Vagrant

if you're trying to stay in the NFL as a strategy and you're a borderline player who is holding on, it can't be all bad to go hold a clipboard for a season and cash some checks and repeat the process the next season. We have to think about real life here. The end all goal for quarterbacks is not to just get on the field. It's to stay employed. When you flunk out after playing starter reps, maybe taking a year to get right and then hitting the market again with new teams in the mix next offseason. And if it does happen that you're pushed into action, you've got a really solid cast around you in Buffalo that can help make that transition easier and maybe propel you into a team believing you're starter material again from a short burst of starts.

it's not as shocking when you think about the fact that so many teams are probably tied up in the Watson drama and other teams are leveraging their offers against that. he probably got a final notice on the availability of this deal before they started to look elsewhere. he's not a super hot commodity and doesn't have the clout of being a former MVP to bolster his status as a starter like cam. plus, some guys just want a quiet year to rehab injuries and get right mentally before they attack their next opportunity. I think mitch knows that the next run of starts he gets could be his last.

we could fit them all on the field. it's possible. but Reddick is taking a 1 year deal to prove that last year wasn't a one off in order to secure that big contract. he's only 26. if he is productive, we might be the team that ponies up. good players are never redundant, but when you see an edge added to a group that already has a TON of talent at that position, it's eyebrow raising. you can find field enough for all of these guys, but it wouldn't make us very balanced,. texans are rumored to want defense and people were saying perhaps chinn or burns in that deal with 3 first round picks gets it done. the team really likes haynes and miller.

I was like, damn we're going to be stacked on the edge! .....then i thought about how this might mean we're trading brian burns to the texans. dead serious that's a real possibility now that chinn is moving to safety.

it means goodbye, because moton is going to get paid on a long term deal. curtis is going to break some hearts if they believe he's a number one in waiting because that's not him. the circumstances that lead to his number of touches this past season weren't part of the plan. CMC getting hurt and Teddy refusing to throw down the field. if you look at his catch percentages over his career, it's highly suspect. hell, it might even make more sense to sign him as a RB because that's what he played here last season for the most part. they built a system for CMC and curtis was in the right place at the right time to take all those touches. he didn't exactly light the world afire like you'd think to hear people talk about him. he was good there, but he wasn't phenomenal. i think where as CMC is an elite HB and could be a good WR, samuel is just decent at both positions but sort of stuck between them. it's the smart move to walk away.

by his own admission he didn't opt out because of covid, he said plainly himself that he opted out to "prepare for the NFL draft on his own." go look it up.

oh, you're one of those idiots that refuses to address points and just shitposts things like "lolyahright" instead of anything with substance. you could have just self-identified as a troll at the outset and saved me some time.

problem here is that you've probably already fallen in love with the kid by watching youtube videos and you defy anyone to say anything negative about him because you're so locked in that you can't see past your nose,

there are no matters of integrity being questioned here. there are factors of risk mitigation, injury fears, and other factors that produce cloudy judgment and doubt in a person that makes them vulnerable to escape routes and excuse making. are those traits you want in your quarterback? i couldn't give a damn about attention. there was discourse here about trey lance and I gave my opinion. if you want to pearl clutch about that, it's your problem not mine.

if trevor lawrence could put his nuts on the table, and justin fields as well for that matter, you can do the same. i don't think it's wrong to want a quarterback that loves football more than money. there will be apologists from here to eternity, but how many other top prospects opted out?

seems to me if you're going to toss that accusation at my feet that you might want to produce something resembling a counterpoint

no interest in lance. he saw an opportunity to excuse himself from having to reproduce his awesome season the year prior. you choose to let down your teammates (your family), your school (who lost a record winning streak in your absence), and chose sitting at home over playing the game that you're supposed to be obsessed with and tirelessly dedicated to improving. he was afraid his stock was going to tumble with a less than stellar season and he let that fear prevent him from improving as a football player with live reps and allowing scouts to get a better look at him. what challenges is he going to hide from at the next level? if he's acting that self-interested in college, who is going to follow him in the pro game? if you love football, if you love the game, you live and breathe for Saturday. you put in all the work and Saturday is the reward, it's not an audition for NFL teams, it's a chance to go out with your squad and get repaid in cheers for all the hard work you put in during the two-a-days in the summer. he passed on dessert because he didn't have enough self belief to bet on himself and if he doesn't even believe in him, why should anyone else?

