2022-2023 NFL Season Thread • Page 199

These are actually very related. The way out of cap hell is trading your big cap # players who are aging to other teams...and likewise, taking the occasional young guy who you'll soon have to pay big $$$ too...and gathering the draft assets to reset.

Saints are still like a B- team in terms of talent, when the smart move was to strip it for parts this year and reset. They should basically have Kamara, their O-line, their mid-20 something defensive guys, and Taysom Hill because he cant be moved...any EVERYONE else should have been released or trade for whatever teams would offer. They'd have gone into 2023 with probably $40mil in cap space and having a bunch of mid-late round picks to make up for the Olave trade if they wanted. Instead, they have hilarious money tied up into injured 30-somethings, a likely inability to keep Davenport, and no 1st round pick!

 

Aint this the truth. The Tayson Hill and Mathieu contracts are both just head scratchers...Hill offers nothing unique (and certainly not $10mil/yr unique), and Mathieu isnt a game changer that wins you a title at this point. They could have extended Davenport just off thier contracts alone.

 

Saints should have just started tearing down after Brees retired, but they decided to push their chips in on the Jameis/Taysom/Dalton funky bunch and the Eagles are benefitting from it

 

Pat Mahomes is a great doctor

 

Yikes

 

They can still get another qb next draft, not like they’re winning many games this season lol

 

Yeah, I'd throw it in for Bryce and then trade Pickett to Houston :)

 

It'd very obviously be Indianapolis taking the chance

They're going to forsake Sam

 

Sam Darnold?

 

Doug, Trevor, and Ridley are Them

 

just saw Junior Galette out here on Twitter saying the Holocaust didnt happen so thats how my Friday evening is going

 

Lmao

 

Not out on Pickett until he has a real offensive coordinator. When every play is a designed 5 yard out or curl what do you expect.

 

Also, Sean Payton left! Like, that was the sign to rebuild.

I mean, he's behind an abysmal line still, with a bottom 3 OC...and the offense was so bad last year that Najee Harris is now broken.

There is a 0% chance he's a one and done. Kordell got 4 years as the starter despite never once posting anything even close to passable QB numbers. Tommy Maddox got 2 seasons of 1:1 TD/INT football, and had he not gotten hurt, surely would have gotten 3. They held onto Ben a solid 3 years after he was a corpse.

Absolute worst case scenario, Pickett is the locked in starter next year and they draft a 4th round speculative guy, or sign a Teddy Bridgewater type, as a fail safe.

 

Non-football talk because that’s what we do in here sometimes.

My job was newly created at the beginning of the year and I have been demolishing things since well, there was no one doing what I did previously so of course the metrics are gonna look great for this year. However, I’m already thinking I need to bounce to a new position at some point before the end of 2023 because it will be almost impossible to have better numbers next year. Maybe the same, but certainly not better which is gonna make cause some issues. So while it’s great to know this year is “covered” as far as proving my worth (always dangerous with a new position getting added to the headcount) next year I can see the question being asked.

 

This is, unfortunately, the likelihood of our generation (and all that follow), and we've been taught that thats bad. Rather than that every reason why people stayed 30+ years at a place has been hollowed out, instead.

I got my first job in 2008 (fun times)...in 2010, due to the payroll tax freeze ending and VA things ending too, I made less than what I was hired for. By 2018, when I ended up working for myself, I made like 130% of my original salary, which barely accounted for cost of living increases. And since then have made more in 5 years than I did in those 10 years of "steady" work. And a 2 years of that has been as a husband to a pregnant woman and as a stay-at-home dad.

I had an amazing boss in that time. I loved the work. I got to travel. And I'd have also gladly traded all that because by the end, I felt they didnt value my abilities. And when I made double in my first year of freelance as I did working for GMU, I confirmed that.

 

There's basically a good calculator somewhere that if I had graduated from college 2-3yrs earlier in life, I'd make like $500k more in my lifetime, and its all "a 5% raise here, and owning a house there" adds up so fast. And moving job to job nets you that on the money side

 

I was at a company for 12 years almost. Left for 30% more money and a higher position fuck your current company jump and get yours.

 

I’ve got a first interview for a promotion next week and the role has a retention bonus program thing that pays out at 4 & 7 years, then every year after that. It’s apparently not uncommon for employees to dip after that 7 year check. That seems like a good plan.

 

I’ve been:

Job 1: 1.5 years
Job 2: 5 years
Job 3: 2 years

As long as comp is at a certain level of adequate, I’m of the opinion that good boss + work/life balance make it good/fine to stick around as long as that lasts because money can’t buy not being absolutely miserable at work and having a life outside of work, but the minute that changes, it’s time to jump and get yours elsewhere

 

I have had way way too many jobs over the years, my resume even just the past seven years is silly

 

Thank you Mickey Loomis