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When I heard about the signing, I thought "Special Teams guy" but he's really been more of a starter the last several years. 100% of the snaps in Chicago in 2022. With that, he does play ST though and it sounds as though he can play all the LB positions, so yeah Klein like in that regard. McDermott has been loud and clear on wanting vet leadership in all the rooms and Beane has been loud and clear on not liking to go into draft day needing to fill holes. With all regard, that might be a separate issue. When you're down to your 2nd or 3rd string at 2 different linebacker positions and have a guy playing in a brace, it's always going to be rough.

I saw this as soon as it was reported and I didn't post about it because I didn't want to "feel the rage". Don Parsons (Mo Gov who commuted the sentence) is a total Piece of Work. Syncophant, Cronyist, politically expedient. Tough on crime, tough on criminals, gonna sit back and let the wheels of justice take their due course - until and unless, of course, it's politically expedient for him

Our neighbor the animal professional has a bunch of hard-earned words of wisdom. One of them is "think species first, individual second" She means, you might have a tiger that you hand-raised from a cub and trained carefully and love and consider a friend, but you better never forget that at its base, it's not a kitty cat, it's a damned tiger and when something triggers it to remember that, Tigers gonna Tiger. They aren't species, but because of intense selective pressure from humans, I think you could say the same thing about different breeds of dog. Yes, pits and pit mixes can be carefully raised and trained to be loving and affectionate pets, but the owner had better well remember that at its base, it's a dog that was bred to fight other dogs and never give up, and when something triggers it to remember that, that's what you're gonna get.

Pretty sure that's when he got the infection (2018, as it healed) https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/buffalo-cam-lewis-bone-infection-injury-preseason-preview-rumor '22 article explaining he'd had a persistent bone infection 4 years at that time IIRC brace still there. Bone infections hurt. Tough mutha.

Close relative salty his bro got the axe while the Bills re-upped a safety who isn't fit to carry Po's jock when he was "All Pro Po". Alert the media. Extra salty when the reported contract was 3 year $14.5M. Now that we know it's basically 1 year, $3.7M with an option to keep him (which is less than half the contract guarantees Po got last year), "extra salt" should decline to "lightly salty". Poyer wanted to retire a Bill, but there's a point at which the GM just can't "keep the band together" and remain competitive.

I'll wait to see the actual detailed numbers before deciding on that.

Eh. When you look at the details of Rapp's 3 year, $10M contract - it's really a 1 year, $3.7 M contract with a $2.8M cap hit this year. That slots him in as the #42 paid safety or something like that. I'm not impressed with either guy as players, but as depth signings for guys who truly understand the system in a transition time, it doesn't put me in a flutter either way. Cam Lewis is one guy I do kinda wish would retire for his own good though. Agree on the tough as nails. As far as I know he's still playing with a brace on his right arm, due to a persistent bone infection of....6 years now? as part of the aftermath of breaking his arm at UB. It probably needs surgery to clean it out for his long-term health and well-being, but he understandably doesn't want to shut himself down while he can make bank.

I think they considered Nick Mullins higher on their depth chart than Josh Dobbs, and when Mullins got healthy he moved back ahead of Dobbs. JMO, neither Josh Dobbs nor Nick Mullins are a long term answer. The Vikings draft when? 11th? Who can they likely get at that point?

"Knox and the Bills have agreed to a restructured contract that lowers his scheduled $14.4 million cap hit for 2024, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com reports." We don't know yet what the restructured contract really means. Knox did have a roster bonus due, so the restructure could just involve taking his roster bonus and dividing it among the 3 remaining years of his contract. Or, it could involve a bit of a salary give-back. Don't know yet. Them Grapes, man. Them Grapes!

You don't use a 1st round pick on a TE3. You don't.

I can't keep up. Who do the Vikings have throwing the ball at the moment? His payday from Minnesota and now from the Falcons does not say "underrated".

Makes sense.

Yes

Announcements like this make it clear that "legal tampering period starts today at noon" is such baloney. Gabe didn't sign a 3 year deal just after noon today because his agent started negotiating at noon today. This has been in the works for weeks.

I see more than 2 in this thread, but who's counting You were speculating "wonder what one does to get fired from this rather low level position?" By asking this question, you yourself indicate that there is a difference, and you know it. Typically people who are fired have done something wrong. On the other hand, people who are not re-up'd at the end of a contract haven't necessarily done a thing wrong and may have done a decent job with everything that was asked of them - but either the organization wants new blood, or the org has decided they no longer need that position.

First off, I would not bet Beane won't be wheeling and dealing some of those picks. So expect the pool to change. Second, until we need to cut to 53 just before the season opens, we only need top-51. So the amount of cap needed for rookie pool will be cut down because they will bump lower paid FA and vets out of the top 51. Our cap situation got screwed up because Beane counted on Tre White to continue as a lockdown corner and a cornerstone on our roster, but Tre got hurt for the last 2 years; he also "shot his shot" on trading for/re-signing Diggs then recruiting Von Miller, only to see him go on season ending reserve one year, and come back as a ghost of himself this season. Honorable mention goes to inadequate DL performance from our own guys, thus the need to back-fill with FA signings.

According to Ian Rappoport, who has connections, they're looking to move Connor McGovern to center

Always wait for the details to come out on a contract. "Up to" means, if he meets all the incentives. Let's say there are $2.5M in incentives. $12M/ 3years or $4M/yr is like 28th in the league money for a safety - yeah starter money but barely I'm not a fan of this signing - I don't think he's fit to carry Poyer's cleats or Hyde's jock, but let's wait and see what it is.

This.

Good Golly Miss Molly. For those scoring at home, this means that Denver is taking on $85M in dead cap this season. Think about that one moment. Out of a cap of $256M, that's basically 1/3 of the cap devoted to one player - who is not on the team.

Why? From watching him painfully try to play in Pittsburgh, my thought was "this guy is toast and I never want to see him on a football field again" I would really like us to have a backup who can actually finish a game constructively or maybe even win one.

My thought

"Contract expired"

I'm not sure Douglas is redundant even if Elam can start. We really don't know what's going to be "up" with Tre White. He's got $16.4M cap if he plays, $10.4M dead cap if he's cut or traded. Something like 40% of players don't return to play according to this (relatively limited) article, and those who do are apparently impacted the season following their injury. $16.4M is a lot to pay for a guy who may be playing at a backup level. It would be very un-Beane-like to give up a 3rd round pick (even with a 5th back) for a half-season rental. Douglas has a $9.9M cap hit with no dead money. I think we keep either or, but not both. I think you might be reading in a bit much here, though I agree tone of voice, facial expression and etc might strengthen the significance you attach. But if I'm talking about (say) meeting a new coworker that I just spent 3 months on a project with but am now not in the same building, I would say "it was a pleasure getting to know him" not "it is a pleasure getting to know him". If we're talking about the defense we had last year, it may not be significant to say "I liked what he brought". I'd have to listen to old Beane pressers where he talks about other players. I don't think he's an absolute lock - I think it's Douglas OR White, either or not both. But I'm not sure this is significant.

The thing is, if their charter is a standard configuration of 737, there are something like 16 first class seats. So I can see where, if you allocated them to players, that could quickly become an issue too. "OK, Josh Allen gets a seat, the starting OL and DL get 10 seats, but now what? Rotational DLmen? The long snapper? The starting TE - who is that, Kincaid or Knox or both? The starting LB - wait a minute, is Bernard bigger than the nickel corner? Oh, what about the biggest stars, they should get one, move over and let Diggs have that seat. I could see where it could quickly become a divisive issue giving the players the players the 1st class seats