RC's streaming note board on football, and other, things going on this week...
Just an open page for me to drop notes/ideas/things I'm hearing/seeing/working on or just caffeinated or lack of sleep thoughts on football items.
SUN 2/16/25
(7:55amET)
-- ‘Travis Kelce to retire’ talk is picking up steam by the day. A few days ago, I thought...he’s likely to come back for another year, because they always do. Today, I think (based on conversations) that he’s more likely to retire. Let’s say 60/40 to retire...my odds/gut feeling.
His 2025 contract is for $19.8M, if he plays...if the Chiefs let him play with that final year of his current contract. OR...the Chiefs can cut him and pay him $2.6M to go away.
I think there is no way the Chiefs would let that $19.8M year ride. If he wants to play, they’d probably negotiate a $5-8M, 1-year deal...but Kelce could probably make $5-10M+ in the media next year.
But maybe his pride or desperation to cling to football life or love of the game pushes him to come back, but I think based on the tape and critiques going around about his specific play/effort in the Super Bowl (or lack thereof) probably has KC ready to move on from the circus...with Kelce not having much to give anymore. His heart doesn’t seem to be into it anymore, and his skillset is naturally fading -- but that doesn’t mean he won’t try and make one more run...NFL players always stay a year too long.
If he does choose to retire (when he finds out KC is ready to move on with the deal they might offer), then all FF-eyes will turn to Noah Gray. Two things about Gray:
1) He is NOT Travis Kelce. He will not be close to Kelce in production, but he’ll be something. If Kelce goes, people will over invest in pursuing Gray. I’d be a seller of Gray as/if he gets white hot.
2) Don’t forget the Chiefs spent a 4th-round pick on a talented Jared Wiley last year. And Wiley got good camp reports right away last season but then kinda drifted into the background in the preseason BUT was playing snaps right away in the regular season and gaining some steam as he got comfortable with the offense...however, he tore his ACL in practice midseason and is still rehabbing to try to be ready for training camp 2025. If he isn’t ready, he’ll miss a golden opportunity to possibly ‘take over’ in 2025 right off the bat (IF Kelce is not returning).
-- A two-part rumor. Part one, I think, is guaranteed to happen. Part two is the more rumor-ish part:
(2/16) Part One: Davante Adams will be cut in the next few weeks. He will not be traded (virtually untradeable contract). He will not be renegotiated with. He will be cut and paid out $8M due.
Part Two: He is rumored to likely sign a reasonable deal with the Rams, as a free agent...IF Matt Stafford is back. But the 49ers may also make a run at him if/when they have dumped Deebo. But the Rams are the supposed ‘leaders in the clubhouse’ on him, once cut. Adams is a 'West Coast guy', it's thought.
Adams cannot wait around on Aaron Rodgers to land somewhere...Rodgers may or may not play ever again, and if he does play/sign with a team in February or March...it will likely be for a rebuild/weak team.
But what I think is going to happen -- Adams will sign a 1-year deal with the Chiefs to kinda ‘replace’ retiring or much lower contract cost, and fading away on talent, Travis Kelce. KC will have money/CAP space if Kelce is gone or drastically reduced. KC needs a stop gap WR for 2025 as Rashee Rice will be an unknown with his rehab from ACL injury and how long his looming suspension might be. Adams can sign with KC as the ultimate place to go to try to win a title in his remaining NFL year/s.
-- A quick reminder to the Betting Subscribers from 2024...the 2024 betting subscription runs until Feb 17th, 2025/a week after the Super Bowl.
New Betting subscriptions for 2025 season (goes until Mid-Feb. 2026) will be available in March, and we’ll let you know all about sign-ups, etc., prior.
We’ll be opening back up in-time for NFL Draft betting and the early Prop and team bets that come out in May, and the rest of the offseason into the preseason and through the regular and postseason.
Your Discord access will stay intact all February (and beyond) while we get set for the new betting subscription season.
-- Coming up on FFM today...
Final Senior Bowl position re-rank (the safeties) will post today.
Next Scouting Report late SUN or early MON...another RB. I’m doing several RBs in a row over the next few days/week.
I think we will start the new daily series today (or Monday) of a top 25 ‘draft’, a 2023 and 2024 Dynasty Rookie Draft mash-up draft, with the rookies from those two years drafted as we know them now. After this mash-up mock we’ll then add the 2025 rookies into it (as we know them pre-draft) after the Combine...just to get some concepts to think about before the actual NFL and DRD draft.
