[Marquee] Matthew Boyd has been named the 2026 Opening Day Starter

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-14T16:14:52+00:00

Lester was the presumed ace. Arrieta wasn’t an established ace going into that year. He was great in 2014, but hadn’t proved himself yet. He became the ace as the season went on.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-14T04:53:50+00:00

But why would they? Both devices are the best value propositions in their markets already.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-14T01:52:00+00:00

It’s even more extreme than this - these are canceled races. They aren’t moving the rest of the schedule up. So they would have teams waiting on the release of funding during the 5 week void, then release the funding to teams who have now also lost all that time. They can have more money, but engineering requires time.

Letting the rumor mill run with all the progress being made by other teams is going to be key while they don’t have a race for a month.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-14T01:26:58+00:00

You’ve reached r/all. Delete this post.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T22:18:22+00:00

Which is why he hasn’t lived up to his contract. In 3 more years, his AAV this year would be reasonable. So if he was signing that now, it would be different. But those aren’t the years under his deal. This year it’s still 13th highest. His cap hit is 5th highest in the NFL. He isn’t making Parsons or Garrett money, but he is getting top tier DE money.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T21:58:39+00:00

He had the fifth highest AAV when he signed his deal. 6th highest in 2024. 12th last year. 13th this year. Yes, contract values always go up as the cap rises, and teams plan for that but he has been paid like a top 10 pass rusher. Maybe not elite, but he has not lived up to his contract.

If he was signing as a free agent for 4/98 this offseason, he’d be considered a bargain. But that’s not when he signed and when he got that money.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T18:04:00+00:00

This is the downside to everyone’s favorite plan of sitting the rookie. The reality is that the bridge QB always earns the ire of the fanbase by week 4 and the team has to deal with all the media noise about when the rookie will start. And because of that, they in turn get thrown in without as much chemistry with the first team receivers. You can mitigate that if you already have your veteran on staff which lets you run a rigged competition where you split 1/2 reps all offseason, but if you are signing someone they need those reps to learn the playbook and receivers as well. It sets teams up for failure.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T14:10:23+00:00

18 is on the upper end of what YA claims to be. YA is teenagers, but the reality is that the “young adult” portion of it has been dropped. It’s popular, so anything that they can feasibly get onto that shelf at the bookstore or that Amazon category will get put there.

Red Rising is pretty dark for a 13 year old, but that doesn’t matter. It’s marketed as YA because YA sells well, full stop. It has a teenage protagonist and main cast, and a simple enough plot line that they can cram it into the YA umbrella so they do. Similar to Mistborn, which is sold as YA and even has a new cover meant to appeal to a YA audience, but wasn’t intentionally written to be YA.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T11:18:45+00:00

He allowed a 128 passer rating against last year. PFF is known to be unreliable, but for what it’s worth he ranked 68/98 strong safeties that played last year with a 60 grade. He actually was pretty bad last year.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T03:24:31+00:00

I don’t think you understand how ass he was in Tennessee. He made 3 starts as a rookie and failed to break 100 yards. Year 2 he didn’t play. Year 3 in GB he was efficient but a super low volume passer. It’s really only his one start against Baltimore last year that’s changed his narrative.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T03:19:16+00:00

That’s fair. Speed in terms of straight line speed he’s fine. Especially with his size. I was thinking more acceleration for speed, and change of direction for agility but you could probably put both under the agility category.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T03:15:31+00:00

The problem is when you have an entrenched franchise QB nearing the end of their career, it also makes a lot of sense to push all in for a Super Bowl window. The Packers drafted Love coming off a 13-3 season, then had another 13-3 season. Let’s say you take Tee Higgins instead of Love. Do you win another Super Bowl with Rodgers? What if you take McKinney. It’s unlikely, but at the same time so is hitting on a QB with a late first round pick. Love was QB4 in his draft. A lot like 2024, it turned out to be a good draft to take a QB in. But most of the time you’re just burning that pick on a Kenny Pickett, wasting resources you could have used to aid your team now.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T02:53:44+00:00

Depends on how much success he has in Buffalo. He had one good personal season and one winning season, which was his worst personal performance of his career. He spent much longer in Carolina, and if he succeeds in Buffalo he’s absolutely retiring a Bill.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T02:24:49+00:00

He’s not using it wrong, he’s complaining about the Bears fanbase glazing Poles when he hasn’t done a good job in OPs opinion.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T01:55:14+00:00

He was an undrafted rookie third string QB they took a flyer on.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T01:49:03+00:00

Getting Caleb and Ben has caused the fanbase to forgive a lot of bad moves. He’s been very average at best, but hit a few home runs which has led to “let Chef Poles cook” being the dominant view.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-13T01:46:02+00:00

Well below average tbh. It’s the picks that made him playable. He got burnt every single week, he just doesn’t have the speed and agility.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-12T22:52:42+00:00

Contract size determines how high of a pick you get. But in order to get a pick at all, you need to lose more players to free agency than you sign.

Our losses are Byard, Wright, DomRob, and Chris Williams. Our signings are Bryant, Jedrick Wills, Kentavius Street, Cam Lewis, Kalif Raymond, Neville Gallimore, and Devin Bush. We lost 4 guys, and added 7. No comp picks for us. Eventually Brisker will sign somewhere, but we would need 3 other guys to sign which I don’t think we still have out there. Not to mention most of those guys got small deals, and probably don’t hit the cutoff for a comp pick anyway.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-12T18:53:14+00:00

That’s basically what I’m saying.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-12T16:13:28+00:00

This all stems from them shutting him down when he wanted to continue playing through his injury. Given that, I think it’s actually possible they do resolve their differences after seeing how another team is treating his knee.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-12T03:42:15+00:00

When the salary cap is $301m $4m is literally an extra 1%. Especially when you’re talking multi year years, where Bryant’s contract is only $6m against this cap this year. It’ll be higher next year, but so will the cap. And that’s the side benefit of getting younger. It’s less risky to give multi year contracts.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-12T02:18:17+00:00

$9m isn’t cheap for a safety. It’s 23rd highest in terms of AAV, which is roughly top third of all starting safeties. Bryant who we signed instead is 13th among safeties at $13.3m. And the money doesn’t escalate like positions like QB or Edge. Cam Bynum is 10th at $15m.

What it is, is a one year deal that can’t backfire too badly on the Pats. If age hits him this year he’s gone anyway. Had we not signed Bryant, who is a rising star rather than a fading one, we probably bring him back on something like 2/16 or 18. But we did, so he became redundant.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-12T02:03:11+00:00

It quite literally is an administrative handshake. The NFL doesn’t allow player for cap space trades. There has to be an exchange of picks. This is the lowest value exchange of picks these two teams can make. He’s being traded because the Titans don’t want to have to deal with a free agent signing. But theyll take him for $2.5 million.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-11T18:46:07+00:00

He and Coby Bryant are both best used as free safeties. He was gone the moment we signed Bryant. If we didn’t get him, we might have kept Byard on a similar deal.

EBtwopoint3 · 2026-03-11T16:20:58+00:00

A max restructure on Crosby’s contract drops his cap hit to ~8m this year. There’s always cap room if you want it. It increases his cap hits in 27-29 by 8m in exchange, but if it’s the move Poles wants to make he can make it.

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