NFL offseason thread

Falcons really can't release him until after the 2021 season, but I'm sure they would trade him tomorrow.

Goff is an interesting case. I don't know if anyone in the league believes that he's an even competent quarterback without Sean McVay. It appears that the Rams REALLY like John Wolford and want to at least give him a shot to be their starter.

Has there ever been anything close to the QB movement we are likely to see in a month?

 

The NFL should encourage the movement - particularly allowing QBs with more than 10 years in with a team to be moved with limited cap damage. The rookie wage scale has encouraged teams to "take a flyer" on some QBs in the first round that don't pan out, and you end up with possible contending teams unable to reach their potential because they lack a signal caller. And then you have veterans on teams that are ready for a rebuild/too old to make it realistic they'll still be playing when the team is expected to be good. It's a weird deal.

 

It’s taking all of the unamortized signing bonus money which makes the trades harder. You get rid of your starter in a trade and have to potentially take a huge hit the following year.

 

The NFL does not need to be the NBA.

Give teams who have a player on their roster a 10% discount on the cap if they resign the player to go along with compensation.

Sign a player for $10 mil, you get a $9 mil cap hit and the other guy gets a $10 mil hit. Pick your percentage, but these teams have money to spend. It's the cap that holds them back.

 

Fuck it. Do a transfer fee like European soccer. That might help secondary football leagues survive for more than a year too.

 

They are going to just eat $61 million in dead money if they cut him? Not a chance.

Edit: sorry it’s $65 million in dead cap between 21 and 22 with a shrinking salary cap in 21. Not happening unless the league changes the dead money rules.

 

Ravens asst David Culley will be the Texans' next head coach.

I don't think this is going to help them convince Watson to stay.

Sources: Texans hire Ravens' Culley as head coach

 

Do they think Reddit can overbid them to 12 wins somehow?

 

But I do applaud going against the grain. He's 180 degress from the "young, inexperienced white coach from a team that hasn't won anything" that seem to get HC jobs out of the bottom of a box of cereal.

 

Someone had a good line about the qualifications for HC candidates — they have to be young, white and have met Sean McVay.

 

Yeah, but it reeks of "we're gonna be terrible, might as well bite the bullet and hire a Black guy while we bottom out" that's standard in the league. I assume the better Black candidates wouldn't take their calls.

EDIT - I posted this last week:

 

Outside reports seem to hint that Leslie Frazier was already assembling a staff thinking he was going to get the job. They interviewed Bieniemy but I'm guessing once he found out that Watson wanted out either way he wasn't as eager to step into that trap.