Official 2025 NFL Discussion!!!

SO, USA Today saying this was the BLACKEST SB yet.
Let's see how they respond going into next year.

Thru American history there's always backlash & resentment when we seem to take steps ahead!

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Ravens Trade of Lamar Jackson for Dolphins QB Tua ‘Makes Sense,’ NFL Exec Insists
A trade of Lamar Jackson for Tua Tagovailoa "makes sense'' for the Ravens? How?
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A trade of Lamar Jackson from the Baltimore Ravens? The organization itself has now leaking that moving the franchise quarterback in that way is an option.
And what does “one NFL executive” tell The Athletic what the Ravens should try to get in such a trade?
Tua Tagovailoa.
Maybe a Lamar-for-Tua trade makes sense,” the exec said. … thus triggering our wish that sometimes “anonymous NFL execs” would reveal themselves and be responsible for their hot takes.

Let’s walk through this silliness …
-Jackson’s “fit” in Miami is cited here -needlessly. He’s a 26-year-old mega-talent with an MVP on his resume.
There is no place he wouldn’t “fit.”
-The Ravens would have Tua, 24, on a cheap end-of-rookie-contract year at $9 million. That's obviously a fraction of the $50 million APY that Jackson figures to land.
But ... After Tua's contract is up, assuming he plays well, he too will be due a new deal worth $30 million or $40 million or whatever per year.


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How will that really "save'' anything?
-Or, what if Tua does not play well? And while he was the fifth overall pick in 2020, meaning he has some pedigree, he has also suffered multiple concussions that could put his performance and his future in doubt.
-Did Tua have a good season, concussions aside, because he's advanced nearer Lamar's level? Or did that happen because his two wide receivers are Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle?


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Bottom line: Forgetting all the dollars and cents ... The gap between Jackson and Tagovailoa is far too large for the Ravens to simply exchange players and think they'll be a better team for having done so.
There are more affordable ways for the Ravens to employ a QB and there are even ways to employ a QB in Jackson's class. But trading him straight-up for Tua isn't a helpful solution. The signing of Jackson would produce positive results. A blockbuster trade bringing back a treasure chest full of talent would, too.

Those are the two helpful solutions.

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Aaron Rodgers will enter voluntary solitary confinement on Monday

Mike Florio


Sun, February 12, 2023 at 10:05 AM EST

Last year, it was something called ayahuasca. This year, it will be nothing at all.

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has said he’ll embrace darkness for four days in an effort to make decisions about his short-term future. Via NFL Media, Rodgers enters voluntary solitary confinement on Monday.

His choices are simple. Retire. Play for the Packers. Play for another team. If so, which one?

On behalf of the billions of adults who make decisions the old-fashioned way, it just seems stupid and unnecessary and borderline narcissistic.

Every day, people sift through choices and options without the presence of hallucinogens, or the absence of halogens. And most decisions are far more problematic, frankly, than whether to cash $60 million in checks for one more season of doing something he has done since 2005.

Do I need to list the sorts of decisions we all have to make, all the time? I won’t because this is your escape from the strain of navigating real life, from worrying about jobs to worrying about kids to worrying about pets to worrying about aging parents to worrying about paying bills to worrying about health issues to worrying whatever in the hell they’re shooting out of the sky in Alaska. (I guess I just did.)

It’s fine if Rodgers feels like a first-world problem needs to be resolved by pretending to be thrown into a third-world prison. It would have been better if he’d kept it to himself.

It’s not exactly relatable to the average person. And it will make more and more of them long for the day that Rodgers exits the arena for good.
 






Aaron Rodgers will enter voluntary solitary confinement on Monday

Mike Florio


Sun, February 12, 2023 at 10:05 AM EST

Last year, it was something called ayahuasca. This year, it will be nothing at all.

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has said he’ll embrace darkness for four days in an effort to make decisions about his short-term future. Via NFL Media, Rodgers enters voluntary solitary confinement on Monday.

His choices are simple. Retire. Play for the Packers. Play for another team. If so, which one?

On behalf of the billions of adults who make decisions the old-fashioned way, it just seems stupid and unnecessary and borderline narcissistic.

Every day, people sift through choices and options without the presence of hallucinogens, or the absence of halogens. And most decisions are far more problematic, frankly, than whether to cash $60 million in checks for one more season of doing something he has done since 2005.

Do I need to list the sorts of decisions we all have to make, all the time? I won’t because this is your escape from the strain of navigating real life, from worrying about jobs to worrying about kids to worrying about pets to worrying about aging parents to worrying about paying bills to worrying about health issues to worrying whatever in the hell they’re shooting out of the sky in Alaska. (I guess I just did.)

It’s fine if Rodgers feels like a first-world problem needs to be resolved by pretending to be thrown into a third-world prison. It would have been better if he’d kept it to himself.

It’s not exactly relatable to the average person. And it will make more and more of them long for the day that Rodgers exits the arena for good.

They got a draft pic where they could pick a young wr.. they found out Watson pretty damn good.. they got some money to pick up a few good free agents..he is loved in greenbay.. to me if he got a chance to return he should.. hell look at his division he got the shitty bears, the Vikings and the lions.. he could easily go 4-2 in his division..or he could go to the titans
 
They got a draft pic where they could pick a young wr.. they found out Watson pretty damn good.. they got some money to pick up a few good free agents..he is loved in greenbay.. to me if he got a chance to return he should.. hell look at his division he got the shitty bears, the Vikings and the lions.. he could easily go 4-2 in his division..or he could go to the titans
 
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