GunnerBill

I agree with most of this... but I don't think the Giants had been an underachieving team. I think they had been and are a bad team with a poor roster. They overachieved last year but I am not sure it was ever sustainable without considerable roster improvement.

It will be Denver.

That was my objection at the time. But I think it has worked well. And the rationale that only the #1 seed deserves a bye works for me.

And that is the problem. They need to keep building but they are $40m over the cap next year, they have a couple of easier cuts like Ogbah that help. But they don't have a lot of easy restructures because their highest paid guys are older - kicking the can on them is risky. And then they have Elliot (safety), Williams and Hunt (Oline), Wilkins (Dline) and Van Ginkel (linebacker) as UFAs. And a decision to make on Tua. Basically they are at the point you normally get to when you are just trying to manage your roster as an established contender. Not when you have been back to back 1 and dones as a wildcard team.

I was anti going to 7 teams in the playoffs when it happened. I am a fan of it now.

I think OL is pretty even. Chiefs better G-C-G but the Bills tackles are definitely better.

The last two weeks the "Mike McDaniel is s coaching genius" story has been well and truly put back in the bottle. McDermott and Spags have owned him.

I think Daniels might be gone. They could draft Penix. He might well be there for them. But that is my point whatever order they go they are likely taking the 4th guy in this class.

No you didn't. Other than Kyle Pitts he is the only tight end I have ever had a first round grade on. The only thing holding Njoku back has been staying healthy. He is a beast.

Nah. American humour sucks. I will take it on our food.

A show called Friday Night Dinners. Channel 4 in the UK.

A QB, maybe. But possible he is the 4th one off the board.

Rich Eisen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything ESPN have.

Ha thankfully in the UK we don't have the issue of battling through the whole list of streaming services and channels that show the games and the draft that you guys have to. Sky Sports shows all the prime time games, one 1pm slot and one 4.25pm slot each Sunday, every playoff game and the draft for us. Then an NFL GamePass (now sadly on DAZN) gets us any other game we want to see. It works the other way around for Premier League Soccer I believe. If you want to watch that in the States you only need 1 or 2 subscriptions. To watch all the games in the UK you need multiple (and even then some are not for broadcast).

I think Mayo could be a talented Head Coach. It isn't like he was someone no-name candidate. He was a finalist for the Eagles job that went to Siriani, he interviewed with a couple of teams last year (definitely Denver and I have a feeling one other) and Carolina had already put in a slip for him this year. But man this is a hell of a situation to be thrown into. And what they do at GM now is going to be fascinating. The question for me is can he be a new start or is he too much continuity candidate in an organisation desperate for a re-set.

Ugh. Does that mean ESPN becomes the only option for Draft coverage?

Definitely a scenario where the draft doesn't fall. I would still have gone up a few extra spots for Addison. But there we are. He was so perfect for this offense.

Fields there intruiges me. I thought they should have drafted him tbh. Not sure he would be a Ben Johnson fit though. I think he needs to play in the kind of scheme they just binned.... There are ways I think ATL is the best job on the market. And other ways I think it is the worst.

The problem with the Atlanta job is how do you get a QB? You are picking 8th. Fair chance three are gone before then. You could swing a big trade up but you might not be the only team in the bidding for that. Or you could go for a vet who might spring free - Kirk Cousins possibly? But then you will both probably not be in contention to win a Superbowl and never be in position to try and draft your guy again. But certainly in Pitts, Bijan and to an extent London (although I am not as high on him as some I think he is kind of a 1B, very high end #2 rather than an out and out #1 receiver) they have some pieces there and a pretty solid oline.

A speedy outside guy with some home run threat would open the underneath stuff up even more for Shakir. If Brandon remembers wide receivers exist before day 3 that is.....

Oh no he didn't annoy me. I just didn't find it funny. Brandt is insufferable. Yea classic British sitcom is one of my specialist subjects. Sadly even we have loat our touch. We have made one genuinely funny sitcom in about 15 years.

Yea. Humour is one thing that just doesn't seem to translate as well. I like some American comedy but a lot of it just isn't funny to me.

Meh. I laughed at "Zach Wilson?" That was it. I thought it was pretty lame.

I don't have any issue with Dak being a 2nd team all pro. He has had a good year. CeeDee Lamb was a slam dunk. The two Smith's on the oline as 2nd teamers hard to argue. I think Zack Martin getting in is fair enough but him getting in as almost unanimous is a bit on reputation. Then hard to argue with the year DaRon Bland has had. I think the final one is the kicker who I don't think had missed a kick until last week!

Milano is a Will. He is also the best paid Will in football. The top five linebacker contracts that set the market all play the Mike. Bernard is a Mike. It is about positional value as much as anything. Those are guys you are asking to call your defense.