Our 2025 Combine positional previews are set to begin this upcoming week.
Working on my team-by-team studies to launch the top 600 Dynasty valuations/rankings debut in a week or so...which will include the rookies.
SAT 2/15/25
(8:13amET)
-- So, I watched the Kellen Moore intro press conference...and the NFL saved the worst (coaching hire of 2025) for last. How embarrassing for the Saints.
Maybe he’ll be a coaching savant, but I highly doubt it. We’re talking about a moderate success/failure in Dallas, then a failure for the Chargers, then lands in Philly when they had to churn their prior year coordinators (one and done) -- and Kellen timed it just right to be with Jalen Hurts and about-to-land Saquon. Moore is the Frank Reich or Shane Steichen of fortunate timing as an Eagles O-C.
In the same way the Chiefs O-Cs get jobs for being around Patrick Mahomes, Eagles O-Cs will get the same because NFL people never believed in Jalen Hurts (or Nick Foles), so it has to be a miracle of QB coaching that gets the Eagles to the Super Bowl.
It’s the same mistake Tennessee made hiring Joe Burrow’s offensive coordinator. I could be the successful offensive coordinator for Joe Burrow.
But, once Kliff Kingsbury (sudden genius with Jayden Daniels ‘luck’ falling his way) smartly told the Saints ‘no’...it was off to plan C-D-E-F whatever letter the Saints management were on...and, thus, Kellen Moore is somehow an NFL head coach.
Using the intro press conference as a guide...I’m not super encouraged that the Saints made a great choice.
The press conference began with the owner of the Saints, Gayle Benson, for some reason feeling the need to do a 2–3-minute opening on ‘the process’. Aren’t you so impressed that they did a diligent search and were looking for someone who was a good leader? So glad she reassured all of us, off of cue cards, what every football program from high school to the pros is looking for in a new head coach. They’re real trailblazers down their in New Orleans...
After she was done with her nonsense, the GM/car salesman-esque Mickey Loomis got up to speak for a few minutes and fast-talked and gave a cheap chuckle or two before turning it over to Kellen Moore for approximately 35 minutes of pure nonsense.
I can recreate this press conference easily for you, if you missed it...
Media: Kellen, why did you want to choose the Saints job?
Kellen: It’s a special city with a special owner and special GM, and a locker room with special players. It’s exciting. It’s going to be fun.
Media: What are you bringing to the table for this organization and the fans?
Kellen: Well, it starts with this being such a special city...with special fans...and a special management group that collaborates to manage the special players that we have. It’s exciting. It’s gonna be fun.
Media: What are your thoughts on Derek Carr?
Kellen: Special player. Special QB. I’m excited to work with him. It’s a special exciting time to be a part of the special, exciting Saints organization. It’s gonna be a lot of fun. I’m excited.
You get the gist...
To me, Kellen Moore (at this press conference) looked like a goober who just found the last golden ticket in a random Wonka bar he bought...and is now thrust into a press conference that he’s a little overwhelmed at. He may be a genius...and they may write books about him someday on his management philosophies that revolutionized football. But on the surface, he doesn’t look like a leader of men...he doesn’t carry himself with assuredness...he has no message other than ‘I’ve been around football a long time, so I guess this is the next thing’.
Likely he is gonna be fired within two years and the media will see this as a hire GM Mickey Loomis made so he could easily stay in control of the team by hiring a patsy head coach. The owner + Loomis are the main problem with the Saints...and they are still there...Kellen Moore can’t fix that.
This is gonna end very poorly = my prediction.
-- Everyone is all worked up about Travis Hunter being listed as a CB for the Combine. It does not matter for any variety of reasons...
1) He can’t be listed at two positions for the Combine, so it had to be one or the other. He was not going to be listed at both. It’s a simple procedural decision.
Again, the league is not for something like Travis Hunter prepared -- and why would they be...this is something the NFL has never seen. A top prospect at two unique/different positions...there’s no modern era precedent for it.
2) It doesn’t matter if they listed him as a kicker or a QB for the Combine -- because he will not do one thing at the Combine. Marvin Harrison and Caleb Williams in 2024 were the next step in the evolution of players not participating in the Combine. Basically, Marvin Harrison did not step onto the field...and he didn’t take any questions from the media.
