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Rumors on the you tube, believe or not, from former players, claim the deal with Lamar is just about done and will be announced this week. I will believe it when the team announces it..

Mads posted a work out video, still not definitive proof he will be back or how effective he will be, but it is a good sign. Crosby will help the pass rush, mostly a 10 sack per year, 2 years above that, maybe with better schemes, he will get above that into the 15 range. With a full season of experience now for the young players in the secondary plus some much better coaching & a better pass rush, this defense should be better. So better offensive line due to better coaching, alone =a better offense than last year. Same for the defense.

Between the new coaches and the depth of offensive linemen in the draft, i am sure they will either teach them properly & or draft better quality. Jones should take over at one guard, the other and depth may come from the draft. The biggest question now is center

Most fans on message boards either don't know whole lot about the game or, know just enough to think they know better than even the front offices and coaches. So you get two types; the ones who think the teams are the smartest best in history or, the teams make all the wrong moves. Of course it is mingled with trolls who just want attention any way that they can get it. Can't do much about the 1st 2, but Dee started this board to weed out the 3rd types

2 years, $11 mil for Huntley to resign; R U serious!

4 years, $52 mil for the Bills' center, $32 mil guaranteed

2nd round picks Recent Ravens 2nd Round Picks (2015-2025) 2025: Mike Green (LB/EDGE, Marshall) (jury still out) 2024: Roger Rosengarten (OT, Washington) (jury still out) 2023: No 2nd round pick (Traded for Roquan Smith) 2022: David Ojabo (LB, Michigan) (bust) 2021: Odafe Oweh (LB, Penn State) & Tylan Wallace (WR, Oklahoma State) (busts) 2020: J.K. Dobbins (RB, Ohio State) (bust) 2019: Jaylon Ferguson (LB, Louisiana Tech) (bust) 2018: Lamar Jackson (QB, Louisville) & Hayden Hurst (TE, South Carolina) (bust) 2017: Tyus Bowser (LB, Houston) (bust) 2016: Kamalei Correa (LB, Boise State) (bust) 2015: Maxx Williams (TE, Minnesota) (bust) Notable Earlier 2nd Round Picks 2012: Courtney Upshaw (LB, Alabama) & Kelechi Osemele (G, Iowa State) (busts) 2011: Torrey Smith (WR, Maryland) 2009: Paul Kruger (DE, Utah) (bust) 2008: Ray Rice (RB, Rutgers) 2002: Anthony Weaver (DE, Notre Dame) 1997: Jamie Sharper (LB, Virginia)

By the way, the Raiders took on a $30 mil dead cap hit for trading him

Maxx Crosby | NFL Contracts & Salaries | Spotrac.com https://share.google/GXyH5xbPyNdujt6ZT $30 mil cap hit this year, signed through the 29 season, potential out clause in 28, $29, $26, $27 mil base salaries after this season, bonuses-$690 thousand, then 3 years of $782 thousand in roster bonuses. Yeah, restructuring is in need, lower that cap hit by converting his base salary into signing bonus, cap hit closer to vet min

The more I think about this the more I hate it. Hendrickson could have been had as a 2 year rental, maybe three. Sure he is older than Crosby, but just as productive. He may have cost a bit more, a bidding war with another team, but at least you had 2 of your best draft positions. This team has been notoriously bad at drafting in the 2nd. So now that defaults to their "best" draft position for the next 2 years. Sure, they might be able to swing trades and move back up into the low first, but how likely is that and how much draft capital will it cost?

Not sure I like this move, hate giving up that much plus the salary cap space. Sure, the Rams have made their hay with no 1st round picks for the past few years, but they draft well. The past few years this team has not drafted too well. Does this move mean Lamar is signing an extension? Has the front office changed their minds on building through the draft? So many unrestricted free agents on this team, so many holes to fill, so little cap space.

Browns restructuring Watson's contract, converting most of his $85 mil salary into a bonus, lowering his base salary for this year to just over $1 mil, saving them $36 mil in cap space this year. The remaining money dumped into void years from 27-29. What a mess they made. Raiders dumped Geno Smith, cost them a draft pick and $58 mil

Bears have money and need since their young center retired. Eric said they gave him a market set contract offer, so we shall see

Interesting signing as far as Lindy goes, from NFL dot com "The Chargers agreed to terms with center Tyler Biadasz on a three-year, $30 million contract, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport, Mike Garafolo and Tom Pelissero reported on Friday, per sources informed of the situation."

