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Main roads are decent though. 8" 9n the driveway ain't gonna hold me back. I lived 14 years averaging 100".

The Bears are loaded at WR. Why would they want to trade a good #2 TE for XL? It wouldn't make any sense. A good #2 WR is better for their roster than a guy fighting to hang onto the last WR spot on the depth chart.

We got about 8". What sucks for me is that directly to the south of my house is a small mountain so this time of year we get minimal direct sunlight on the house and driveway. There's still 2-3" of sleet underneath this snow. Gonna take a serious warm spell for it to clear off. My small plow had nothing for all that sleet. The overall driveway is almost half a mile long. I'm parking the Land Cruiser down by the pond to avoid having to drive uo the last 75 yards or so to the house which is the steepest part. That's probably gonna be the status quo for the foreseeable future. I need a stretch of days in the 50s with night time temps that aren't getting below freezing.

It generally means less upside. You're a literal man playing amongst boys in college. Sometimes you find a Joe Burrow but you usually find a Xavier Legette.

He's gonna be an older rookie at 24 years old. Some guys just don't carry weight well. I don't think you draft this guy expecting him to play much heavier. Just comes down to whether you want lighter more agile OL or maulers. We seem to prefer the mauling type.

Not sure how high we'll be on Lomu to be honest. We seem to prefer big maulers on the OL and Lomu is really light for a modern NFL OT. He's listed barely over 300.

That's not what you said. You shoehorn yourself into OT and LB in the 1st and 2nd. This roster has plenty of need. We don't need to feel the need to force anything.

Yeah, I think the BPA is pretty defensible regardless of specific position.

I've considered that too. If he loses some range and agility he could still potentially move inside. Our guards are aging. I do think we need to be forward thinking at OT with Moton's age and Icky's injury. But Icky is under contract next year and we'll have better jnsight into his recovery than anyone else. I'm just hoping he can get back in the field in the latter half of next season so we can get a real evaluation of him in actual games. I'm not ready to throw Icky out right now but I do think relying in him as a long-term answer after this injury would be a big risk. This was the downside of backing into the playoffs with no real chance of making any noise. There was talk right after the injury of Icky dealing with some lingering injury issues down the stretch and you have to wonder if those lingering injuries contributed to the big one. When the body is compensating for an injury you're going to be more prone to another injury occurring. Backing into the playoffs with a losing record may have cost us our long-term LT.

So you want to shoehorn yourself into drafting OT and LB in the 1st and 2nd? Great way to end up reaching out of desperation.

I wouldn't say very likely but I think OT is on the table at #19. You don't do anything with Icky right now. You just let him rehab, then likely start the season on PUP and go from there.

Way too many of y'allare panicking about Icky. He holds no cards right now. His agent knows it. He's under contract next year with the 5th year option and is in no place to demand a huge deal rehabbing from an injury with a very spotty recovery history for NFL players. Any deal that would be inked right now would be far off his healthy market value. What's he gonna a do? Hold out and forego $17M after suffering a potential career altering or even ending injury? There's no pressing need right now to do anything long-term with either Icky or Coker. Chill. The Panthers hold all the cards currently with both these situations.

1. Nothing. He's under contract. He may have been up for an extension before the injury but now you sit and wait it out. 2. He's an ERFA. Tender him at a high level for little money and then he's a RFA after next season where we have the right to match any offer he fields. Zero pressure to do anything here long-term. 3. I'd probably take literally any trade offer made. If there aren't any you bring him to camp to compete and see what happens. 4. I honestly expect an OT in the first 3 rounds with Moton's age and possible degenerative knee issues combined with Icky's serious injury. We have both immediate and long-term need there. A stopgap bandaid vet feels necessary either way. 5. Sign a legit vet (Chenal). Re-sign Rozeboom at backup contract levels. Then LB is high on the list in the draft. 6. Yes. He looked good down the stretch. I'd always have a late round RB as a potential pick though. It's top of the list for positions where you can find surprising value deep in the draft. Plus I just want to stack talent there so I don't have to pay vets. RB is a draft 'em and let somebody else pay 'em position unless you have a truly elite talent there. Don't pay "good" ones.