If I were the agent for a Travis Hunter level prospect, I would use the Marv Harrison precedent -- blow the whole thing off. Show up for weigh-in and maybe do a few team interviews...and I’d only interview with the top 3 teams at most. I wouldn’t let the NFL waste my time or my body on the Combine. I can’t even imagine if a top prospect ran a 40-yard dash and tore an achilles doing it...it would cost them millions of dollars.
Marv Harrison (all controlled by his father) suckered the NFL and its media and analysts and scouts by hiding and ‘big timing’ the process...super smart to not get exposed. Marv could not improve his holy aura the media machine built him up as, so why do anything to ruin his mystique at the Combine? I would use that same Harrison family playbook if I were Hunter or Abdul Carter. I would also do the same for Shedeur, even though he doesn’t deserve it...but you need to do it to protect him from himself and protect whatever fleeting draft image/aura he has -- the more words he speaks to people the worse his NFL prospects are gonna get.
-- A quick reminder to the Betting Subscribers from 2024...the 2024 betting subscription runs until Feb 17th, 2025/a week after the Super Bowl.
New Betting subscriptions for 2025 season (goes until Mid-Feb. 2026) will be available in March, and we’ll let you know all about sign-ups, etc., prior.
We’ll be opening back up in-time for NFL Draft betting and the early Prop and team bets that come out in May, and the rest of the offseason into the preseason and through the regular and postseason.
Your Discord access will stay intact all February (and beyond) while we get set for the new betting subscription season.
-- Coming up on FFM today...
Final Senior Bowl position re-rank (the WRs) will post today.
Next Scouting Report late FRI or some time on SAT...another RB. I’m doing several RBs in a row over the next few days/week.
Working on my team-by-team studies to launch the top 600 Dynasty valuations/rankings debut in a week or so...which will include the rookies.
Working on a new daily series to debut next week: a 2023 and 2024 Dynasty Rookie Draft mash-up draft, with the rookies from those two years drafted as we know them now. After this mash-up mock we’ll then add the 2025 rookies into it (as we know them pre-draft) after the Combine...just to get some concepts to think about before the actual NFL and DRD draft.
FRI 2/14/25
(7:17amET)
-- Possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in the football rumor world...was the supposed ‘Trevor Lawrence trade inquiry by the Steelers’. I think the Jaguars just wanted to be seen as having the thing everybody wants -- when I don’t know that any team would really ‘want it’. But it makes the Jags feel good.
When has a team ever traded for or away something in the past decade that would be in tremendous peak demand? Draft picks, yes. Old QBs, yes. Complaining WRs in contract negotiation time, yes. ‘Star’ (or popular) QBs in their prime age who just got a mega contract, no.
Why in the world would the Jaguars have any interest in trading Lawrence...they are literally in love with him. Of all the QBs to inquire about...why Lawrence? If you’re shooting for the moon...why Trevor? Don’t answer that question...I know the answer. The whole league is in love with Trevor, because they’ve been conditioned to be.
There is no way the Steelers GM seriously contacted the Jaguars and asked about Trevor in a trade...especially in a year with no QBs available in the draft and Jacksonville not sitting on like a #1 pick with a ton of QBs to choose from. None of it makes sense. I ask myself -- why? Why would any football writer float this out there...who wanted what from this story/tale being released?
I could add a cute theory within this...
What if new HC Liam Coen wants to reunite with Will Levis (they worked together at Kentucky)? Jacksonville could trade Trevor for the sun, moon, and stars then do a basic trade for Levis (actually, they would trade for Levis as a backup level trade first, then do the mage-deal)?
There is less than zero% chance of all that happening from so many angles...
No way any new coach or GM would arrive to Jacksonville and then trade the supposed prince...and NO WAY they’d do it in order to clear room to bring in Levis...Levis is a pariah right now.
Now, if I were the Jacksonville GM...
-- RC Wild A$$ guesses/predictions...
From now until free agency week, I’m going to list some wild theories and/or rumor things I am getting across my desk. I’m going to list them here, in the order of my most confident to least. We’ll see if ANY of them actually comes true. Listed in confidence order, with the date and the prediction...
(2/14) Matt Stafford will re-sign a new deal with more guaranteed money with the Rams before free agency. All the Stafford/Giants trade talk is viable, the Rams are seeing what the market is, but they are more using the Giants trade talk as some leverage with Stafford for his new deal. It was a little ugly between Stafford and LAR renegotiating last year, and Stafford has leverage this year -- because of the QB pool being so bad, but there are plenty of QB needy teams out there. The Giants really are begging to get Stafford, but LAR likely doesn’t make the deal...nor does Stafford really want to play in New York.
