LinvilleGorge

FTFY

The fans are already pissed. We'll be immediately unpissed if we can land a legit QB or legit QB prospect. If we're trying to trade Teddy, we gotta walk back some of the shade we've thrown at him because teams might otherwise be thinking they can get Teddy for less after we release him.

You're not wrong. Bridgewater should've never been signed. Bradberry should've been re-signed (or tagged if he was balking) and Shaq should've been allowed to walk. Bradberry is the better player AND he plays the more premium, harder to replace position. That was a low hanging fruit decision and we botched it.

He's a mid-rounder who I've been thinking about if we go DB or IOL in the 2nd. Seems like a boom or bust guy. Definitely intriguing potential but also definitely not plug and play (which is honestly a pipedream for a mid-round LT anyway).

And a 6th? Cool. I was thinking only a 5th. Every little bit helps. Another dingleberry of poo to fling at the wall to see if it sticks.

Sweet. That's not bad.

Some other lesser paid JAG. Keeping a massively overpaid player for fear of fielding a worse player is terrible roster building logic. You don't have to pay elite LBer money to get Shaq level play.

Definitely interesting that this was unintentionally leaked mere hours after releasing a "we won't be doing poo in FA" article via the team website. Kinda seems like we were sandbagging publicly while preparing ourselves to have the space to potentially make some moves if the opportunity presented itself.

Cap space. And he wouldn't be released until after this season. He is WAY overpaid for what he is.

It's a critical error to restructure Shaq. Restructuring a player who should be being released is peak Hurney. It's as if he never left.

Fug. I was really hoping we wouldn't touch that Shaq contract. There's minimal guaranteed money in it beyond this season. Hurney clearly wrote it to restructure it. I was hoping once Hurney was gone we would be out of the game of restructuring players we should be releasing.

Yeah, but they've competed most every year. That's all you can really hope to do. Just compete. You gotta catch some breaks to win it all. Like having the Chiefs forced to play without an OL.

Yep. Outside of QB, LT and CB are our two big "premium position" roster holes.

Yep. QB is a HUGE piece of the puzzle and by far the biggest piece, but ultimately if you have enough big holes on your roster even the best of QBs won't be able to hide them all. Just look at Mahomes in this year's SB for the latest example.

You said win with any roster. The Texans won fewer games than we did.

So you don't want Deshaun Watson?

What if they take it on the chin this season and then end up with a Howell or Rattler next year? Ya know, what we should've done last year.

Raise your hand if you have a poo ton of posts on the Huddle having never offered an actual opinion only posting to try to poo on people who are willing to actually contribute an opinion.

What I really didn't like about the CMC deal was the timing. Unless he was threatening a holdout behind the scenes we had no pressing need to ink that deal when we did. Imagine how much stronger of a negotiating position we'd have with him coming off of an injury riddled year with a reduced cap number. Honestly, he'd probably be opting to play out his deal under the 5th year option and then we'd still have the option to franchise tag him in '22. Honestly, that's probably the smart play with a 1st round RB. Let him play out his rookie deal, franchise him if he's elite, possibly franchise him again to get 7 seasons out of him then let him walk and let someone else give him a long-term deal with big guaranteed money. He'd still only be 27/28 years old. You definitely don't give a guy huge guaranteed money one year after running him into the ground. History shows that seasons with huge numbers of touches are really unkind to RB longevity. I honestly think he proverbially held the gun to our head behind the scenes. That's the only way that contract and the timing of it makes any sense at all.

That's what people have been saying about the Saints forever and somehow they always figure it out anyway. I'm to the point of just admitting that they're a helluva lot better at cap management than we've been.

If he is then my hope for the Rhule Era is pretty much over. He didn't learn a thing from the failed Teddy experiment. I'll hope that I'm wrong but I'll fully expect another 2-3 years of flailing before the reset button gets pushed on the entire organization. Again.

This is what I'm seeing too. Teddy would look just like Mac Jones in last year's Alabama offense. Honestly, Teddy would probably be better because he can move around a little bit on the rare occasion when things break down.

I mean, so far their QB selection has consisted of Teddy Bridgewater. We can blame that on Hurney all we want but we wouldn't have signed Teddy if Rhule and Brady were pounding the table screaming "NO!"

Take a look. Teddy's arm was better. Jones can't make that first throw. Teddy there it 50 yards in the air hitting a WR in stride and didn't even have a clean pocket to step up in. Jones can't do that. Teddy hasn't shown the ability to do it either at the NFL level, but he did in college.

He wasn't in college. When your underthrown deep balls you're putting everything you've got into start getting picked at the NFL level you get gun shy... or start throwing INTs in bunches.