Mango

I think there is a lot of nuance to the Josh should/shouldn’t run critique. - He doesn’t run like Mahomes. A lot of the time he isn’t evading pressure, picking up positive yards, and getting out of bounds. He almost seeks out contact like Lynch or AP. - Josh takes off to run when he doesn’t see the whole field. - The OL sucks. Josh needs to take off less/see the field better and get down/out of bounds when he does. AND we need to fix the OL. All of those things are true.

I think the ranch v. blue cheese issue should only apply to wings, where blue cheese reigns supreme. Ranch is tasty and has its place high in the dipping sauce pecking order.

This is what I’ve been saying. And it’s not that I am against signing Miller or Hopkins. But I thought we had the opportunity to have a light reset last year. That would have provided us the ability to stabilize the roster for the next 2-3 years. But the longer you kick the can down the road the more the arrow moves from light reset to hard reset and you become the Rams. I am not against signing Hopkins. But I also know what that means.

Whelp....

Crowder, Hodgins, McKenzie. He is likely 3rd on the depth chart.

Mario Williams.

It’s been on the market for 41 days.

I can’t wait until I’m a billionaire and I start vacationing in Phoenix Arizona. Let me put this on my vision board.

“I’m Ko Simpson. I’m worth millions”

Definitely sneeze at the Broncos. Lots of sneezes.

Not to beat a dead horse. But drafts like that are terrible for franchises long term. You can’t just let an entire draft class walk and expect to be successful. I hate the what if game. But if the Bills drafted Sam Darnold instead of Allen, we’d only have Taron Johnson left from that class. Only to be followed by 2019 that could leave us with only Dawson Knox. Allen covers for more flaws on this franchise than just the players on the field.

I wish the guy would drop the “r” and switch it to “Inside Ed Kilgore”. …and no, not like John Malkovich.

Poor McKenzie. He gets cut only to sign with a team that is hoarding all the slot receivers.

Not to split hairs. But that was a restructure. Teams cannot just trade agree to pay salaries without restructuring the contract. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/houston-texans/cap/

No they cannot offer to pick up most of the salary. This isn’t the NHL, cap space isn’t directly tradable. Could they restructure Hopkins and move more money to bonus? Yes. But they cannot just barter actual dollars spent.

And lost with Randy Moss. Who is, well….a little better than Diggs. The truth is always in the middle. I don’t disagree with you.

Good post. I agree with all of it. It’s not that I hate Cole’s take. It’s just a dumb thing to be so contentious about on social media. Didn’t he say he wants to play this year. Cross that off the list. I also hate the “well Mahomes has Andy.” Who cares. Should we get a head start? Should they spot us points? There’s no real world application where this actually matters in a way that’s correctable. Be better in whatever situation you’re in, or don’t. Also, Reid has never coached anybody ever who has been able to enter the GOAT conversation and that seems to be Mahomes trajectory at the moment. So maybe a little credit where credit is due to the player.

I actually went to St Joes with their cousin Mike Hawk. But seriously. Did their parents not know that would happen.

For most of the year this team made everything look difficult on both sides of the ball. Once we lost to Minnesota I sort of operated under the assumption that we were stat sheet warriors. Our only shot was to get hot at the right time. But if we did, anything was possible. Also, post Damar I started to lean into hockey a bit more. I rooted for and got frustrated on Sundays. But what was important when it came to this team shifted. I am noticing that that night has changed how I’ve watched sports. As much as I’ve leaned into hockey this year I find myself less excited and invested. As F1 gets going, I’m noticing the same. It’s been a complicated year for sports for you buddy Mango.

First, let me say he can get better. But he played great the back half of 2021 when Tre went down and started super strong to start 2022. At one point he was allowing something like less than 50% completions, 1TD, and a couple picks for like a 50-ish passer rating over 6 or 8 games. I was really high on him for a while. I hope he finds his form again.

The more I sit with this, the more I actually think GB doesn't have a deadline. Rodgers has a $60M cash price tag this year but $31.6M cap hit, and is a huge dead cap liability to move before 6/1. Sure $60M is a lot of cash to spend. But $40M in dead cap and $8M in cap dollars is a major operational hurdle. I think GB understands this very well. While they would be happy to move on from Rodgers and work on their future, they need to do it in a way that makes sense for the franchise holistically. If it is to get done in 2023 it has to be post June 1 or the NYJ have to pay a huge expense to get it done sooner rather than later. I think a huge part of the Rodger/McAfee interview was Rodgers trying to force GB to move on quickly because operationally, GB is probably open to having the league MVP 2 of the last 3 years stay with the franchise one more year until it is financially palatable to move on.

@DrDawkinstein, did you take the day off to celebrate St. Patty's Day? 2 AFCE teams made the playoffs last year. Bills and Dolphins. Also the comment I quoted is below...and you are talking about the Patriots....which would be a 4th team, who has very little hype to live up to this year.... Toss one back for me please.

Or even Favre to the Jets. Skipped right over that one.... I really think one of those three fall on their face this year. Everybody cannot live up to the hype.

I think there is a good chance Rodgers went on McAfee saying that GB doesn't want him to try and burn the bridge to get to NYJ. Rodgers is very cut/tradable next year and reasonably affordable to keep on the roster this year. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/aaron-rodgers-3745/

Is it possible that they are trying to push this to June 1. His dead cap hit becomes waaaaay less if they can wait 75 days.