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  1. Sure but things at Red Bull were very different a year ago. If they’re not doing everything they can right now, it’s a huge mistake.
  2. The team who can’t figure out a ground effect car to save their ever loving lives isn’t that interested in Newey. LMAO Merc is so bloated and lost. They’ve been fading hard ever since they lost their massive engine advantage and it’s not getting any better. Their strategy team tends to be slow to react and too conservative. Their pit stops have been consistently slow for years, and they obviously have huge issues with car design and development. If there’s one team willing to absolutely break the bank on Newey, it should absolutely be Merc. Them not being that interested in him just shows they’re still lost and not even close to figuring things out.
  3. And about 20 of those 25 were guys who hadn’t played a snap of college ball yet.
  4. You are drastically overrating Finkley. He’s undersized and doesn’t have great explosiveness. He’s a solid backup, but he’s not starting at any program that has hopes of sniffing the playoff. He could probably start at low end P5 schools or G5 schools.
  5. I could see the first 5 picks around there. That Ford pick seems way too high. I can’t see him going in the third. Sanders early third also seems a little high after his poor testing and being undersized.
  6. If we’re talking about more than a couple wins over two seasons, I think it would matter, but Singapore was a pretty fluky race. Sainz did an amazing job in Australia, but he’s not even the fastest on his team most races. Leclerc had the pace to win in Las Vegas last year, but an unlucky safety car took away his chance at a win so it’s not like Sainz is the only guy who’s shown the pace to challenge Max the last couple years. I do think Sainz gets underrated a lot, and he’s a top 5 driver on the grid, but saying he’s the second best driver in the grid is quite a leap, especially for a guy that’s lost to his teammate 2 of the last 3 years and is down by 62.5 points to Leclerc over the last three seasons with Leclerc losing quite a bit more points due to bad reliability than Sainz over that time. If you equal out reliability, he’s down by over 100 points to his teammate over 3 seasons.
  7. Showing up to Spring ball that out of shape when you’re in a loaded RB room and will have to fight for every carry you get is certainly a choice.
  8. If it was just up the conferences, we wouldn’t be in this situation. If the NCAA tries to enforce that rule, they’ll get sued and lose in court.
  9. This is a great idea. The NCAA absolutely needs to pass another rule it can’t/wont enforce. That’ll fix it!
  10. This is pretty disingenuous. Manning and Brady were all time greats who took big pay cuts to win a last SB on a loaded roster. You can’t build a team around hoping you find that. Foles had one of the flukiest runs ever and was a backup QB getting paid $5 mil with a starting QB on a rookie deal. So this also isn’t a repeatable strategy to hope your backup QB has an all time playoff run and then never has a good year again for the rest of his career. Stafford’s really the only example in the last 20 years where it’s worked.
  11. It depends what your goal is. If you’re trying to win your division and make the playoffs every year, then the Cousin strategy works. If you’re trying to win a SB, it’s going to be almost impossible. The only QBs to win a Super Bowl in the last 15 years with a cap hit of more than $20 mil are Mahomes and Brady, and Brady only did it once. Most of his cap hits were around $15 mil when he won with NE, which was about half of market for a top QB. So you better be signing an all time great if you’re going to pay anywhere near market for a QB, otherwise it’s not happening.
  12. This is one of the more extreme drafts I can remember in terms of position depth. This might be the strongest OL draft in the last decades or two. WR and QB are also very strong. Edge is deep but lacking elite talent. LB and S are extremely weak. I’m expecting a couple guys at those spots to get overdrafted simply because they’re #1 at their position.
  13. I don’t think the Broncos need to draft a QB in round 1 this year. Their roster is an absolute mess. Even if they hit on a QB, they couldn’t build a good roster around him before he gets too expensive to win. They’re better off being terrible for the next couple seasons and stockpiling assets, then trying to find a QB in a year or two. Plus Payton has plenty of job security so he doesn’t need to rush it.
  14. lol wut. As of right now, the 2025 QB class is very weak. There aren’t 5 QB better than him on that list. He’s easily top 3 with the opportunity to be #1 if he improves.
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