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Damn. I didn't follow up on the post. Looked like a legit NYG reporter. Fake Twitter gonna fake Twitter.

Hopefully more go to teams above us in big roles. With Davis going to Jacksonville and especially if they re-sign Ridley, that's one spot that everyone had penciled in at WR in Round 1 taken off the board. With the Giants officially moving on from Daniel Jones, that pretty much guarantees they're going QB as opposed to the assumed landing spot for Malik Nabers. Keep it coming boys! Everytime I see something about Legette, I be like

Makes sense. Probably didn't want it out there that they were doing work to replace Johnson pre-emptively.

Everything we did went into getting out from under 42+m over the cap, re-signing Daquan Jones as our starting 1T, re-signing Taylor Rapp as one of our starting Safeties, re-signing AJ Epenesa as our DE3/DE2, re-signing Cam Lewis as S3, signing Mitch Trubisky as QB2, signing Nicholas Morrow as LB3, and Matt Haack at Punter. We're at where we need to be to be cap compliant for the league start tomorrow and be able to file the moves we've made. That's it. Until we hear that they've done a Taron Johnson extension, an Ed Oliver, Matt Milano, and/or a Stefon Diggs re-structure - we effectively have nothing. Not having any of that done combined with only getting 16.5 from Josh and only getting 2.5 from Douglas on a re-structure instead of an extension really hurt.

One of my favorite lines from the Combine was him saying that they were talking to Beane off the record and that Beane told him "anyone who thinks the cap isn't real is an idiot" in a "more colorful manner" and that Fetes had to own up to that being his favorite thing to say.

Yeah, I have to imagine they'd definitely prefer to move him somewhere else than a Division Rival. But their options are very slim. Could be a Bledsoe to Buffalo situation where when it comes to the most return, they don't have much of a choice. The Giants and Patriots are the only real places still needing a Starter off the top of my head and they both pick in the Top 6.

Yeah, that's because he's on a 1 year, 10 million dollar contract. You're not getting much for a guy who you're getting 1 year out of and taking 10m off someone else's book for.

Good ones, yes. You can get good ones for rotation in the 2-3m range. But someone like DJ Reader who is going to command big time starting money and demand a starting role with the team he signs to, delegating and paying Daquan Jones what we're paying him to be rotational? Not gonna happen.

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Solid move to get Bryce Young some help. The Panthers cupboard was essentially empty beyond aging Adam Thielen, with DJ Chark being a FA.

Yeah, but you're not paying Samuel or especially Boyd the price tag they'll command to replace Sherfield or Harty - guys we paid 1.7m minimum to Sherfield and slightly above that for Harty. Harty barely got any snaps as WR4/5. Stars like Boyd aren't going to accept a diminished role like that.

People look at the moves we made and think that meant we were going to be active early in FA. The truth is we had to make those moves just to be able to get under the cap and make moves to fill the starting holes we had on Defense so that we could Draft a WR in Round 1 and fill some of the 20+ bodies that we were moving on from. Things like only getting 16.5 instead of 24 out of Josh's restructure and just getting 2.5 on a Douglas restructure instead of an extension hampered us more and neutralized Von's unexpected move. Other things like an Oliver restructure or a Taron Johnson extension also haven't been done. So we're effectively nowhere right now until we do. We were never going to be major players in the first couple days of FA. As you said, patience is key right now. We were always going to play things much like we did last year. Trying to get the best of what's left after the spending spree - on good prices.

He got what he wanted last year. Probably significantly less than what he was getting here.

I'm referring to the possible idea that we're the "Dark Horse" team. And considering the latest update has been that he's debating between Jacksonville and New England, I'm assuming that's where the money is - even if we are the "Dark Horse" team.

