I will compare contracts by how much % of team salary cap player took in a year: a $10M player "eats more cap" when team salary cap is $100M than a $13M player on $200M team cap. All numbers are from overthecap.com
First some past contracts:

% of team salary cap in a year

1. P. Manning/Colts 20.5% in 2003, 17.2% in 2009, 16.1% in 2008
2. Tannehill 18.3% in 2022, 15.9% in 2023
3. Mahomes 17.0% in 2022, 16.9% in 2023
4. R. Wilson 17.5% in 2021, 15.5% in 2020
5. E. Manning 16.9% in 2013, 15.4% in 2014
6. Cousins 16.7% in 2021, 15.1% in 2019
7. Brees 16.4% in 2015, 14% in 2013
8. Stafford 15.8% in 2019, 14.6% in 2018, 2013
9. Strahan 16.1% in 2002, 13% in 2001
10. Rodgers 14.9% in 2019 & 2021
11. Garoppolo 15.6% in 2018, 13.7% in 2021, 12.9% in 2020
12. Roethlisberger 15.3% in 2016, 14.2% in 2014
13. Flacco 15% in 2017, 14.7% in 2016
14. Ryan 15% in 2016, 14.6% in 2021
15. Rivers 14.9% in 2015, 12.7% in 2012
16. Suh 17% of 2014 Lions, 11.1% of 2017 Dolphins
17. Mario Williams 15.2% of 2011 Texans, 13.4% in 2015, 12.5% in 2014 Bills
18. Goff 14.3% of 2022 Lions, 14.1% of 2020 Rams
19. Fitzgerald 16% in 2011, 12% in 2012, other seasons 8-10%
20. Peppers 14.8% in 2009, 12.9% in 2007
21. P. Manning/Broncos 14.9% in 2012, 12.5% in 2013
22. Marino 14.5% in 1998, 13.1% in 1996
23. Aikman 14.2% in 1997, 13.2% in 1996
24. Bledsoe 13.7% in 2000, 13.5% in 1998, 12.8% in 1997
25. Palmer 14.0% of 2017 Cardinals, 12.7% of 2006 Bengals
26. Favre 14.1% in 2001, 12.4% in 2006
27. Brady 13.6% in 2006, 12.6% in 2008, 12.2% in 2020
28. Bradford 13.3% in 2014, 12.9% in 2012
29. Prescott 14.4% in 2020, 11.7% in 2023
30. Chris Jones 14.0% in 2022, 12.2% in 2023
31. Donald 13.4% in 2022, 12.2% in 2020
32. Cutler 13.9% in 2014, 11.4% in 2015
33. Steve Young 13.1 % in 1994, 12.2% in 1996
34. Brunell 13.2% in 2001, 3 seasons of 11.7%
35. Elway 13% in 1994, 12% in 1995, only 5% in 1997,1998
36. Calvin Johnson 14.3% in 2015, 11.6% in 2011, other years 7-9%
37. Carr 13.7% in 2018, 11.6% in 2019, 11.7% in 2021
38. Sanchez 14.3% in 2011, 10.3% in 2013
39. Wentz 13.2% of 2022 Commanders, 11.2% of 2021 Colts
40. Von Miller 12.9% in 2019, 12.0% in 2020
41. Cam Newton 12.7% in 2016, 12.1% in 2019
42. T. J. Watt 12.8% in 2023, 11.8% in 2024
43. Ty Law 12.7% in 2004, 11.7% in 2003
44. Luck 12.6% in 2018, 11.1% in 2017
45. Plummer 12.3% in 2002, 10.4% in 2001
46. Khalil Mack 12.5% of 2020 Bears, 9.7% of 2024 Chargers
47. Charles Woodson 12.3% in 2005, 10.9% in 2004 Raiders, 9% of Packers
48. Moss/Vikings 11% in 2004, 10.5% in 2003, was cheap on Patriots
49. Romo 13% in 2016, other seasons 8-10%
50. Revis 12% of 2013 Bucs, 10.8% of 2016 Jets
51. Trent Williams 11.6% of 2012 Redskins, 10.6% of 2024 49ers
52. Kaepernick 11.4% in 2016, 10.2% in 2015
53. Tunsil 11.5% in 2023, 10% in 2024
54. Ogden 11.3% in 2004, 11.1% in 2003
55. Warner 11.7% of 2003 Rams, 9.3% of 2009 Cardinals
56. Tyreek Hill 12.2% of 2024 Dolphins, 8.4% of 2021 Chiefs
57. Alex Smith 10-11% of Chiefs, Redskins in 5 seasons
58. Sapp 10.9% in 1999, 10.7% in 2000
59. Adrian Peterson 10.3%-10.7% in 2011-2015
60. Marvin Harrison 10% in 2003, 2004, 2008
61. Barry Sanders 10.1% in 1994, 10.7% in 1996
62. Ray Lewis 10% in 2003, 2005
63. McNabb 9-10%, only in 2009 16%
64. Mike Evans 10.4% in 2023, 9.4% in 2018
65. Julio Jones 10% in 2016, 2020

cheaper players for comparison:

1. McNair 8-10% of Titans, highest in 1999
2. J.J. Watt 8-9% in 4 seasons
3. Emmitt Smith 7-9% in 1990s, 14.5% in 2002
4. Dalton 8-9% (cheap QB)
5. Travis Kelce 7.8% in 2024, 6.7% in 2023
6. Jerry Rice 7.3% in 2000, 6.1% in 1999
7. Tony Gonzalez 7% of 2011 Falcons, 6% of Chiefs
8. DeMarcus Ware 6-7% of Cowboys, Broncos
9. Gronkowski 6% in only 2 Patriots' seasons
10. Zack Martin 5-6%
11. Antonio Gates 5-6%
12. Jason Kelce 3-4%

These are contracts that i could find over 10% of cap space + some HOFers at other cheaper positions for comparison. Mario Williams probably got the worst, most expensive contracts compared to his production. T. J. Watt costs a lot more than his older brother. MVP RBs Faulk, Tomlinson, E. Smith were 5-9%. DBs such as Polamalu, Reed,... were always in 5-8% range, it's probably like that at all positions except for QBs.
These expensive contracts worked very well for Colts (Manning, Harrison), Chiefs (Mahomes, Jones), Packers (Rodgers), Steelers (Roethlisberger, Watt), Broncos (Manning), Patriots (Brady), 49ers (Young, Williams), Vikings (Peterson), otherwise there are a lot of seasons around .500 record or losing in wild card as a low seed. Rarely was a contract of 13+ % of cap good. Flacco's contract sank Ravens, Eli's Giants etc. Some teams paid a lot for Brunell, Plummer, Bledsoe...
Now current contracts:

% of team salary cap active contracts, projections

1. Watson 22.0% in 2024, 24.6% in 2025
2. Prescott (currently) 21.2% in 2024 + 15% dead cap in 2025
3. Stafford 19.3% in 2024, 19.4% in 2025
4. K. Murray 18.2% in 2024, 16.7% in 2025, 18.8% in 2026
5. Daniel Jones 18.4% in 2024 + dead cap in 2025
6. Cousins 20.2% in 2026, 15.4% in 2025
7. Mahomes 14.7% in 2024, 25.5% in 2025 (can easily be lowered)
8. L. Jackson 16.8% in 2025, 26.3% in 2026
9. Allen 16.6% in 2025, 22.5% in 2026
10. Carr 19.8% in 2025
11. Burrow 17.8% in 2025, 17% in 2026
12. Herbert 14.4% in 2025, 16.3% in 2026
13. Goff 12.5% in 2025, 24.5% in 2026
14. Chris Jones 13.4% in 2025
15. Trent Williams 13.1% in 2025
16. Tyreek Hill 12.2% in 2024, 13.2% in 2025
17. T.J. Watt 11.8% in 2024, 11.7% in 2025
18. Kupp 11.6% in 2024, 11.5% in 2025

What will happen with Prescott's contract is unclear, currently he has last year in 2024 for 21.2% of cap. Burrow, Herbert, Goff have in 2024 last year of old contracts, their expensive contracts start in 2025.
Future salary cap may be higher than expected, so some projection of 22% in 2026, may end up being 20%. All these QB-starter contracts are taking significantly more cap than old contracts of HOFers and starters listed above. These new QB-contracts take as much salary cap as a QB-contract a decade ago + HOFer at another position.
Teams are adding void years, to artificially lower cap numbers of such contracts, creating "dead cap" at the end of contract. Saints and Eagles are masters of this.
List of recent "dead cap" after contracts for players that weren't on team anymore (i calculated this roughly to average total team cap of each season):

% of team salary cap was dead

1. "dead Wilson" 20.8% of Broncos in 2024, 11.7% in 2025
2. "dead Ryan" 19.2% of 2022 Falcons, 8% of 2023 Colts
3. "dead Donald" 14.8% of 2025 Rams, 9.7% in 2024
4. "dead Rodgers" 17.8% of 2023 Packers
5. "dead Brady" 15.5% of 2023 Bucs
6. "dead Osweiler" 15% in 2017 on Texans and Browns
7. "dead Flacco" 8.5% of 2019 Ravens, 6.5% of 2020 Broncos
8. "dead Goff" 13.5% of 2021 Rams
9. "dead P. Manning" 13.3% of 2012 Colts
10. "dead Luck" 9.9% of 2019 Colts and 3.2% in 2020
11. "dead Wilson" 12.5% of 2022 Seahawks
12. "dead Diggs" 12.2% of 2024 Bills
13. "dead Julio Jones" 7.4% of 2022, and 4.2% of 2021 Falcons
14. "dead Romo" 6.4% of 2017 Cowboys and 5% in 2018
15. "dead Brees" 6.1% of Saints in 2021, 5.3% in 2022
16. "dead Seymour" 11.1% of 2013 Raiders
17. "dead Cousins" 11% of 2024 Vikings
18. "dead Stafford" 10.4% of 2021 Lions
19. "dead Tannehill" 9.9% of 2019 Dolphins
20. "dead Foles" 9.4% of 2020 Jaguars
21. "dead Bridgewater" 9.3% of 2021 Panthers
22. "dead Hopkins" 9.3% of 2023 Cardinals
23. "dead Steve Young" 7.2% of 49ers in 2001, 3.4% in 2000
24. "dead Calvin Johnson" 8.4% of 2016 Lions

