Aaron Rodgers signing with the Steelers would be beyond boring at this point

We’re creeping up on June, which to date is the one factor the NBA has going for it that the NFL has refused to swipe.

For you kiddos on the market, as soon as upon a time the Affiliation dominated Christmas Day. Watching basketball on Christmas was a convention. The NFL noticed that we loved the NBA once we weren’t hanging out with our households and determined sufficient was sufficient. Contemplate that final week’s schedule launch proved how they’ll go after something and every little thing underneath the solar. The artwork of conquest by no means rests.

With the schedule launch now behind us, that about does it for all main factors of the offseason. There’s a bunch of ready to do between now and coaching camp, with a handful of smaller issues popping up in between, however that offers us loads of time to stew on some specific matters.

That’s what we right here at The Skinny Publish, Michael Peterson and RJ Ochoa, do finest.

Brock Purdy is the most recent franchise quarterback who obtained the bag

RJ:

Nothing is extra annoying for an NFL fanbase to undergo than their staff’s quarterback being due an extension.

To be clear there are exceptions to this rule. If Patrick Mahomes had been to ever come near the road of free company then all Kansas Metropolis Chiefs followers can be united in how silly it was to get to that time. However think about that even Lamar Jackson — two-time MVP Lamar Jackson — elicited opinions from his personal followers that the Baltimore Ravens entrance workplace ought to discover a artistic strategy to transfer on.

This takes us to Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers. Because the weekend started it was introduced that the 2 agreed to a five-year, $265M extension which provides Purdy an AAV of $53M. He broke the pattern of the subsequent man getting greater than the final man in a world the place the final man obtained greater than anybody ever did.

General we’re speaking about seismic cash and whether or not or not you might be anxious that Purdy obtained an excessive amount of appears to be foolish in my view. NFL groups, the good ones, have confirmed how they’ll get out of offers like this in the event that they really feel the necessity to down the highway, so there isn’t a want for San Francisco to sweat a few future the place they hypothetically need to transfer on.

Good for everybody concerned in getting this achieved earlier than Memorial Day.

Michael:

Good for Purdy, man. As a College of Iowa alum, I don’t usually care about what occurs to former Iowa State gamers, however it is a feel-good underdog story that everybody within the soccer world ought to take pleasure in seeing. I imply, this man was Mr. Irrelevant in his draft class. These gamers are often doomed to see little to no success within the NFL, however not Purdy. The man has actually taken the Niners to a Tremendous Bowl and now is without doubt one of the league’s high quarterbacks making over $50 million a 12 months.

Whereas I’ll have personally been uncomfortable forking out that sort of money to a quarterback who could also be nothing greater than an excellent recreation supervisor in Kyle Shanahan’s system, good groups know they want a sure degree of play from that place to be related on this league and so I’ve to confess this was good by San Francisco to easily get the deal achieved so their consideration can go elsewhere as they attempt to bounce again from an underwhelming 2024 marketing campaign.

Does Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty have any actual competitors for Offensive Rookie of the Yr?

Michael:

The Raiders have dedicated to turning their offensive fortunes round this offseason by buying and selling for veteran quarterback Geno Smith (reuniting him with Pete Carroll) and drafting high working again Ashton Jeanty with the sixth-overall choose within the NFL Draft.

Jeanty enters a working again room that options getting old speedster Raheem Mostert and different children Honest McCormick and Zamir White. Based mostly on that depth, there’s no motive to not consider Jeanty will get each single snap he might ask for within the Las Vegas offense. In reality, I don’t assume another rookie has such a straightforward path to such an immense quantity of alternative for his or her staff’s offense, which leads me to consider Jeanty ought to be the runaway favourite for ORoY honors when the upcoming season is all mentioned and achieved.

Inform me I’m incorrect.

RJ:

The pattern of disrespecting Cam Ward has rippled into The Skinny Publish, I see.

