LinvilleGorge

Except in your scenario Darnold on the tag makes a lot more sense than the ghost of what used to be Aaron Rodgers

It's significantly outpacing inflation at the figures your government wants you to believe.

I'm gonna be honest, these contracts are causing my interest in the sport to diminish. The contracts keep increasing exponentially and so do the ticket prices, merchandise, concessions, etc. while the typical fan is falling behind vs. inflation. I'm a football junkie but at some point I'm going to force myself to to lose interest in the billionaire play things. I'm getting pretty fuging close. Hell, I'll just watch local HS football to get my fix because college football is going down the same path. https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-reigning-mvp-josh-allen-agree-to-six-year-deal-worth-330-million

We keep drafting athletic wonders who can't play football and we can't figure out why it's not working. Unfornately Shemar Stewart had David Tepper's Panthers written all over him. We might as well just start signing guys off the Olympic track and field squad.

Why in God's name would the Vikings want Rodgers??? They just spent a top 10 pick on McCarthy and they're letting Darnold walk who played really well for them. Rodgers would've been exciting five years ago. Not so much now.

Yep. Given their situation they honestly should've traded him. They need to be trying to acquire talent on rookie contract while they work through this Watson contract anchor around their necks. They need draft capital on top of draft capital.

Individually, sure. But man, unless the Browns can fall backassward into a good QB on a rookie contract they're cap fuged hard for the foreseeable future with damaged goods Watson and now this.

"I demand to be traded to a contender! I want to win!" "Wait... what was the number on that check again?? Gimme dat pen!!!"

He's a backup but probably better than our current backups.

I'm rooting for Dan. Loved him as a player and seems like a legitimately good dude but I'm not just going to fanboy what seems like obviously dumb moves.

It was an idiotic move. He should've been on the hot seat and gets a big extension instead.

I remember Phil Jackson saying 15 years ago that Michael Jordan would've averaged 50 a game in the league at that point and the game has gotten exponentially softer since then.

Been trending this way for years. Growing up college basketball was by far and away my favorite sport. I've been pretty Carolina only for over a decade now with my college basketball watching. I used to NEVER miss a Carolina basketball game and in recent years I always miss several games. It's just less of a priority for me now. I haven't watched a full NBA game in probably a decade. The sport is just a shadow of itself now. That's why Armando Bacot is my favorite player in recent years. The type of old school hard nosed big man that just doesn't really exist in the modern game.

We haven't been okay for years. Dumb contracts to marginal players aren't gonna help change that trend.

I can see Dan now. "Oh... I thought we were signing THE Michael Jackson to a record deal..." "What??? He's dead??? Wait... there was a hullabaloo about some inappropriateness with some kids??? Is it April's Fools Day??? Y'all are messing with me right? This dude is totally gonna be moonwalking at halftime!"

Bingo. Ultimately the bill comes due and you run out of road to keep kicking that can.

It's literally not. That's why you see teams forced to let quality players hit free agency, have to make guys cap casualties they'd rather keep, and why you see teams forced to blow up the roster and rebuild and you see roughly 50% turnover in playoff teams year over year. Sure, there are manipulation tricks but math is math. You can't just spend your way to success in the NFL like you can in other leagues.

Howie Roseman would look at a player like Tremble and say "we'll offer him vet min and give him a chance to earn a roster spot if he's good enough".

It's not chump change for a team already cap strapped with holes all across the roster. You can get a Tremble level player on the waiver wire after final roster cuts. That's why this is a stupid signing.

And every idiotic contract we give out half the fan base celebrates it like the organization has earned their trust by consistently fielding good teams for years. It's pretty bizarre. Fandom Stockholm Syndrome.

He's a marginal TE2. That's the issue.

Not true. It's about laying a marginal player like a legit contribute.

There's just no other way to spin it.

Well, we gave 'em hell for 30 minutes. I think we have to be happy with that. That's the new state of Carolina basketball. From competing for titles to hoping to compete with top teams and maybe get lucky and sneak into the tourney. That's the new reality. Hubert has turned us into NCSU.

I'm fine with him as a #3 or even emergency #2 of we can't land an upgrade. But there's no fuging way you give that guy $16M before open free agency. The rest of the league is laughing knowing there will be a lot of better guys who will soon sign for less.