Board 8 > NFL Offseason/Free Agency Discussion Topic - Forever Edition

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People are starting to get signed and the new league year is still scheduled to start on time, figured we could talk about Tannehill getting overpaid and the 31 teams other than the Patriots that Brady is definitely going to.

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Also the new CBA got a YES vote, some interesting and dumb changes are coming our way.

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Cowboys tag Dak
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Ryan Tannehill makes more than Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles. Both AFC South teams will immensely regret their decisions.

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Cousins got an extension.

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davidponte posted...

Cowboys tag Dak

Fuck

Titans will so regret the tannehill deal based on what we've seen. This could be the new fitzpatrick cycle
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davidponte posted...

Cowboys tag Dak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFmuO6xJ36g

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Falcons released Freeman and Trufant.
Vikings released Xavier Rhodes
Delanie Walker released from the team he was on.
Jags traded Campbell away.

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Emeraldegg posted...

Titans will so regret the tannehill deal based on what we've seen. This could be the new fitzpatrick cycle

Well, the main difference is that Tannehill has at least gotten his team to the playoffs in both places he's been, unlike Fitzpatrick. We like to joke about Fitzmagic, but Tannehill is a better QB. He's been a good QB. His main issue has been staying healthy.

And they might regret it, but I don't know what their better options were (get the Brady talk out of here). This is the going rate for a good QB now if you actually believe he's good, and I'm guessing they paid him this much because there was at least one other team out there willing to make him a similar offer. So their options were to probably overpay Tannehill, take their chances on a rookie QB in the draft, go back to Mariota (zero chance), or hope to find a serviceable QB in free agency. As someone who lived through the Vince Young, Jake Locker, and Marcus Mariota years, getting a good QB on a rookie contract isn't as easy as everyone makes it sound...!

that being said Vince and Mariota both led the Titans to the playoffs once too so this could have been a fluke for Tannehill too

they were just in a really weird bind

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Heard that brady wanted to go to the niners, niners passed.

Not sure how accurate that is but I had heard it being a rumor before time as well that he was wanting to go there, so interesting

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Fastbreak posted...

Heard that brady wanted to go to the niners, niners passed.

Not sure how accurate that is but I had heard it being a rumor before time as well that he was wanting to go there, so interesting

Chris Simms literally has Kyle Shanahan's name tattooed on his body so I believe any info he relays about the Niners

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LeonhartFour posted...

Well, the main difference is that Tannehill has at least gotten his team to the playoffs in both places he's been, unlike Fitzpatrick. We like to joke about Fitzmagic, but Tannehill is a better QB. He's been a good QB. His main issue has been staying healthy.

And they might regret it, but I don't know what their better options were (get the Brady talk out of here). This is the going rate for a good QB now if you actually believe he's good, and I'm guessing they paid him this much because there was at least one other team out there willing to make him a similar offer. So their options were to probably overpay Tannehill, take their chances on a rookie QB in the draft, go back to Mariota (zero chance), or hope to find a serviceable QB in free agency. As someone who lived through the Vince Young, Jake Locker, and Marcus Mariota years, getting a good QB on a rookie contract isn't as easy as everyone makes it sound...!

that being said Vince and Mariota both led the Titans to the playoffs once too so this could have been a fluke for Tannehill too

they were just in a really weird bind

Yeah, all of this is fair. It is true that if you don't overpay, someone will.
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David Johnson traded to Houston

And now it sounds like Deandre hopkins going to arizona? Did zona really just flip DJ for Hopkins?
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ShatteredElysium posted...

David Johnson traded to Houston

Emeraldegg posted...

And now it sounds like Deandre hopkins going to arizona? Did zona really just flip DJ for Hopkins?

lolwut

Do the Texans think they're playing football in the 80s or something?

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Leonhart4 posted...

Do the Texans think they're playing football in the 80s or something?

Even if they do, DJ is super over lmao

What the fuck are the Texans doing

Wtf Hopkins
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Like even if you have to get rid of Hopkins. Amari Cooper cost a 1st. They could have easily gotten more for Hopkins and then tried to buy low on Johnson later

Texans have to be getting back at least a 1st right?
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They are not.

DJ, a 2nd, and a 4th next year
for
Hopkins and this year's 4th

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if years of playoff failures haven't gotten Bill O'Brien fired, how he's handled this offseason as GM just 1 day into it combined with last season should

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Bears are trying to sign Bridgwater apparently. No more Trubisky starting if so!

Ugh, we signed Ereck Flowers
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Someone explain why BoB, a HC, is allowed to act as GM.

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_PandaMaster_ posted...

Someone explain why BoB, a HC, is allowed to act as GM.

Same reason Jerry Jones, an owner, is allowed to act as GM.

also the texans still have no official GM I believe
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glad im not a texans fan or id be looking for a new team

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why the NFC West the only division that constantly gets better smh

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Niners trade deforest bruckner to the colts for 1st round pick

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Texans could have gotten Freeman for cheap or Melvin Gordon if they wanted a burned out rb why would you give away a stud #1 receiver like that.
Also Austin Hooper getting PAID by Browns.

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Fastbreak posted...

Niners trade deforest bruckner to the colts for 1st round pick

See, this makes sense IMO.

5tarscream posted...

Also Austin Hooper getting PAID by Browns.

So does this, if we assume that Mayfield escapes his sophomore slump

5tarscream posted...

Texans could have gotten Freeman for cheap or Melvin Gordon if they wanted a burned out rb why would you give away a stud #1 receiver like that.

This though...

This makes too much sense for Bill O'Brien to ever consider. No chance in hell.

WTF at the Houston trade

Hopkins deserves atleast a 1 and a 2.

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Mariota to the Raiders. Huh, decent place to be a backup QB because he could do to Carr what Tannehill did to him.

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Diggs traded to Buffalo where receivers go to die.

well he wanted out of Minnesota

it seems like everyone tries to trade their disgruntled WRs to Buffalo

the Steelers tried to send Brown there last offseason but he nixed it

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Amari Cooper a $100 million dollar man

(5 years from Cowboys)
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Cowboys dont seem to understand that theres a salary cap and they cant just pay everyone a max contract

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Vikings got so much more for Diggs than Texans did for Hopkins

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https://twitter.com/TomBrady/status/1239895289424642050

UMMMM

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So he's basically saying he's not coming back while doing a super troll move of New England fans with that sentence above the statement.

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Texans have replaced Hopkins with... Randall Cobb (3yr/27 million)

And apparently Keenum to the Browns?

Not sure if lolbrowns or lolmayfield

I've been memeing about it for months but I am legitimately in shock and can't believe it.

Fuck.

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I mean Keenum is a solid backup so it's a good move by the Browns

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davidponte posted...

I've been memeing about it for months but I am legitimately in shock and can't believe it.

I'm crying vomit

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Hes retiring. Dear lord do not let me see Tom Brady in another jersey.

my parents retired to Tampa Bay as well

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god fucking dammit. This is the worst 'athlete leaving town' that I've ever been through.

Send him to the Bucs so I can get myself a sweet Tampa Brady jersey, and then bring Winston up here so Bill can knock that INT total in half and salvage this. Brady is past his prime and it's not outside the realm of possibility that a good replacement would fair at least the same as last season.

This is the only solace I can take in the news. fuck

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