Henry signs a 2 year 16 million deal with the Ravens with 9 million guaranteed and up to 20 million in incentives.

Baltimore run game scares me.

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Baltimore run game scares me.

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Agreed, assuming Henry can break the RB curse there.

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is Mixon faster or quicker than Singletary?

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He's faster, not sure about quicker, but Mixon has always been more of a one cut and gone type of guy. He fits this offense very well. Also, over the last 3 years he's averaging 50+ catches a year which is a very big plus for this offense.

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I'm not so sure about that. The Bengals had to significantly reduce their zone running to make Mixon successful last year. The good news is he was much more effective out of the shotgun, which is what CJ is comfortable with.

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2023/1/24/23569178/2023-nfl-playoffs-bengals-chiefs-mahomes-burrow-mixon

I should have clarified that I meant being off the field for legal reasons. Seems like he's been able to do that, but I've been around the block enough to know that type of behavior has a habit of resurfacing.

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is Mixon faster or quicker than Singletary?

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He's faster, not sure about quicker, but Mixon has always been more of a one cut and gone type of guy. He fits this offense very well. Also, over the last 3 years he's averaging 50+ catches a year which is a very big plus for this offense.

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I'm not so sure about that. The Bengals had to significantly reduce their zone running to make Mixon successful last year. The good news is he was much more effective out of the shotgun, which is what CJ is comfortable with.

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2023/1/24/23569178/2023-nfl-playoffs-bengals-chiefs-mahomes-burrow-mixon

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I think that article is more about the offense and blocking schemes needing to change because they weren't good/o-line issues more than Mixon couldn't execute them. NFL network was just talking about Mixon fitting into just about any scheme and MJD thinking he will thrive in Houston's offense.

Reading more, that article is talking about running game adjustments for Zac Taylor over the years to change his running game to the personnel. But the entire span Mixon is the running back there, so it speaks well to Mixon that Taylor has to change the running game schemes of his offense to be able to run the ball and Mixon can fit those different schemes producing at the same level the entire time.

Steelers get Queen - and Texans weren't far off on the money desired. A little disappointing in being this close to adding an impact player in the front seven. Hope Al-Shaair provides a big return on investment.

Yeah, steelers got Queen for 3 years at 41 million. Just have to believe that DeMeco got the guy he wanted as he knows LBs.

Filed from @mspears96: Ravens free-agent LB Patrick Queen told @mspears96 that he plans to sign a three-year, $41 million contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. pic.twitter.com/esTfKGnsvg

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 12, 2024

https://ebonybird.com/posts/patrick-queen-splits-roquan-smith-baltimore-ravens

I've heard things like in that article and it might have kept us from spending money, kind of similar to the Greenard scenario. Queen was a different player before and after Baltimore added Roquan Smith. So, paying him a ton of money you're banking on him becoming a leader on your defense and he never really did that in Baltimore (plus he waited until his contract year to step it up). So DeMeco might have decided to save some money and bring in Al-Shaair who he knows can handle calling the defense and playing at a high level.

I prefer a LB that Demeco has coached to a guy who had 1
Good season in his contract year. Keeping Noah Brown and adding Mixon probably means the draft will be mostly defense, although a wr who can carry the ball some might still be in the draft plan. Deebo like.

Roster is starting to look a whole lot more complete.

QB - CJ, Mills, Keenum (Boyle)
RB - Mixon, Pierce (Taylor, Doaks)
FB - Beck (Hairston)
WR - Nico, Tank, Brown, Woods, Metchie, Hutchinson (Bachman, Matthews, Johnson, Wayne)
TE - Schultz, Brevin, Teagan (Keene)
OT - Tunsil, Tytus (Zierer, Thomas)
IOL - Shaq, Kenyon, Juice, Kendrick, Patterson, Broeker (Eiselen)

DT - Autry, Maliek, Khalil, Hinish (Agim)
DE - WAJ, Sanders, Horton (Gaye)
LB - Azeez, Harris, To'oto'o, Phillips, Hansen (Haynes)
CB - Stingley, King, Okudah, Lonnie, Boyd, Ford (Hollman, Ross, Pride, Thompson)
S - Ward, Pitre, Stewart, Murray (Hill)

K - Fairbairn
P - Townsend
LS - Weeks

That's already 48 guys likely to fight for the roster before any of our draftees and additional FAs. If we can pull one of Hunter/Armstead and a safety then this was about as good of an offseason as you can hope for.

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Roster is starting to look a whole lot more complete.

