(10-16-2019, 01:15 AM)Eric1 Wrote:

(10-16-2019, 12:07 AM)newporttom Wrote: I'm totally fine with this move. I wasn't sure the Jags could get two #1's and they got two #1's and a 4th. Hopefully Rams continue to be mediocre.  I never believed for a second that Ramsey was going to resign here.  At best he was going to hold us ransom for a huge deal to get him to stay and THEN demand a trade.

In the end we used a #1 pick, got 3 years of really good play at minimal salary, and then traded him for two #1's and and a 4th that will also get minimal pay.  Solves some of our future cap issues. Sign Yannick hopefully.

Doesn't solve much when we're eating/paying terrible players like Foles and Norwell a huge amount of $$... etc etc.

Hopefully we'll re-sign Ngakoue, but I don't have much confidence going forward there. They would have got the deal done already, if they really wanted him. Likely another great player we'll lose because of that one old guy...

There's absolutely no excuse, or reason now why this team doesn't beat the Bengals and Jets by at least two scores going forward.. Those two teams are by far some of the worst teams in the league..

The distraction is gone right guys? There's literally no reason to not expect big wins vs two garbage [BLEEP] teams in these next two weeks.. Neither of these next two games should even be close. Easiest wins ever.

While we are stuck with Foles' salary for a couple more years, I truly believe Norwell will be a goner after the season. If we cut him after this season he will have a dead cap number of $9 million, but his actual salary cap figure would be $14.5 million if we keep him in 2020. Cutting him would actually save us $5.5 million and that is pretty significant, especially for a guy who has looked terrible all season. 

As for Ngakoue, I really wanna keep him. I fully expect him to be franchised at season's end. From there, I have no clue what will happen. I guess it all depends on how he finishes this season and plays into the next. 

We better annihilate the Bengals. They are as bad as the Dolphins. The only difference is that the Bengals are actually trying to win. As far as the Jets, I don't know. The Jets I just watched against the Cowboys were not the same sorry team I've seen in 2019. They looked very good against Dallas. Hopefully the bad version returns and we beat them too. 

As far as Ramsey, I'm excited for what we got back in return. When is the last time we've had 2 first round picks in a draft? Now, we get that luxury for the next 2 years! This season, we need to focus on the O-Line, CB, NT, LB and Safety. As for the 2021 draft, that is when I evaluate the QB situation and see where we go from there, but right now, we have Foles under contract and despite a bad game in New Orleans, I've seen enough from Minshew to believe there is something there that we haven't completely tapped into yet. That is why despite who falls, drafting a QB in 2020 is not on my radar at this time. 2020 IMO, should be about improving a bad O-Line, finding Ramsey's replacement and upgrading our run defense.

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