So teams are nowadays willing to have as large dead caps as any HOFers (except P. Manning on Colts) were taking on active contracts. Such huge dead caps are accumulating on contracts of Hurts, Prescott,... all because they have expensive contracts, teams are manipulating the cap, creating "dead cap". A decade ago only Raiders had this for Seymour, Palmer.
Notice that WRs Diggs and Julio Jones are here with huge dead caps although they never took more than 10% of cap on active contracts (first list above).
Record of highest % of team cap space ever belongs to "dead Wilson", not an actual player. The highest cap % in 1 year of Brady was for "dead Brady", not actual Brady.
Hopefully this can show how overpaid current QBs are: they take more cap % than in any previous era+leave "dead cap". This 15-25% of cap given to QB only works for MVP-level of play, carrying the offense year after year. There are 2-3 such players.
Career average % of team cap taken by QBs excluding their cheap first few seasons of rookie contracts, but including dead caps:

1. P. Manning 13.9%
2. Ryan 13.6%
3. Stafford 13.3%
4. Flacco (2013-2019 starter) 12.6%
5. E. Manning 12.5%
6. Roethlisberger 11.9%
7. Brees 11.6%
8. Rodgers 11.0%
9. Favre 10.4%
10. Brady 10.2%

Bledsoe on Patriots averaged about 12% after rookie contract, more than Brady on Patriots!
For comparison: Murray's contract starts in 2024 around 18% of cap, Burrow's contract starts in 2025 around 18% of cap. New contracts are huge.
Bonus list of

Combined 2 most expensive players on a team:

1. 2022 Chiefs (Mahomes & Chris Jones) 30.9% of team cap
2. 2003 Colts (P. Manning & M. Harrison) 30.8%
3. 2024 Browns (Watson & Cooper) 30.2%
4. 2023 Chiefs (Mahomes & Chris Jones) 29.2%
5. 2024 Rams (Stafford & "dead Donald") 29.0%
6. 2014 Lions (Suh & Stafford) 29.0%
7. 2024 Broncos ("dead Wilson" & Bolles) 28.6%
8. 2024 Giants (D. Jones & A. Thomas) 27.4%
9. 2022 Titans (Tannehill & Dupree) 27.3%
10. 2023 Packers ("dead Rodgers" & injured Bakhtiari) 27.2%
11. 2021 Seahawks (Wilson & Wagner) 26.9%
12. 2022 Falcons ("dead Ryan & Julio Jones") 26.6%
13. 2008 Colts (P. Manning & M. Harrison) 26.4%
14. 2023 Bucs ("dead Brady" & M. Evans) 26%
15. 2024 Chiefs (Mahomes & Thuney) 25.4%
16. 2024 Cardinals (Murray & Baker) 25.3%
17. 2021 Rams ("dead Goff" & Stafford) 25.2%
18. 2024 Bills ("dead Diggs" & Allen) 24.1%
19. 2021 Packers (Rodgers & D. Adams) 24%

All recent teams, except for Colts and 2014 Lions. 2022 Falcons had about 26.6% of team cap dead. 2023 Packers got 1 game of Bakhtiari for 27.3% cap. 2024 Broncos will have Bolles. 2026 Lions will get on this list (Goff & Sewell).
Patriots paid the most in 2006 to Brady & Seymour, 22.5% of team cap. Brady & Moss combination was highest in 2009, 20% of team. What Chiefs are doing, winning Super Bowls with such high salaries shouldn't be possible.

They're saying the 2024 draft is the most important in Broncos history. Of course, they've said that every draft since Manning. But this is the new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, new most important draft.
Draft rumors, mock drafts, and all the reports we see leading up to the draft are mostly worthless, not only because nobody really knows what teams are thinking, but also because nobody knows which of these college players will actually be good NFL players. Yet, I follow all the twists and turns because I see this as entertainment and it's kinda fun. Y'all put up with a lot of my posting so I thought it might be a service to the subreddit to round where things stand the night before the draft.
UPDATE: Draft Morning Mocks!
Apologies! It's not letting me add links this morning for whatever reason.
Dane Brugler at The Athletic - Brock Bowers, TE at 12
USA Today's final mock - Dallas Turner, EDGE at 12
Field Yates final mock - Dallas Turner, EDGE at 12
Albert Breer at SI (no trades) - Brock Bowers, TE at 12
Jeff Bell at Football Guys - Bo Nix, QB. Broncos trade with Dallas to 24.
Pete Prisco at CBS Sports - Bo Nix, QB. Broncos trade with Philly to 22.
B/R Scouting Department (no trades) - Dallas Turner, EDGE at 12
Chris Collinsworth at PFF - Bo Nix, QB at 12
Peter Schrager at NFL Network - Bo Nix, QB at 12
Latest Mock Draft Selections (First Round Only)
These are the latest mocks from well-known sources and sites. Not an exhaustive list by any means, but enough to see some patterns. Nothing too surprising. Out of these 25 mock drafts:

• Bo Nix was easily the most common pick (either at 12 or later)
• QB was the most common pick and every QB except Williams and Maye were mocked to the Broncos by at least one writer.
• If not a QB, EDGE was the most common alternate pick, but TE and CB appear at times.
• 6 predicted trade downs (all for QBs except 1). 3 predicted trade ups.
• Despite a strong class, not one mocked an OT or WR.

Daniel "Move The Sticks" Jeremiah at NFL Network - Bo Nix, QB. Broncos trade with Philly to 22.
Bucky Brooks at NFL Network - Jared Verse, EDGE at 12
Charles Davis at NFL Network - Box Nix, QB at 12.
Kiper and Yates alternating picks at ESPN (note hasn't updated since 4/15) - Brock Bowers, TE at 12
Jordan Reid final mock at ESPN - Bo Nix, QB Broncos trade with Philly to 22.
Matt Miller at ESPN - Dallas Turner, EDGE at 12
The Ringer Mock Draft - JJ McCarthy, QB at 12
Chris Trapasso at CBS Sports - Dallas Turner, EDGE at 12
Dave Richard at CBS Sports - Michael Penix Jr. Broncos trade with Arizona to 27.
John Beech at CBS Sports - Bo Nix, QB. Broncos trade with Pitt to 20.
Charles Macdonald and Nate Tice at Yahoo Sports - Brock Bowers, TE at 12.
Benjamin Allbright at KOA - Jared Verse, EDGE. Broncos trade with Philly to 22.
Cecil Lammey at Denver Sports (no trades) - Bo Nix, QB at 12.
Pro Football Focus - Jayden Daniels, QB. Broncos trade with New England to 3.
Walterfootball - Box Nix, QB at 12
The Athletic - JJ McCarthy, QB. Broncos trade with Atlanta to 8
The 33rd Team - Terrion Arnold, CB at 12
Nate Davis at USA Today - Bo Nix, QB at 12
Jason La Canfora at Washington Post - Bo Nix, QB. Broncos trade with Pitt to 20.
Connor Rogers at NBC Sports - JJ McCarty, QB. Broncos trade with Atlanta to 8.
Joel Klatt at Fox Sports - Box Nix, QB at 12.
Mike Klis (not a true mock draft) - Bo Nix at 12 or later.
Denver Post Roundtable - Michael Penix Jr. at 12 (Gabriel), Brock Bowers at 12 (McFadden), Nix or McCarthy (Renck), Laiatu Latu (Keeler)
Chris Tommasson at Denver Gazzette - Box Nix, QB at 12
SBNation Community Mock Draft - Bo Nix, QB at 12
Broncos relevant draft rumors
Again, none of this really means much, but I've tried to source this from actual reporters who are talking to agents and sources. I know a lot of stuff probably seems obvious (e.g. Denver is call teams above and below them!), but I'm just noting that people are saying these things.
The common takeaways here is that all the smoke around Denver and Bo Nix is real. Denver doesn't seem to want to stay at twelve. Everything hinges on what Pats do and they are likely to take a QB at this point.
Notes from Albert Breer's notebook today:

• Broncos and LA Rams are both "connected to" Bo Nix
• Broncos have done extensive work on QBs
• Broncos have called about trading up and down
• Denver shopped Bolles last year so OT could be a possibility

Daniel Jeremiah notes:

• "To summarize my last 5 phone calls- everyone is moving up for an OT."
• "I don't view the Giants as a JJ McCarthy team"

Adam Schefter notes

• In interview with Rich Eisen, he says 7 teams in the top of the draft with QB needs, but that others could also be in play (Dallas, LA Rams) who have QBs that they may move on from soon.

Jeremey Fowler last minute intel:

• "The sense after asking around is that Patriots have Williams-Daniels-Maye as their expected order at 1, 2, 3. But had one league source broach this last night -- 'I think people are discounting the Kraft-Brady-McCarthy connection in all of this.' Could be a thought for a trade-back"
• Denver has received several trade calls on Sutton but haven't planned to trade him. Pittsburgh could be a team to watch here.

Jonathan Jones draft notebook:

• Denver is the team that's most likely to move out of their pick
• Zach Wilson trade was discussed for more than a month, doesn't preclude QB pick
• Bo Nix and Broncos are talked about together a lot

Dianna Russini "what I'm hearing":

• "Though team officials are open to listening to trade offers, league sources say no real offer has come New England’s way, with only “scenarios” being discussed. Teams like the Vikings, Broncos and Raiders were told it would take significant draft capital for New England to trade out of its spot. With no deal in place right now, the Patriots are expected to stick and pick at No. 3."
• "The Denver Broncos, who pick at No. 12, did not trade with the New York Jets for Zach Wilson on Monday for him to be the starter. And though moving up for a QB is still in play for the team, there is a limit to what the Broncos are willing to pay. But Sean Payton wants a QB. His philosophy going back to his days in New Orleans is, “If you love a player, go get him.” Most teams picking in the top five believe the Broncos could make a big swing with a package that could even include star cornerback and fifth-year option pickup Pat Surtain II and more players on expiring deals if Payton’s true love is there."
• "The Broncos, Raiders, and Vikings have all called to inquire about a possible trade [with the Chargers]. My understanding is the Chargers are listening, but their price is much bigger than what it costs to rent a parking space for Jim Harbaugh’s new RV."

