I think he needs a whole body mri!
Almost like the age and position of the player being perused matters. A weird concept, I know. Like a 31 year old WR or a $30mm CB that’ll be 30 when trying to contend don’t fit well for a team looking for payroll flexibility and quality draft picks the next two years.
I don't know on the data, though I would doubt 20 vs 30 makes a big difference. Maybe slightly better to be younger, though honestly most of the tears aside from the very peripheral ones aren't healing anyway.I think he needs a whole body mri!
Without having the whole picture, is there data on younger athletes doing better than older ones in terms of longevity? Eg is a partially torn meniscus more recoverable for a 20yo athlete vs a 30yo? If that meniscus is repaired during the ACL surgery.
Do you think the Pats would be better off over the next 5 years if they did the two deals the Titans have done? Better off meaning their odds of reaching a Super Bowl are higher over the next 5 years. How about 7 years?
They have more payroll flexibility than any other team in football by a mile and won't be paying big money for a QB for the next four years at the very least. Also, why would it take 3 seasons until they're ready to contend? So strange to be that content with them not putting the best product they can on the field for basically no reason.
I think they would 100% be better off having Snead for the very reasonable deal he signed. Don't like Ridley at that price.
I"m all about not being a middling team, but only 7 different teams have made the Super Bowl in the last 7 years, that's an extremely high bar.
Reiss had this over the weekend:
Most teams 4th or 5th CB's don't play 61% and 75% of the snaps in back to back seasons.
Nice job missing the context I provided (re-read the “he got exposed because of injuries ahead of him” bit)
If he’s just a depth CB then he should be easy to replace through the draft, and I expect them to take a bite or two at that apple next month. Sneaky need, agreed.
The McKenzie game colored people's perception of him. Prior to that he had the nice play at the end of the wind game and seemed like a nice depth player. Vitriol for him was not rational. But every fanbase needs a few punching bags.
But that's the problem. It's the NFL, it's more rare to have your top 3 corners available than it isn't. I'm saying Myles Bryant is not a good 4th corner. Jalen Mills was available for all 17 games last year, and he played about half as many snaps as Bryant. Jon Jones, in 3 less games than Bryant, played 121 less snaps than Bryant. JC Jackson was brought in and played the final 8 games too.
The McKenzie game happened at the end of 2021. Prior to that game, he had never played more than 63% of the snaps in any game in his career (except for the 54-13 blowout earlier in the year) anx the wind game a few weeks before the McKenzie game when he played 93% of the snaps. His next two highest totals were 53% twice.
A little more info is out about Sneed's contract now - it's $76.4m over 4 years, $20m in signing bonus, and $55m in guarantees. Haven't see breakdown of the distribution across years or "fully guaranteed" money, but the numbers basically mirror Jaylon Johnson's contract plus $100k per year to put Sneed as the 5th highest paid CB in the league. Note that Johnson is 2.25 years younger than Sneed.
