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Might be similar to Fox’s roster when he came here. The bones were there and he whipped them into form. Getting Peppers didn’t hurt but NYG also have a high pick to get some help with. 1-15 when came in, got it to 7-9, then to 11-5. 2 years. But 1-15 to 7-9 tells you that was an underachieving team in 2001.

I should look that up. How much the top Gs make now, who they are… But good lord my reaction is for 100 million he better be. I would expect top 5 for that contract. His deal is two years in so not really cutting edge for the upcoming FA. I am not dogging him, he is a good player and an asset but also I have seen him losing matchups, getting pushed around. In my cheapskate mind no 100 million dollar guard should be having that happen. I guess honestly I feel like we could do better for that money. At the same time 100 mil for any right guard is shocking to me, it is walk on water territory.

My only concrete thought about this is Harbaugh has the track record and rep to withstand dips in success. Like, Caughlin got a lot of leeway from the Maras in some lean years. The people they have put into the job lately were not established and could not get themselves established, I don’t think the same level of security was there for them.

I was never clear to me that Frank put that staff together. One of the problems with that season. In other news… people, don’t forget the fans in Pittsburgh were chanting Fire Tomlin. It wasn’t good. He has his share of pride and the organization was walking a fine line to keep him and have that popping up next year.

Carrying the team with his arm when other stuff isn’t working, hasn’t shown up. Needs to and if it doesn’t I hope the team doesn’t settle.

The game has changed so much that running is an asset and not discouraged any more. It used to be all arm, pocket, you don’t want the backyard stuff. Because those guys are generally not great as pocket passers. So yeah I think ratings should account for it.

As respected as he is, I am not sure a defensive guy can thrive unless he can find himself a QB. Which he has not been able to do for quite a while. So he needs a job that has one in place. Green Bay might have been a good place for him if it had opened. I wonder if Buffalo is tired of McD, if that might not be a good place for him too.

I doubt they cut him or injury settlement or anything, he wil get his IR stint I assume. That 5th year option money is fat too. He won’t walk away broke if he has to retire. And we have the 12 month window if it goes like that. I think best case is we find a talented LOT to replace him, maybe he is good enough after healing to slide over to ROT and we can save on the Moton deal for 2027. Moton is on tap for 28.4 million, and change, for 2027 and he he getting close to the end, I think. Kind of thinking if we do 2026 with him it would be time to move on afterwards. It is high finance. PS between WR, OT and QB salaries you can spend all your money. If you can draft we’ll I would think you can play the musical chairs game with the rookie contracts and not have all three as expensive vets at the same time. Somehow.

Well I never played WR but a ball at my knees is not a gimme for me. So I figured same for them. I am not never wrong. And yeah that Rams TD, throw and catch was pretty perfect. You can’t hardly defend that.

Some? Who does that in FA? Lucky to get one blue chip.

When has Tepper had a press conference the last year? I was wondering if we would make it a year with nothing.

I searched for that. No results. Lots of speculation that he would do that but no confirmation. I did find an article from 3, 4 years ago where he was asked about it and said he would not go over to the “dark side”. His words. I am not saying that it means anything today, just passing that on.

It was only an attempt at a joke. But you are right, it would be a different conversation. I probably would have had no objections to drafting him.

I heard an analyst say his camp may not want long term but more a 2 year deal because the money for this next deal won’t match the market in 2 years. Might not even match the market this year but they don’t have leverage. I haven’t refreshed myself but pretty sure they can buy his RFA season out with a 2 year deal. Then you wouldn’t have to match offers.

This is cold but… I would not be handing Icky that extension now. There is some money to reallocate.

This drop thing… really debatable. Depends on your perspective. That last ball was a tough catch that didn’t get caught. I don’t know that I would call it all on Horn as if it hit him perfectly and he blew it.

I just realized something and couldn’t edit above… post it here. If you use the 2025 playoff teams to project 2026, you have to use 2024 teams to evaluate this year on those same terms. 2024 playoff teams we faced this year were TB (2) Green Bay Rams Bills I think that’s it. We went 3-3 including Saturday. 5 games but only 4 teams. We can call it 5. So, more next year.

Went 2-5. Not including actual playoffs. So 2-6. Rams and Green Bay were the wins. We were tough for teams, most of our games anyway. And we’re such a borderline playoff team. There will be a couple of teams out there that weren’t playoff teams that will hurt us probably. Too early to really say but I don’t like the way we stack up right now in our own division. They are all drafting well ahead of us (those that have picks). Atlanta might be in a little trouble.

I believe you are accurate there. Without knowing for a fact, I think we basically understand what happened.

Right. And a muddy situation where some lawyer is technically in charge. I would think there would be instructions from Blank in a will or something.

Well I was thinking of you, only packer fan on my radar. tough luck.

yeah we will be sitting at the adult table for sure. Just might have lost two of our recent 1st round picks, long term, Saturday. Horn and the concussions, 2 in 6 weeks or something? Icky will be hard to replace and still be able to carry out whatever plans they had made for FA and the draft.

The one thing about that is Blank may not be with us all that long. He is pretty old now. 83. I guess with the best medical care he could have a while, but senility is a threat. Then what happens to the team?

The reason I caught it was I was looking at next year and the annual Bryce suck fest to mark the beginning of the schedule, and thinking 2-6? Then we will be 2-8 in our last 10? Ugh.

6 of our last 8? Meaning we finished 2-6? Not sure that’s accurate. Check the math.