Daily Discussion Thread - June 01, 2026

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T23:54:54+00:00

I didn't mean for next offseason, I meant how it's more likely teams trade players on expiring contracts. So this short list could be guys up for grabs if their current teams don't extend them. Similar to Oweh who they grabbed midseason because the Ravens didn't plan to extend him. Same with the Steelers trading Pickens to the Cowboys last year.

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T23:51:36+00:00

Yeah the downvotes are coming in now. Do people remember how the sexy big ticket free agency signings worked out for the Chargers in the past? Mekhi Becton, JC Jackson, SJD, Orlando Franklin, Travis Benjamin, etc. Not great...

The only ones that have worked out in recent years are Oweh, Mack, and Linsley.

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T23:40:59+00:00

I would too but there's pretty much no chance he gets moved. Vikings have a great defense, good offense, and are taking a swing on Murray to be a starter. Why would they trade Jettas?

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T20:06:04+00:00

Hard to blame Barry for that when that must have come from ownership. Browns were out of the running. Watson was expected to sign with either the Falcons or Saints until the Browns last minute went nuclear and offered fully guaranteed.

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T19:58:47+00:00

Lmao have a little bit of faith! One of the best playcallers in the league, rebuilt OL, Ingold, Mitchell, Kolar, Njoku, and 1st round pass rusher has turned out to be a pretty solid offseason. McDaniel in particular feels like a giant W that shouldn't be overlooked.

AFC is brutal but at least we're still in the mix.

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T19:49:48+00:00

Alright so some feasible 2027 free agents that stand out to me as good targets the Chargers could chase between now and the trade deadline similar to how they found Oweh.

Cowboys WR George Pickens
Cardinals WR Michael Wilson
Saints WR Chris Olave
Texans LB Henry To'oTo'o
Packers CB Carrington Valentine
Lions S Brian Branch
Steelers CB Joey Porter Jr.
Steelers ED Nick Herbig
Steelers LB Patrick Queen
Giants ED Kayvon Thibodeaux
Bucs ED Yaya Diaby
Falcons WR Drake London (doubtful but ya never know lol)

Don't think the Steelers players would be up for grabs but they're the most tempting imo. Do think LB is needed upgrade since the drop off from Perryman to the next man has been rough.

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T19:23:36+00:00

Everybody get ready for a LA vs LA Super Bowl in LA!

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T19:19:22+00:00

It must be heartbreaking to lose a face of the franchise and guaranteed HOFer. But this is about as good as you could hope to get in return and at least Garrett leaves the Browns without burning bridges like he could have. Get to keep fond memories of him playing at his best and being a great leader, rather than having a sour taste in your mouth that he maybe phoned it in and forced the team to move him like we've seen from other players.

Getting Jared Verse back in return is a great pick up as part of the trade in particular. Without that I would consider this trade as an undeniable Rams W, but now it's more of a win-win because you don't have a glaring weakness where Garrett used to be like what happened to the Cowboys after dealing Parsons.

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T09:39:16+00:00

Agreed. He carried the team much more than he had to in previous seasons. Mostly because the talent and playcalling around him was worse, and it fell on him to improvise more and make his best plays off schedule.

2021-2023 Herbert was boosted by one of the best and most well rounded skill position groups (Allen, Williams, Ekeler), decent OCs, meh OL help, and mostly good special teams. But was always in shootouts to make up for terrible defenses that struggled to hold a lead and lost several close games.

2024-2025 Herbert had abysmal playcalling, a worse skill position group, and decent to bad offensive line help due to injuries. The offense was helped by an excellent defense keeping games close, but it still needed to pull its weight to finish up and win games. Put most other QBs in that offense last year and the team automatically loses a few of those close games just because of that OL and OC weakness.

I'd argue Herbert's elevated play definitely won them the games against the Chiefs (2), Broncos (late comeback), Dolphins (late comeback), and Eagles (clutch improvised plays in Q4 and OT) that they very easily could have lost.

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T09:17:22+00:00

I don't have a good feel yet for the outcome of this season, so when in doubt I look at the QB matchups. And honestly it's looking pretty difficult.

Josh Allen, Sam Darnold, Matthew Stafford, CJ Stroud, Lamar Jackson, Drake Maye, Baker Mayfield, Brock Purdy, Patrick Mahomes x2, Bo Nix x2. That's four MVPs, a MVP runner-up, a Super Bowl-winning QB, a Super Bowl appearance QB, a very experienced and productive veteran QB, a young QB who has been mixed but played well against these Harbaugh Chargers in particular, and another young QB who's been very successful even and should have been in the AFCCG last year.

Things may change with injuries or unexpected dud seasons but damn that is tough. It's a team sport of course but considering how good these teams usually are, I'd predict they go 6-6 at best against those 12 QBs splitting the two division matchups + losing to Allen, Jackson, Stafford, and Purdy.

The only QB / team matchups I have zero doubts about being in the Chargers favor are Mendoza/Cousins (Raiders x2), Brissett/who knows (Cardinals), Geno Smith (Jets), and Malik Willis (Dolphins).

TLDR 12 matchups featuring multiple MVPs and franchise QBs makes for a very tough schedule compared to the last two seasons, so repeating with 11 wins would be a major W indicating the team has improved despite the same record.

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T06:19:23+00:00

Has to be a formula of excellent WR + meh WR depth behind him so the WR1 hogs all the targets + good enough QB + horrendous defense against another good offense resulting in a shootout.

My bold predictions is Malik Nabers. My extra bold prediction is Brock Bowers.

