Showboat

I suspect Jerry will pay him before the season starts. If not, will there be some kind of hold-out (or hold-in)? That could ultimately impact performance/conditioning too. My CeeDee skepticism is more of a gut feeling rather than based on logic.

CeeDee and the Cowboys in general kind of scare me. If he is going to be the first WR off the board he won't be on my team. Yeah, the numbers suggest he is a lock for top 5, but I think my bold prediction (we don't have that thread yet, do we?) is that he won't finish in the top 10.

If not a break-out candidate, maybe he is a regression candidate.

It also means means that the people who are owed money get screwed over (and if people invested in/extended credit to AB, maybe that's well deserved). The person declaring bankruptcy rarely suffers that much (AB may have to trade in his Lamborghini for a Chevy SUV).

The irony is that bankruptcy is only for the wealthy. I have no sympathy for AB. The truly poor that literally have no money can't afford bankruptcy.

Doesn't change a thing. I'm still never benching Stephen Davis.

Are the teams listed in the order of draft position (team 1 drafted first, team 2 drafted second...)? If so, I'm still trying to figure out who team 2 took in the first round. Either CeeDee or Achane seem like big reaches at #2 overall. I think I like team 1 best, and 11 would have been better if they hadn't taken Kittle in the first 5 rounds, but really hard to say as any of these teams could rise or fall depending on the later rounds.

No, but your Chiefs are just a Mahomes injury away from being eliminated.

I don't think I'm buying this. For most of his years in GB Rodgers fed his alpha and didn't really produce a must-start second receiver. I suspect it will be the G.Wilson show, unless you think Williams somehow surpasses him.

On the planet? I don't know - that bar is pretty low.

That's on Cousins (but he was a pretty good QB for fantasy). I'm betting that Cousins won't win dog dirt with Atlanta's weapons either.

It all makes sense to project that Henry should have a good season and score a lot of TDs, but the cliff usually comes up abruptly for 30+ year old RBs. I'm really torn of on if he will have a season pushing 20 TDs or just be ineffective or spend most of his time in the training room.

Good luck with that. Unless your league has some very beneficial scoring for RBs, I just don't see the point in targeting the RB position like that any more. The era of the bell cow back is over. McCaffrey might be the lone exception but he has a lot of mileage on his wheels and I could see the 49ers spelling him a lot more. Bijon may be poised for a breakout, but Cousins probably wants try to emulate Aaron Rodgers with 1 yard TD passes. Gibbs still has Monty lurking. Hurts will vulture a lot of TDs from Saquan - same with Richardson/Taylor. Swift should certainly be the Bears 1A, but Herbert and Roschon will limit his upside. Mixon, Jacobs and the rookie Brooks may be the best bets, but I don't know that I would want to spend an early round pick on any of them - it seems that now more that ever you are better off loading up with RBs in the mid-rounds..

With McCarthy on the board at that point, I think it's fair to question whether they took the right QB, but for whatever reason, Penix was their guy.

I agree - I just think the Penix pick is not as bad as it is being portrayed. Now, if they had given away next years first to move up, that would make the pick more questionable. Maybe it was a reasonable gamble to sign Cousins and give him the opportunity to flip his career script (I'm not convinced of that), but I think the Falcons are wise to not have all their eggs in the Cousins' basket and give themselves a plan B.

Well, I'd argue that if they really cared about winning (a championship and not just a nice regular season record), they wouldn't have signed Cousins in the first place.

I've seen a lot of reports about how this pick didn't make sense and was disrespectful to Cousins (when did football players become so fragile?) But seriously, if Cousins is so great and actually worth the cash he got, he should be able to elevate the performance of his teammates to get them where they want to go (not that he has ever demonstrated that capability in the past). With the pick the Falcons are telling Cousins, we showed you are money, now show us yours and if you can't flip your career script within the next 1-3 years we are moving on. And given Cousins age, it's likelier than not that his performance will actually decline rather than improve over the course of his contract. Now, you could argue that Penix isn't the right prospect, but at least the Falcons were patient and let the draft come to them instead of panicking and giving away the farm to move up and grab their guy.

Will the Vikings panic for McCarthy or let him fall?

Will the Giants let the clock expire?

Nobody should be out of the draft contest, yet.

Emmitt, Brady, Calvin Johnson, Mahomes, Tyreek has done just fine.....

Yeah, Dobbins has been hurt a lot, but I would not put him on a DnD list just yet. There have been other backs who have shaken the injury bug to post some good seasons (Terry Allen and Robert Smith come to mind). The trick is to know when to pull the trigger if he falls - at some point he could be a great value pick.

The Vikings were smart to let Cousins walk. If they give up too much to move up, I could see a Panthers 2023 season on the horizon for them. The roster needs talent in plenty of other areas. They should be planning on rolling with Darnold, and targeting a day-2 QB and only pulling the trigger on one of the first round QB prospects if he falls.

If you say so, but it seemed eerily similar to what your previous posts about it being a mistake to sign Mayfield for $30M when cheaper/similar talent options were out there. We'll see how it turns out, but I think the Bucs did the right thing - not breaking the bank for Cousins, and keeping Mayfield (who IMO is still young enough to have room for growth) on a relatively reasonable contract given the current QB market. Cousins will probably get the Falcons to the playoffs and may even win the division, but you'll be glad he is not the Bucs QB when he does nothing to prevent an early playoff exit.

Still sore about the Mayfield signing?