BrianS

Regardless of where anyone ranks Deshaun Watson, I think it's super clear that EVERYONE sees him as a Top 10 in the league type QB. You can win a Super Bowl with ANY of those guys. Nothing is official until it's official, and the price is definitely gonna be scary, but Deshaun would make our offense incredibly productive.

The only way we can get Trubisky is if we simultaneously dump Teddy. You cannot have both of them here. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if he got $8 million. He's in a weird spot because of the contract Brissett got. His numbers are in that area, but Brissett got a ridiculous contract. Is he Mariotta? That's $8 million worth probably. If we're trading $8 million for $20 million, I think I'm ok with that. Worst case scenario at $8 million he doesn't work out and the cost isn't crippling us. He does work out, we still have plenty of cap.

Passing the torch. TD to JC.

Will we ever learn? Our history with injured, re-tread tackles is . . . pretty bad. Okung, Kalil, Oher . . . I may be forgetting someone forgettable here . . .

Thank you to both of them. Let's hope it doesn't take 10 years to get them in the RoH.

This is something I keep trying to explain to the Jones fans. He didn't actually show very many NFL traits. He was the beneficiary of a completely loaded Alabama roster. He in fact lost the only game he played in decided by less than two scores. I do not count the Florida game this year since it was two scores until the garbage time TD. I would argue that you could put any of the top 10 college QB's in the draft on that Alabama team and come up with the exact same or better results.

Not sure if I agree with this. Seems more like Hurney was kinda the last to go, and a lot of the FO turned over between the time Tepper took over and Hurney being let go.

From the perspective of the contracts, for those players it's as if 2020 never happened. They didn't get paid, the contract terms extend one year and no accrual of years occurs for the players.

There's a lot of truth there. Watson is an outstanding QB who can elevate those around him. But he can't do it alone. There doesn't exist a QB who can. Cam Newton came as close as anyone I've ever seen to doing it, but ultimately he couldn't do it. I don't think you can win a SB with TB5 / Alex Smith / etc in this day and age. I do think you can win one with Tannehill . . . and maybe Trubisky if his career goes to the same cadence as Tannehill. I'd rather have a guy with an NFL proven 64% completion rate, 25-13 record and 2:1 TD to INT ratio over a guy coming out of college unless that guy coming out was Andrew Luck / Trevor Lawrence / Peyton Manning level.

And likewise, Trubisky could be Tannehill because of CMC . . . as I said, I see a LOT of similarities there.

And that would be the smart thing to say. It's already obvious to the entire league that we are in the market, the less we give away, the better.

As much as I love CMC - and I really think he's a HoF waiting to happen - what you're saying here really is the smart play. You get what is likely the best seven years of the career without a lot of year over year risk. The only reason I don't have a huge problem with the contract is that I suspect CMC can become a third down specialist late in his career if the knocks start to add up. I do agree that we'd be paying a lot for a specialist like that, but maybe that's what it took to get him to stay. Who knows. CMC is definitely a very tough call.

"Meihem in ce klasrum" eh? I like it.

Shaq is definitely a problem. He's an average to good LB being paid good to excellent money. I'm not sure how we designated our current crop of cuts, but if we still have a post June 1 slot, we could really cut some cap there. I don't think we do that however. We just sit tight, bite our lip and pay it this year. Prior to 2022, we will be in a much better position both for overall cap and to cut Shaq.

FWIW, our positional spending at QB is actually middle of the pack. 14th to be exact. It may not be as difficult to unload Bridgewater as we thought.

This is the thing with Jones. He's shown accuracy. He's shown touch. So has TB5. Jones has not shown an NFL arm. I agree, we don't necessarily need a Cam / Russell / Lamar Jackson / Kyler Murray / Patrick Mahomes type athlete to succeed in our offense. But we DO need an NFL arm. Someone to push the ball deep, fast and wide when it's called for. That doesn't appear to be Jones. My recollection of Herbert was the questions were all from the neck up.

Said it in another thread, I'll say it here. I think Trubisky is the next Tannehill. Those two have eerily similar career trajectories. People wrote them off because of their situation, instead of coldly assessing the facts. Trubisky is 25-13 since his rookie year. He's a 64% passer (higher since his rookie year). He throws twice as many TD's as INT's. Big arm. Get him a good QB coach, and I bet he shows up as the real deal. There's a player in there.

I don't think the Moton tag has a thing to do with Curtis. I think the pending re-signing of DJ Moore is a far bigger consideration. I'd much rather have DJ than Curtis, and as a team we cannot afford both. I love Curtis, and he came ahead leaps and bounds . . . THIS YEAR. How many times have we seen guys play out of their skin in a contract year, get paid and return to career norms thereafter? Too many. Do I think that's Curtis? Not necessarily, but man, it seems to happen on the regular. Someone is going to fall in love with Curtis, pay him way more than he's worth, and in all fairness, good for Curtis. I just don't want it to be us.

I mean, honestly? If it came down to Trubisky or Jones, I'd rather have Trubisky. Dude does have an arm at least. I think Trubisky has the potential to be another Ryan Tannehill. If you look at their career trajectories, they look pretty similar. I know not everyone loves Tannehill, but that dude is actually legit. He's not HoF caliber, but you can will a Super Bowl with him. Bear in mind, most of Tannehill's career was spent in the same division as the Patriots. I've seen a lot of folks knock Trubisky around here . . . but there's a guy there who is 25-13 since his rookie season. Throws twice as many TD's as INT's and completes 64% of his passes. Stop looking at his train wreck of a team and look at him. He definitely needs someone to help him smooth out his INT rate. He's all over the board with it, but there's a player there.

Good player, probably the right call. But what it seems to indicate is that we'll continue to look for our LT in the draft as opposed to FA. I can't see us paying two tackles 25+ per season. That just doesn't make sense for the rest of the roster.

It's pretty simple. The rules have made it much easier to play receiver. More and more receivers can get the job done. You'll still have your generational players, but the "good" receivers are becoming much more common.

Richard Sherman . . . has exactly what credentials to make that sort of assertion? Are we talking Richard Sherman the former Seahawks cornerback or is there a Richard Sherman who actually has some knowledge of scouting? Seems like a "who cares" moment to me.

Not a *(&$@ing soul. Tepper should stay the (*&@ away and let Rhule and Fitterer make football decisions.

I've often wondered how many of the guys who are paid in the top 10 at their position actually play in the top 10 at their position after their contract. It's frankly a little scary how many of them tail off.

This is the thing that has changed so much in the college game and caused so many issues with college QB's translating. The college game has so many one read systems in it now that QB's there just don't get the chance to learn how to quickly work through a progression. You really have to learn how to watch a college QB for traits without getting hung up in their statistics.