NFL 2018 Offseason Thread

garion333 wrote:

I assume this signing is all about receiving ability?

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Yup. That's the reason Carlos Hyde wasn't retained. He's a good, underrated runner, but provides little in the passing game. He was still force-fed up to 5th in the league among RBs in targets, but compare the production with those around him.

Over half of Juszczyk's 2017 receptions and 2/3rds of his yardage came in those last 5 games with Garoppolo. That's what they want the offense to look like.

McKinnon is a freak. Runs the 40 in the upper 4.3s, and set the Combine record for bench reps for RBs with 32. He's been learning the RB position because he was an option QB in college. He's a better fit for what Shanahan will use him for than he was in Minnesota.

Barnwell ripped the signing a new one.

Barnwell thought the Niners should throw $15m a year at Le'Veon Bell.

Also, the McKinnon contract is reported worth "as much as" $30 million. We saw with Richard Sherman what the 49ers do with that "as much as" qualifier, so we'll see what the McKinnon deal actually looks like when the details come out.

Is any deal actually bad for the 49ers?

They need players and have cap space. Assuming the deals are flexible sign away players potentially fit the system.

The Patriots have reportedly extended an offer to AJ McCarron.

Sounds like McCarron isn't ready to accept it yet, but if he doesn't find a better situation, that might be his landing spot.

jowner wrote:

Is any deal actually bad for the 49ers?

They need players and have cap space. Assuming the deals are flexible sign away players potentially fit the system.

Right, the only truly bad deals would be ones the team can't escape. The Niners have largely been signing the same kind of deals Jacksonville has for the past few years: guaranteed money up front, escapeable with little or no dead money after year 2. Even with Garoppolo's big deal, they can bail out of it in 2 years with only $4.2m dead money.

They don't want to be too loose with money, in that they want to roll some of that cap space nest egg over into 2019 to use on contract extensions. But they're still sitting on about $60m of space, so unless they go sign Ndamukong Suh to an Albert Haynesworth-ian contract, there's little threat of not having significant money to fold into next year.

Player Profiler has a bunch of neat visualizations to where players rank, mostly on Draft times and whatnot. I've been looking at a number of prospects for this year's draft and one comparison jumped out at me:

Josh Allen's "Best Comparable" is perfect.

That is exactly the career arc I'm picturing for JA.

Also, check out who is similar to Breshad Perriman. Yuuuuuup.

The Cardinals are coming Tyrann Mathieu.

OK, Tampa, time to stop sitting out free agency now . . .

Interesting typo there.

Weird, it sounded like they were gonna redo his contract. Shame he's not the player he once was, but I'd still take him. Maybe Tony Jefferson can talk him into B-more.

OK that site is weird.

I clicked on Osweiler, and his comparable was Tannehill.

OK, then I clicked on Tannehill.

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I'm sorry, what?

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MilkmanDanimal wrote:

The Cardinals are coming Tyrann Mathieu.

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So I guess the contract restructuring didn't work...

garion333 wrote:

Also, check out who is similar to Breshad Perriman. Yuuuuuup.

I like how Perriman's Catch Radius has no value.

*Legion* wrote:

OK that site is weird.

I clicked on Osweiler, and his comparable was Tannehill.

OK, then I clicked on Tannehill.

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I'm sorry, what?

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Maybe it has something to do with arm hand strength or lack thereof.

Sorry. The idea of even vaguely competent safety play for the Bucs is pretty much orgasmic, so it's certainly an understandable typo.

Ravens cut Maclin. *sigh*

Word around Cleveland is that Joe Thomas is retiring.

Edit: Yup, Joe Thomas is retiring. And just when the Browns were gonna break out!

EvilDead wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

OK that site is weird.

I clicked on Osweiler, and his comparable was Tannehill.

OK, then I clicked on Tannehill.

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I'm sorry, what?

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Maybe it has something to do with arm hand strength or lack thereof. :D

I have no idea what's up with that. It's otherwise a completely legit site.

Then again, there's this.

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Yeah, but... Bortles.

That Linder-Colvin-Smith run was pure gold though. Colvin tore his ACL at the Senior Bowl, which caused him to miss most of his rookie season, which is why he lasted to round 4. He was thought to be a 2nd round prospect before that.

Lions release Eric Ebron.

He needs to be a "move" tight end on a team that runs a lot of 12 personnel. Detroit runs very little 2TE.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

The Cardinals are coming Tyrann Mathieu.

OK, Tampa, time to stop sitting out free agency now . . .

Heh, I thought the exact thing when I got the notification.

garion333 wrote:

Ravens cut Maclin. *sigh*

I don't understand that one. Essentially they're swapping Maclin for John Brown.

I guess given that they're pretty up against the cap, the $2.5m cap hit difference between the two was enough to make it worth doing.

Jerick McKinnon's 4-year contract, surprise, has only injury-related guarantees beyond year 1, and the 4th year of the deal is a team option year.

Basically $9.7m in 2018 plus a $2m signing bonus. Then he's cheap in 2019, $3.7m salary. In 2020 it's $6.5m, and 2021 if the team exercises the option, $6.9m.

It's an overpay in 2018, but then of course that's what the team is doing to rebuild with all that cap space. The only cap hit that's guaranteed past 2018 is the prorated part of the small signing bonus. It's a year-to-year deal.

Buccaneers improve their kicking situation by the smallest amount possible, replacing the 21st ranked kicker of 2017 by field goal percentage (Patrick Murray) with the 20th ranked kicker, Chandler Catanzaro.

Dolphins free up cap space by restructuring Ryan Tannehill's contract, pushing $11.2m into the next two years. That's a big deal, because previously, Tannehill's "dead money" number in 2019 was only $2.3m, and it was $0 in 2020.

Now those numbers are $13.4m and $5.6m, respectively, significantly improving his chances of seeing those years of the contract, especially 2019.

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Brutal.

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*Legion* wrote:

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Brutal.

Man I felt that down here at Disney World.

*Legion* wrote:

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Guys, guys, Torrey Smith was right there, ready to come home!

In other news, I had a "life as a Bucs fan" moment this morning when I saw this:

A winning culture matter more to Tyrann Mathieu than just money.

Literally said out loud to myself, "Oh, he's not coming to Tampa, then."

Broncos traded Trevor Siemian to the Vikings. Who cares, right? Easy, one more step to Chad Kelly being the starter. Paxton Lynch will be a camp cut, Kelly will overtake Keenum and the rest will be history.

garion333 wrote:

Broncos traded Trevor Siemian to the Vikings. Who cares, right? Easy, one more step to Chad Kelly being the starter. Paxton Lynch will be a camp cut, Kelly will overtake Keenum and the rest will be history.

I'm glad we're on the same page here.