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Injuries have robbed him of quality play. He used to be good at all facets of TE play, but not great at any single one. He'd have been a perfect TE2, but he is not that player anymore.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2814967-the-1-prospect-each-nfl-team-needs-to-grab-in-the-2019-draft#slide0 Brent Sobieski from the Bleacher Report agrees with you. So do I.

Here’s a recent Spotrac article on players that could make sense for teams to part ways with. Some Bills in there. Definitely some that could help. https://www.spotrac.com/research/nfl/potential-2019-nfl-roster-bubbles-819/

That's what contract guarantees are for. I guess the Dolphins aren't as clueless as I thought. Tanking is exactly what they should do. Now let's wait and see if they have the patience to do it right.

Perfect excuse to tell her friends for why she doesn’t work out anymore.

If that. He made over $57M for his 13 years in the league. If he comes back to coach it’ll be solely because that’s what he wants to do with his life.

That $6.5M guarantee has offsets too. That means that if the Jags cut him and he signs elsewhere then the amount he’s paid in 2019 is deducted from that. Even as a backup he’d make more than $6.5M so there’s no Osweiler type deal to be done here. That only happened because of the salary guarantees in his contract.

It's almost like the NFL wanted a Los Angeles team in the Super Bowl.

He had offsets in his contract with the Browns. His salary in Cincy was deducted from the $4.75M the Browns were still paying him. I believe that was it as far as guarantees from the Browns. It had been noted that when the Bengals played the Browns (twice) while he was coaching the Bengals the Browns were paying him way more than the Bengals. Turns out it was money well spent.

Wow. That would be incredibly important.

1. You have to really ask yourself what mentoring by McCoy and Clay is really worth. Clay’s injuries have made everything else about him meaningless. It’s too bad. McCoy needs to earn his way with his play. He’s not the mentor you want for young players. 2. Cap space can be carried forward. Don’t spend what you don’t need to spend. No sense overpaying older players on their last year. 3. Maybe McCoy. Maybe. Not Clay. 4. You can’t bank on trading them midseason. There’s a better chance that these players get injured. Plus they’ll take up roster spots. 5. You can’t restructure the last year of a deal without extending the players. Why would they do that? The total cap hit would stay the same anyway. Also we don’t need the space this season. 6. See #1 i appreciate that you don’t want them to just get cut, but Clay is gone. McCoy probably is too.

Tons of money at stake so it would be little surprise if people want to fight over it.

I don’t know what their plan is, but I hope they don’t go crazy unless it’s for an elite player. Overspending on good players should be limited to one or two year deals. A real problem is that they need help at premier positions and getting high quality players at those positions will likely require drafting them. Overpaying for someone like Clowney would be very worthwhile, but that’s a long shot at best. Ultimately finding good fits at reasonable contracts will be most of FA. I expect them to be aggressive in the draft. They’re going to go after their guys. The full rebuild won’t be done this year but they can be a lot better with a solid showing in FA and 2-3 quality players in the draft.

This is fantastic. Please update with all possible details. Thank you.

No coach has deserved being fired twice in a season more. That includes Wrex (just barely), which is really saying something. Maybe Rob though.

It’s only guaranteed for injury until the start of that season when it becomes fully guaranteed. They can exercise and rescind later if they can’t work out a LTD and don’t think he’s worth it. The injury risk is worth that IMO.

Actually a a really nice goodbye from Gregg. Props.

Prior to coming to Cleveland last season Bruce Arians has been grooming Kitchens to take over as HC in AZ when he left. So he’s had some exposure to those things.

Heard from several people with close ties to the team that they thought Kitchens was the right choice. That has been the case for weeks. Also heard that many players did not want Gregg retained as HC or DC and that they conveyed that to the powers that be in Berea.

Yeah. Ability to understand the position including route running/options and ability to separate. Just get me that.

Yup. It was particularly egregious to put a raw rookie QB into an offense with a vertical passing game with such poor OTs and no real weapons at WR or TE. Add in no running game and it's no surprise that Allen and the passing offense struggled.

I agree that Brown is still an elite talent and will be for a few more seasons. But I just don't want him on my team. He sure seems to be all about himself and not his team. You can sometimes get away with adding a selfish, but highly talented player to a mature, successful team. But you can't build a team like that. I wonder if any of the posters here who are clambering for AB also rip on OBJ (who hasn't done done things that come close to what AB just did).

Running is a very nice extra for a QB, but to highly rate one that player should be an effective and efficient passer. Chubb was PFFs highest rated RB overall, not just rookie RB. Allen wasn’t a well rated QB. He has shown flashes - and that’s great wrt giving fans hope - but it isn’t the same as being good at his job (yet). It’s that simple. I’ll take the guy who did his job the best.

Wow! Are you really using a QB’s rushing stats to judge that player? Just wow. Sure positional importance/difficulty should be favored in, but if you’re going to do that then you really need to judge a player on their primary job.

It’s not. You should watch him play. He earned that ranking.