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Any team that seems close but without an answer at QB should break out the credit card and mortgage the future to get Watson. You're not really "giving up picks" but turning a maybe into a certainty. Watson is a proven top 5-7 QB who is young. 1st round picks don't always work out, or often are "meh" once a couple of years go by. You could have a top QB for the next decade (easily) or a WR,CB and T that may or may not be any good in a handful of years for the guy who takes over for you when you're fired.

What about an Atlanta/SF, Houston trade? Houston gets: Jimmy G, SF 2021 1st, ATL 2021 1st, 2022 1st Atlanta gets: Watson SF gets: Matt Ryan Everyone wins there. Houston gets 3 #1s, with 2 this year to build, and Jimmy G Atlanta gets Watson for 2 1sts and Ryan, who would be out anyway, SF gets Ryan for Jimmy G and a 1st.

Cowherd posed a question yesterday that is worth considering... If Reid ends up winning 4-5 Super Bowls is HE the GOAT HC, and not Belichick? He'll have the wins, the coaching tree (which will only grow), and will have done it on 2 teams with multiple QBs in both conferences. Look at Reid's coaching tree. Harbuagh and Pederson have won Super Bowls as head coaches, and Reich has an OC on Philly. Reid is 62 and has said he wants to coach for another decade. It all has to happen first, of course.

For the Bills, I would say Addison, Morse or Star. We don't have a ton of terrible contracts, though, as I look through it. For other NFL players, guys like Matt Ryan (49 million in dead cap) come to mind.

It's the lighting, 100% Look at how different the away uniform looks in KC versus NE: The blue and red on the Bills uniforms are much more crisp, and the white helmet glitter pops in the photo of Diggs in NE from this year. In the photo of Allen and the chiefs player you can see how yellow the lighting is in KC. Even the Chiefs red looks darker because of it, more muted.

I didn't know that about Jimmy G... That complicates things. I imagine he would agree, knowing that he would be guaranteed the starting role in Houston in that type of trade. Plus that division is hardly a juggernaut the way the NFC West is, so there's opportunity in the AFC South.

I think McDermott will learn from this. He seems like a very reflective guy who is willing to grow as a HC. Sometimes we forget that coaches, just like players, need to grow to reach their ceiling. Andy Reid is what a coach reaching his ceiling looks like. For years Reid fell short in the playoffs, largely due to poor coaching decisions. Now he has a super team that seemingly can do whatever it wants.

Now it's getting interesting.... SF gives: 3 1sts, Samuel and Jimmy G Houston gives: Watson I still do that deal if I'm SF. I can find another WR in round 2 or 3, or in FA.

I could see it. Imagine Shanahan with a guy like Watson AND that running game and defense. They would still have picks in rounds 2+ every year as well. What a fun division that would be with Watson, Murray and Wilson.

If you kick the FG you probably lose. If you go for it and don't make it, you probably lose. If you go for it and score the TD you've got a shot. 1 of those 3 decisions gives you a chance to win the game. Kicking a FG and going 4 and out are pretty much the same thing. You need to score 30+ to be in the game at the end, so unless you score 10 FGs you aren't getting there with 3's.

I want to hear Beane say: "We are going to draft a big, sloppy 350+ pound DT to play next to Oliver and encourage him to hit the downtown food scene once he gets here. "

Well, of course the players would have to agree. I think they might, because remember that the % is of their remaining deal, which is not guaranteed anyway. Teams could still cut them and they get nothing going forward, it just screws the team's cap up and reduces the money out there for free agents.

Watson to SF would be really interesting... Pick 12 this year, and a 1st in the next 2 seasons, plus Jimmy G could get it done. So it's 3 1sts, with one being #12 overall in 2021, and Jimmy G, who did just play in a Super Bowl.

By putting it out there that the Lions and Stafford are going to part ways, they decreased his value in a trade. If I'm another team's GM I know he isn't going back there, so that reduced my offer. Same. Best case scenario you end up with a QB as good as Watson in a year or two. You're almost certainly not going to improve at QB, so why bother? Now, Watt is a different story. I would trade him to recoup some picks.

