NFL - Random Opinions

I think at the higher levels like D1 and the NFL it's about the speed of the game. It's difficult to break down put your helmet on the numbers face up and slide to the shoulder when a dude is 215 and running a 4.5 40

 

Eagles and refs had a meeting that didn't solve shit. Refs blamed the league and didn't even clarify anything. So look for a shit show in the preseason at least.

 

<grabs waders from the garage>

 

In my opinion... the Jets should start Bridgewater. He will have the experience over the rookie and has had a great preseason. He deserves it and the 'rookie' needs to pay some due's.

 

They can possibly find a trading partner seeing how he has looked good this preseason.

 

Prediction: Jordan Mailata makes the Eagles 53-man roster. He may still be raw but I think if the Eagles don't protect him then someone will claim him off waivers.

 

He better, lol. That guy is a beast.

I watched some film on him and was left very impressed.

 

Week 1 prediction Conner misses a block Bell would have picked up and Ben is knocked out of the Browns game with an injury that causes him to miss up to three weeks.

 

Gruden at his best
Resigns Bryant who they cut because he may be suspended. Also makes the comment after the game we need more pass rush....hmmm maybe you should have payed Mack who happens to be one of the premiere pass rushers in the league. Wee I guess if nothing else he is keeping the Raiders in the news.

 

i read Gruden thinks with the 2 draft picks he got for Mack, he could build a defense through the draft better and cheaper than pay Mack the $23 mil he wanted. We shall see...?

 

Players on Mack's level come around once a decade if you're lucky.

I'm sure Gruden can put those two picks to good use but his logic is considerably flawed.

Just admit what everyone already knows...the Raiders have cash flow problems right now and didn't want another huge contract.

 

Never mind the contract, what he will be able to do by drawing the attention of the offense is invaluable to players like Roquan Smith in their development.

 

Mack is a great player but he only plays one position. The thing I don't understand in these conversations is that no one ever considers that there has to be a ceiling somewhere. So Mack is worth 23M? Is he worth 27M? 30M? There has to be a ceiling somewhere right? So because the Bears thought 23M per was fine and the Raiders weren't willing to go above 20M that makes the Bears right? Don't we have to see what kind of success they have first?

All I know is I watch these defensive players strike gold in free agency year after year but how many of them win...?

1. Khalil Mack 23.5M
2. Aaron Donald 22.5M
3. Von Miller 19M
4. Ezekiel Ansah 17.1M
5. DeMarcus Lawrence 17.1M
6. Fletcher Cox 17.1M
7. Olivier Vernon 17M
8. Justin Houston 16.8M
9. J.J. Watt 16.7M
10. Chandler Jones 16.5M
11. Geno Atkins 16.3M
12. Kawann Short 16.1M
13. Marcell Dareus 16.1M
14. Melvin Ingram 16M
15. Gerald McCoy 15.9M
16. Jason Pierre-Paul 15.5M
17. Jurrell Casey 15.1M
18. Josh Norman 15M
19. Calais Campbell 15M
20. Trumaine Johnson 14.5M
21. Everson Griffen 14.5M
22. Danielle Hunter 14.4M
23. Robert Quinn 14.3M
24. Malik Jackson 14.3M
25. Xavier Rhodes 14M
26. Patrick Peterson 14M
27. Kyle Fuller 14M
28. Ndamukong Suh 14M
29. Desmond Trufant 13.8M
30. Carlos Dunlap 13.6M

That's the 30th highest paid defensive players in the league and only one has a Super Bowl under their current contract (Broncos are sub-.500 since Von got his deal). One guy. And we're all convinced paying 23M to Mack is smart? Where's the proof?

 

No one is worth that much. There isn't a single player in the game that gets paid what they are worth though. They get paid what they can demand.

I didn't say the Bears were right or wrong...nor did I said the Raiders were right or wrong.

I'm not judging the trade...I'm judging Gruden's justification of it. It was reported all summer that the Raiders were having cash flow problems and it was making Davis weary of signing Mack to a monster deal. That, seemingly, could have been the main motivation for making a move.

 

I'm only talking about it as a debit to the overall cap and how much that leaves for the other 52 guys. I really don't get caught up in how much these guys make. Heck, the worst player in the league makes $480,000. That's pretty good money!

Well you said his logic (getting two players in his place) is wrong. That's what I was responding to and honestly it's more than that. If they are truly having cash flow issues and / or salary cap issues than the move makes even more since. Because they don't just get the draft picks. They can sign other players as well.

 

The big-ticket players are usually at QB. The Bears don't have to pay theirs for a while. We can add a whole bunch of variables into your above numbers, such as bad teams overpaying in FA for players (most common), in order to invalidate your inferred assertion that a highly paid defender isn't worth it. The Bears had cap space they weren't doing anything with. It's not like the free agent pool was swimming with talented candidates ready to be paid only a reasonable amount for their services. If the Bears lose, it won't be because of Mack or his contract (see: week 1). The Raiders would've paid him if they could have. Having two players at $20+ a year? That's a different story.

 

Based on the inflation of current contracts versus inflation of the cap.....Mack's contract is gonna take up to 10-14% of the Bears cap over the length of the contract. Possibly lower when it gets to the back end of it. That's high but it's not crippling.

The NFL salary cap is healthy right now and because of that there really aren't crippling contracts anymore.

Well, it is flawed logic. It's like someone putting a fancy new car in front of you and saying you can have it or take what's behind curtains 1 and 2 and you saying....well, there could be a car behind curtain 1. Idiot...you already have a car in front of you.

The chance Gruden can turn those two picks into something really good is certainly legit. The chances one of those picks turns out to be another player on Mack's level...probably not considerably high.

 

Here's my opinion for today.

I wish NFL players would keep their mouth's shut and stop throwing under the bus other players in the League. First it was Ramsey, now DE Frank Clark calls Trubisky just, 'ok', 'average QB'. Hey Frank... He kicked your ass last night on National TV, ya dork!

 

Last week, I compared Trubisky to Rick Mirer (Seattle years) on the Bears board and they went ape shit.

 

lolol...