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I think that somehow the NFL becomes more liable for the point shaving going on if they directly full time employ the refs.

Well we paid Hunt probably 20 million to rehab and are giving Icky 16 or 17 to rehab, and we will have to pay for his replacement as well. It is a dilemma for me because I am a big believer that you win with a stout OL, and DL too. But paying a guard 100 million to protect your little QB is fuging ridiculous. I like Hunt he doesn’t suck but we weren’t getting our money’s worth when he was healthy IMO. We need to trim his money and I guess that means he goes with it. And it can’t happen this year. We definitely need to draft a bunch of O linemen the next couple of years. I really don’t like hearing all this TE from Oregon talk.

Yeah. Probably will be close. I am not rooting for anyone don’t really care that much. Same for the AFC game, don’t really care. Except it is Sean Payton, I always like it when he loses. But it’s New England, I can’t root for them. It’s going to be 23 degrees at kickoff in Denver, wind will 12-15mph, dropping to 13 degrees by 7pm with snow predicted to start before halftime.

No idea about the AFC. i hate to pick Denver so I won’t. I think LA falls short though. Their defense is a little suspect and Seattle is a hard place to go into. Rams do have a lot of trips in there and it might not be as much of a hurdle to them as someone traveling cross country that never plays there. We’ll see what kind of bullshit the refs pull today.

That is what I thought, but the place I looked did not say that. I’ll worry about it when we trade somebody I guess.

If they aren’t willing to pay Mayes I would think they have something in mind. Just not telling us about it yet.

When we were talking about trading Bryce last year (dammit) I looked it up, and of course don’t remember for sure. I just looked it up again. I found that any signing bonus paid that was pro rated over the length of the contract comes due immediately. All guaranteed money comes due also.

Lol. Yeah. First of all, some people here had it in for him because they wanted McConkey. They were down on him from the start. As soon as he falls short they got their knives out. Don’t y’all deny it. But he has given them ammunition with his miscues, good lord not making that catch in Philedelphia for the TD got him fried. I think some of that got nasty because Bryce defenders need to place blame elsewhere. Talk down about his weapons. There is just bias against him from different factions. Different quarters. He isn’t helping himself much either, there was no real redemption on the field. Not of the magnitude he needed to produce. At the same time he has for sure been open and I ha en’t seen them use him the way I thought they were going to. So I don’t know what to think think about it really. My thing is, we have a HC and OC that has their foundation built on WR coaching. That morphed into QB coaching and whispering, if you will. But these fugers know WRs, supposedly. I don’t know how much they have worked with him. I don’t know how much extra he has put in either. I do suspect Bryce Young has gotten most of their attention and they haven’t put XL as a priority project. Young needed the attention, I get that. I’d like to see them take him on as a real priority before giving up on him. Where we are now is he got his notice that he isn’t good enough. Need to see if that got through to him, maybe he bears down and focuses. Or maybe he can’t. I can’t defend his shitty play but I do see flashes of a guy that could be an asset and I would just like the staff to take one good last swing at bringing it out of him before they give up.

Been over this, but it doesn’t look like Icky will be getting a big extension. 2027 opens up possibilities to shed some contracts. You can sign an expensive C and give a huge prorated signing bonus and a tiny 1st year salary and work around any financial obstacles for 2026. This OL needs to be rebuilt or reloaded in the next 2-3 years starting with LOT this year. This tackle money can drop quickly, if they can draft guys. I am not saying what we should do, just saying we could do whatever financially. We just need to cover LOT right now.

This could indicate that it is.

I mean the only thing I can see is he good with QBs and they haven’t had one in forever. This guy has done the crown jewel franchises now.

Wow no kidding. McCarthy is the retread that won’t die.