I think the NFL should consider an NHL style buyout that each team could use to cancel 1 contract in terms of cap ramifications this offseason, especially since the cap is going to all of a sudden dip unexpectedly. Many teams are stuck with contracts that they cannot get rid of, and nobody could have planned for the cap to go down at all, let alone by a significant amount. You buyout the player's contract, thereby immediately making him a free agent. To do so, you pay him a lump sum that is some % of his remaining deal. None of that lump sum counts against your cap, and his contract comes off your cap with no penalty. This has to be done in March of this year, let's say. That's the only window, and it's a 1-time pandemic related measure. Players get paid, teams can get out from under crazy contracts that were signed in a pre-COVID era, and GMs don't have to cut half their team because getting rid of a Matt Ryan contract, for example, would carry so much dead cap that they could barely field a team. Also, it must be a player currently on your squad. No doing this to wipe dead cap from previous cuts. And no team has to do it; it's just an option.

This is going to surprise some people. Tampa lives on the big turnover setting them up for an easy score. They don't consistently drive the ball.

Tampa has not had to consistently drive the ball in either of the past 2 games. The Saints gave them a free TD and Green Bay gave them 2. Neither of those 2 teams were good enough to overcome that. Tampa's strategy has been very NE-eque: get an early lead, hang around, and wait for you to beat yourself. It worked vs the Saints and especially vs the Packers. The NFL Title Game went from a 4 point TB lead at half (no big deal) to 18 points in about 1 minute of play, both due to colossal blunders by Green Bay more than anything else. Tampa is going to put everything into getting their best shots in early to build a lead. If Tampa doesn't have a lead by halftime this will be a blowout win for KC. If they do, it will be a close win for KC with some drama, where a timely penalty flag by the refs could bail Brady out. Simply put, if KC plays its A game this won't be close.

Some things in life are just easy: 1) Patriots bad 2) Brady bad NOW, what happens next season when the 2 teams play each other (NE and TB)? I won't know how I feel until I sit down to watch that game.

I hope both have been bulking up and watching Tom Brady highlight montages and internalizing the rage they cause.

Patriots fans want Tampa to win. Whatever they want I want the opposite.

It was the lights in KC... I noticed that they made the Bills white uniforms look weird, like an overly harsh led lamp. It also made the KC uniforms a darker, almost vintage looking, muted shade of red. That's what you were seeing, I think. Their stadium lights are harsh.

Agreed on Manning over Rodgers. Peyton Manning went to 4 super Bowls,2 with each of his teams, and won 1 with each. Odd symmetry to his career. Yes, he was 2-2, but as Brady has shown, you've got to get to the Super Bowl to win it. Rodgers is stuck in the conference title game. You think Brady will stick around to congratulate Mahomes on winning back to back Super Bowls?

KC is way better than they were last year. They are to the "regular season is boring" phase now. KC is going to be a problem for quite a while. We have a long, long way to go. But this season was an amazing ride!

The best way to put pressure on the opposing QB is to go out and score 35+ points. All of a sudden you can just cut your very talented DL loose, send a blitz here and there, and the opposing offense needs to be perfect. Dropping a pass, taking a sack, fumbling... all death sentences, or at least it feels like it, because once they punt you awkwardly trot out and in 3 plays it's 7 more points. If you're playing with the mentality of needing lots of TDs you are going to press all game. That helps a fast, aggressive defense do its work.

I wasn't that upset, because as much as it sucked to see, the Chiefs are other worldly. The Super bowl won't even be close. Enjoy watching Brady get crushed! Yup. #1 and #4 were there for the taking. The Cowboys fully expected to lose in #4 (for the Bills) because Aikman was so concussed he didn't know the plays. But by then the team was so tight, waiting for the crushing mistake. The pressure was enormous to win. That's what makes the chiefs even more dangerous. there's no "yeah, but" anymore. A super team like that that is tight and also confident and plays loose is pretty close to unbeatable.