rmw10

So, I've decided I'm going to switch out Ward and Mack everyday just so I can bring NFLfan up, just to bring him down again.

What happened to Alex Mack? I thought rmw already used the tag

I took it off Ward and used it on Mack instead.

Trying something new.  On my depth chart, each spot with a __________ represents a spot I'm trying to fill.  Figured that might be easier than constantly posting my needs.

I know I'm really going to have the urge to make my team up on Madden and see what I can do with it.

Thank you rmw for screwing me over

 

Biggest Need:

C

Haha you were the one I was most worried about.  With all of that cap space, I had a feeling I wasn't going to be willing to outbid you.

Time to make rmw pay for Ward now...

Haha it's cool.  I was just starting to get the feeling that bidding for Mack was going to be out of control, and he's much harder to replace.

The Cleveland Browns have rescinded the franchise tag for SS TJ Ward (7 stars), and instead, places the franchise tag on C Alex Mack (9.5 stars)

Take Ward out and that secondary get's a lot worse though...

Despite their complete lack of depth, their secondary isn't too bad.  Haden is a star.  Gipson was kind of an unsung hero.  While Skrine is best as a 3rd CB, he's pretty good as well.

I would for sure do that... Mack is gonna get some serious bids in FA.

That's what I was thinking.  I'd love to keep my line intact, and while Ward is good, SS are fairly replaceable.

Up until the deadline it's fine.

Oh cool.  So, hypothetically, if I wanted to swap out the already franchised TJ Ward for Alex Mack instead, I could do that?

You're allowed to lift the tag off people in the NFL... I assume I'm allowed to Franchise People again.

Yeah I mean, just curious.  I honestly have no clue.

Ok, I'm Franchising Johnson again........

Are we allowed to change/swap out franchise players? haha

Just a helpful reminder, the most common cap errors so far have been on trades. Remember, the base salary of players you receive gets added to your salaries and the cap hit - dead money of departing players gets removed. It might be easiest just to worry about player salaries in your trade calculations and keep the stuff for draft picks up in that section of the SoF.

I agree.  Makes it much easier.

Two 4ths, four 5ths and two 6ths right now.  I'm accumulating picks!

I'll give you Brandon Weeden for all of them...

With most of your offense fixed you can find an upgrade at qb in this draft. I believe there are more starters than will get drafted in the first rd of this mock.

I got Brock because I didn't like any of the investments in QB's this draft.  I wanted to find a cheaper way to upgrade my QB, and instead, build around him.

I really like Brock's potential, too.

Caught me before I scratched that out, I was just looking at your latest in the cut thread.  Forgot you were the one who already accounted for all that.  Anyway, I'm up to date on you and you should be at 46.5, unless you made some trade in the last 20 minutes.

Nope that's it for now.  I'm under 51 players so every cut I make from here on out should present the standard cap hit - dead money savings.  I was pretty sure I accounted for everyone.

One star.  Fozzy wasn't counted against your cap, you get nothing back for him.  I got you at 44.0 with those moves.

I'm under the rule of 51 so everything should be straight savings at that point.

63 - 7 - 0.5 - 13 - 6.5 + 9 = 45

 

You have those individual values correct in your breakdown at the end.

I cut 1.5 stars worth of salary a little bit ago.  I'm still wrong either way though lol.

Your numbers are right, you summed them together wrong.  Too many PMs at the moment, but you're at 45.

???

I keep getting 46.

No it doesn't, their draft order is wrong on a lot of picks.  Wikipedia's listing seems to be the best, but they don't have the overall numbers assigned.  It looks like they do have the position in the rounds right though.

Whoops.  My bad.  Ignore that Free Agent!

 

rmw, how could you cut a player with the name Fozzy Whitaker?

 

Because he's terrible at football haha

The Browns have also cut:

RB Fozzy Whittaker (.5 stars)

WR Josh Cooper (.5 stars)

TE Gary Barnidge (.5 stars)

I don't know if this has been thrown out there already, but does anyone have a reliable source to find your team's draft picks and their overall numbers?

walterfootball.com works pretty well right now, but most are refraining from assigning actual numbers since comp picks haven't been announced yet.

Haha I just want the guy gone, but it will cost me more to get rid of him than it would to keep him.

And a QB

I'm putting the talent around Brock.

And don't forget I have Weeden...