Apologies in advance for the header pick but Roger G insisted.
Congrats to the Chiefs, who are officially a Capital D Dynasty and on a fast track to be the league's most hated team because, c'mon, you can't win every year.
That said, the Chiefs seem inevitable as long as Mahomes and Reid are QB and HC. Here are some key dates between now and the Chiefs' third straight Super Bowl win:
Franchise tagging: Feb 20-March 5
NFL Combine: Feb 26-March 3 (Underwear Olympics portion begins Feb 29)
Free agency: Negotiations can begin March 11; deals can be signed starting 4p March 13
NFL Draft: April 25-27 in Detroit (draft order)
NFL schedule release (aka Team Social Media Super Bowl): sometime in May
Training camps: Open in late July-ish
Hall of Fame Game: Aug 1 (HoF ceremony is Aug 3)
Week 1, regular season: Sept 5-9 (featuring TBA at Chiefs on Thurs night and Eagles vs TBA in Brazil on Friday)
Playoffs (probably Panthers-free, again, sigh) begin: Jan 11, 2025
Superb Owl: Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans (Super Bowl LIX, which is pronounced LICKS)
COACHING CHANGES
Out with the old, in with the new (or pre-owned, in three instances):
Chargers: Jim Harbaugh (HC, Michigan; former Niners HC)
Commanders: Dan Quinn (DC, Cowboys; former Falcons HC)
Falcons: Raheem Morris (DC, Rams; former Bucs HC)
Panthers: Dave Canales (OC, Bucs)
Patriots: Jerod Mayo (Patriots)
Raiders: Antonio Pierce (interim HC, Raiders)
Seahawks Mike Macdonald (DC, Ravens)
Titans: Brian Callahan (OC, Bengals)
RETIREMENTS OF NOTE
QB Teddy Bridgewater
... maybe more later
KEY FREE AGENTS
Top 10 via PFF:
Chris Jones, DT, Chiefs
Kirk Cousins, QB, Vikings
The Other Josh Allen, Edge, Jags
Tee Higgins, WR, Bengals
Brian Burns, Edge, Panthers
Justin Madubuike, DT, Ravens
Christian Wilkins, DT, Dolphins
Antoine Winfield, S, Bucs
Jaylon Johnson, CB, Bears
L'Jarius Sneed, CB, Chiefs
(It goes on for 140 more names)
Free agent tracker (via SportTrac)
Apologies in advance for the header pick but Joseph B. insisted.
Fixed it.
Hey, it's not like the Bucs' two most important players on offense (Evans and Baker) and most important player on defense (Winfield) are all free agents.
I made a thing for some of you...
you know who you are...
Rumors are Justin Fields to Pitt for a 2 and a 5
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seahawks/s/...
I lol’d
I miss him so much.
"Some" people (whose identities apparently are secret) think Brandon Stale Bread will be the Niners' next defensive coordinator. They may never win another playoff again with that coaching combination.
Nerds!
Jimmy G facing two game PED suspension; Raiders expected to release him. His performance was enhanced?
Jimmy G facing two game PED suspension; Raiders expected to release him. His performance was enhanced?
Well, it's Jimmy G in Vegas; when we're talking about "performance", it's not necessarily about what happens on the football field.
*puts on tinfoil hat*
The Raiders played dumb while Jimmy was using those meds so he would get caught and they could void his 2024 guarantees.
*tinfoil hat off*
*puts on tinfoil hat*
The Raiders played dumb while Jimmy was using those meds so he would get caught and they could void his 2024 guarantees.
*tinfoil hat off*
Are you sure you aren't grossly overestimating the competence of Raiders leadership?
I don't know if anyone's a Tom Grossi fan; I find his shorter videos hilarious, and watch all the fan reaction, NFL script writer, and others, and skip the longer ones related to the bizarre drama related to two divisions a year. Seems to be genuinely a good guy and won Fan of the Year this year for visiting all 30 stadiums in 30 days and raising money for St. Jude's, but, well, this one . . . it needed to be shared for the Buffalo comments alone.
it needed to be shared for the Buffalo comments alone.
It needed to be shared for that very last Buffalo comment alone. 
