The offseason

[nybf]

Will definitely be a busy one.

Shaq released to save cap space.

[The Outsider]

Thank jebus. I've got nothing against Shaq, quite the opposite. But after the achilles tear and losing his daughter it felt like he wasn't all the way in it. Last season he wasn't awful he just looked kind of out of shape compared to what I was used to seeing out of him. We need someone to pair with Diaby now, but that's not the end of the world. Nelson is serviceable is we have to run him out there.

[nybf]

Everyone knows he's getting cut, but Schefter said they're cutting him after 6/1 for cap reasons. Further proving the cap is made up bullshit.

[The Outsider]

If the cap actually mattered the Saints wouldn't have been able to field a team since 2018.

[nybf]

This is a god damn embarrassment

[The Outsider]

To be perfectly honest I've always hated these charts. Fuck these athletes. They get paid assloads of money. I couldn't give two shits about how they feel about Team Travel, or the locker room. Fucking be thankful that you're playing a child's game for more money than 99% of Americans will make in their entire lives.

Millionaires bitching about billionaires will never be a problem that concerns me.

[nybf]

When your players rate the owner lower than the owner who literally throws drinks at people at games, there's a problem.

[The Outsider]

When your players rate the owner lower than the owner who literally throws drinks at people at games, there's a problem.

All that does is make me question whether or not the Panthers entire roster is retarded. If I were one of their players I'd be giving Tepper an F based purely on his mismanagement of the team's football operations. But maybe he put an air hockey table in their locker room or something.

The Glazers aren't the biggest spenders, obviously, but unless they're being openly racist or some shit I just don't see it. One thing our former players have never complained about is the Glazers. IIRC our prominent former players have largely only said good things about them.

I don't really get it.

[The Outsider]

But then with Bowles getting a B- maybe it's our entire roster that's retarded.

[emby]

Brady was on McAfee talking about the Mahomes comparison and in his usual way, he talked about if Mahomes could win 7 Superbowls he'd be the first one to congratulate him because he knows how hard it is to do.



That last line sticks out to me (because I bolded it) and has been on my mind all morning. Just how hard it is to win a seventh Superbowl and what it took to pull off.

The "narrative" has been that Tom had enough of Bill Belechick and chose us to dance with like a homely girl at the homecoming dance. And after the whirlwind romance was over it was time to go back to being homely.

That was laid on so thick that fans wanted to tank the whole season last year because "the bill has come due" and in an amazeballs twist of fate, Baker Mayfield comes in and gets us a playoff win.

Who the fuck saw that coming? I did.

Why? Because Tom Brady knows how hard it is to win a Superbowl.

What that narrative ignores is the years spent drafting almost a dozen guys just to field an above average pair of corners. Same at WR. Same at DT.

Then in that same off-season we signed literally two hall of Fame guys to the DL, another hall of famer in Gronkowski, Bellcow back Lenny Fournette, and then signed Antonio Brown to be the #3 receiver, LeSean McCoy to be the #3 RB and that's just off the top of my head.

Point is that Brady saw that there were a good group of guys here, Licht added everyone he could sign and BA coached it.

And STILL only could win one chance out of three.

Since 2020 we've drafted impact players on every level of the offense and defense. Continuing to build the team's core as the ring hunters moved on and retired.




Should it have been a surprise for a former #1 overall pick with a playoff win to fall in on Tom Brady's stacked roster, win the division title, and thump Philly on the road in an "off year"?



Our Super Bowl window never closed.


Because the roster is still too good. Everyone was too busy thinking Brady did it on his own like he's Achilles vs the Trojans when the reality is that this franchise was on its way to becoming one of the most talented organizations in the league prior to Brady and his presence simply cemented it.

We wanted to come out of the backside of the Brady era with a team that competes every year with a winning culture. I think we got that.

Maybe since it takes a stacked roster to get one SB out of Tom Brady in three tries, it'll take a stacked roster and five tries to get one out of Baker Mayfield.


Reload.