Bear Hands

He is NOT

I used to like grass. Still do too.

He's an extremely limited QB in which you end up running a very limited and predictable offense with. Which is also why I'm not shunning (or) anointing Canales. When the running game and defense are on point, and he is mistake free, you can win games. A very limited, unsustainable recipe, but hey, that's 2 wins in a row.

The team is forming an identity with the OL and Chuba. All of this with Ekwonu out...

Looking good. Hunt & Lewis have been smashmouth. Chuba showing out. DL is showing better pressure (relatively speaking), still not that good. But all in all, solid performance today so far.

Taylor is a dude I would love to see go to a contender and experience some success in the league before he hangs it up. He's probably got one contract left in the pros and we've got him locked in next season (rest is voidable). We could be in a spot to grab a young OT in R2-4 this draft that can backup for a season and then take over. Would love to start backfilling a strength to avoid it becoming a weakness. Can't have the bottom fall out if we want to be this run heavy team. Also--just need to figure out the damn QB spot ha - oh and defense. Lot's to still figure out but back to Chuba - don't think this really straps us. It's a difference between a 2-4 mil FA contract and a 8 mil known asset that works with the pieces we have. That's a $4 mil difference on a $260 mil cap. Manageable.

A problem I'll admit is is that Pollard, Stevenson, & Swift (in the same ballpark $ wise) don't look worth it but they're all in bad situations. Chuba is still looking good in a bad situation, so that's nice to see. Those guys, not so much.

That perspective I get. I'm still a bit iffy on Morgan, although the draft class has looked alright. It will take at least another offseason to establish a core group here. The defense is a sieve, unsure on coaches & QB. And we'll have to get ahead of the curve looking for a Moton replacement as well. Not so sure that's in house right now.

I'm just reporting it, not getting excited. That will no doubt go down with new contracts. But because we've been drafting so many busts, there's no one in house to extend lol. Could be spent on a lot of known resources.

Good news is that incorporating Chuba's contract, with anticipated cuts, we should still have around $55-60 million in space this offseason. Almost $200 mil in space as things stand in 2026.

If you're arguing keeping Chuba in house instead of paying a vet 2-4 mil this offseason to pair with Brooks, I can see that argument. You're saving around 6-7 mil in cap in that scenario. But I don't see the argument that we have a RB room that's WAY overallocated in resources. We will have a 2nd rounder and Chuba on the books, that's it. It's really not a huge deal, not some major contract.

The contract details aren't clear yet but to break it down: Sanders is off the books when we release him after this season. The cap savings are more than double the dead cap (which is minimal) so he's cut/not here in 2025, saving us cap room Brooks is on a 2nd Round contract - ~$2 mil next year There is no other RB on contract next year That's a RB room worth $11.5 million overall. Around the 17th-20th ranked in the league financially - and that's before teams make their offseason moves and new RB investments. That's not a ton.

Wait until the details come out. Sheesh. It's $15 mil guaranteed over 4 years (and we don't even know if its front heavy/balanced/back heavy), and Miles Sanders is good as gone. With the cap continuing to increase, this will end up being a drop in the bucket, especially considering we have a R2 rookie contract on the books and no one else once we save ditching Sanders. Our RB room will basically be what? ~11 mil next year/moving forward for the next 3-4? That's entirely on par with league average. There's still this misnomer that RB isn't valued by teams - it absolutely is. Teams are simply navigating to find a top RB attack through different means given they don't need to fork out $15mil+/yr contracts for single players anymore. It doesn't mean it still isn't valued, just valued differently given the non-workhorse culture. They're targeting 1-3d rounders, getting decent FAs, running rooms are just being built strategically... Baltimore: Lamar as a dual, Derrick Henry (Top-FA), Hill (R4) Detroit: Montgomery (Top-FA), Gibbs (R1), Vaki (R4) Philly: Hurts (Dual), Barkley (Top-FA), Shipley (R4) Buffalo: Allen (Dual), Cook (R2), Davis (R4) Atlanta: Robinson (R1) Texans: Went out and got Mixon, weren't complacent with random guys/FAs/late rounders Packers: Weren't complacent with Aaron Jones and their high pick in Dillon - ditched both. Reworked their RB room with Jacobs WAS: Daniels (Dual), Robinson (R3), Ekeler (FA) - FYI Ekeler was $15 mil guaranteed over 4 years with a $24.5 mil contract.