Whereas the Tennessee Titans have a whole lot of inquiries to reply, everyone knows that awards are a largely quarterback-driven factor. If Ward is even common as a starter within the league then it feels protected to say that he could possibly be the one that wins the award.

It’s a very troublesome factor to win an award as a working again, particularly over a quarterback. Whereas I anticipate Jeanty to do nicely this season, he might must do REALLY nicely to win one thing.

Is there any single individual excited concerning the thought of Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh?

RJ:

It’s at all times essential to be trustworthy and I’m doing so in telling you all that I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan. Aaron Rodgers has ruined lots of my seasons as a fan. All of them sucked.

No matter bias you need to name that apart… it’s stating the apparent to say that we’re all exhausted at this level. As famous we have now handed go and picked up our $200 a number of instances this offseason, so many instances that the offseason is mainly over as talked about. The Steelers, a as soon as proud and mighty franchise that has seemingly bent the knee right here, ready within the wind as Aaron does no matter we need to name all of this isn’t even unhappy anymore. It even handed boring.

On the time of this writing our mates at FanDuel listed the over 8.5 wins line for Pittsburgh at +120. When you might lock that in proper now with a future assure of Rodgers beginning 17 video games for them… would it not even really feel like a discount?

That is all yawn.

Michael:

I could also be within the minority right here, however I really don’t assume Aaron Rodgers strikes the needle all that a lot for the Steelers. He had among the finest supporting casts in all of soccer a season in the past — a few of them handpicked by Rodgers himself — they usually nonetheless had been a depressing offense. Davante Adams, Allen Lazard at wideout. Each Breece Corridor and Braelon Allen at working again. The more-than-serviceable tight finish Tyler Conklin.

I didn’t watch the Jets intensely, however each single week when that offense put up 14 or much less factors, it blew my thoughts. Proper now, the Steelers don’t have nearly as good of a forged as they did in New York a season in the past. Including him simply appears negligible for that group.

So I agree. The thought of Rodgers to the Steelers is placing me to sleep as I’m typin——….zzzzzz…..

Is it time for an actual organizational reset for the Saints following the retirement of QB Derek Carr?

Michael:

The sudden information of Derek Carr’s retirement has left the Saints in a little bit of a quarterback pickle. With out him, they’re left with three younger passers in Jake Haener, Spencer Rattler, and 2025 second-round choose Tyler Shough. The previous two have a small little bit of beginning expertise (however no actual success connected to it) and Shough is without doubt one of the oldest rookies to come back into the NFL in latest reminiscence.

As issues stand, I don’t assume anybody is aware of who will find yourself beginning for the Saints come September, but it surely’s going to make for some attention-grabbing preseason competitors.

However that leads me to my subsequent level: The Saints must cease greedy at straws with every offseason since Drew Brees’ retirement within the identify of going 9-8 or 8-9. They’re being compelled to start out recent at quarterback which is without doubt one of the hardest issues for franchise to do, and it could even be time to chop bait with among the staff’s bigger contracts to assist spur on a faster rebuild.

Carr is gone. Former proper sort out Ryan Ramczyk can also be retired. Cameron Jordan is in some way nonetheless enjoying however could also be on his approach out shortly, as nicely. It’s time the Saints take an excellent look within the mirror with new head coach Kellen Moore and resolve whether or not or not now could be the second to take that step into a brand new period of the franchise.

RJ:

The collective soccer world has joked about it for lengthy sufficient… the Saints don’t consider in any sort of reset.

It’s wild to me to recommend {that a} reset is concerned after somebody like Derek Carr walks away out of your staff… however that’s type of the state of affairs that the Saints are in. They’ve delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed. Is there a much less attention-grabbing staff in any form of approach throughout the NFL proper now?

Possibly that’s the reason I genuinely don’t care in the event that they do or don’t reset. Proper now the Saints provide nothing that’s of respectable curiosity. Severely. Discover the factor they do that you simply assume is cool and even not cool. There isn’t one.

The Saints are blah.