Mr. Scot

Gotta figure they'll be there when Fields and Wilson are working out too. It is kind of a big deal.

Rhule and Fitterer will both be in attendance at his pro day tomorrow.

I think at this point there are people who would take news of David Tepper asking "What's on TV" as a subtle sign that we're trading for Deshaun Watson. As before, maybe we will, maybe we won't, but either way the entire universe isn't necessarily crying out with clues.

They do exist. (or at least trolls pretending to be them do) Point being though that we've repeatedly shot down completion percentage as a valid measure when it was used to support the notion that Bridgewater was a good quarterback. Using it as a standard now is antithetical to that.

I remember when people made a big deal out of Dave Gettleman pausing seven seconds to answer a question about Cam Newton. The pause didn't really mean anything but it became a huge deal as if it did. That's one of many reasons why I don't necessarily think those two words negate an entire several sentences of "we're not trading him", "we're committed to him" and "he's a Texan". This could all just be a pretty big example of reading into it what you want to see. Throw in that with media types, overanalysis these days is the rule rather the exception. Yet even so, not all analysts are treating this as if it means anything. Bottom Line: it's possible this means something, but also possible it doesn't. The case that it does isn't really strong enough to convince me to treat this as breaking news. Maybe Watson gets traded. Maybe he doesn't. Same as yesterday...

From what I've read, he does seem to be interested in a long-term deal. Just a matter of agreeing on the specifics. It's not like what we heard about Bradberry.

If you're making that a major criteria, you're leaving yourself wide open to Teddy Bridgewater fans.

I have no idea what's going to happen. I know a lot of things that could happen, but who knows what will? That said, even if I had a firm guarantee as to what I believed and it all came true, being right is only fun when you're right about something good. If I predicted we were going to be the worst team in the league next year and it came true, it wouldn't make watching us be terrible suck any less. I want to see us make good decisions and win. Whether or not those decisions are what I think they will be or that I want them to be isn't really that important. If being right on a message board is more important to someone than watching the team win, I don't really know what to tell them.

And we'd have been quickly eliminated once we got there. That, plus what offensive line we did have is mostly not being retained.

We've dumped I think four people from the operation since Fitterer took over. But while some of them were on the football operations side, none of them have really been personnel people.

Is replacing Bridgewater alone enough to make this a contending franchise?

Panther fans being sad isn't fun to watch.

From the article... expected to show interest.

You don't want my top offer. Suffice it to say it'd be nowhere near the kind of craziness some have been proposing. I've tried looking at it from the flipside though. If I were a team that was being asked to trade another team my 25 year old franchise quarterback, what would I be asking? My first answer would probably be the same as the Texans. "Hell no, I'm not trading him!" But if it came down to the point that I had to, what I'd be asking in return would likely be something that would make God himself step back and take a deep breath.

To be clear, it's not like Rhule was asked a real question about Watson. David Newton clumsily worded a question to shoehorn in a mention of Watson as part of what he was asking. Rhule didn't bite on it. That was followed later on by the lady reporter taking a funny dig at Newton.

Scott actually wound up looking a lot better than I thought he would. Still wouldn't want him as a long-term starter though.

You've still got to be able to build around him though. I don't buy the notion that we're just a quarterback away from being a contending team, especially looking at the offensive line that'd be charged with protecting that franchise quarterback. If I thought we were a more complete team, I could get on board with this idea. As it is, I can't.

FYI: Multiple this is reporting that Moton has signed his franchise tender. Some guys (Josh Norman, for example) draw out the process. Moton didn't.

I've done twice as much for you.

I'm not absolutely convinced any of the runner-ups to Trevor Lawrence are going to be franchise quarterbacks. It'd certainly be great to get a franchise quarterback, but I'm not fully sold on the idea that this will be the year that happens.

He saw something in the offensive formation and called an audible?

I don't like to smile in pictures because I don't like how I look when I do. Shaq could have similar feelings. Don't know.

I've never said I'm against it. Things I have said: - The Texans are morons and have handled this stupidly - I'm not convinced it's going to happen, but acknowledge it might - I question that he'll wind up here if it does - I wouldn't want us to give up too much if he did - I also don't want us to give up too much trading up in the draft either That's pretty much it.

Yeah, pretty clear that's...not gonna happen (not that I believed it would). I remember the first post retirement pictures we saw of Jordan Gross. His weight loss was even more dramatic.

At this point, I'd say Luuuuuuuuke is down to just Luuuke.