Exactly. Being 4 years but only that guaranteed, I bet there’s a clear out after year 2 or 3 with the guaranteed dropping off significantly. In addition, we’ll be saving a few mil after cutting Miles Sanders this offseason (5.5 cap space, 2.9 dead) so the RB room will just be Chuba, Brooks, and probably a 2025 rookie. Considering the growing cap, not a bad deal, not a pricey RB room. James Conner/Montgomery territory.

DC just confirmed Brooks & Crum are going to be brought onto the team this week. If they're actually playing in Germany is TBD.

Not to mention the 4 in purple were the year Rhule was more or less in charge. So Scott really only managed to take the wrong OT at 6 overall who's still around, and got okay value for Cade Mays. That's really it in his entire tenure. How he set us back (beyond the usually advertised blunders): The short version: from 2022-2023, 16 picks were used (either traded or drafted), and all that remains (currently active) are Bryce, Icky and Mays. 16 picks resulting in 3 questionable players over 2 years. The deeper dive: -In 2022, he used 5 picks on 3 guys that barely lasted (Matt Corral, Brandon Smith, & Kalon Barnes). Icky, Barno, & Mays are all that remains from that class. -In 2023, he used 9 draft picks and (1) DJ Moore on a 5 player draft class. Let that soak in. 9 picks and DJ Moore for Bryce, Mingo (gone), DJJ, Zavala, and Robinson (3 that will be gone) -Not to mention, immensely reached for Mingo ahead of Brian Branch, Tuli, JuJu Brents, Jayden Reed, Rashee Rice, & DJ Turner (to name a few) -Prior, TMJ was taken not too far ahead of St. Brown and Nico Collins - two of the best WRs in the game these days after JJ/Chase. Not to mention Nico was a pick we f'n traded out of! -Made a questionable CMC trade...but the worse part was turning the CMC picks into part of the Bryce & DJ Johnson packages. Got zilch out of CMC. Absolutely nothing. Overall, just the worst management I've ever seen. So much freaking capital wasted in drafts rather than making sure you were acquiring talent, they were mortgaging picks and the future over their "conviction" of really low floor guys.

Who would have thunk Cooper Rush, Dalton Cook and Mingo would be leading the way for the Cowboys lol. Good times We win, cause the Saints HC firing and fleece the Cowboys. Good week.

2025 Capital (with current standings) https://www.tankathon.com/nfl/panthers

Too many weird meme jokes and gibberish over there. They barely have conversations. We're the doom pessimistic haters club lol.

We fired another team’s coach..

We could still get ahead of NE, TEN, NYG, LVR, and NO. This Giants game will be a momentum shifter for the season — if we lose it’s looking like a top-3 pick and we’re a cellar squad. Win, we should have a tad bit of cred starting to build up which I find more important than getting a top pick in this meh class. The best teams never truly tank/the bottom falls out. They maintain competence and appeal to play for, may end up with a higher pick on occasion and they get a QB to insert into a nice situation. Hoping we can get back to at least a modicum of that idea.

The vets though..on defense…yeah, we don’t have the best lol. Overall, the Defense needs some heavy duty offseason cleaning — we need to find a potential stud pass rusher and some other pieces. Injuries hit us huge too. Good drafting will cure a lot of things, it seems like a step in the right direction, but l’m not necessarily anointing Morgan yet.

I don’t think Idzik is that guy and he’s not going anywhere, so we may have to see how DC can develop just like the young players are this year. He’s shown some good here and there but it’s inconsistent — especially his 3rd down and RZ play calls. Gotta just see it through, I think we’ve got Canales as a play caller through next season. So we’ll see how he can progress.

I don’t see anything THAT reactive this week. We got a win, feels nice. Maybe we can get a third before the year ends.

Oh I’m just being fun about it. A bit indifferent on Canales right now. Some concerns but nothing screaming red flag quite yet. I’d like to see us beat the Giants in Deutchland.