Raiders, Panthers, Colts, Commanders, Texans, Ravens since you have them losing Lamar, possibly Titans, Rams, Steelers, Dolphins,
5.8M of Winston's salary becomes guaranteed on 3/17. Unless the Saints feel they can trade Winston, I'd expect they cut him before then.
Just about a zero chance of this happening. They only have $24 million in cap space now and very few players to create space with. And Pete & John are generally reluctant to kick the can down the road for a player now. And using the tag pretty much prevents the team from improving the defense and other weaknesses via FA.
Good info. Do you think they let him go or are we talking bringing him back on a smaller deal? That early first round pick could be for a QB.
Geno is probably not going to take a discount per his agent. So I think someone pays more money for him elsewhere. There just isn't much of a mid-tier for QBs and Seattle isn't the place to pay that price for that level of QB.
I mean, wow, good for him. One of the more remarkable career turnarounds you’ll ever see. I’m also not convinced last year is, in any way, indicative of what he’ll produce going forward but who knows. Will be interesting to see how it’s structured.
It could be a small base salary, a large signing bonus, some incentives and roster bonuses mixed in. And we don't know anything yet about void years, etc.
That's horrifying, but it's also really likely Mahomes agent will renegotiate to keep him at the top of the market on paper. The flimsiness of NFL contracts can cut both ways.
I'm interested to see how they get this under the cap. They had $23m roughly in cap room. There's always a way to get there but the structure of this thing must load a lot of it into next year unless there's a significant amount of restructuring about to occur.
I don’t think he is celebrated. He is a good player that on the right team might be able to win.
I mean, he isn;t? He's generally thought of as an solidly average NFL QB. He's had some good years, he's had some mediocre years, he's not a JAG, but he's not a star.
Richardson + DK on the same field is just an absurd pairing of athletic freaks. I can't think of anything remotely comparable off the top of my head.
If you are a team mired in mediocrity (or worse), why wouldn't you buy the Richardson lottery ticket? Not saying Seattle falls into that category but the rest of the teams (IND, LV, CAR, ATL) certainly do. If you actually want to go out and beat the Mahomes of the world, you go out and get this guy and then hire the right staff to maximize his chances of success.
Probably, yes. He's got off the charts athleticism and a big-time arm. That's the kind of guy that if he turns out to be great, you say, oh man how did we NOT take a chance on that guy? But if he turns out to be bad, it's not like those red flags weren't flying high too. Because they are.
He isn’t, but in that division, absent someone trading for Aaron Rodgers or a Tom Brady return, he is the best QB for probably the next two years. Right now, the QB rooms look like:
Too bad those conditions don't exist in the real NFL. I could look good in those conditions.
Randy Moss and Dante Culpepper comes to mind,
Interesting. So the Packers have given Rodgers permission to talk to other teams.
He throws a good deep ball in game conditions as well, his accuracy is really bad short/intermediate, but it's fine deep.
Otherwise it could be tampering from what I read (I don’t know for sure).
I'm clearly no good at NFL draft stuff because I look at the top prospects and I see Stroud being maybe really good, kind of a Matt ryan with some athleticism, Bryce being a mangled pile of shattered limbs by the end of his second year, and Levis and Richardson being essentially Christian Hackenberg 2.0 and Logan Thomas 2.0 respectively. "They couldn't get on the field much in college and weren't accurate or winners when they did but man they look dope with no defense" is a strange thing to key on.
I don’t watch that much college ball but I like Stroud the most. I would trade Fields and draft him if I were running the Bears.
Ohio State quarterbacks haven't done well but "super accurate winner" is a good start for a QB evaluation.
The difference is that Christian Hackenberg played with second round receiver Allen Robinson, who went on to become a good NFL player, while Richardson is playing with no NFL receivers and Levis looked good when he had one (Wandale Robinson).
Well, if that's his best attribute besides his athleticism, he's going to be a flop unless someone really works on him. I watched the Georgia tape (which is more like an NFL defense) and he was all over the place, his decision making was poor, he has no touch short/medium at all. I mean he even was off on a pop pass. He did show some leadership and toughness, great athleticism and a nice arm, but he really needs to work on his game. And I just don't see the value there to pick him at #5. Maybe #20. If my choice is Stetson Bennett in the 5th round or Richardson at #5, I take Bennett all day long.
If Bennett is available in round 4 when the Pats' pick comes up....do you take him?
To me, it's Young by a mile over Stroud, then a yawning chasm to Levis and Richardson. I don't think Levis and Richardson should be first round picks personally. Are they really any better than Pickett, Ridder and Willis? All of them were being hyped by the media as high first round picks and they ended up as a late 1st and 2 3rds. This shit happens with the media every year. And yet the audience eats it up every year.
I'm not a Pats fan, so they can do whatever they want. From the outside, now that the Pats actually have an OC, I think Jones will be fine.
Curious to know why this is the case - if either of these guys even have a 20% chance of being above average, that will do more for your franchise than most other mid to late first round picks
