NFL 2020: Offseason

Top RB contracts by AAV:

1. CMC: $16m/year
2. Zeke: $15m/year
3. Le'Veon: $13.125m/year
4. David Johnson: $13m/year
5. Derrick Henry: $10.278m/year

There are only 5 RBs whose averages are $10m or above, and CMC is a whole $6m above that mark.

$6m/year alone would be enough to be the 11th highest paid RB, right below Austin Ekler's new deal.

He's also the only offensive wep Carolina has so...

McCaffrey is about to turn 24 years old.

I'd still pay him.

It's hard not to pay him, but it's insane how top-heavy the RB pay scale is.

The annual value literally cuts in half between #1 and #7. Cuts in thirds between #1 and #13.

The only position with more drastic differences is, well, the other kind of running back, fullback. But that's because there's only about 5 or so real fullbacks still in football, and the overall dollar values are way down in placekicker territory anyway.

He probably pushed the receiving angle and didn't make it public.

I was gonna say the Panthers could probably be smart and front-load the deal now that Cam is off the books and Bridgewater is being paid below-starter-average money, but Carolina really wrecked their cap.

They're eating in dead money:

- $9.8m for Matt Kalil, who last played football in 2017 (the second half of a June 1st designated cut),
- $9.59m for Trai Turner, as part of the Turner-for-Okung swap ($22.78m of cap space occupied by Okung and Turner combined)
- $5.0m for Eric Reid
- $3.7m for Greg Olsen
- $3.33m for Dontari Poe (forever underappreciated)
- $2.0m for Cam
- $1.5m for Mario Addison

Along with a couple other spare change dead money names, the team has $36,346,260 in dead cap, #1 in the league. The only team within $10 million of them is the Jaguars, mostly from eating the Foles deal. Stretching out to within $15m we can add the Pats eating TB/AB dead money, and the Rams eating $21m for Brandin Cooks.

Not only will the CMC deal not be front-loaded, but given the team has about $9m of space, the deal will likely have to be heavily back-loaded, so there's probably some gnarly cap numbers waiting for them in 2022 and 2023.

So, they're taking over the spot the Cowboys used to occupy with gawd awful contracts.

And here I thought we were supposed to jump on the Panthers train. Or was it the Titans? Aren't they the same team?

Carolina Panthers: No. 1 in dead money wooooooooo! (And by a lot, too: Carolina's dead-cap total is almost as much as the Jags and Rams combined, and those two teams are No 2 and No 3 behind the Panthers.)

PFT reported that McCaffrey was planning on sitting out if he didn't get a reworked deal. Now that Cam and Luuuuuuke are gone, CMC is the face of the Carolina franchise. He knew it, the team knew it, and everyone in Charlotte knew it. Of course he was going to get paid.

Good thing CMC has such a pretty face. He'll need his looks when his legs fall off in 2-3 seasons.

garion333 wrote:

And here I thought we were supposed to jump on the Panthers train.

It's off, Garion. Off. Keep your prepositions straight.

Does anyone still think we're going to be back in stadiums this Fall? Why aren't more teams using 20-21 as a rebuild year cap and roster wise? Seems like a free pass for those not in the immediate running for a SB trip.

Most of their money is from the TV so they could still just broadcast games I guess.

Maybe Legion should be happy after all.

There’s a bright silver lining to San Francisco’s loss to the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV: The outcome likely saved lives.

As explained by Andrew Beaton and Ben Cohen of the Wall Street Journal, the 49ers’ squandering of a 10-point, fourth-quarter lead meant no victory parade. Which meant no mass gathering of people pressed tightly together on the streets of San Francisco in early February. Which meant no spread of the coronavirus at a time when it was beginning to show up in the Bay Area among tens if not hundreds of thousands.

“It may go down in the annals as being a brutal sports loss, but one that may have saved lives,” Dr. Bob Wachter, the chairman of the UCSF department of medicine, told Beaton and Cohen.

Just coming to post that. Yay we saved lives. Go Niners!

Thank you for your sacrifice, Jimmy G.

