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Year 4 technically, but that further reinforces your point.

How do you feel about the Los Angeles Rams?

This seems like the most likely outcome here. It doesn’t hurt for the Jets to think we are potentially in the mix, as it will hopefully drive their price up. But it’s hard to see how we could make a deal with the Raiders that will actually work for both sides.

Thanks, didn’t appreciate how the signing bonus element is working for those guys.

Shouldn’t that say Lamar? 😇

If we really wanted to land Adams, here’s my “Madden” trade idea: 2025 2nd rd pick Samuel Elam other draft pick compensation If we can get Samuel and Elam off our books in exchange for Adams, are we able to stay within our cap? How much value does either player at their current contracts even bring to the table for the Raiders? What additional draft compensation would we need to throw into the deal?

We need Taron back at NCB as soon as he is healthy. In regards to the safety play, I’m hoping Bishop is ready to step in and run with one of the safety jobs sooner than later. Even if the coverage has been decent from Rapp and/or Hamlin, both guys are limited in their athletic ability and Rapp is frequently a danger to himself and others on the field. Meanwhile, Hamlin and Lewis both demonstrated their limited speed on the Henry run amongst other plays. Once Bishop has a decent understanding of this defense, he should be an upgrade over either Rapp or Hamlin at one of the safety positions.

As soon as Josh decided against the end around and needed to go back left, the play went from a bad play call to even worse. Best option then would have been to throw the ball away, but the whole play was really doomed from the start.

This where I’ve been with Shakir. If you took the average of Diggs & Beasley, Shakir is what you get. Which isn’t a bad thing, but Shakir will have limit in his upside too.

Well, ask and you shall receive. He’s going to be in bubble-wrap for the next 4 games at least.

Correct, fans were on his case because he was just sitting on his pile of money:

Let the Jests waste their draft capital and money on Adams. They’re still going to suck 😃

Apparently $7m of the $8.5m was converted to signing bonus earlier this year. So he’s getting the remaining $1.5m over the 18 week regular season at $333k per week. Hence he’s forfeiting that $333k per week for those four weeks.

Vegas wants half of us betting the Bills, the other half betting Houston. That said, I always prefer to bet on Josh 😎

So you didn’t like Bengals @ Chiefs in Week 2, or Ravens @ Cowboys Week 3?

Well this is the week. It’s rare that 100% of this board agrees on something, we’ll see if we are all right that Josh has the better game 😃

Your calculations aren’t taking into account that Henry also ran at all angle from the 30 to the endzone. He ran closer to 71 yards given that he ran at a slight angle, as opposed to 70, which is the equivalent to a 4.74 40 yard dash. Plus, the run was on grass, which potentially has some give or moisture to it. That said, neither Hamlin or Lewis were making up ground on Henry. But, Benford was, given that when Henry crossed the 30, Benford was slightly behind it and closer to the right hash. Hence, Benford ran closer to 74 yards to get to the goalline in those 8.42 seconds at that angle, which puts him around an equivalent of a 4.57 40 yard dash, by my calculations. My guess is that without pads and in a combine setting, all of these guys would put up a better 40-yard dash than running on a grass field with pads on. Between Henry, Hamlin, Lewis & Benford, they all did put up 4.5-4.6 when they ran in their respective combines. Benford seems like maybe he’s got a longer kick than the rest of them, although it seems clear Hamlin and Lewis don’t have that extra kick to catch the 30 year old Henry, but I still wouldn’t discount the burst that Henry has continually shown throughout his career.

It was similar with Kareem Hunt or Ray Rice. The charges were known, but all the sudden a video comes out, and everyone is appalled. Didn’t the charges speak for themselves, without people needing to see the videos?

Here’s the policy, at least as of 2022: https://nflpaweb.blob.core.windows.net/website/Departments/Salary-Cap-Agent-Admin/2022-NFL-Personal-Conduct-Policy.pdf Seems to me it gives the league a lot of discretion, and Rice will face his own suspension once the league gets to his case. Maybe I’m missing something in the policy that would suggest otherwise, though.

Incentives will hit next year’s cap. It’s better for Von, because he only forfeits $333k of base salary this year instead of close to $4m that he otherwise would have forfeited.

So we don’t care that our DBs are slow now and that Josh has lost a step?

Interesting, maybe Von wasn’t necessarily just doing us a favor then by renegotiating his deal.

Oh sorry, you’re right about Rice, no official confirmation on whether he has a torn ACL or not yet. So I guess if he is back this year, it’d be interesting to see if they get to his case by then and how it applies relative to the league policy.

Let’s pretend we still had Diggs and could afford trading for Davante. Would you trade Diggs for Davante straight up?