OT: Other Sports: Broncos, Nuggets, Rockies, etc...Part VI
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katfude
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1 year at 18mil not guaranteed. Probably weren't any interested parties so they just banked the cash.
But also our GM is a dipshit so who knows if he even picked up a phone
But also our GM is a dipshit so who knows if he even picked up a phone
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Banked $14M of it, evidently. $4M more in dead cap.
That gets them close to being cap compliant. Still have to dump another contract or two.
Not with a $18M contract number.
Fan bases have a tendency to overrate their players - both in performance, but also in trade value. I thought Simmons would be worth a 2nd or 3rd, but at $18M, I guess not.
Guy is an all pro safety. You couldn't even get a 7th for him? I hate Paton.
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Is it possible that the team is doing him a solid? Maybe some late pick was on the table, but that doesn’t really move the needle.
He put in 8 solid years, maybe it’s best for Simmons to sign one more big contract, and he wants to do it now. Team helped him do it?
I could definitely swallow this better if that ends up being the case. But I just have no faith in Paton. I also feel like if that was the case, it should have been reported already.
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Did not foresee them outright cutting Simmons. He is still a high level player. Should have cut Jeudy first and taken their time with Simmons looking for a trade partner based on teams that miss out on UFA safeties
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Full of guts!!
Broncos are approaching Rockies-level of incompetence and general disdain from its fanbase. Truly incredible work
So, you made the absolute worst trade in NFL history and got nothing for it. You then had to release the worst trade in NFL history and take a record, by a mile, dead cap hit. And now you can't get anything for a player who a couple seasons ago was considered one the best safety in football?
This is beyond incompetent... It's gonna take a decade, or more, to recover from these L's.
This is beyond incompetent... It's gonna take a decade, or more, to recover from these L's.
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God, I wanted to frame this as a "Reasons I despise the Chiefs" but really this transcends sports and highlights how brazenly corrupt people in government are.
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Andy Reid's rotting piece of filth of a son, Britt, got his sentence commuted by the governor of Missouri so he only had to serve 16 months of an already lenient three-year deal for driving drunk, injuring five other people, one of whom was a 5-year-old girl he permanently disabled.
Former Chiefs assistant Britt Reid cut the line into the NFL, now he cut the line out of prison
The commutation of Britt Reid's sentence is another example of a tragedy that has favored the offender over the victim from the very beginning.
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Andy Reid's rotting piece of filth of a son, Britt, got his sentence commuted by the governor of Missouri so he only had to serve 16 months of an already lenient three-year deal for driving drunk, injuring five other people, one of whom was a 5-year-old girl he permanently disabled.
That’s really gross. It’s absolute madness the lack of consequences for impaired driving or just flat out egregious reckless driving that injures or kills other people. If that guy injured 6 people in a drunken assault he’d be in prison a lot longerGod, I wanted to frame this as a "Reasons I despise the Chiefs" but really this transcends sports and highlights how brazenly corrupt people in government are.
Former Chiefs assistant Britt Reid cut the line into the NFL, now he cut the line out of prison
The commutation of Britt Reid's sentence is another example of a tragedy that has favored the offender over the victim from the very beginning.
Andy Reid's rotting piece of filth of a son, Britt, got his sentence commuted by the governor of Missouri so he only had to serve 16 months of an already lenient three-year deal for driving drunk, injuring five other people, one of whom was a 5-year-old girl he permanently disabled.
And the piece of shit is probably gonna do it again and hurt, or kill, someone else...
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Yeah, that's pure conjecture by AB. Just a thought.
But taking it back to salary, if you look at the top *average* salaries of safeties in the NFL, there are only two of them over $18M, and the highest is $19M. I get that average isn't the same as Simmons' 1 year, but still - $18M is a lot to pay for a safety. Perhaps teams simply didn't want to pay it.
Sadly probably will. My mom’s best friend was killed by a drunk driver in her early 20’s. The woman’s family worked so hard to forgive the driver and actually argued for him not to have a serious sentence (pretty sure MADD wasn’t even a thing yet) because in their view their daughter had already lost her life and this guy having his life ruined wasn’t going to make the situation better and they genuinely believed he’d learned from the experience. He ended up killing someone else drunk driving a few years later
I got nailed for DWI back in 2000 (would've been a full blown DUI had I done it just a few months later and the national .08 BAC limit was set) and it's a mistake that's made by people more often than we're led to believe.
My BAC was .088. For context, that's not just buzzed, that's drunk. Reid's was 0.113, and most of us would be absolutely shitfaced at that point. Obviously an alcoholic can remain a little more functional due to higher tolerance, but drunk is drunk.
These laws are in place not only to try and prevent people from inflicting serious harm on others, which happened here, but also to save people like Reid from themselves. The very sad, sordid tale of Steve McNair comes to mind. He too was living in a bottle post-retirement, got in trouble twice for DUI (once while possessing a firearm which was a serious offense in Tennessee at the time) and both times people in power let him off because of his reputation. He was dead not long after that and his habit definitely played in the circumstances that led to his murder.
Point is, this shithead governor is not helping ANYONE, not even Britt Reid, by doing this.
They need to nationalize drunk driving laws. Do what Ohio does and absolutely throw the book at people when they drive impaired.
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I remember when Darrelle Revis got cut by the Jets back in the day or something and Bill Parcells came out and said that it doesn't matter how good he is (he made it into Canton last year), he would never have spent that much money on a defensive back.
I can't remember how expensive the No Fly Zone was but I suppose there are certain positions you shouldn't dedicate too much cap room to.
That said, Paton and Payton (and Peyton too!) had better get this right.
Has Kroenke thought about letting Calvin Booth draft for the Avs in later rounds too
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Great game. MVP showcase for Joker in case people had any doubt.
Don’t ever mention Tatum in that conversation again.
Don’t ever mention Tatum in that conversation again.
MonsterMack
He did the Mack, He did the monster Mack
I know it won't happen, but Nuggets and Avalanche championships this year would be amazing.
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