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https://overthecap.com/salary-cap

this should be a link to the Saints 25 cap. Note how much dead money and the fact that cutting a ton of the most expensive players pre June 1, would actually cost them MORE on the 25 cap

Is it fair to assume the best coaches are primarily attracted to teams with best salary cap situation?

I wouldn't think it's #1 priority but I'd guess it's top 5. Not in order but would guess it's these things? Many of which are interrelated

QB
Roster
GM
Owner
level of power/autonomy
Cap
Salary

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The only question is do we go to Culver’s before OR after the game!?

lol Culver's is so good.

In-N-Out somehow gets all the pressure, i think because of scarcity, but in reality it isn't even a top 3 fast food burger - Culver's definitely is.

Not a good sight for Bears fans. BJ already sounding like Russ

Why not both?

Predicting Johson will not have a very good year with the Bears next year.

The only thing that surprises me is that this would surprise anyone on earth

Because well coached teams get fewer penalties, right?

Need an EPA / WPA analysis on this too. How many of these penalties were phantom contact on 3rd and 13 in negative territory that flipped a close game?

Nice cherry picking since the Super Bowl vs. the Bucs where the Chiefs got hit with so many terrible calls in the 1st half that Ray Lewis was freaking out in the halftime show.

Why not start at 2020, or do all of Mahomes' playoff games?

And of course this phantom roughing call on Chris Jones, which unlike the plays everyone is hysterical about from the Texans game, actually happened in the 4th quarter, and had a massive impact on the outcome of the game.

Weird, but I don't remember the Bristol-centric national media having a grand mal seizure over this call. Nor the Jeff Triplette forward progress call the year before that basically lost the Chiefs the game. Literally the worst call I've ever seen. Never in the history of the NFL has so much freakout happened over some plays in the first half of a game that was never really close.

Also the same people who whine about this also whine during the entire regular season, and I can present a mountain of stats that show the Chiefs do not get all the calls in the regular season, despite everyone's vibes, including when you take into account leverage, WPA, etc.

But now they've found one in a specific cherry-picked time period and we're just going to ignore all that crying wolf all the other times during the regular season that everyone freaks out.

Maybe the Chiefs have just learned how to play clean games in the playoffs? Maybe when teams are behind, they tend to spaz out, or do riskier stuff to try to catch up. Let's see the penalty stats of other teams that had dominant runs in the playoffs.

Did the refs make Ossai shove Mahomes? Or Bradbury do this?

Bradbury should have known that a defensive holding would allow the Chiefs to bleed the entire clock, which is 1000% worse than just giving up the TD. So don't grab and hope to get away with it. Make them beat you with a throw.

That's not on the refs, that's bad coaching and situational awareness. But no one wants to talk about that, because that's not the narrative that titilates and attracts eyeballs.

If it comes out against the narrative, the Chiefs get all the calls crowd will still find some reason why the stats lie. I know what I see!

Because it happens once and that's all that you remember for years. The worst call of the Texans game was the phantom holding call on Trey Smith that killed a Chiefs drive. But the announcers spent like one replay and 2 seconds on it, and everyone instantly moved on.

The second worst call was probably the no call on Justin Reid getting yanked down on the field goal at the end of the game, that Chenal still blocked. But again, no narrative fun with that. Move on.

It's like suzzer had that post in his drafts ready to go.

Meanwhile, the Jets move on from a DC of one of the top teams in the NFC to a DC from one of the top teams in the NFC.

Let's imagine for a second this was Stroud instead of Mahomes, and this call wasn't made. You know damn well this screenshot would be all over the internet with people freaking out about the no call.

That's the world we live in.

Anderson lowered his helmet and made forcible contact. By the letter and intent of the rule, it's a penalty. But it wasn't as forcible as it originally looked, so everyone freaks out. Even Aikman's first take was "yeah it looked like roughing in real time" then he decided to make a federal case out of it. No way that happens if you reverse the teams. One replay and we move on.

Maybe put a little responsibility on Anderson for lowering his helmet. If he doesn't do that, no foul. But no, it's never on the player for doing dumb **** when it's against the Chiefs.

Instead we get seven replays, throughout the game, and endless histrionics from Troy. Never in the history of the NFL has a bigger deal been made about an iffy call in the first freaking quarter. The Jeff Triplette call that was literally the worst call of all time, and directly cost the Chiefs a playoff game, got talked about much less than this.

Talk about stuff that makes you wonder if the NFL is rigged. Triplette doesn't call that he was down, which was reviewable. But calls forward progress, which is not reviewable, on a play where Mariota wasn't even moving forward. Of course his forward progress is stopped. HE'S NOT MOVING.

Even if we do get all the calls now, we had some payback coming.

I've been doing some arguing on the internet lately. This **** pisses me off.

No team gets the announcers freaking out over every iffy call that goes for them, and completely ignoring bad calls that go against them, like the Chiefs.

Just laugh at the riggage losers and enjoy all those Lombardis suzzer.

Poor Rexy. He was so confident the job was his.

Total Penalties and Total Penalties Yards are meaningless stats for what people are complaining about.

You would need to go through individual games and look at the impact the penalties had on the game. A holding penalty on 3rd and 15 just makes an already difficult 1st down a little more difficult. A PI penalty late in a close game on 4th down makes a huge difference.

You're comparing apple to oranges.

Grats Needle!

I saw it being suggested somewhere that all 15 yard penalties be reviewed automatically.

Don't think it would add a ton of time to the games. We all knew the roughing the passer call on the Texans was wrong before the next play was run.

Wonder what coach(es) the Jags missed out on legitimately because they didn't fire Baalke.