2025 NFL Off Season Thread
Key Dates
February
February 18 – The first day clubs can designate franchise or transition players.
February 24-March 3 –
Purdy Tets
Penix Envy
And the one subprime named after a dog gets cut from the Bucs for being a ****ing idiot
And sure durr’s best case is QB4
Good work, subprime
Pretty funny that they're getting cajoled into keeping 4 QBs because they don't have the balls to cut Shady Durr. At least that's what it's looking like.
The Browns stay the Browns.
Sure. $100 is my max. We need to be able to cancel anytime prior to the start of the season also, in the event of a catastrophic injury for either team.
Edit: Don't worry soreredeyes, I've still got plenty for you too if you want to fire back up.
All good on the injury front here, good luck.
speaking of bets
feeling good about my LAR MIA bet (as long as Stafflah's body holds up)
at least i got my money in good
The Eagles are waiving Kenyon Green. Well, that CJGJ trade kind of sucked.
speaking of betsfeeling good about my LAR MIA bet (as long as Stafflah's body holds up)at least i got my money in good
Average is 8.49375 wins per team. Wonder who is getting more or less credit due to rounding/trailing numbers.
Patriots being that high is pretty surprising. Seahawks I can understand why a model would like them because it really doesn't take into account how bad Darnold is with a bad o-line. It's gotta just be looking at his stats last year along with the Seahawks performance.
speaking of betsfeeling good about my LAR MIA bet (as long as Stafflah's body holds up)at least i got my money in good
Assuming you have a sub...can you post a screenshot of last year's projections?
there's no clean graphic
did you have a team(s) in mind?
SF 11.4
KC 1.3
DET 10.5
BAL 10.2
CIN 10.2
PHI 10.2
DAL 10
GB 9.8
BUF 9.7
NYJ 9.6 LOL
MIA 9.5
ATL 9.4
HOU 9.0
speaking of betsfeeling good about my LAR MIA bet (as long as Stafflah's body holds up)at least i got my money in good
What caught my eye was entire NFCW projected to be .500 or better.
Has only happened twice in the last 15 years.
2023 AFCN
2022 NFCE (Giants and Commanders tied, giving Commanders an 8-8-1 record)
I’ll take the under on all except the 9ers. Good chance at least 2/3 bound to miss it.
not sure I like either of the deals today for the teams.
We don't have the guaranteed $$ for Terry McLaurin but 3-96 feels toppy. Guessing it's got 60ish guaranteed? Wash didn't have much leverage I guess, but they could surely have done this extension for way cheaper earlier in the offseason
Then the Bengals giving a large pay rise but not getting any additional team control seems not ideal. I mean, I guess they can franchise him for 2026 for $36m and perhaps they're thinking about a comp pick if they don't and he signs a huge deal but -it always felt like they could have comproomised on a 2-65 kind of extension to keep him there and happy for 3 years given his production
Does waiting ever work out for the team? They usually end up caving and paying more, they lose future leverage or they trade the player away for less than market.
Or you’re just down an important player when you can afford it, even if you pay them a little more than they’re worth.
And usually the relationship is somewhat soured permanently for future negotiations.
if you are going to pay them in the end, sooner is magnatitudes better than later.
Does waiting ever work out for the team? They usually end up caving and paying more, they lose future leverage or they trade the player away for less than market.
Or you’re just down an important player when you can afford it, even if you pay them a little more than they’re worth.
And usually the relationship is somewhat soured permanently for future negotiations.
well, I mean there have definitely been some early extensions where the teams could have waited and would have wished they did
Giants should have waited on Daniel Jones. I'm sure the Eagles would rather have waited on Carson Wentz. Rams have done it a few times - Todd Gurley, Tavon Austin. Percy Harvin. Cowboys with Jaylon Smith (which was crazy dumb at the time) and Trevon Diggs, which didn't seem bad at the time
but to your point, it feels that waiting is only really viable if it means your player's performance falls off or they get injured. in which case, you're kind of betting against the player being the type of player you want to extend
Raiders trading a 5th for Kenny Pickett!
Ya, your last paragraph is mostly my point. Paying early won’t be a 100% win rate, but I feel like it’ll work out way more often than not. Especially since most of these players asking for new deals are great to elite.
Meanwhile, Pickett has now been traded 3x.
Steelers to Eagles in Mar, 24: Pickett + 4 for a 3 and two 7s.
Eagles to Browns in Mar, 25: Pickett for DTR and a 5.
Now Browns to Raiders for a 5.
Where does Zeke Elliot fall on the worst early signings in NFL history?
so that list made me wonder which NFL player has had the most draft capital spent on them over their career?
not entirely sure of the answer but the two mins research I did took me to Eric Dickerson. Not only was he taken with the 2nd pick in the draft but the Colts traded 3 1st rounders, 3 2nd rounders AND Greg Bell (a 1st rd RB) and Owen Gill (a 2nd rd RB).
Mind boggling trade for an RB, particularly by today's standard - Dickerson was 27 and in his 5th season at the time...an age now, were teams would baulk at extending an RB, let alone mortgaging their future
