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Nearly half the offense grade is determined by the QB where the Bengals are significantly higher than Dallas. It really just boils down to that.

They do though; I literally recreated it myself. Offense/Defense/Total: Eagles - 2.028 / 0.8925 / 2.9205 Cowboys - 1.790 / 1.088 / 2.878 Bills - 1.526 / 1.3035 / 2.8295 Packers - 0.771 / 1.0725 / 1.8435 I can pull any other team you want but it all adds up. Not sure how familiar you are with Excel but it's very easy to set up.

He does statistical projections as well but I don't believe those have been released yet.

He uses a weighted average of the position rankings. If you apply the weights at the top of the chart to each position, the Eagles weighted average is 2.9 and the offense and defense grades (factoring in their proportion of the total grade) is a 2.0 and 0.9 respectively. I was able to easily recreate all of his offense/defense/total grades in a couple minutes in Excel.

He answered a question about this basically saying it's based on a combination of salary distribution, % of snaps where that position is on the field, and common sense. Purely a guess on my part, but I would think for such broad ratings that he's probably at least in part using stuff like PFF grades to formulate the ratings. I'd be shocked if he's grading every player/unit purely on his own.

I think technically he can and will hire an agent while maintaining his eligibility, or at least, some agent will represent him with the Combine/workouts. But yeah, he'll have until the end of May to decide if he wants to come back to school or not. I know the program is optimistic he'll be back, but we'll see. Just from some of the stuff his dad has said in the past and what I personally think his draft stock will actually be, I kinda wonder if we end up getting bad news on this front. I am selfishly hoping he doesn't like what he hears from NBA teams though lol. Edit: If the mock drafts are accurate and he's truly being viewed as a mid to late 2nd round pick, I think he'll return. He has lottery pick potential and we would probably offer to pay him more to stay than an NBA team would pay him that late in the draft. But if his draft stock is actually towards the back half of the first round like I suspect it may actually be, things will probably get dicey.

Think it's more to do with the fact that Symir just wasn't going to find playing time here regardless. Even if Judah didn't come back, he'd be behind JJ, Copeland, and Taylor for minutes. But I am pretty optimistic about Judah returning.

Now we wait to hear if Jesse and Bell are returning (and probably further down the line, Judah, as I assume he'll test the Draft waters before making his final decision).

As someone that grew up a Bucs fan and still roots for Tampa, this would be awesome. Assuming this isn't the year that father time comes calling, David would be an upgrade over Edmunds at a cheaper price point.

From what I heard, that was mostly just a courtesy to Autry/his parents trying to push him towards Syracuse but he had told a lot of people that he wanted to get away. Sounds like he's very interested this time around though/might be a done deal already.

Both have incredible voices but mostly make music I'm just not all that interested in. I'll always appreciate Lady Gaga though because she wrote my mother a letter congratulating her on a milestone with her not-for-profit org.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of buzz already that Syracuse will strongly pursue JJ Starling in the transfer portal. Already at least one expert prediction that they will ultimately land him. I haven't heard anything insider-y personally, but our interest in him obviously makes a lot of sense. Hopefully he's more interested in Syracuse now than he was coming out of high school; a potential starting backcourt of Mintz and JJ would be huge for us. Edit: I take that back; I have now heard some promising news re: JJ.

Probably need Edwards to return as well or strike gold on transfers. Going from Edwards to Hima would be a gigantic downgrade and I’m not really sure anyone projected to be on our team is capable of being the 2nd best player on a top 25 team.

My guess would be Syracuse will never return to the days of being a perennial top 25 team like they once were. From 1972-2018, Syracuse was in the top 25 at some point during the season in all but 2 years. But in reality, they probably haven't been deserving of those rankings beyond the 2013-14 season or maybe the 2015-16 season with Gbinije, Malachi, and Lydon. The other years in recent memory where Syracuse found themselves ranked were just starting the season ranked in the pre-season poll and falling out once the schedule turned. We'll see how it goes with Autry; I suspect that things will improve at least to some degree. How much it'll improve is to be determined. My guess would be that we settle in as one of those teams that pops up in the top 25 here and there and makes the tournament more often than not, but is no longer a lock to be in the NCAA Tournament every year/in the top 25 every year. I certainly hope we can get back to being a powerhouse again, but especially in the NIL era we now find ourselves in, it feels unlikely.

Syracuse has no chance at making the NIT anyways. They won't make the CBI either. The season is over; Syracuse is just focusing on trying to get their players to return/reaching out to people in the transfer portal.

I’ll believe it when I see it because we’ve heard Boeheim would play man this year, Hopkins would play man at Washington, etc., but I’ve been told Autry will primarily play man.

I think he’s said in the past that he’d prefer to do it the way Roy Williams did (no farewell tour) but we’ll see.

Now been some pushback that he’ll announce one more year instead but we’ll see. Everyone I’ve spoken to agrees he’s going to announce the plan in the next couple weeks.

Hearing some buzz that Jim will announce his retirement in the next couple weeks.

I think it’s possible, but it’s definitely not possible with this group of players and I think man to man is simply a better option at this point for almost any team makeup. I get why you’d think this, but going back and watching teams like the MCW team or the title team, there’s a night and day difference between the intensity they brought compared to the teams we’ve had the past 5+ years. With the more recent teams, there’s 10+ times a game that a hard working defense would trap and force an easy turnover. Our teams don’t even try anymore and frankly aren’t built for it even if they did try.

He’s better than Watson and also doesn’t embarrass fans with his presence. It makes sense that he’d be asking for more. Whether or not Baltimore is willing to pay a QB as much as Cleveland was remains to be seen.

I admittedly haven't watched much film on the draft guys this year outside of some highlights and whatever games I watched live. My understanding of Quentin Johnson from reading a decent amount and seeing some is that he's a lot like Chase Claypool from the sense that he's a mammoth human being that plays like he's 5'9". A lot of catches with his body/really struggles to high-point the ball but once you get the ball in his hands, he's really difficult to bring down. I put together a small table of some basic stats and metrics on the WR class and Quentin is near the top in both ADoT and YAC which is a pretty impressive combo.

I went with Addison; just think he's the best of all those WRs. Was tempted by the OLine guys as well.

Evans is great and I'd gladly take him here if Tampa looks to shop him. Everything I've heard out of Tampa is that he's a Buc for life though. Feels like Chris Godwin might be more attainable if Tampa decides to sell off their roster.

The NFL literally made the extra point more difficult because of this.