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One early, one late. Value at WR should be found throughout the draft.

The NFL wants parity. It’s more about the NFL than the NFLPA who likely would be for trading cap space. Let the teams that want to spend, spend. It’d drive up prices for the top players. That’s what the league doesn’t want. Plus allowing teams to trade cap space would really damage pairity. The Mike Browns of the league would use that mechanism to get richer at the expense of even attempting to be competitive. The Dareus trade was a similar situation in that the Bills traded away a highly talented player for peanuts because they wanted to be rid of him and his future guaranteed money. The big difference with the Osweiler trade was that Houston gave up the player and more in picks than they got back. Osweiler plus a 6th and a future 2nd for only a 4th from Cleveland IIRC. That’s where it gets sketchy with the league office. They tried to run the trade through all in the same year and it was rejected. No bueno from the league.

Trading cap space for picks straight up is verboten in the NFL. This example was the work around to technically be within the rules. I wouldn’t be against the Bills doing something like this, but it’s rare that a team is in the position the Texans were in. You have to find a team with big guaranteed salary to a player they have given up on and is in such bad cap space that they are willing to part with a high pick to rid themselves of the contract. And then the Bills would have to be willing to wait a year for the high pick since the NFL won’t authorize a player and a higher pick for a lower pick in the same year. That’s just not going to happen very often.

The Niners OL is interesting. Two 1st round OTs bookending a former bust and two guys who were UFAs. But they all fit their system really well.

That is not true. He threw a fit until we gave him that sweet contract. Once he got paid he was happy, but not before. And to be clear, be wanted paid in Philly too so it was about the money, not the city. He’d have been happy anywhere with that contract though.

Learned my lesson after getting hosed the first time. I required NTE (not to exceed) clauses in the quotes after that. No NTE clause? Then don’t bother quoting. Only one company sent me a quote without it and would not require with it. They were the cheapest, but no way would I go with them. They’d have hosed me. Tossed that in the trash.

Yeah. That would actually be more defensible than anything else he’s done. And haven’t those kids already been through enough?

I hope that the Bills make a run at a top tier DE. I’m not sure if they will - or if they’ll be successful - but it’d be the smart move if one is available (not are-signed or tagged).

I agree. Plus a bunch of players are due roster bonuses in March. That includes Star ($1M), Murphy ($500k), Kroft ($750k+$2M of salary guarantees). Lee Smith ($500k), Hauschka ($250k), Yeldon ($150k) and Roberts ($100k). Of that group, Kroft is the guy I see released before that bonus is due. His contract is ridiculous for his meager contribution. I’d expect the rest to be here next season. Long has a contract with team options for this year and next. It’s doubtful that this one will be picked up unless Morse has a horrible offseason injury before mid-March. I still don’t understand why he got that contract with the Morse signing. It seemed excessive as insurance.

A lot of people overlooked Watkins’ less than ideal height and modest vertical jump as well as the fact that he caught most (over 50%) of his passes behind the LOS at Clemson.

People should remember that free agency is first. WR is probably the only position I wouldn’t need set before the draft. It is so deep this year we should be able to find what we need without addressing it in FA.

I like the idea of Jimmy G winning it all while Belichick stews about how Kraft forced him trade him away. Seems like that could fan the flames of discontent. Plus I’m not rooting for that POS Tyreek Hill.

Poyer and Hyde have both outperformed their contracts. Hyde has 2 seasons left, Poyer has 1. I can see them both getting extensions. Hyde has been much better than Poyer (who has been very good) so they really can’t give Poyer a raise to more than what Hyde is making without causing problems. This could be tricky.

Not a fully licensed teacher. Usually they’re teaching aides.

Our safety duo is a strength of this defense. Hyde in particular is a top shelf safety. Poyer is good, but not on his level. Are they the top duo in the NFL? No, but they’re well beyond good enough. My only real concerns with the position is depth/injury and that Poyer will hold out this year for a contract well above his actual value.

Such a shame Well, those are his two good choices in his situation: Be gracious or go full out Manning. And it’s too soon to go Manning on the Bengals anyway. That’s only after your are unquestionably the pick at 1 and you’ve back channeled your way into an understanding with another top 5 drafting team. I don’t expect that, but there’s still time.

Gotta be honest, I don’t love the clamor for a big back. Give me a decently sized back with speed and the ability to catch the ball out of the backfield and I’m a lot happier.

Sitting around doing nothing at all. I’m honest when I say that that is better than I thought he’d be doing at this point. Three years ago I’d have bet on him being dead by now.

Methinks it has to do with players gutting it out and playing with injuries in a playoff year.

Yeah. How effed up is it that the NFL picks two teams that are playing both the AFC West and the NFC West to go to London to play each other? Ridiculous.

I’ll simply point out this. The 3 owner subcommittee who’s job it was to negotiate and recommend Goodell’s compensation package to the league owners for approval consisted of: Kraft, Rooney and Mara. Do you think it is coincidence that (even before I learned of this) the three teams that I’d have put at the top of the list of favoritism from the league were the Patriots, the Steelers and the Giants?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/07/20/comical-exchange-among-josh-norman-cam-newton-luke-kuechly-featured-new-season-all-or-nothing/%3foutputType=amp I will always think of this when I think of Luke Kuechly. That and great plays. But always this. “Who’s team you on?” Edit: can’t get it to embed for some reason. Definitely worth the watch.

That is horrible. I can see how this happened with the flu going around now. It kicked my ass. Thank God for Tamiflu.

I saw you were in Cali and was totally expecting something a lot more salacious.

A lot of effed up things happened until people stood up and made the people doing them stop. The attitude of “That’s just how things are” is just a way of validating those effed up things.