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Man Cousins has done super well for himself. Basically a fully guaranteed $66 million with the way it's structured unless things go horribly wrong next year.

Would prefer Freeman over Howard due to him being able to catch the ball coming out of the backfield but neither one is necessarily my top choice. Howard's a pretty good runner but that's it; he'd make our offense more predictable.

In a usual offseason, deals will start coming in today. They can't be made official until Wednesday but the word will leak out today. Not sure if the coronavirus will impact that at all but I would assume we'll have news to discuss today.

My issue with him is he's pretty much purely a two-down player and I'd prefer our vet RB to be the 3rd down guy since that's an area where Singletary struggled as a rookie and rookies in general struggle with it. But Philly fans didn't like him because Philly's coaching staff did like him and that meant less touches for their heartthrob Miles Sanders.

They've traded away all of their picks (which is why the idea of a Hopkins trade is even being mentioned) and they're nowhere near being a Super Bowl contender. O'Brien is a fine coach (though he makes terrible in-game decisions too frequently, as evidenced by the wacky ending to our playoff game) but his team-building has left a lot to be desired.

Technically, Gordon remains banned from the NFL despite the new drug testing rules. He has to apply for reinstatement and there's no guarantee the commish lets him back in the league.

The only positive of this deal for Tennessee is that they can get out of this deal in a couple years.

Add it to the list:

I would love to have Clowney. As for Phillips/Lawson, it’s questionable whether or not Phillips is a starting caliber player in this league and Shaq is just adequate. Again, Campbell is arguably the best in the league at his position. Incredible run defender and generates a lot of pressure.

I’m not freaking out about our team, but to answer your question, he might be the best in the league at his position. We may be able to find a long term fit but we won’t find a more talented player. This just isn’t true.

It’s a one year deal. The only potential downside to trading for him would be the opportunity cost of spending $15 million of our cap space on him but he’s literally one of the best players in the league at his position so we probably couldn’t have done any better.

It’s possible but they play different positions so not necessarily. And they most likely can find a trade partner for Judon if need be.

That is absolutely terrifying.

The times start with a hand and end with a laser so presumably in these cases the hand guy started a little too early.

No.

Those numbers are the timestamps measuring the difference between when he started and when he finished

On a semi-related note, there’s a guy on Twitter that’s been going through the NFL Combine runs frame by frame and calculating exact 40 times and basically, he’s arguing that for example, Reagor actually ran a 4.40, not a 4.47. Weird stuff.

That one isn’t adjusting for height though. There’s a formula for HASS (height adjusted speed score) that’s basically one step further than the formula you used but the official formula isn’t publicly available from what I can tell. We can replicate it to be within a point or so but that’s the best I’ve been able to find. I also wasn’t including a few of the guys on that list. Watkins, Juwan Johnson, and i think one or two others. The list I’m looking at is all the guys that are included in PFF’s draft guide since it allows me to look at a combination of stats, metrics, and measureables that I don’t have for some of those guys.

See the third tab here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EGcKt-3OhHND7shQmY9LREGwBxtnUcFwQtQDz2U-3tk Higgins’ speed score isn’t listed because PlayerProfiler.com (who calculates the speed score) doesn’t use pro day numbers and the formula I’ve found for it isn’t exactly correct, but it’s close enough to know Higgins would be somewhere around a 106 give or take a point.

Yes, speed score is adjusted for height and weight. He’s somewhere around a 106 which places him behind Claypool, Mims, Ruggs, Pittman, and Peoples-Jones

The 4.54 was the official time according to Clemson which places him like 6th in this draft class in terms of speed score.

His speed score is literally one of the best in this WR class.

36” vert and 115” broad jump so probably about the same catch radius if not worse than Higgins.

He definitely had some relatively poor QB play but he also just didn’t catch the ball when it was thrown well. Worst true catch % in the class and one of the highest drop %. Obviously a fantastic athlete though.

Plus-side: he must have been flying for the last 30 to start that slow and finish as well as he did.