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[jaadam4]

HA! That's awesome!

and true all at the same time

[TheLondonLion]

Chase Daniels has a bigger contract than Cam and Jameis combined.

[Forsh]

This will be the first season where I actually root for New England. It'll never happen, but for New England to beat Tampa Bay in the SB would be sweet

[Futureshock]

Chase Daniels has a bigger contract than Cam and Jameis combined.

Wow. I did not realize that.

[jaadam4]

Wow. I did not realize that.

And knowing is half the battle

[edindetroit]

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[Futureshock]

And knowing is half the battle

G-I-Joooooooooooeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watched it everyday as a youngster. Good times.

[Futureshock]

Chris Jones suggests he won’t play without a long-term deal with Chiefs

Posted by Curtis Crabtree on June 30, 2020, 11:23 PM EDT

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With the deadline for signing a long-term deal while on the franchise tag just over two weeks away, Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones may be trying to assert some leverage into negotiations.

In a reply via his Twitter account to a segment from the NFL Network discussing his contract situation, Jones said that he won’t play in 2020 if he doesn’t get a long-term deal from the Chiefs.



Le'Veon Bell sat out the entire 2018 after the Pittsburgh Steelers used the franchise tag on him for a second consecutive season. The Steelers did not use the tag again on Bell last year and he signed a free agent deal with the New York Jets instead.

Jones doesn’t appear to be particularly close to reaching a deal with the Chiefs at the moment. The franchise tag tender for Jones is worth $16.1 million for the upcoming year. Jones has posted 24.5 sacks combined over the last two seasons for Kansas City with career-high 15.5 sacks coming in 2018.

The top of the defensive tackle market sits with Aaron Donald of the Los Angeles Rams and DeForest Buckner of the Indianapolis Colts. Donald is the second-highest paid defensive player in the game at $22.5 million a year on average, which trails only Khalil Mack of the Chicago Bears. Buckner’s new deal with the Colts following a trade this offseason is worth $21 million a year on average.

Jones has more sacks (33) than Buckner does (28.5) over the last four years and would likely view himself as being worth at least in the same neighborhood from a contract standpoint.

The Chiefs also have to figure out a long-term deal for Patrick Mahomes as well and that could be factoring into Jones’ situation as well.

While there are differences between Jones’ and Bell’s situations, Jones stating he won’t play without a new deal from the Chiefs is at the very least an attempt to leverage the negotiations a bit more in his favor.

[Futureshock]

Some teams are thinking about game-day travel in 2020

Posted by Mike Florio on June 30, 2020, 4:48 PM EDT

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The planning for the 2020 NFL season includes a revolutionary, and risky, approach to traveling to road games. Per a league source, multiple teams intend to fly to and from road games on the day of the game.

It’s an idea that has been percolating for a while, something that Peter King floated a couple of months ago. And it could be a reality.

That said, there surely will be limitations. The 49ers play at the Jets in Week Two. It won’t be practical to fly across country, play a game, and fly back.

Weather also will be a factor, which could force a team to change plans at the eleventh hour — and scramble to find hotel rooms on very short notice. (The way things are going, that may not be hard too do.) Then there’s the possibility of an issue with the plane, which could delay kickoff by several hours, or prevent the game from happening at all on the scheduled date.

Of course, if fans won’t be attending games, it becomes much easier to delay kickoff by several hours or to move a game from Sunday to Monday. If, for example, a thunderstorm can delay a game for hours, why can’t a flight delay do the same?

Whatever the complication, if the NFL decides to play as many of the 256 regular-season games that are scheduled to be played this year as possible, flight delays or other travel issues won’t cause games to be canceled. Only the virus will do that.

[Forsh]

Why don't the stadiums convert luxury suites into ... actual luxury suites? Then teams could just stay at the stadium

[jaadam4]

G-I-Joooooooooooeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watched it everyday as a youngster. Good times.

Damn right! I was so mad when they screwed up the movies. Those could have been epic

[jaadam4]

Why don't the stadiums convert luxury suites into ... actual luxury suites? Then teams could just stay at the stadium

That’s actually a solid idea. The only draw back might be having enough for both teams and their staff but either way the owners have the resources to make that happen

[Cody_Russell]

NFL owners are going to have to cough up a ton of $$$ to give this season a shot of safely working.
NBA estimates their Orlando bubble will cost ~$150M. Sounds like the NFL is not doing a bubble. Could be much more expensive to allow travel and safely do everything.

Good thing is MLB is giving it a try 2 months before the NFL season begins. We'll see what issues MLB runs into first.

[Futureshock]

Patriots retained ability to apply franchise tag to Cam Newton in 2021

Posted by Mike Florio on July 2, 2020, 9:51 AM EDT

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When seeing the initial details regarding Cam Newton‘s bargain-basement contract with the Patriots, some wondered whether the Patriots agreed not to apply the franchise tag in 2021 in order to get him to agree to a compensation package with a maximum upside of $7.5 million. They didn’t.

According to Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com, the one-year deal does not limit the ability of the Patriots to tag Newton in 2021.

The contract, per La Canfora, pays $550,000 in fully-guaranteed money. That’s little more than half of Newton’s $1.05 million base salary. Per Albert Breer of SI.com, Newton can earn another $700,000 in per-game roster bonuses (i.e., $43,750 for each regular-season game that he’s on the active roster). The remaining $5.75 million comes in the form of to-date unspecified incentives.

So, basically, no matter how well Newton plays this year or how much the Patriots achieve, the maximum payment to Cam will be $7.5 million, with the ability to squat on his rights in 2021 via the franchise or transition tag. Even if he’s the regular-season MVP and the Super Bowl MVP, he gets $7.5 million.

Which makes it an excellent deal for the Patriots and not a very good deal for Newton. But here’s the reality. Newton was willing to do the deal because his only other option at this point was to wait for someone to get injured, and to hope that the team with the injured starter would choose Newton over the “next man up.”

Here’s the other reality: Newton was available in late June in part because no one knew that the Patriots were interested in Newton. If anyone did, Newton likely would have been signed by someone else, for more money than he’s getting in New England.

[Futureshock]

Robert Quinn wants to be “icing on the cake” for Bears defense

Posted by Josh Alper on July 2, 2020, 9:40 AM EDT

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The Bears made a change at outside linebacker this offseason when they released Leonard Floyd and signed Robert Quinn as a free agent.

On paper, the move looks like one that should bear fruit for the team’s pass rush. Floyd had 11.5 sacks over the last three seasons while Quinn posted that many coming off the edge for the Cowboys last season.

If he can post something similar on a defense with the likes of Khalil Mack and Akiem Hicks joining him in the front seven, the Bears should make life difficult for opposing offenses. On a recent appearance on Terrell Owens’ podcast, Quinn said that’s how he envisions things playing out.

“They already have the talent there,” Quinn said, via NBCSportsChicago.com. “I’m just trying to bring the icing on the cake. I believe in my talents. I know what I bring to the table and again I know what they had there already. I think with that formula, we can do something special this year.”

The Bears Defense didn’t slip much after allowing the fewest points in the league in 2018 and a big year for Quinn would help push them back in the other direction. Whether that makes a difference in the standings will have a lot to do with how things shape up on offense in Chicago.