kungfoodude

I have sciatica flare ups fairly frequently. It's manageable, although extremely painful. The biggest issue would be if it is causing "dead leg" or numbness, which I do get sometimes. That would really impact your play. Outside that, it's just miserable pain.

We have to overpay for talent. That's the life of a cellar dweller. Not many really want to be here, you have to pay. Hence why our poor drafting history has fuged us so hard.

$45 mil AAV is what I had the deal pegged at. I think that is about right, $40-45 mil.

I think the truth is not many of the more attractive free agents are going to be interested in us without a massive pile of money. We are basically the Jets minus the massive attraction of the NY market

Yeah, I suspect this, as well. Lots of big contenders want a guy like that too.

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I don't know that it is or isn't but that's very, very rarely something someone says as a ploy. It really doesn't help him personally out at all.

No, ultimately we are a few offseasons away, no matter how it shakes out. I would like to see an Edge/DE, TE, and RB taken at the bare minimum because of the depth and overall quality at those positions.

Us as a SB contender is very unlikely in the next 5 seasons if we are crushing every offseason between then and now. That is such a crazy long way from being anything close to a reality. At that point, Metcalf is likely on the backside of his career.

Don't love it, don't hate it. Pretty solid.

Also, not sure if anyone has posted this but Metcalf is requesting a trade to a contender. We aren't looking at that for a few seasons if we are very lucky.

Paying Horn top corner money is completely insane. He has so rarely ever played like that.

Red Wings fans wooing all game to mock us. Me at the end...

He has played well. Cleaned up a few dicey ones.

Atmosphere in the arena is pretty muted. We can turn it on them quick with another goal

Took the wind out of their sails.

Can't get much going. Definitely getting outplayed.

Stop me if you have heard this before....Canes with a slow start.

This is a crazy deep TE class. I am very reticent to take a guy that I don’t really believe is head and shoulders above the pack(Warren) at 8. I want a TE and Edge/DE in the top 60. Hence why I am so dead set on trading down. This seems like such a great draft to do so.

Eh....$12 mil isn't terrible but it's not great. Especially with a minimal amount of cap space.

Depends on price, IMO.

Svech

I don't disagree but you can't buy your way in free agency by overpaying FA's all the time. It never works. Eventually you have to draft well. I also think people need to get past the "one offseason turnaround" idea. This is gonna be a long ass haul.