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Why the 2018 NFL draft is a powder keg waiting to go off

5 days ago

The 2018 NFL draft is set to take place in Dallas, Texas, one week from today. This has the potential to be the most exciting draft in many years, and it all comes down to the most difficult position in sports to fill: quarterback.

2017 NFL pre-draft primer: NFC

21 Apr 2017

Only seven (count ‘em!) days left until the biggest draft day in all of North American sport, and the other half of the league have also been busy in plugging perceived holes in their rosters.

2017 NFL pre-draft primer: AFC

16 Mar 2017

March heralds the beginning of the silly season in the NFL. Just like the Boxing Day sales, teams are given a catalogue (i.e. permission to talk to agents) 48 hours before the sale commences.

A watershed moment for Kirk Cousins

1 Jan 2017

In a alternate universe far, far away, a TV commentator describes the on-field action.

The Cleveland Browns should take Myles Garrett at No. 1

28 Dec 2016

Cleveland were a missed San Diego field goal away from having an excellent shot at a rarity in the NFL: the imperfect season.

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Why the 2018 NFL draft is a powder keg waiting to go off

What do you think of the timing of the Colts trade? It was certainly curious insofar as it was made a good month from the draft - did they think they wouldn't get a better offer, or were they sold on the quantity of picks? It certainly seems that this is not a particularly deep draft - maybe getting the number 6 pick was the key, allowing them to get a premium non-QB player that they would have picked at 3 anyway. I suspect they might have preferred that deal to, say, Buffalo trading them 12 + 22. They might have wanted next year's 1st instead of 22. I can't imagine the Jets were the only team they spoke to. Perhaps they were scared the QBs wouldn't live up to the hype and this would be the 2013 draft all over again - lots of sellers, no buyers? I wouldn't worry about Cleveland's cap space. Frankly, they'd love to be doing a big extension or two - it would show that some of the players they're drafting are sticking to the roster!

5 days ago

Should the Giants trade Odell Beckham Jr?

I suspect he won't be a free agent in any scenario barring a career-threatening injury. If Jarvis Landry can get tag-and-traded, teams will be falling over themselves for Beckham next year - Cleveland, Indianapolis, New York Jets or San Francisco I think would all trade a late 1st or 2nd round pick for him given their cap space. The hesitation all boils down to the Giants being wary of giving him a whole lot of up-front money - Beckham will use Mike Evans' $82.5m/5 contract with $55m in guarantees as the starting point of any negotiation, and the two-year cash flow of $36m if he was tagged twice. With all that said, has Beckham's behaviour *really* been that bad? I don't recall him being arrested/accused of assault/in constant trouble with the law (assault on a kicking net notwithstanding). Frankly Ndamukong Suh's on-field behaviour prior to landing his megadeal with Miami was much worse. So I feel the crossroads is now for the Giants, as his trade value won't be any higher. He has a year left now at a very manageable cap number, but next year will be on minimum $16m (whether that be franchise tag or new deal + signing bonus). No doubt Beckham knows this too, and is strong-arming the Giants into extending him or trading him to a team that will sign him to that big deal straight away.

3 Apr 2018

Should the Giants trade Odell Beckham Jr?

There is absolutely no problem with paying Beckham $20m/year. The two big questions with the next contract are going to be the duration and amount of guaranteed money. Realistically, they could offer him a $120m/6 year contract with $40m guaranteed. They could make salaries for the first two years guaranteed (FWIW the franchise tag for WR is $16.2m this year, and another 20% the following year would make it $20m, so they're overpaying by $4m). After the two year mark, the Giants can get out of that contract whenever they like with no dead money, and with the salary cap continuing to escalate, by 2024 $20m might be below market value for a WR who is in his prime. Alternatively they could play hardball and force him to renegotiate after the guaranteed money is out and suggest that he won't make $20m/year on the open market if his level of play drops off and threaten to cut him if he doesn't drop his cap number, with the trade-off being new guaranteed money for him. Now is the above contract likely? Probably not. He'll want a fairly substantial signing bonus no doubt, and probably more guaranteed. But the total APY is just for show. So whatever, if he wants $20m/year they should give it to him - they just need to be sure they can get out from the contract in two or three years if he doesn't continue as advertised.

2 Apr 2018

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