Khyber53

Please, stop. The trade for Watson crap just keeps getting more and more ludicrous. Let it go and move on. If we went through everything everyone has suggested AND somehow managed to talk both Houston and Watson into moving here, not only would we have a major hit to the old salary cap, but new contract in a couple of years and a QB who has the entire organization by the short and curlies. Getting him could potentially nullify both the new GM and the head coach, not to mention any other players of note that somehow remained untraded. This is actually beginning to get pathetic.

So sorry I didn't see your post until now. Sounds like a rough, rough time and I hope things have smoothed out for you. Prayers sent up for you.

Sadly, the outrage over such an incident (if it happened and if the video is re-released) may be even bigger than the protests over police brutality on human beings. If they don't end up showing it, you can bet that whoever leaked it to them will leak it to a bigger network entity. This won't go well. And it shouldn't. Still, watch and see who was against BLM and now suddenly wants a police officer to be pilloried.

Sheesh, just offer the Jags four #1s and Teddy Bridgewater for their pick. At this point, what's the harm. If you are going to trade away the future, might as well get the pick of the litter.

You're right. Bad research on my part.

You're right. Bad research on my part. Texas has zero income tax.

Wow, you're right. I looked it up quickly before and did not notice it was referencing sales tax instead of income tax. My bad and I stand corrected. In that case, wow, talk about wanting to get the hell out of town.

Mac Jones will get someone a Lombardi. You build a good, solid team and he'll win a ton of games.

State income tax bracket is 4.5% at his level of income. Texas can be 8.25%. I can see Arizona being more lucrative and attractive to players. Of course, the Titans and Jaguars both sit in states with zero state income tax... (As do the Buccaneers, as Mr. Brady's accountants surely knew).

Seems he's pretty active in free agency and has a bad history with the draft. That could point to an inability to evaluate college talent effectively and instead finds it easier to try and trade for name players hoping to make a hit there... the Percy Harvin deal for example. If this is the case, then we should be very worried.

If we don't take Jones in the 1st, then Belichick will grab him with his pick. Cam may well be the starter in 2021 to begin the season, but won't be for long after that.

Development of guys like those listed is supposed to be Rhule's bread and butter. I hope to see it this season. Growing the team organically inhouse is going to make something special that will last. Good coaching in the midst of the wildstorm of egos that can come up has ruined many teams -- the few coaches that can weather that AND develop their undercard rosters get dynasties.

Never jump into deepwater drama, no matter what the reward might seem to be. Just take the time to better survey what is out there and what you really need.

Math-wise, yeah, that is true. But they fill up two roster spots for no real value. Grier hasn't actually had to wear cleats on game day for some time and Thomas played like he still had his slippers on as well. It may cost more money to replace them, but two guys who are willing and able to be on special teams could use their spots. Let 'em roll and find new homes, bring in some UDFA for their spots.

The key to winning a Super Bowl is often which team is the healthiest. The season is a war of attrition.

He's right once he moves past the Watson fantasy. And I harped on this a lot last season: if we could have made some of our opponents punt even once in a number of our games, we would have had a winning season, potentially even the play offs. Our defense just could not get the opponents off the field. If you can't get your opponent off the field on third down, then you are done for. We were unable to do it on an epic scale. There were games where are best defensive option was to literally let the other team march down the field and hope to hold them to a field goal. And yet, we still were within one score of winning most of our losses. I mean, do the math. We had the personnel to do it. Our defense shut out the Lions, which isn't saying much, but was also able to give Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs fits. We played aggressive defense in those games, but spent the rest of them playing like a bunch of old ladies. We need o-line, but Steve Smith is right, we need someone incredible manning that MLB position, calling the plays, reading the offense and holding us to an aggressive defensive attitude. Drafting this year should pay particular attention to the guys who get the green sticker on their helmets.

Everyone wants to be Michael Jordan with the Bulls. One docu-series and the whole world goes nuts.

Really looking forward to this Friday's episode. This series wayyyy exceeded my expectations.

Dude, we were friend zoned way early into this courtship. Any interest paid to us is just to make others jealous and run up the price.

The read sounds interesting and isn't one of the big OT prospects out there from Northwestern as well?

Bezos Bozos.

Like I said, we still could be in that mode and I don't think I'd have any trouble with that.

The guy has a lot of money to get rid of. He strikes me as the give most of it away rather than hand it down to his kids kind of guy. Of course, if he just left 10% of his estimated $2 billion estate to his family, they'd have to somehow make it through life after splitting a measly $200 million. It'll be tough, but they'll somehow pull through.

If a team had a good offensive line and a strong defense, Teddy can work for them. We had neither of those last season and he just couldn't operate outside of that window. He could also be a prime prospect for someone like Jacksonville to take as a warm-up act and bench coach for their QB. That's what I thought we would be doing with him here and we still could be looking at that possibility. A good part of the problem we had with Teddy last season was Teddy, but it wasn't the entire problem. Our o-line was taken from the cast of Little Giants and our defense was Swiss cheese in cleats. We had receivers like no other team and a fairly okay running game, but no TE work and an offensive coordinator who literally could not watch the entire field. And don't get me started on not having CMC for most of the year -- that alone probably cost us four or more games.

A couple of flashes, but a lot of time on the bench while we fielded the "Last Lap All-Stars" on defense. Maybe he'll come back, get a chance and make the most of it. If not, meh.