But you can’t negate players utilizing their leverage. Ceedee wasn’t going cheap. He didn’t want to sign before Jefferson. A GM can’t just force a player or agent to sign.

Rosie wanted to keep Ceedy here all along. How did that negotiation work out? Took over a year …he even left and went elsewhere in between. 

On 8/26/2024 at 1:08 AM, joemas6 said:

How many teams in your league?  And that's great about week 12... you kick their butts for the first 11 weeks. 

That's pretty solid in the method you drafted... RB, WR.... balance but prioritizing RB.... then same in rounds 3 &4.... didn't over draft a QB ( Richardson should be valuable in leagues that either lower the value of passing or elevate the value of QB rushing)

Then I like that you went 3WRs before 3RBs... that's where there are more WRs than RBs so take that value.  

Solid TE and D....took a kicker that plays more than half his games inside with a team that looks to be in a lot of games. 

Very nice draft... of course we can't really tell 100% unless we saw who you passed on...lol.

Now comes the fun part of picking the right starters each week...lol.

Good luck!

Well…not horrible is encouraging. I went mostly by what was recommended. I "reached” for Najae Harris RB from Steelers. 
Got lucky that no one wanted Devonte Smith for some reason.

2 hours ago, joemas6 said:

Compared these two... you see why Dallas can't ever sign guys.  

Who said Dallas wasn’t arguably the worst at signing these contracts? Could you possibly pick a lower bar than comparing to the worst?

2 minutes ago, Senhorcook said:

Well…not horrible is encouraging. I went mostly by what was recommended. I "reached” for Najae Harris RB from Steelers. 
Got lucky that no one wanted Devonte Smith for some reason.

DeVonta is looking fantastic this offseason to boot!!!

46 minutes ago, joemas6 said:

You already have a guy....the personnel decision in finished.   Step 2...how do we pay him...  it's a step by itself.  Singular on its own.  

Clearly if you are a Dallas fan, you should be annoyed at this....and they absolutely are. 

Those steps aren’t singular on their own. A whole league full of player choices to choose whom to pay what and how much. Always factors into decisions. Like trading for Swift. He had one year left cheap on his contract. Made that move more appealing than some other more cap expensive moves. Like trading for Dotson with two years left on his rookie deal. Financials are always involved with player decisions. There is a salary cap.

You choose to bring in Patrick  Queen. or the guy I had targeted this offseason Al Shaiir. Instead Rosie brought in White ..the player that had been benched instead of on the rise…being his financials were so much cheaper. Cost and talent…equals value. The go hand in hand always.

Rosie clearly wanted to keep Ceedy around last season. The player choice was there. But he left. Why is that if the player choice and financials don’t go hand in hand?

Ainias stashed on IR. Might be it for him this season redshirting.

Kept Bradberry…probably because everybody was just expecting us to cut him. See if that seals the deal on any trade.

2 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

You bet. I made many posts about it. Of course the play calling was trash too. Our offense was the tush push and a few long plays. Now we need Hurts to play QB,not a RB who can throw. We've all seen it and said the same,except for Ham who has a polished bronze Hurts statue in his front yard. Hurts personally carries the other 10 guys on offense every play. You should know this LOL

He reverted back to bad habits, didn't go through his reads, dropped his eyes when he was pressured

McDermott didn’t make to cut. Hope he can stick around on the PS. Really thought he’d be kept so we have a backup C. Because they didn’t keep Gates either.

3 minutes ago, Godfather said:

He reverted back to bad habits, didn't go through his reads, dropped his eyes when he was pressured

Terrible O scheme and playcalling. He was leading the MVP race past halfway point on the season.

2 hours ago, Godfather said:

He regressed last year

We lost Steichen and had to rely on Siri for X and Os. Kind of like how things began with Siri. Except he could at least carry over the momentum and some thoughts from what Steichen had been doing. Zero adjustments were going to ever appear without Steichen though clearly. Gotta keep evolving and adjusting in this league or you’re dead in the water. We didn’t have coaches capable of doing any of that. Didn’t even come out looking cohesive at all out of TC. 

Just now, cunninghamtheman said:

Terrible O scheme and playcalling. He was leading the MVP race past halfway point on the season.

Constantly throwing off your back foot, forcing throws, not going through your reads, ishty qb mechanics. That isn't a offense scheme problem. That's a qb problem

7 minutes ago, Godfather said:

He reverted back to bad habits, didn't go through his reads, dropped his eyes when he was pressured

Who wouldn’t see the known pressure coming when the coach called long developing routes? Practically was our O ‘scheme’ last season: Hurts escapes the pressure then hits AJ or Smitty downfield.

1 minute ago, Godfather said:

Constantly throwing off your back foot, forcing throws, not going through your reads, ishty qb mechanics. That isn't a offense scheme problem. That's a qb problem

I’ll give you the bad interception at the end of the Jets game he forced the ball throwing off his back foot. After he injured that knee in the game. He clearly didn’t plant and push off it on that throw. So clearly didn’t have enough juice to stick it in that tight window.

 He did go through progesssions and reads plenty. Lead the second best O on the league up until the Niners laid out the blueprint. You aren’t able to go through multiple reads when they are sending all out pressure. But knowing this…why would you call long developing route plays? Makes no sense. 
There clearly was a scheme problem…there wasn’t one.

There was the issue of the whole offseason their only coaching point seemed to focus on Hurts not putting himself in danger. Spent the whole offseason trying to teach him to be afraid and get down…not make plays. We could see that come out pretty awkwardly. Yet he took a beating last season.

Let’s see if he throws fewer interceptions this season when every opponent doesn’t know exactly what the playcall is. I’m just assuming Moore is an upgrade with an actual O scheme. Not that high on him…but the bar is set very low for improvement in coaching.

I wouldn’t put Kellen Moore in the top half of the league’s O minds.

Just hope he doesn’t over-correct …and try and completely just dink and dunk.

Took some gambles rolling the dice pretty big on PS. These 17 guys are pretty key actually. The 17th being foreign exemption isn’t so key..but otherwise.

So how many guys you predict we add to our 53 man roster here this week?

McCollum, Van Sumerin, Kinnard, Ricks, Patrick Johnson and Booker were the guys  that actually made the team it feels like. Good choices. I don’t think Bradberry lasts…so not including him on purpose. They just wanted to give the appearance of he made the roster so you’ll have to give up something in return for his services.

8 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

So how many guys you predict we add to our 53 man roster here this week?

We should bring in Stoll.