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Unfortunately due to the latter issue, QB scramble is still like a top 5 play in this offense.

I think this might be the first actually good football team we've played this season. At the very least the first really good QB right.

Hard time believing this O has put up 29 with the limitations of its pass catchers.

Yea, very weak call.

The Bears were down by 21 points and ran three straight run plays and man I was annoyed. Them being in this game is one of the odder things I've watched.

Now I hit on Khalil Herbert +250. Should have Parlayed it I guess :D

Just settled on my +1120 N'Keal Harry TD bet that puts me up for the weekend no matter what else hits

Posted a cap update thread for the Bears.

Recency bias is a hell of a drug.

Now I'm imagining a dramatic scene where Cunningham and Poles argue over the pick and it ends with Poles shedding a tear and "I can't... The board." Anyways I'm pretty sure real GMs just write down their first choice on a post it note and then overdraft them and then pull off an improbable draft day trade and go home and impregnate Jennifer Garner.

Well, I just hope they overpay some good players. Because they will definitely overpay, as we talked about. Going to be forced to be like Jacksonville, but hopefully they get the top tier guys instead of overpaying 3rd tier players. Yea just off the top of my head: Jets and Jags got there with big splurges and had huge rookie pool numbers. Philly was already scheduled to spend most of that but also had some bigger rookie bonus pools. Miami spent a decent chunk, but the Tyreke extension did a lot of the spending. Chargers spent a decent amount while also rolling forward a decent amount.

Yea there is definitely some trend that way. Vegas went with 65,000. But yea the basic idea is that those extra seats are the most expensive to build and generate the least revenue. Still, even with that slight downward trend, didn't expect a team to go all the way down to 60k I wonder if there is some site constraint, ie to make the stadium bigger seat wise would mean more land acquisition, etc Its the current parking lot of the stadium apparently. So I'd think similar site conditions, but maybe for modern amenities the space constraint is that much different too.

Updated numbers, with help of PFF Brad. Bears have 177M left to spend. Draft pick bonuses and salary will be like 20-34M, let's call it 27. So they have $150M in cash they need to spend. Brad suggested $50M in money to Roquan, JJ, and Mooney. So $100M left to spend. These numbers are all cash, but for reference Jags spent 90M+ in year 1 cash last year as the top FA spender. And they also franchised and extended Cam Robinson, which ended up being another 17.5M in cash. Or another way to look at it, per Brad, they have to spend $244 next year and have $67 currently scheduled. 9 teams spent 244M+ this year, but only 4 of those weren't paying a big money QB. Miami also was just under that figure without paying for a QB: Jacksonville, New York Jets, LA Chargers, Miami, Philadelphia. Those are your comparables for "how to spend $244M with a rookie QB contract". Blend their approaches and that is what Chicago's 2023 offseason looks like

Yea there is definitely some trend that way. Vegas went with 65,000. But yea the basic idea is that those extra seats are the most expensive to build and generate the least revenue. Still, even with that slight downward trend, didn't expect a team to go all the way down to 60k

Pretty much procedural. There was no way they were gonna keep him at 14M salary owed.

Maybe it's a growing city but how many are actually Titan fans? Sure but I would have thought that if they were going to invest in a new domed stadium they'd want one that can host a Super Bowl. That said many of these stadiums have smaller capacities but room to expand for an event like that. Allegiant Stadium is like that too I think. Apparently the NFL told them they'd get a SB despite the size, according to lots of people on Twitter. But I'm sure just the one. Like realistically the NFL would prefer to host it in like 5 or 6 southern cities on a rotation and occassionally throw a bone to a northern city that gets a new stadium.

Titans interior is only gonna hold 60,000 apparently. Current capacity is 67,000+. Do they struggle to fill it? Seems like Nashville has grown like crazy and could support a big crowd.

Titans' looks like a top golf. I like the Bills design even if it's an outdoor stadium in horsefeathering Buffalo. Heard they are going grass so that's good. Any word on what surface Nashville will be?

IDK why that matters. They were picking up ALL the salary if they kept him on the team, plus carrying whatever dead cap next year when they inevitably cut him after this season. A 4th is perfectly fine. the cap space you gain is worthless if you don’t spend it and it will be nigh on impossible for Poles to spend the cap space he has available. There are only so many Lucas Patricks out there.Yup. Their cash hole to meet the min is now like 120. Let's say that they'll use 10 for practice squad and in season additions- which is conservative. So they have 110 in new FA money to hand out (the 120 already accounts for a draft pool estimate too). They have 33 under contract and 7 draft picks. So 13 roster spots to fill in FA. So in AAV terms call it 110 for 13 players. So 13 8.5m players. Now you can forward cash a bit on the contracts but that usually isn't done to a significant degree except for longer/larger deals. But they're obviously not going to find that many "big money" deals. But just to try: Let's say Roquan on a 4/80 deal but with 30M Y1 cash Montgomery on 4/48 but with 16M Y1 cash A free agent WR and OL at 3/45 with 20M Y1 cash each A DT at 4/48 and 16M Y1 cash That would basically get them there and the rest of their FA money could be small deals. But aso includes a ton of money at a RB. Thats just to meet the minimum cash requirement. You're also basically frontloading cash you wouldn't necessarily otherwise. If that comes with low Y2 cash amounts it balances out and is just timing thing. If not, you've basically taken on unnecessary risk by frontloading on big money deals.

Sure Velus has been injured and not productive but at least he's... Checks notes.... Only 25 years old. Any where's theres like 4 or 5 actual good GMs and then at any given time 10 or so lucky ones and 17-18 unlucky ones.

Yea but look at how awesome Muhammad has coincided the kids by eating up all the paying time at DE And Pringle? Yea he'll be awesome! (Someday....at something) Patrick. Ahhhh Patrick. You lasted 6 games Maybe Pace was better then Poles, he just had the wrong coach (?) I'm probably more Pace friendly than most, but it was time. Even if it was "just the wrong coach", how do you give him a third? And heck no, I don't buy the theory Fox was forced upon him.

They might get the very last comp pick as a net value loss pick, but the status of that pick is tenuous even. So yea, pick any two of Pringle, Muhammad, Jones, Patrick, Morrow and that's the difference of maybe getting the Mr Irrelevant pick and a 3rd or 4th comp and maybe a 5th. To be clear they should have just signed more better players and also not had a comp pick, but had a few more decent players.

Yep. Annoying to spend as little as they did and not design a comp strategy around ARob and Daniels departures. Basically the entire FA prioritized familiarity with the coaching/FO staff. That's worth a 3/4th and 5th comp pick I guess.

Good trade. They should now go flip another mid round pick for a young WR.