All 5 of the 50M+/year extensions in 2024 are getting off to rough starts (Dak, Love, Tua, Lawrence, Goff). Vikings looking like geniuses with Darnold at $10M lol.
One contract that isn’t off to a bad start is Nico Collins. What a beast.
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The MNF finish was highly improbable. ATL had lost games in that fashion over the past few years.
i can’t explain the brain fart the eagles coaches performed there. the pass call was totally wrong. they were running and having their way doing so. a run that gained nothing still left them w a chance to convert with another run (or pass). they chose the worst option
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Was the call wrong? Saquon was wide open because no one was expecting it, and if it works he is a genius.
Darnold, Geno, Carr and Fields all 2-0. All retreads that got off to rough career starts.
Never been a Lawrence fan. He hasn’t made steps forward in his time. He’s Ken Anderson, Steve Grogan, Dave Krieg, Jeff Garcia.
Ken Anderson? I don’t agree with that.
Arguably the best QB not in the HOF.
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This. If Saquon makes the most basic of catches, game over. I thought it was a good call, just lacked execution/concentration by the most critical player. Play to win, don’t play to not lose. Plus, Atlanta’s defense on Saquon’s drop (anticipating run up the middle, edges/outside were wide open) all but confirms that Philly most likely wouldn’t have got the first down anyway if they ran the ball.
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It was a good play call. So was taking the 3 points on 4th down.
With that play call you take a sack if Barkley isn’t clearly open. That’s basically the same as a running play that was going nowhere. If he is open (and catches the ball) its a 1st down and maybe a touchdown. Game over you win. The ONLY way it goes bad is poor execution. That’s what they got. That’s NOT on the coach.
As for taking the field goal. They could have tried to run the ball against a stacked front on 4th down. When that likely failed the clock stops for change of possession. Some idiot was talking about costing ATL field position that way on ESPN. Ignoring the fact that at that point a field goal ties it and you save around 35-40 yards that way. Taking 3 points makes it a TD game. The defense had been doing well almost all game. You kind of expect them to manage not to give up a touchdown in less than 2 min with no timeouts.
Agree. Ken Anderson doesn’t belong on the list with those other guys. Lawrence might, but it’s still too early for me to call that.
The DVOA model is extremely bullish on the Aints
I hate Nick Siriani as much as the next guy, but I watched a video showing the play before that they dialed up a play that got the D-line to jump but didn’t get the offsides call bc none of the Eagles O-line jumped back. Siriani was furious. I don’t know how much of the blame should go to coaches vs players not executing.
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I think the Eagles had plenty of good options for the end game. The best teams, that have the best QBs and team swagger (of which PHI is one), play to win the game. They dictate the outcome at the end instead of letting it play out. That 3rd down pass play is part of the team’s constitution. However, I would have gone for it on 4th down (spread wide, QB draw) as Hurts had been killing ATL with his scrambling. If PHI doesn’t convert, then ATL has the ball just inside their 10 needing a FG w/1:40 or so remaining. Worse case, ATL gets the tying FG. Instead, by kicking the FG, ATL got another 20 yards of field position to go for the TD.
But PHI also had a great chance to win had they run the ball on 3rd and 3. With any positive gain, PHI would go for it on 4th down and at worse case ATL has the ball inside their 10 w/55 seconds remaining. ATL would again be playing for the tying FG.
I would prefer to be a fan of a team like PHI, that has the attitude of let’s win the game now vs. most coaches that “play by the book”. It just didn’t work out this time.
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It’s funny, Saquon drops a ball he catches probably more than 9 out of 10 times and the Eagle coach is getting skewered, but if he did the conventional thing ran it in to the line for no gain and they still lose no one would have blinked an eye.
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A certain sports talking head from the twin cities harps on this all the time—you score a touchdown as time expires and now you’re down by one. You’re two (?) yards away from getting a two point conversion and winning the game but way too many coaches go for the “easy” one point and place their luck on the overtime coin toss and everything that comes after that.
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Smart people know the optimal decision.
Some of them are Football people.
Football and Insurance
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Shots fired:
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Injuries are an unavoidable reality, so finding a way to roll over cap money to a future year for the purposes of “creating cap space out of thin air,” the club executive for a longtime insurance buyer said, is one of the league’s best-kept secrets.
Um…
The CBA provision has existed since 2006, and since then, the clubs that have taken advantage of this cap hack flew mostly under the radar.
One would think that the 18-year-old provision would have been made public by the media by now.
I wonder who opened their big mouths, and who eventually took the lead.
About the J! E! T! S!
JETS! JETS! JETS!:
Former Jets general manager John Idzik, speaking generally about the five clubs he worked for in his NFL career, told ESPN that ownership approval and buy-in is necessary to purchase an insurance premium.
“At the ownership level, there’s a certain way of conducting business,” Idzik said. “Some clubs will be more apt to insure and they get used to that, and they see the benefits of it. Others are less apt.”
A club’s philosophy on insurance can be influenced by its salary cap staff’s analysis, but it’s ultimately determined by the owner, who has to be willing to spend their own money on the premium. The NFL doesn’t require clubs to purchase these temporary total disability policies on player contracts, so it’s up to each owner to value what Buffum calls, “a lose small, win big proposition.”
“It’s whether or not they’re believers in insurance, whether they want to spend the money on it or not,” an industry source said.
Fucking cheap-ass billionaires, don’t understand their own hazardous sport.
Lot of correlation between big insured teams and long-term success. Some owners don’t care about winning, it seems. Fans should desert them.
CAR’s Young gets benched. Good for him. Let someone else take the hits that his O-Line, again, the most critical part of a team, let the QB take.