Doc Brown

Please tell me again how he's saving billionaires some money when there is a minimum floor to the salary cap?

Drafting three running backs in the first round was one of many reasons for the playoff drought. At least those days are over (I think). We got a 1st and a 4th for Jason Peters who was undrafted. Him and Peerless are all I got.

I agree with all your points at how this could be collusion as it's defined. However, I'd avoid using phrases like carrying water for billionaires when there is a minimum floor salary cap each team much meet as per the CBA. It's just not smart business giving a long term guaranteed contract to anybody in the NFL (regardless of position) given the unique physicality of the sport. The Browns are now stuck for their own stupidity and it doesn't mean other GM's should follow suit.

Great idea. He can call plays from the MLB position. Name one example in NFL history where a head coach (non interim) was demoted to a coordinator position.

The conspiracy theorist in me says that's the assumption they want you to make. It's not collusion. It's well known that the failure to get a deal done was because Lamar wanted a fully guaranteed contract. Just because the Browns were dumb enough to give a fully guaranteed record qb contract doesn't meant another team is. If I'm Lamar, I hire an agent and back off the fully guaranteed demand. He's one bad step away from losing generational wealth playing on the non exclusive franchise tag.

If you're going by PFF like the article references 2022 was his pass blocking grade was the 2nd best of his career (80.4) while his run blocking grade was the lowest of his career (60.1). If you want to make the argument that his run blocking was worse that's fair but saying he allowed a lot more pressures is just not accurate. We absolutely should address the tackle position though because one injury to Dawkins and you're likely looking at Quessenberry/Doyle and Brown. Yikes.

Yes and no. They didn't really have a need at DE given the Rousseau selection (plus Epenesa the previous year) but they took Basham anyways. They took three RB's, a small LB, and a TE so they definitely will move away from premium positions to draft for need. I disagree with Ford though as he met both premium position/high upside and I don't believe he was elevated because of a weak OT class. These big boards by the "draft experts" theoretically assign draft grades on each prospect in isolation so it shouldn't matter how strong a particular position is in a draft. Most had them in the 10 to 30 range citing his upside despite only one year experience at tackle. The Bills got him at #38 and only moved him to guard when they realized he wasn't going to cut it at tackle. Spencer Brown was another raw prospect with high upside at a premium position. I guess this year will be the true test as it's likely S, LB, and IOL as likely needs.

Beane at least to me has followed this strategy and his draft process has always been fine. QB, MLB, DT, WR, DE, CB are all premium positions he used first round picks to obtain. The problem is in the scouting department. I remember Cody Ford being in the 20 to 30 range on most big boards and mock drafts before the 2019 draft. He may have been there "aim high superstar" talent that they traded up to get when he slipped to the second round. Boogie Basham was another pick where they thought they were getting great value at a premium position.

2019 - Exceeded expectations. Going from 6-10 to 10-6 was impressive given we didn't have a true #1 WR yet. 2020 - Exceeded expectations. Offense came out of nowhere. Two playoff wins. No shame in losing to the best Chiefs roster in Reid's tenure. 2021 - Fell below expectations. Especially the defense. Going 11-6 and then the 13 seconds debacle despite being mostly healthy was disappointing. 2022 - Met expectations given the injuries and unprecedented off the field issues. If we were as healthy as we were in 2021 then we would've won the whole thing.

I think he's a consistently above average left tackle who was his old reliable self this season playing all 19 games. I'm guessing the Bills are more than satisfied with contract wise as his cap hit and annual average value is 14th among left tackles.

Let him walk. He's an average QB who can run. I'm sure you could get someone like Marcus Mariota for a fourth of the cost and would still pry produce similar results under Daboll. I'd be aggressively trying to move up to get one of the top four QB's in this draft. That way you get a QB on a rookie contract and can then aggressively build around him.

Dane's a restricted free agent as his rookie contract was terminated when he was cut and then re-signed to the practice squad in 2020.

Something tells me if this was true we would've seen Tua in the playoffs. The NFLPA player survey had the organization ranked 2nd in the league in terms of treatment. Darn you for making me defend the Dolphins. I don't trust Ross though and I especially didn't like Flores. The way he put Fitzpatrick in to relieve Tua was embarrassing and not how you develop a young QB you spent significant draft capital on.

It was a sarcastic joke. Direct TV is slowly going into extinction. Losing Sunday Ticket only accelerates the process.

Look. Once this "streaming" fad ends you'll be sorry. Also, technically the 2023 NFL season doesn't begin until March 15th so nobody was lying.

How do you know that? I personally would jump at season tickets even if they were double what they were now if I knew I was getting the same comfortable indoor weather every game. I'm not paying for seasons with the possibility of being cold and miserable when I can be just miserable watching from home.

You never know what will happen with the seemingly increased number of weather events around here lately. Eventually players and fans will respond with their mouths and/or pocket books. There's conversations about adding a roof to the Jags stadium due to complaints about the heat. With enough of a public outcry to spend the money to put a roof on it some politician may pounce. Just curious because they put a roof a few of the tennis courts at the US Open. It was 180m to put a retractable roof on Arthur Ashe stadium. Maybe more Seneca casino revenue to be collected to pay for it.

For the engineers out there, when they realize in 15 years they made a massive mistake not putting a roof on.... how hard would it be to just add a functioning roof to the stadium? Was there any thought to that option in the design?

You base your feelings on some guy's opinion? Why, what he'd say?

No. He was third behind Diggs and Davis. He was under drafted as he pry should've gone in the third round so I do have hopes he can develop into an effective slot receiver. Development is the key though It's still imperative to me we draft a WR that has the potential to be a #1 in either of the first two rounds. You look at some of the best WR combos in the league and it's for the most part an established highly paid #1 and a recent first round draft pick on his rookie deal (Brown/Smith, Hill/Waddle, Samuel/Aiyuk, Jefferson/Thielen). Lockett and Metcalf both signed deals that kept their cap hit last year low and Chase/Higgens are both on rookie contracts. Going all the way back to Moulds and Price. We had to move on from Price because he was looking for #1 WR money and found it with the Falcons.

This may have been answered already but is his real name Bruce Nolan?

KeyBank would pry be the blueprint. I got a kick out of this tweet.

The free market (under a socialist salary cap system ironically) will sort this out and you don't need to separate QB contracts from the cap. The more these QB contracts blow up in teams faces the less likely some franchises will be to shell out Kyler Murray type money.

There may be a certain stubbornness to Lamar also with wanting to prove that he negotiated this record fully guaranteed deal without needing an agent. If he gets it from the Ravens or some other team. Good for him. However, I already think it was incredibly stupid to even set foot on the field last season without the security of a long term deal that will set you and your family up for generations.