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Dolphins trade defensive end Charles Harris to Falcons

If you thought the Dolphins were done trading away former first-round selections, Miami had one more surprise up its sleeve for you.

The Dolphins are trading former first-round pick Charles Harris to the Atlanta Falcons, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported. Atlanta is sending Miami a 2021 seventh-round choice in the deal. The Falcons later confirmed the deal.

Selected 22nd overall in the 2017 draft, Harris has never lived up to the expectations of a first-round choice. The defensive end has appeared in 41 games, tallying just 3.5 sacks and 34 tackles.

As Pelissero tweeted, the Dolphins continue to move on from former first-rounders. The team released former Cowboys first-round choice Taco Charlton less than 24 hours before trading Harris to Atlanta.

The difference, though, is Miami is moving on from players who haven't produced. This isn't the same as trading away Minkah Fitzpatrick for a first-round choice or sending Laremy Tunsil and Kenny Stills to Houston for a package of assets.

Miami declined Harris' fifth-year option recently, and the trade north solidifies how the team viewed him after three seasons. We'll see if he can turn his career around in Atlanta in 2020.

NFL.com

 

The Jaguars have had trade talks about dealing Leonard Fournette. For now, the running back remains on the roster.

So Jacksonville had a decision to make on Fournette’s contract before the end of the day Monday.

It has made it as Adam Schefter of ESPN reports the Jaguars will not exercise the fifth-year option on Fournette’s deal.

The move is not a surprise.

Fournette is scheduled to make $4.16 million in base salary in 2020, and his fifth-year option is $8.48 million for 2021.

He ran for a career-high 1,152 yards and caught a team-high 76 passes last season, scoring three touchdowns.

Fournette was the fourth overall choice in 2017.

NBC

 

Report: Taco Charlton agrees to terms with Chiefs



Defensive end Taco Charlton lasted a little over two years in Dallas. He lasted less than a year in Miami.

Now, it’s onto Kansas City.

The Chiefs have agreed to a one-year deal with Charlton, Terez Paylor of yahoo.com reports.

Charlton cleared waivers earlier in the day.

He now gets what could be a final chance to show he’s not a first-round bust in joining the defending Super Bowl champions.

In 27 games with Dallas after it made him a first-round choice, Charlton made four sacks. He got in then-defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli’s doghouse and became a healthy scratch.

The same happened in Miami as his attitude was not as the team had hoped. He made five sacks last season but was a healthy scratch three of the final four games.

NBC

 

Chiefs are the NFL’s heaviest favorites to win their division



The Chiefs have won the AFC West four years in a row, and they’re heavily favored to make it five.

Kansas City is a -425 favorite to win the AFC West at Caesars Sportsbook. No other team in the NFL is close to that heavy a favorite to win its division.

That’s no surprise; not only are the Chiefs the reigning champions but there isn’t another team in the division with a roster that can come close to Kansas City’s. A recent PFT Planet poll found that most would take the Chiefs over an all-star team made up of all the best players from the Raiders, Chargers and Broncos.

The Chargers’ odds to win the AFC West are +600, while the Broncos and Raiders are tied at +1000. Those are long odds for a reason. Anything can happen in the NFL, but four months before the start of the season, the Chiefs look like the class of the division.

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“Extremely small” chance that there will be no NFL season in 2020

The ongoing pandemic has created plenty of confusion, as science has mixed with politics and as news has been filtered and slanted by media outlets and personalities more concerned about pandering to political viewpoints (on both sides) than the truth. Within the NFL, there’s little or no confusion: Football season will happen.

Per sources with direct knowledge of both the NFL’s deliberations and the current and expected medical and scientific developments in the coming weeks and months, there is an “extremely small” chance that there will be no NFL season in 2020.

So what would trigger the “extremely small” outcome? As one source put it, the information gleaned from fighting and studying the coronavirus to date would have to be proven dramatically incorrect by future behavior of the virus and the illness it causes in the people who are infected by it.

The biggest potential impediment to playing football will be the availability of adequate and efficient testing, both for football personnel and the general public. By August, however, it’s expected that testing will be prevalent, that the testing process (saliva or finger prick) will be simple, and that the results will be turned around very quickly.