the texans will not admit they are taking offers for deshaun watson until you hear a trade announced. the best way to suss out the best offer is to put a not for sale sign up. not saying anything is imminent, but there is very much a time element to this. if you play chicken with deshaun and then end up trading him a year from now, you will have effectively pushed your entire building process back a season and paid everyone on your team a salary for a season that is entirely wasted. you have also lost the battle of public opinion. fans these days are far more player oriented than team oriented it seems. if a "free deshaun" movement starts, you're going to look even worse than you already do. especially with the optics here. white texas sports owner. star black athlete. it's not something you want to hit air especially with the undertones of a racial element already permeating. there are some cards to be played that have yet to be played by watson and his camp. what they are attempting to do is to break deshaun with the idea of spending six years in purgatory even though it's an untenable thought. this kind of play might have worked in different times, but not these times. they want to wait him out and see if he is any less angry and hope they wake up from the nightmare, but watson is making it clear that he's not playing around and he's not hiding. it's a bold, bold move to go meet your new head coach and say "I will never play here again." that sounds like a pretty committed individual. meanwhile, you have the richest owner in the league sitting in front of you with a blank check, perhaps almost literally, and prepared to give you as close to unfair value as they can stomach. sitting him a full season then trading him is not an option. you either don't trade him and hope he reports or you flat out lose if you wait longer than the draft to get this done. because if they don't, fans everywhere will talk about who was available with the 8th overall pick that the Panthers were trying so hard to give you and how far behind you put the team by not taking it.

where the rubber meets the road, he'll end up playing for the Texans next season. He's got no leverage and they have control for like 7 more years potentially. Some feel good story about how well his meetings with the new staff went will emerge at the 11th hour before he starts having to miss games (and paychecks). This is a game of chicken and the Texans have no reason to cave until they actually have a problem. This was the most likely outcome.

I don't give a single solitary fug if LaMelo is happy right now or not It's not the job of the coach to make him happy, it's to be fair. The vast majority of people here are already on their knees to kiss his ass, but if you start taking lineup advice from an 18 year old kid, you've already lost. He's the new GM. Half of the mission with taking this kid was the fact that he was going to have to be humbled and learn how to be a good teammate and that comes with maturity. I was disgusted in his first attempt at the triple double how he passed up a wide open shot in a close game in favor of a bad shot because he wanted the assist to get there. That's the kind of garbage we never need to see again. Being a rookie in this league, you're going to have to earn your burn. Coming into the game and trying to force things and turning the ball over is not going to get you MORE playing time. I am very glad that Borrego is standing on principles here because this ain't LaMelo's team yet. It will be soon, but not today. He was like -26 or some garbage with the second unit last game when all the starters were plus. He's about 1 minute per game behind Anthony Edwards and about 3 ahead of James Wiseman. People acting like he's been stapled to the bench need to get real about it. This is how you break rookies into the league. And I hate to say this so early, but unless something changes drastically regarding this kid's ego, he's going to be out of here before his rookie deal is up. Charlotte isn't big enough to produce the clout he thinks he's already earned. That was the danger with this pick even if you believed in the talent.

Do we have to read 30 pages of garbage before finding out who the cuts are or do we have a real thread with a running tally?

Correct. A settlement would mean nothing in a criminal case. However, paying off the star witness of the prosecution to take a vacation and not be available to her lawyers or to the court means that they have no recourse but to rule against her in the proceedings. Hardy being able to buy himself a not guilty verdict means a hell of a lot more to his career than however much it cost him to have her disappear. Because if you'll remember, this "flake" made every single one of her other court dates before mysteriously dropping off the face of the earth. Not just chilling at home, either. She's making it damn sure that she isn't going to be found for this.

All evidence suggests that they haven't been able to get in touch with Holder for many, many months. Last contact being in October. Looks like he did exactly that. But you can't get a case dismissed until the accuser actually "no shows" on the trial date. That's why the trial date being bumped past the end of the season meant that we weren't going to see Hardy on the field this season.

It's funny how people think this means none of this happened. What you're seeing is Greg Hardy taking some of that cash he didn't work for and paying Holder to make it go away. Jerry Richardson's money going towards some woman's blow habit is just as insulting as Greg being found guilty in the first place. I still have zero doubts he did it, or else this "civil settlement" to make her leave town wouldn't have been required. Greg made a smart financial investment. Take a few million and leave town, let me get my not guilty verdict, and we'll all be happy. That's why you pay the lawyers.

I won't say it's a fluke, because dude is fast, but 7 catches over 3 games isn't all that much to get excited about. The fact that we haven't been moving the chains effectively enough with Steve, Brandon, and Greg is a problem. Ginn is good for a surprise deep route every game, and to his credit Cam has been delivering the ball on time for the most part, but if he gets too predictable on those routes we lose that weapon too because Ginn simply can't make tough catches in traffic or over dudes. Better teams aren't going to let Ginn do this all season especially with our other guys underperforming and dropping catchable passes. Remember that time Armanti Edwards was supposed to break out this season too? Damn.

I can't believe how useless Person is at reporting cuts. He's literally finding out after players post it themselves and citing "league sources", when he should be the league source. You're the beat writer. Talk to somebody.