NFL Off-Season Thread

[CBBI]

Anytime you can hire the 65 year old passing coordinator from a team whose main weakness was its passing, you've gotta do it.

Honestly, I think this was a fall guy hire. They know this team is going nowhere fast and probably in line for a nasty, lengthy rebuild, so they hire a guy who is essentially set up to fail knowing they'll fire him in two or three years once they've been able to accumulate some talent with their picks next year plus whatever they get for trading off Watson and all their vets.

And this guy isn't some promising young coordinator who could have his career derailed by failure. It's an NFL coaching veteran who will be able to step right in to another position coaching job after he's fired. Culley has nothing to lose here. It's free money. If he succeeds, he wins. If he doesn't, he still makes a hell of a lot more money than he would have otherwise and can likely go right back to doing what he was doing before if he gets fired.

I think this is very accurate.

Culley is a guy being brought in to try and overhaul the overall culture of the organization and keep young guys playing hard while losses inevitably rack up. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Jack Brickman]

A sort of "John Beilein" hire then.....

Yeah, and I expect this one will work out about the same.

I just hope the Texans send Watson to the NFC. Already too much talent in this conference.

 

[Cement]

that Goff-wentz draft looks a lot different now than it did just 2 years ago.

 

[Cement]

 

[Surge]

I haven't been following. Are the Rams really moving on from Goff? Are the 49ers done with Garroppolo? Both are rumored to be interested in QB's this offseason.

 

[Cement]

Report: Rams have talked to multiple teams about trading Jared Goff - ProFootballTalk

The Rams want an upgrade at quarterback. But first they need to get rid of the quarterback they have.A trade that would ship Jared Goff off has been discussed between the Rams and multiple teams, according to Jordan Rodrigue of TheAthletic.com. One of those teams may be the Lions, who reportedly...

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

 

[Cement]

 

[CBBI]

 

[CBBI]

If 33-year old Matt Stafford just fetched two 1sts, a 3rd and a 26-year old QB with 107 TD passes in 69 starts, what on earth is it going to cost for someone to land Deshaun Watson?

 

[Soar]

Wait what the actual fuck... Goff, 2 first rounders and a third for a 33 year old Matt Stafford????

 

[CBBI]

Now to be clear, I feel very strongly that Goff is much worse than his stats would indicate and there's a strong chance he regresses badly without McVay, but two firsts and a third for a 33-year old QB who has only led his team to the playoffs three times in his 12-year career seems like a lot regardless.

Maybe the extra first was the tax for taking Goff's contract.

 

[Ohio]

Yeah...is Stafford really much better than Goff? Certainly not that much better...

 

[DJTJ]

Thank God Baker developed.

 

[CBBI]

Yeah...is Stafford really much better than Goff? Certainly not that much better...

Ehhh. I think Goff is pretty bad and the Rams moving off him is a very good thing for them.

But I just don't know if Stafford is particularly worth two 1sts and a 3rd.

The consensus on Twitter does seem to be that the second 1st round pick was in exchange for taking Goff's contract.

 

[chrisrich91]

The extra compensation from the Rams was for Detroit to take on Goff’s contract. Make no mistake about that.

Seems like a slight overpay from the Rams’ perspective...but I think they’re a much better team today than they were yesterday.