Didn't you know running the ball is totally en vogue right now? Why both with pass protection?
Paleocon wrote:Cap space is like timeouts though. You don't get extra credit for not using it.
This is something I have yelled at sportswriters for years now for criticizing the Jaguars for "overpaying" for free agents when they're sitting on a mountain of cap space.
Some owners are more concerned about cash spend than cap space. The salary floor prevents an MLB style system where the top 5 teams literally outspend the bottom 5 by more than 2x. But even still, there's room to spend less money than everyone else. With Whitner's release, the Browns should fall to 32nd in cash spend in 2016, for now at least.
I think it really depends on the situation. If the team's one or two impact players away from success and have the cap room, it can make sense to overpay with short contracts. Or when the team is Cleveland, where they need to massively overpay so the players can sleep on a pile of money and get the therapy they need because they're playing in Cleveland. Or if it's a superstar, it can make sense to over pay... unless it's Flacco money and time, nobody's worth that.
But when the team's in a situation where they need an entire defense(the Bears in 2016) or an offense(the Bears every other year), the problem is that overpaying now generally means that the team's going to be massively overpaying later, and if they do fall into a roster that's one or two pieces away from success, they're unable to make any moves because of how overpaid the players are.
Well, this is just weird.
Twitter to stream Thursday Night Football games
Facebook dropped out of the bidding.
So, there's that.
Bill Barnwell tweeted this article about Ryan Grigson saying about how it's a year old but feels much older. So true.
In addition to landing Cole, an 11th-year player who'd spent his entire career with the Eagles, the Colts brought in a pair of decorated offensive veterans, ex-49ers halfback Frank Gore and former Texans receiver Andre Johnson. Grigson's frenzied free-agent haul also included another ex-Philly player, 11th-year offensive lineman Todd Herremans, and former Rams defensive lineman Kendall Langford.On Friday, Grigson made a move to reinforce the team's suspect run defense, signing former Broncos inside linebacker Nate Irving to a three-year deal.
... "They are looking to win the Super Bowl -- right now," Herremans said last week. "The players they brought in are immediate impact players."
Reading through that is an interesting exercise. Grigson says that when he came in they went on a youth movement, but when that didn't work as the team lacked veteran leadership they went out and got veterans like the above quote shows. They're gunning for Super Bowl 50. This'll work.
It didn't.
So now the Colts are relatively quiet during FA and will build through the draft.
*sigh* I'd hate to be a Colts fan. Too bipolar for my tastes.
Grigson feels like an extension of Jim Irsay to me.
I feel like Grigson is better as a GM than Irsay is as an owner.
This is not a compliment.
Grigson still has a job because he correctly chose Luck over RG3. .
I mean really...was Luck over RG3 ever really a question? It was painfully obvious Luck was special coming out of college. I'm pretty sure a mop bucket would have picked Luck 1st overall.
*Legion* wrote:Grigson still has a job because he correctly chose Luck over RG3. .
I mean really...was Luck over RG3 ever really a question? It was painfully obvious Luck was special coming out of college. I'm pretty sure a mop bucket would have picked Luck 1st overall.
People tried to put RG3 over Luck, but I don't think I ever bought it. Luck was just such an obvious talent.
I have to think the Redskins were floating that argument just to get a crack at Luck.
To be fair, everybody pretty much got the top of the 2012 draft wrong. Luck and Kuechly are the only guys in the top ten who would definitely go there again. RGIII, Trent Richardson, Matt Kalil, Justin Blackmon, Morris Claiborne, Mark Barron. That's 2-7. Really dodgy draft.
I won't bag on anyone too much, as all I remember about the 2012 draft is that I didn't like Dontari Poe, and that couldn't have been more wrong. (Even if Poe had a bit of a down year last year, but he was recovering from offseason back surgery and was better the the further away he got from the surgery).
http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2015/9...
I was over visiting my friend who's backyard was next to Dontari Poe's. I brought over one of my baby goats because she had never seen one before and while it was out back frolicking around, Poe stopped mowing his yard because he had never seen a goat up close before. He came over and asked if he could pick it up and I obliged. He had the biggest smile on his face and even let it help him trim some of the branches.
Rat Boy wrote:Steve Smith had the best response to Hardy claiming innocence: "So I guess she tripped on the carpet or something..."
I really with something would come along and replace ESPN in the TV sports journalism and documentaries space. Unfortunately, as cable news has shown, the profits in cable are in lowering the bar further and further.
To your point..
Report: D'Brickashaw Ferguson is retiring. Now I feel sad that this might be the last time I type D'Brickashaw.
1 1 STL Sam Bradford QB
1 2 DET Ndamukong Suh DT
1 3 TAM Gerald McCoy DT
1 4 WAS Trent Williams T
1 5 KAN Eric Berry DB
1 6 SEA Russell Okung T
1 7 CLE Joe Haden DB
Now that's how you open a draft. Bradford and Okung didn't quite get to where they hoped, but this is one hell of an opening.
Heck, the rest of the 1st round was pretty special, with playoff-winning QB Tim Tebow easily being the biggest bust. Of course, Jimmy Clausen was the next QB taken so you know this QB class was Uncle Rico special.
Eagles supposedly wanting Wentz pretty bad and are in wanting to move up to get him. Titans GM Jon Robinson be like
Plus at the combine he blamed James Franklin for being the reason he sucked the last two years. Not a good look.
Well, he did go to North Dakota State. He can't be that smart.
Marvin Lewis gets a 1-year extension.
Seems an odd time to reward him after the team's self-inflicted playoff loss.
It sounds like you're surprised. But that can't be right. Everyone knows how Cincinnati works by now. Goal number one is finding a way to fail. It's like... carved into stone tablets and buried under the ground the stadium is built on as some kind of curse or something.
*Legion* wrote:Marvin Lewis gets a 1-year extension.
Seems an odd time to reward him after the team's self-inflicted playoff loss.
It sounds like you're surprised. But that can't be right. Everyone knows how Cincinnati works by now. Goal number one is finding a way to fail. It's like... carved into stone tablets and buried under the ground the stadium is built on as some kind of curse or something.
The Bengals are the Washington Capitals of the NFL. If it was possible to get a President's Cup in the NFL for best regular season performance, they would be major contenders every year. Then they crap the bed in the playoffs because that is what they do.
Pages