kungfoodude

Yes but there is a flurry of interest over guys like Carr, Wentz and Darnold. Those are all potential suitors for Deshaun Watson. Why be late to the party and miss out on maximizing the value?

McNair is clearly a buffoon. The rumors of Watt wanting out to make this more complicated because now you are looking at a situation where your two leaders on offense and defense want to jump ship. If I am the Texans, I get these deals done ASAP and field every offer. Right now the market is nuclear hot and dragging your feet is just likely to get you less and less on the open market for either of these guys. I expect the Texans will drag this out until after the draft and then end up having to deal with whatever teams didn't address the QB position. That isn't a spot I would want to be in.

I think trading up is the most logical move for us at QB. The Watson situation remains to be settled and the suitors may be better equipped to send the Texans something that will make the trade more enticing. The craziness of the QB market makes we really concerned that none of these top 4 guys will be available at 8.

The advantage of tagging him is that you don't have to negotiate with the entire NFL to get him back if you can't get a deal hammered out before free agency opens. Remember our new GM will have a much more condensed timeline than the previous GM did to have to deal with Moton. Also the added benefit of at least returning 1-2 starters from this offensive line.

I don't think the Texans have much of a choice about trading him. They are just too dumb to realize it at the moment.

Yeah, we have had multiple coaching staffs not put him at LT while the LT rotation was sometimes couch free agents, so I think it is safe to assume we aren't going to see him at LT in a Panthers uniform.

I am not sure. We also have to consider that they might still be evaluating the roster and making those decisions. Clearly they all know that QB is the big priority, which essentially tells us all we need to know about Teddy's status.

I don't believe that Moton had looked kindly upon the negotiation or lack thereof, according to the earlier in the season rumor mill. Not sure how accurate that is.

I think the last rumor there was, which was a while ago was that the possibility of Moton returning had improvement with the front office change.

That helps us out a bit with the Moton situation or it that doesn't pan out, it can help us roll some cap to 2022

I feel like that doesn't even need to be stated. Anyone who denies that at this point is just burying their head in the sand.

No one can cover KC's weapons if you give Mahomes time to anticipate. He had no time last night. poo, he still nearly threw a half a dozen miracle bombs running for his life. This was the first time someone was able to get to him as quickly as that. It didn't help that they couldn't get that kind of pressure on Brady, either. Remmeber that was the same QB who threw 3 INT's the week before.

Was he apologizing?

He was so awful. He still is.

We will see. I still expect to see some big deals in free agency.

Apparently it was 8th, our 5th and Teddy. I gotta be honest, that would have been a fuging grand slam of a HR for the trade. fug LA for scooping us.

Have you ever seen a crazier QB market in an offseason than this one? I think it is very likely it happens for this exact reason.

I don't think trading(hypothetically) the 8th pick was "giving it away." You were using the #8 pick to draft Matt Stafford. Technically, that is kind of crushing your pick. The mid-rounder would suck a little but we also have two extra compensatory picks we are supposed to get and this is a DEEP OL draft, especially inside. No reason we couldn't still take 3+ OL in the draft without #8 or one of our mid-rounders. The blocking issue was already a problem this past year but statistically we performed better in most blocking metrics due to the scheme. It's not ideal at all but we do have the ability to temporarily cover up some of those deficiencies with our offense. poo, Cam covered up a lot of those deficiencies for years. I don't think making the Stafford trade means we couldn't have improved on the OL. Those don't have independent things. Especially since we may not use that #8 pick on an OL anyway. If Slater or Sewell is gone, why would we reach on an OL? If a QB is there or Slater or Sewell, why wouldn't you jump on the QB outside of him just not being high on your board?

Yeah but we aren't going to be able to judge any deal until we know the price. What we offered for Stafford seems to have been a pretty fair price but we got scooped by offering something we weren't prepared to offer(that second 1st rounder). I haven't seen anything yet to make me think there is some free wheel spending going on.

Well we have no idea who we have been involved with other than Stafford. All the rest is just reports of "multiple teams." I don't know or really care who we are involved with looking at, I am just more speaking to how completely nuts this market is at the moment. I cannot ever recall this kind of feeding frenzy for QB's.

This offseason has been insane on the QB front. INSANE.

PJ Walker would have been a better Jake Delhomme story. Minshew has actually had success in the league. That said, not sure he is worth trading for. He'd probably immediately be the best #2 QB we have had since Derek Anderson.

hope he has figured out how to become a better teammate. Otherwise we are fuged.

Well, we don't know that it is a buyer's market yet. The QB market makes it seem like an extreme market but we haven't seen how that is going to shake out for the rest of the position groups. I think this is a biggest QB market we might have ever seen(TBD with guys like Dak, Watson, Carr, Wentz, etc).

For the very small group of Jones stans, take note.