Chris Kouffman

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

See now I'm a bit like Omar, I disqualify mocks with trades. I do like several of those players tho.

I try and post on both but there are some annoying incompatibilities with respect to post size so when I'm doing something longer-form it usually ends up on X and if I want to double-post it here, it takes a lot of time to work it down into bite-sized posts for a full thread.

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Welcome to Miami, Mr. Westbrook-Ikhine

Looks like we landed one of the bigger targets. My favorite of the OL targets. And that’s a big position of need for Miami this off season.

There's a difference between taking one major injury versus being a guy who is injured every year.

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No. Not with his injury history. Not at this price. You either want to be able to field a team in January or you want to be able to field a team in March. They're not the same thing.

Perennially injured Safety playing next to Brandon Jones. What could go wrong?

(consider taking out a life insurance policy)

One of my guys. Underrated player.

He's not an OL but yeah he does. I'd take on injury risk in the form of James Daniels and Dre Greenlaw.

I'd also take on Will Fries but I was told his market was going to be hot. If it's not, I'd be in.

Excellent opportunity for him and yeah, no way would I be anywhere close to that price.

I was told his market was going to be hot, so I cooled on him. If that's not true after all, then I am absolutely in on him and have been for months.

The only injury case I'd be looking to take on personally would be James Daniels. I don't know where he's at in terms of his Achilles recovery and it could very well be he's not even ready to sign anywhere. But he's a true swing for the fences, particularly in Miami's system.

Or you could go the age route. What about aged veterans like Brandon Scherff and Kevin Zeitler? The hot market doesn't necessarily apply to guys 32+ years of age and contract values can drop precipitously when a player is showing a certain date of birth. Could Miami take advantage of this?

I've talked about Matt Pryor some. He's less interesting to me as a Guard, where teams have played him more often than not. I think he could be an inexpensive tackle option for Miami.

And what of Trystan Colon who was a Center all thru college but has shown some ability to play Guard?

Center Coleman Shelton was let go by the Bears, upgrading to Drew Dalman. Shelton played in the Rams system, similar to Miami's. Could he play RG?

What about Andre James, let go by the Raiders? He's spent his entire career at Center but he was a LT/RT at UCLA. Could he be moved to Guard?

What I think you have to be wary about are two other strategies employed by teams to try and get under-valued players...and those are taking advantage of prices that are temporarily depressed by injuries and/or character problems. Unfortunately Miami has done some of that and it's not worked out.

Miami has to find ways to capitalize on an overheated OL market.

Having a vision for a position switch is one way to potentially take advantage of price dislocation. They did that with Connor Williams in 2022.

Getting in on older players is another way, like they did Calais Campbell.

Miami had one of their best FA off seasons in decades finding mid-level and low-level deals, e.g. Aaron Brewer, Jordyn Brooks, Jonnu Smith, Calais Campbell, Kendall Fuller.

Were they a bit lucky? I think so.

But it's clear they're going to attempt to repeat that.

NFL Salary Cap rose by an incredible 24% in just two years. And the amount of money being thrown around in free agency is pretty much where the rubber meets the road on those increases. The numbers look mad.

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Ben Johnson had that herculean offensive line in Detroit, and between the Joe Thuney acquisition and the Drew Dalman signing it's pretty clear that's where his priorities are in Chicago.

Such an interesting juxtaposition with Miami's priorities under Mike McDaniel.

SCHEFTER: Braxton Berrios to the Texans

With the big price tags on some of these WRs, I'm curious how Darius Slayton's market plays out.

Shhh...OnlyFins

Mind you, I love the idea of adding Dre Greenlaw in Miami. But when you consider their rumored interest in him, the rumored interest in Joey Bosa per Dianna Russini, and some others not necessarily public, I don't think they've learned anything about managing injury risks on their roster.

Twitter being down for the start of NFL free agency really sums up how things are going over there.

Good re-signing for the Cardinals. I would have been in on him if I were Miami.