With the deadline for placing the franchise or transition tag on players now in the past, we can take a closer look as to how teams could approach free agency with respect to gaining potential for compensatory picks a year from now. A few of the factors that come into judging potential for each team […]
With the 2018 NFL season over, it’s time to go back three years and identify some teams that used 2016 free agency wisely or poorly with respect to the compensatory pick formula in 2017. For reference, you may find the list of the 2017 compensatory picks awarded here, and the cancellation charts for all 32 […]
As I was writing Caponomics: Building Super Bowl Champions, which is now available on Amazon (paper edition/kindle), I realized there are two distinctly different styles of constructing a championship roster.The first roster construction strategy is the obvious one, investing in a top tier quarterback, which means over 10% of the cap, and thus creating, by […]
This week’s contract estimate is for our first 4-3 defensive tackle, Bennie Logan. In 2013 the Philadelphia Eagles snapped up Logan in the 3rd round of the draft and he contributed immediately, logging 40% of the defensive snaps during his rookie season, playing in all 16 games. Though Logan has been a mainstay on the […]
Earlier this week, we the people decided who we want to lead us into the near future from the Presidential Palace. Regardless of whether we as individuals supported the eventual winner or not, ultimately it was decided that a radical change was necessary at the top. After years of what people felt was a whole […]
In week 5, the quarterbacks played well again in totality, averaging 66% accuracy for 270 yards with a TD:INT ration of 15:4. This represents a 15 yard increase per man over week 4 with a significant reduction in interceptions (10 to 4). As you peruse the season-to-date stats below, you’ll see that the letter grades […]
Now that the NFL’s rosters have been trimmed down to 53 players, it’s time to take a brief review of where OTC’s projections for the 2017 compensatory picks stand. This year, there have been very few changes from the update from May, therefore I won’t repost the table in this article, and instead direct you […]