turtle28 Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 (edited) That’s his answer for answering the Antonio Brown question but he just signed Inman after Harmon tore his ACL. Edited August 17, 2020 by turtle28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiphoon Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 BTW - there's some chatter to upping the total # of players on the PS to 16. It would take an agreement to the CBA by the NFLPA but I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to do it. And of those, 4 could be of players with any amount of time on the 53 man roster. So it could be a way of keeping young veterans who they want to continue to develop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Thaiphoon said: BTW - there's some chatter to upping the total # of players on the PS to 16. It would take an agreement to the CBA by the NFLPA but I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to do it. And of those, 4 could be of players with any amount of time on the 53 man roster. So it could be a way of keeping young veterans who they want to continue to develop. Yeah, as you know I've wanted an expanded roster size for years, so I'd welcome this. I still think the NFLPA/Players should argue that practice squad players should just be active roster players and do away with the quote unquote ”practice squad, ” and just expand active roster sizes to 70 players. I mean why not? The only reason I see why is bc owners don’t want to pay these young developing guys $400,000 plus a year, instead they want to pay them $130,000 or whatever. Edited June 18, 2020 by turtle28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiphoon Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 17 minutes ago, turtle28 said: Yeah, as you know I've wanted an expanded roster size for years, so I'd welcome this. I still think the NFLPA/Players should argue that practice squad players should just be active roster players and do away with the quote unquote ”practice squad, ” and just expand active roster sizes to 70 players. I mean why not? The only reason I see why is bc owners don’t want to pay these young developing guys $400,000 plus a year, instead they want to pay them $130,000 or whatever. Yeah, I can see both sides though. I want more players on the roster and think they should be expanded. But at the same time, I also see it from the owners side as well. Why pay the extra $270k per player per year if they aren't going to see the field for a few years? They do get the bigger paycheck once they are added off the PS. Curiously about the rules, they are expanding the gameday roster by two players. But one must be an offensive lineman. Kinda tracks with what I was saying last year about having one PS (or roster) spot be devoted solely to a QB that you wanted to develop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 19 minutes ago, Thaiphoon said: Yeah, I can see both sides though. I want more players on the roster and think they should be expanded. But at the same time, I also see it from the owners side as well. Why pay the extra $270k per player per year if they aren't going to see the field for a few years? They do get the bigger paycheck once they are added off the PS. Curiously about the rules, they are expanding the gameday roster by two players. But one must be an offensive lineman. Kinda tracks with what I was saying last year about having one PS (or roster) spot be devoted solely to a QB that you wanted to develop. I definitely see the owners side, they don't want to pay an extra $270,000 plus to 17 more players, I just don't agree with them and if I was at the NFLPA, I would be telling the players thy should bargain for expanded roster sizes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiphoon Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 2 hours ago, turtle28 said: I definitely see the owners side, they don't want to pay an extra $270,000 plus to 17 more players, I just don't agree with them and if I was at the NFLPA, I would be telling the players thy should bargain for expanded roster sizes. I understand that point of view. If I advised the players I would do the same thing. But that price tag comes to $4.59m per season to each owner. For a price tag of $146,880,000 per year across all teams. That's a lot of scratch. And while you may be looking at it from labor's point of view I doubt they expand that $400k salary to all additional 17 players because $4.59m is still a lot of money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Thaiphoon said: I understand that point of view. If I advised the players I would do the same thing. But that price tag comes to $4.59m per season to each owner. For a price tag of $146,880,000 per year across all teams. That's a lot of scratch. And while you may be looking at it from labor's point of view I doubt they expand that $400k salary to all additional 17 players because $4.59m is still a lot of money Sure, but they could give the practice squad players some kind of raise if they made them active roster guys in the future. I agree that tripling their salaries seems a bit much, but maybe making the NFL minimum for guys who are the last 15 players on the roster $250,000 - previous practice squad players - makes sense. Kind of in between what they used to make and what most of the last 10 players on the roster currently make which is $400,000 to $600,000. Edited June 19, 2020 by turtle28 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiphoon Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 23 minutes ago, turtle28 said: Sure, but they could give the practice squad players some kind of raise if they made them active roster guys in the future. I agree that tripling their salaries seems a bit much, but maybe making the NFL minimum for guys who are the last 15 players on the roster $250,000 - previous practice squad players - makes sense. Kind of in between what they used to make and what most of the last 10 players on the roster currently make which is $400,000 to $600,000. Yeah, I was thinking something along the same lines as you. If you expand it, then you up the salary for the last 15 guys on the new expanded roster. But maybe not all the way up to $400k because, they still won't be regular contributors unless a lot of things go wrong. And then if they actually do play a significant # of games on that lower salary, they become FA's sooner (or maybe at the end of the year?). Just spitballing ideas now to see how it can work out for both sides as well as the guys at the end of the roster. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 11 hours ago, Thaiphoon said: Yeah, I was thinking something along the same lines as you. If you expand it, then you up the salary for the last 15 guys on the new expanded roster. But maybe not all the way up to $400k because, they still won't be regular contributors unless a lot of things go wrong. And then if they actually do play a significant # of games on that lower salary, they become FA's sooner (or maybe at the end of the year?). Just spitballing ideas now to see how it can work out for both sides as well as the guys at the end of the roster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 Thoughts on what they may do with the front 7 on D: I think that Orchard will win the job as the 4th DE (if we keep 4 on the active roster) and not only bc of experience but also bc he's a veteran special teams player who's good at it. Brailford & Smith-Williams have an outside shot, but most likely they’re battling for one practice squad spot that will probably go to Smith-Williams bc Rivera/Kyle just drafted him. Brailford is going to have to look really special in practice to even make the practice squad IMO. What they also could do at DE Is just keep 3 guys (Kerrigan, Sweat & Young) I envision Jon Allen playing strongside DE/LDE on run downs 1st & short-yardage w/ Payne at NT/1-T & Ioannidis at UT/3-T. Then, 70% of the game Kerrigan, Sweat & Young will rotate at DE on passing downs w/ Allen rotating w/ Ioannidis & Payne @ DT on passing downs. And, if that happens, you don't need to keep Orchard and put Brailford, and/or, Smith-Williams on the practice squad. Also by only keeping 3 true DEs, you can keep an extra linebacker. We all know we don't have any definite long term starting answers right now at LB. I think it makes sense to keep 7 LBs & only 3 DEs. If we had to, Anderson can play DE too. So DL: RDE (Young/Sweat), UT (Ioannidis/Allen), NT (Payne/Settle), LDE (Allen/Kerrigan). LB: WLB (KPL/SDH/Hudson) MLB (Bostic/Holcomb SLB (T.Davis/Anderson). I want to keep JHC too, bc I think he will thrive as a WLB but we just don't have the room after drafting Hudson & signing KPL to compete w/ SDH, Foster and Holcomb for the starting WLB too. I think Foster starts the season on PUP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 Nfl players who test positive for COVID will go on IR for 3 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiphoon Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 1 minute ago, turtle28 said: Nfl players who test positive for COVID will go on IR for 3 weeks. Seems a little late to be deciding this now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Thaiphoon said: Seems a little late to be deciding this now. Yeah for once you and I are on the same page for this stuff, I 100% agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted July 20, 2020 Author Share Posted July 20, 2020 (edited) I guess this projection/hope/prayer is done... so disappointing... Edited August 17, 2020 by turtle28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 Bump after Alex’s return & Guice’s arrest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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