All four teams saved millions signing their receivers early in the offseason. Plus, why the NFL and NFLPA need to leave the offseason calendar alone and more in this week's takeaways
Things are winding down a bit as we get closer to the annual NFL break . But we’ve still got plenty for you in this week’s offseason takeaways …By now, you’ve gotten the news—, landing a well-deserved four-year, $140 million extension that raises the bar not just for receivers, but all nonquarterbacks. And among the biggest winners are the Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions and Houston Texans, who already did deals for DeVonta Smith, Jaylen Waddle, Amon-Ra St.
So he’ll almost certainly get the $77.319 million he’s due over the next four years, with 2028 a de facto team option. That’s good for Waddle because he was due $19.94 million for the next two years, which means this gives him more than $57 million for adding two years to his contract. It’s good for the Dolphins, too, because they get to manage those numbers at less than $20 million per for the next four years. The $26.
The problem there started with the 2020 CBA’s rules cutting the allowable scheduled daily hours with players from 12 to 11. With two back-and-forth trips from the hotel to the fields each day, and all the logistics that went into that, the Rams found that they were losing between an hour and a half and two hours every day due to the commute.
I’ll be clear: I haven’t communicated with a single coach, scout or front-office person who thinks it’s a good idea. All pointed to how their schedules run pretty much straight through from July to January or February without a break. Weekends are gone for that stretch. Seven-day work weeks are standard. Holidays are bastardized, and that’s if you’re not playing on them .“I think it’d totally turn the lives of scouts and coaches upside down.
That said, Chicago coach Matt Eberflus has been through this before. He was the Indianapolis Colts’ defensive coordinator in 2021, when that year’s team was the first to do the in-season version of. That, for obvious reasons, was a far more delicate situation than this one.
Johnson on why he turned down opportunities to become a head coach:"I’m not gonna do it just to do it. I love what I’m doing right now—love it." / Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORKThe Lions’ offensive coordinator knows what people—not just outside the NFL, but with teams, too—thought of how his candidacy for head coaching jobs, and Washington’s in particular, went last year.
London mayor Sadiq Khan went to bat for his city to host a Super Bowl last week, and I think it’d be a pretty awesome opportunity for the sport in the U.K. The presence of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, and Michael Jordan before them, was massive in the NBA’s ability to export its game all the way into the Far East. Simply put, positioning its stars similarly, against the league’s traditional team-over-player mythology and ethos, would almost certainly pay off, if not at the level it did for the NBA.
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