Dane Brugler Notes:

• "Plenty of buzz for JJ at 3. That'll throw a wrench in almost every mock."

"Agents Take" in CBS Sports:

• "Surtain and 2024's 12th overall pick should be enough to move up to the third pick if the Ramsey trade compensation is any indication"

Tidbits in Cecil Lammey's Mock Draft:

• Denver and Minnesota really want to get up to snag a QB
• Patriots may be bluffing on their QB interest to drive price up

Benjamin Allbright notes:

• "The Broncos have received multiple trade up calls for 12. Some teams seeking CB, some seeking OL"

Benjamin Solak notes:

• "I have had conversations with NFL scouts in the past months and as recently as the last week who have Maye > Daniels and/or McCarthy > Daniels I really think QB 2/3/4 is nowhere near a league consensus."

So I've been playing Cine2Nerdle Battles ever since Northernlion started doing them (RIP), and while I've seen a fair share of different strategies and traps over the course of these several months, the one area of international cinema that many of my opponents seem to neglect is Russian cinema. Being Russian myself, I have successfully sent my opponents to hell thanks to my knowledge so here I'd like to share some links to Russian movies that you can utilize and expand your horizons.
Option 1:
Perhaps the easiest way to link up to a Russian movie for me has been through Wanted (2008). Not only is it directed by Timur Bekmambetov, it also stars a prolific Russian actor Konstantin Khabenskiy, so whenever my opponent plays it against me, I immediately play Night Watch (2004) against them. If my opponent doesn't know Bekmambetov's other foreign productions (namely the Unfriended film series) and skips here, there's plenty of avenues to further send them down the rabbit hole - the most obvious one is Day Watch (2005), the sequel to the aforementioned movie that keeps the entirety of the original's cast; you can also play War (2002) which connects through Aleksey Chadov and opens up Aleksei Balabanov's filmography - there's the obvious Brother (1997) and Brother 2 (2000), but you can also set yourself up for an escape through Dead Man's Bluff (2005) that connects to Nobody (2021) which of course stars Bob Odenkirk; Chadov also stars in 9th Company (2005); and last but not least, you can go back in time via Academy Award-winner Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980) and start building Soviet connections through here. There are of course other paths to take, but these are the ones I could remember off the top of my head. This is the one strategy I've been able to utilize the most.
Option 2:
Next in line is a trap I managed to play once, and it involves About Fate (2022), itself a Hollywood remake of the Soviet classic The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1975). Even on its own About Fate is a great killshot for a 3X Emma Roberts or Thomas Mann, but if you want to go a step beyond, this director has several awful Russian comedies under his belt - two of them, Hitler's Kaput! (2008) and Love and the City (2009) appear in the dropdown. Fun fact - Love and the City stars current Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Option 3:
The last trap that I discovered naturally on my own while playing involves one of the numerous Nutcracker movies in the dropdown, specifically The Nutcracker: The Untold Story (2010). A Hollywood production of Andrey Konchalovsky, it boasts, among other talent, John Turturro, Elle Fanning and Nathan Lane, so it's fairly easy to get here. The one time I managed to 3X John Turturro someone with this movie they skipped me, so while listing Russian movies off the top of my head that could connect to the director, I found a link to another Academy Award-winner in Burnt By The Sun (1994) through its composer, Eduard Artemyev (I was promptly accused of cheating after that lol). Artemyev will also connect to several Andrey Tarkovsky pictures, namely Solaris, Mirror and Stalker, and Burnt By The Sun itself has 2 sequels, one of which - Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (2010) - is in the dropdown.
Other options:
A couple of recent starter movies have also been great starters for the Russian traps:

• Oleg Taktarov is in the cast of 15 Minutes (2001), and through him you can link to Generation P (2011) which has a lot of well-known contemporary Russian actors. The funniest link here, and the one I did once utilize, would be The Green Elephant (1998), a quintessential underground production that has long been a meme across Russian social media. Taktarov also has a role in Predators (2010);
• Today's starter Gran Turismo (2023) has Thomas Kretschmann, and besides linking to a myriad of different international movies, Kretschmann also links to Stalingrad (2013), directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk, who has also done the aforementioned 9th Company (2005);

Other interesting connections include:

• A different link to Burnt By The Sun (1994) is Ingeborga Dapkunaite, a Lithuanian actress who's also involved in Mission: Impossible (1996) and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), among other Hollywood productions;
• While it's not in the dropdown yet (and I'm unsure whether it will ever be, but still), a recently released adaptation of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita stars August Diehl, a German actor famous for his role in Inglourious Basterds (2009);
• Michael Madsen, known for going extremely quickly downhill in terms of his movie career, has a role in Express 'Moscow-Russia' (2014), one of many awful Russian comedies produced during the 2010s. While it doesn't appear in the dropdown, it might be available for play with this method. Need to test it out. Express 'Moscow-Russia' itself then theoretically connects to Six Degrees of Celebration (2010) and its two sequels via Sergey Svetlakov (all three movies have some involvement from Timur Bekmambetov, who of course directed the aforementioned Night Watch, Day Watch and Wanted).

Finally, and it's a real shame that none of his movies appear in the dropdown, but Alexander Newsky, a notoriously bad Russian actor who produces his movies in Hollywood, can in theory be a link to many different actors:

• Roy Scheider, Michael Pare and Oleg Taktarov are all in the same cast as him in Red Serpent (2002);
• Moscow Heat (2004) stars Andrew Divoff, known for Wishmaster 1 & 2;
• Treasure Raiders (2007) stars the aforementioned Divoff alongside David Carradine and Steven Brand, who plays antagonists in both Saw X and the first Scorpion King movie;
• Magic Man (2009) boasts in its cast Billy Zane, Robert Davi and Bai Ling (who herself is an easy segway into French territory via Taxi 3);
• the lead female actress in Black Rose (2014) is Kristanna Loken, who famously portrays BloodRayne in Uwe Boll's movie of the same name and also the T-X in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• Showdown in Manila (2016), known as the "Russian Expendables" (albeit on a much smaller scale and budget) has a stacked cast of washed-up action stars - Casper Van Dien, Don Wilson, Tia Carrere, Cynthia Rothrock, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and last but certainly not least Marc Dacascos;
• Lastly, Maximum Impact (2017), which I would consider his last truly 'big' production, has perhaps the most diverse and easy to link cast, with Kelly Hu, Tom Arnold, Eric Roberts, Dacascos again and even Danny Trejo. It was also directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, a well-known Polish cinematographer who was behind Speed (1994) and Falling Down (1993) (and, of course, Doom (2005));
• Newsky himself has a credit for a single other movie that isn't his own production - Sofia Coppola's Somewhere (2010)

Of course there are many many more different ways to get yourself into the Russian territory, and if you have your own, more obscure strategies and traps, feel free to suggest them in the comments. As mentioned before I've yet to see anyone play a Russian or even a Soviet movie against me in my odd 900 battles or so (Soviet movies are their own can of worms that I might open in a different post)
P.S.: also can someone tell me how to add a flair to my nickname on this subreddit? can't for the life of me find the option

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Phish

Phish, Friday 03/26/1993 (31 years ago) Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1993 WinteSpring Tour
Set 1 : Maze , Sparkle , Foam , Punch You in the Eye , Fee , All Things Reconsidered , Split Open and Melt , Fluffhead > Divided Sky , Cavern
Set 2 : Wilson ¹ > Runaway Jim > Mound , Tweezer , The Horse ² > Silent in the Morning , Big Ball Jam > You Enjoy Myself , The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg , The Great Gig in the Sky > Hold Your Head Up , Tweezer Reprise
Encore : Amazing Grace ³ , Rocky Top
1 Simpsons signal. 2 Trey on acoustic guitar. 3 Without microphones.
Jamchart Notes:
Split Open and Melt - Great version - sounds like a neck-and-neck horse race between Fish and Trey trying to keep pace with each other.
Tweezer - Very drawn-out, extended ending.
Show Notes:
Wilson contained a Simpsons signal. The Horse featured Trey on acoustic guitar. YEM contained a teases of Mission: Impossible theme and Speed Racer theme. Amazing Grace was performed without microphones and wsa dedicated to the band's tour bus driver, Heavy Duty.
Listen now at Phish.in!
Phish, Thursday 03/26/1992 (32 years ago) Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1992 Spring Tour
Set 1 : The Landlady > Runaway Jim , All Things Reconsidered , Foam , Sparkle , Stash , Fluffhead > Uncle Pen , NICU , David Bowie ¹
Set 2 : Buried Alive > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg , Poor Heart , Brother , The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > My Friend, My Friend , The Lizards , Cavern > Cold as Ice > Cracklin' Rosie > Cold as Ice , Possum ²
Encore : Sleeping Monkey
Encore 2 : Chalk Dust Torture
Encore 3 : Harpua ³
1 Simpsons and Oom Pa Pa signals. 2 Random Note and two Aw Fuck! signals. 3 Narration set in the "teeming jungles of Brazil," special guest appearance by Marley as "a vicious, flesh eating animal;" high-pitched "Brazil" squawks from Fish.
Jamchart Notes:
Possum - Fish is noticeably aggressive in this straightforward, ass-kicking jam.
Show Notes:
Foam contained an All Things Reconsidered tease. Bowie included Simpsons and Oom Pa Pa signals. The second set was preceded by birthday wishes for a fan named "Amy" and a remark that Buried Alive was inspired by Jimmy Herring. Possum included a Random Note and two Aw Fuck! signals and a Long Tall Glasses tease from Trey. Harpua was set in the "teeming jungles of Brazil" and included a special guest appearance by Marley as "a vicious, flesh eating animal." There were theme from Brazil teases, a brief full-band Fire tease, high-pitched "Brazil" squawks from Fish, and a preview of the Clifford Ball motto (four years early) as Trey introduced Page as "a beacon of light in the world of flight." The Aquarium Rescue Unit was the opening act.
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Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon, 2011-03-26 Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/mike-gordon-march-26-2011-higher-ground-south-burlington-vt-usa.html
Tour: Mike Gordon - Winter 2011 Tour
Show Notes: This show marked the Mike Gordon debut of Down in the Flood. River Niger through Weekly Time featured Bob Wagner on second guitar. During setbreak, front of house engineer and bass tech Rachel Bischoff was proposed to on stage (she accepted).

