Mr. Scot

The latter part of the season is where the big test will be. Have said before: It's a lot easier to look good in Week Two than it is in Week Twelve.

McGinn is generally a good read.

Yeah, I had him only in about the 10-12 range. Admittedly, I wasn't paying super close attention to his salary. Just a general feeling...

I don't know that teams are really willing to go to as much effort to create smokescreens as some of us think they are. Sending a GM and head coach on a scouting trip just to fool people sounds kind of extreme to me. Granted it's high stakes poker, but I do think we overanalyze this stuff sometimes.

Don't know. Adam Schefter and Tom Pelissero both said this move doesn't necessarily preclude the Patriots from adding another quarterback, so who knows? It's low pay for a starter, but pretty high pay for a backup. Last year's highest backup salary was apparently about 16 million for Alex Smith. Josh Klein said Newton will be making less than Taysom Hill this year. I didn't remember Hill making that much.

Gantt said the same. Honestly though, I think the bigger question applies to Belichick. Last season had folks asking whether Belichick's greatness was really due to Brady. Regardless of what happens with Newton, if the Patriots struggle again this year, those questions are gonna get louder.

If he looks bad though, does that really help us?

Decent sized pay package, per Schefter.

More Belichick or more McDaniels? That'd be a pretty huge contrast between two quarterbacks for sure.

And then there's this from Getzenberg (citing a Patriots writer)

Palardy to the Dolphins...

Yeah, if we're talking about the Cowboys of the 90s, I'd figure more cocaine than alcohol. Heck, back even earlier, I'm pretty sure Hollywood Henderson went to some games high as a kite.

Read the same in some of the PFT comments.

I'm guessing you missed the sarcasm here

Sorry...what?

Jon Kitna says he once saw a teammate drunk during a game "There were some things that were hard to believe (with the Bengals). There was a time that I played a game with a guy that was drunk in the huddle," Kitna said...I'm not sure if the staff knew. But I think the guy was like - that was kind of his normal. I mean he was drunk and had close to 200 yards receiving now. So, it was crazy." PFT adds a little context. Kitna didn’t name names, but the circumstances make it not impossible to identify the possibilities. Given that Kitna played for the Bengals from 2001 through 2005, it’s not difficult to identify which receivers “had close to 200 yards receiving” in a game during that five-year stretch. We’ve done the research and compiled a list of players that it could have been. Three had games of more than 150 receiving yards during Kitna’s time with the team. One had games of 189, 161, and 152. One had 171. Another had 152. Kitna didn’t name names, so we won’t, either. There are so few that it could be that the ones who it isn’t should be upset that Kitna has defined the possibilities so narrowly.

Everyone being contrary about other people being contrary, it's almost like...contraception! Wait...

And speaking of the Lions, GM and head coach both there despite their recent trade for Jared Goff. Could also be looking at LT though.

Yeah, that's him. He's had a decent coaching career, mostly as a receivers coach but the Saints just recently switched him to quarterback coach after theirs defected to Detroit.

Interesting. My understanding is that this year, three people is the maximum allowed at pro days for any given team.

Per his own words, Luke retired for health reasons. Kinda hard to imagine a guy who did that turning around and doing something like this.

Gotta figure they'll be there when Fields and Wilson are working out too. It is kind of a big deal.

Rhule and Fitterer will both be in attendance at his pro day tomorrow.

I think at this point there are people who would take news of David Tepper asking "What's on TV" as a subtle sign that we're trading for Deshaun Watson. As before, maybe we will, maybe we won't, but either way the entire universe isn't necessarily crying out with clues.

They do exist. (or at least trolls pretending to be them do) Point being though that we've repeatedly shot down completion percentage as a valid measure when it was used to support the notion that Bridgewater was a good quarterback. Using it as a standard now is antithetical to that.