3/16 MON
(6:47amET)
Today
-- New series in progress, a Mock DRD...5-Rounds from each draft slot 1-12 with commentary. A new mock every day.
-- New scouting report
-- WR-b and WR-s grades/rank update
-- Free Agent signee/changing teams research piece
This Week’s Agenda…
-- Prospect grades by position and rankings boards are being debuted, updated and added to daily/weekly for the next 6 months.
-- REWIND report #1 will publish this week...Malik Willis.
-- Dynasty rankings audits/updates daily/weekly. Starting up the IDP studies to try to get them done by the end of month/early April.
-- Final components and studies for publishing Best Ball debut rankings ASAP.
-- Holy series QB and RB done. Holy RB Handcuffs underway.
-- Full scouting reports on prospects from now until the NFL preseason.
-- Any FFM News & Notes or Special Reports during the day as I get them.
-- My Jacksonville daily diary at the very end for me recording this journey for future reading/memory and sharing how things are going with everyone.
-- New coaching staff hire’s analysis series...going through the entire staff...I am working on the framework of how I want to present that. This will be a first ever series (for me) where I go beyond ‘just the new head coaches’. ETA in later March/early April to start it up.
== NEWS & NOTES & Xs ==
-- HEADLINE: NBC Sports’ Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio reports that the Rams explored trading away WR Davante Adams amid trade talks with the Eagles regarding WR A.J. Brown.
I think I saw what the Rams saw as 2025 season progressed...Davante is not the WR he used to be. The TDs were there because of the focus on all the other Rams weapons, and Davante still has hands...but mostly because ‘Stafford’.
But the yards per everything are dwindling, his separation is down, his catch rate% of his targets was a 12-year low. This is my worry for Mike Evans...that’s he’s just about to hit that Davante-Kupp-Keenan ‘wall’. Evans has been consistently amazing and then started to buckle a bit in 2025.
Davante hit it around age 32. Kupp around age 31.5. Keenan around 32. Adam Thielen around age 31. Julio Jones hit it age 31. Mike Evans will be 33 this season/Week 1...he may have hit that ‘wall’ last year at age 32.
You can offer something to the NFL at these ages, but you’re not elite anymore...you’ll flow with the offense/your role in it. Keenan Allen was pretty solid to start 2025 season (age 33), but then tailed off second-half of the season.
If I were SF management, I’d rather have Jauan Jennings than Mike Evans in the year 2026.
If Aaron Rodgers returns to the Steelers...watch for Adams to be dealt there. The Rams will ‘act’...like they did with Cooper Kupp, when they see ‘the wall’...even if a lot of money is owed/due.
-- HEADLINE: Texans upgraded the two years remaining on RB David Montgomery’s deal to $16.5 million.
If people didn’t want to recognize that Montgomery is being brought in to be the lead RB...this is a little more evidence. Woody Marks will not be the lead or the equal...he’s a side piece. I have been trying to sell Montgomery as a solid RB2...but league mates don’t seem to buy it yet. I’ll wait...they’ll figure it out when the FF writers return to work in August.
QUOTES & QUOTABLES...
-- Jay Glazer (FOX): "The Mike Evans departure from Tampa got 'weird' at the end. It wasn't just about the money; it was a fundamental disagreement on the direction of the offense and the coaching turnover. Evans saw the regression last year under Grizzard and, even with Zac Robinson coming in, he felt the championship window in Tampa had closed while the 49ers offered one last clear shot at a ring."
-- Zac Robinson (Bucs OC): "We’re turning the page. Losing a legend like Mike [Evans] hurts, but it opens up targets for Jalen McMillan and Emeka Egbuka to really showcase their growth."
-- Liam Coen (Jaguars HC): "Losing Travis Etienne to New Orleans was a tough business decision, but we’re thrilled to reunite with Chris Rodriguez Jr. He knows my system from Kentucky and provides that 'hammer' at the goal line we need to complement Bhayshul Tuten."
-- Jeff Hafley (Dolphins HC): "We know the talk about Malik Willis. But with Bobby Slowik (OC) designing the look, we aren't asking him to be Tua. We're asking him to be the most dangerous athlete on the field."
RC NOTE: I’m working on a Malik Willis ‘Rewind’ report to be released this week.
