NoSaint

If there was ever a time for the commissioners exempt list…

it’s just eating up a percentage of cap Josh is getting X percentage of cap from the last few years, and dak will likely get a smaller slice of a much bigger pie looking at cap going forward…until Josh re-ups his commitment and gets a larger slice than dak if that larger pie

“dead money” in the cap is generally money you have already paid but hasn’t hit your cap. A signing bonus is amortized over the duration of the contract, up to 5 years. Example - a 10m bonus on a 5+ year deal becomes 2m per year for 5 years in accounting. If you move on from a guy after a year you have to claim that other 8M that you paid at signing in your cap still because you gave it to a player as compensation already. Future guaranteed money can be moved to another team in a trade. If a new team assumes a contract they are responsible for the future cash payments and the cap accounting of those future payments. It only becomes dead money for a team if they cut him and have to pay the future guaranteed dollars themselves.

this is your moment to summarize it

“Is he AMAZING or mediocre, or bad or awful?” josh alone gives him a 10 yard head start but he still finishes the remaining 30 in about 4.5, right? He’s had some material challenges but absolutely crushed his career defining decision

your categories aren’t great numerically with “A” for top ten and then 4 options for the next 22

Top ten-ish guys set the market regularly when it’s their turn. That’s about the bottom of the revolving door to top paid. He will quickly be replaced honestly, there’s a few basics not understood here. dead money and guaranteed money are not interchangeable words a contract extension doesn’t kick in someday down the line from when it’s signed

anyone under 6’2 is an elf in my book

Learning a little about who our short kings are here

and then when that coach is fired and a polar opposite is brought in? just like acquiring talent for 34 vs 43 If he had stability - even between coaching changes that held some common threads underpinning then - building a team and not just having a mish mash of mismatched pieces would have been much easier. im not saying he would’ve, but in the situation the organization created - it wasn’t ideal even if we had a star GM

Injuries today are hang nails and paper cuts stuff you’d never even hear about Im august yet alone September (or January)

Injuries were impactful if I recall he was a single digit wonderlic guy, which indicates totally not caring, or having some sort of learning disability and/or generally being illiterate (literacy comment not said to mock - his score was in line with straight guessing) He apparently was partying too much and frankly the lizard people stuff that he talked about obviously indicates something wasn’t going well upstairs. very talented guy but you take injuries and roll them with what I think was more than just a motivation challenge but genuine mental health concerns and it makes some sense. how do you build culture without being able to pick the coach? Or any continuity between skills and schemes? not saying Whaley was a star but will say the overall situation was disastrous and I think much harder to pin fully on him.

said the guy going by freak-o based on light message board posting

so you see no reason the dots would be connected but are trying to find a way to connect them?

what does this pic have to do with Buffalo?

put another way, let’s say you need 180 points out of the two guys to get a ring pretty darn reliably over a couple year stretch. under that threshold you could luck info one if the chips fall just right in a season Reid 90/100 Belichick 90/100 McDermott 85/100 Brady 95/100 mahomes 90/100 josh 90/100 mcnabb 85/100 big Ben 85/100 eli 80/100 dak 80/100 you could stretch it out to add a metric for the remaining roster and touch up numbers a bit but I think a lot of us feel like the above as a bar napkin summary of the challenge. Josh qualifies while McDermott is close but not quite. Together they will compete but we may need to go find our “mahomes” or “Allen” at head coach to upgrade from our very good “mcnabb” At head coach currently

no offense but I think you are overshooting the talent left off. I think essentially any of those are a breeze to get on the practice squad or ***** an equivalent peer from another squad. There’s no shortage of late rounders or high picks that washed out available around the league especially if a guy like claypool can be active on special teams

I don’t know- that our most consistent receiver is setting up a run at the 53 could be compliment to him or concern about our question marks above him him being among our best could be a huge blessing or season derailing curse

17 years is such a lame thing to point to at this point…

it’ll be a real damn shame if you are posting this about Josh in 20 years

and even in that scenario it becomes a lot of money for a guy you hope is behind Kincaid and a WR by design -

they aren’t paying a qb yet so they get a few absurd moves

I’ll say, and not to single out this op, but in general this board doesn’t have great culture of setting the stage for conversations when starting threads. We often get “good article” behind a paywall or “great discussion” and a 2 hour video a fast summary with a few of the more interesting points is a game changer for me as someone that doesn’t have many subscriptions or the bandwidth to listen to extended commentary that often

I recall you liking the Jarvis Landry comp

We all get it. Being top 32 in the world at just about anything means you aren’t literally a bum.