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Quote Originally Posted by rosswin97:
Quote Originally Posted by Raiders22: Very true. Money saved on QB could be used somewhere else. BUT what decent QB would you think they should have gotten? Well Pitt just got two serviceable QB's in Wilson and Fields and from what I looked at for under 5 mil. Fields at like 3.3 mil and Wilson at like 1.1 mil. Thats if Im correct I dont usually follow salaries and caps so really dont know how they work, but why didnt ATL go after one of them at those prices, maybe they did I dont know. Also Falcs have the 8th pick this year so they could have gotten a good QB out of the draft, Penix or Nix may be available, but no theyd rather give 180 mil to a 35 yr old doesnt make any sense. First, I do not like any of the QBs in the draft to be an instant upgrade at all. If they were building a team — okay. |
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@rosswin97 But I have to think of Cousins is recovered and plays solid they make the playoffs this year in that division. |
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Quote Originally Posted by rosswin97:
Quote Originally Posted by Raiders22: @rosswin97 Quote Originally Posted by rosswin97: Yes Cousins is good, just not a guy who's gonna get you over the hump. He needs things to be "perfect" in order to do big things. He's not the X factor a guy who goes out there and gets W's when things don't seem to be in your favor. That kind of money should be for the QB's that are game changers. Cousins is in the Goff, Prescott tier, even Allen and Tua. Guys who even when they are on good teams that are good on both sides of the ball are gonna come up short Good but not great and that's ok, but they pay these guys like they are great when they arn't. The Mahomes and Rodgers type are just few and far between. I mostly agree. But as you pointed out how they did in one-score games. A good QB helps in the league nowadays when the NFL is such a tight league and so many games come down to one score, or the last possession. I just cannot blame a team that thinks they need a good QB to ‘get over the hump’ for getting the best QB available—even if they have to pay. I am not so sure that MINN fit that category at the time. But for sure Cousins did better than anyone else they could have gotten at the time. I am not sure DEN was at that point when they got Wilson. I think TB was at the time. I do not think it mattered with the Rams either way. NO was not. I think NYJ were at that point with their defense and that division. I think ATL might be just because of the division. But he had to heal and every other part of the ATL team has to be as good as they were last year or better. The only two QBs in the last several years that I would consider an upgrade to get a team over the hump would be Brady and Mahomes. Maybe Rodgers and possibly Burrow. The rest of them are simply what you hope is an upgrade. There is NO question Cousins is an instant upgrade. But it will be interesting in that division to see if he is one to get them over the hump. The only problem is every team’s ‘hump’ is NOT the same. For example, just making the playoffs —period — is a HUGE hump for most teams — NOT winning a playoff game. THAT was the case for MIN and is the case for ATL. For SF the hump is to WIN the SB. The hump for KC is to win the SB this year. The hump for some teams is to even have a winning season. I say all of that to say this: IF ATL or MIN were legitimate contenders I think Cousins could get them over the hump. But just because a team makes a big-name signing at QB does not mean what they think their ‘hump’ is — is very realistic.What would you project Falcs regular season to look like, 13-4, 12-5, 11-6. Surely playoffs right? Maayyybbbeee 11-6 with this past year’s play. For sure, win the division — but most likely lose in the first round. |
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Quote Originally Posted by rosswin97:
Falcs have a good enough team that they didnt need to pay 40+ mil for a qb. They could have gotten a decent qb pay for much less a low turnover guy something a little more than a game manager. Cousins has again inherited tons of talent will put up numbers by default that will make him seem better than he is. Falcs had the 11th ranked defense last year thats pretty good couple that with good offensive talent and you should be able to make some noise. They are just young. At season's end PFF had Falcs offensive line ranked #4 so things should look pretty good going into next season. The pieces are there. On paper with good young offensive talent and a better than middle of the pack defense a good QB should be able to come in and make playoffs no doubt barring key injuries. What I expect to happen is Cousins' numbers will look good because that's what he does and he does it playing within himself like Stafford's numbers looked in Detroit or Hebert's in San Diego, but they don't translate into more wins. Cousins could have better numbers than Mahomes difference is he could finish 9-8 or 10-7 while Mahomes could win another chip. Very true. Money saved on QB could be used somewhere else. |
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@rosswin97
Quote Originally Posted by rosswin97:
Yes Cousins is good, just not a guy who's gonna get you over the hump. He needs things to be "perfect" in order to do big things. He's not the X factor a guy who goes out there and gets W's when things don't seem to be in your favor. That kind of money should be for the QB's that are game changers. Cousins is in the Goff, Prescott tier, even Allen and Tua. Guys who even when they are on good teams that are good on both sides of the ball are gonna come up short Good but not great and that's ok, but they pay these guys like they are great when they arn't. The Mahomes and Rodgers type are just few and far between. I mostly agree. But as you pointed out how they did in one-score games. A good QB helps in the league nowadays when the NFL is such a tight league and so many games come down to one score, or the last possession. I say all of that to say this: IF ATL or MIN were legitimate contenders I think Cousins could get them over the hump. But just because a team makes a big-name signing at QB does not mean what they think their ‘hump’ is — is very realistic. |
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Quote Originally Posted by AnthonyStarks: I thought teams had w-L records not qbs if you can’t see his talent and recognize he has been in bad situations you are blind QB are like pitchers in MLB — the only position where they track W/L records because they are so critical. The NFL is the most QB-reliant that it ever has been — it can be argued W/L are even more determined by the QB. |
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Officials in Chicago are sounding alarms over the third case of measles found in the child of an illegal alien staying at one of the city’s migrant shelters. This comes as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has responded to more than eight total cases involving illegal immigrants in the city. All but one of the individuals diagnosed with measles were described as being connected to the migrant shelter, or Chicago’s “new arrivals mission.” Officials said that one of the immigrant children had to be hospitalized but is now in “good condition.” Illegal immigrant children who attend Chicago public schools are usually not vaccinated against the highly contagious virus. The first case was reported weeks ago, making it the first case of the disease reported in the city since 2019. The other three cases were just the tipping point, with several more cases to be found in both children and adults at the migrant shelters.
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New Report Reveals 'Catastrophic Errors' Made During COVID Response A newly released report found that several “catastrophic errors” were made during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a report published this week by the non-profit Committee to Unleash Prosperity (CTUP), lockdowns, school closures, and draconian vaccine mandates were major problems when dealing with the effects of the pandemic that took rights away from Americans. Titled "COVID Lessons Learned A Retrospective After Four Years," the report offers ten lessons that leaders of the country need to learn to make the same mistakes twice. “Conventional wisdom pre-COVID was that communities respond best to pandemics when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted," the authors wrote. "During COVID, the public health establishment followed the opposite principle: they intentionally stoked and amplified fear, which overlaid enormous economic, social, educational and health harms on top of the harms of the virus itself.” The authors added that the World Health Organization (WHO) did not have the power to set laws or mandates for people the way they did. They advised term limits for senior health agency positions and to limit their powers. “SARS-CoV2 was a dangerous virus, but a calm, proportionate response would have applied the lessons from past influenza pandemics and used existing pandemic response plans. Instead, from the moment the virus was detected in America, the public health community and politicians spread an outsized message of fear and doom," the report continued. The authors pointed out how the months-long lockdowns did not reduce deaths or help stem the spread of COVID-19, saying "Rarely had any discernable casual impact.” They also noted that remote learning caused great impacts on kids such as socialization issues, mental illness, substance abuse, and suicidal thoughts. The report also read that masks had little to no effect on stopping the spread of COVID, and possibly harmed those who constantly wore them. “A much wiser strategy than issuing lockdown orders would have been to tell the American people the truth, stick to the facts, educate citizens about the balance of risks, and let individuals make their own decisions about whether to keep their businesses open, whether to socially isolate, attend church, send their children to school and so on,” the report read. The authors cited the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey data, saying that the mass lockdowns resulted in over 49 million Americans being out of work. “Anthony Fauci, the head of the largest federal grantmaking entity, created an environment in which it was very difficult for most medical experts to break with the dominant narratives on lockdowns, masks, or overwhelmed hospitals," the report states. “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) became the principal advocate of lockdown policies, but failed to run high-quality trials of repurposed drugs and non-pharmaceutical interventions.” |
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