-- Mike McDaniel (Chargers OC): "Working with Trey Lance again in this capacity is exciting. He’s matured significantly, and his package in our 'heavy' sets is going to be a nightmare for DCs."
RC NOTE: Sure thing, Mike.
-- David Blough (Commanders OC): "We’ve been aggressive for a reason. Chig Okonkwo and Jerome Ford give us a level of versatility in the screen game that was lacking."
-- Dr. Jesse Morse: "The 'tightrope' surgery for Keaton Mitchell (Chargers) appears to have held up well. His burst metrics in private workouts were the reason he secured that $9.25M deal yesterday."
-- I thought this was pretty interesting from Brock Purdy...more insane than interesting:
https://x.com/fbgreatmoments/status/2032607704233959796?s=43
== New Daily Series: Best Teams for 2026 Season Post-Free Agency ==
But it’s March...March Madness time...so let’s do it tournament style. One matchup per day. Teams seeded in their division by their 2025 finish. We go through the divisions to the Final Four in each conference, to the overall Final Four, and then the finals. Strictly my early grades on the teams after all the coaching staffs have been put in place and most all of free agency worth noting is done. Assuming every player on the roster is healthy/never hurt.
The first round will likely go pretty predictably, but I do see at least one major ‘upset’ by a bottom seed.
Here we go:
AFC East: (1) New England d. (4) NY Jets...it’s not even close between these two teams, as you would expect. In no area do the Jets have an edge. Tomorrow (2) BUF v. (3) MIA.
-- RC Daily JAX Diary...
(same intro every day)
At the very end of RC’s NOTES, for the next 50-60 days...I will share my little diary of my time in Jacksonville (for those who don’t know) getting radiation treatment for my battle with prostate cancer that I am winning -- I am figuratively off to a big 1st-quarter lead and looking strong into the 2nd-quarter of this football game analogy/cancer battle...but just like the Packers-Bears playoff game...it’s not over ‘til it’s over/we got a ways to go.
I am keeping these daily notes so that I might look back over time at this odd, unplanned event in my life. 40 straight weekdays of radiation scheduled, weekends off, unknown side effects ahead...some short-term, with a somewhat scary risk of long-term effects. It’s gonna be a wild ride.
I’m trying to treat this like a vacation, of sorts. Some people save up for a special trip to Hawaii or a European excursion...I could care less about those things. I saved for a rainy day for my protection...and, well... https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxLdSXQWUapDe0CcQznO8Kuqzht631AnEz?si=MqnycTkzVD5mzPnF
(end of intro)
3/15/26, Day 50 in JAX
34 of 39 radiation treatments done so far. No radiation on weekends.
7 weeks down, 1 more to go.
This will be known as the day where...
I had a bit of an ‘off kilter’ Sunday.
Went to bed at 12:00am. Woke up at 3am and couldn’t get back to sleep...had energy but also didn’t feel well and was having hot flashes so I can’t get comfortable to sleep. So, I just got up to start working...figuring I’d catch up on sleep later. Went back to bed 8am to 10am. Felt a bit better after that. Started to buckle again at 2pm...slept until 5pm.
I did get 8.0 hours of sleep total, which I need to get all the sleep I can right now to keep recovering from radiation...as I now have a mild case of anemia from the radiation treatments on top of other side issues, thus my fatigue issues. But I got my 8.0 hours total...it just took 3 phases, which is VERY annoying and disruptive...but 8 hours is 8 hours, I guess.
Other than that, a peaceful final weekend day here...getting ready for my final week of treatments/Iife in Jacksonville.
I was able to stay up enough to watch the World Baseball Classic USA v. DR...which was a nice way to end the night.
My daily food diary...
Day 50 food spend = $12
BREAKFAST = Starbucks at 5am, bad night of sleep, dealing with some sickness and hot flashes
LUNCH = Chipotle burrito
DINNER = BBQ leftovers
Month #2 (through 22 days) = $470 total spend...now at $21.36 per day average.
50-day total food spend = $1,075...$21.50 per day average...we’re trying to get to/close to the $20 per day budget!!
Month #1 closed. I have 56 days here total, so I am breaking it into two 28 day months/halves. Trying to keep it to $20 a day which I got all kinds of gift cards for it from family and friends during the holidays, etc., to cover approx. $20 a day.
*28-day month #1 of 2 here, final tally = Overbudget/goal by $44 total. Not bad.
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