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He has that mentality towards everything he does, he is not just a gym rat.

and he has some intense workouts, haven't seen very many QBs working out like that.

Another thing, Mack comes off the left side a lot (against RT). You really need bookend tackles, so if Jenkins locks down the right side of the line for the next 10+ years, I will still be good with the pick.

Justin Fields is 6'3" 227lbs, Pat Mahomes is 6'2", 225lbs. They carry their weight much differently lol.

It is also nice to be able to wipe the Trubisky off and move on from that. Up until the Fields pick, it was a hard pill to swallow, but if Trubisky was even a little better, they may have picked up his 5th year option and we wouldn't have picked Fields. So this ended up working out great for us. Pace hadn't used an early round pick on a OT ever, so to take one swing at it and get a 1st round graded talent at 39 is awesome. If Mustipher sticks, the team will have a good ratio of players on rookie contracts on the O-Line for a long time. Daniels is next for a contract extension. If we can solidify the other tackle spot, this line may become a top-10 unit.

Yeah, I was thinking blocking TE, but outside of that, we would have to start cutting dudes to add any more. We also have some interesting UDFAs (Snowden).

This is an awesome video and breakdown, I love the title. I have no doubt that this guy will be able to anchor the left side of the line.

There have only been 2x college QBs with back-to-back years with a QBR over 90, Fields and Mayfield. If you think of how their games translate to the NFL, it's hard to imagine someone would say Mayfield was more NFL-ready than Fields coming out. In Mayfield's rookie year, he played in 14 games, had 3725 yds, 27 TDs, 15 INTs, and 131 rushing yds, so I imagine Fields' floor is somewhere around Mayfield's rookie year with more rushing yards.

AG, Yeah, I think you are right, he is basically Lanbisky. Nothing about Love's game stands out to me. Lance at least has some high end traits, but it's funny because Fields has all of them.

A really good unbiased review from Matt Bowen: I feel like Fields is going to be as good as Herbert, who was the only rookie to throw for 4K yards and 25 TDs. Folbisky threw for 3900 yds and 26 TDs, so I think Fields can do at least that good in an offense that is technically better on paper. #1 Burrow (0/1) #5 Tua (0/1) #6 Herbert (1/1, rookie) #1 Murray (0/2) #6 Jones (0/2) #1 Mayfield (0/3) #7 Allen (1/3, 3rd year) #10 Rosen (0/3)

IIRC, he was probably a little better in coverage than Trevathan. So hopefully we will see less of him in coverage this year.

Good catch on Burns. I agree on LT, for ILB, we added Jones, and still have Iggy and Woods. I don't know how many more we can carry. Jones has been a starter for the last 4 years (1 with Bears), so he is a really solid depth piece at ILB.

Jordan Love came out of Utah State with 20 TDs and 17 INTs in his final year of college. Love being anything close to Rodgers is highly unlikely. Love ended his college career with a loss to Kent St. Against Big Ten/SEC, Love had 0 TDs and 5 INTs. He played LSU his last season (2019) and went 15-30, 50%, 130 yds, 0 TD, 3 INT.

So 9 starters, 7 draft picks, 4 UDFAs would make 48 players with only 5 more for the 53 and 3 for the top 51. Still not bad, especially if we can jettison Quinn and Foles, we would have $20M more with zero drop off.

I would extend Hicks, but Graham is on the last year of his deal, so we would have to extend him or cut him.