QB - CJ, Mills, Keenum (Boyle)
RB - Mixon, Pierce (Taylor, Doaks)
FB - Beck (Hairston)
WR - Nico, Tank, Brown, Woods, Metchie, Hutchinson (Bachman, Matthews, Johnson, Wayne)
TE - Schultz, Brevin, Teagan (Keene)
OT - Tunsil, Tytus (Zierer, Thomas)
IOL - Shaq, Kenyon, Juice, Kendrick, Patterson, Broeker (Eiselen)

DT - Autry, Maliek, Khalil, Hinish (Agim)
DE - WAJ, Sanders, Horton (Gaye)
LB - Azeez, Harris, To'oto'o, Phillips, Hansen (Haynes)
CB - Stingley, King, Okudah, Lonnie, Boyd, Ford (Hollman, Ross, Pride, Thompson)
S - Ward, Pitre, Stewart, Murray (Hill)

K - Fairbairn
P - Townsend
LS - Weeks

That's already 48 guys likely to fight for the roster before any of our draftees and additional FAs. If we can pull one of Hunter/Armstead and a safety then this was about as good of an offseason as you can hope for.

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Did we release Derek Barnett?

He's a free agent

Need to sign one tackle and draft one. Losing Fant and Jones right?

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Roster is starting to look a whole lot more complete.

QB - CJ, Mills, Keenum (Boyle)
RB - Mixon, Pierce (Taylor, Doaks)
FB - Beck (Hairston)
WR - Nico, Tank, Brown, Woods, Metchie, Hutchinson (Bachman, Matthews, Johnson, Wayne)
TE - Schultz, Brevin, Teagan (Keene)
OT - Tunsil, Tytus (Zierer, Thomas)
IOL - Shaq, Kenyon, Juice, Kendrick, Patterson, Broeker (Eiselen)

DT - Autry, Maliek, Khalil, Hinish (Agim)
DE - WAJ, Sanders, Horton (Gaye)
LB - Azeez, Harris, To'oto'o, Phillips, Hansen (Haynes)
CB - Stingley, King, Okudah, Lonnie, Boyd, Ford (Hollman, Ross, Pride, Thompson)
S - Ward, Pitre, Stewart, Murray (Hill)

K - Fairbairn
P - Townsend
LS - Weeks

That's already 48 guys likely to fight for the roster before any of our draftees and additional FAs. If we can pull one of Hunter/Armstead and a safety then this was about as good of an offseason as you can hope for.

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Per Over the Cap we also still have $40MM in cap space as well. I doubt they're done, I still think there's moves to be made. Houston still has the money if Caserio likes the opportunity.

That seems good

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D Hunter, 2 yrs $49 million deal with Texans. The kind of impact player the Texans needed this offseason!!!!

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That makes me happy, big upgrade on the dline

Katy boy coming home. Any boy named Danielle must be a mean SOB

Sunshine Richardson and Levis will be running for their lives next season lol

Yes! I was hoping he'd come back home. Had a chance to watch a lot of him up here in Minnesota, dude is a beast!

Took less to come here.

Yes, he is the biggest wet blanket ever…although I do miss his commentary during baseball season.

If they do nothing else in FA, CB, WR, RB, and LB needs to be addressed in the draft.

I'm actually leaning more towards linebacker being best value at 23 assuming quinyon Mitchell and Terrion Arnold are off the board. Would love to add Edge to this group. Then you have 3 sideline to sideline physical athletes at linebacker with Harris, azeez, and edge.

Nick winning the long haul and not March, I like it. Mitchell is an upgrade over Greenard and not much more.

Great FA season so far, I'm sure a lot of these vets that get cut the next 4 months will want to play in Houston. That's the DeMeco effect.

WAJ, Hunter, and Autry are gonna be disgusting on passing downs

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I'm actually leaning more towards linebacker being best value at 23 assuming quinyon Mitchell and Terrion Arnold are off the board. Would love to add Edge to this group. Then you have 3 sideline to sideline physical athletes at linebacker with Harris, azeez, and edge.

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DeMeco and Nick seem to be heavy "player value" guys and taking a LB in the first round is getting very bad value for the pick in the NFL. Also, we play a 4-2-5 almost 90% of the time, so the rest of our LBers are probably going to be journeyman types like a Denzel Perryman or a Blake Cashman last year to compete with To'oTo'o for the backup spots.

1st round is probably going to be a DT/heavy DE hybrid guy or a CB if one drops.

Should be best available. We have the QB to make the offense work, just add good talent where possible unless we are overloaded/logjam at a position (which we don't have).

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I'm actually leaning more towards linebacker being best value at 23 assuming quinyon Mitchell and Terrion Arnold are off the board. Would love to add Edge to this group. Then you have 3 sideline to sideline physical athletes at linebacker with Harris, azeez, and edge.

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DeMeco and Nick seem to be heavy "player value" guys and taking a LB in the first round is getting very bad value for the pick in the NFL. Also, we play a 4-2-5 almost 90% of the time, so the rest of our LBers are probably going to be journeyman types like a Denzel Perryman or a Blake Cashman last year to compete with To'oTo'o for the backup spots.

1st round is probably going to be a DT/heavy DE hybrid guy or a CB if one drops.

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But then you are a little redundant at DT since that is what Autry is. Need a big one next to him right?