Shades of the 1989 World Series keeping most folks at home during the quake except, you know, no Bay Area teams won anything this time.

New Browns uniform less crappy than old uniforms.

Went a bit old school, I like the change.

There were only two "good" options for the Browns: either break free of the orange-and-brown and do a complete head to toe rebranding, or go back to the most clean, historical versions of their past uniforms.

Fortunately for everyone, they picked door number 2 instead of finding yet another door number 3 to stumble through.

Cleveland and Tampa Bay just make Atlanta look even more stupid. Atlanta looks like they're chasing the design trends of 5 years ago that everyone else is desperate to hit the Reset button on and forget ever happened.

Now if only the Jags would get a clue and do the exact same thing. They finally rebranded to something not complete trash, but still trying to make black uniforms their default (just stop).

The worst thing about the Browns uniforms is they're a distraction from talking about the SF Super Bowl loss again.

In all seriousness, outside of THE ATL BABY, I'd like to believe Tampa and Cleveland are a sign teams are going towards simpler classic looks and away from the "somebody ate a box of crayons and threw up on a jersey" thing that's been prevalent for a while.

*Legion* wrote:

Atlanta looks like they're chasing the design trends of 5 years ago

From when they were last relevant.

whispa wrote:

Went a bit old school, I like the change.

From when they were last relevant.

*Legion* wrote:

Now if only the Jags would get a clue and do the exact same thing. They finally rebranded to something not complete trash, but still trying to make black uniforms their default (just stop).

From when they were last... Oh, wait, nevermind.

garion333 wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

Now if only the Jags would get a clue and do the exact same thing. They finally rebranded to something not complete trash, but still trying to make black uniforms their default (just stop).

From when they were last... Oh, wait, nevermind.

I hope mrtomaytohead gets the MUA 3 copy.

Twenty years ago today. I think the only person in that clip that doesn't have the same hair is Tirico.

Rat Boy wrote:

Twenty years ago today. I think the only person in that clip that doesn't have the same hair is Tirico.

"20 years ago the Patriots took a chance on Tom Brady." Because a 6th round pick is "a chance"? Where's my "20 years ago the Browns took a chance on Spergon Wynn" tweet, NFL?

I'm pretty sure Kiper's hair is just a helmet that he wears for protection.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

Twenty years ago today. I think the only person in that clip that doesn't have the same hair is Tirico.

"20 years ago the Patriots took a chance on Tom Brady." Because a 6th round pick is "a chance"? Where's my "20 years ago the Browns took a chance on Spergon Wynn" tweet, NFL?

And only played him when the starter got hurt.

garion333 wrote:

Not trying to one up here, but how about the Eagles with no pass rush until the end with the first and only sack of Brady being a strip sack?

I keep forgetting how amazing the Patriots defense was in that game. Man they really shut the Eagles down in that SB.

TheGameguru wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Not trying to one up here, but how about the Eagles with no pass rush until the end with the first and only sack of Brady being a strip sack?

I keep forgetting how amazing the Patriots defense was in that game. Man they really shut the Eagles down in that SB.

The benching of Malcolm Butler might forever be a mystery. He played something like 98% of snaps prior to the SB. The D only needed one stop to keep NE in the game. #semioldwounds

Patriots join in on the uniform redesign frenzy

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/5ateFp1.jpg)

For comparison, the previous unis:

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/9z9xD6S.jpg)

The new shoulder stripes look bad. Sleeve stripes curve behind the arm to hide where they end. These curve down towards the torso and just... stop.

They're supposed to be reminiscent of the classic Pats unis that had the stripe go all the way around:

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/rzCgq5d.jpg)

Getting rid of the silver collar stripe is a good change, I think, but getting rid of both silver pants and silver accents in the jersey makes the silver helmet a bit incongruous. Going white with the helmet would have jived better with the rest of the design.

Not hideous by any stretch, more of an incremental change, but feels like a missed opportunity. But points for being another new redesign that stays far away from giant chest letters above the number.

It's not Falcons-level ugly, but those whites are not good at all. And, yeah, it's the stripes stopping partway; just looks dumb.