It's time for one of everybody's favorite yearly traditions; it's official Saints Desperately Restructuring Contracts Season! Today, the Saints are restructuring Derek Carr's contract, converting a portion of his $30 million salary to a signing bonus, and, yesterday, it was starting center Erik McCoy.. I think both Over the Cap and Sportrac are already updated with the new cap info, meaning the Saints are currently only about $45 million over the cap . . . for 2025. They're still $53 million over the cap for 2024, so have to keep restructuring and cutting players to get under.
Mickey Loomis is a salary cap terrorist.
It's time for one of everybody's favorite yearly traditions; it's official Saints Desperately Restructuring Contracts Season! Today, the Saints are restructuring Derek Carr's contract, converting a portion of his $30 million salary to a signing bonus, and, yesterday, it was starting center Erik McCoy.. I think both Over the Cap and Sportrac are already updated with the new cap info, meaning the Saints are currently only about $45 million over the cap . . . for 2025. They're still $53 million over the cap for 2024, so have to keep restructuring and cutting players to get under.
Mickey Loomis is a salary cap terrorist.
I'm assuming some of this was pre announcement of the cap going today.
But ya the Saints have been in cap hell for what feels like a decade when they should of probably done a legit blow up post Brees to fast forward some of this stuff.
Big assumption on my part that they could of even I'm sure they could of sucked harder to be in a better position now.
The Saints absolutely should have blown it up five minutes after Brees retired just like the Bucs did last year after Brady was done, but they keep kicking the can down the road. My favorite part of this is it's going to feed into Saints' fans' "The Cap Isn't Real" theory, and that pushing money to future cap years is essentially an interest-free loan on cap space because it keeps going up, which obviously ignores the fact that, as contracts go up, future cap space is more valuable than current space from a long-term perspective, and you're screwing Future You by having so much dead money waiting for you down the road.
Richard Sherman arrested on suspicion of DUI today.
This guy was one of my all-time favorite athletes and I remember how crushed I was when he Hulked out on his FIL's place with his kids hiding up in the bathtub.
And then he came back. TNF analyst, he was by far the best personality on any of the football tables. He ran circles around everyone else on TV.
And now this.
The arrest raises other potential complications for Sherman. In March 2022, he pleaded guilty to first-degree negligent driving, second-degree criminal trespass, and speeding in a construction zone back. The underlying incident happened in July 2021.Via Fox13, Sherman received a 90-day suspended sentence, with two years of monitored supervision. The two-year period has not yet expired.
Yeah, this could be really bad for him if the authorities decide to press forward.
For context on what happened previously, him speeding through that construction zone wasn't some GTA joyride. There were guys working that site, at night, and he blasted through closer to 100 than 25mph. Lucky no one got hit and injured (or worse).
He further went to his father-in-law's house and proceeded to try and break down the door, including getting a running start and throwing his body at it. To the point where his FIL got his gun.
When the cops showed up, he was his typical, on-screen self, chatting with the officers very cordially. They still put a dog on him b/c he refused to stop and be cuffed. That is CLASSIC domestic violence abuser behavior. Unhinged violence directed at family/partners and then very calm when the bigger wielder of violence shows up.
This arrest was for drinking (suspicion of, to be fair).
Guys, it's been a couple weeks, and Legion is still silent. We need to find ways to drag him back to the NFL thread; he didn't chime in on a salary cap discussion, so we're going to have to start spamming the thread with Legion bait to see if it's enough to troll him back in. I'll start:
Patrick Willis in the Hall of Fame? Seriously?
You know, it's hard to find a player I associate more with a team than Fred Taylor and the New England Patriots.
The biggest problem with the Jaguars as a franchise is they never really had any good QBs before Trevor Lawrence. Ever. They should have done what lots of teams did back in the 90s/00s and tried to find one of Favre's backups, that would have been smart.
Josh Freeman would have had a better career if he hadn't been so fragile. He really just needed to pack on some more weight to make it in the NFL.
Having gone through this recently I know Legions stages of grief. It’s extra hard because he’s also dealing with the fact that the Niners probably stomp the Chiefs in the SB that the Eagles were in so he’s also lamenting the Purdy “Let’s not block Hassan Reddick” injury.
I find the grief worse when you have had chances to win…it’s easier to get over a game where you get stomped to dust than losing a close game where a play or two makes the difference.
He’s also watched that last play one more time and it still baffled why Bosa bit so hard on the run fake.
And still thinking about the goddamn coin toss.
Leg...who? You mean that poster ***Legion*@**@? Isn't he a Jags fan? 
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