John Fishman

Masefield, Perkins, Fishman & Bolles, 2015-03-26 Nectar's, Burlington, VT, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-march-26-2015-nectars-burlington-vt-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: This show was part of the Nectar's 40th Anniversary Celebration.
Pork Tornado, 2000-03-26 Stone Coast Brewing Co., Portland, ME, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-march-26-2000-stone-coast-brewing-co-portland-me-usa.html
Tour: Fish - Pork Tornado Spring 2000
Show Notes:

Page McConnell

Bob Weir & Wolf Bros, 2019-03-26 None, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/page-mcconnell-march-26-2019-the-fillmore-miami-beach-at-the-jackie-gleason-theater-miami-beach-fl-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: Page sat in on piano for Hell In A Bucket and Scarlet Begonias.

Other

Derek Trucks Band, 1999-03-26 Higher Ground, Winooski, VT, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/guest-appearance-march-26-1999-higher-ground-winooski-vt-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: Page sat in on keyboards during this opening set for Gov't Mule.
The Allman Brothers Band, 1997-03-26 Beacon Theatre, New York, NY, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/guest-appearance-march-26-1997-beacon-theatre-new-york-ny-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: Page and Duane Betts were guests on the encore One Way Out, with Page sharing Greg Allman's keyboards.
Col. Bruce Hampton & The Aquarium Rescue Unit, 1992-03-26 Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/guest-appearance-march-26-1992-ziggys-winston-salem-nc-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: Zambi through Come on Home featured Page on keyboards during ARU's set opening for Phish.

Since SB 50 Denver has the second lowest wins in the league with 52, only the Browns, and Commanders are worse with 51. KC is first with 97.
A big part is the drafting and resources that go into it. Here’s a look at the difference between Denver’s first and second round picks vs KCs. Along with the pick number.
Broncos first round picks last 10 years
‘23 Sean Payton (12) (employed)
‘22 Russell Wilson (5) (released with $85 million dead cap)
‘21 Patrick Surtain (9) (employed)
‘20 Jerry Jeudy (15) traded for a 5th and 6th round pick)
‘19 Noah Fant (20) (traded to Seattle in the RW trade)
‘18 Bradley Chubb (5) (traded to Miami the pick went to NO as part of Sean Payton trade)
‘17 Garrett Bolles (20) (employed)
‘16 Paxton Lynch (26) (out of the league)
‘15 Shane Ray (23) (practice squad playeout of the league)
‘14 Bradley Roby (31) (dropped by Denver)
Chiefs first round picks last 10 years
‘23 Felix Anudike-Uzomah (31) (1 ring)
‘22 Trent McDuffie (21) (2 rings)
‘21 Orlando Brown trade (31) (1 ring)
‘20 Clyde Edwards-Hellaire (32) (2 rings)
‘19 Frank Clark trade (29) 2 rings)
‘18 Patrick Mahomes trade (22) (3 rings)
‘17 Patrick Mahomes (27) traded with Buffalo at 10 (3 rings to the Bills 0 rings)
‘16 Traded to SF (28)
‘15 Marcus Peters (18) (0 rings with KC, 1 ring with LAR)
‘14 Dee Ford (23) (out of the league, and FUCK YOU for not lining up onsides)
Broncos second round picks last 10
Marvin Mims (63)
Nik Bonitto (64)
Javonte Williams(35)
KJHamler (46)
Dalton RisneDrew Lock (41/42)
Courtland Sutton (40)
Demarcus Walker (who?) (5-1)
Adam Gotsis (who?) (63)
Ty Sambraillo (who?) (59)
Cody Latimer (56)
Chiefs last 10
Rashee Rice (55)
Sky Moore/Bryan Cook (54/62)
Creed Humphrey/Nick Bolton (58/63)
Willie Gay (73)
Juan Thornhill (63)
Breeland Speaks (46)
Tanoh Kpassagnon (59)
Chris Jones (37)
Mitch Morse (49)
Pretty easy to see that our GM isn’t afraid to trade picks for players he likes. And also that he’s in a whole different stratosphere than Paton.
I hope Denver’s incompetence continues through the Mahomes era!