Josh Allen learned them, even improved his accuracy

This time for a cornerback, Trent McDuffie, who is in the last year of his rookie deal. They gave up "a 2026 first-round pick (No. 29), fifth- and sixth-round picks in this year's draft, and a 2027 third-round pick." To say that they are all in on a Super Bowl is quite ridiculous, Stafford is still good but should we forget his back issues just prior to the start of last season? Will they flare up again, only stay this time as they often do with age? One reason the Rams have been so good over the past 10 years or so is because they have hit on key draft picks, which has helped them pay for other players like Stafford, a left tackle, a defensive end, and of course, their stud defensive tackle who retired a few years ago. Drafting quality was the only way they were able to sustain winning after they gave up on 2 drafts to get Stafford. Yes, you can stick your hand in a basket with a rattle snake in it once and not get bit, do it twice, um, hope you have the anti-venom handy

No, clearly you missed my point, maybe I was not clear enough, sorry. My point, back then, many pundits, like you, said Young was a bust, his legs would not last. Back then, running qbs belonged in college, or Canada, see Warren Moon. Young's point about him self, when talking about Lamar, on ATH a year or two ago, was that Lamar, just like him, needed to learn the nuances of the pocket and use his legs as another dimension. This way, teams will in fact not have a spy because of the passing threat, there by opening lanes to exploit with his legs. Walsh taught Young that, Lamar is learning that, working on that right now. He clearly has been for the past 2 years or so. Maybe Monk got through to him or Young did, who knows. But I brought up Young because if he played today, on a bad team, you would call him a bust. As we see, he clearly was not, and no, this team should not give up on Lamar.

He was a running qb, who could throw, though his accuracy was in question. While he was on a bad Bucs team, he admits, openly, he needed to learn the way to play from the pocket and work on his passing. He tells it, the best thing to happen for him was to be traded to San Fran and be able to sit & learn. If you will step back you will clearly see Lamar trying to learn to do just that; be a pocket passer who can utilize his running ability. It doesnt happen over night. I have seen the improvement, I also see him struggling at times trying to do that.

I bet you said the same thing about Steve Young, when he was with the Bucs...

Again, why was he chased down? Because he rarely ran full speed last season. When he did, he darted in & out of possible tackles and went down to avoid hits, until his back injury. Why was he not running at full speed sideline to sideline? To give him self a chance at throwing deep. This goes back to my point; last season, for a reason we will not know, he was very hesitant, indecisive, on when to run even in making his reads. Why? Who knows, maybe still part of his learning to be a different type quarterback. Maybe because Bateman, who was nursing injuries, couldn't get separation and Flowers was double teamed. Don't get me started on the old man they brought in who hasn't been able to get separation on a route in five or 6 years. Why do you think KC let him go so quickly and easily.... So a lot went into last season's regression on offense, including the pass poor line play, all of which affects Lamar

I said it then, I will say it now. Lamar has been, clearly, working on becoming a pocket passer, primarily. We saw that the 1st year Monk was here, great competition % from the pocket, buying time, throwing on the run. The result? Top 5 offense in passing, in redzone in 90+ yard drives. But he will still leaving yards on field, either from not running or from holding the ball too long, getting sacked or throwing it away. He was clearly torn on when to take off and when to dump it down, often missing a wide open runningback in the flat. Shoot, his mother even went public telling him to run sooner. Last season, we do not know what the issue was, family life getting in his head, bad line, injuries, who knows, but he was clearly was not playing- throwing nor running- as he did previous years, especially the one before. Harbs blamed Monk, the Biscuit blamed all of them and here we are. I expect Lamar will have worked it out, the timing on running vs buying time, this season. Be more like other qbs in the league who can run, like Allen, but know when to...

To be fair, not the entire game, usually it is only a handful of plays that doom him, his fumbles, or holding the ball too long, or bad passes. But he does eventually play better, it is just usually too late and leads others to make mistakes as well.. As oldno said, it could be the coaching.

I would suspect, though do know for certain that it is standard language; teams like to keep as much control over a contract/player as they can away with. I don't know why he would not want to be here, 2, almost 3 maps, playoffs almost every year he has been here. The year before last the only thing to stop them from going to the Super Bowl was themselves with turnovers.

They mean years past that. They don't want to do that because he would no longer be under contract after the 28 season, so all of that money pushed into those years would become dead cap money. By the 27, 28 season, even under this current deal, he is still under contract until then, so conceivably, they can use those years and just restructure/sign a new deal before the end of the 28 season and absorb those cap hits into the new deal

That will come in handy. Here is a blurb from ESPN in the current Lamar contract; interesting https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48045815/2026-nfl-combine-latest-buzz-news-rumors-free-agency-draft-qbs-trades-offseason