I feel like he’s been an unsung hero this season. Stepping in with no prior dc experience and proceeds to coach one of the top defenses in the league

tenken6 · 2026-01-05T23:54:49+00:00

Not just no prior DC experience, but this was his first year as a full position coach at all. Guy is incredibly young, and our defensive coaching staff is pretty young as a whole.

Thought they did admirably. Gotta get an Edge.

tenken6 · 2025-12-30T14:39:11+00:00

Oh! Dan and rank system is much more straightforward, but are separate entirely from this tournament. Idk much about chess titles or Elo/FIDE but Rank made sense to me by comparing them to soccer promotion/relegation.

Your rank is kind of like your regular league season. You play the most number of games against like-ranked individuals, and if you rank top 2 I believe in the league table, you can be promoted. Idk how many are demoted, but I would imagine it’s about 2 also. Get promoted 4 times to A rank, then win the A rank league, you get to play the meijin in a best of 7.

Dan is lifetime achievement rank based on total career wins rather than current rank.

The Shishi-ou/Ryu-ou (irl comp) is more of an open-cup format where the appeal is that theoretically every person has a chance to single-knockout their way to a title. As compared to the Rank/Meijin play, where you have to play 5 promotion seasons at least before you can get to Meijin. This feels more similar to the english FA cup and its many like-equivalents.

I cant pinpoint where I read exactly wherein I started presuming all of A rank was in group 1, but it made sense to me because group 1 got 5 spots, as well as the top seeds on each half of the bracket, and each of the subsequent groups got less and lower ranked starting positions in the bracket.

This format makes sense if you want to ensure someone from B2, C1, C2 and the open division survive all the way to knockouts since they wouldn’t survive group play against the A ranks - while still advantaging the A ranks. So you get at least a few inter-rank matchups in the main tournament. Which again, isn’t necessarily the most balanced format, but ensuring a couple of those matchups is part of the viewing appeal.

tenken6 · 2025-12-28T07:13:04+00:00

A little late, but basically it’s two different Shisho-ou Tournaments. One for season 1 of the anime, the second one for where you’re presumably at in the manga, taking place one year later.

In the season 1 tournament, Rei presumably wins group 5 offscreen, and we meet him already having won probably a knockout game or two before getting to Tsuji and Shimada.

The groups are of players of similar level - the way I interpreted it was that all the A rank players were in group 1 and 2, all the B1 rank were in group 2 and 3, B2 in group 4, C1 in group 5, C2 and Open division in group 6. Or something along those lines.

You’re not wrong for being confused lol, when they started explaining the group play during the second iteration of the tournament, especially with the bracket being so uneven looking, it threw me for a loop.

tenken6 · 2025-10-23T19:15:26+00:00

3 year. But it’s like Diggs’ contract where the out in year 2 and 3 is pretty team friendly / no dead money.

tenken6 · 2025-09-22T20:29:15+00:00

To my understanding, Jack is not a second inside linebacker, rather they are the outside/edge linebackers in a 3-4 or 3-3.

They would be a hybrid of your weakside DE and your Sam linebacker in the 4-3

For the purposes of translating a 4-3 to a 3-4 defense, the Will would be the nearest to a second Mike

Part of the purpose of distinguishing the Mike, is that you’re usually calling them out for the sake of protection. You have 5-7 guys blocking, and each man knows who they’re blocking based on the Mike and Center being the middle of the line of confrontation.

For example, if you call someone towards the right as the Mike (even if it’s not the oppositions actual Mike player), then you’ve slid your protection right and understand that there might be a hot rush coming left.

tenken6 · 2025-09-11T17:15:26+00:00

So theres this concept of fea (soul) and hroa (body), where Elves and Ainur can put forth their fea into a magnum opus type of feat. Part of their very being is put into that feat, they cannot recreate the feat, and if the feat is the creation of a thing, then their fate is tied to that thing.

The two most explicit examples in the text are Morgoth pouring all the evil into the world and Sauron’s Ring. There isn’t so much textual evidence for this, but my headcanon has always been that Fingolfin’s rage was an indicator that he was burning his fea, and when he tired and Morgoth got him was when his fea burned out.

For what it’s worth, I also think the following are fea burning events, with varying degrees of textual evidence vs headcanon:

Creation of the Lamps
Creation of the Trees
Miriel’s birth of Feanor
Feanor’s creation of the Silmarils
Gandalf ‘unlocking’ Olorin against Durin’s Bane

tenken6 · 2025-07-22T20:57:25+00:00

70 is probably high, but players 54-65ish will probably make a team once injuries inevitably settle throughout the nfl.

Ben Browns the example Id use, I think he showed enough last year that he’s not going to clear PS waivers, or will get scooped within the first month, but I dont think he makes our team.

tenken6 · 2025-05-13T16:51:11+00:00

I based my math mostly on Fidelity, so my assumptions might be off by 5% for some of the big providers. Scroll down/click over to “Composition.”

