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  1. The truth is Colts can still afford what Sneed asks and also have re-signed all those guys. It's never one or other, as contracts can be restructured/extended to create cap space or convert an existing contract into signing bonus and add void years to push the cap hit into more years. Ballard had not done that in the past, but he'll do it as Colts enter Richardson era. As Stephen Holder claims, it's not expensive Free Agent (not plural) vs own free agents, Holder talks as of it's not technically possible and is being reiterated so here. That's not the case in truth. If Ballard thinks the way Holder says, that might be for this year, unwilling to start getting into cap movements into future, but as he'll be forced to do the same in few years, he might as well start doing it so that such restructures get distributed over many years rather than getting lumped together when Richardson wants to get paid.
  2. Where did Schefter say so? I don't find any such tweets from his timeline in X?
  3. What does Diana say, in short? I can't play or hear the audio now... How does it vindicate what Destin Adams say? Because she almost was going to send out that the trade is gonna get done soon? If so, both were wrong that the trade is not any close, and their sources weren't accurate. I don't think it's realistic that trade was about to get done, and suddenly they hit a snag. And, at that exact same time just before the snag, multiple reporters got to know that trade was close? That too from the Colts organization you guys generally are proud that Ballard makes sure information doesn't leak mostly? How does it all happen? Realistically, it's not possible to only know when the trade was so close but they didn't know anything about the snag. It's possible Colts could wait for Sneed situation until the draft and go ahead with other signings. Go ahead, in the sense, Ballard will take his own sweet time to get other free agents in next weeks, not days. Or whenever things work out in each scenario. I will also point out that just because, Colts didn't have to go over the cap so far and didn't restructure in the past to create more cap space, doesn't mean that Ballard will never do so, as Stephen Holder implies. If a GM says, "I will never restructure players' contracts and push the can down the road on certain players, to create more cap space", either that's not a good GM or he doesn't have a great capologist in the organization. Ballard hasn't done that in the past because he rarely signs many free agents, especially expensive ones, and he didn't have great players at premium positions (QB, WR, EDGE, LT) or many players at these positions getting Elite money at the same time. But, that wouldn't be the case with Richardson getting second contract, by which time there could be a top edge or WR or OT also gets into second contract, and Ballard will definitely have to do some cap tricks. It can be done easily now, by extension / cut / restructure, to clear space for Sneed. Unlike Stephen Holder says, Ballard can this year re-sign all the players he wants AND pay big money to Sneed as well. It's always possible. The question is whether Ballard really shies away from doing so?
  4. Yeah, I believe that was different account, that came through reddit post. This deleted account was in some communication with Destin. One of the Destin's tweet was RICKEY SPEAKS quoting that guy's post about the progress, so it looked like Destin looked up to him for some updates from Chiefs side. Benjamin Albright (another self reported insider) in X, suggested that account might have been deleted because people dug into the past history of the account and might have identified the real person or source behind it, and they didn't want to reveal their identity, so removed the account from X.
  5. A random Twitter account, supposedly insider for Chiefs, or Chiefs fan who Destin Adams was quoting and asking details about the progress of the talks with Colts. I saw that account yesterday morning, then during the day that account got deleted.
  6. Chloe probably quoted some photo that was in rounds in Twitter saying Sneed was in Indy, and she was under impression that he had to pass physical for the trade to be official. She did say "apparently Sneed had to come to Indy to pass physical and to put pen to paper", later it was clarified that if he had come for physical, trade report would've already been announced, and if he failed physical, the trade would get called off. Similar failed physical happened in a trade between Vikings and Ravens for NT Michael Pierce few years ago, everyone including Tom Pelissero announced the trade, then it got cancelled. Anyway, there are no such injury concerns for Sneed. In fact, Vikings have picked up FA Andre Van Ginkel, who was placed on IR early January this year. That didn't stop from Vikings signing going official, and he probably passed physical or they have a plan for rehab in place. Chloe was worried too much about Sneed failing physical, as everyone was under the impression that the trade was close to be done deal, at that time yesterday morning.
  7. It might work for both sides, let's see.. Ravens with Lamar vs Steelers with Fields
  8. Thank you in Black and Gold. That's Steelers colors, lol 😂😆
  9. If some GM takes off today, they may lose the ones that get picked up today. It stands to reason that The day being Sunday doesn't matter. After 40+ signings on March 14, only 13 and 11 got signed the next 2 days. Free Agency frenzy was over, and it has slowed down already. There won't be much difference from here onwards from day to day, available free agents will get signed as teams try to reevaluate, reallocate resources and continue to engage in talks and sign those free agents they may need or when the deals work out.
  10. With the amount of free agents they acquire, compensatory pick will probably get cancelled and they'd not have got that either.
  11. Exactly as @DoubleE Colt said. If they really weren't sure about him as franchise QB, they should've traded last year when so many teams wanted emergency QBs! Surely would've got better return. Instead, they waited to see what pick Panthers and their own draft picks are at the end of the season and by the time, the league has gone sore on him, as Fields has shown no progress as pocket passer and his running game sulked too, compared to the previous years. Teams understand that the guy will not have longer shelf life as starter. Remember, SF traded Trey Lance for 2024 4th round draft pick early last season, so there was market and correct timing. Bears and Ryan Poles are always about poor timing and their reading of market value.
  12. It happened in a huge company I worked too, same ... Same .. One accidental mail --> "I'm not the intended person" mail --> then angry mails about STOP REPLYING ALL while replying all... It started on Friday evening, and happened all weekend, then some guys coming in on Monday morning and restarted the whole thing until they killed the whole chain
  13. "Other NFL" trades like Fields, etc., has been continuously posted here for few days now, and that is in Free Agency Colts news only thread here. People shouldn't post other teams' acquisition here, there's a separate thread for that in NFL General section.
  14. Maybe, the 3 million Steelers need to pay (I'm assuming Steelers do). Those other guys like Pickett or Howell come cheaper... But, I agree with you... Even factoring the salary, which is rookie deal and not much for a QB, Fields should garnered more for the Bears! Only thing that makes sense to me - Bears must be betting that Fields will win the QB battle over Russell Wilson and Fields will pay for more than 51% of snaps, so Bears would end up getting 4th round draft pick, early day 3 draft pick. In next year's Draft. I think that's the hope Bears must have. Still, it feels low bargain but probably that's the market, no one else wanted Fields, so Bears are fine with it.
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