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Right, UNCrules.. okay.Pretty much what I said. I thought about playing some kind of game like that with a retiring guy's deal. But it doesn't offer a lot. Maybe a guy we wouldn't be keeping after next year (Sanders ?).

Thank you. So how does that reconcile with a cut or release policy that allows a single hit, or splitting it over two years? I see that as going like: 4 million over 5 years is what they structured, right? So 800k per. If he retires next year then he has 2.4 million to account for. I believe that would have to all go on the table. So take a 2.4 mil hit one time, or 1.2 mil two times. Barry Sanders, I read somewhere, had to give signing bonus money back when he retired early. The moral is, you can get some relief doing that if the player performs at your acceptable level for two seasons, and don't make those voidable years so heavy that you don't like the bill if they retire.

For sure. There are things I want see, and things I hope to never see again.

Extending years of a player near retirement is something I looked at. I did that without really understanding what voidable years are and still don't have that. What I found though, was a retirement is the same as a cut, cap wise. You take it all that year or spread the dead over 2 years with a post June 1st designation.

We know they are pros. Designing an offense that will either help the QB be better at the field stretching, or hides his weaknesses, both really, is professional also. I would just say: you did look at how defenses played Bryce Young last year, did you not? Would you really prefer to not threaten them enough to back them off some? Because that is what you will get with no threat of it.

Y'all missing my point so this will turn into something I guess. The stats from 30 yards, 40 yards (I am assuming and not looking it up), I am reasoning that the hookup rate for 30 yard routes is less that with 20 yard routes. Following that viewpoint is the same assumption for 40 yards.. I'm just guessing that a graph would show a decline in success with the increase in distance. Lumping those in with 20 yards throws would affect the shorter distance numbers negatively. Making the argument against the importance of field stretching with the forward pass, easier to make. Just a comment/observation. I don't know the extent but I'd bet all day long the 30-39, the 40-49, and everything over that too, would pull down those 20-29 numbers. And I am not trying to say it's all a conspiracy (to make Young look better). I am saying that the lumping all those things together as deep, is not ideal for certain purposes. It's great for making FF scoring easier, not so great for closer looks.

New strategy to eliminate this embarrassing scenario. Dalton will be brought in for a pre Hail Mary deep throw, designed at making the Hail Mary manageable for BY9.

I always feel better after a win. So yeah. If they get blown out, then you can take my stance that week one isn't a good barometer. I mean, I can't get last year images out of my mind just from a few scripted plays against a second team defense. The two finger take down sack, the strip sacks, the bailing out and throwing OB. I expect a lot better, but know that poo could happen because I have seen it happen. Just like those nice scripted completions.

There are things that you'll see right away, I am sure. But there will not be defensive game plans against us like there will be a couple of weeks later. I hate to think about how many teams that ended up 5-11 started out 1-0. I bet there are a bunch.

Half a second? Yeah. A tenth of a second makes the difference much of the time. Even less. Closing speed of defender vs ball speed in a race to the target is the biggest threat to a low velocity throw. Stats... here they go with the 20 yard deep stats again. I would bet, if I gambled, that the completion percentages for 20 yard throws are better than for 30 yards, and decline as distance of the throw increases. But let's lump it all together and then we can use it to argue that not having a potent deep threat isn't that big of a deal. I love stats.

Same lazy take just lump him in with guys that he leaves in the 'I'm short' dust. This game will be really educational. We'll see if he actually has those mechanics and footwork transitioned or if it is still 'clear the runway' when time to throw deep.

I can only think (guess) they plan to upgrade the practice squad with the new guy when his work is done on the 53. It is the only thing that makes sense outside of replacing one of the rostered guys. edit: I guess if they got him for blocking they can pay him for the week or two and cut him when T or T gets healthy.

Who remembers the NFL team vs the College All Stars games? They used to have one yearly I think. I don't remember if it was one NFL team or the league champs or last place team even... NFL didn't always win. But that was all stars, like all the first rounders I guess.

Hey is it possible that they are doing that vet thing with Chaisson? Where you cut before week one and the deal is not guaranteed? Then you sign him back....

Let's see what they actually run the most before worrying too much about it, Mr Kaye. Otherwise the guy is a rookie and hasn't earned it. Making him earn it is the best thing. Give something right in front of him to keep it in his mind.

He bit the bullet on a couple of guys that took a chunk. Hurst, somebody else. Morgan's first year, he wanted them gone apparently. Okay. And this sort of stuff isn't really that damning, I don't think. They'll fix it without too much harm done. Maybe none.

So this guy has something on Cain.

At first I thought okay they are cutting. Now I think it is more likely to be an injured thing though. Watch them have just cut someone while I'm typing... Even though they do apparently have another TE on the practice squad I had forgotten about. Maybe he'll replace the practice squad dude in due time.

And the OL. And the coaching. And haterz. I think it's going noticeably better, just because that OL is upgraded for the run game. That's going to help. Better enough to really look like an NFL offense? Not sure... looks to me like it is going to look more like the Alabama offense.

I think they were going to be down to two TEs if they held both Tremble and Thomas out. It's probably that.

A precursor to another cap move or are we that short on TEs? Hmm.

Joe is just exhausted after that long article he posted this week. The one where he slipped in the Peyton Manning and Troy Aikman horrible rookie seasons but great careers argument for Bryce Young - while ignoring all the crap rookie seasons by people that went on to crap careers... the other side of the coin that people don't want you to remember. I did think he was less lazy.

But, but... SEC baby! It's just like the NFL! Everyone said so last year. I don't know everybody else's roster well enough but I think just having what looks like a pretty good OL in the works gets us off the bottom.

He was a star in college I guess. Are they 'cap cool' now?

Yeah I have always absolutely hated the idea of copying the Boston Red Sox and using a song written by a NYC pop songwriter about Caroline Kennedy to celebrate the victory of a football team from the south representing the Carolinas. I mean, do something ORIGINAL how about it? Doc Watson was from NC. John Coltrane was from NC. You have a lot to work with. Fact, maybe a fun fact, maybe not. Brooklyn if you were old enough to have heard Charlie Daniels' 'The South's Gonna Do it Again' Carolina is in fact referred to as Caroline lol. I remembered it when I read your post. And it was referencing SC, but same difference wth the Carolina thing It was a song about all the 'Southern Rock' bands from the early '70s. Got a cool guitar riff in it. Looked it up. The second line of the 1st verse" And the Tucker boys are cookin' down in Caroline