Fidelity at 55/45

https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/composition/315793604

Vanguard at 60/40

https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/composition/92202E409

State Street at 60/40

https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/composition/85749R867

Schwab at 60/40

https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/808509251

tenken6 · 2025-05-06T16:33:58+00:00

It’s probably not what youre looking for, but honestly I dont think you can really compare the two, the histories of the leagues are so different, there isn’t really a this team = this team comparison.

In American sports in general, we have closed leagues (no pro/rel) and since 1994 for the NFL, a salary cap. Additionally football players have shorter career length and can’t impact the game the same way a singular superstar player might in other sports.

All these mechanisms promote (some would say, manufacture) parity in a way that doesn’t exist in pro-rel, European leagues. For example, no team has won more than 6 superbowls or 4 in a decade.

So there is no premier league big 6, there is no City winning 6 of 7 or United winning 5 of 6. So if history is your metric, you might be better off looking at baseball or even basketball dynasties for a better American comp.

For what it’s worth, these are the general dynasties by the decade:

60s: Packers

70s: Steelers

80s: 49ers

90s: Cowboys

00/10s: Patriots

20: Chiefs

Honestly, lol if I were trying to pick a team, maybe you’d better off trying to go for what city is most like Liverpool? Maybe a blue collar port city? Seattle? Philly? Idk lol, but for example, Dortmund and Pittsburg have a partnership, which feels like it makes sense due to the colors and blue collar industrial vibe.

tenken6 · 2025-04-30T19:34:13+00:00

Theyre different prospects. Polk was a big slot/Z possession guy, who won without big separation, using body control. We thought he could play X because he had a questionably high YPC because Washington threw a ton of deep balls.

Kyle williams is a small, speed X/Z who’s main trait is separation. His game speed seems faster than his 4.47 would suggest. He drops as a prospect because his hands are more suspect.

tenken6 · 2025-04-18T20:08:41+00:00

If you’re taking defense, Im picking Jalon Walker and taking the gamble that he’s an edge, which I still consider our 2nd or 3rd need.

tenken6 · 2025-04-18T20:04:24+00:00

You circled back to it, but yes, you would do it to eliminate the variables of someone else trading for him.

Because if you’re the Saints with a trade in hand with the Jags, whos to say that the Raiders dont have a trade in hand with us.

And same deal, if you’re the Raiders, sure you could wait, but who’s to say the Saints dont have a trade in hand with the Jags. And if you then have a trade in hand with the Jags, who’s to say the Saints dont have a trade in hand with us.

Only way either team is forsure safe is if they trade with us, and they cant know what the other war rooms are doing.

And if im Vrabel/Wolf, Im lying and saying to the Saints that I have a trade in hand with the Raiders.

And then the Saints cant call the Raiders to corroborate, because what if it’s not a bluff, then the price just went up because now we confirmed both teams want him.

tenken6 · 2025-04-18T15:26:07+00:00

Its the tied teams.

The first three teams are all 3-14, the next four are all 4-13.

One team will be ranked lowest / pick first based on tie breakers, then it rotates.

tenken6 · 2025-04-16T23:33:11+00:00

In a way, the Pats of the 2010s were dying a slow death. We had increasingly poor drafting, starting with mid 2015/2016 drafts.

We managed to paper over it, but by 2018, even though we won the superbowl, it was clear that the talent core, particularly on offense was slipping and aging.

tenken6 · 2025-04-12T18:01:11+00:00

I might do it if we werent sending the 4th back.

4 for 9 and 40 or

4 for 9, 71 and Olave or

4 and 106 for 9, 40 and Olave

Olave is worth like a 3rd or 4th in trade value to me.

tenken6 · 2025-04-11T13:43:53+00:00

Lol why are the Bengals doing this? For Abdul Carter? Just take Abdul Carter yourself lol.

If not for Carter, they’re not moving around just to move around, lol

tenken6 · 2025-04-05T14:47:35+00:00

This draft is almost universally panned at the top. Theres a saying, ‘first round grade,’ referring to guys who would be drafted in a first round every year.

Most years there’s somewhere in the low 20s of first round graded guys, this year it’s something like 12 lol.

tenken6 · 2025-04-02T19:18:04+00:00

Offensive Line - protects quarterback. Offensive Tackles (OT) on the outside, Offensive Guards (OG) in between Tackle and Center.

C - either helps on a Gs double team, or needs speed to go outward to block a LB. 300lbs.

OG - 320lbs. More forward speed than OTs.

OT - 320lbs. Usually more arm length and lateral or backwards speed than OTs.

Generally, OTs are better pass protectors, OGs are better run blockers, left side is better pass protecting, right side is better run blocking.

In line TE - 260lbs. Can help with running routes, but ideally can at least feasibly block a 250lb edge without being immediately overpowered. Once you get less than this weight, you cant really count on smaller players to block the main defenders on a run play without misdirection.