-- Tomorrow, I plan to review the Kellen Moore intro press conference and report out on what I saw/thought.
-- A quick reminder to the Betting Subscribers from 2024...the 2024 betting subscription runs until Feb 17th, 2025/a week after the Super Bowl.
New Betting subscriptions for 2025 season (goes until Mid-Feb. 2026) will be available in March, and we’ll let you know all about sign-ups, etc., prior.
We’ll be opening back up in-time for NFL Draft betting and the early Prop and team bets that come out in May, and the rest of the offseason into the preseason and through the regular and postseason.
Your Discord access will stay intact all February (and beyond) while we get set for the new betting subscription season.
-- Coming up on FFM today...
Final Senior Bowl position re-rank (the WRs) will post today.
Next Scouting Report late FRI or some time SAT...another RB. I’m doing several RBs in a row over the next few days/week.
Working on my team-by-team studies to launch the top 600 Dynasty valuations/rankings debut in a week or so...which will include the rookies.
Working on a new daily series to debut next week: a 2023 and 2024 Dynasty Rookie Draft mash-up draft, with the rookies from those two years drafted as we know them now. After this mash-up mock we’ll then add the 2025 rookies into it (as we know them pre-draft) after the Combine...just to get some concepts to think about before the actual NFL and DRD draft.
THU 2/13/25
(7:11amET)
-- Aaron Rodgers got the boot by Aaron Glenn (reportedly because he wouldn’t agree to NOT going onto the Pat McAfee show AND wouldn’t commit to attend all preseason practices) it’s now being floated that Tyrod Taylor is in-line to become the starter for 2025.
You may think that is silly and not likely to be, but I think it’s got legs to happen for two reasons...
1) NFL coaches LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Tyrod Taylor.
Going back in time:
There was a stretch (2015-17) where Tyrod was the Buffalo starter for three seasons (then BUF drafted Josh Allen).
Then 2018 CLE/Hue Jackson wanted/pushed Tyrod over Baker Mayfield (who Hue didn’t want). Hue would be fired at season’s end.
In 2019, Anthony Lynn/LAC grabbed Tyrod to be his lead QB, until the team doctor punctured Taylor’s lung pre-game in Week 2 -- and thus launched the Justin Herbert era, which is something Lynn absolutely did not want but could not stop. Lynn would be fired at season’s end.
In 2020, new HC David Culley/HOU pushed Tyrod as his starter, but the Culley ‘era’ was a joke and Davis Mills took over later in the season (and Culley was one-and-done).
Tyrod has single handedly gotten more coaches fired in the NFL than any single player you can name this past decade...he’s like the Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon game getting coaches fired and young QBs launched to starters.
Still, EVERYONE loves Tyrod. So, it is VERY possible Tyrod gets the start for NYJ. Coaches love his ‘leadership’.
Before we laugh this off...5+ years ago this would be a joke. But in recent years, grinder/older QBs are flourishing -- because they have (experience, leadership, maturity) what the NIL divas like Caleb Williams’s and Shedeur Sanders lack...big-time lack.
2) We’re gonna see ever more ‘strange’/uncomfortable QB moves in the 2025 offseason...as this NFL Draft is not giving the league any rookie QBs to desire. There is going to be a feeding frenzy for free agents Russell Wilson and Sam Darnold, and somewhat for Jameis Winston and Andy Dalton.
Some teams that need/want to make a change...will not...because there isn’t a better option out there. Thus, it is very plausible Tyrod Taylor will be the best QB for the Jets...and Geno Smith stays locked in for Seattle. And Kyler Murray stays in Arizona. And Bryce Young may end up staying the #1 for Carolina, but I’m still skeptical (I think they might trade him). Derek Carr will stay as the Saints #1.
Matt Stafford should stay in L.A., unless some team gives up multiple #1s for him -- but then who will the Rams turn to? The Rams are not rebuilding...they need Stafford. In fact, they’ll likely give Stafford a major raise. They have no choice.
And Brock Purdy will become one of the highest paid players in the league.
Tyrod Taylor is probably on your Dynasty league’s waivers...and he has a very good shot to be the Jets #1 QB, and he is built to produce for FF in 4pts per pass TD leagues especially.
