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I think the Adams and Hill deals have nothing to do with the cap at all, so the premise that Mahomes and Rodgers getting paid led to their best WRs being let go is false. Green Bay offered Adams MORE than the Raiders. He just wanted to be on the 4th place team in a division instead of 1st. Nothing GB could do. Take the picks in a loaded WR draft. Kansas City offered Hill huge money (top 3 WR in the NFL money) but if you read their forums a bit there have been issues between Tyreek and KC regarding his contract off and on the past couple years. Either way, he wasn't let go because of the cap. Again, take the picks in a loaded WR draft.

Jimmy Johnson was a great football coach in the Parcells mold. He knew his X's and O's and also knew how to lead a group of men, whether in college or the pros. He would succeed anywhere, IMO. The thing is, he would drive players hard but he would be right there with them grinding. That buys you some leeway with guys. Then the wins start coming and guys buy in even more. They get that there is a method to the madness. On the other hand, Urban didn't do his homework, seemed to want to do as little as possible, and yet expected his guys to work like madmen while he "delegated" everything and obviously didn't do everything he could to be better since he didn't even know who Aaron Donald was. ANY causal NFL fan knows who Donald is, let alone a guy whose JOB is to know and who is getting paid tens of millions of dollars to be on top of those... I wouldn't even call that a detail. Knowing the backup guard for a team you're playing is a detail. Knowing Donald is a freaking headline! In my opinion (based on his NFL tenure and things we're reading now) Urban Meyer's entire resume was built on recruiting such clearly superior talent that just about any coach could "coach" them to titles. Then it was a lot of pumping his ego by walking around campus and having everyone fawn over him, mixed in with verbally abusing his players who were too scared to say anything back because he was URBAN MEYER! The guy who has places named after him off campus and is a total "legend" and big shot. His approach to the NFL was apparently the same playbook, except nobody gave a crap that he was "Urban Meyer". LOL What an empty suit.

doesn't it benefit the player? whoever picks him up has to take on the contract? I read the other day on PFT that the Bengals planned to do this

If I was Brandon Beane and I saw Diggs number pop up on my caller ID my blood would freeze right about now!

and guys hit other QBs like they want to knock their heads off but with Gramps it's "oh, sorry sir, let me help you down easy" LOL If Tua can miss one of them be can miss both! LOL

such a dumb move for Hill... force your way off the Chiefs to go to the Dolphins, whose QB can't throw 20 yards? good for us though!

Well, one does. I realized long ago that the NFL is a show about Tom Brady, with other teams roles to add color and nuance to his heroic tale. I'm kidding of course, BTW. Sort of.

This is so strange to me... you build your offense up then trade away a key guy. IMO it's so weaken KC so that Tampa has a better shot of beating them when they play. Tampa needs every win this season so Tommy can get that #1 seed and get to another Super Bowl. Bucs will play the Browns within the first 2-3 weeks so Watson will be suspended when they play as well. The entire NFC hollows itself out. Meanwhile, teams trade star players to the Bucs for a 5th round pick. You tell me.

Jimmy Johnson was a great ball coach and also a guy who knew how to work with people. PLUS he brought his entire college staff with him, if I recall. That is huge, because there is loyalty and chemistry there.

I don't follow college football much but it sounds to me like Urban recruited teams good enough to just win based on massive talent advantage and wasn't really a football coach. Plus the players revered/feared him and he could lord it over them pointing to his record/titles/etc. That approach couldn't work in the NFL, especially on a team that was at a serious talent disadvantage almost every week.

48 eh? time flies... Seems like only yesterday he was 47.... Happy birthday coach!

He was having a nice resurgence until that injury... Saints were playing with (insert name here) at QB late in the season and still had a shot at the playoffs. They didn't lose a lot of talent, and Thomas is seemingly back, which is huge. Winston could always pile up the stats, but he needed to stop turning the ball over so much. He can certainly move the sticks and produce passing yards though, which is 3/4 of the job.

That division is pathetic, but the Saints seem to give them fits and if Winston goes back there he was playing pretty well before the injury.

What a fall.. from #1 overall to "hey, I guess we'll take him but you'll have to make it worth our while"

Brady gets a bye into the Super Bowl! LOL NFC is such a joke

And yet again, things go Brady's way.

Rams would be dumb to trade Woods... Their team always seems to sustain huge injuries late in the year.

Love it!

Cole yesterday after all these signings: "give me the damn shot!"

LOVE it! Miller will be great for the locker room, and with so many young guys on the team they can pick up a lot from him!

The Saints, who are always like 70 million over the cap, barely lost any players, just signed the Jets DB for good $$ and are a serious bidder for Deshaun Watson, as are the Falcons, who would absorb like a billion dollars in dead cap to move Matt Ryan's contract. My conclusion? The cap can always be managed. The only thing cap-wise that you can't escape is Star's contract, apparently. THAT will always be with us.

I heard this news while listening to Slick Tom on 97 Rock last night while working in the garage... When he did his whole... "hold on to your hat.. breaking news..." schtick I 100% thought he was going to talk about the RB who went back to WTF. When he said the Bills signed Von Miller to this insane contract I couldn't believe it; totally out of left field! Has any player won a SB with 3 different teams? That would be a cool stat for Miller!

here we go again with some people saying about my favorite big man "all he does is obliterate QBs" It's like saying "he only plays well in playoff games." LOL Well, oh darn. To me, a 340 lb man smashing the opposing team's QB is fun to watch!

I cannot tell you how happy I am to see this! Please let it be true!

YES! Finally an enormous DT! I was heartbroken when he left