The point of this post is to show just how hard the next two years will be for our GM. All our GM can do is restructure, cut, trade or sign players. It’s easy to assume you can have a winning roster until you sit in his shoes for the next two years. Give it a shot. Who do you keep? This post also gives people who are not into all that is GM/cap etc. a sense of player contracts given position.
Below are the players who are currently unrestricted free agents. They can sign anywhere. Signing any of these guys will increase our current over the cap number which is currently over by 13 million. The $$ amount listed is their average annual salary while under their last contract.
Josey Jewell ILB $5,500,000 UFA
Wil Lutz K $4,050,000 UFA
Mike Purcell DE. $3,833,333 UFA
K'Waun Williams CB $2,600,000 UFA
Cameron Fleming T $2,350,000 UFA
P.J. Locke SS $1,400,000 UFA
Michael Burton FB $1,317,500 UFA
Fabian Moreau CB $1,300,000 UFA
Lloyd Cushenberry C $1,163,998 UFA
Adam Trautman TE $1,124,851 UFA
Jonathan Harris DT. $952,500 UFA
Justin Strnad LB $883,193 UFA
Quinn Bailey T $882,500 RFA
The below players are the players of interest (thinned down…not all are listed) who will be UFA after next year. These are all the large contracts save Russell Wilson…assumed cut. It assumes they are not traded, cut, restructured before the end of 2024. All listed are UFA save PS2
Garett Bolles Tackle $17,000,000
Justin Simmons Safety $15,250,000
Tim Patrick. WR $11,333,333
D.J. Jones DT $10,000,000
Patrick Surtain II CB. $5,240,657 club option
Jarrett Stidham QB. $5,000,000
Jerry Jeudy WR $3,798,244
Samaje Perine RB $3,750,000
Chris Manhertz TE $3,000,000
Tremon Smith CB $2,500,000
Javonte Williams RB $2,216,438
Quinn Meinerz G $1,196,463
Baron Browning LB $1,196,463
Caden Sterns S $952,647
Jonathon Cooper DE $895,168
In the next two years we need to clear cap space. We are 13 million over right now, still have to pay for the draft, and sign somebody to play the positions that are roster empty…like center, back up tackle, Kr etc.
Try to pick your keepers…then try to get under the cap. Good luck.
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Time for a long one. Let’s do this
QB: Russell Wilson/Jarrett Stidham
Russ seemed like he had rediscovered something over the first 4 games of the season. The comeback against Chicago was absolutely magical. That being said, it’s clear that he can’t play QB at a high level anymore. The year that really told us that was this past season, not 2022. I was willing to accept 2022 as an “off year” for Russell Wilson considering he, historically, had some of the best passing peripherals ever and I didn’t think he just lost his ability overnight. But that seems to ultimately be…what happened. Russ is a great leader, a great human, and I’m proud of the person he is as my QB, but everyone in Broncos Country should know by now that he’s not going to be the answer for our team. I don’t disagree with the process behind trading for him, but he is not going to ever be what we thought we were getting when we traded for him. It’s a tough pill to swallow, but that’s the reality of our situation. He wasn’t asked to do a whole lot after the Jets game. Sean Payton clearly did not trust him. But we turned our season around midway through the year. This was a result of some remarkably positive variance (including a historically great stretch of takeaways by our defense), but Russ was a part of it. He was making the throws he needed to (mainly to Sutton) and capitalizing in the red zone in crunch time when he was called upon to do so. At the same time, our Red Zone offense looked laughable at points. The RZ inconsistency has been maddening and something we’ve all been complaining about on gamedays for years. Something just didn’t click for Russ this past year drive-to-drive. His box score stats don’t actually look too bad, but this offense was extremely painful to watch for 90% of the year. The “can’t throw over the middle of the field” allegations are 100% true. Stidham came in and the offense looked relatively unchanged. He didn’t impress me that much. But the fact that we pay Stidham a fraction of what Russ makes and the offense looked the exact same is crazy. I love Russell Wilson the human, and I think we can all get behind him, but he clearly doesn’t have it anymore. I think we should move on this past offseason regardless of financial ramifications.
RB: Javonte/Perine/McLaughlin
The running game was comically inefficient. This is for a number of reasons. First things first, we only had 2 viable receiving weapons for most of the year (especially when Mims was still in development as a WR). In addition to Russ not being able to work the middle of the field, teams did not have to respect our pass attack one bit. This led to a catastrophically inefficient season for Javonte Williams. He was still recovering from one of the worst knee injuries in the modern era for a RB. Due to his lack of explosiveness, vision, and conditioning, this led to a BAD season from Javonte. It takes a while to get up to speed from a regular ACL tear, let alone one where you also ripped apart your MCL and PCL. He faced an average of 7.3 guys in the box this year on his runs, good for 5th(!) most in the entire league. I am not overtly concerned about his bad play this year. He was never a “speed guy” at RB anyway. He was a tackle breaking machine who was a capable receiver. Historical data says he will not be back to full strength until next year. However, I am a little surprised SP didn’t mix in more Perine/Jaleel in the run game itself.
Perine did awesome as our 2 minute drill specialist. Particularly against Buffalo and Minnesota, but he didn’t get as much usage in the actual run game as I would’ve liked to see. That being said, he filled in his role for us pretty well as a receiving/pass blocking back. He did allow a couple sacks, but I thought Perine was a sneaky important pickup for us last March in FA as a veteran to our thin RB room. I’m excited about him being a vet in our RB room for at least another year.
Jaleel McLaughlin was very exciting as a UDFA. Everytime he touched the ball, I was pretty confident in him making a play. He didn’t get a lot of work during our win streak because when teams load the box due to your lack of passing weapons, it’s a bad idea to put an undersized RB (5’8 190) in those kinds of positions. He still was Top 6 in the NFL in yards created per touch, so we clearly have something there, and us getting a real solution at QB will benefit McLaughlin greatly. Like Javonte and Perine, he is also a capable receiver. I hope Sean Payton can find additional ways to get him involved going forward, kid clearly has some juice.
WR:
Sutton was incredible this past year. Easily our best offensive player besides Meinerz. He had been relatively underwhelming the past 2 years coming off the ACL in 2021 and not being able to develop chemistry with Russ in Hackett’s god-awful offense last year, but it seemed like he had a return to form in 2023. We got back the Sutton we all fell in love with in 2019. He was making the big plays, the contested catches, and came up BIG for us in some moments against the Bills/Chiefs/Vikings. I credit him for a lot of the moments that looked like vintage Russ this past year. He seemed to fit the role of a “big bodied Tyler Lockett” deep ball specialist quite well. Sutton’s game has never been separation, and it is kind of difficult to funnel your passing offense through guys who don’t get open a ton. But I loved what I saw from him in 2023. Definitely one of the "heart and soul" guys in the locker room too.
Jeudy is a physically talented receiver and I expected big things out of him after ending the 2022 season white hot, but he just has not hit the stride in the NFL that a lot of us were expecting when we drafted him. I, like many of you, was super excited about him when we drafted him in 2020. But one thing is clear now: if he reaches the potential, it will not be here with the Broncos. He seemed like an incredible dude at Alabama and he was a hell of a player in CFB, so I don’t blame our regime for missing out on him. But the other part of this is that he is extremely overrated as a route runner. No matter what Twitter clips we’ve seen about him cooking DBs, his success rate vs zone is nothing to write home about. When he was used as an outside deep threat at the end of 2022, that’s when his best stretch as a pro came. He had a hamstring injury before the season began which I’m sure didn’t help, but it seemed to be minor considering he was back on the field relatively soon. He just has that attitude to him which makes me think he’s a lost cause, at least with us. His Twitter is wild and so was the bizzare Steve Smith fiasco on TNF.
Mims deserves to be mentioned here because he, all things considered, had a good and bad rookie year. Let’s start with the good: he helped our special teams turn from laughable to a strength. Pro Bowl and All-Pro kick returner. He flipped the field so many times in the Buffalo game returning kicks. The few deep balls he caught were things of beauty. He is dangerous with the ball in his hands. That being said, he was troubling as an actual WR and needs a lot of development. He ran a Go route on 42% of his sampled routes this year which is an absolutely absurd rate. I could just point to the fact that he was outsnapped/outtargeted by both Lil’Jordan Humphrey and Brandon Johnson when healthy. He, simply, did not have the faith of this coaching staff to win in the short/intermediate areas of the field. He had a 42% success rate vs man and 69% success rate vs zone. Those are historically bad numbers. I’m not trying to say he’s bad. And I don’t think we necessarily made the wrong pick even with the emergence of Dell/Downs who both were drafted behind him. He just is not ready to be an impactful, down to down, flanker NFL WR.
TE:
Dulcich’s injury absolutely killed this unit. Trautman did make some nice TD catches this year, but it’s clear he’s not an impact NFL TE. He was 50th/72 amongst TEs on PFF. His blocking wasn’t that great either. So if you’re an NFL TE who doesn’t block and doesn’t catch passes, what do you even do? He was never supposed to be the guy so I feel for him, but really struggled when he was called upon to be the TE1 for this offense. Manhertz was a much more capable blocker but basically a dead zero in the passing game. You basically just have to hope that Dulcich can recover from his bizzare injury relatively soon, otherwise this unit is easily one of the worst in the league. TE play is inconsistent throughout the NFL and week to week, but we did have Krull emerge and earn some snaps which was pretty neat.
OL:
Shoutout to Bolles for being a great human. I’m so sad that he’s an older player, because there’s a pretty solid chance he’s not with the team before we’re finally competitive. I don’t really see him as anything more than a league average tackle. He’s a pretty mixed bag. One game he’ll have Myles Garrett in a cage. Another game, he’ll be playing New England and be allowing untouched EDGE rushers all day. I love Bolles as a human, and he had some stretches this year of average play, but he’s nothing more than an average T. And that’s really all you need considering the state of OLs in the NFL. He’s been this sub’s whipping boy since his rookie year, and not to say it’s unjustified, but it’s really not that deep. He’s an average player who is a great leader and has a great game or 2 every season.
Mike McGlinchey is a different story. I am not really thrilled about this signing especially considering his cap hit/contract situation. He is going to get paid a lot of money to be a BAD player on our OL. Before someone says that his “run blocking” was great, there was nothing inspiring about an offense that ran for 3.9 yards per carry. His pass protection was actively bad. In 569 pass blocking snaps, 9 penalties, 6 sacks allowed, 8 hits allowed, and 49 pressures. That’s absolutely ridiculous especially for the comtract we gave him. Sean Payton is supposed to be an OL wizard considering his scheme has churned out some of the greatest OL of this generation when he was down in New Orleans (Nicks, Evans, Ramczyk), but I don’t know how anyone can unironically feel good about this player on our team. I remember the dark days of Elijah Wilkinson, Calvin Anderson, and Donald Stephenson. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like those days are over despite the embarrassing contract.
Ben Powers was a decent part of why our OL was vastly improved. He had a few disastrous games (allowing 7 hurries against Washington and 6 hurries against Buffalo), but overall, more very clean games more often than not. He hasn’t been terrible individually. He is a smart player, but his weakness is defending the bull rush. Overall, we could do better, but we could also do much worse. He’s just inconsistent for paying him a FA contract.
Meinerz is an absolute star, and one of our few bonafide stud NFL players. It just finally feels good to have some homegrown and developed talent on our offensive line again. He was PFF’s highest graded guard in the league this past year in run blocking. I hope we can find a way to keep him even being cap strapped over the next few years. He has turned into one of the game’s very best, and hopefully he only gets better as he ages. I know we all like to meme about “The Belly,” but he’s legitimately turned into a good player. The few times we were able to get our run game going, he was a big reason why.
I dont really know what to make of Cushenberry. On one hand, he graded out very well after having a remarkably disappointing NFL career for his first 3 years. I think the upgrade of Powers over Risner really did wonders for him. That being said, he had a sub 65 PFF run blocking grade in 10 games. And I have absolutely no idea where these all out blitzes came from and how they got to Russ so often. Did Cush fail to pick these up? Was the line not cohesive enough? For being Joe Burrow’s former signal caller at LSU, he finally hit the stride we all were hoping for. He refined his technique and stopped blatantly getting beat in one on ones. But I’m pretty confident we can move on. If they feel that Forsyth is ready after being the Captain at Oregon, I don’t see why or how we’d retain Cush. But I do need to acknowledge his improved play.

I want the Broncos to win Superbowls or at least have a chance at them. I believe most people on this sub have a bit a confusion about what a tank is. People act like they are intentionally going to lose or try to lose. Think of the scene from Moneyball where Brad Pitt traded a bunch of players that Art Howe the Oakland manager didn't want to play. They all still tried to win, but they had to do this with certain players that were still on the roster. The players aren't quitting and still tryng the hardest and Sean is trying to win.
I was rooting for the team to tank when the started 1-5. This year was going to be a great QB class at the top. Wilson was not the answer. We are in a position to grab one of the top QB's.
Here is what that tank could of looked like.

1. Trade a wide receiver. Juedy or Sutton. Really didn't care which one. Prefered Jerry gone, but whoever can give us more and better picks. Jerry had and offer I believe it was a 3rd and a 5th. SOLD! Now what does this do ... it forces us to play Mims more. He is further on in his development for this year. He is almost certainly better then he is now, and better prepared for this year.
2. Trade one of your stars or big name contracts. Bolles or Simmons. I much prefer keeping Bolles because that position is way more important for Wilson last year and whoever the QB is this year. They are both over 30 years old, both have a fifteen million plus cap hit. They are part of the past not the future. I believe we could of got a second or third round pick for them. Odds are very remote that either of these two players are ever on a Bronco team that wins a playoff game.
3. Trade Josey Jewell. This is kind of my own take and didn't necessarily a lot of traction for this nationally. I would of accepted a 7th round pick. I don't see a single way that he is on the team this year. We could of got something. Most importantly though we would of got to see a lot more of Drew Sanders would of got a lot more playing time. This would of help both him and the Broncos a lot more. Most anti tank fans were against moves like this because well if you do that he might make a rookie mistake that could cost us to lose the Vikings game or something like that.
4. I bench Wilson at that point. I had seen enough. If he was not willing to change his injury guarantee right then I'm going with Stidham. Bonus points one of two things happen. He wins as much as Wilson did and if so we have a competent QB and can potentially roll with Stidham this year as a semi proven commodity. The alternative is we lose and we could of had a top 3 QB this year. We could of got there natually by playing poorly. Remember we lost to the Patriots and Commanders who have second and third picks, we'd get the tiebreaker. The other thing is its a lot easier to trade up from the 4,5, or 6 picks to get to the top three then coming up from the 12th spot.

If we tank like this we almost have our salary cap solved to at least be even. Jerry is gone, Simmons or Bolles is gone (my two favorite Broncos). We know a lot more about Stidham as a QB, whether he can play or not. Our two youngest and most promising players Mims and Sanders would of had a lot more experience and better equiped to lead us forward.
The alternative is where we are now. Which one is better?
EDIT - I started typing this around 6 a.m. mostly because of got real stuff and things to do in life today. It won't let me go back and change the title. I wish I could of. It seems like that just makes me stupid and the rest is just hot garbage. LOL
Reminds me of this quote, If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell .

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Phish, Saturday 02/06/1993 (31 years ago) Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1993 WinteSpring Tour
Set 1 : Golgi Apparatus , Foam , Wilson ¹ , My Friend, My Friend ² , Maze , Horn , Divided Sky , Lawn Boy , The Wedge , Bouncing Around the Room > Run Like an Antelope
Set 2 : Chalk Dust Torture , Mound , Stash , Sweet Adeline , All Things Reconsidered , Mike's Song ³ > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove , Lifeboy , Uncle Pen , Big Ball Jam , Hold Your Head Up > Lengthwise ⁴ > Buried Alive ⁵ , Possum ⁵
Encore : Fire ⁶
1 Simpsons and Random Note Signals. 2 Beginning featured Trey on acoustic guitar. 3 Included an extra verse. 4 Fish refused to tell The Prison Joke and sang a verse about burning your finger from holding a lighter up too long. 5 John Popper on harmonica. 6 John Popper on harmonica and Noel Redding on bass with Mike on keyboards. Lyrics changed to "move over, Rover, and let Popper take over."
Jamchart Notes:
Weekapaug Groove - An improvisational section begins at 4:40, with really great Mike and Page playing. Then Trey adds electric energy to the mix as the jam returns home to conclude.
Show Notes:
Wilson included Simpsons and Random Note signals and the beginning of My Friend featured Trey on acoustic guitar. Trey teased Antelope before Chalk Dust Torture. Mike's Song was dedicated to Cilla Foster and included an extra verse. During Lengthwise, Fish refused to tell The Prison Joke and sang a verse about burning your finger from holding a lighter up too long. Buried Alive, Possum, and Fire featured John Popper on harmonica; Fire also featured Noel Redding on bass, with Mike moving over to keyboards. Fire's lyrics were changed to "move over, Rover, and let Popper take over."
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Phish, Monday 02/06/1989 (35 years ago) The Front, Burlington, VT, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1989 Tour
Set 1 : Suzy Greenberg , The Curtain > Wilson > Peaches en Regalia , Fee > La Grange , You Enjoy Myself
Set 2 : All Blues > Sanity ¹ , Take the 'A' Train , Golgi Apparatus > Divided Sky , On Your Way Down , I Didn't Know
Set 3 : Good Times Bad Times , Walk Away > Harry Hood , Big Black Furry Creature from Mars , The Ballad of Curtis Loew , Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird > Whipping Post , Corinna
Encore : David Bowie
1 Fast version.
Jamchart Notes:
David Bowie - Mean, nasty and thrilling version that includes the "Theme From Batman" teasing and a great trill section.
Show Notes:
This version of Sanity was the fast version. 'A' Train included a tease of the Woody Woodpecker theme and the Bowie intro contained a tease of the Batman theme.
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Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon, 2016-02-06 Gothic Theatre, Englewood, CO, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/mike-gordon-february-06-2016-gothic-theatre-englewood-co-usa.html
Tour: Mike Gordon - 2016 Winter Tour
Show Notes: Daisy Hill Grove contained a Sugar Shack tease.

John Fishman

Masefield, Perkins, Fishman & Bolles, 2016-02-06 Club Metronome, Burlington, VT, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-february-06-2016-club-metronome-burlington-vt-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes:
Pork Tornado, 2013-02-06 Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-february-06-2013-higher-ground-south-burlington-vt-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: This performance took place in the Higher Ground Ballroom.
Jazz Mandolin Project, 2000-02-06 Liberty Hall, Lawrence, KS, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-february-06-2000-liberty-hall-lawrence-ks-usa.html
Tour: Fish - Jazz Mandolin Project Winter 2000 Tour
Show Notes:
Jazz Mandolin Project, 1998-02-06 Ace of Clubs, Nashville, TN, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/jon-fishman-february-06-1998-ace-of-clubs-nashville-tn-usa.html
Tour: Fish - Jazz Mandolin Project Winter 1998 Tour
Show Notes:

Other

Blues for Breakfast, 2002-02-06 Higher Ground, Winooski, VT, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/guest-appearance-february-06-2002-higher-ground-winooski-vt-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: This show was a benefit to raise funds for the medical bills of Burlington musician "Mr. Charlie" Frazier, who had recently suffered a stroke. The gig included performances from Doctor Jones, The John Tower Group, Nobby Reed Project, Seth Yacovone Band, and Mr. Charlie's own band, Blues for Breakfast. Page joined Blues for Breakfast on keyboards for renditions of the Grateful Dead classics "Scarlet Begonias" and "Franklin's Tower."
Shockra, 1993-02-06 The Wetlands Preserve, New York, NY, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/guest-appearance-february-06-1993-the-wetlands-preserve-new-york-ny-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes: Dimension Extension featured Fish on vacuum, while Tone Clone featured Fish on drums and a reading from Sun Ra's Book of Information. Phish had performed earlier in the evening uptown at the Roseland Ballroom, and had also covered Hendrix's Fire as their encore.

Put this together from several sources (pff, over the cap). Hope it’s useful.
QB Wilson 77.5
WR Sutton 75.6
WR Jeudy 67.8^
WR Patrick 71.2+ [Mims]
TE Trautman 53.2** [Dulcich]
RB Williams 63.3^
LT Bolles 75.9^
LG Powers 61.5
C Cushenberry 73.3** [Forsyth]
RG Meinerz 83.8^
RT McGlinchey 67.5
NG Jones 56.2^
LDT Harris 52.0** [Uwazirike]
RDT Allen 71.9
LILB Singleton 61.2
RILB Jewell 67.2** [Sanders]
LOLB Browning 74.5^
ROLB Bonitto 64.0
LCB Surtain 69.0+
RCB Moreau 62.4** [Moss]
NCB McMillan 68.4^
FS Simmons 67.9^
SS Locke 64.1** [Sterns]
K Lutz**
Number is PFF rating score of current starters
** Free Agent. Parentheses most probable current available replacement.
^ Last Year Under Contract
+Tim Patrick rating based on 2021 season
+Patrick Surtain has team 5th year option after this season
2023 Team Stats:
2023 PPG: 21.0 (20th)
2023 PPG [opponent]: 24.3 (27th)
2023 YPG: 298.4 (26th)
2023 YPG [opponent]: 370.8 (29th)
2023 YPG-rush: 106.5 (19th)
2023 YPG-rush [opponent]: 137.1 (30th)
2023 YPG-pass: 191.9 (24th)
2023 YPG-pass [opponent]: 233.6 (23rd)
2024 Cap Currently:
Negative $30 Million
Picks By Round:
1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th x2, 6th
Potential Cuts:
Bolles ($16 Million)
Simmons ($14.5 Million)
Sutton ($9.5 Million [$13.5 if after June 1])
Jones ($10 Million)
Patrick ($9.5 Million)
Stidham ($4.5 Million)
Potential Restructures:
Mike McGlinchey ($10.5 Million)
Zach Allen ($9.5 Million)
Ben Powers ($7 Million)
Courtland Sutton ($6 Million)
Alex Singleton ($2 Million)
Potential Extensions:
Garrett Bolles ($11.5 Million)
Zach Allen ($11 Million)
Mike McGlinchey ($11 Million)
Justin Simmons ($10.5 Million)
Courtland Sutton ($9.5 Million)
Jerry Jeudy ($9.5 Million)
Ben Powers ($8.5 Million)
DJ Jones ($6.5 Million)
Tim Patrick ($6.5 Million)
Russell Wilson Situation:
Cutting Wilson outright before March 18th would increase the total cap deficit for 2024 to Negative $80 million ($30 million we are currently in the hole plus the $50 million we are short of the $124 million we guaranteed him minimum over the life of the contract after his $35 million for 2024 and the $39 million we paid him already for 2022 and 2023).
If we cut Wilson after June 1st he would not add more to the 2024 Cap (his $35 million salary is already factored in) so that would still be Negative $30 million but would cost $55 million extra against the 2025 Cap. The reason this ends up being $5 million more than the $124 million minimum is because his 2025 salary also becomes guaranteed on March’s 18th.
Also of note there is matching language in the contract so that any amount Wilson signs for with another team will be reduced from our obligation this year.
Cut Options Simplified
Pay Wilson $85 million for 2024 ($50 million gets added to the 2024 cap so we get start free agency with negative $80 million and 2025 will be free of obligations) and we look for a new QB for next season
Pay Wilson $35 million in 2024 and $55 million in 2025 ($55 million added to 2025 cap so we start free agency with negative $30 million and 2025 will have $55 million in obligations) and we look for a new QB for next season
Pay Wilson $35 million in 2024 and $55 million in 2025 (so we start free agency with negative $30 million and 2025 will have $55 million in obligations) and Wilson plays for us next season.