He will be added to the next Dynasty Stash update.
-- In ‘I can’t believe this, but I should’ news...it makes total sense to happen (because ‘Miami’), even though it makes no sense football operations-wise...the Dolphins hired Bobby Slowik to be their pass game coordinator. Slowik, the author of the downfall of the Texans passing game/C.J. Stroud in 2024.
Mike McDaniel is sprinting towards going down in history as a terrible NFL head coach, a major mistake hiring...and the GM will likely be jettisoned with him after the 2025 season.
-- Boy...Travis Kelce is sounding more and more like he might actually ‘hang them up’.
If I had to bet on what’s happening/what will happen: Kelce’s just sore from the Super Bowl disaster and is ‘emotional’. He’ll eventually ‘come around’ after some time off, and return to KC. NFL players rarely ever retire on-time/on-top...it’s usually one year too late. The 2025 season is probably that ‘year too late’ for Kelce.
How KC approaches the offseason probably has a lot to do with Kelce’s decision...(a) run it back with the veterans who have earned the right, or (b) kinda blow some things up and retool for another run in a year or two. If Kelce returns...its ‘a’...and ‘b’ if he decides to retire.
-- Coming up on FFM today...
New Scouting Report today...another RB. I’m doing several RBs in a row over the next few days/week.
Final Senior Bowl position re-rank (the WRs) will post THU or FRI.
Working on team-by-team studies to launch the top 600 Dynasty valuations/rankings debut in a week or so.
Working on a new daily series to debut next week: a 2023 and 2024 Dynasty Rookie Draft mash-up draft, with the rookies from those two years drafted as we know them now. After this mash-up mock we then add the 2025 rookies into it after the Combine...just to get some concepts to think about before the actual draft.
WED 2/12/25
(7:20amET)
-- Let’s talk about some news that will be likely be hitting the mainstream rumor mill soon...something I’ve had people mention to me going back to last year, and then again the past few weeks...but I didn’t feel like it was worthy/solid enough to report as even a rumor because ‘what was the point’. It will make sense when I lay it out...
And this is all unsubstantiated rumors and conversations that I’ve had...that I cannot swear are fact/that the people really know what they are talking about, but here’s what I (think I) know:
The ‘rumor’ is that Todd Bowles was gonna either gonna be fired or ‘retire’/’part ways’ IF the Bucs didn’t make the playoffs this past season, which is the same kinda thing I heard coming down the stretch of 2023...but Tampa finished strong and got to the playoffs and then won a playoff game.
There seems to be some bloodthirst to get rid of Bowles within the Tampa Bay organization...but he keeps stumbling his way to the playoffs as the other NFC South teams collapse around them.
And what’s sad about that is: the Bucs have had two quality/in-demand coaching candidates bolt for head coaching jobs the past two offseasons; guys who would’ve been perfect replacements for Bowles.
Dave Canales was likely going to be the Bowles replacement after the 2023 season, if they had missed the playoffs...but they hit a win streak late and snuck into the playoffs. Canales then became the Panthers head coach after his one season as O-C.
In 2024, around midseason/down the stretch, with Canales turning things around so nicely in Carolina...and the Bucs barely at/around .500 and behind/fighting the Falcons for a playoff spot/division title...thoughts of new O-C Liam Coen taking over for Bowles at season end began to rumble, but then the Falcons died off and the Bucs slid into the division title again. Bucs upper management was trying so hard to keep Coen in Tampa as the O-C, with their ‘hidden’ idea of having the Bowles replacement ready to go, so they offered Coen a big deal to stay as the O-C, and Coen announced he was removing himself from any other HC jobs...but then Jacksonville made a monster offer to get him last second.
Yes, the Bucs were mad at the Coen-to-Jacksonville situation...but not really for the reasons reported. It was reported that Coen backed out of/ghosted/reneged on the Tampa verbal agreement in order to chase/take the Jags job...like Coen had stabbed them in the back. That’s not why Bucs upper management was mostly mad...they were/are mad because they wanted Coen to replace Bowles eventually, so they are upset at another great young coaching prospect getting out of their grasp...when they know they will be replacing Bowles the first chance they get.
New Bucs O-C Josh Grizzard is NOWHERE in the class of Canales or Coen, from my encounters of his work and messaging, and having conversations with people thought-to-be in-the-know. It may collapse in Tampa this season...and the Bucs having the bad luck of running out of great O-Cs to turn to for Bowles replacements. Grizzard was not their first choice/what they wanted to do at O-C, but they got backed into a corner late in the process by Coen getting pulled away last second.
