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With contracting cap space there may be several veterans who are looking for new teams

That is it really. What if we give up Burns, Chinn and 3 first rounders for Watson and then he gets hurt behind our porous line. Then we have a crappy offense and an even crappier defense and no first rounders for years. If the system is so great, then why do you need Watson to run it at the expense of decimating your defense? And can a rookie come in and run the system by moving up in the draft giving up far less in compensation.

Contracts in year 1 can be cheap if the salary is the signing bonus which is prorated. If we can sign Samuel to a 4 year 40 million contract with a 15 million signing bonus we could pay as little as 6 or 7 million in 2021. I figure he would be well worth that. By year 3 there would be no guarantee money and dead cap money wouldn't be bad.

Isn't this the time when everyone lies and you can't take anything too seriously while teams try to not tip their hand? Why isn't this likely more of the same??

If you are looking for a raw guy with potential which may or may not materialize then pick Lance but if you want the most pro ready QB in the rookie class go with Jones. Is he the best, no. But he would be solid like he was at Alabama. And for those who say he needs a good offense around him, we are a couple of linemen short of a very good offense. I don't know about every scheme but he would be solid in ours.

The idea isn't that Stafford is equal to Watson simply to me that Stafford may cost much less making him a better value given where we are. Would you rather give Detroit this year's first for Stafford or give at least your next 3 first rounders for Watson or even more. If Watson gets hurt in the next 4 years you got nothing and no first rounder. Given so many guys get hurt in this league I don't know that if he is much cheaper that Stafford isn't the better option. No one would say Stafford is better straight up.

Here is a good list of players who coached in the league. https://www.google.com/amp/s/syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/869309-top-26-former-nfl-players-turned-coaches.amp.html

Keep in mind that once he is traded we inherit his salary but not the prorated signing bonus so in 2021 his salary is 10.5 million and even in 2022 it is 35 million. So it isn't until 2023 it gets high and that could be renegotiated. His salary is actually pretty doable.

Washington is getting what they need. Someone who will get Rivera the guys he wants and who has a great relationship with him. At this point it seems to be a good plan. Just because Hurney's future wasn't here doesn't mean he won't be effective working with an old school coach who believes similarly to him. Neither Hurney or Rivera were a good fit for our analytics driven approach but for old school traditional football they both seem to fit in fairly well. Hurney can train his successor.

How many player for player trades ever happen? Most times it is shedding a salary and vet to get picks and younger cheaper guys. Watson won't be the only bet QB available. They might want someone like Bridgewater if they want a vet for experience but they will want draft picks for the most part.

Seems some folks in Washington think it will be a great idea. https://www.hogshaven.com/platform/amp/2021/1/18/22237846/what-would-the-hiring-of-marty-hurney-mean-for-the-wft-front-office

The effort to undermine the media is deliberate and having a negative effect for sure but I don't think that people are losing faith in journalism as much as they are accepting low brow political rants as reporting and shoddy factless conspiracy theories as breaking news. Most people aren't discriminating enough to know the truth when they hear it There are good sources of information and news but you have to be discerning and listen with a critical ear. There is very little true journalism going on in television and social media is a minefield of misinformation. The good news is that there are still some good people out there with integrity. The bad news is that the majority have an agenda or less than sterling motives.

Black lives protesters have been by and large peaceful. Let's not confuse protesters with rioters who are comprised of activists from both extremes with an agenda to create division and foment anger. I read a meme earlier today suggesting no one has ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American populace. Seems media just panders to the lowest common denominator.

That is crazy thinking. The only folks who call the media the enemy of the people are deranged despots who want no record of what they are doing or saying and no one calling them out. We haven't had fake news until we had a fake president who was a reality TV star. The media isn't the problem it is people who blindly follow anyone who will tell them what they want to hear. The majority of people don't support trump and primetime viewers on Fox in April averaged between 3 and 4 million viewers which was number 1 but hardly an overwhelming majority of viewers. Frankly I rarely watch any of them these days.

Florida fired the statistician who was doing the Corona count because she refused to under report the numbers. Apparently her replacement has fewer qualms. Florida is just manipulating the numbers while they head straight to a disaster. With the state so full of old retired people, Florida should be taking huge precautions instead of ignoring guidelines already in place.

Never been this bad. Even Nixon looks good by comparison and that is saying something.

Hope and guessing might be fine if you are a cheerleader but as VP giving out wrong information which could cost people their lives in almost criminal. What a crap show in Washington right now.

So if the hospitalizations are at capacity and new cases are growing exponentially, where is the flattening? https://wamu.org/story/20/07/07/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s/ Arizona which had leveled off to 15000 cases in April had a big surge of cases in June.

Nothing the CDC says carries any weight as long as politicians not doctors are making the decisions. Those states are out of control and there is no flattening going on. Arizona ICUs in over 150 hospitals are full.

They are using Brazil because they have so many cases. The drug companies are working with the government but they aren't the government and are mainly US companies

Instead just get the virus? Seems the worse it can do is infect you which is inevitable if you do nothing.

Just saw CBS this morning. Their resident medical expert was cautiously hopeful that a huge study in Brazil has resulted in a vaccine that is effective in producing antibodies. Now they are seeing if it creates immunity and for how long. Anyway he and others are optimistic we could have a vaccine sometime this fall. Really hopeful news.

My wife's parents live in one of the senior retirement communities near Orlando and they are on lockdown. A few members of the staff and community tested positive despite their precautions. It is really getting bad in Florida with so many retired people living there who are all vulnerable.

Yes they are. Honestly hard are designed to encourage socializing and close contact. Just about every state that had opened bars have closed them again or thinking about it as cases have soared.

Yes slow it down until hopefully we find a vaccine that works. We have already created dozens of vaccines. Now we have to see if they work and how long they provide protection if any. It isn't inevitable at this time that everyone will get it or that you can't get it more than once. We just don't know yet.