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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.

And you yours.

Sending out legit requests really ought to suffice.

I lol’d. Deion doesn’t audition.

I am with you. Give XL an offseason and a camp to respond. He may not be a 1st round level contributor but may be able to contribute to the team in a lesser role. If someone calls and offers a 3rd I would do it but if it is a day three thing I’d rather roll the dice on him for now. I bet he didn’t see this coming until it about just hit him. He isn’t that quick, unfortunately. Let him get his head around it and see what happens.

I didn’t read that Browns article but it was stated that they are having trouble fulfilling it. Knowing the hype being pushed for clicks today, maybe it is bullshit untrue bait. Fair enough. But that brings to mind, it is conceivable that a team could be in a position where they needed a remedy for an unforeseen catch 22 type of thing such as that. Simple and logical concept: a contingency should be in place for all scenarios. poo comes - that we don’t see coming - all the time in life. If the rule needs fine tuning, tune it and move forward.

Good lord let’s give the guy to the Bears and turn around and give them even more to buy him back? Lol. They should just give him back to us in appreciation for all we have done for them. And why do people think he wants to come back to the team that saw so little value in him that they thought they wouldn’t miss him - and shipped him out as a mere sweetener for their trade.

MVQ, and MVP. It can be the same guy winning both in rare seasons. Sort of like Cy Young award and MVP in baseball. Can be the same guy but usually isn’t.

That is the way I see it as well. We’ve gotten in a situation with Moton and his money to where he is overpaid now and could easily become a pretty big liability with that contract if he can’t be 100% healthy. Now suddenly, we have to address LOT this year and odds are, unfortunately, we will need both OT spots filled with new guys by 2027. That will bring down the financial demands of fielding an OL and give you a chance to pay a top C. Big signing bonus with a low salary handles the finances of that for 2026 and you can have Icky off and maybe Moton too by ‘27 depending on how that all works out in the next calendar year. Hunt is just flat overpaid for what he brings to the OL. You can love him and still see that. I hope. We are looking at all this and at the same time knowing that by next year that lil QB could be an additional financial burden.

What is new is a team having trouble getting people to accept interviews. No one foresaw that, I dare say. A wrinkle not considered when the rule was constructed. Not sure why anyone would resist addressing it.

Just saying. It made me think well, what if a team is trying in earnest and is held hostage by people not accepting their requests. You need to prevent that. Abuse of the rule has been happening since it was implemented, fwiw. They will interview someone they really have no interest in just to satisfy the rule.

Makes me think. Some of these guys obviously know they are just being asked to interview to satisfy that requirement. People say going through the process, even under those circumstances, is beneficial as a learning experience and preparation for a legit opportunity. But after you have done a couple, you probably don’t want to do any more if you think it is just for the rule. So you turn them down. Results in the Browns’s dilemma. I think the rule should be amended to: teams have to request interviews, not necessarily have them. In the case of no one wanting to do one, you tried. A certain number of requests go out, but none get accepted, that should do it for them. You can place requirements on how many requests you need to send out, who the requests go to… no quality control assistants or that type of thing. Legit coaches at a level where it makes sense. Satisfy that and you are free to hire your coach.

Objection to taking late round QBs noted. Can we note how shitty our QB room is?

Also lol, fwiw… it might not be statistically true but it seems like, from memory, that our offense was better with Foreman lol.