The Bucs offense/team may be a whole lot different (worse) in 2025.
-- Carolina either got unlucky or totally gaffed on their first draft pick (a 2nd-rounder) in 2024 with Jon Brooks...coming off an ACL in college, a too slow rehab, then the coaching staff turning on him midseason (once they saw enough of him behind-the-scenes, is all we can assume)...then him having another ACL tear a few weeks after debuting in the NFL/returning from the first ACL.
Now, the ‘word’ is that Brooks may miss the entire 2025 season. He’s almost at the point of being a total write-off for Carolina, and they need to act like he doesn’t exist...thus needing to add another RB in free agency of the draft to run with Chuba.
Chuba Hubbard is in a great spot in Carolina right now.
-- Coming Up on FFM today...
Ollie Gordon scouting report
Senior Bowl positional re-grade series continues
Working on team-by-team studies to launch the top 600 Dynasty valuations/rankings debut in a week or so.
Working on a new daily series to debut this week: a 2023 and 2024 Dynasty Rookie Draft mash-up draft, with the rookies from those two years drafted as we know them now. After this mash-up mock we then add the 2025 rookies into it after the Combine...just to get some concepts to think about before the actual draft.
TUE 2/11/25
(6:12amET)
-- I beg of you to watch, really watch/focus on, this entire interview of Shedeur Sanders on NFL Network and see if you think I’m being too over-the-top on how bad a turn-off Shedeur’s personality is going to be for NFL teams. How weak his team interviews are gonna be.
Shedeur is barely coherent...and one of the TV analysts is a total embarrassment with the way he asks some questions, wait until you hear him (and you’ll know it when you hear it, I don’t even have to identify it.
Shedeur speaks like a high schooler practicing for a job interview at McDonald’s for the summer...and is trying to say all the things he thinks he’s supposed to say at an interview but barely remembering all the key words/phrases, so he shoe horns in the simplistic cliches randomly. And you can see the ‘smug’ dripping off of him...he’s trying to hold it back/keep it hidden from the world, but it seeps out if you’re watching.
Shedeur, and his father, talking about what teams he will and won’t play for ‘is rich’. To me, their whole ‘act’ here is pathetic -- especially the dad coaching the kid the last decade...itching to coach him in the pros and will from a distance. You are inviting a circus to town with the Sanders’ side show.
If Shedeur were some generational talent, I could see teams overlooking the GLARING, OBVIOUS issues with Shedeur...his father’s looming presence being one of the big ones as well...but Shedeur being a 2nd/3rd-round talent with a 7th-round maturity and leadership ability -- he should not be drafted day one, nor day 2-3 for that matter...but he will go top 10 overall, possibly #1, no doubt. You’ll know your team is a ‘dumb team’ if they are the ones who draft him in the 1st-round.
It's a mock draft article (link below), but there’s a video before the mock presentation...watch the video of Shedeur please, really watch it...look at it as if you were interviewing him/studying his personality, etc.: https://www.nfl.com/news/three-round-2025-nfl-mock-draft-round-one
-- Deebo Samuel wants to be traded, which is ‘a laugh’...because I’m sure the 49ers were going to trade or cut him. You can’t fire me...I QUIT!!!
Where is he headed? He’s a sucker’s bet WR for NFL teams that cannot get WRs to come to them naturally in free agency. Poorly run NFL teams in cities where players don’t want to play in, if they have options take the lead in chasing after Deebo. And teams in the AFC have an edge over the NFC.
So, my initial list/rank would be...
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and New England.
Outside of that group, Tennessee might be in the mix. Baltimore is a sucker for ‘name’ WRs.
Houston could be a long shot spot, depending on what DeMeco Ryans thought of Deebo when he was in San Fran with him.
If I were an NFL GM, I’d have zero interest in Deebo. He’s not that good of a pure WR talent, he’s often hurt, and he’s a head case.
There is less and less desire for Shedeur or Deebo types anymore in the NFL...there are too many other good players hitting the league...ones with similar skills but don’t come with obvious locker room turmoil baggage. But just like there were ‘suckers’ for Diontae Johnson, who let the ‘nuts’ out of the bag once he got paid, the past two years -- poorly run franchises will chase a Shedeur and Deebo.
