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Oh gosh he’s hitting me with low blows. It’s ok no need to defend me. I have a hater now. I made it to the bigtime!!!

You will haunt me with PFF until my death. I will accept my fate. White flag.

In all seriousness, yes he did improve as the year went on. But he still had some issues in the postseason IMO. It will be interesting to see how Vic uses him.

For the price I would rather Adoree or a different vet. But who knows, Riq might be ok if Vic adjusts to him.

Alex is you can see this I’m sorry!!!

Heheh
I can only assume this is about me. And if so thank you.

Ive been blocked ever since I lost my patience early season and told him it was obvious AJ wasn’t the same. (Turned out I was correct hehe)

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Driving home from Shop Rite I have to drive 25 min to because all of the Super Markets near me are too expensive, I turn on Sports Radio for a distraction.

Host: "I mean Woolen is probably better than Slay was for us in 2024!!!"

Immediately turn Sports Radio back off.

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He’s faster in a straight line and longer. But honestly he might be about the same caliber of player.

My Golden Doodle is an upgrade too.

I watched his tape some at the trade deadline. And this is a typical Howie move. RAS score over actual coverage skills.

I could’ve done better than this at a fraction of the cost. He’s maybe worse than Adoree.

Will dig into the tape tonight hope I’m wrong.

Acquiring the fifth best player in Seattle’s Super Bowl secondary…… it went so great the first time Howie decided to try it again.

No trade veto power, but he will be a big headache and maybe sit out if it isn’t a team that he feels comfortable with and that will maybe also guarantee his ‘27 pay.

Yeah I interpreted the “creative” part as likely that also.

I guess Pats would draft who we want them to at 31. Hold them for a couple months while agreeing to AJ extension w/his agent in principle.

Then execute the trade june 1

Pats would have to hope no change of heart or injuries by AJ.

I’d rather have two picks. But I’m definitely down for a Garret trade. That would be cool also. I doubt AJ wants to go to Browns. So…unless it was a rare 3 team deal, I don’t think Cleveland trade is possible.

The only imortant AJ Brown update

There are literally only two ways to trade him before June 1:

1) Extend Dallas Goedert so his dead cap does not accelerate.

2) Handshake deal now with a team that isn’t executed until June 1 (extremely rare).

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It is a good idea but just unusual for a player to take less money in a bonus, and even if he did, we still need to extend Goedert for it to be possible

And neither of those amounts are enough to get AJ done unless Goedert is also extended.

That might be tough. All of his salary is in bonuses and nothing in base pay. So you’d be asking Hurts to take 10 mil less in bonus just to save 2 mil on this years cap since it’s spread over 5 yrs.

20 mil less bonus is 4 mil less on 26

Biggest thing holding back the trade right now is actually the ‘26 cap. If he can’t extend Goedert then his dead cap accelerates to this year, and trading AJ before June 1 becomes literally impossible.

To the folks who think bringing back Adoree for 4-8 mil is enough at the position, he turns 31 in September.

Howie's plan has to be smarter this year. I spent hours scouring practice squads last year and found only 1 guy worth poaching. Too late, Titans poached him.

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Howie hates spending in the back 7. So after Muku was drafted, I figured Reed might be gone. It is a little ridiculous he wasn’t retained, given the cost.

He made a similarly weird decision last year at CB with Rodgers.

At least it is a good safety draft.

And someone gave him 6 mil?

Gridiron? Is that formerly gridirongab? I wrote for them one season years ago.

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Hahah i was good with the book. It worked!!!

Personally I would not pay Phillips and just scratch the edge itch on day 2, and maybe trade for a low cost vet role player in addition.

My guess is only two years will be guaranteed when Howie makes his offer.

He’s an awesome player and don’t want to see him leave. But yes I think him leaving can be ok since we have both Ojomo and JD. If he leaves in trade, I hope they add a run stuffer or two to help in the DT rotation. They had weakness at DT4 that killed them vs the run in ‘25.

We would also have to extend Goedert in that scenario. There is zero chance of trading AJ before June unless we extend Goedert to push out his future cap hit.

Trade AJ now instead of post June1:

Extend Goedert 0.5% chance
Extend DG+trade JC 1-2%
Goedert leaves zero percent

If JC is traded, which sounds crazy and prob is just folks looking for clicks, that would free up a couple more mil to maaaaayyybe squeeze in a pre-june 1 trade of AJ right now. But it would be very tight.

The Pats 1st is likely to be better next year for sure. We have so many team needs right now, I wish we could do it now.

Unfortunately, due to our salary cap, I don’t think getting a 1st round pick for this April’s draft is in the cards and it might be best to wait to see if someone gets desperate.

You may be correct. It might be what happens. The risk in doing that is that if things go south you might no longer be able to get a first round pick and it seems like Howie might have a shot at the first round pick if he does it this off-season instead of waiting.