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Everything posted by Lombardi's_kid_brother
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Every now and then, you are right about things. Fans don't get how the salary cap works. If the Chiefs traded us Mahomes, people would freak out about the cap hit. It's weird. The discussion around trading all our D-linemen last year was fairly screwy because fans have gotten conditioned to never wanting to pay anyone a second contract under any circumstances. No one is really "worth" what the crazy contractual numbers are with a few rare exceptions. But some guys have to make that money, and it doesn't cripple your team to pay a few guys big second contracts. Even the Kirk contract is utimately fine, because that's pretty much what a competent veteran costs. People are totally going to lose their minds when the Steelers agree to Fields option year even though it's crazy money, and he's penciled in as the backup. But once they do it, thier QB room is still going to cost under $30 millon in total with, which is a bargain.
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But it depends on why Chicago is trading it. I don't care if they get the Raiders draft. Going from the #1 pick in what is allegedly a QB heavy draft to a position where you don't get a QB at all is.....weird. I wouldn't want to sell that to my fan base when I'm trying to get them to build me a new stadium.
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A school tried that. It's called Nebraska, and it's now the barren husk of a once-elite program. I think the QBs and WRs could handle such a system. Where it falls apart is o-line play. You just can't college linemen all the intricacies of NFL blocking schemes. It's so much easier to just zone everything and have the QB read the end. I also don't see why moving up one pick is particularly expensive. If Chicago is looking to do that, it's because they are utterly ****ed and Williams has told them he's going to Canada if they draft him. They are basically going to be looking for a pick to make drafting another QB slightly more palatable. And there's only two spots in the draft that absolutely guarantee them some control over the pick. I mean, if the Raiders jump in and start offering a bounty of picks, you walk away. But I don't think Chicago wants to drop that low.
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I don't think college remotely prepares any QB for the NFL any longer. So NIL has nothing to do with it. I do find myself agreeing with Spencer Hall's theory though that every QB in college should transfer at least once. Show that you can learn something else and aren't just a robot wedded to one OC.
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It's like a weird Royal Family situation. She is outliving all the children who could take over. The current kid who is ostensibly in charge is pushing 70 and is not good at this. They also don't have any real money. They are making some insane promise to contribute $2 billion to a lakefront stadium, but I have no earthly idea where they could come up with that money short of selling the team.
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Magic thinks we should bring in Peyton Manning and see if he has anything left in the tank. "Oh man....when Peyton was throwin that ball to Marvin....and Kareem.....Showtime!!" I think my Magic character is going to start to develop dementia. There is comedy gold there. Fields contract is terrifying. That's the major problem there. I'm sure a lot of teams are Fields-curious. No one is willing to pay $25 million to try it.
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Why are you so desperate to salvage something from Howell here? I will never understand the weird relationships fans develop with the most random players. Let Howell go, man. If he truly loves you, maybe one day, he will return to you. I tend to go with the conventional wisdom that it means that Daniels is the pick, because Daniels is the one guy you probably don't start from Game 1. If you draft Maye, you are probably starting him immediately which means his backup is the guy who is going to be chasing a starting job until he is 53 years old. But I don't know nothing about nothing, and I can never remember Daniels' name.
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No one wants to give Howell a shot at being a starter and no one is trading a third rounder for him. Nothing amuses me so much as how much we overvalue the bad players on our terrible team and undervalue the good players on our terrible team. Howell is a dude. I think he's likely to move on in some way, because it's just kinda weird to go from starter to third strong over the course of an off-season. But there's no demand out there for him. Mason Rudolph has the "career backup whose market value will never be higher" market cornered, and no one wants Mason Rudolph.