Just like the concerns we had pre-draft, for this guy (only it’s worse than I ever imagined): https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/news/bengals-wide-receiver-jermaine-burton-being-evicted-second-time-in-two-months
-- Coming up on FFM today...
Travel day back to FFM HQ, finally...no more travelling for the month.
Senior Bowl re-grade series: The RBs
Latest scouting report wrapping up/will be out late TUE or earlier WED: Ollie Gordon.
MON 2/10/25
-- Well, another season is officially in the books...the Eagles are the world champions. An outcome I don’t think anyone in football analysis came close to picking this past preseason...but there were plenty of ‘Nick Sirianni will be fired’ predictions, and I was one of them...but no one seriously had ‘...and Sirianni hoists the Lombardi’ as the way this season was gonna end.
The beauty of the unpredictable NFL.
Somewhere in Michigan, Dan Campbell is looking over his 2024 season injury reports and has a single tear running down his cheek.
Somewhere in L.A., the Rams right side of their O-Line has multiple tears running down their cheeks as they had the Eagles on the ropes in the playoffs and gave up a crucial sack in the final minute, on a 3rd & 2 play, to force the Rams out of the Red Zone, and thus forcing them to the eventual 6-point loss.
The NFL usually delivers us an amazing episodic television show every week -- but they threw us a curveball yesterday with one of the worst (if you weren’t a diehard Eagles fan) ‘episodes’ of the TV season with this game...the season finale was a dud. It was never really a game...as the Eagles just slowly squeezed the Chiefs to death for 4+ hours.
The Chiefs odds to win next year’s Super Bowl fell after this game (the Eagles are now the favorites for next year at -600)...and KC’s odds may continue to fall past Buffalo and Baltimore (they are now tied with them at -700). This looked like the end of an era game for KC. A retooling, reloading year is probably in order...but they’re kinda caught in the mindset of: if the same group wants to run it back for one more time, you almost owe it to them to give them a chance.
Kelce isn’t getting any younger/better...the O-Line is not that good...Chris Jones isn’t getting any younger, or cheaper...Rashee Rice may miss half the season with a suspension...the corners are an issue/they've got to get Trent McDuffie back to the slot. Work to do for KC for next season...work they may ignore and try to ‘run it back’ and further dig a hole for their franchise. Whereas on the other side of the field, the Eagles are still quite young overall and all their key players are mostly locked in, contractually.
Everything looks fantastic for the Eagles going forward, but that’s just the line of thinking that happens right before the curveballs start to come.
My full game report on this Super Bowl event is usually a 5,000+ word extravaganza covering a variety of topics from the game itself, to the future, to the commercials, and halftime show. I try to get it out the next day (MON) but my half day of travel will likely kick it to a Tuesday release. It’s usually worth the wait. Could be late Monday release, could be midday/later Tuesday -- depends on the travel timing Monday...then the final leg home on Tuesday, where I finally get to be home for the next several weeks.
Once we’re done with the Super Bowl game report it’s all 2025 season prep all the time ahead -- we got the Combine and Free Agency coming up, then the Pro Days begin...rolling into the draft. Football never gives me a break. Tons of scouting reports and special reports and the Dynasty top 600 valuations/ranks are coming in February, and beyond.
-- The Crumbl week report...
I got a streak going...3 weeks in a row without getting Crumbl. I’d like to blame my willpower, but really I tried to pick up some cookie goodness on the road 2 weeks ago, but they were sold out of all my desired gets.
Let’s see if this week’s offerings can draw me in or I can continue to hold out in the name of dieting (needing to...the road is killing my routines):
Strawberry Cake...Come on! Crumbl, you know I love your cakes...and I really like strawberry cake in general.
Chocolate Covered Strawberry cookie...Easy ‘pass’. I hate chocolate covered fruit, except maybe banana.
Molten Lava cookie...a chocolate cookie with hot fudge in the middle, served warm. If you like Chocolate, you’ll love this.
Valentine’s M&M’s cookie...what you think it is, but with red and pink M&Ms.
Original Pink Sugar cookie...Not a fan. I don’t like their almond infusion concept into this cookie.
Valentine Confetti...a soft sugar cookie with heart shaped sprinkles.
I might avoid this week, unless that Strawberry Cake sucks me in. If you’re going this week, enjoy!
It looks like: https://youtu.be/edWPmSCJ-Ww?si=xJFOWwkjhXRslya_
