2022-2023 NFL Thread

[Grube]

That is a lot of money for a WR.

[Vetali]

And in spite of that people remain high on Trubisky and Mayfield certainly I'd say is a better target than Jimmy G for teams out there.

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Rodgers 2 years ago: "I want out because this team won't get me receivers."

Packers now: "We had to trade away Davante Adams because of Rodgers' contract."

I am assuming they have the intent of picking up a WR with the first pick they got from LV... but who knows. They could take a QB again.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

I am assuming they have the intent of picking up a WR with the first pick they got from LV... but who knows. They could take a QB again.

If I know Packers draft pain over the years, they'll pick a 4th string CB and a DT.

[Northern Goblin]

Yeah I think you gotta be quite happy right now

This is up there with going to the playoffs by eliminating the Chargers.

Last time we sent anyone a first, we got Carson Palmer.

[Gestopft]

Whoa Adams to the Raiders. The AFC West is going to be really interesting this year.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Whoa Adams to the Raiders. The AFC West is going to be really interesting this year.

NFC, meanwhile, pretty sure we can just pencil in Bucs @ Rams for that championship game.

[Gestopft]

NFC, meanwhile, pretty sure we can just pencil in Bucs @ Rams for that championship game.

Oh man, you're right. Arizona has a tendency to fall flat on their face at the end of the season, and are losing some key players. San Fran can be sneaky good but hard to pencil them in with their QB room, Green Bay should win plenty of games even without Adams, but now have major needs at WR. Half of the South is stuck in QB limbo, and Dallas has lost Cooper and Gregory now. Most of the interesting teams are in the AFC I guess.

[draynay]

The contract they're giving Adams is pretty wild, over $28mil per season for 5 years.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Oh man, you're right. Arizona has a tendency to fall flat on their face at the end of the season, and are losing some key players. San Fran can be sneaky good but hard to pencil them in with their QB room, Green Bay should win plenty of games even without Adams, but now have major needs at WR. Half of the South is stuck in QB limbo, and Dallas has lost Cooper and Gregory now. Most of the interesting teams are in the AFC I guess.

Heck I still think the Bucs are a team with next to no depth, but at this point who's really in their way? An effectively rookie Trey Lance? The Cardinals who just imploded down the stretch last year? Green Bay who are notorious playoff chokers + now have no WRs (seriously that depth chart is a disaster now)? The NFC East?

Maybe the Saints if they land Watson could give the Bucs a run for their money, they've done it already in the Brady era. For sure not the Falcons, though.

The contract they're giving Adams is pretty wild, over $28mil per season for 5 years.

Yeah that's why I felt a sign & trade was inevitable. Adams wanted not just a top of the market contract, he wanted a resetting the market contract. Packers couldn't afford 28M for Adams and 50M for Rodgers.

[Vetali]

Better sign DK right now or just trade him. WR contracts just gonna keep getting more insane.

[eschatological]

Looking at that Davante contract........that's a spicy meatball.

[xskarma]

Don;t think I said it in this thread, but I'll give my way-too-early-hot-take: AFC West are going to beat the hell out of eachother, just absolute bloodbath. Super entertaining but draining for all teams involved, when they have 6 games at that level on top of all the other games. And that's going to leave the door open to another division in the AFC to steal the AFC crown and go to the Superbowl.

Could be Bengals again, or Bills, or Patriots, whatever. We have a saying in my country that when 2 dogs fight for a bone, the 3rd runs off with it, and that's what I think will happen here. AFC West will be so focused on getting out of their own division that they'll fall prey to one of the other teams in the AFC.

[Northern Goblin]

Yeah that's why I felt a sign & trade was inevitable. Adams wanted not just a top of the market contract, he wanted a resetting the market contract. Packers couldn't afford 28M for Adams and 50M for Rodgers.

Reports are the Packers offered to match it, but Adams wanted out.

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Don;t think I said it in this thread, but I'll give my way-too-early-hot-take: AFC West are going to beat the hell out of eachother, just absolute bloodbath. Super entertaining but draining for all teams involved, when they have 6 games at that level on top of all the other games. And that's going to leave the door open to another division in the AFC to steal the AFC crown and go to the Superbowl.

My alternative way too early hot take. All four AFCW teams make the playoffs.

[ProphetFlume]

Reports are the Packers offered to match it, but Adams wanted out

Supposedly Rodgers signed 100% knowing he was leaving

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My alternative way too early hot take. All four AFCW teams make the playoffs.

Is that even possible? They all go 3-3 in the division?

[Northern Goblin]

Supposedly Rodgers signed 100% knowing he was leaving

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Is that even possible? They all go 3-3 in the division?

Nah, you can just take all the wildcard places.

It almost happened last season, then the Broncos fell off.

[Grube]

Good thing Denver gets to play the Jets, Jags and Panthers when the other 3 teams don't get to.

I'm expecting at least 2 of the AFCW teams to under perform. Happens every year with the Chargers and the other teams are getting hyped up too much.

I'm not expecting the Raiders to do that well because I have an insanely low opinion of Josh McDaniels, Denver is a question mark for me because of a very inexperienced coaching staff (the keys guys are all 1st time in that position), and the Chargers are the Chargers. The Chiefs just running away with the division is entirely possible.

[ProphetFlume]

Yeah adams to the raiders did nothing for me because he’d be the first packers receiver to be effect elsewhere, but seeing that he went to college with Carr means they may have some good chemistry.

[VMSmith]

That is a lot of money for a WR.

I'm starting to think an elite WR may be a better investment than QB or RB. The Rams certainly won it all with lackluster QB and RB's, with the MVP going to one of the best WR's in the league.

[eschatological]

My alternative way too early hot take. All four AFCW teams make the playoffs.

For this to happen, one other division has to be entirely under or at .500, probably.

[Grube]

For this to happen, one other division has to be entirely under or at .500, probably.

Good thing the AFCS exists.