01-15-2019, 12:53 PM
(01-15-2019, 10:33 AM)Wyche Wrote: [ -> ]This is EXACTLY what I'd like to see them do. :andy:
Yeah, you're not losing enough games with AD & group to get him. Better start the tank a little sooner

(01-15-2019, 10:33 AM)Wyche Wrote: [ -> ]This is EXACTLY what I'd like to see them do. :andy:
(01-15-2019, 12:53 PM)Hoofhearted Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, you're not losing enough games with AD & group to get him. Better start the tank a little sooner
(01-15-2019, 01:03 PM)Wyche Wrote: [ -> ]It depends on who is sitting at the top of the draft. You could be looking at several of the teams that have just drafted QBs, or ones that are going to this season. KC got Mahommes at #10....and they moved up 17 spots to do it via trade.
(01-14-2019, 03:56 PM)bfine32 Wrote: [ -> ]Carr averaged 7.3.YPA this year.Andy averaged 7.0. (of course some folks watch Andy through orange colored glasses)
(01-15-2019, 01:36 PM)Hoofhearted Wrote: [ -> ]Any trade for the number 1 pick - especially with a franchise QB sitting there - is going to take a Kings Ransom. KC got Mahomes because he played in the BIG12 where Defense is optional. That's why he slid.
(01-15-2019, 11:52 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: [ -> ]If we really wanted to tank for Trevor we would have hired Hue lol
(01-15-2019, 12:53 PM)Hoofhearted Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, you're not losing enough games with AD & group to get him. Better start the tank a little sooner
(01-15-2019, 03:57 PM)Sled21 Wrote: [ -> ]I never said tank, I said trade. Time to start stockpiling a few picks so we can trade up for him....
(01-14-2019, 04:23 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: [ -> ]I watched how he played and saw that the PFF rating matched what we all saw. Then I peeped the price tag, saw his age, compared his price to other tackles around the league, looked at our needs and arrived at a pretty logical conclusion. A $9.25 million dollar tackle shouldn't need a plethora of excuses. You think a guy like Whit would need excuses?
I won't be mad if we keep him...hopefully he can turn it around, but we can also get similar tackle play at a much cheaper rate. At this point, we just have to hope that if we keep him, he miraculously improves. I'm a bit worn on hoping crappy players suddenly get better though. Excuses are also getting pretty tiring.
(01-15-2019, 01:59 PM)fredtoast Wrote: [ -> ]Dalton averaged almost a full yard more per completion than Carr (11.4 to 10.6)
But some people look at Dalton through shitstained glasses. How else can you explain being willing to pay an extra $11 million for a QB who had 19 td in 16 games to replace a QB who had 21 in just 11 games?
(01-14-2019, 04:23 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: [ -> ] I'm a bit worn on hoping crappy players suddenly get better though. Excuses are also getting pretty tiring.
(01-14-2019, 04:26 PM)Wyche Wrote: [ -> ]For 11 million more per year? No thanks. You're basically paying 11 million more for a poor man's Andy Dalton.
(01-16-2019, 12:20 PM)bfine32 Wrote: [ -> ]I asked Fred where this figure comes from as he quoted the same amount.
Everything I read shows Andy making $16.2 Mil next year and Derek making $20.0 Mil. Andy jumps up to $17.7 Mil in 2021 while Derek drops to $19 mil
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/andy-dalton-7750/
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/oakland-raiders/derek-carr-14445/
Admittedly I'm no math major; but I don't see how that's $11 mil/year more.
(01-16-2019, 12:20 PM)bfine32 Wrote: [ -> ]I asked Fred where this figure comes from as he quoted the same amount.
Everything I read shows Andy making $16.2 Mil next year and Derek making $20.0 Mil. Andy jumps up to $17.7 Mil in 2021 while Derek drops to $19 mil
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/andy-dalton-7750/
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/oakland-raiders/derek-carr-14445/
Admittedly I'm no math major; but I don't see how that's $11 mil/year more.
