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    Became football-aware at age 10 in 1980.  We lived in Fairfax, VA, making the Redskins and the Baltimore Colts the  two local teams.  Now, my Irish twin of a brother was already a Redskin fan, so there was NOOOO way I was gonna root for them!  Fast forward a few years - the Colts had moved to Indy and I was living in a suburb of Tacoma, WA, but I hung with the team.  I stick with the Colts to this day, 30-odd years and five states later.  It just so happens that I currently reside in the far reaches of Patriot land - Western Mass.  Fun place to be a Colt fan...  
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  1. Man, I’m more on the fence this year than I’ve been in many seasons. My problem is that I’m torn between targeting CBs Mitchell or Arnold in the 1st or trading down and targeting Melton in the 2nd. We need to have a premium CB corps in our division, so we need to do one of those things IMHO. I just think that Melton is a great value in the 2nd and has the arm length and athleticism Ballard likes. (Arnold lacks the athleticism and Mitchell lacks the arm length in the 1st.). Problem is: it just takes one team to like Melton as much as I do before we’re screwed, since I’m not a huge fan of the CB depth thereafter. Maybe the answer is to trade down in the 1st and take Melton there. It would be considered a reach, but so were Leonard, Freeney, Sanders, etc.
  2. Of course, the same logic can be used to say we won’t take a cb in the 1st. We paid Moore and drafted Brents.
  3. I disagree with this sentiment. We had a bad run with injuries last year at CB, which was already a young, developing group. But Flowers was looking like a decent #1 when he went down for the year. Then Brents looked good as the #1 until he got injured and then showed his rookiness when he returned. And Jones looked quite good around mid-season. I’d love to add a dominant #1 as much as the next guy, but signing an FA to be that guy is the absolute most expensive way to do that. And it sounds like Sneed is pricing us out of the market. We may just have to draft a CB in the first or second and hope that one guy on the team can develop into a solid #1 guy, but it should work out much better than last year!
  4. Also happened in the large govt agency I work for. Really shook my faith in my organization to see so many replying to all to tell people not to reply to all. At least it was easy to have Outlook sort by the subject line and mass delete them. It’s fun to tell the story to millennials who weren’t around yet…
  5. Seems like they’re getting a 2nd first in order to trade up for a QB. Dangling 2 firsts might interest a talent deficient team like NE to trade their #3 pick…
  6. I like Goodson better, but between Taylor, Hull, Goodson, Sermon, and Zavier Scott, we should have 3 roster spots ably filled. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a late-round pick at RB, though.
  7. Oh, come on! I just saw Ballard sipping a Pina Colada. over at Trader Vic’s, and his hair was perfect!
  8. I love this point. The media gives credit to the big spending teams for “improving”, when in reality they’re bringing in FAs who may or may not integrate well into their systems to replace players lost in FA. At least we brought back guys who we know mesh well, so we aren’t any worse. And Ballard is easily a Top 10 drafter IMO, so we can certainly improve steadily with this strategy…
  9. I think they’re going to be very good, like they were at the end of 2023. However, seldomly do the big FA players build a super team, no matter what it looks like on paper…
  10. Yeah, I know. I’m just saying that by releasing him in a week or so, we aren’t screwing his FA chances. He’ll be a third-tier TE…
  11. Kinda what I was thinking. He’s really not the kinda player that goes in the first few days. Maybe we’ll still release him in the next week or two…
  12. I agree, but maybe we like that keeping him around a little longer further hides our 1st round intentions. Is there any advantage to releasing him before the league year opens tomorrow? Any advantage to doing it before the draft?
  13. Of course, we’d have to know the contracts’ specifics to know their year 1 impacts, right? Not a great capologist, so I can never quite figure out what we have to work with…
  14. It’d have to be Melton IMHO, but I’m not sure we’ll be able to get to the CB need that early in the draft…
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