NoSaint

the guy poking the bear is easier to remedy than is the bear. I’d agree anyone getting totally out of sorts over it is silly but it’s exactly what he’s looking to get too. something about his behavior not matching the words particularly well - no?

the owner died and his wife is holding the team. The front office is trying to prove they can do it without Sean and drew making reckless win now moves

he actively trolls them for fun i just have to underscore that he goes out of his way to upset them just to get off on it no one is a winner in it

everyone in the building is desperate to prove they can do it without Sean/drew but the way to do that is a hard reset not digging deeper. the owner is absentee in football decisions - so basically the opposite

At 10m you could get a fringe top 5 center, or settle for a not even top 5 WR2 Even so, it’d be less than 10m in cap savings compared to a mediocre wr being the same (and a top guy being 25m)

I’m incredibly gun shy of Achilles recoveries but he already made it back

Just bully him endlessly, right?

He’s a “sign him as a lottery ticket and if he plays like a starter it’s found money” type of guy. You expect nothing and it’s all upside

imagine, he may play even better than his career year being even further removed from the Achilles injury

It’s not the end all be all but it’s a consideration. a guy that’s elite at preparation and honing his craft will be fine though if he has the arm strength, hand size etc…. And if he’s missing any of that it’s a concern in January games regardless of where home is.

private visits are completely normal occurrences for guys at position of need (especially around your picks day 1-2)

if you don’t understand why it’s productive to say whether you think he’s getting 10m or 40m a year (or somewhere in between) when saying they should extend him, I’m not sure what to say. It’s like the folks debating whether he should be traded but all have wildly differing values in their heads. apparently that requires super computing to do though

this is essentially the most difficult injury for someone at his position to recover from. the upcoming year will be much worse on his body than the acl recovery year which means he’s going to be 30 coming off back to back rough injuries next off season as his likely best case

1 year 3m isn’t particularly expensive

“has to” seems wildly overstated its 200m in dead money and I doubt they are pulling the plug without at least 1 real season

yea, I’m serious. I think that you are saying and above average contract ($35m a year as a floor). That’s noteworthy and should be included in a post because it’s 90% of the context that makes the post actually able to be discussed in any productive way. without it the posts just noise

I don’t think you can avoid a guy because a guy in 2006 from the same school failed.

I mean, the nfls priority would be on field integrity, with being off field role models a distant second. while some of these guys have terrible behavior, I can understand that the job of the league is to protect the product first

I think it should be a requirement to include the money figures when making a comment like this

I’ll be so mad if the take a safety in the first instead of a wr. The difference in cap savings compared to an above average free agent at each position is massive

they pay him the same money: we just keep the dead dollars for accounting since we already paid them

It’s a position where you can truly flip your cap situation for a few years if you hit on a wr1. It’s a $25-30m a year swing we aren’t getting a rookie qb window again but getting an elite pass catcher is both possible and hugely valuable. not campaigning for a specific guy or strategy beyond if they think ones there, they need to get him if they can… even if it costs some draft capital. You’ll have 30m in savings to spend on free agents to replace those picks

As usual, agree. You get not just x and o but league trends, dollars/cents, roster construction and the college pipeline beane has to be looking at this as his urgent chance to find a plus 1 in the Josh plus somebody equation. And now that Josh has been paid his running partner won’t be a big paycheck. He has to start swinging and doing it often. Worst case you end up with a bunch of viable guys, but best case you get that top 10 wr on a rookie deal the problem in discussing his role in our plans is he’s a guy that’s competing to be a minor role player realistically

to further your point, depending on diggs condition- it might be our WR1 isn’t but wr2 is diggs

I think 95% of this board believed you had to add sooooome viable but not game changing vet, and a couple low on the roster bodies before targeting a future WR1 in the draft…