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They are hosting the Super Bowl this Sunday. I heard they do not want to distract from that.

Wth is Tommy "Jone"? There is a Tommy John surgery, which is elbow. See Brock Purdy. Am I missing something here?

As far as pushing their money out several years, if you are talking about restructuring, the players get their money upfront. It becomes bonus instead of salary. Bonus can applied to future years cap over the entire length of the contract. Players aren't ever turning down being paid in advance.

I think people are underestimating him. Who are the top QB's in the league right now today? Mahomes, Burrow, Allen, Jackson, Herbert, Rodgers. After that, maybe Prescott, Watson?, Stafford, Hurts? Then it gets muddy real fast. Can you put Wilson, Cousins, Murray over Carr? Idk. Carr is top 15 in the league, possibly top 10, top 12 depending on your feelings. He's certainly good enough to make a team a contender if the rest of the team is put together. Probably won't win a Super Bowl, but can turn the Saints into a 12 win team. To me Carr with the Saints is about equal to Cousins and the Vikings. Good enough to be a problem.

They will have to give him an extension that kicks his salary down the road. I think they have negative $50 mil+ they have to fix for next season already. Raiders may take on a portion of the contract to reduce the burden on the Saints. Makes sense if a 1st rounder is in play, because otherwise he isn't worth a first.

seven draft picks

Eric Washington was DC.

You probably won't get another chance. This is probably literally the first and last time Mr Beast will come up on this forum. Actually, wonder if he came up previously when he did that video with Cam years back?

I do too for the most part. I don't post much but I read pretty much everything. I like the insight and I make fun of people in my head for their dumbass takes. Anyway, Scot doesn't pie apparently (weirdo) so thought I'd throw that out there. I figure he'd appreciate randos pay attention to him.

That's an incredible read, thank you! I didn't pie you, because I don't really do that.

11 man blitzes incoming?

Something I read today, Shaq said he wants to retire a Panther and he knows the team needs money to sign people like Burns. I bet he is willing to take a team friendly extension.

This may be tinfoil hat, but I think the OC is already selected. As in, it's a done deal in all but writing. We haven't heard any words on OC and we've only interviewed Cooter, right? I think our OC is currently on the Eagles staff and we're just waiting on the official interview.

Only thing I see with that, is he looked lost in 3-4 during his last year. Idk if he'd be good fit as LB coach, which is where most people would peg him. I do think he'd be a great coach but would have to figure out where is the best spot for him.

This sounds a lot like what Phil Snow was trying to do, in theory, with his 3-3-5 base. Great hire. I'm feeling much more confident on next season. I have been legit scared we'd be stuck with Gus Bradley.

Someone threw a flaming bag of turds on his front porch?

Fitt needs a new jacket. Or at least another jacket.

Depends. Like I said earlier, I doubt there is discovery in arbitration. IF there was discovery, Tepper can get phone records, emails, everything. If Rhule pushed for a backloaded contract. Contracts aren't one way streets. Nebraska could have sent over a contract and Rhule told his attorney to adjust the compensation to backload it, and as long as Nebraska was fine with that, they wouldn't have objected. Contracts are negotiated. It all depends on who's idea was it to backload the contract; especially if it's fully guaranteed. If they were THAT cool with paying him no matter what, then there wouldn't be offset language. Rhule could have sat and taken it all. But he didn't. And knew there was offset language. Did Rhule negotiate the contract structure a certain way to negate the offset language? We can only speculate at this point. I can almost guarantee Tepper won't pay poo if Rhule was the source of the backloaded contract. And Rhule will probably owe Tepper attorney fees for the trouble. But again all speculation without discovery. I still say Tepper has a strong case in arbitration.

If he purposely backloaded the Nebraska contract to circumvent the offset clause, then it is playing games. What else would you call that?

Anything that nets a possible franchise qb. You have to take a shot if there is conviction.

I thought this too. I was surprised Wilks didn't come up. But then that turf question...

With this context, I agree Tepper doesn't owe him poo. It'll all come down to the wording of the contract. It's arbitration and this is a strong argument. Don't know if arbitration has a discovery process, but Rhule might not have a leg to stand on with this.

I'd say at this stage it somewhat is. Obviously the QB room is very important, and he said they've had some conversations about current players. But let's be honest, player evaluations isn't what he's doing right now. He needs a staff, first and foremost. I doubt Reich has evaluated very much tape at all. He's had the job for two days, the question was too soon.

Wasn't he interim OC when Joe Brady was fired? And wasn't he even worse?