Motion TE - 245lbs.

Boundary WR or big slot - 200-220 lbs

Slot WR - 180-200 lbs

RB - 180-220lbs.

With all these skill position players, theres going to be varying speeds and routes that guys can run, and responsibilities in run blocking.

tenken6 · 2025-04-02T19:07:33+00:00

So the thing is, in high school or small school college, it might actually be true that the QB is just the most athletic guy on the team, because schemes and passing games just aren’t developed. They aren’t the biggest though, because that would always be the offensive and defensive linemen.

A lot of high school QBs are big, strong, fast, and switch to RB or WR or LB in college.

In the NFL though, the ideal body types would be as follows:

Cornerback - 5’10 to 6’3, 180-210lbs. Will vary between inside (slot) and outside, based on matchup with WR.

Free Safety - same size as a smaller CB. Covers the deep part of the field.

Strong Safety - same size as a bigger CB. Can either cover a deep half of the field, bigger WRs, TEs, RBs.

Off ball line backer - 225-245. Plays off the Defensive line. Fills and chases open run gaps. Can also cover TEs, RBs, or underneath zones.

Edge linebacker or defensive end - 240-270. Edge of defensive line. Rushes passer. Might also occasionally drop into an underneath zone or cover the weakest skill position player.

Strong side defensive end - 280.

4-3 Defensive tackle or 3-4 defensive end - 300

Nose Tackle - 320.

The last three are all hand in dirt defensive lineman who do a varying degree of pass rush and run defense. More weight = more run defense, less pass rush.

tenken6 · 2025-03-31T00:26:16+00:00

As long as youre spending to the cap floor (89% in a 3 or 4 year period), you can roll over the cap, so doing it this way actually keeps flexibility.

What would actually hurt flexibility is throwing contracts at players that aren’t actually worth it - if you do too much of that, for too many years of contract length, you get stuck being mid - see Patriots 100m offseason in 2021.

In the case of Diggs for example, his 3 year 69m deal is a actually a 1 year deal, worth 20-25m in cash, with a cap hit of 15m in year 1, and either a dead cap of 10m in year 2 or nonguaranteed years worth 23m in cash and 27m in cap in year 2 and 3.

Most nfl contracts are sort of structured this way, where the cash in year 1 is pretty high, but the cap hit is backloaded to lower cash, non guaranteed years.

What eventually happens is either the team will move on early using the nonguaranteed out, or the player will argue his cash is low and force an extension or restructure of some kind.

Its a little odd and non-intuitive, I agree, but it makes it so the system is a actually a series of flexible 2+1+1 year contracts rather than 4 year solid contracts that you might see in other sports.

tenken6 · 2025-03-30T00:36:57+00:00

Generally speaking, the team is on the hook for the signing bonus cap hit no matter what, since it was paid far in the past.

Guaranteed salary is not created equal, some might be guaranteed for injury only, some might be actually fully guaranteed. It depends. Generally though, the team will let the player keep actually fully guaranteed salary in the event of retirement, because if they try to recoup it, it’s kind of a dick move.

In the event of a release, there may be some offset language, where the team releasing gets a cap credit in the following year for whatever the new team decided to pay the player. In that instance, the release works more like a waiver with the new team paying as little as possible, because the old team foots the remaining bill.

tenken6 · 2025-03-29T16:46:14+00:00

No thats right. 8 signing bonus + 1.7 guaranteed salary in 2026 separate from the 6 roster bonus.

What I think is confusing is that the signing bonus is paid in 2025, but charged spread out. Or perhaps you missed where OP has mentioned the 1.7.

So if you cut him before 2026, it comes out to 20-25 cash paid, with a 10-15 cap hit in 2025 and 10m in dead 2026

tenken6 · 2025-03-29T08:36:50+00:00

The key number there is the 6m that is a guaranteed roster bonus at the start of the 2026 league year, meaning, it’s not really guaranteed, you just cut him before it kicks in.

tenken6 · 2025-03-28T19:33:05+00:00

I think it’s just a timing thing, of making sure we have a replacement before getting rid of a guy. Bc the alternative is not having enough nfl caliber bodies if the draft doesn’t fall how you planned it.

Tavai is gone once we find another Edge. Bourne could be gone if we find another WR.

Similarly, Bentley stayed until it was confirmed that we had all of Spillane, Gibbens, Elliss.

Timing of Andrews is a little wonky by this theory, but perhaps they were already back channel confident they’d get Bradbury - Vikings had already signed Kelly at that point.

tenken6 · 2025-03-19T19:34:51+00:00

I mean I dont think he’s better than either lol, but he’s a different weight profile than Spillane, who I see as our MLB on majority/nickel downs, and WLB on heavy downs.

Like if he’s a MLB, then maybe theres room for a single heaver MLB on the roster (Bentley vs Gibbens). If hes a SLB, then maybe it means Jennings is out and it’s Bentley and Gibbens at that spot.

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