NFL Discussion Thread: Pats win SB XLIX. Offseason begins

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Hear SM is looking at Jeron Johnson as well, he'd be a welcome addition. Didn't know much about him but after reading up on him he seems like the kind of player we need in the locker room and on the field. Can't have anymore Meriweathers/Madieu Williams/Baccari Rambo/Phillip Thomas' out there at safety :smh: :x
 
McFadden got signed because he went to Arkansas. Same reason JJ drafted Felix Jones in the first round a couple years back. Maybe I'm wrong, but I honestly wouldn't look to him to make much noise, even with that great o-line blocking for him.
 
^ I'm pretty sure Barksdale is coming back. I figure he'd be signed by someone. Blaylock is supposed to visit next week so if we get either one or both, all we have to do is draft a center and another tackle in the later rounds
 
In all, Kelly is committing a lot of money to his running backs. Let’s assume that Mathews’s deal eats up about $4 million in cap space this year. Assuming that it has a roster bonus, Murray should come in at about $9 million. The Eagles already have Sproles on their cap at $4.1 million. Even if they cut Chris Polk, that means about $17 million in cap space is committed to running backs.

The only team that even comes close to the Eagles on running back spending would be the Vikings, who have $18 million committed to backs this season, but $15.4 million of that money belongs to Peterson, who is likely to be released or traded. Otherwise, nobody else is spending more than $10.9 million on running backs, which leaves the Eagles as an enormous outlier in terms of how they’re choosing to use their cap space.

Here’s the simplest way I can put this: Pretend, for a moment, that the Raiders or the Jaguars or the Browns made this exact same pair of moves. They would be the laughingstocks of the league, fools making the same stupid mistakes that bad franchises always make. The Eagles understandably aren’t being painted with that brush because Kelly has earned a certain level of credibility as a forward-thinking coach. With the moves Kelly has made this offseason, that credibility is on the line.

LOL.

“@TheRealDGunnCSN: L.McCoy cap hit for 2015 11.8 million, news eagles: Murray (5mill), Thurmond(3.25), Mathews(2) and Kiko(.795).. combined cap hit 11.05 mill”

“@TheRealDGunnCSN: To clarify....That cap hit for Lesean McCoy is what it would have been had he played for the eagles in 2015...”


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-with-18-million-fully-guaranteed-at-signing/

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Most shocking thing about McFadden is he's played 7 seasons already. Jeez time flies.
 
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When McFadden started in Oakland I called him Darren McFallin for awhile because he'd go down so fast when he'd touch the ball. Dude developed into a big play machine but that toe ****** him over and I know a chick that messed with him that said he was leaning with Jamarcus a lot and smoking during the season.
 
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My boy will flourish in Dallas
He always was the focus of opposing defenses since our QBs were guys like JaBusto and Carrbage.
Romo will hook him up and open up the running game.

Romo, oline, bryant, witten, Run DMC
Id say thats a balanced offense
 
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I like what Raiders have been doing but I hate this rule that you have to spend 90% of your cap space. :smh:

Why do you care?

It'd be nice to save the $ for the future than be required to spend it, especially if you trust the roster as is. Don't want no Javon contracts lingering.

Save it for what future?

As proven this year no free agent is going to sign with you unless you severely overpay them and the cap is ever increasing so its not like there won't be more room.

There are no players on the Raiders roster that you need cap space to resign in the next two years.

NFL contracts are typically on the books for 3 years tops.
 
Yea but why is do you have to spend 90% of it? I think that's a stupid rule

Because the NFL prints money as it is and NFL teams should at least be forced ATTEMPT to put a decent team on the field.

Blows my mind a fan of team doesn't want to them to spend money to make the team better when it can only help and NFL contracts can be written up in ways not to have long term ramifications.

You must like your team being garbage.
 
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