G_Money
Flim-Flam Artist

Interesting point about using the picks, but I would say a cheap filler player costs less overall than a high draft pick. I think a first round OT would cost more than the guy you signed to play RT.

I would guess that your GM has an approximate view of how much money should be spent on each level of a side of the ball, each side of the ball overall, etc. DOn't get me wrong, I thought you should have taken an OT. This draft had a lot of them. Cross would typically have been a top three OT. This year he wasn't. Shit, the second rounders were grading out as late first rounders on some reports. I feel you.

We love you bro. Real talk. <3

On the bright side, Chubb is the next T-Sizzle . A guy who can get 15ish sacks and just blow up the run game. Probably a little more athletic and able in coverage, too. I'm focusing on that and not thinking what if.

And Dansby was good but played great in a perfect system in Arizona. And was solid to good everywhere else. It might be a nice pickup, except Dansby had enough speed to do some covering. IDK - I just hate the hand-waving-away that we do for players with serious flaws. Then we get surprised when those flaws show up on game day. You'd think we were 11-5 and not the reverse with some of the posts here.

I'm trying to be optimistic. Trying, haha.

It's a different scenario because the Chiefs could afford that delaying because they were AFC top contenders. But, to think that didn't delay the development of Mahomes is a big reach, and my arms aren't that long. Keenum is a professional in the sense that TS is: they show up and work hard but they're not it. CK was in the best situation out of just about any QB in the league. His best performance was that of a game manager, and that's not my words, those are the words of Dogfish. In other words, that's not a good performance. I don't want to give him the money because he's a bad player, and if he is doing well in a situation just about everyone else would be doing better. There is one sure fire QB in this class and his name is Rosen. He's the best passer. He's the smartest guy, and he has the most heart because he doesn't have to be in the NFL. But, as smart as he is, he ignores logic and goes out there to play NFL ball. Traditional? No. But who cares? That guy can't be a bust unless he gets hurt. And, concussions happen to anyone at any time and as far as weight goes, he's going to gain weight whereever he goes.

We're going 8-8 and ******* up the future. There's no hope, and no amount of fried food can salvage this day. The end is nigh, we're forseaken by god.

We're ******. Keenum is average at best - if we don't take a QB early we'll be begging for scraps and be out of reach next year to get one, without picking one via trade up. This mid-tier signing at QB has massive ramifications for us. Even if we take a real QB, he's going to have delayed development. Elway wasn't smart enough to see the forest for the trees and placed the weight of a bad offense on a guy whose track record is pathetic. We're going to take a random offensive lineman and the fans will stamp their feet and clap in joy because 'that's how good teams are built' as we forget how many 'great teams' have had lines and done nothing with them. If we wanted to avoid a total rebuild, you take a QB ready for the pros and you install one offensive lineman, which we have the money for. At that point you either keep Talib (maintaining the only strength of the team) or sign another defender who should make more of an impact.


Roster building 101 was just murdered today - I'll be interested to see what the dead money would be on the deal because that's the most pertinent part of the contract. We have, at best, a weak division contender/WC contending team. And that is never enough to justify avoiding a full rebuild. When the defense gets even worse this year, we're going to see Keenum have to chuck the ball. It wasn't a good short term solution and all it does is bastardize the long term scenarios with complication and delaying the draft. And before anyone says it, the second round QBs in this draft are just fetishes for draftniks. We're left praying for outliers and random luck to save us.

To justify his money, which isn't even close to top dollar for a QB, CK has to repeat his best performance in a tougher circumstance. If we took the names off of the franchises, people would have guessed that we were the Bengals. Let's hope things go well and then we can be the NFL's next version of last year's Titans squad. /barf.

FWIW, I got "Mason's Pledge" for Christmas. I'm looking forward to reading your work

I hope I haven't been a detriment to you posting here, G.

I am a huge Paxton Lynch fan in regards to what he can do on the field. I honestly think had Lynch taken even a quarter of the snaps under center that Goff or Wentz had we wouldn't have been able to draft him. I see a bigger Steve Young.

Happy belated Birthday!