This team cannot enter this draft with 3 extreme needs at 3 significant positions, QB/WOT. At least 2 of the 3 need to be addressed in Free Agency. Considering this, who are the available Free Agents or trade targets at these positions? Disclosure: This is before team's ability to re-sign players or use the franchise tag as well as before teams cut players.
Starting with Free Agent QBs:

• Kirk Cousins
• Ryan Tannehill
• Jacoby Brissett
• Marcus Mariota
• Jameis Winston
• Drew Lock
• Baker Mayfield
• Gardner Minshew
• Josh Dobbs

Free Agent WRs (not nearly a comprehensive list):

• Tee Higgins
• Mike Evans
• Michael Pittman
• Calvin Ridley
• Marquise Brown
• Tyler Boyd
• DJ Chark
• Curtis Samuel
• Darnell Mooney
• Gabe Davis
• Kendrick Bourne

Free Agent OTs:

• Tyron Smith
• Andrus Peat
• Duane Brown
• Trent Brown
• Jonah Williams
• George Fant
• Yosh Njiman
• Donovan Smith
• Oli Udoh

The first things that stands out to me is how deep the WR group is compared to the others and how old the OT group is. This QB group has a two guys I'd feel good about going into next few years as our starter (Cousins, Mayfield) and a few solid bridge options (Brissett, Minshew, Dobbs, Tannehill). A guy like Lock would be a shot that he still has room for improvement, but not someone I'd be happy as a locked in starter.
I don't see a single OT that I would be happy with going into next year as our starting LT. A guy like Jonah Williams is younger and has upside, Udoh and Nijman have stepped into starting LT roles due to injuries and played admirably, but they're all backup LTs right now, not starters. The rest of the group is 30 or older and I am aiming on getting younger.
Within these groups I prioritize QB and WR, but before I go into the guys I would target, who are some trade options? I'm not making any wild out of left field suggestions here, only guys who have been noted by media members as trade candidates across the league.
QBs:

• Russell Wilson (could also be cut and become a FA)
• Geno Smith
• Justin Fields
• Kyler Murray
• Trey Lance

WRs:

• Higgins/Pittman (sign and trade)
• Davante Adams
• Mike Williams
• Jerry Jeudy
• Stephon Diggs (not likely, definitely not trade in the division)
• Brandon Aiyuk

OTs:

• Evan Neal
• Garrett Bolles

So looking at this group, its either highly unlikely, likely to be overly expensive, or extremely underwhelming. Nothing that feels like both a realistic option and great option. So let's zero in on a few options here starting with the free agents.
I'm going to make a few assumptions pre-Free Agency here; Tee Higgins and Michael Pittman will get the franchise tag and be made available for trade but at a high price, Baker and Evans sign extensions with Tampa, and Russell Wilson is designated as a Post-June 1st cut. Kyler, while some say he could be traded will not be traded.
So it begins:
Starting with QBs, our team needs a complete re-vamped room, through both free agency AND the draft. With Baker off the table, and including trade options, there are 3 immediate starters available via FA or trade, Cousins, Wilson and Smith. My projection is that Kirk makes his way to Atlanta on a 3 year deal to join Bill and Josh McDaniels and Geno remains in Seattle. Russell Wilson is now the preeminent QB on the market. Coming off a fairly underrated season because his team didn't have the success they expected, I think he will come a an overall discount but still get a contract that matches what Kirk signs in Atlanta. I'm projecting us signing Russ to a 3 year $90 million dollar with $55 million guaranteed deal where year 3 has a minimal dead cap hit. I'm using Geno Smiths current contract (3 year $75 million $40 million guaranteed) as a baseline and just bumping it up.
I think we double dip at QB after parting ways with both Zappe and Mac, and bring Jacoby Brissett back on a 2 year $15 million contract, $5 million guaranteed.
Next, we need attack wide receiver group. The headliners (Higgins and Pittman) are going to require more draft capital that we are willing to part with, but I think we come away with a couple solid options. Calvin Ridley at 3 years $48 million $36 million guaranteed (using Tyler Locket contract as a baseline) and Tyler Boyd at 2 years $16 million $12 mil guaranteed (using Jacobi Meyers contract).
Finally at OT, there's nothing terribly appealing about this group, so I'm going to shoot for someone who will at least be ready to start week 1, but I may not be able to rely upon long term, Tyron Smith. He's 33 years old, so he's not ideal, but he's one of the best LTs of the last 10 years and can certainly help the group out in the film room and practice field while being more than a capable starter in 2024 at least, 2 years $24 million, $14 guaranteed, same AAV as his current contract with Duane Brown's age 35 contract strucutre.
Now let's see how we stack up from a cap perspective after these moves:
First year cap hits:

• Russell Wilson: $12 million
• Jacoby Brissett: $5.5 million
• Calvin Ridley: $7.5 million
• Tyler Boyd: $4.5 million
• Tyron Smith: $8.5 million
  • Total: $33.5 million against 2024 cap

We are going into the offseason with $70,056,052 in cap space. After these moves, we're left with $36.556 million. We also need to worry about our internal FAs, prioritizing Dugger, Onwenu, Henry, Bourne while also keeping Bryant, Jennings and Pharaoh Brown.

• Dugger year 1 cap hit using Harrison Smith's contract as a baseline: $7.5 million
• Onwenu year 1 cap hit using Kaleb McGary's contract: $6.5 million
• Henry year 1cap hit using Tyler Higbee's contract: $5.5 million
• Bourne year 1 cap hit using Robert Wood's contract: $5.5 million
• Bryant: $1.5 million minimum non-guaranteed
• Jennings: $3.5 million
• P Brown: $1.5 million minimum non-guaranteed

So after all these moves, our roster has 65 players signed, and before any restructures or cuts has open cap space of $1,466,052, according to adding these exact cap hits to Spotrac's roster management tool. I would feel very confident our FO would be able to find additional cap space using restructures and cuts.
So we would head into the draft (before cuts/trades) with the following roster:
QB: Wilson, Brissett, Jones, Zappe
RB: Stevenson, Harris, Vaughn, Hasty
WR: Ridley, Boyd, Douglas, Bourne, Boutte, Juju, Parker, Thornton, Luther
TE: Henry, P Brown
LT: Smith, Anderson Lowe
RT: Onwenu, McDermott, Stueber
LG: Strange, Mafi
RG: Sow
C: Andrews, Andrews
S: Dugger, Peppers, Phillips, Schooler
CB: Gonzalez, Jackson, J. Jones, M. Jones, Wade, Wilson, Bryant, Bolden, Hern, Mills
ILB: Bentley, Tavai, Mapu, McMillan
OLB: Judon, Jennings, Board, Giles-Harris
DE: Wise, White, Bradley-King
DT: Godchaux, Barmore, Guy, Ekuale, Roberts, Hill, Pharms
I believe this opens up the flexibilty of this team come the draft, whether they want to still go QB at 3 and have the QB room to let him develop if he's not ready, or go MHJ to give the current QBs an incredible set of weapons to throw to, or even trade back to secure a LT in Alt or Fashanu while adding additional day 2 picks for shots at QB and WR.
There's so much variability in what can happen between now and the draft, and with the draft being stacked with WR and QB depth, it may make the free agency crop go a little slower, but we never know.

“Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” — S. O’Sade
“I look forward to Fridays because I know I have spent the week offering encouragement, solace, assistance, and good-will to everyone I have met through my journey.”— Byron Pulsifer
“I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I’ve stopped work and said, ‘Thank God it’s Friday.’ But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.”— Helen Mirren
“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.”— Edmond Mbiakading
“People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.”— Raimonda B
“When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails) take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.”— Catherine Pulsifer
“Don’t wait all week for Friday so you can enjoy life. Find a job you love so you can enjoy every day of the week.”— Catherine Pulsifer
"Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now."— Unknown

Happy Friday Quotes

“Music always sounds better on Friday.” — Lou Brutus
“Cozy + smell of pancakes - alarm clock = weekend”— Amy Krouse Rosentha
“This Friday, finish your work and be done, Look forward to the weekend and have some fun!”— Kate Summers
“Wishes for a Happy Friday, and a happy day for every day of the week.”— Catherine Pulsifer
“I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun.”— Hanna Rhoades
“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”— L.M. Montgomery
“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”— Emil Cioran
“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.”— Douglas Pagels
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”— J. B. Priestley
“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”— Shannon L. Alder

Funny Friday Quotes

“Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.”— Richard Nelson Bolles
“Why is Monday so far away from Friday but Friday is so close to Monday?”— Unknown
“Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest.”— D.S. Mixel
“Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, will-power, and inappropriate humor.”— Nanea Hoffman
“There’s just one legitimate synonym for Friday: Boom Shakalaka.”— Unknown
“Work starts on Monday. Life begins on Friday.”— Ozama Yasin
“It’s Friday. Any plan of being a productive member of society is officially thrown out the window.”— Ronald Wilson
“May today be the Fridayest Friday that ever Friday.”— Vinay Agarwal
“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.”— John Shirley
“Pretend like it’s the weekend … We could pretend it all the time.”— Jack Johnson
“Happy Friday! Here’s to all of us who made it through another week of faking adulthood.”— Nanea Hoffman
“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”— Chuck Palahniuk
“Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!!”— Neil Leckman

Good Morning Friday Quotes

“Friday is about hanging out with friends, having fun.”— Rebecca Black
“It’s Friday morning mankind! Good vibe, don’t frown and let the monster see you smile!” — Napz Cherub Pellazo
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” — Robin Williams
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." — Soren Kierkegaard
"It's finally Friday, I'm free again. I got my motor running for a wild weekend." — George Jones
“Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistent practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all.” — Elle Luna
“Waking up early, connecting with nature, and having my quiet time are priorities to me, and they are non-negotiable.” — Danette May
“In one minute you can change your attitude, and in that minute you can change your entire day.”— Spencer Johnson
“Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistent practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all.”— Elle Luna
“Waking up early, connecting with nature, and having my quiet time are priorities to me, and they are non-negotiable.”— Danette May
“I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray, and Wednesday too. Thursday I don’t care about you. It’s Friday I’m in love.” — The Cure

Its Friday Quotes

“Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.”— Lauren Oliver
“Friday. The golden child of the weekdays. The superhero of the workweek. The welcome wagon to the weekend.”— Unknown
“Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!”— Kate Summers
“Friday afternoon feels like heaven.”— El Fuego

Motivational friday quotes

“Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.”— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It’s always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves… they tend to spill over…”— Parag Tipnis
“On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.”— Douglas Booth
“Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night.”— Chrissy Teigen
“Who cares about Thursday’s happy hour when Friday is upon us?”— Unknown
“I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.”— Charlie Kaufman

Beautiful friday quotes

"It's Friday night. Time to be a hero and rescue some wine trapped in a bottle." —Anonymous
“Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” —Tom Lehrer
”Rise up and attack the day with enthusiasm.” —Anonymous, friday quotes for work
”It’s time to embrace the crazy beautiful mess that you are because it’s almost the weekend.” —Anonymous
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” —Robin Williams
“Music always sounds better on Friday.” —Lou Brutus
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” —Robert Frost
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays." —Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." —Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it." —Lou Holtz
"It's finally Friday, I'm free again. I got my motor running for a wild weekend." —George Jones