It’s also expected that there will be enough testing for the general public to justify testing all players, coaches, trainers, etc. before they enter a team facility or a stadium for practice, meetings, treatment, or games. Pre-admission testing on a daily basis will be critical to keeping the virus out of locker rooms, and to avoiding a Bio-Dome approach to playing a season’s worth of games.

As to the stadiums, it’s also believed that they will be open to fans, with a strong preference for open stadiums from Week One.

… in part from; NBC

 

This is such bulls***. These companies have every incentive to tell you that everything will be fine. It's the same reason why the NHL has been saying "We plan on finishing the season" every week for almost the last two months. And, it's why every time the NHL says that, they push their timeline further and further back.

Estimates are that a vaccine won't be developed until early next year. Until one is developed, this isn't going away. Might the NFLPA and the NFL agree on an acceptable level of risk and mitigation? Sure. Might the federal and State governments, who have been absolutely, dangerously garbage in getting this under control, compromise the good of the public to let people go to NFL games and the like? Sure. But this virus isn't going away by the time the NFL season is set to begin. It might be less present, but it won't be gone.

 

Lots of declined 5th year options. Picks 2-5 and 9 all declined and then some more outside the top 10.

 

Yeah, what happened to Corey Davis? I thought surefire superstar....just didn't happen.

 

Andy Dalton to the Cowboys

 

The Bengals fucked him and fucked him good for no gain. They should have known no once would trade for Dalton's contract when they can get him for less or no compensation. All they did was make it so he couldn't hit free agency during the window when teams were looking for starters. They had to trade him last year and they just didn't understand how to do that properly. The Bengals may have had nothing to lose by holding onto him this offseason but everyone knew a trade wasn't coming. This could very well be the difference between a longer career as a starter and a career that's about to end. You better bet players and agents have taken note that this is not an organization you deal with lightly.

 

Daltons deal; Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the deal guarantees Dalton $3 million and gives him the opportunity to make up to $7 million.

 

Screwed themselves out of a comp pick too by releasing him so late

 

They wouldn't get one regardless as a contract needs to naturally expire (or option not picked up which is essentially the same) for a comp pick to be awarded.

 

Hunter Henry looking forward to seeing how mobile QB opens up offense



Hunter Henry said that it still hasn’t full hit him that quarterback Philip Rivers won’t be back with the Chargers this season, but some part of the change at quarterback has resonated with the tight end.

Tyrod Taylor is currently atop the depth chart and the team drafted Justin Herbert with the sixth overall pick last week to give themselves a potential long-term answer at the position. Both quarterbacks bring more mobility to the offense than Rivers provided and Henry said he’s looking forward to seeing how that changes the unit.

“I’m not going to downplay Philip at all,” Henry said, via Jeff Miller of the Los Angeles Times. “He was unreal and a Hall of Fame quarterback. But, obviously, it opens our offense up a little bit more. You see all these quarterbacks, their escapability in the pocket. . . . [There are] so many different things that you can do with a mobile quarterback that can open your offense. [I’m] looking forward to seeing that aspect of our offense grow.”

Henry has signed his franchise tag, so he’ll be set to work with both of the quarterbacks whenever the Chargers get back together to put their new offense together.

NBC

 

Andy Reid: We didn’t come near to what we could be last year

The Chiefs won Super Bowl LIV in February, which makes it hard to argue that their season could have gone much better but that’s not how head coach Andy Reid is viewing things.

Reid spoke to reporters on a conference call last week and discussed the start of the team’s offseason program. That program is being conducted remotely, but Reid said that’s not an excuse for the team not to challenge themselves to be even better than they were during the 2019 season.

Reid believes the team can meet that challenge because he doesn’t think they came close to reaching their potential last time out.

“You have to focus in on trying to be better and trying to challenge yourself to be even greater than what you were that previous year. It’s a mindset and it starts now. Even though we’re doing this thing virtually, it starts now. There’s no time to waste,” Reid said, via the team’s website. “We’re not going to just go, ‘OK, we have everybody coming back and we’ll just run the same plays.’ No, we’re going to keep growing. I don’t think we came near to what we could be last year.”

Reid noted that the defense was in its first year under defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and sees that as an area where the team can continue to grow as they try to improve on a year that ended in the best way possible.

NBC's PFT

 

Mahomes missed games and wasn’t his normal self when he first got back. That offense can be better than it was last season. Scary to think about.