In Seahawks (non) news, they tried to trade away veteran CB Sidney Jones, because they have two fantastic rookie CBs (one of them is even in the discussion for Defensive Rookie of the Year) and second year CB Tre Brown is healthy again. There were no takers so he was cut. He’s a good depth choice for teams needing a DB, and there is already buzz about a few teams that might want to snatch him up.
Otherwise, Seattle is pretty happy with what they have (and their cap situation doesn’t give them a lot of flexibility right now).
Yeah probably. Still, the NFC is weak. Packers are only one game behind the 49ers for the third wildcard spot. And while I expect the Cowboys and Eagles to duke it out all season for the division, I am unable to read the Giants. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Big Blue go anywhere between 2-7 and 7-2 the rest of the way. (Daboll is as good as Jones is bad.) Meaning I wouldn’t pencil the Giants into one of those wildcard spots quite yet.
3-5 is definitely not season ending. Win two games to get back to .500 and you’d be right in the thick of it.
Chiefs paid their compensatory third round pick (so at best the 33rd pick in the round) and their actual 6th. I get that a third round pick is not nothing, even compensatory, but the Chiefs are hoping Toney turns into a mini Tyreek Hill. Jones was hopeless with him, but I’m sure Rodgers could have made good use out of him. In fairness, super duper injury prone.
Do we think the Packers not bringing in any receivers is a sign that maybe they’re thinking of moving away from Rodgers next year? He’s pretty old for the GM to be packing it in for next year already.
Hell, Rodgers would be cranky at management no matter what. And the Packers would be trotting out Jake Kumerow and resign Clay Matthews to keep that nutcase happy.
The Packers brought in Cobb and Watkins to appease Rodgers. They won’t (thankfully) mortgage the future to appease him further.
The Commanders are the 8th most valuable team. NFL teams range from $7.64B at the top (the Cowboys, naturally) to $2.84B at the bottom (the Bengals).
The Commanders are one of the oldest teams (the team is 90 years old), has had a rivalry for generations with the most valuable team (since 1960) and have been located in the DC area since the 30s, a huge market. I’m not surprised they are worth so much.
Look at that list. The teams’ values seem to roughly correspond to the market they’re in. You may be a team that’s been crappy forever, but if you’re in New York you’re valuable.
The only thing that works against this theory is that the Rams are #2, while the Chargers are #19.
It still makes a sort of sense. The Rams, despite relocating recently, at least had a nearly 50 year history in LA. A lot of folks still think of the Chargers as stolen from San Diego.
