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Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

Worry about it without multiple future 1st round draft picks and a cap situation that will be among the worst in the league.

Yeah, worrying about it will be all that we can do because we won't have any capital to do much else.

yeah gonna suck not getting to draft anymore Jaycee Horn's, Derrick Brown's, Brian Burns.

at least we won't have to strike out on a QB.

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3 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

Yep

This is bigger than just this season. This is a long term play. We could easily go the next 3 years striking out in QB’s. We’ve already done that the last two and well on our way to do it again this year if we don’t land Watson

Exactly. The division is wide open and deshaun could set us at qb for ten years

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1 minute ago, *FreeFua* said:

Yep and they addressed CB last year that would allow us to let Jackson and Gilmore walk

Our pass rush would be a concern though no doubt

Burns is good for a sack or two every other game in the first half.

Completely disappears when you need one the most, ain't no TJ Watt or Aaron Donald closer poo going on out there.

Teams literally scheme to run at him because he's pedestrian there.

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8 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

We’d have to get pretty damn creative to create the cap space for both

Not really. Around $29,000,000 free now. Darnold will be moved, whether its to the Texans or elsewhere. They almost certainly have something in place to dump Anderson if they need the space. That's $60M cleared. This doesn't include the fact that some combo of Burns/Chinn/Brown/Horn will also be moved, which will likely have a cap neutral effect or clear a slight amount of cap, depending on who is traded. The combined incoming total of Watson and Tunsil is a little less than $53M. It's easily doable. 

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2 minutes ago, GOAT said:

Burns is good for a sack or two every other game in the first half.

Completely disappears when you need one the most, ain't no TJ Watt or Aaron Donald closer poo going on out there.

Teams literally scheme to run at him because he's pedestrian there.

Yeah teams run at him when he's out there, and when he comes out so we can get big they pass. We're so simple to attack. The defense is not the answer. You need a passing attack. The rest works itself out.

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2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Deshaun Watson is barely above .500 as an NFL QB. Why? Because he's been on bad teams. It'd be the same here.

I watch football for entertainment, like I said I would rather lose a shootout and have an interesting offense then watch Darnold or whoever go 3 and out over and over. Watson can win you games, I guarantee you we would've won more games with the ball in his hand on the last possession rather than Darnold, Cam or PJ.

Yeah we have a bad team too, if we lose a game while on defense, that's not on Watson. That's on the defense and the coaching. At least the game was probably entertaining. Watson's got the stats to prove that he will make things exciting and keep you in a game on his end.

Really hoping we get Watson and Rhule continues to prove to be incompetent by losing games and not having the team prepared - so that we can get a real offensive minded NFL coach to take over as head coach with Watson.

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