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Diggs did the exact same thing in Minnesota though. Complained about his QB. Was disgruntled.

Yeah, for 1 more year. And once the FA TE's start signing, I bet it's not quite as "crazy" then. But Cleveland runs 2 TE sets more than any team in the league. Dude, they gave up a 5th, and have no baggage on the contract. They could literally cut him the day after the league year and be out $0. Dallas absorbs all the guaranteed money. And Landry is allowed to seek a trade, but they were also discussing him being back at a reduced salary. I love Landry, but he isn't worth $15 million a year. Plus, he is 100% a possession receiver. Cooper isn't.

Njoku said he wanted to return. And he improved his blocking a lot last year, so he'll play a lot more I'd bet. Blocking has always been his issue.

Yeah, convert let's say $15 million into a bonus and you can spread it out over the 3 years left. Gives you $10 million right away.

Landry will be gone, or small chance of big restructure, and they'll probably restructure a few others to free up some more.

Nothing to do with a "word marathon." You have your opinions about the timing. I feel it's just as likely that Putin got away with a lot leading up to this because Trump was practically licking his boots his entire presidency and ignoring everything he was doing. He ignored our own intelligence agencies reporting bounties on our soldiers and trusted Putin instead. Either way, Putin has been preparing for this a lot longer than 15 months. You don't have 200,000 troops and war vehicles at the ready just because. And its was ignored entirely but the US, and Europe.

To be fair, Trump plays whatever side of people he benefits the most from. He was buddy buddy with Putin while President, and now he says he would stand strong against Putin. It's all a crock. Putin was building up his military. Just so happens that Biden was President once he felt strong enough to attack. But it's looking like Putin misjudged Ukraine. But Trump being gone had nothing to do with it either way.

I'm not pretending anything. Just no way to know what would happen. I'm not Trump fan by any means.

Sure, their policies can do a lot of things. But this isn't just a USA problem. This is a worldwide problem. And again, prices were going up no matter what. The Trump prices were greatly influenced by the pandemic, and as the world got more back to normal, then prices had to go up. It's always kind of funny, because people want pipeline work, but low oil prices causes pipeline work to stop, but then they complain about oil prices being high as well. Obviously there is a happy medium there, but locally oil and gas companies have been dead for 2 years now. Huge layoffs and shutdowns. Now they are hiring and working again. But Biden!

Care to explain what information brings you to this conclusion?

Just going to ignore that the world was in a pandemic which shut down most worldwide travel, and even a lot of local travel as people worked from home? Do you not remember that there was such an oil glut that companies were paying other to take their oil because there was no storage, and what storage was available cost more than the oil was worth? Prices were bound to go up, no matter who is President. Presidential policies can change prices to an extent, but this narrative that Biden somehow controls gas prices is absurd. Also, oil companies were making record profits last year, before this huge increase, yet somehow no one seems to think that maybe they're ripping us off. In 2007ish, oil was $160 a barrel and gas was $4 a gallon. Accounting for inflation, that would be $223 oil now. Seeing as how oil is $115 a barrel right now, which is equivalent to $84 in 2006, and prices are still at $4, something seems a bit off don't you think?

His cap number for 2022 went down.

This is 100% true. I grew up closer to Pittsburgh than Cleveland, and 95% of the people I grew up with were "diehard" Steelers fans.......until they had a down year. Suddenly, its was like a ghost town when it came to football. No gear, no flags, no trash talk, nothing. They're all huge fans until it's tough.

I confused as to who they went with as "big stars"? They traded for OBJ, so that's definitely one, but most of the other "star" players have been drafted by Cleveland, or picked up on the cheap. Garrett, Chubb, Ward, Bitonio, Teller, Newsome are all players that are "star" or close to it that were drafted or acquired cheaply. Several are more expensive now on their 2nd contracts, but obviously that's the goal for almost every team. Even Clowney was signed relatively cheaply, and he produced, so now it's a debate on whether to resign him or not. Landry has a bigger contract than his production warrants, but they can get out of it now for net to nothing. If Cleveland cuts Landry and Hooper, which seems likely, they have around $62 million in cap even with all the guys above signed. They would then had needs at WR, LE, and DT as major points to address via FA and the draft. Njoku sure seems like he will be back, so I don't thing TE is a major need between him and Bryant.

Since when is Hunt a smurf? He's 220.

The difference is Hayes hit an opposing player, completely unprovoked, on the field, during the game. Howard obviously make a dumb choice in escalating the situation, but the other 2 coaches grabbed him, and also grabbed 2 of his players. So stop comparing the 2. Howard deserved to be punished, and he was.

Woody Hayes punched an opposing PLAYER, during a game, on the field. Completely different situation. Howard was suspended, and rightfully so. Assault? You kidding me Clark?

Which QB is Washington trading up for?

Bill O'Brien was a pretty good HC until he somehow got roster control too. Bill the GM ruined Bill the HC.

Baker is trending down. If he doesn't greatly improve, then yes, it was a stupid pick.

Any team that does not have a franchise quarterback and passes on one is stupid. It doesn't matter the situation. Again, it worked out for Buffalo in the long run but that doesn't mean the decision wasn't stupid.

Pretty sure a ton of teams have an assistant OL coach.

It was stupid. Passing on a franchise QB when you don't have one is stupid. And yes, most people didn't realize what Mahomes would become, and anyone team that passed on him without a franchise QB before the Bills did are also stupid. And the Chiefs had Alex Smith at QB when they drafted Mahomes. I would never categorize Smith as elite, but he was a good QB at that point in his career. He had 26TDs and 5 INTs Mahomes' rookie year in 15 games.

Yeah, people always just throw out the "He lost to Ohio State" while completely ignoring that Ohio State has had a huge recruiting lead for years now, mainly due to the Rodriguez/Hoke down years and underachieving. Harbaugh hasn't been perfect by any means, but he has greatly improved the teams since he arrived. His main downside was his loyalty to Don Brown. Once he replaced him, the defense matched up a lot better to spread/speed teams.

To be fair, not drafting Mahomes was completely stupid. Just because it worked out a year later doesn't mean that passing him was a good call. Just dumb luck that worked out. As far as who is better, they're all so close at this point it doesn't really matter.