My guess is they're being patient there. The WR market has been pretty slow, as teams are looking at this year's Draft crop and are hesitant to pull the trigger on big price tags when they can find someone in the Draft that represents equal or greater talent. I don't see us paying for someone that's going to cost starting WR money. You don't pay that unless you're planning on them starting and they probably aren't going to come here unless that's guaranteed. I don't think we want to do that as the plan is for that to be our 1st Round pick. We're probably looking at guys like Josh Reynolds, DJ Chark, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, K.J. Osborn, Van Jefferson, or Mecole Hardman. Guys that will come at an Outside WR3 price tag that you feel comfortable starting if the Rookie takes a little while to get his feet under him. He's probably waiting for that market to play itself out a little bit as to get a good price on someone like that.

Oh for sure! That's a thought I had after they signed Davis and especially if they sign Ridley. I think we all had Jacksonville penciled in at WR at 17. That's effectively not a thought anymore, which is huge for us.

I think Josh Reynolds probably is the most likely acquisition. It's probably not going to be someone who's at a big time price tag like Hollywood or Ridley, effectively locking them in at WR2 for the price point we'd be paying. It's going to be someone who's a True Outside guy at a price point of WR3, but has the experience and play worthy of being WR2 in the event that our Round 1 WR takes a little bit of time to catch on. I think Reynolds fits that perfectly. In the Cover 1 video I posted above, they said they're all in at looking at Tier 1 being Hollywood (probably too expensive, but maybe), Darnell Mooney (off the board now), and Josh Reynolds. After them, they'd pivot to DJ Chark, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, K.J. Osborn, or Quez Watkins. And after them, Van Jefferson or Donovan Peoples-Jones. My guess is probably Reynolds or someone from this list. OBJ (if his market is dry) or Mecole Hardman could be Wild Cards as well. Then a WR in Round 1 and another in the mid rounds.

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I'd expect them he's probably already agreed to come back - it just won't be done until after today. That is if our offer is even with Jacksonville's - which i'd be surprised if it were.

He prefers to return to Jacksonville? Damn. That would be a lot of money the past couple of seasons going to Ridley, Kirk, and Davis. I'd have figured he'd want to go somewhere less crowded. Though if the options for top pay are Jacksonville and New England - can't say I blame him. I will say that when it comes to the unknown, unnamed "dark horse" team - that very well could be us. That's what we were described as in the Von Miller sweepstakes. Beane keeps things so close to the vest that the media doesn't know what we're doing until we do it. That said, with the latest on Ridley being he's debating between the Jags and the Pats since - my guess is if we were the "dark horse" team, it wasn't the top paying option. It's clear that the WR class in the Draft is complicating Free Agent WR's. Most teams, us included, are hesitant to pay the price tags on these top guys when you can just Draft a guy who could likely be even better for a fraction of the price.

The problem with Tyler Boyd and Curtis Samuel, is both are slots. Neither do anything to replace the hole we have on the boundary and you can't put them, Shakir, and Kincaid on the field at the same time in standard sets. You can in 4 WR sets with Kincaid on the line with his hand in the dirt, which isn't where he's best (and takes Knox off the field) - but that isn't a frequent occurrence. For guys split out Wide right now, we have just Stefon Diggs on the Outside and then Kincaid and Shakir in the slot. Adding another Slot, especially a high paid one like Boyd, simply moves Kincaid or Shakir to 3rd Slot option - when you mainly only have one on the field to begin with. Cover 1 did a good job breaking down our WR position and what we should be looking at in FA last night. Boyd wasn't even talked about bc of the price point and his role on the team. Starts at 18:55. Specific talk on Curtis Samuel's fit at 22:34:

Someone's going to pay more for Reader than Jones or Roach and to start. He's one of the very top FA's remaining on the board. If we were signing Reader, we wouldn't have paid Jones what we did. I'm guessing we were looking at Roach for rotational depth and when the price point hit 4m per, we were out. 2-3 is about the price tag we're probably looking at for the roles we're filling.

Kind of have to be. We've got our Starters in Oliver and Daquan, but literally nothing else. Don't know if Roach was something we were looking at before we signed Jones to start or as for depth. We'll def get at least 2-3 more guys there between FA and the Draft. Though it won't be anyone sexy.