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3 years in and get a pension? Thats pretty sick. He also made 1.8 million dollars and is only 26. Once he retires he should get like.. a free 20 grand a year. Only thing that isn't clear is - do you get this when you "retire" from the NFL? Or when you retire from like, working all together. And all this stuff: A Joint Replacement Program provides assistance to former players who require medically necessary joint replacement; A Medicare supplement program helps to pay for Medicare supplement insurance for those 65 or order and covered by Medicare; Life insurance for those under 55 years of age; A neurological care program with no out-of-pocket expense to retired players; A spine treatment program with no out-of-pocket expense to retired players; A discount prescription drug card; And priority access to assisted living facilities.

there are also some scrambles there. He had 95 rush attempts from the QB spot, i imagine at least half of those were scrambles.

The draft is so different now than it used to be. You used to want to go as early in the draft as possible to get that huge bradford payday. Now you enter as early as possible to get to UFA a year beforehand. We were 4th from the bottom in sacks allowed. SF, CLE, and LAR all allowed more sacks, they just had more QBs. 15th in yardage surrendered from those sacks.

Replace him with Brees or Cousins... Brees chases a ring, or Cousins wants a solid team instead of a disaster in SF.

In the NBA/NHL i always liked the idea that the day you become mathematically eliminated you get a new set of standings. The team with the most points (2 for a win 1 for a OTL in hockey, or just wins in the NBA) from that point on gets pick 1 and so forth. If you're eliminated on the last day of the year you pick highest of non-playoff teams. it adds some stakes to late season games for bad teams. In the NFL they could just add a lottery, but a single player isn't always the game changer in the NFL that it is in the NBA/NHL.

So if he put up a drew brees stat-line (5000 yards and 37 TDs) and our defense tanked, you'd say get rid of him?

Yeah - big red flag there. There were small improvements here and there, but those were largely in like.. prevent defense formations. I want to be able to drive down and put 7 on the board before half-time.

I just wish wouldn't break the plays down himself. He's great on those broken scramble plays with both his arm and his feet. The problem is he too often will take off when theres an easy play to be made right in front of him. I actually like designed QB runs, he slides and gets out of bounds more often than not. The read option and triple-option plays were killer for us last year in the red zone.

I don't even mind scrambling, just... theres a time and a place. He scrambled into sacks, and mistakes way too often when there was an open pocket in front of him.

I think one thing I'd like to see that he never got a great chance to do would be pre-snap reads/audibles. We struggled so badly to line up quickly and get play calls in during the first 2 years. I know part of that is on Tyrod but a lot of it falls on coaching as it was a known issue with Roman before we brought him in. Using motion to better recognize coverage, setting up the o-line, and adjusting the snap count to slow down pass rushers.

Played through rib injuries, groin injuries, and the hip injury. I remember he sprained his ankle on an awkward catch and missed a game or two. If the foot issue keeps cropping up, it'll be come a big problem.

To be fair - his stats align really closely with the first 3 years of Julio Jones.

its a full injury guarantee I think, while if we wait and his foot is still a mangled mess we can not be stuck with a huge cap hit for a non-contributor, The non-exclusive tag isn't that much more cap space than the 4th overall picks 5th year option if i recall.

My only issue was it was a 1st round pick, and he didnt play in 2003. Also we lost price before 2003 and our offense fell apart. Seems like a luxury pick for a team that.. shouldn't have been doing that?

They run the ball well, have a QB who doesn't turn it over, and play a strong defense which is good at taking the ball away. I think we can all draw a comparison to the bills team of the last two years, and safely say if they don't take the ball away as much, it will result in losses.

we have like 7 linebackers, 6 DTs and what seems like 2 DEs. So... if anyone can play end... that'd be good

Denver had 100 more PA's than buffalo last year, and we rushed a bit more than them. I think the balance will swing above the 50-50 rush/pass of the last 2 years, as hopefully less runs = more plays on offense. Maybe somewhere like 55/45 pass to run?

While we did add richardson in 2014, we still had Urbik. I think you're thinking of Erik Pears. Who was terrible.

Right... Carson Palmer is kind of the new Bledsoe in that regard. His numbers are a bit better, but different Eras.

We never had peak bledsoe, we had skip it to his receivers bledsoe after his first like 8 games. Surprised to not see Henry on there. Considering he was good here, and we basically.. buried him for McGahee who immediately bailed the first chance he could.

I mean... alcohol is legal and there's a ton more fatal accidents involving that.

Travis Henry was pretty good here. Nate Clements was excellent in his time here. London Fletcher was pretty solid. Only 4 first team all-pro players in the drought. Mario, Dareus, Takeo, and Moorman. So those would be the best players, but I don't think any of them would qualify as underrated. I'm going to go with Fletcher. 5 years as our Mike, never missed a game. Fletcher played what 7 more seasons?

Tackling is the big knock on janoris jenkins, but he had an excellent year last year with NYG. Sometimes a change of scenery will do ya good.

Cool - hope we sign him.

i mean... shes a piece of work alright. Ran him out of miami.. but was she wrong when she said Tannehill sucked? Out of line sure - but was she wrong...? Who do you rank him above? And why?