I plan to skip the NFL season this year until Favre is benched/injured. With the baseball winter leagues, winter meetings, free agency, etc, I should be able to keep plenty busy without the NFL :)

LETS GO FALCONS!

You forget that Favre doesn’t have to do much. We have the top player in the NFL at running back and a backup RB who could be starting on a lot of teams.

We hardly had a passing threat last season. Now the fact we have a QB who can complete passes when there is 1 on 1 coverage (which will happen when they load up the line against AP) makes Favre justifiable and definitely desireable.

If Brady got hurt again and I had to choose between Favre and our current Hoyer (who I think is a rookie that went undrafted), I’d take Hoyer.

I feel bad for the teams on our schedule. Facing AP, Favre, and our other offensive weapons while at the same time having to try to get past our defense? Ouch!

I’m with you where I don’t get what the Raiders get out of it. I think they still are looking at a challenge in winning 5 games this year.

Seymour will probably piss off Al Davis and get cut by mid-season, like that d-back they signed as an FA last year (name is eluding me, and I’m too Lazy to look it up).

Belichick didn’t have complete buy-in from everyone in his stints before the Patriots, so I don’t know how much I count them. Belichick has also dominated the draft moving in and out with the Patriots. Examples are too numerous to mention here. I don’t know if was able to do that with other organizations, but I don’t really remember it.

The personal finance part is that he’s putting something in the bank today for tomorrow. Instead of having the value of Seymour this year (and then maybe never), he’s going to have the value of one of the highest rated players in the draft for another 5 years minimum, maybe 10.

The top ten pick from the Raiders comes in 2011 where it’s expected that rookies will have a different pricing system after the new bargaining agreement. It’s a gamble if that happens.

Could Belichick find a guy as good as Seymour in the draft? I think so, considering that he’s betting the tail end of Seymour’s career vs. the whole career of a new guy.

Also the 3.7M saved this year can be used to help renegotiate Wilfork’s contract. That saves them possibly losing both Wilfork and Seymour in the same year and not getting a great pick for it.

About the Belichick and personal finance comment… not sure I get the reference regarding the trade. Seymour is owed 3.7M in the last year of his deal and can leave for nothing (or get re-signed) by the Pats. Seymour would probably command a high salary, but then again so will a top-10 draft pick from the Raiders. For instance, BJ Raji signed a 5 year 29M deal with 18M in guaranteed money (at the #9 draft slot this year). Financially its a wash, though knowing Belichick’s draft prowess he would probably find a good/great player with the Raider’s draft pick.

Some credit has to be given to Belichick for holding the St. Louis Rams to 17 points in Super Bowl XXXVI. He also held Manning to bad performances a few times after that, until either Manning figure Belichick out or the Patriots secondary just lacked the physical talent.