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Until you see the pieces work together I have to feel they’ll be just as bad or worse than last year. Looking forward to them being much better. 

Yeah this team has 1 more year to prove if Young is a bust or not. Need to keep him clean and give him weapons. 

16 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Good. Every economic study that I'm aware of that has looked into the issue has concluded that use of public funds for sports stadiums is a terrible investment.

I mean just look at South End and Noda Development vs 1st Ward. 

im willing to pay for a stadium if the city owns it and largely benefits from it. Also if it dictates if the owner can move the team or not. It never feels worth it. 

2 hours ago, PappyMay said:

Just filling in holes and depth so can go BPA in the draft.

We need to fill in a letter or two in this guys name 

Obviously we need a center. I think guard is acceptable. I’d like the flexibility to try Ickey at guard. 
 

I wouldn’t fret at all about two o lineman in the 2nd honestly, just shore it up. Trade or FA your playmakers. 

As far as I can tell the football team isn’t his #1 priority vs building a sports, entertainment, and gambling business. It doesn’t mean the football team can’t be successful too but I don’t see him learning lessons he never even cared about. 

A future 1st probably 

I think you pay him now and hopefully take some of the cap hit during your rebuild year. 

40 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

We got $108M in cap space next year before another increase so I don't think the cap is a concern. Give him his 20-25m asap. He's not a lazy dude, I think he's from a military family so he won't disappear after getting paid

I think he got married and has children early too? Doesn’t mean a person is mature but it’s not like you ever hear anything bad about him. 

Improvement and excited players. 
 

Tepper needs to talk about real grass. Also need to hear about a practice facility. I don’t want any drama about a new stadium. 

14 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

It’s different.  I’ll be here at kickoff to see if the actual product has improved at all.  All new faces makes it a little easier to not hate them.

Yeah, definitely part of what I love about pro football. Seeing guys at their peak achieving their dreams. Hoping the best for all of them. 

2 hours ago, Jon Snow said:

I just hope this is a lesson to them to not look a gift horse in the mouth so to speak. If they ever get an offer like that again to realize there's not a player on the team you pass that up for.

For real, that made no sense. Belichek wasn’t great at drafting but he was always good about trading guys for firsts before they needed a big pay day 

46 minutes ago, CardiacCat said:

No team/owner/headcoach/player will EVER go into a new season with the intention to "tank".  There is just too much at stake.  Will an owner be happy if attendance at games goes in a downward spiral if the team doesn't perform? NO! Will players be happy if their value goes down if they are not put in a postion to shine? NO! How about the coach(es)? Do you think they'd be happy with a dismal season? NO!   WE WERE NOT PLANNING ON TANKING AT ANY POINT....

I think it’s unavoidable in the salary cap era that teams go through cycles. A new staff will have some rope and time to set things up. 
 

If Canales is a good coach and Young lives up to the #1 pick hype we’ll still prob stink this year lol

enjoy the rebuild! 

40 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

We have to pay a bit more for the same players because the team is so bad. Call it a surcharge if you will. It's the price you pay to convince a good player to join your crappy team.

Hopefully we can front load some of the cost during the crappy reset year, and these guys are still playing well for the remainder of their contract 

On 3/11/2024 at 7:12 PM, Eazy-E said:

By the time we recover from this mess we will either have to pay Bryce Young or look at drafting his replacement. The entire point of having a QB on a rookie contract is being able to pay and retain your high end talent.

This is NFL purgatory and I’m not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

Yeah I would think we need to stink this year, trade the number one pick for a haul in 2026 and reset that way. 

Hopefully so. I don’t really care.

i wouldn’t watch much, enjoy your Sundays! 

My gut feeling is we’ll be bad during this reset year, then probably mid-bad in 2026 while we get used to a vet or rookie QB to replace Bryce. 

Just gonna be a long road. 

1 hour ago, Dave Gettleman's Shorts said:

knowing the panthers, they'll win some meaningless games in December and push us out of the number one overall only to trade back up into the pick 

We’ll trade next years first to do it but then end up giving up the number one pick of the 2026 draft 

it sounds crazy to say but I’m really surprised at the negative reactions. The team stinks and in all likelyhood it will stink no matter what they do. 

They don’t have a lot to work with and they absolutely need to support the QB they drafted. They need to look attractive for backups or a new QB next year. 

Sacrificing the defense to help the offense bring in new blood makes all the sense in the world. We’ll stink no matter what so prioritize the most important position. 

The worst team in the league isn’t gonna have a lot of trade able assets 

16 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

The sad part is we didn't have to make this trade. He could have held on until Burns improved his value. 

 

We had him under contract for 2 more years. 

Burns was a cut block away from losing generational wealth forever. Not sure he was going go play this year without a contract.

This doesn’t feel all thst controversial to me. 
 

Letting HoF Peppers walk for nothing was much much worse. 
 

Letting Norman walk wasn’t a terrible decision in a vacuum but the way we went about it was a clusterpoop, then the kneejerk reaction drafting 3 CBs. 
 

This just feels like two parties that couldn’t come to terms, everybody got something. Everybody got what the market was willing to pay. 

I mean if they can’t agree on a deal then you get what you can. Still need to re-tool the offense to support a QB. 

11 hours ago, rayzor said:

And one thing about Tepper, he's made some bad decisions, but he's learned to bounce from an idea when it doesn't work and try something very different.

At some point something has to stick, right?

I really hope it sustains as well. I can’t help but wonder that Tepper’s mind is 2-3 steps ahead in building a sports/gambling/entertainment empire.
 

Owning an NFL team just checked a box for him on the way to owning a recession proof business that’s fun even in a down economy. 

I feel like skill players are how you end up in the exact same spot. They need to calm down and build in the trenches. 

12 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

LMAO!

 

Man y'all gotta let this stuff play out. We been hoping for change since Tepper took over. Each year ends in disappointment.

 

Cmon guys just stop with the hope.

It’s the circle of fandom. Can’t control it so might as well be optimistic. I’m hopefully but also not really investing any time into the draft or watching many games this season unless we are showing sparks.