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Even though there is a lot of uncertainty about 2022’s cap it’s a lot safer to think that the 2023 cap will ballon considerably. We will see a lot of teams kick hits to that year. Big jumps in the cap always make it difficult to (efficiently) use a lot of excess space anyway. That’s because it’s easy for teams to retain just about anyone they want and not much real talent hits the market.

But he’s tired! Been walking’ all day

Oh, ouch. Then he should’ve gone wherever he had the best chance to make a team

If the money is about the same, then I think most players would rather either be near home or on a possible championship team. The Rams look like a playoff team this year and it’s close to his family so it makes sense to me.

I think that it is probable that the NFL is floating these two possible opener games to get a feel for how well received they’d be. That’s be smart on their part.

Yup. They’re just throwing whatever they can at the problem. It isn’t much, but it’s what they can do at the moment.

The team’s reaction to it really showed something. Allen said they were all like “Well, they got this one. Next.” Basically that it didn’t change what they thought they could accomplish the rest of the way. No head hanging or anything like that.

As mentioned before, Baker had three offensive systems in his first three years. Last season he didn’t even have a proper offseason to learn and practice this one. He looked bad early, but finished strong. Now he gets to, for the first time as a pro, stay in that same scheme for a second season. Let’s see how he does with that before passing judgement.

Indeed. She’s more into soccer

My 15 year old daughter told me that she thinks Zach Lance is hot. Maybe that’s because he looks 17. Personally I didn’t study the QBs coming out in any detail (because I don’t root for a team that needed one), but I thought second overall was awfully high for a prospect whose negatives included issues with accuracy and decision making. True that Allen had the same knocks so you never know.......

Bills should’ve been in that convo. Not saying that they’re #1, but I don’t see how they’re left out of consideration. Maybe if they were including TEs and pass catching from RBs, but not straight up WR corps.

For what it’s worth, I’ve heard that the timing of the info on his possible heart condition coming out was the issue for teams. They didn’t get a chance to have medical evaluations by their own doctors like in typical years and didn’t have time to do much work on him when it came out. Now he’s cleared.

Miami’s DBs are middle of the pack or slightly above that IMO. Again, Howard is a stud, top 5 CB, but you’ve got little else of significance. The fact that you didn’t even mention the Rams and Packers shows how little you know. They were easily at the top of secondary play last season. Quite frankly, the Bills were better too due to similar play at CB and better players at safety.

Oh sorry. Saw the previous post about a Phins fan in the thread. Assumed it was you since you were sticking up for the guy. I should’ve read back further. Still, my point stands: Looking at Miami’s secondary they don’t exactly have much back there. If this guy is any good, why cut him?

Well, your Phins aren’t exactly stacked at DB. You’ve got Howard at CB1 and you drafted Holland for a S spot but I don’t see much else back there. Seems like you wouldn’t want to part with anyone decent so why’d you cut him loose?

This is true. All I got on the guy is that I don’t remember noticing him when I watched Miami play, his pff scores (meh) and what I’ve read in this thread. Based on that - and the Bills need as you point out - he’d be worth a look as a backup.

He wasn’t even a corner for them the last couple seasons.

Well, he’s not good, but he’d be cheap

Naw. All Rodgers has to do is hold out and then report to the Pack with six games left in the season so he gets his accrued year. He won’t get paid his salary for the other 11 games but that’ll clear him of any real chance of having to repay his signing bonus - which is very difficult for teams to reclaim anyway. Or he could go the hurt, not hurt route. Lotta ways around paying back the SB.

I’ll probably watch the rookies play a few snaps before deciding

That’s probably why I mentioned that

Nope. Dane Jackson has played a whopping 231 NFL snaps in 5 games - including 193 on defense. He’s very far from proven. Only 2021 first round rookie Newsome and 2020 second rounder Delpit fall below that, neither having taken a snap. With the veterans the Browns have at CB and S neither of them even has to start anyway.

Dunno, maybe select a CB, speed WR, 1 Tech or even a TE that could contribute this season - even if it meant maneuvering in the draft a bit (nothing extravagant). Or they could’ve selected some other needed depth position like center so we have someone in the pipeline that can take over for Morse this season if/when Morse has another concussion or (more hopefully) next season. Instead we probably will be shuffling the line and/or looking for a center next offseason. We don’t have much in the way of CBs on contract after this season either. We could use more help there this season and in the immediate future. I expected more from the draft than a couple DEs who will be developing for next season and two longer term projects at OT. That’s what I feel like we got.

We can agree to disagree on the DBs, - and there’s no doubt the Browns had a lot to do to make up ground - but exactly how did the Bills improve their OL? The interior is the same and on the outside they swapped out swing tackle Nseke for 3rd and 5th round rookies. At best that’s a wash. As for DL I don’t see how you can discount FAs and draft picks for the Browns, but count on the Bills draft picks being significant contributors. That’s not a fair way to look at it.

DBs should go to the Browns. White is the best on either team and Wallace is solid, but it really drops off at CB after that. Taron is serviceable and Jackson is a still very unproven late round pick - though he did show some promise. Poyer and Hyde are very good safeties but all that we have behind them is Neal. The Browns are looking like they could be stacked there. Ward and Harrison are very good DBs, first round pick Greg Newsome II is an excellent (if unproven) CB prospect, they picked up two FAs in Hill and Johnson III from the Rams (which had the best secondary in the NFL last season) and they’ll be getting back injured players Delpit and Williams.