DrDawkinstein

Just got done with day 2. Been quite the weekend so far. One day left. I'm livin on Ibuprofen at this point...

With only $4500 in dead cap space if cut, I expect Mancz to be cut.

My man, he was going to get paid like that all along. And I'm THRILLED for him. I called him silly/ill-advised/whatever for holding out on that huge bag over a larger, fully guaranteed number because I wanted him to just get paid. What I said all along was "Dude needs an agent who would tell him to take the regular deal, it's good enough". Ultimately he caved and took the standard, HUGE, regular good enough deal. Good for Lamar. He finally figured out to take the huge pile of money someone was trying to pay him. But when discussing the business side of things, Jackson gave a lesson on exactly what not to do. Took major risks, with both his body and his rep with team mates by having to sit out the playoff game when this should have been settled already.

In the Cincy game, we werent so talent-deficient as much as gumption-deficient. Agreed with bullied off the field, but not because we couldnt punch back, just because we were too scared or tired to punch back. That's on coaching, imo.

But then Brock pretty much came back full time.

These are GREAT! edit: I see they made the Colts' horse mascot... uh.. anatomically correct...

I dont think any of those moves are on Beane's radar. I believe it's today, or as of after today.

Ha! I thought that for a second and then went with being right for posterity sake. well played. Looks like we got the DT/NT too.

We already signed the FA RB. I think he is just working on the DL/DT at this point.

Most importantly, played in Carolina

But arent the rules setup to make an easier turn around when you are horrible and picking early? Look at the Jets lately. They had the DROY and OROY last year. Is that because Joe Douglas is some amazing visionary of a GM? Or because they had multiple early picks that allowed them to take the obvious best players? JMO, but to me, taking a .500 team in 2018 with modern salary cap and free agency, and with mid-late draft picks, and an extremely limited amount of draft picks, and 4 more teams to spread talent across than in 1984... seems more impressive.

Possibly better when you consider that most of Polian's star acquisitions were 1. brought in via early draft picks from the Bills being 2-12 for a few years in a row and 2. he was working with 12 ROUND DRAFTS. 12! 12 shots plus some he got from trades and what not. He had 13 picks in 1986. He hit on the first 2 (Ronnie Harmon and Will Wolford), if you count Harmon as a hit, and then... not much else to show for it. When you go back and look at the number of hits he had versus the number of picks he used, it is far worse than Beane's batting average. Plus. Polian didnt have the salary cap to worry about. It was all far simpler for GMs back then. Where does this line of questioning even come from? There is plenty of access to the draft process to see that Head Coaches, Asst Coaches, Scouts, etc all have great input into the picks. This is not some autonomous authoritative regime. Nor is it that way on any team. Go watch the discussions and debates the Cowboys room had at time of their picks throughout the draft. It wasnt the GM or any one person dictating anything. And that's with Jerry Jones in the room!

lol, that wasnt me. there was an actual thread yesterday yeah, started as dankenstein. i thought i had a good archive memory of the stuff that goes down here.

We need Tackles, and he proved his worth playing through that ACL in the Miami game. Unless we bring in another vet, I think he sticks around.

I would love to have a prime Brandon Spikes on this team.

haha, that was right after the Bills played down there in 2019. We won a tough fought game. Lawson and Phillips were jawing HARD and all over Lewan. Both had a really good game, I think Phillips had 3 sacks, and then baited Lewan into a bad penalty at the end that killed their drive. Good times. Love those guys.

Absolutely NOT

I was feeling B+/B (voted B). Glad to see all the higher grades here and in the press. We'll see how it all works out, but I always take the early grades to look at how the team addressed needs, got highly rated prospects, and maximized value.

7:05 of the Beane post-draft presser, he gets asked about not picking a DT. Check it out, but he basically says he did want to add 1 but the draft didnt fall their way for getting one, but he has things in the works to add another soon.

Either in Boettger's spot, on the PS, or cut outright since he was a late 7th and unlikely to ever actually play. Not counting on him for anything but camp body.

That's exactly where I am with it. They had so much capital, they could spend it. And they got all their guys and plenty of them. I dont care a bit what they paid.

Texans Steelers Eagles Lions In that order. With the Texans being the run away winner. However, much like the Jets last year, given their position and quantity of picks, they SHOULD be the runaway winner. They at least did what they should have, which is more than you can say for some other teams that have been in their position. edit: yall are right, ***** the lions

DAMMIT!!!

Gimme 2 of Vorhees/Joseph/Ojomo/Brandon Hill in the 7th and I'm ecstatic

The fact that next year's class has Marvin Harrison Jr makes it 10x the entire 2023 class on him alone.