(01-15-2019, 01:36 PM)Hoofhearted Wrote: [ -> ]Any trade for the number 1 pick - especially with a franchise QB sitting there - is going to take a Kings Ransom. KC got Mahomes because he played in the BIG12 where Defense is optional. That's why he slid.
(01-15-2019, 11:09 PM)bfine32 Wrote: [ -> ]You really should try to keep up instead of just looking for things to disagree with.
Dude said Carr was "Captain Checkdown" I slurred no one simply pointed out that his YPA was better than the guy he was praising.
IDK where this $11 Mil more comes from. Derek is scheduled to make less that $4 Mil more than Andy next year and just over $1 Mil more in 2020. So my math has it right around $5 Mil over the next 2 years. And that's assuming Andy doesn't want to renegotiate in his last year.
Maybe they're just assuming Andy won't get paid in 2021 and 2022. They should have more trust in Andy.
(01-15-2019, 11:49 PM)fredtoast Wrote: [ -> ]A fan's patience with a player's rate of development is directly proportional to how the fan felt about the player when he was drafted. And "fans" includes me. But here is a general rule I try to follow, and I think most NFL teams feel about the same way I do.
1. Never write off any player after just one season. Way too many examples of good players who did nothing as rookies.
2. Most picks from the first three rounds will get a full second year. Unless a player has been injured or moved around in different positions or schemes you should have a pretty good idea of what kind of player you have after two seasons. He may not be a finished product after two seasons, but you should be able to see a significant level of improvement from year one to 2.
3. Unless a pick is a total disaster it is better to keep them for their full rookie contracts. It is hard to replace rookie scale players in free agency, and cutting a guy on his rookie contract is like losing a draft pick. Since you can't really keep all of your draft picks every year anyway most players cut still on rookie contracts are replaced by true rookies.
It seems that if a high draft pick flounders his first coiuple of seasons it sours the fan base on him and it is hard for the player to get any respect even when he does play well.
And sometimes it turns out that those "crappy players" may not have been so crappy after all. People mocked Margus Hunt like he was a joke. He was only a backup with the Bengals but this year he started 15 games for the Colts and only 12 defensive linemen had more tackles for loss than Hunt's 13. Russell Bodine also went to a starting job with another team. I am not saying those guys were great players here, but they were not the garbage that some claimed. If it was so easy to just draft better players every year guys like Hunt and Bodine would not still be playing.
(01-14-2019, 04:23 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: [ -> ]I watched how he played and saw that the PFF rating matched what we all saw. Then I peeped the price tag, saw his age, compared his price to other tackles around the league, looked at our needs and arrived at a pretty logical conclusion. A $9.25 million dollar tackle shouldn't need a plethora of excuses. You think a guy like Whit would need excuses?
I won't be mad if we keep him...hopefully he can turn it around, but we can also get similar tackle play at a much cheaper rate. At this point, we just have to hope that if we keep him, he miraculously improves. I'm a bit worn on hoping crappy players suddenly get better though. Excuses are also getting pretty tiring.
(01-16-2019, 04:11 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: [ -> ]If you're going to look at a stat to confirm whether or not a guy is "captain checkdown", yards per completion (the stat Fred used) is the stat to look at.
Yards per attempt (the stat you used) is affected by both completion percentage AND yards per attempt.
Quote:I don't watch through anything....I watched 3 Raiders games, and saw a bunch of dump offs. Which, is what a few people I know that are Raiders fans complain about. Dalton had 11.4 YPC, Carr had 10.6, what's your point? Dalton usually has a long of around 80, Carr has one season where his long was above 80. Dalton also had 2 more TDs, and played in 4 fewer games.
(01-16-2019, 12:20 PM)bfine32 Wrote: [ -> ]Admittedly I'm no math major; but I don't see how that's $11 mil/year more.