PleaseCutStewart

Him and Evans are good special teamers. I like these 2 resignings

Not sure if it's related to the playoff game or just the rampant inflation that is occurring in our country. Curious how much the prices for other teams changed.

Yeah Thieneman has grown on me - definitely the ball hawking safety we need. McCoy can be really good as our nickel (if his medicals check out). Size will probably prevent him from ever playing on the outside, but he has great ball skills, can press pretty well, and moves very quickly and fluidly in zone. Freeling and Fano are probably my preferred LTs if we can grab them. Mauigoa's pass blocking has me a bit concerned for being our LT. Lemon would be a great RAC guy for us that seems to know how to read zones (works well for out quick pass offense). Would have said 100% no to WR prior to day 1 of free agency because of all the needs we had on D, but now we can if he is the best player available at 19. Allen I would prefer to trade down for, but I can see teams in the 20s valuing him, so I'm not sure he would make it much longer after our pick. The dude will be an immediate 3 down LB for us week 1

Honestly, I would rather overpay day 1 of free agency for a high end player (Phillips) than lose out on them and then overpay for a mid-level player. Seems like we learned from missing out on Milton Williams last year

Ummmmm, no. Plenty of centers will be around in rounds 3 and 4. Unless one of the stud LB or edges drop (or Downs), it is hopefully one of the following: OT (Mauigoa, Freeling, Fano) DB/S (McCoy, Thieneman) WR (Lemon) LB (Allen)

Luckily they are 3 or 4 good zone blocking centers in this draft, so I think we can potentially find a starter in the third or fourth round.

Looks like we can pretty much go BPA in the 1st round now (if there isn't an OT we love at 19)

Damn, almost seems like we're going all in with how much we are spending in free agency

Nice, somebody tell him to pull an Eli and refuse to play for any other team but us

How many more years do we have to give Dalton to be a "mentor"...

The great thing about signing him is that we won't have to be hard pressed to take an edge in the first few rounds. Now we can focus on LB, oline, and corner/safety

Man that is a lot of money for a guy that has struggled to stay healthy 2 of the past 3 years... Hope he can stay healthy for us

Smith-Wade to safety sounds like a terrible idea. Unfortunately the guy just isn't very talented and she honestly be a sub corner or dime back at best

Mesidor. He was doubled a lot the 23-24 season when he was playing DT and was not doubled nearly as much playing DE in 24-25 because Bain got the doubles

He was getting double teamed when he played DT last year. This year he rarely was doubled

I don't know, he looked good for Miami once they stopped forcing him to play DT (which was an insanely stupid thing to do). He also got stuck being doubled teamed an insane number of plays when playing DT. I understand Bain got the most attention, but Mesidor pretty much didn't get blocked 1-on-1 by anybody this season. I don't think there is any way he makes it out of the 1st (unless his medical has red flags) - too many teams picking in the bottom 12 spots want an edge that will be an impact player day 1. Mesidor has the technique and pass rush move variety to contribute day 1 (unlike some of the other edges that are freak athletes but more raw).

I get it's disappointing, but this was definitely a seller's market and the only players traded away were players that would be depth pieces at best for us. A lot of the top teams (Avs, Stars, Lightning, Wild post Hughes) really only traded for depth pieces. Just a terrible trade deadline all around and I'm glad we didn't cave and sell the farm for somebody like Tro (even though I like him and he fits our team well).

The gift that keeps on giving. I mean the turd that keeps on stinking...

He will probably be used sparingly to give guys off days until the playoffs. Can't see him playing in the playoffs for us unless we need a goon out there

I don't mind losing the 1st rounder. I do mind losing one of our best young players or prospects

I don't think there was any way the Preds were trading O'Reilly unless they received a king's ransom. So probably a similar trade requirement of multiple 1sts and somebody like Nadeau, Blake, or Boom

if Schenn and Roy are getting 1st rounders +, I can only imagine what the hell the Rags are asking for. Wouldn't surprise me if they are asking for Boom + a couple of 1st rounders

We definitely still have a defensive issue. Way too many easy shots from the slot because we have guys chasing along the boards for no reason. Not worried about the 4 goals Bus gave up - 3 of them are not getting saved by pretty much any goalie in the NHL

My lord these prices teams are paying for players. Islanders gave up a haul for Schenn

It's a sellers market. A lot of the trades that have happened have been overpays IMO. While it would be nice to get a 2C, I don't want us trading away our best prospects or our young NHL talent for it