game. Defer is gonna be a strong choice because you have more info when you get the ball and what you need to win. Like do you just need a FG or can you go for two and win it. But if our offense is on fire like the KC game, probably take the ball while we are clicking and hot and strike first to out the pressure on the other team.

I think its more he doesn't follow it all that closely to know the real details, hes not a bad dude, just a friend I play basketball with

Ill take the Jaguars or Falcons

I deleted my original post that was in favor of bringing him in because I had inaccurate info from a friend who told me he was both cleared and proven innocent of his off field stuff. Wasn't true, settling is not being proven innocent. My buddy went to LSU and was a big fan of his, so he had a skewed point of view lol. So I withdraw my original statements which were made off incomplete info. Im a pass on Guice, we have enough bad "Juice" in our historical fridge here lol.

I already corrected the post. I just wrote originally what my buddy said about him, it was inaccurate I realized when I googled it after. Charges were dropped after settlement reached, big difference than "being proven innocent". My friend is an LSU fan as he went there and been advocating for Guice to the Cardinals (his fave NFL team) to replace Edmunds. So I took his info as more accurate than it was lol. My bad I already corrected it before you replied.

There is no debating that our OL turned a big corner when Bates entered the starting lineup last year, its as significantly improved. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and moving Bates into the starting lineup stabilized the whole line. With Saffold and Bates at the guard spots, Dawkins and Brown on the edges and Morse manning the middle I think we can expect good things from the line this year, especially with the major upgrade in terms OL Coaching they will receive.

Fair point about driving in the weather, not something us non-locals would think about ha.

What trend is this? Every other new stadium has been 3,000 to 18,000 more seats than this one. A few people have said this, but there isn't any evidence of this in what other teams have planned and done.

Which would be cool, but that then doesnt "increase" capacity above the 62,000 thats being reported.

Ok so legit question...why are you as a season ticket holder trying to get rid of tickets? Is the weather a big factor in which games you don't want to go to? And when you are struggling to find takers for the tickets, is it because its a bad weather game and you cant find someone as easily to take the tickets because not as many people want to sit in the miserable weather? I don't want to turn the thread into a debate of dome vs outdoor, the decision has already been made to be an open air stadium again. So no value in anyone discussing what is better choice. But, I can't help but wonder if the problems of getting rid of your tickets is more weather related than related to how many people actually want to go to the game. I don't live in Buffalo, never have. But as a fan, I still get the allure of being outdoors even in the cold for a football game. But, if a team wanted to maximize the PSL's, the year round use of the stadium, and capacity...a dome or retractable roof would have made much more financial sense...or even like what they did with SoFi with the glass roof and open air sides making it kind of a hybrid indoor/outdoor stadium. I personally thought a stadium like Allegiant that was built for the Raiders made perfect sense for Buffalo, but thats just my non-local opinion. None the less, still think 65,000+ seating makes more sense for this new open air stadium. But it is what it is...they got their deal and their plan. Just surprised they chose to build the smallest stadium in the NFL.

Also bad for fans...another reason I don't like building the smallest stadium in the NFL.

I mean looking at that chart, it suggests the stadium should be at least 65,000 seats, if not 68,000. I am not saying they should build an 80,000 seat stadium or anything, I am saying building the smallest seat stadium in the NFL makes no sense IMO. Spending all this money and time for a stadium that has the least seats in the NFL is puzzling to me. And I know they mentioned they could do another 5,000 standing, but that sucks...who wants to stand in the bad weather for 3 hours? Especially if you had been tail gating all morning. Do 3,000 more seats and make the standing area 2,000 people then. I mean talk about terrible tickets, lets stand on concrete for 3 hours in freezing weather after we tailgated for 3 hours.

But the Saints are not that good of a roster, they may not even make the playoffs next year is squishy NFC conference. Their whole season comes down to Jameis being a good QB for them. Not something I want to bank on. They don't have much at WR, they lost their best OL, they lost their 2nd best defensive player, and they kicked the can down the road for even more cap issues in the years to come. All of this without having a top end QB to pay. I mean the Saints fixed the cap this year at the sacrifice of weakening their team. The $30M under now is a mirage built on a house of cards that is only possible this year because they don't currently have a QB and signed Jameis back cheap. Their roster is worse today than it was when the season ended with a lot more cap problems kicked down the road that will continue to be a problem for them. All while still needing a QB unless Jameis suddenly morphs into some major reclamation success story that never happens...in which they would still need to pay him if he does that anyway. So, again, yes they got their cap number down...but they had to make their team worse to do so. I am not interested in finding ways to make our team worse each year is the thing. I want the offseason to be where Beane strengthens our overall roster, which he has very much this year IMO. Doing what the Saints have done is a classic example of how not to manage a cap and one of the worst examples if you ask me.

I very respectfully disagree...they lost some of their best players and don't have a QB. Saints are grossly over the cap without having a big QB contract to deal with. Thats a terrible position to be in if you ask me. So they may not have "cut" half their roster, but they lost some important players and some of their best players in FA because they couldn't keep them. And had they been also paying a QB, a lot more guys would have to be gone to fit that big QB contract in there. So still, they are not a good example by any measure in my book. I would use them as the exact opposite of how to manage a cap.

The seats are still tiny and crammed in at all the new stadiums. I don’t understand why they make the stadiums more “spacious” but the seats impossibly small.

Then why don’t you have that problem now in a 70,000 seat stadium?

All the newest stadiums have between 3,000 and 18,000 more seats than this new stadium. So how is “smaller the way to go”? No one else is doing “smaller”. And they added 600,000 more square feet as it is, there is plenty of room to move around and still keep your seating capacity up. We are literally building the smallest stadium in the NFL. For the best and most engaged fan base in the league…one that sells out every home game. Im all for having more space to move around, but you can do that and still keep your capacity bigger than the smallest in the NFL.