I just don't know if Luke wants to jump back into working obsessively on football again. He dabbled briefly as a scout and I think he still has some sort of advisory role within the organization. That might be enouvh for him. He has plenty of money. He helps Olsen coach their little league team. He can basically still be involved with the sport peripherally without jumping all in again like you know he would as a coach (and probably did as a scout).

Again? We had yet another losing season and fortunately backed into the playoffs because the whole division was bad.

It wore off very quickly for most of us. We loved how well his bargain basement free agents worked to plug holes to get us to a 15-1 Super Bowl run but as soon as he pulled that bullshit with Norman the honeymoon ended quite abruptly.

Yeah... no way. Now maybe 1200 and 800? Honestly I could see that being achievable.

That contract is so brutal. $81M cap hit this year and he'll still hit them for $26M, $17M, and $8M over the next three years when he won't even be on the roster unless he makes a miraculous rebound and gets extended which seems exceedingly unlikely and this dude is setup as a fall guy if that's what he's being hired to try to accomplish. Which given his age seems likely. I mean, I don't think you're hiring a coach on the wrong side of 60 to draft and develop another QB in next year's draft but it's the Browns so who knows.

If he's gonna wait until next year's hiring cycle to jump back in the mix then he's probably going to take one of those advisor roles on a staff similar to what we have with Dom Capers. Basically just a mind to pick. The thing is that I don't think there's any connections to McD with our current staff. We'd be much more likely to reach out to Pete Carroll for that type of role which honestly I think we should.

Yeah, I don't think there's anything strictly forbidding it to happen but generally speaking it's frowned upon and coaches for teams still active in the playoffs aren't general announced as hires until that team is no longer active. Honestly, they really should just make it where teams can't interview and hire coaches until after the Super Bowl. Yeah, tampering is gonna happen. That's just reality. But let the coaches still active focus on the job at hand without the distraction of formal interview processes. It would also help the league in term of extending the news cycle. The NFL is hot and heavy in the media and in football fans minds throughout the playoffs. After the Super Bowl that's basically a wrap until the draft news cycle gets into full swing. If you postpone the coach hiring cycle until after the SB concludes then you're in essence creating a whole new NFL news cycle during a historically pretty dead NFL news period. Seems like a win/win for everybody IMO.

Business as usual in the NFL. There's a reason why ERFAs never sign big long-term contracts. It's because there's no pressing need. The team controls their rights for the next two seasons as long as they tender them. Don't commit long-term until you have to. It sucks for the player but it's just rhe business of the NFL. Even if you're totally sold on the player anyone can suffer a career ending or altering injury at any time so until you have to commit long-term you're better off not.

Highly doubt it's going to happen. For whatever reason, the Panthers seem hesitant to commit to Coker. There's been whispers about his conditioning leading to questions about how much work he's putting in and he should've leap frogged XL on the depth chart long before he did. That's not a guy you want to make a serious commitment to long-term. We're in a great situation right now with him. We can tender him at a pretty high level for not a ton of money and then he's an RFA after next season. We essentially control his rights for two more years with no need to make a serious commitment right now.

In no way, shape, or form is having a good young player a "problem". Especially when the good young player is an ERFA.

Browns hire Ravens OC Todd Monken for their HC. A 60 year old with only three years of HC experience and that was over a decade ago at Southern Miss where he went 13-25 over three seasons. The Ravens' offense fell off a cliff this year from being a top 5 unit the previous two seasons to middle of the pack #16 this year getting Harbaugh fired. In other words, classic Browns move. LOL But like Tepper has found put, these are the types of hires you're left to make when everyone with other options is going to choose other options.