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  • mariner4lifeM Online
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    They key to this game, in my eyes, was the fact the KC O-line was unable to stop 4 guys getting to Mahomes at all. They did not blitcz once and yet got like 50% pressures and 6 sacks. If you can do that with 4 guys it also means your passing lanes are clogged and Mahomes had nothing to go to. Throw in Kelce having an all-time stinker and looking very old and slow of foot, and it just fell apart.

    Fangio and that young athletic defence just dominated, and once the KC defence got tired from being on the field all day, the Eagles feasted.

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    Interesting off-season for the two SB teams. The Eagles will do what is supposed to happen to SB winners, and get picked apart (they have a lot of free agents). But they are stacked and they just keep nailing drafts year after year.

    As Barb said, KC have skated by on very little elite talent outside of a couple of key positions. One of those guys looks cooked. Chris Jones is probably their only elite defender and he is 30. Mahomes is getting absolutely obscene money now so their ability to trade up is limited. They're not going away completely thanks to Mahomes and coaching (for now anyway) but even the Patriots fell away a bit between their two distinct dynasties.

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  • barbarianB Online
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    If you're KC, trying to rebuild on the fly is hard but not impossible. After all you have Mahomes and that means you're a playoff team nearly every year - even now your division looks a bit tougher than it has in the past.

    Surely they can upgrade at RB and WR. Get Rashee Rice back, another year into Worthy, put the ghost of DeAndre Hopkins out to pasture and find a few guys on the free agent market.

    Then you put all the effort you can into the O-line and try and piece that back together.

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    @mariner4life said in NFL 2024:

    Mahomes is getting absolutely obscene money now so their ability to trade up is limited.

    Not even in the top 10! I think it was about 45M/year for 10 years. The base cap is 272M ... so there is enough room there to move around.

    Aug 2  /  01:45

    NFL's top 10 highest-paid QBs of 2024: Where Dak Prescott's new Cowboys deal stacks up - CBSSports.com

    NFL's top 10 highest-paid QBs of 2024: Where Dak Prescott's new Cowboys deal stacks up - CBSSports.com

    Are the best-compensated signal-callers really the best?

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  • mariner4lifeM Online
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    his cap hit is like $67M though (NFL contracts are complicated) which is 24%

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    They can push up to about 40m of that into the future though.

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    @nzzp said in NFL 2024:

    @mariner4life said in NFL 2024:

    Mahomes is getting absolutely obscene money now so their ability to trade up is limited.

    Not even in the top 10! I think it was about 45M/year for 10 years. The base cap is 272M ... so there is enough room there to move around.

    Aug 2  /  01:45

    NFL's top 10 highest-paid QBs of 2024: Where Dak Prescott's new Cowboys deal stacks up - CBSSports.com

    NFL's top 10 highest-paid QBs of 2024: Where Dak Prescott's new Cowboys deal stacks up - CBSSports.com

    Are the best-compensated signal-callers really the best?

    Dak is a wage thief. Just another bad decision from Jerry Jones

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  • mariner4lifeM Online
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    Jets are moving on from Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams

    I am sure some desperate GM is going to take him on for a year of just above average QB play, and all the drama that goes with it. I don't know who though. The "win now" teams are all pretty set, and the rest are in development mode.

    The funny one would be the Vikings, just for the symmetry

    Someone will definitely pick Adams up.

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  • CyclopsC Offline
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    Yeah Adams was good, just not worth the 34 million that he was due. I suspect no one will give Rodgers the control and freedom he expects and his ego will be too big to handle not being the big man on campus.

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    Draft kicked off

    Cam Ward goes first, then the Browns trade back and then Travis Hunter goes 2

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  • CyclopsC Offline
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    Feels weird to say this, but I love what the Browns did. Travis Hunter is a great prospect, but to get Mason Graham, plus an extra 2nd this year and at extra 1st next year is fantastic.

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    ABC News  /  US

    Bill Belichick defends girlfriend after interview moment goes viral

    Bill Belichick defends girlfriend after interview moment goes viral

    Bill Belichick's relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson has people talking after a viral interview moment.

    Nice work Bill!

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