DrDawkinstein

They gave us a 6th for Russ Bodine last year too. And then cut him before the season even started.

Today I Learned I'm an all-star wrestler, and I never even signed up!

No rookie camps, a shortened training camp, and no preseason. Defenses are always way ahead of offenses in the preseason. We're probably going to see the same thing through the first quarter of the regular season this year. It makes total sense to not throw a rookie QB out to the wolves to start the season. There's no need to waste your rookie QB in a season that has no expectations and every excuse built in.

And we're back! Thanks Scott, great job!

Yep. Jets and Pats will end up with our WR cast offs. Putting the Wide in Wide Receiver.

Fournette a lock? Edit: Just saw he's going to Tampa. Choosing Brady over Belichick. That's gotta hurt ol Billy boy!

@Sherlock Holmes already has dibs on the oil hands.

Well congrats, folks! We made it 15 pages and no one has referred to this disappointing hot-head as "Not a Process Guy"! That said, I dont want him in our locker room or RB room. BUT if it keeps him out of New England, I'd think about it. Spite Signing! We can be the Latte Larry's to New England's Mocha Joe's

In other words, Trump promised to launder MILLIONS from his campaign into the schools if they can get CFB restored in Mich, Wisc, and Ohio before November.

I'm surprised the Pats havent snagged him yet. Seems right in line with the Corey Dillon/LaGarrette Blount types they've loved so much.

I have never heard anyone mention caveats and disclaimers when talking about the Washington Super Bowl victory of 1987. I'm sure they did in the couple of years following, but everyone quickly moved on and it is viewed as any other Super Bowl. I'd imagine the same will happen for the 2020 season. It still counts, and I'll happily take it.

Honest question, how many teams are out there saying "our RB situation is horrible and we can't fix it"? Is there a team that has RB as its biggest need? (There may be, I just cant think of one off the top of my head) RBs dont need to be "great", just pretty good. And off the top of my head it seems most teams have good RBs.

As long as teams like the Bengals, Browns, and Dolphins exist, it will keep happening. I just hope it is safe to finally leave us off that list.

I like that I get to like your reply in this thread. Just a heads up, you can change your displayed screen name without changing/losing your account. For example, we didnt have Dawkins when I started this account in 2004. I believe you can change it once every 6 months. No need to if you dont want. Just sayin for board education.

Not even... Labatt Blue?

LOL They had to counter-balance making the right move and drafting Burrow with a an equally horrible move and pay a troubled RB $12M/year.

Stake Out still doing games out there?

This is the only politics we need here.

I'm less invested than I'd normally be at this time of year. I'd usually have a camp trip, and be following roster moves more closely. But once the season starts in 10 days, I'll be all-in again. For as long as it lasts at least.

Stay home and stream it.

Anything goes on OTW! Dont be salty just because the content wasnt what you hoped for ?

As I said in the Smith thread this morning. Beane just cant frickin help himself.

For a guy with his pedigree, and at his current rate, I wouldnt mind bringing him in to battle in camp and see who he beats out.

I have a harder time parting with the 3rd than John Brown (given our current WR room). John Brown and a 5th, considering Ertz is due another big contract soon? Sure thing.

Lemme work through some math here in real time and see how it turns out. Current 2020 DE spend: Jerry Hughes - $9.5M Mario Addison - $10M Trent Murphy - $9.775M AJ Epenesa - $1.4M Total Spend: just under $30.675M I know we have some other DEs on the roster, but I'm not counting them in this discussion as they are inconsequential. Throwing Ngakuoe into the mix... Proposed 2020 DE spend: Jerry Hughes - $9.5M Mario Addison - $10 CUT Trent Murphy - $1.75M dead money AJ Epenesa - $1.4M Ngakoue - $12M Total Spend: $34.65M So we could've swapped in Ngakoue for Murphy for just an additional $4M spend this year. Looking at next year.. Proposed 2021 DE spend: CUT Jerry Hughes - $2M dead money Mario Addison - $10.2M AJ Epenesa - $1.4M Ngakoue - $20M Total Spend: $33.6M (+ rookie or FA) Now I know you need to add another DE into the mix for 2021. We can either draft another one early (which I am all for), and their cap hit would be about $1.5M, or find a mid-tier vet FA to sign at around $7-10M. Even going the more expensive route and signing a FA next year, we can still keep the total spend to about $40M. Not even $10M more than we are spending today. If we go with a rookie, that puts our spend at about $35M. We save another $2M the following year when Hughes's money comes off the books. So we've refreshed our DE squad from a bunch of again vets to young players and a potential star in his prime. And we've kept the total spend just about the same, so it does not preclude us from re-signing our other players like Edmunds, Allen, Oliver.