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4 minutes ago, GoobyPls said:

I bet Wentz has a better year than Stafford 

You'll lose that bet.

Field Yates is pretty plugged in as far being an NFL insider. I wonder what he knows.

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

FYI: Link goes to a mock draft by Pete Prisco, dude 

Sorry about that. I don't seem to have an edit button to fix it, but the article is being discussed in its own thread at this point. 

NFL insider notes: Don't underestimate David Tepper and the Panthers in the Deshaun Watson sweepstakes

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2021-nfl-mock-draft-dolphins-get-tua-tagovailoa-a-major-weapon-jets-secure-a-qb-and-rb-in-round-1/

It's LaCanfora, so take with generous portions of salt.

1 hour ago, TheProcess said:

Unless we get a steal of a deal in free agency, we should be able to draft a replacement.

I think we did. His replacement's name is Derrick Brown.

23 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Why release and not trade? You know somebody would have snatched him up. What is going on in Houston.

Oh last year with apparently no dead money but still. Probably could have gotten something for him.

14 minutes ago, AceBoogie said:

Patrick Mahomes ain’t Patrick Mahomes in every situation. 

This pass went 30 yards on a rope and hit his receiver in the facemask before being dropped. That kind of otherworldly athleticism translates to 32 of 32 teams. 

AB is former agent and Packer's front office employee Andrew Brandt.

It's getting mighty late in the QB bar when Marcus Mariotta starts looking good to you.

They had a guy on CBS Sports Radio saying that part of the trade is Foles going back to Philly.

3 hours ago, bobcat91 said:

Though its not a popular take, Watson is a good QB who has never won anything that matters.

The College Football National Championship doesn't matter? I'm sorry, I'm going to have to disagree with you.

4 minutes ago, AU-panther said:

Somebody in the organization though he was the answer.

 

I sincerely hope that person is no longer employed by the Panthers. 

I think our WR corps is a little better now than when we lost Ginn. Curtis is simply a luxury we can't afford. He's a WR3 and will lose targets with the return of CMC. Loved watching him, but we need to let someone else pay him to be a WR2 and make good use of the comp pick.

2 hours ago, Shocker said:

I think we can agree saying Fitterer is a mouth full.  Does anyone have any good nickname ideas?

I've been calling him Fitbit.

2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

McClain is anything but a Texans mouthpiece.

You should read some of the stuff he's written about Cal McNair, Bill O'Brien, Jack Easterby and others.

Either the terms McClain is throwing out are what he's been told by his sources in the Texans organization, or he's speculating. 

12 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Just to be clear, McClain still doesn't believe that the Texans will trade Watson.

He's also said that if they do, the only team that has a realistic chance is the Jets because of what they can offer in return.

He's giving a framework for a starting offer if they change their minds, but he doesn't believe they're going to change their minds.

McClain also gone from "The Texans are not trading Watson" to "if the Texans were to trade Watson". He's putting out what the Texans want put out. 

The Texans will do everything they can to repair the relationship and try to keep Watson. If they determine they can't, they'll take the best deal they can get which may end up being less than what they are leaking through McClain right now.

We'll call that your opening position. Let's haggle.

2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

They're looking at replacing JJ Watt. I don't really think Yetur Gross-Matos moves the needle to that level.

if the framework is two young defensive starters, one of them has to be Burns. You can negotiate on the second one but I don't see any chance Burns gets left out.

I wouldn't like trading Burns, but I'm not letting an edge rusher stop me from securing the services of an All Pro caliber QB for the next ten years.

3 minutes ago, musicman said:

But what about the O-line and players we'll need over the next year or so, so this drafted can QB and the team can thrive? 

Be really good at picking in rounds 2 through 7.

I really like this as a way to frame QB discussions. There's little argument that Teddy is a Trailer, and one of the big concerns about Mac Jones is that he's going to be a Trailer as well. Fans clamor for Watson because he's one of the very few Trucks on the league.

2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Rhule and company had a week to get to know whatever they wanted to about Jones. They publicly raved about him, though that doesn't necessarily mean they'd draft him at number eight.

The feeling it gives me though is that if they do (or don't) I'm probably gonna trust that decision.

Rhule was generally positive in his remarks about most of the players he was asked about. I wouldn't read too much into it.