kungfoodude

Honestly, even guys like Barkley and CMC aren't likely to be franchise changing players and the positional value is low. Even freaks like Peterson or Henry are only capable of elevating a team so much. I hope we as a franchise can finally move into the modern era of NFL football. This will be the first draft in a long time where I have that hope.

I think we also have fans that are frozen in time. For all the shade thrown towards a guy like Rivera who had issues changing to suit the modern NFL, we sure do have a lot of fans caught in this same time capsule. Positional value exists because of the trends in the league as a whole. If you are going outside the box, it better be because you are planning on setting that trend rather than trying to live in the bygone era of NFL football.

Well, given how aggressively they pursued and closed with Rhule, I think it's more likely that they just didn't have a clear answer after round one of the interviews and it took until round two for the final decision to be made.

It also teaches you to be a lot more relaxed when you do interviews when you don't really need or want a job. It just becomes old hat, eventually. The the government contract world is nuts. I have had some government work and it is wild how that stuff operates versus the general industry.

I go through the motions even if I know I am not going to take the job(and I usually am not). It just keeps you a little sharper plus the mental and verbal jousting is sometimes kind of fun. I used to try and do 2-3 interviews a year even if I had no intention of taking the job just to kind of stay sharp or entertain myself. I don't do that as much anymore because I am just used to the drill a lot more at this point in my career.

Exactly because you can't always tell if the recipient is thin skinned or takes ribbing from his "underlings" well.

Some of them are loose but some are very scripted and intense. I don't really care in either situation, personally. But the majority of people in those scenarios are not particularly cool, calm and collected.

Yep. He probably viewed this as, "I don't need this job, so what do they have to offer that makes we WANT this job." I almost always do that.

Yeah but not many employees have the sack to take that tact with a potential employer. You get a lot of deferential behavior and BS. Some of those types want a yes man. That is why I generally go into most interviews not caring much or viewing it as what they have to offer me, rather than what I need to do to work there. You'd be surprised how often that is successful. And, typically, the places it isn't aren't usually places I want to work anyway.

He may have set the bar for worst modern GM.

Thank you.

Plus the 49ers are probably legitimately just a QB away from having a Super Bowl title already. To me, that is the best scenario for Watson imaginable from a football success standpoint. Other than that, Miami seems like the best possible scenario for a "future bet" and living situation scenario.

That was one of the biggest reasons I keep saying the 49ers.

It wouldn't be high on my list of destinations either, TBQH. We aren't an attractive team in 2021 for a guy of his caliber. Perhaps after this offseason/draft that may change. That is the thing, there are also about 98% unknowns in these scenarios and about 2% knowns. It's possible this saga lasts until the beginning of the season or until the 2022 offseason. No harm in speculating. It is the offseason for non-playoff teams.

Well there are 31 possible destinations for him. We are probably on a shorter list, due to our need for a QB. So, that probably puts us into about a 10 team category. Other than that, we have no idea what he does or doesn't want for his next franchise. That we have to speculate on or wait to hear.

Yeah, some of the teams people are talking about being involved are almost impossible. People are ignoring the salary cap situations of those respective franchises. People need to remember this is going to boil down to(if it even happens): 1. Where Watson is willing to go(he has veto power). 2. What the Texans are willing to accept in a trade. 3. What teams are willing AND able to give up to get him IF they even want him. That's pretty much it.

I can't agree it is a pipe dream. We are a possible destination but a lot of dominos have to fall to make that happen. The first of which being him actually wanting to come here.

Way less likely than him coming here. The Falcons are already in cap trouble as it is and trading or cutting Matt Ryan puts them in dire straits even WITHOUT Watson's cap figure.

Yeah but I am just stating that this conversation is about 98% theoretical at this point. If we had half a dozen sports media outlets reporting this rumor, it would be a different situation entirely.

Yeah and taking a LB in the first round typically means that second contract is already going to be higher than the guy you took in the 2nd-7th rounds.

I don't put much stock into any of those incidents unless they start being regular occurrences. None of us know any of the facts about it.

Yeah, eventually you have to start making choices in the offseason that actually help the team. We have to get past ignoring positional value and reaching for suspect players(in free agency and the draft).

But that is all pretty rumor based at the moment. It's far from concrete.

He isn't. His contract basically just makes him someone that will get cut wherever he is traded. Sort of like how some of our fans think that CMC is a valuable trade asset. He is not. Very few teams in the league want to absorb that kind of RB contract. The biggest asset we have is Burns, who is an elite pass rusher with 3 years left on a rookie deal. His value is extremely high.