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💥 POWER RANKINGS! 1 to 32 + blurbs for each team
💥 A 6-10 team from 2020 is in the Top 5
💥 Bucs are not No. 1
💥 Steelers made Top 20! Barely!
💥 Uh, Cowboys... 😬
💥 Plus 10 Things, Travel Notes, More
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5. San Francisco (6-10)
The Niners made the huge tradeup and Trey Lance draft pick because they couldn’t trust Jimmy Garoppolo (last three years: 23 missed starts) to stay healthy. But there’s something else, another reason for the urgency. The Lynch/Shanahan regime, highly respected around the league and by owner Jed York, has to be feeling some heat because of three losing seasons out of their first four on the job. I think they’re fortunate no one offered a first-round pick to take Garoppolo off their hands, because that would have left them reliant on a top prospect albeit from an FCS school without much experience—and with no insurance policy worthy of a playoff run behind Lance. The 49ers will be good enough on offense. Will they miss departed defensive coordinator Robert Saleh, replaced by DeMeco Ryans? At first glance, the Ryans defense should look very much like Saleh’s, with maybe more physicality in the five-yard bump zone by the corners, and the same playmaking greatness from emerging star Fred Warner at middle linebacker. The Niners need a healthy season from Nick Bosa to be a great defense. And a great defense would allow them to threaten the Bucs for NFL supremacy.
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Jones’s deal overall, if he can still be Julio Jones, isn’t horrible—he’s due $38.326 million over the next three years. The trouble is the structure. He’s due a fully guaranteed $15.3 million this year, meaning there are just eight teams (Jaguarss, Jets, Broncos, Bengals, Lions, Browns, Chargers, Niners) that have the space to deal for him without moving money around. On top of that, he’s got $2 million guaranteed for next year, meaning if you want to move on then, you’ll have paid $17.3 million, plus a pick, presumably, for one year.
• Cash spending is relevant this year coming out of a tough year financially for teams, and the fact is there are lots of contenders that have already exhausted their 2021 budgets. Does that mean a GM can’t go to an owner and ask for more to facilitate a special opportunity? No. But that’s another piece of capital (if intangible capital) that such an executive has to consider spending. If this was happening in February (which it couldn’t have, because of the June 1 relief Atlanta needs to do a deal), it might’ve been more manageable for other teams.
• Jones missed half the 2020 season with a hamstring injury, and while he hasn’t missed much time otherwise (just four games total from 2014 to ’19), there’s a lot of mileage on his body, and he’s played through, and managed, a lot of injuries to get to nearly 13,000 career receiving yards.
So what would it take for the Falcons to part with Jones? I think they’d probably do it for a second-round pick at this point. That said, I also think there’s some logic to hanging on to him. His contract would be a lot easier trade after this year, and the idea of having Pitts, Jones and Calvin Ridley together, even for just a year, has to be enticing. I know, from talking to Ryan, that the quarterback would approve, and Smith and Fontenot know it, too. “They obviously know how I feel about Julio. They know it, there’s no question about it,” Ryan told me. “It’s the part of the business that’s tough as a player, that it’s constantly like this. And Julio’s had such incredible production that it becomes a huge, huge story. But this is the hard part of it, there’s uncertainty, for lack of a better term, constantly. So obviously I hope he’s here. He’s been such an awesome teammate. Really, and I’ve said this before, I don’t think anybody has impacted my career as significantly as him. I’ve been very fortunate to ride along with him for 10 years. So we’ll see what happens. But I also don’t want to get involved in anybody else’s business. That’s for him to handle.” And, of course, for the Falcons to handle.
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