As far as the NFCS … I think this division will be hotly contested the next couple of years. I am tending to pay more respect to both Atlanta and the Saints n terms of how strong they will be moving forward, than not. I am mixed on Ryan but think they have a decent roster to start with. I don’t think he blundered hiring Stefanski. And that offense can be dangerous with a QB. Plus, defense is arrow up. No 1st round pick, WB issues will dull their effectiveness. Question is, to what degree? I think Moore is going to be a good HC and can overcome tape that people have on Shough. They need a lot but they were playing with people. Just the way you want to see all the way to the end. Not sure about Tampa they have Mayfield but I don’t think they can maintain their success and Bowles is not going to last much longer. They have to go through all that. Gonna be tough once it starts. Might already have started. For us I feel pretty good about Morgan. But less so about our offense, we have some short term RB and OL issues and those things are critical given what we are working with at QB. Overall, mixed. Like a lot of what I see but some major question marks remain.

Lol no ma’am. I don’t really know the players at this point but have done some reading. That draft wouldn’t make me shoot myself. We gotta do something about LOT though.

That’s a Buffalo curse. Like 4 straight SBs. No wins. We can’t get two in a row.. that’s ours.

Yeah the rules are not kind to the trading away team. poo load comes due immediately. All pro rated bonus money for one thing.

I’d cut somebody else because I like A’Shawn as a player. No issue with getting straight at LB and beefing up the front.

Wonder if he even knows. Yeah he should. Ocho could help his mind I think.

Smitty was a 3rd rounder. I’m not really saying draft one high at all, 3rd being higher than I have in mind for this year. I am completely with the people that say ‘enough’ high picks on “weapons for Bryce”. Enough of that. Don’t want a weapon drafted early, Yet Again. For that matter I wish we weren’t forced to address LOT because I want linebackers and big guys. And OL depth in the mid to late rounds. Maybe some late insurance at RB. A QB if the right one is begging for us to snap him up. But looking at the WR room and believing Moore is sort of redundant or maybe even not a great fit, and then just recalling the numerous calls for a burner, I was only really saying what I think would be the best type of addition.

Damn, somehow this ended up in the wrong thread. Sorry.

I don’t see what would make him so good with Bryce to be honest, that we aren’t covering now with Tet and Coker. We need a Smitty type. Easier said than done but those smoke screens and stuff, with two Moose types for people to worry about, seems better to me. A little guy with supreme quickness, that will fight for a ball thrown to him. Smitty was a very rare specimen. But try and get close. I think looking for straight up speed to go downfield, can’t really use it with Bryce. I feel like a speed demon would just outrun Bryce’s ball and have to coast on his deep routes to stay within range. You need a QB that will launch it 50-60 yards so he can turn on the afterburners and go.

I didn’t remember that. But extending the opportunity is the goal. If people reject the opportunity, that shouldn’t really be on the team. Now I can also see how that could be gamed by sending them to people you know aren’t interested, but they game it now from the other direction with interviewing people when they already have their minds made up as to who they want. Sending the invites to people no one has ever heard of, lower level guys not coordinators, that just seems like a front too. In the ultra rare ‘never happened before’ situation that just somehow happened, there could be a provision in place. Pretty simple to do I would think. After this discussion I would laugh pretty hard if it ever did happen.

He may have wanted out but it wasn’t anywhere but here. Felt like once SF was possible it was 100% leave. He was never my favorite player to be honest. I didn’t care that much. I am 100% anti RBs before the 3rd anyway. Don’t care how good they are. Get the OL right and there are 20 backs a year or more coming out that can produce for you. I wanted Kamara later. Like, 3rd or 4th and he went in the 3rd. Pretty sure. Unless I’m mistaken he out produced CMC that first season and had excellent production for his entire rookie deal. Now with junior at QB, CMC would probably have torn it up. With Cam you didn’t need that.

Don’t know if it’s to that level yet but is definitely concerning. We have no word on how Horn is doing either. Hard to be an optimist around that. Seems like they become more frequent and pretty soon you are not long for the field of play.

Sounds like a plan to me.