NFL 2023

The big ones so far?

The problem with the Rodgers trade is that Green Bay think they are in the much stronger bargaining position. I don't think they are.

I can understand the Jets not wanting to overpay for him, they can use Denver and Russell Wilson as a precedent for not overpaying for a veteran QB, plus if they don't look like challengers for a Lombardi or Rodgers in the MVP race by mid-season there's every chance he checks out and retires at the end of the season.  He just doesn't strike me as a QB who plays with the Brady level of competitiveness.

Afros wrote: I can understand the Jets not wanting to overpay for him, they can use Denver and Russell Wilson as a precedent for not overpaying for a veteran QB, plus if they don't look like challengers for a Lombardi or Rodgers in the MVP race by mid-season there's every chance he checks out and retires at the end of the season.  He just doesn't strike me as a QB who plays with the Brady level of competitiveness. If I was the NYJ I'd be sticking to something like a 2nd or 3rd round pick this year plus a 1st next year with contingencies built in around Rodgers performance and if he commits to play next season. IMO they would be better suited getting a young guy or capable second-tier QB a bit cheaper and using the picks and extra cap space to build a better squad around him.

Jimmy G has gone to the raiders.

A-Rod and JJ both chose to switch to gang green today, officially handing Jordan Love the keys in Lambeau.

Well the last season of Favre they went 13-3 before losing to the Giants in OT in the NFC Championship game, the following season with Rodgers taking over they went 6-10 with only the 0-16 Lions behind them in the division, so it isn't unprecidented even at Green Bay for a team to suffer a regression the first season after replacing the man with the kid.

I'm tipping Rodgers floor in New York to be around 6-10 or 5-11, his ceiling a wild card spot, I don't think he has the personality to do what Manning did in Denver or Brady did in Tampa, he's more focused on MVP awards than rings.

Jealous that United have the highest net transfer spend in the world of clubs over the last 10 years (£903 million) for an FA Cup, Europa League and a couple League Cups? No, rather I find it entertaining.

Ok, I get how the draft works but how do the contracts work once a player is picked up in regards to money and length of contract?

The experts were saying a while that the QBs in this draft were not that good. I remember reading one saying he wouldn't be surprised if there were no QBs in the first 5 picks. But reading the draft now I see that QBs are picks 1,2,4,5. So much for experts.

Gridiron is a strange game where one position is so overwhelmingly THE position I wonder how it goes at junior level. There must be tremendous bunfights between coaches and parents on every team from the under 7s up on who plays QB.

RB - half the pay, half the glory, smashed every game - washed up by 30. If coach tried to play me there in the under 7s I'd tell him to get stuffed.

  true...but there is usually only one QB playing in each team, whereas there are two or three RB and multiple WR. 

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