LinvilleGorge

Yep. If the Jets want him they're in by far the best position to get him. I've been saying for awhile now that for us to get him, we basically need the Jets and Dolphins to bow out of the race due to the cost of the trade and/or they're sold on other options whether those other options are QBs in the draft or QBs currently on their roster. Our hope resides on the fact that this is a strong QB draft class and the Dolphins have a guy on the roster they drafted #3 overall just a year ago.

I usually wish our former players well, but can't wish him well there.

I honestly have no idea what we're doing in free agency. We need to sweep the building. It feels like Hurney is still there somewhere and calling the shots.

If the Texans sit on Watson through a holdout they're even dumber than I thought and I already thought they were the dumbest franchise in the league.

And this. These agents are connected. His agent didn't push for him to sign an incentive laden contract if he didn't expect a decent chance to check some of them off. They know he has a good chance to start some games this year in Houston.

Let's say his base contract is $5M. That would've made him the 4th highest paid backup QB last season. That is big money for a backup. Teams with young entrenched MVP caliber QBs with a bunch of other roster holes don't spend big money on backup QBs. He's gone, man.

So what's the end game? What are they getting out of trying to get everyone to get vaccinated?

LOL! I think you're a yoga master at this point with the reaching you've done this off-season convincing yourself that he won't be traded. There may not be any fire yet but it's so smoky you can't your hand in front of your face.

"Less than $6M" likely means something in the high $5Ms and he's likely to hit some incentives because Deshaun is as good as gone. Gone to us? I'm not sure about that but he's done in Houston.

Dangling Teddy in that trade offer was never a realistic option.

You know who doesn't pay $6M+ for a backup QB? A team with a young MVP caliber QB. Particularly one with a bunch of other roster holes.

Strongest sign yet that Watson is being traded. $12.5M for a pure backup? Nah. He's a stop gap.

Let's just pretend that it is.

Yep and I highly doubt they'd deal with us knowing they'd be handing us a QB.

Virtually guaranteed not to now. At least not at #4.

Truth. It wouldn't shock me if he goes undrafted.

I LOVED basketball growing up. By far and away my favorite sport to play and to watch.

Because refs weren't overturning any of the calls. I feel like this was an issue early on in the overall replay process. Felt like early on, the refs were too proud and stubborn to overturn anything but the most comically blatant errors.

Says the guy whose only purpose on this forum is to poo on other people's posts. You gotta be an absolutely miserable human.

No doubt about that. I understand it from the NFL's perspective. Football is a brutal sport even with the rules emphasizing player protection. All of the acting in basketball detracts from the game IMO and makes it difficult to officiate (coming from a former basketball ref). When you have guys comically flopping and flailing all over the place, it makes it kind of desensitizes you to make it harder to recognize fouls where the player is actually trying to play through the illegal contact.

Thank goodness. Forces us to look elsewhere.

Sure, it happens some. But watch basketball in comparison. A defender is brushed by a driving offensive player and they act like they got hit by a freight train. Drive and flail has become an actual offensive strategy. Just drive to the basket and if anyone attempts to defend just flail like you got hit by a taser and shoot FTs. It's complete bullshit.

This and it isn't a new development. This has been a trend for at least 20 years. I think a lot of younger fans don't see it because it's all they've ever known.

Every time I turn on a game, there's ridiculous flopping all over the place. They gotta reel it in. Way too much acting in the game.

It's not a Hornets issue it's what's happened to the game. The soccer-style flopping is just out of control. Hell, if I wasn't such a huge UNC fan I'd be done with basketball altogether. I very rarely watch a basketball game that doesn't involve UNC. That's a big change for me. Growing up, basketball was hands down my favorite sport, both as a participant and as a fan. The league's fuged up soft cap and max contract issue further screws up the league. Even if the game hadn't evolved into something I don't particularly care for, I probably wouldn't be much of an NBA fan these days because it basically turned into MLB.