tukafan21

$7.5 a year for a good #2 WR isn’t bad, especially when that probably would only have 10-15 guaranteed as well. Its more than his production so far is worth, but its cheaper than other quality #2’s out there and by the end of 2026 would probably look like a bargain.

I don't think it makes sense to splash on a FA LT. Bring back BC or Yosh or draft someone in the 1st or 2nd, as the hope would be for Ickey to be ready to go for 2027 anyways and then you move someone to the right that year figuring Moton could be about done by then. It's unfortunate but it actually sets up for a decent transition plan at RT in 2 years if we were to draft someone in the first 2 rounds this year and then get a discount on Ickey's extension because of the injury.

It will be really interesting to see how both sides handle this. I'm sure the team would love to get him signed to a 4 year deal based on his output so far and some potential factored in, i.e. something like a 4 year $30 million contract. But I could see his agent telling him the best path is to take the one year offer, put up a big year next year and then really cash in. The team also has to keep in mind T-Mac's 2nd contract, which likely will happen after the 2027 season assuming he keeps improving as expected. Even if we could get Coker on a budget 4 year deal for what he could become, the problem then becomes when he wants to re-negotiate in 2 years during the same summer we will extend T-Mac, and you don't want to spend that much on WRs in one offseason, just see the Bengals this last year. Taking everything into consideration, I'm thinking the 1 year deal and then getting him to sign a 4-5 year deal after hopefully say a 800ish yard season next year might be best for our cap situation and separate his and T-Mac's negotiation periods.

If an OT falls to us in the draft that could start Week 1, then you take him without question. Gives us a LT for the season since Ickey is likely to miss all of it (even if he can come back late in the season, it's hard to just step in and play well in that situation, so might as well just take the lost season) and then gives us options in 2027 when Moton might be done. I'd rather use the 1st on a defensive player, but if we can lock down a starting OL on a rookie deal for the next 4 years, you have to take it.

This is basically the worst thing that could have happened to us yesterday, fug

I wanted T-Mac, we got T-Mac Am I playing this game right?

The no brainer move would have been trading him mid season after those couple big games. Because we're not getting a comp pick for him, nobody is signing him to a big enough deal to warrant a comp pick coming back our way, especially as we'll have some cap space to spend ourselves, so any signing we make would more than counter act the contract he'd be signing with someone.

Why are we throwing that to XL when T-Mac had 1 on 1 on the other side?!?!

Jack of a few trades, master of none

The Lions make way too much sense. He'd have a ton of weapons and a QB who can deliver the ball on time for when he schemes open their WRs and RBs in space. Unless he gets a HC in a surprising twist, I have to think he'll end up in Detroit.

This fuging fool T-Mac putting up the numbers he did in this offense this year is closer to that 1,500 statistical outlier he's talking about this class not having than anything else. He finished 14th in receiving yards and was one of 19 players to cross 1,000 yards in a year that was dominated by the rushing game across the NFL. He did this in the 26th ranked passing game in the league, a team averaging just 179 passing yards per game. The other players to cross the 1,000 mark this year and NOT be in a Top 14 ranked passing offense and at least 218 ypg were Zay Flowers, Justin Jefferson, Devonta Smith, AJ Brown, and Wan'Dale Robinson, that's it. He finished 7th in the NFL in receptions for 1st downs. He finished 10th in 20+ yard plays AND 40+ yard plays. He finished 15th in Rec TDs He did this as an undisputed #1 WR and target on a team who frankly for the majority of the season did not have a reliable #2 weapon to take defensive attention away from him, and again, all as a rookie. And that's before you even get into the limitations of being in a Bryce lead offense, could you imagine if he fell to the Cowboys and they drafted him instead of trading for Pickens, who only had 1,400 yards this year. What our guy did this year was downright remarkable and he's only beginning to scratch the surface of what he can become in this league. He's going to get faster and more physical at the point of attack, he's going to take over and make fools like this look so dumb when looked back upon in a few years.

This is actually something I feel hasn't been talked about near enough this year, not just his 3rd downs, but his ability to get 1st downs. He finished 7th in the league in receptions for 1st downs (6th among WRs) with 55 1st downs on 70 catches. Add in his 7 TDs and he scored or got a 1st down on 62 of his 70 catches this year, that's an insane percentage for any player, let alone a rookie. The only other rookie in the Top 42 1st down receptions was Warren who came in at #29, and he had 13 less 1st downs despite actually having 6 more catches this year than T-Mac did.

As I said in another thread recently, my official victory lap and bow will come once that OROY is announced in about a month. But yes, I absolutely spoke T-Mac to our Panthers into existence, I'll never be convinced otherwise hahaha, the campaign started with a thread in Nov 2023, a full 18 months before he was even draft eligible.

This is very true, if it was the 49ers, it would be a heavy SF crowd, they travel well for playoff games. But the Rams barely have home field advantage in LA usually, there shouldn't be a massive Rams contingent in town for the game.

I agree, we don't need to draft another young edge rusher to add to this group, even a 1st rounder as we'll now be late in the round too. Biggest FA contract should go to the best pass rusher we can sign, use that 1st on a LB or S