DrDawkinstein

So my takeaway here is that nothing will change in Cleveland even with Stefanski, as long as the scumbag Haslams are in charge. The Browns and Garrett should have known he would be in the media this week with his reinstatement coming during the slowest news weeks of the season. They should have been ahead of this and told him to make no further comments, and let everyone just move on from the incident. But no. They let him double-down on an obvious lie, and just continue to make the franchise look worse and worse. edit: I'd also put money on if Garrett really did hear an n-bomb, it was no doubt from Pouncey who was right there and uses that word as punctuation practically every other word when he speaks. But there is no reason for Pouncey to step up and admit it when Garret can keep digging a deeper hole by saying it was Rudolph when it obviously wasnt.

There is no reason to invest any major resources or assets into acquiring RBs in this league. They shouldnt be picked before the 3rd round, they shouldnt be traded for, and they shouldnt be given high-priced contracts. It is an important position, but you can find guys who can tote the rock just fine even in UDFAs.

Speaking only for myself and as someone who calls Levi garbage, I am definitely not comparing how he plays to how Tre/Hyde/Poyer play, but rather watching him get picked on and burnt again and again. Although folks raise a good point. Was it the scheme and what he was asked to do in Carolina that made him so good? If so, that leads to the question, can he regain any of it back by coming back to McD? If he's cheap and non-guaranteed, I'm not against bringing him in. Not counting on anything though.

Yeah, I've come around to that in the 4 hours since I originally posted. haha. Maaaaaybe for non-guaranteed vet minimum, I'd bring him into camp to see whats up and let him compete and push the younger guys. But yeah, I think I saw that he played 8 games and gave up 7 TDs. yikes.

Also: RIP DC Tom, I hope he and StuckInCincy are having fun together.

Same. Mostly because my wife seems to be deaf when watching tv and it's better than turning the volume all the way up. So many great jokes in The Great British Baking Show that would go unheard if I hadnt read them.

Another Houston guy to pair with Ed. I like it. We'll still be spending $15.5M+/year on another "rotational" DT like a lot of fans here are opposed to.

Very serious. Where better to spend the money than the trenches? IMO, it should be 25% of cap on OL and 25% of cap on DL as a starting point. Especially when you have a QB on a rookie deal. And doubly so when you have so many other starters on rookie deals as well. The 2020 Cap is $201.2M. That gives us $50M per Line to work with. According to the Spotrac Breakdown for our Positional spends we're currently at: Offensive Line: 13.42% Defensive Line: 15.83% While we need to add to OL, we don't have any major OL contracts to hand out, and could even get away with sliding Ford to Guard and keeping Nsekhe at RT. But we still have room there either way. Our DEs are fairly "set" if they wanted to roll with Murhpy. Or cut him to make up some cap room and go try to get Ngakoue. That still gives us plenty of room to spend at DT in 2020 or beyond. AND sign Ngakoue or the equivalent. AND still have $50M left over for UFAs to add top talent and depth to the team. A WR, TE, and OLB all at $10M each gives us $20M left over. That's still more than some teams have in TOTAL cap space to start the offseason. Or mix and match some extensions in there as well. However you want to move all that money around. It's all possible. We are in a very unique cap situation. Beane has set us up to make moves exactly like I'm talking about. He's not just hoarding gold like a dragon.

Regardless of whether we think he's a star or not, who is going to replace him that is as good? Right now we just have Ed in that 3-tech spot. Star, Harry, VTaylor, and Liuget are all 1-tech. Don't focus on the $ amount when we have so much to spend. Especially if we're talking 1-year Franchise Tag deal where we get that cap space back next year anyways.

Even if it were 23 years, that is still nearly 20. Just depends which way you are approaching from. But as others pointed out, there was a 4 year break in there too. We let another CAO walk after his contract expires and get nothing in return. And now we'll have to draft another in the 1st round. The cycle continues. Same ol Bills.

Our entire DL "splits time". Are you saying we should never sign a DL star since they'll always be in rotation? Where better to invest than in the trenches? We still have plenty of money to make this a better/deeper team even with that theoretical signing. If we were in a different cap situation, I'd agree with you. The money could be better spent elsewhere. But we have a ton of cash to spend this year. Whether it's a big, 1-year Franchise Tag deal, or a more team-friendly long term deal. We have the ability to make that deal and still have money. We have our QB on a rookie deal. We control Tre's money for 2 more years. Now is the time to make such splurges in order to "win now" while that window is open.

We have $80M-90M to spend. We can sign JP, a WR, and a LB and still have $60M left over for extensions and other guys.

That money "rolls over" either way if it is a 1-year Franchise Tag deal. As has been shown numerous times here, we have the money to spend on Phillips AND sign anyone and everyone else we want, extensions included. As far as guys standing next to each other getting paid or not, they are professionals, they know this is a business. Star is still making $5M-8M, he doesnt need to worry about anyone else. And most of them don't. Especially if he's such a "Process" guy. As far as long view, I personally and fine with signing JP to a long term deal. I was just keeping my points within the framework of the Franchise Tag discussion. All our DL play on rotation, that isnt a reason to not sign any to big contracts. IMO, DL and OL is where we should be spending. Speaking of which, I'm working on a post that details exactly that... stay tuned...

Levi is garbage. Bring in Norman to compete for the 2 or 3 spot and see how it goes. I'm for re-signing KJ too. Would rather have the 2 of them (Norman/KJ) battling it out than Levi. Agreed we need to draft one, but might be able to find one in the 4th or 5th.

Makes sense to me. We have the cap space and nothing else to spend it on (assuming a lot of the big names we covet in FA ultimately wont be available). Might as well spend it, and if it's only a 1 year deal, we get the cap space back next year. It works like rolling it over, except we get a talented player for a year instead of nothing. As long as the spend doesnt hinder us form signing other players for this year, then we might as well. The $15M Franchise Tag number is the average of the highest paid DTs. NONE of our DTs are making even close to that. We do not have high paid DTs.

and if IIRC, his wife was a major athlete and track star through college as well. and maybe even after, but I'm not sure if there is much to do in track after college outside of the olympics.

Who is that?

Ah, yeah, you West Seneca West kids Dude, what type of elementary school did you go to?!?

I went to elementary school in the 1980s and we had seat belts on our buses. I guess West Seneca was ahead of its time? (side note: zero kids ever wore them, but they were there)

He was a 2nd round pick from a big program school that went to a horribly run team. I think folks are a bit unfair saying he was just playing for the potential payout. Of course that would play into it a bit, as it would for ALL of us. But it's not like he came out of nowhere. He could just as easily be starting to hit his prime and very well worth the money.

@T master, I came back here this morning to say this probably came off much harsher than I meant due to hastily posting from mobile so my bad. But your meltdown on my profile is so hilarious that I'm going to stand by my original post. I still love you tho. Go Bills.

Ok, so we CAN tag him by 3/10 and still work out a long term deal before 7/15. Thank you.

Ah, maybe Fitz. But Orton was the QB of that team, and I was trying to think of an upgrade. And for his first year here, Bledsoe is an upgrade. Maybe not 2003 Drew, and definitely not 2004 Drew. But 2002 Drew was pretty good. Just when I thought you'd never be able to top how foolish you made yourself look from your last thread with your paragraph about younger generations... You go and give us this gem of a thread. Congrats! ?

Same. While I would like to keep him, I also have a much shorter sighted perspective than Beane.

Ah ok. Im still fine with either way. Whatever we do to keep him.