We are close. I am having a hard time finding huge holes outside CB and depth TE, but we have Trufant and Burns (who opted out last year), and the rookie Graham to test out there. QB - set, if Fields plays close to his college level, we have a top 10 QB with real mobility, could also trade Foles to get him off the books RB - set, the best group in the league? Monty, Williams, Cohen, and Herbert, wow? Very little drop off and different styles. WR - set, with the Byrd addition, Goodwin, Newsome to go with ARob, Mooney, Miller, Ridley. There will be a battle for WR5-6 for sure. TE - almost set, Graham/Kmet, Horsted, bring in a blocking TE and we are set. OL - set, some quality depth with Bars, Wilkinson, and the lesser of Ifedi/Borom, battle for OL8-9 DL - stacked with Goldman back, Tonga will be fun to watch on first downs. LB - set, Attaochu is going to be an impact signing, Jones back for depth in the middle, UDFA Snowden will make the roster too CB - might add another vet, but a lot of guys competing for CB2 and NB1. Still think it will come down to Trufant, Burns, Graham for CB2 and Shelley/Vildor are in the mix.6 S - set, same as last year, Gipson better than expected ST - set, no kicker worries thankfully What am I missing?

It did, but they needed rookie pool, so probably $4-5M left for those type of deals. I figure 2-3 more and leave a couple of mil on the books for in season emergency signing.

So 2022 is where the team is in a much better cap situation. They can save $12.9M by cutting Quinn as a post-June 1 cut and $7M on Foles next offseason. So $20M off the books is a nice chunk of change without losing any performance. Mack is also an easy candidate for a restructure at $30M. Graham comes off the books, so the only guys with a cap hit north of $10M would be Mack, Jackson, Whitehair, and Goldman. Even before the Quinn and Foles moves, the team would have around $40M to play with, so $60M is more than enough money to resign current guys and bring in a couple of impact FAs. Starters that need new contracts: Robinson (UFA - 2022) Daniels (UFA - 2022) Mustipher (ERFA - 2022) Hicks (UFA - 2022) Nichols (UFA - 2022) Gipson (UFA - 2022) Trufant (UFA - 2022) O'Donnell (UFA - 2022) Scales (UFA - 2022)

Rodgers' ego is huge. I can't see him backing off his stance. Either the GM goes or he goes. There is no way the team is going to set a precedence with a player vs GM like this. GB has lived off the franchise QB teet for 3 decades now. It is time for them to live like the rest of the league. That team immediately becomes a 6-7 win team without Rodgers. Even if Love is decent, Rodgers was top 5 of all-time. It's funny because Rodgers has masked their drafting, which has been worse than Pace's over the last few years. Last year was Love, Dillon, Deguara, 1, 2, 3. Funny that they drafted Deguara in the 3rd, a year after drafting Sternberger in the 3rd. Yet, a UDFA, Tonyan ends up being their best TE. Love is now in Year 2, can they really afford to go any deeper into his rookie deal without knowing what they got in him? Rodgers cap hit: $37M in 2021 and $40M in 2022. The most cost savings is a post June 1 trade which would be $14M in dead money this year.

Still interesting to see Massie unsigned, now past the draft. For Leno, it will be interesting to see what type of deal he takes. If he is as good as some say, no way he is taking anything less than a multi-year deal with some guarantees. My bet is a 1-yr deal for under $5M. Which would be a pay cut. Above-Average to Average LTs don't take pay cuts. He will probably go to Denver to play for Fangio. If you go back and watch some games over the last few years, I saw a distinct difference between pre-big contract/marriage Leno and post-big contract/marriage Leno. Once he got paid, got married, had a kid, his play dropped off considerably. He had a ton of penalties in 2019 and was terrible for 75% of the season in 2020, and then played decent for 3-4 games at the end of the regular season. Not enough to warrant his cap hit and play. Trubisky's mobility and him rolling out to his right more often saved a bunch of Leno sacks off the left. To me, this move wasn't a real shock as we knew the team needed to clear some cap space. Now there are only 2 other players with cap savings of more than $3M, Hicks $10.5M and Graham $7M. With enough to sign the rookie class and a few extra million to bring in a couple of vets on $1M deals, they may not have to make any more moves.

There should be a second wave of free agency coming up in the next month or so after teams get a look at some of their rookies in person and start making more post-June 1 cuts.

A Miller replacement with way more speed. Byrd - 47/604 Miller - 49/485

This was one of the easiest ways to gain cap space and not lose too much in terms of performance. They can now sign the entire rookie class and have a few million to bring on a couple of vets at the vet minimum.