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Cool. Didn’t say it was necessarily negative. I said it’s not something that NFL QBs just “tend” to have, anymore than NFL QBs “tend” to be 220lbs+. It can be a negative, but doesn’t have to be. Playing in a gimmicky offense can be a negative, but doesn’t have to be. Size, arm strength, running ability - things that can be negatives, that don’t have to be. Depends on the player. Acting like it’s the NFL norm for guys to be playing on loaded college offenses is copium, though.

It was not really fun in my experience driving in from my hotel to go on that stadium tour. Instead of going to see the Steelers play here in Las Vegas this year, I'm considering a trip in to Pittsburgh to get "cheap" tickets and get a home game experience but tbh the logistics of it in my head give me pause. Ive looked up hotel rooms in the past for off days and they weren't exactly cheap, surprisingly high tbh. Comparatively, I stayed just up the street from Radio City Music Hall in NYC at the Hilton and just around the corner from the draft in Chicago and the pricing was very decent compared to those Pittsburgh downtown inquiries in the past. And Boston is a nightmare. I used to have to go through Boston back 97-98' when they were building that underground road.

Perhaps. So kinda of passive aggressive way to demand more money? I'm ok with that. I don't see it as disruptive to the team. While I don't think he's worth it, his play this year just might get him $10m next year from another team. Which, not to beat a dead horse, is why I would have picked up his 5th year option.

I was just thinking about goalies ( I hope it’s not Markstrom 🤐) can someone smarten me up … Why wouldn’t teams trade like pick 10 for a very good to elite goalie? And why is goalie pay on the lower end with teams mostly reluctant to. im comparing them to pitchers because i think they’re similar. Pitchers get paid as much as position players. They play much less than positional players , and goalies. It is not as common volatile as goalie, but I’m also talking about the above average/elite guys with a history of success. It’s just odd to me. Like a lot of people say they wouldn’t trade pick 10 for a goalie like Saros . In baseball a team that’s ready to contend would easily trade pick 10 in their draft for an elite SP. hell, I’d argue they’d trade pick 10 for a #2-3 guy. I also understand that there’s no cap in baseball, but I’d also argue that with effect position players more so. Main point: having an elite goalie can win you series, Cups almost on their own, in yet nobody would want to trade top picks for one and the pay is lower. It can’t all be about volatility of the position

Seems pretty baseless. But what did people think would happen when you started making g promises of millions of dollars to a bunch of spoiled high school kids who almost certainly don't grasp that money and millions isn't Madden Franchise mode with the salary cap turned off? I think the claim is lacking in merit, but ya know, I hope he wins. Maybe it'll put an early end to the whole NIL debacle of bored used car salesmen throwing obscene amounts of money at kids to come to their backwater alma maters and do some commercials for them. Everything about how NIL has been handled has been pretty disastrous, imo, and will eventually get worse and worse. I'm waiting for the day some poor kid naively enters a contract for millions with some scheister booster and his logo-monogrammed Bermuda hat at the country club, overlooks that his contract is contingent on winning a Heisman and National Championship, with the funds as an advance, spends the money as kids tend to do (regardless of what it's on) and winds up in a bind when he ends up just not being as good at football as he thought. I played with a guy once back about 18 years ago now (ooooh man time flies). He played QB in little league, QB amd LB in high school. He was the local star and his family had a few minor connections (dad was chummy with some folks at the state school's athletic department, etc). Kid was a slam dunk for a scholarship offer (and got it as a 4 star). For high school, especially, he was good. He deserved the opportunity. He also pissed and moaned about the need to pay players. I remember him saying he should get paid because he's going to bring them a national championship. He was confident, and good for him. But I remember his "guarantee". I thought "Dude, you've never played against anyone that lives more than 50 miles away from you....". But his guarantee went a step further, and he cockily proclaimed he'd "bet with them on it". Them being the school he wanted to pay him. Well...I liked the guy. We were friendly and I don't consider him a bad dude at all. I wouldn't even call him spoiled. Cocky and confident, yes. His old man was the same way. Everyone in his circle was wrapped up in him being a star and the prospects were exciting, from teachers and coaches on to the local barber for goodness sake. So THANK GOD he wasn't able to actually formalize that bet. When he was beaten out by a 2 star nobody had heard of from out of state, the unspoken embarrassment was bad enough for him. When he wound up having to switch positions to make the roster, it was even worse. We went to different colleges, but casually kept in touch and his experience was brutal. He went to an NFL camp as an invite, but his football journey ended there. The personal disappointment was bad. Now add the weight of a ton of money with strings attached to it. And it won't be long before those strings become commonplace if boosters and local yokels spend enough on dud NIL deals because so and so didn't actually pan out with a return on the investment. These guys aren't a charity making sure college players are taken care of. We all know it's done in hopes of a championship, excitement, prestige, and more money for the guys paying these ridiculous deals. My friend was willing to gamble on himself at the time, literally amd figuratively. The problem is that others were more than willing to make him a gamble too.

I would offer him a 3 year 15 million dollar deal with 5 mill guaranteed. I would offer the same to Warren, and I'd be ready to draft Najee's replacement (i.e. a bigger back to pair with Warren) in 2025.

I think this is a reasonable take but they’re getting drafted in a year. Some will get better and others will get worse.

My opinion is that he will ultimately ask the Steelers for more money than they are willing to give him, and I think the being on the forefront of the running backs need more money issue is telling.

Potential Round 2 sleepers: C PJ Hall PG Jamal Shead PG Ajay Mitchell C N'Faly Dante SF Jaxson Robinson

Yeah, and like Peyton Manning this kid might make more money from endorsements and post NFL career stuff then he does actually playing the game. Chicago needs another face of the franchise hero and CW seems uniquely qualified for the role.