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Great coaching will be more important than the QB we pick. We need a new HC and staff that knows how to spot and develop a QB. If we had a coach that I could trust on the offensive side then the entire QB process would feel more like a fun ride and less like an obstacle course when looking at QBs.

The county sounds like the one party not in on the BS. So it's Tepper and RH, which he went to to do it his way. Ohh and his company was to be the bondholder to avoid state regulatoey oversight. With the way Tepper wanted to do this deal it was always going to happen this way, whereever he found a town that would do it his way. He is getting his hand slapped while in the cookie jar. The reality is the sooner this is over, hopefully he learned some things, the sooner we can get on with what comes next. Maybe some day we will have more than a practice bubble.

Sounded legal but sketchy as hell.

Infamy and this is a drop in the bucket to staring down that trade cost, contract and player compared to that mess.

Yup. I also hope Watson gets a turn because no way I wish that guy success.

Smart young man right there.

They don't even know if he is inside lol. In all seriousness I hope the guy gets the help he needs.

People here now? Obviously. New people coming in? Probably but also not necessarily with the same expectations or usage, especially when they weren't involved in the deal.

Let's hope so. I am also hoping Watson brings the happy ending to it all and implodes when he hits the field so those contracts go 0-2 big time.

I thought the cap doesn't exist? lol

What if he gets injured? It works both ways in that kind of hypothetical. He will get paid regardless and waiting to end this season is a great idea. We still have the 5th year option so he isn't walking anywhere for more than another year and there is a franchise tag behind that, so there is two safety nets with Burns moving forward to get this right. The cap angle is just smearing around the fact he is going to be making a lot more on the books in someway if he inks a new deal over the 5th year option value. We signed that kind of deal and that's why we are paying CMC 18 million (?) next year to play elsewhere and dealing with a stupid cap problem from a contract that we did too soon to hide issues elsewhere (this has those feels to me). We don't need more money this year, and I would really like to involve the next crew on a deal this size even if it's just a blessing.

We have no franchise QB and already are creating the cap issues he ran away from in NO without being close to a SB caliber team. He isn't coming here regardless of how you view him.

19th in yards allowed and 17th in scoring. Burns has talent and we have peices to build around but this isn't as great a D as some like to think. Last year it was yards allowed and this year it's Burns sacks. I can see us doing a 49ers type 4-3 but I still think Burns is the weakside DE in that scheme. I would love to see him as a true edge around an traditional 3-4 front.

True but after passing on the trade I'm expecting a CMC type deal than a Moore type deal. We will see.

Timing matters. It's a dumb move. Give the new HC his place at the table to discus the inevitable and make a positive easy step in the offseason. This has desperation stink all over it but I know he will take the money a couple of months early.

True but it's a huge red flag when a pack of guys working to have jobs next year get together and do a mega deal when they could just wait 2 months.

5th year option. Bring in a new HC and crew and then do a huge deal. Zero need right now in the midst of a losing and embarising season. Same stuff was said about CMC and we were desperate to get rid of him.

Zero reasons to make any deals right now. This would have the CMC deal vibes if true.

Great. This is a QB you want another team picking before us.

I don't want to see us get embarrassed on that level. Hard pass. I hope the Bucs can squeeze out another one and saves us from that nightmare. I hope we are coach shopping that week. That is exciting. Watching this team another week team really isn't.

Win lose, IDGAF this year. I just want it to be over so we can see if we are getting a HC that can make us exciting and relevant regardless of the QB. That is how bad we are, tie ourselves to something good or hope for a year like this where the winner of the division has a losing record or pick in the teens that year. We already did ridiculously bad so mediocre or something worth watching is likely incoming. That is where I am putting the hope I am able to scrape together.

Lol. It hurts because it's true. All of it.