Fair enough.
Thanks.
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Trade is for a 2022 6th round pick.
Texans help pay salary.
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Tom Pelissero
@TomPelissero
The #Packers are trading a 2022 sixth-round pick to the #Texans for WR Randall Cobb, source said. Houston is also expected to pay $3 million of Cobb’s salary to facilitate the deal. Aaron Rodgers gets his man.
3:21 PM · Jul 28, 2021 from Green Bay, WI
Well, at least we didn't give much. And Houston paying $3m out of $8m makes it not quite so bad.
The ONLY reason I'd say this trade is acceptable at all is to please Rodgers. On the other hand, that's a pretty powerful reason to do it.
Expensive for a guy that will be hurt for 10 of 17 games.
From your fingers to God's ears.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ter-rules-2021
16-man squad.
4 can be protected from poaching.
6 can be veterans.
2 can be called up the day before.
1 can be a COVID-emergency call-up as late as 90 minutes before kickoff
Unlimited Injured Reserve callbacks; 3-week minimum on IR
The only thing I didn't read that I'm curious about is any quarantine requirements for street free-agents.
Per Sportrac, the Texans must have converted $3M of this season's salary to a roster or option bonus. Sportrac claims their Dead Money for Cobb is $5M for this season ($3M salary + $2M prorated signing bonus) and $2M on 2022's cap (remainder of signing bonus). I thought teams had to eat signing bonuses on trades against their salary cap, just as if they cut the player.
That's nice for Cobb. That $3M from Houston is now due to him whether or not he makes GB's final roster. He'd have to have two arms and a leg fall off to miss the cut in Green Bay, but the Texans could have threatened to waive him before Opening Day to negate his guaranteed salary and active-roster bonuses.
4 can be protected from poaching ....... that pretty much increases the roster from 53 to 57. These new rules, I would guess, are especially helpful to a deep team like the Packers. It's a damn shame every year when seemingly good players get cut. There should be less of that this year.
I wonder what if any effect on the cap there is having those extra 4 protected and up to 6 veterans on the PS.
That has been said of Kumerow a lot over the years. Always looks great in shorts during OTAs and camp.
To this point, he has 21 total catches in his NFL career. Adams can do that in one game. If he was something dynamic, he would have more volume than that at this point in his career.
The NFL is not like the NBA where a player could sign with a new team and learn the Triangle Offense overnight. NFL playbooks are thick and complex. Kumerrow signed with Buffalo in September. Time was not on his side. Coaches aren’t too fond of playing receivers who aren’t at least familiar with ALL of the S,E,X,Y positions of the team.
Nobody is suggesting that Kumerrow is the next Jordy Nelson. But the guy can play. Poor man’s Adam Thielen. Pack coulda used Kumerrow when Adams and Lazard were on the DL. Coulda used Kumerrow when Lazard was struggling to get open against TB in the NFC Title game.
No, they could have used Tee Higgins, Chase Claypool, or Michael Pittman.
They had Kumerow around long enough to know what they had in him. He couldn't ascend the depth chart and with those guys you're basically onto looking for the next guy at that point. You have constantly find younger players and try to coach whatever upside they have into production.
As for Randall Tex Cobb, he's a Chicago Bear killer and there's value in that, as well as keeping the QB happy and mentoring Amari... but he's an expensive concession to the QB and it's obvious the GM brought him back as such. I don't expect much from Cobb in terms of production. I also think it's a nail in Funchess' coffin (along with his Asian gaffe). Enjoy this team, I think it will look very different in 12 months.