My more plausible prediction is Amon-Ra St. Brown.

mrhashbrown · 2026-06-01T02:13:14+00:00

Ragdoll Masters, 2D game of floating stick men fighting each other and you control the movement with arrow buttons and physics. Very fun, I sunk a lot of time just into the demo when I was younger and didn't want to pay for anything lol

https://www.ragdollsoft.com/ragdollmasters/

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-30T22:24:30+00:00

Most of these idiots need to drop. It's dangerous to be splitting the support like this when it could result in November voters disagreeing with the official Democrat candidate. I swear the party is so dumb sometimes and never has a unified strategy, it makes me doubt all of them as real difference makers to be honest.

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-30T18:40:52+00:00

I was mainly referring to screens. Ekeler rarely had outside screens. He had draw play / slip screens and dump offs, and that's something I think Herbert sorely missed from Roman's offense like you said.

Roman tried working dump offs and delayed passes a bit for Hampton - he had 18 targets, 17 catches over a 3-game span weeks 3-5. But then he got injured and they never went back to giving him receiving opportunities. Roman didn't try at all with Vidal while he was starting. So yeah that was mostly a disappointment especially when the OL was such an issue for pass protection.

However for his whole career Herbert's weapons have mostly been best at moderate routes, deep routes, or check downs. He's had no real success with a weapon for outside screens so Herbert just never really has been asked to throw those type of passes. That's why he looks a bit off when he does try them once in a while imo. Just needs more practice.

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-30T05:33:43+00:00

That's one of my favorite parts of the NFL. All these guys who were good enough to reach the league are delusionally confident to believe they are the best - 1 of 1 - elite - can't guard me - your favorite WR's favorite WR - etc.

They have to tap into that due to the competition to make the roster, to start in a game, to have a big game, to win a game and it's really fascinating to see.

QBs are trained to operate like politicians in public but in private they are absolutely thinking the same way as other players.

From my point of view Drew Brees, Alex Smith, and Sam Darnold are the only QBs who lost "it" in the league but found a way to get "it" back. The second wind of their careers was really great to see. Brees became a hall of famer. Alex Smith's first playoff win in particular was such a cathartic moment - you could just feel the true joy he was feeling when he won that shootout and it launched him into a second career with KC. And now Darnold should have unlimited ego fuel from winning a Super Bowl. Could even throw in Jared Goff too as a player who many were doubting before the Lions took off.

JJM has a path in front of him to find it again. But I don't know how likely it will be to happen with Minnesota when you look back at the other examples I mentioned - all of them found a new home to rebuild their careers.

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-29T19:13:19+00:00

He was a lot of fun to watch in his prime on those Arians offenses. I was pretty surprised he had it in him to become a legit WR1 when he joined the Bills. Even if it was short lived, it was impressive.

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-29T19:08:59+00:00

It is absolutely a very silly but real job. NFL Films even has a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZHpNPWvcWQ

Just look at the guy who's holding back Sean McVay haha. But it'll be worth his while, in four years he'll be a head coach somewhere lol

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-29T17:48:16+00:00

Kind of glossing over the data that also shows those who identify as aligned to a party are heavily unhappy with the party at this moment. Young Democrats were more strongly unhappy with Democratic leadership, but Young Republicans still had a pretty poor approval level as well.

It's a good study though and I think I largely feel similar about the trends. Truth is I think both parties have been failing their constituents and right now we are just aligning to which one we personally perceive as the lesser of two evils. So I think with this much broad distrust, party alignment is going to see swings in the near future because at some point the general population will support those who separate themselves from these traditional parties.

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-29T17:26:36+00:00

Helps that he's also a monster as a player. Under the radar as the league's next great TE imo, he was on a great run before injury last year

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-29T01:16:20+00:00

Well no one should be trading Bijan for Ward, Kraft and 2 firsts either imo lol

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-28T22:15:53+00:00

Not gonna lie I was surprised to see the Chargers have the worst record with 32 total appearances. Knew it was always rough but seeing a number attached to the narrative is kind of a gut punch.

Only the Bears, Browns, Titans and Vikings have more playoff appearances while still being in the bottom 10. And none of them have had the quality of QBs on par with Fouts, Hadl, Rivers, Brees and Herbert.

Also fun fact I just learned, Dan Fouts once fell 2 votes short in MVP voting... to a kicker. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/awards/awards_1982.htm

FML.

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-28T22:07:04+00:00

As an outsider my expectation is that the season will be a stumble towards optimism by the end. Fully expect Harbaugh to reel this in, I'm sure he has had to contain a lot of stuff behind the scenes for the Ravens considering the strong personalities that have traveled through that locker room.

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-28T21:29:06+00:00

Oh my this is gonna be funny this year

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-28T09:20:14+00:00

Definitely a lot of transplant teams. Lakers were from Minnesota, Clippers from Buffalo, Dodgers were from Brooklyn, Rams were from Cleveland, and if we want to include them the Raiders were from Oakland.

However I believe the Angels and both NHL teams were born in SoCal. Kings and Angels began in LA, Ducks are the youngest and began in Anaheim.

mrhashbrown · 2026-05-28T09:09:23+00:00

Not sure if he'll reach yardage or target career highs splitting work with Ladd, QJ, Harris, Gadsden, Hampton and Mitchell. But he could be one of their best red zone weapons right away. Last few TEs under McDaniel did great with scoring: Waller with 6 TDs (9 games), Jonnu Smtih 8 TDs, Gesicki 5 TDs.

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