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The gauntlet has been thrown down

Interesting tid bit from Espn The restructuring, first reported Wednesday by Over the Cap, converts $54.45 million of Mahomes' 2026 salary into a signing bonus and lowers the star quarterback's cap number to $34.65 million. The Chiefs, who missed the playoffs in 2025 after reaching the Super Bowl in each of the three previous seasons, created $43.65 million in cap space. It marks the fourth consecutive year that Kansas City has restructured Mahomes' contract.

A lot of that has been Harbs allowing it, now will Minter put his foot down?

Tell us oh mighty Kreskin

Good stuff, thanks "That trust is going to be earned through time," Doyle said. "It's not like I can call up Lamar and say, 'Hey, I need you to trust me.' We'll earn that over time, and it's really going to be a two-way street. He's got to earn my trust [and] I have to earn his trust, and that goes for every player that we have. "It's a huge piece of what we envision here. Trust is built off communication and accountability to that communication. Accountability is us saying something and doing what we say."

He did the best anyone could do with that hot mess of a roster. I expect great stuff on defense here with him and Minter collaborating.

Anthony Weaver is no stranger to instilling a cutthroat mindset. He did it in Miami, where he was the Dolphins' defensive coordinator for the past two seasons and made headlines for his honest assessment at a press conference. "I'm old school - I may sit up here, I'm a nice guy, I smile, I do all those things - but all of our problems that we need to solve can be solved through violence," Weaver said. "Defensive football, at some point you draw a line in the sand, and you say, 'I'm going to set the edge. I'm going to stick my helmet under this guy's chin and I'm going to set the edge.'" Weaver is now returning to Baltimore with that same mentality, only this time as the Ravens' defensive coordinator. Ahead of his introductory press conference on Wednesday, Weaver sat down with "The Lounge" podcast. He said, "It means everything" to return to Baltimore after spending four seasons as a defensive lineman and three seasons as a coach with the Ravens. Weaver also described what he wants the Ravens defense to look like this fall. "I want out guys, when they finish the game, to [give] 60 minutes of hell," Weaver said. "When you play us, you're going to know you left a fight. We're going to try and hit everything, fly around, play connected, play together, and just do all we can to make sure that you play a game that was 60 minutes of hell." The Ravens defense was often on the losing end of those fights last season, giving up multiple fourth-quarter leads. None were more costly than the Week 18 AFC North title game against the Steelers, when the Ravens allowed two go-ahead touchdowns in the final four minutes. Weaver said he'll talk about the late-game miscues with his unit, but the only way to prevent them is repeated preparation and execution. He's taking the same approach as new Head Coach Jesse Minter, who said in his introductory press conference that the Ravens "will be at our best when the best is needed." "From a situational standpoint, we'll be so locked in in what we need to get done at those particular points in the game, that it'll become habitual," Weaver said. "When we're in it, we won't feel that pressure. We won't rise to the occasion, we're just going to be what we are, which will be plenty good enough." Weaver turned around the Dolphins' defense in his first year. Miami went from 22nd in points allowed and 10th in yards allowed in 2023 to 10th in points and fourth in yards in 2025. Miami took a step back in 2025, but that downfall was partially due to trades that shipped out some of the best players on the Dolphins defense. Weaver will hope to provide the same spark for the Ravens defense, which allowed the 24th most yards and tied for the third-fewest sacks last season. Minter will be the defensive play-caller, but Weaver will be a valuable asset for the first-year head coach. The partnership between the two defensive savants is already beginning to bud. https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/anthony-weaver-ravens-defense-coordinator-punish-jesse-minter-return

Phins released Bradley Chubb and Hill, though Hill is still nursing his blown out knee and is aging quickly. Frankly, he is not worth the headache, Chubb could be interesting

Thanks! Yeah, like papa said, I doubt it

Yeah, Ive got friends your age, the call me a teenage old man

I'm with oldman, turn 60 in a few days. Try this- you sign a deal worth $60 mil, with a signing bonus of $15mil. The deal is set for 3 years, so that is $5 mil per year on the team's books for the bonus and $20 mil per year for the salary =$25 mil on the books. But, the league allows the team to add up to 5 years onto that contract, so now its 8 years on the books, $2.5 mil now for bonus, $7.5 mil for salary total each year, again, on the books, $10 mil. But, here is the rubber, you are only really under contract for 3 years. Most players redo the deal, some do not. Either way, you will get your full contract monies of $60 mil, but, the team, if you don't resign, has to count the what money is left over on the books, in those extra 5 years. In real world, it is like politicians who say they saved us money, what they don't tell us is that they didn't really save us money in our pocket. What they did was cut job openings for say 20 vacant jobs. When you add up the salaries and benefits package those jobs would have had, it adds up to millions. So by not filling those positions, and putting a freeze on new hires in those positions, they can clear their books of money, while not spent, might have been sometime in the next decade.

Not immediately, that is why some teams use them. It gives you cap relief now, by spreading the money over a longer period of time, max is 5 years of void, fake, years. The downside is, all of this dead cap money. Either way you pay the piper, but it gives you a little longer window of win now. Eagles & Cowboys use it most, but as you see, many other teams are starting to do it. The Ravens have always been against this, until now when the Biscuit says they will use with Lamar is they cant get a new deal done

Im not so worried about Bank's foot, his quickness, size and strength are exactly what the defensive line needs, as youve said, with Mads likely gone. Howell has a lot of questions to answer, look at Green, same type player, his size has held him back in the NFL, I fear the same for Howell. Lemon, like him a lot, but he is likely a a slot guy, not a 1st round home run hitter

He is one of the rare ones, but he did sit behind some very good College qbs at Ohio St, thus transferring to LSU

With a good chunk of players the Ravens need taken early in the 1st, of these 3, who would you choose? Caleb Banks, dt Florida, huge is an understatement, 6'-6", 330 pounds and long arms. Cassius Howell, de Texas A&M Won SEC defensive player of the year this past season with 11.5 sacks. Speed, quickness, power. Maki Lemon wr USC Not the biggest and 5'-11" 195, nor the fastest, but this is a big jitter bug of a playmaker. Great hands and big catch radius, electric with the ball in his hands is an understatement