Fabulous Friday Quotes

"I'll just stay home and eat a lot of gelato and write about how true love is nothing but a myth." —Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl
"Let's sit on a rooftop at 2am and talk about life." —Anonymous
“These are the things to live for.” —Anonymous
“You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.” —Derek Jeter
“A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.” —Robert M. Gates
“The weekends are too short for sleep!” —Bryant A. Loney
“Weekends don’t pay as well as weekdays but at least there’s football.” —S.A. Sachs
“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.” —Bo Bennett
“Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?” —Marilyn vos Savant
“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.” —John Shirley
“Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest.” —D.S. Mixel
“Pretend like it’s the weekend … We could pretend it all the time.” —Jack Johnson
“I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.” —Vanilla Ice
“I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.” —Jimmy Bennett
“It’s the weekend. Do something that your future self will thank you for.” —Anonymous

Blessed Friday Quotes

“I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I’ve stopped work and said, ‘Thank God it’s Friday.’ But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.” —Helen Mirren
“Friday is about hanging out with friends, having fun.” —Rebecca Black
“When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails) take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.” —Catherine Pulsifer
“Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.” —Florence Welch
“Friday. The golden child of the weekdays. The superhero of the workweek. The welcome wagon to the weekend.” —Anonymous
“Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night.” —Chrissy Teigen
“Change your way of thinking. Use your energy to accomplish more productive things. The choice is yours and it can be made today!” —Garrett Kingston
“Life is good, especially on a Friday.” —Anonymous
Positive Friday Quotes
“Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.” —Lauren Oliver
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is yourer than you.” —Dr. Seuss
“On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.” —Douglas Booth
“I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too. Thursday I don’t care about you. It’s Friday I’m in love.” —The Cure
“This Friday, finish your work and be done. Look forward to the weekend and have some fun!” —Kate Summers
“Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck.” —Byron Pulsifer
“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” —Muhammad Ali

Cute Friday Quotes

“Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor.” —Nanea Hoffman
“Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week.” —Byron Pulsifer
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Enno du' giorno che ho creato il subreddit, semo solo in due. Me pare da esse Tom Hanks e Wilson su l'isola deserta. Speramo de non dove' aspetta' 4 anni prima de vede qualcuno! So sicuro che lì fuori, oltre il mio balcone, qualcuno cazzeggia su Reddit esattamente come me, mentre aspetta che bolle l'acqua o seduto sul trono di porcellana o la sera, quando il film te guarda a te che scrolli sul cellulare, mentre te se chiudono i occhi sul divano. Unisciti a noi, cantianese comune, che di comune, nel comune, non ha niente, siamo tutti originali!

So many holes. So many problems. So many questions. I don’t even know if I have the wear withal to write them all out.
I don’t even know what to do about Russ. I’ve supported him all season but it’s obvious he has a ceiling. I’m not sure if the situation improves next year because he’ll be another year older and another year less athletic. Hard to move on from him though because of money and the inability to replace his production. Can’t really draft a QB this year because we’d either have to reach in the middle of the 1st or try to find a project in the 3rd. Neither inspires confidence. Especially when we have so many holes.
Jeudy needs to be traded but can Mims be the #2? Who moves into Mims’s position on the depth chart if he moves up?
Sutton will turn 29 next season.
Tim Patrick is going to get cut and we’ve already been living with his backups in Lil Jordan Humphrey and Brandon Johnson.
Our TE group is terrible.
Bolles will be restructured/extended, traded, or cut. If he goes his replacement will be Cam Fleming but he’s a free agent so we don’t even have an in house replacement. Can’t say a cheap LT, which is all we can afford, would inspire much confidence. If he stays he’ll be 32 next season. Awesome.
Cush is probably gone due to the salary cap but who will replace him? Luke Wattenberg or Alex Forsyth? Doesn’t really inspire confidence.
Will Ben Powers elevate his play?
What are we to do with McGlinchey?
Will Javonte recover some of his burst with additional recovery time?
What do we do with DJ Jones? He’s a cut candidate due to his play and our salary cap but who replaces him? Purcell is a free agent and isn’t very good. Uwazurike? I doubt it. Maybe be get lucky and get Jer’zhan Newton in the draft but I think he projects more as an LDE due to his size (less than 300 lbs). We’d be playing an undersized NT and it would force us to keep Jonathan Harris (who is a free agent) or someone similar at LDE.
LDE is our weakest spot on the D-Line. Harris is a free agent and his replacement is Matt Henningsen. Maybe we can draft Newton and play him at LDE which means we have to keep Jones which impacts our cap space. Awesome.
What do we do with Josey Jewell? Can Drew Sanders be the guy?
Moreau is a free agent. Is Riley Moss ever going to play himself into the rotation?
PJ Locke is a free agent. Can JL Skinner earn himself any playing time?
Can we extend Justin Simmons and restructure the final year of his contract? Also, Simmons will turn 31 next season. Awesome.
How do we improve our pass rush? Bonitto, Cooper, and Browning don’t really strike fear into their opponents. The best pass rushers will probably be gone by the time we pick in the draft. This means we’d have to take a flyer on another mid to late round jag or reach for a Chop Robinson or Bralen Trice.
Meinerz extension is looming.
PS2 extension is looming.
We only have 6 draft picks this year and no 2nd rounder. Not having a 2nd rounder is really going to hurt. 1, 3, 4, 5, 5, 7 is all we have.
Salary cap is a mess. Currently -$17,198,257 in salary cap space with only 43 of 53 players under contract next season. Not only do we need to sign 10 players, but we need to replace anyone who is cut so really it’s more like 12-13 players that need to be signed. I suppose six of them will be draft picks but that still leaves 6-7+ spaces to fill.
Our roster is going to restructure city. Wilson, Sutton, Allen, McGlinchey, and Powers are all restructure candidates but we need them to play ball. Can we restructure everyone we need to without putting ourselves in Dead Money hell the next few seasons? Keep in mind that if you restructure you are basically tying yourself to that player for the remainder of their contract due to the aforementioned dead cap implications. That’s Wilson-5 years, Sutton-2 years, Allen-3 years, McGlinchey-4 years, and Powers-3 years. The Broncos currently have $10,920,344 in dead money on the books in 2024 which is 7th most in the league.
These are most if not all of the concerns I have for the future of the Broncos. I’m sorry to say it but idk how you can deal with everything I listed out and improve as a team. I’m obviously happy about our success this season but it feels like the next few seasons could be pretty rough for us. We also have to wonder if we’ll be getting a new GM or if it’s going to be George Paton who tries to dig us out of this mess. So many questions friends. Not trying to be a doomer, I just think we have an uphill climb ahead of us.

As of right now, assuming a salary cap of $242mil, the Broncos are estimated to be over the 2024 salary cap by just a hair over $17mil.
2024 Free Agents:

• Kareem Jackson
• Lloyd Cushenberry
• Fabian Moreau
• Josey Jewell
• Cam Fleming
• Adam Trautman
• K'Waun Williams
• Ben Niemann
• Mike Purcell
• Jonathan Harris (RFA)
• Lil'Jordan Humphrey
• Wil Lutz
• Jonas Griffith (RFA)
• Michael Burton
• P.J. Locke
• Justin Strnad
• Quinn Bailey (RFA)
• Ronnie Perkins (RFA)
• Dwayne Washington
• P.J. Mustipher (ERFA)

Obviously some of those we will want to re-sign if possible, but for cap purposes we will ignore them for now.
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Dead Money so far we have:

• Randy Gregory - $7.1 mil
• Brandon McManus - $1.2 mil
• Frank Clark - $1.1 mil
• Montrell Washington - $157k

Nothing we can do about this here.
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Notable large cap hits in 2024:

• Russell Wilson - $35.4 mil
• Garrett Bolles - $20 mil
• Zach Allen - $19 mil
• Mike McGlinchey - $18.5 mil
• Justin Simmons - $18.3 mil
• Courtland Sutton - $17.3 mil
• Tim Patrick - $16 mil
• Jerry Jeudy - $13 mil

Some players you aren't going to be able to do much, for example:

• Russell Wilson cannot be cut pre-June 1st (his cap number would skyrocket to $85 mil), post June 1st you receive no 2024 cap relief and $35 mil dead.
• Cutting Zach Allen, McGlinchey, and Ben Powers are pretty much untouchable. Cutting pre-June 1st gives a larger cap hit, post gives no relief for 2024. Might as well hold on to them, all are doing well enough anyways.
• Jerry Jeudy's 5th year option is guaranteed. You receive no cap relief in cutting him, but a trade would would wipe it clean.

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Possible options to get under:

• Cut Tim Patrick - $6 mil dead, $10 mil savings. Sucks but that is too much for a lot of question marks.
• Cut Jarrett Stidham - $2 mil dead, $5 mil savings. If you think you can find a young guy in the draft or a cheaper FA.
• Trade Jerry Jeudy - $13 mil savings. He doesn't seem to want to be here, doubtful Broncos want him. Could use a fresh start and maybe a team would be willing to eat his contract for a low pick.
• Cut Chris Manhertz - $1.1 dead, $2.1 mil savings. Really hasn't done anything.
• Cut Tremon Smith - $700k dead, $2.5 mil savings. Hasn't played much recently.

These 5 moves alone gets the Broncos under the cap by about $13 mil. Enough to sign the draft picks, but if we want more, there are some tougher decisions:

• Extend Bolles and Simmons - Both deserve it, both are set to be FA in 2025. Lock them up and move the cap number down the road until we have more options with Russell Wilson's contract.
• Cut D.J. Jones - I'd rather not, but $10 mil in savings vs $3 mil dead is a lot. Is definitely having a down year, probably the worst since his rookie year.
• Trade Singleton (or cut post June 1st) - This really only works if Jewell is re-signed. I personally would rather keep Jewell since I feel he is better in coverage and a better tackler. Singleton flies around to the ball, but gets caught taking bad angles and seems to get swallowed when blocked. If he is traded post June 1st it would save $6 mil, cutting saves $3 mil.

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What are all of your thoughts? What moves would you like to make?