JosephC

Are Big 10 refs working the Notre Dame/Wisconsin game?

How much NIL money do the Badgers have left? How about giving Kyle McCord a 2 million NIL deal? After all, he's never appeared in an NFL regular season game. Why should he have to be irreparably harmed by being forced to play football in 2026 for $885,000 when a different entity would pay him $2,000,000 to do the same thing? As long as he's enrolled in classes, why should he be prevented from playing football if he is a student at the university? Wisconsin legislature better get together really quick and authorize another 30 million to pay dumb jocks to play football. Nothing is more important than to keep that state football team competitive.

That is pretty much the rule as it stands today. That doesn't stop anybody from suing next year making the argument that if they are enrolled in classes then they are a student, and an arbitrary 5 year rule causes them irreparable financial harm and should be illegal. As we see, it only takes one judge to change everything.

I'm surprised Lane "Sleeze" Kiffin hasn't been recruiting players off of NFL practice squads yet. Those practice squad guys make pretty good money these days, but still is less than a 2 million dollar NIL deal. I'm just wondering which SEC powerhouse Diego Pavia will be playing for next year? College football is completely ruined. I've no desire to watch any of it.

53 players are enough. Teams can easily keep three QBs if they elect to do so. Look at how many players at the bottom of the roster never amount to anything. How many times is that 10th defensive back actually a good player? How many times is that 4th tight end actually a good player? The Packers kept 7 interior defensive lineman on this roster. What are the chances that players #6 and #7 in that group ever amount to anything?

I haven't watched a baseball game since Lyin' Ryan got busted. Haven't bought any sport merchandise in over 10 years. The only reason I'm still here is that I have an interest in player transaction and roster building. If everything was like it was in the old days (no free agency, draft coverage non-existent), it's pretty much a guarantee that I would not be posting or even looking at any sports message forum.

I have to agree, if someone is really concerned about character, it's hard to believe they would pick the NFL as something to watch. Not only are an inordinate amount of players real scumbags (and I can guarantee you it's more than 1 or 2 per team), but the owners are no better with their raiding of taxpayer coffers and partnering with exploitative businesses. There is a reason I stopped watching their product years ago.

If the video is that bad, someone should ask the DA what happened to the strangulation and suffocation felony charge? Why were four other charges reduced to two misdemeanors? If she really got beat up so badly, why is it a misdemeanor battery charge, and not a felony substantial battery charge? Maybe he beat the hell out of her? Maybe it was two adults with an average IQ of 75 wrestling over a cell phone, and in the end she took a tumble and that's why he gets charged and she didn't get charged? Who knows at this point? But one thing is for certain, if it's bad, this video will get played over and over and over and over when it's released and the DA will have set himself up for massive public outcry and potential job loss. The fact that it ended up as two misdemeanor charges says something.

Looking great on paper is one thing. Performing is another. But looking at that Steelers defense on paper, that group looks like it could be really, really good.

I would imagine LaFleur loves Rodgers. 4 years of Rodgers/LaFleur = 11.75 wins per season. 3 years LaFleur - Rodgers = 9.67 wins per season. The first three years with Rodgers still makes LaFleur's overall record look really, really good.

Hard for the Packers. Now they will have to add at least 3 more high paying jobs. #1 - Sideline Instant Replay Specialist. #2 - Instant Replay Coordinator. #3 - Instant Replay QC. As the smallest market team in football, without a billion dollar owner that can just sell off part of the team for a quick cashflow that would be north of 100 million, I see this as potentially putting the Packers at a huge competitive disadvantage. Policy will really have to do his job and find more streams of revenue in order to keep the franchise afloat.

The post wasn't meant to cast doom-and-gloom over the Packers cap situation. They are not in bad shape. The post was meant to explain that adding a player like Vita Vea at this time is pretty unlikely and the cap plays a big factor in that.

This one looks promising-

Packers just signed some no-name kicker. He's a German guy that played in the European League of Football. Very interesting.

The Packers are already in a situation where they will likely have to cut Jacobs, Banks (post June 1 designation), Hargrave and Franklin in order to make the 2027 cap work...and that is prior to a potential Kraft extension. I think they are done looking for any high priced players from outside of the organization this off-season. Just for kicks, I went to OvertheCap and plugged in guess numbers for the Wyatt contract (they don't have the details yet), and then put in a new 3 year, 72 million dollar deal for Vea (25 million dollar signing bonus). Note that Vea has a 17 million dollar base salary for 2026 which would not work for Green Bay, so this would be a new contract that would run from 2026-2028. After doing that, the Packers would be 8.8 million under the cap for 2026, and approximately 18.8 million over the cap for 2027. Cutting Jacobs (post June 1), Banks, Hargrave and Franklin after this year would take them from 18.8 million over to 29.2 under...and generally I would like to think they would prefer to roll into an off-season with at least 40 million to work with. Kraft is probably the last "larger" deal we are looking at over the next few months. What will really complicate matters more is if they decide they need to do a Love extension this next off-season. His 2027 cap number does not demand it, but they might feel the need to do it anyway. And unlike most extensions, where the first year of the deal has a lower base salary and give the team some short term cap relief, I would not expect that with a Love extension, just because I think the numbers of the deal will be staggering.