[Old 2020 thread] NFL Free Agency/Trade Rumors:

[RobertWeathers]

If not for some terrible deep passes, Titans should have blown us out. Tanny just needed to move the chains and made some awful decisions.

After ~100 career starts we know what Ryan Tannehill is.

Streaky as ****.

 

[Zarozzor]

Dolphins now have the two highest paid cornerbacks in football.

 

[Bill Lee]

The better option for TN was to go with a bridge QB for two years with maybe Mariota at lesser money and reassess within those two years or after through the draft. There’s no way Tannehill gets TN to the SB. That money is stupid considering the fact that he’s more likely to turn back into Miami Tannehill.

And if Vrabel and Robinson felt they had job security, maybe that's what they would have done.

If the plan was two years of a care taker, they are both fired before the end of next season.

They had to come up with something better than more Mariota and reassess in two years.

Heck, if Tannehill can't repeat what he did last year they're likely to be gone anyway.

Bringing in TB12 and hoping the offense can gel around him was too risky.

They doubled down for next season on Tannehill.

If he sucks, everyone gets fired and they eat Tannehill's contract or keep him around for year 2 ala Nick Foles, then launch in to the rebuild.

Derrick Henry's on the tag, they're all in for this coming season.

 

[Uptown]

Edit:

 

[Bill Lee]

From https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/03/16/houston-texans-deandre-hopkins-trade-colossal-mistake

Hopkins is not just a statistically relevant wide receiver, the kind of player we haughtily dismiss nowadays because it’s trendy and smart to say that teams with target-hungry wideouts are seldom complete enough to win a championship. Hopkins was the Texans’ offense. He was responsible for almost three quarters of their expected points added through the air last season. He made up more than a third of Watson’s total air yards. He took in 30% of the team’s total targets last year.

All of this with middling separation numbers, consistent with the most smothered receivers in football. What happens to the quarterback who became accustomed to all of this?

What makes this move feel especially insane is how obvious it appears to all of us. We are naturally blind to some players who make teams better or worse in the little moments we won’t pick up on. Our own biases cause us to miss things. We overrate players. But so few Texans games go by where it isn’t readily apparent that Hopkins’s catch radius propels this team forward. He extends drives out of thin air. He has the ability to make the perfectly positioned defender irrelevant.

But these are things you might miss when this toxic confidence takes the wheel. Just as we could see it clear as day, someone like O’Brien might be able to look past it toward some brighter future somewhere else. Unfortunately for O’Brien, that bright future will be in Arizona.​

Quite a beat down of BOB the GM....

 

[Zarozzor]

 

[Uptown]

 

[MoreBellhorn]

And if Vrabel and Robinson felt they had job security, maybe that's what they would have done.

If the plan was two years of a care taker, they are both fired before the end of next season.

They had to come up with something better than more Mariota and reassess in two years.

Heck, if Tannehill can't repeat what he did last year they're likely to be gone anyway.

Bringing in TB12 and hoping the offense can gel around him was too risky.

They doubled down for next season on Tannehill.

If he sucks, everyone gets fired and they eat Tannehill's contract or keep him around for year 2 ala Nick Foles, then launch in to the rebuild.

Derrick Henry's on the tag, they're all in for this coming season.

Mariota is probably on par with Miami Tannehill and I think we can all agree with that. I’m sure we can also agree that Tannehill didn’t all of a sudden figure it out at age 31. If they were all in, they would’ve gone after Brady, in my opinion. I just think them re-signing Tannehill to that money is so damn unnecessary. Hey, I’m not complaining.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

They have leapfrogged over KC as the best team IMO....

 

[Uptown]

 

[primetime]

Fair deal for a player of his quality but he strictly plays two downs and most of the guys above him play three and rush the passer.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Has this been posted? My god, this is such a bad overreach. The Giants are just not a good organization. Do they even have a winning record since 2000?

 

[primetime]

Has this been posted? My god, this is such a bad overreach. The Giants are just not a good organization. Do they even have a winning record since 2000?

He's a good corner. That's a fair deal.

 

[Joey007]

DO WE HAVE ANY CUPCAKES?

 

[primetime]

Saw something that the Patriots were choosing between Collins and Van Noy? How is that a choice...?

 

[TomPatriot]

Overrated. Seriously.

 

[farn]

Saw something that the Patriots were choosing between Collins and Van Noy? How is that a choice...?

I agree. Especially if they are in a position where they can afford either. I have always loved KVN. If he moves on for the $, I’ll respect the choice. But I really would want him back.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

He's a good corner. That's a fair deal.

Nope.

He's a solid corner who just got insanely overpaid. This is a classic case of a solid player being the best in the market because he wasn't good enough to get a lucrative extension or franchise tag from his own team.

He was part of a "historically bad" defense last year. PFF gave him a 59.8 grade.

Final PFF 2019 ratings for all Panthers defensive players

He's never made a pro bowl or all-pro selection. He allowed a 78.9 passer rating against, which is solid but not elite. He got off to a really hot start with that stat before regressing back to his mean.

He's getting paid among the very best CBs in the league.

This is just like the Nate Solder signing with the Giants. A solid starter, fringe star at best, bound to disappoint with that contract.

 

[Bill Lee]

Mariota is probably on par with Miami Tannehill and I think we can all agree with that. I’m sure we can also agree that Tannehill didn’t all of a sudden figure it out at age 31. If they were all in, they would’ve gone after Brady, in my opinion. I just think them re-signing Tannehill to that money is so damn unnecessary. Hey, I’m not complaining.

I agree with the Mariota vs MIA Tannehill comparison. We can think of a lot of QBs who go on a hot streak then get paid. Flacco. Foles. Now Tannehill. I guess coaches/GMs think there is more to it than just a few weeks/months where everything happens to come together. Maybe Tannehill will be the exception to the rule, and the system is just right for him. But it's pretty clear the system was never right for Mariota. We never saw him really put it together. The team and the fan base were done with him. I think the choice was TB12 vs Tannehill and the coach and GM seemed to always favor bringing Tannehill back.

 

[jboston19]