This feels so obvious lol.

Say what you will about Drury, but it's not like he went to the Kings and said "Hey how about a 4th!"

Yea, but it feels unlikely that he's going to get some $10+m deal based on one outlier year of production, especially at 30 years old.

Panarin (11), Raddysh (7) Paul (-3) puts them pretty much right at the cap ceiling. Doesn't seem too unreasonable.

I think it'd be pretty easy next year ($15.2m current space) - and after that Kucherov and Vasilevsky are both up.

Might have to move a Nick Paul to do it, but their window is probably just this year and next.

Yea I agree with this.

I think the problem is that The Letter v1.0 didn't really "cause" those runs.

The kids had some nice moments I guess, but most of the core pieces were acquired outside of the 2017-2019 selloff (which started with Stepan, imo).

I don't mind Harris, but if we're going to go the DB coach route, I'd go with Karl Scott from Seattle.

He's been their defensive passing game coordinator and developed a bunch of DBs in his 5 years there.

Wow, totally forgot about him lol.

Would be nice if he can bring some juice.

Something has to go really wrong, schematically, for Wilson to be in man coverage on basically any WR - but especially Tet.

He just has no chance lol

Kneeland has been pretty disappointing this year I think.

But Thomas has to make a better effort on the tackle than this. It's schemed and/or diagnosed perfectly, even if the Panthers blockers won, but he totally whiffed.

Just more Dak and Baker MVP fodder

I think that, regardless of how the first and second units are defined - the plan is just going to be for Fox to stay on as long as he wants lol

Yes and no. Against 2-high like that, the look was always going to be Ferg.

Pickens was a bit lazy with it, for sure, but Ferg dropped that ball before the safety got there, iirc.

Unfortunately, they are incapable of learning.

This is stupid - as is the general idea that Dak is injury prone.

He had a fluke leg injury and broke his hand on a helmet. He's had one injury that would have anything to do with "breaking down."

~$45m, give or take, has always been the number because that's the same percentage of cap as TJ Watt's previous deal (~15%).

Garrett's number is ~14% and probably drove down Micah's price, if anything .

Micah is quite literally saying that the agent advised against it - Dallas wasn't going to get a deal done.

Regardless of if Jerry has waited too long to negotiate, the player has had no incentive to do anything until now. The trade request is just manufactured pressure to get wheels in motion.

This makes the most sense.

Trocheck clicked with Panarin but forced Mika into a matchup role, but Trochek makes much more sense (and I think was probably signed for) in a matchup role.

I'm sure Drury would trade him if he had the chance, but I bet he'd want more size/strength.

If they tried to move Panarin last year - and LAK/Byfield swap would have made a lot of sense, but Byfield is probably not an option now.