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I’m binge watching the One Piece films because I completely forgot they existed and hadn’t watched any until now.
But the amount of foreshadowing for characters coming into the story line -up to where the anime currently is at- and different events taking place is unreal.
Which makes me kinda glad that I forgot the films where a thing, I like being able to notice little Easter eggs and the homage’s made to other characters 😌
#anime#one piece#one piece films#one piece film gold#one piece film z#one piece film red#I’ve watched all of the older films as well#I cba tagging all of them individually
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𝖙𝖊𝖒𝖕 𝖕𝖎𝖓𝖓𝖊𝖉. independent arlecchino of genshin impact. headcanon-dependent until canon proves otherwise. minors dni. #𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐘𝐕.
BLOGROLL: @baishouqijia ✦ @capitaneus ✦ @kohlapsar
I. no homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, harassment etc. i do not reblog callouts unless the individual is genuinely harmful (i.e. behaviour related to those listed), rather than being called out for personal grievances. you are welcome to block the tag 'callout /' for this purpose.
II. i do not interact with minors. if you are a minor, i ask that you do not interact with me or this blog. i cannot guarantee that this blog will remain sfw, therefore this is a blanket rule.
III. arlecchino is a villain, and i don't intend to shy away/soften her up, so dark topics may be present. that said, i do not write incest, nsfw involving minors or sexual violence - i'm okay with these topics being included in a character's backstory but will not be writing these explicitly.
i do write nsfw headcanons/nsfw themes in my threads. this may include sexual content and explicit gore / violence, with my rp partner's consent.
as an aside, i appreciate that a lot of people enjoy the villain/victim dynamic but please don't reach out to write with me if you're only focused on tragedy/victim plot for your muse. it's very one-sided for development, and i get very little enjoyment from writing it. i want to explore arlecchino as her own person, and not as a plot device.
IV. please specify muse before interacting with me if you are a multi-muse. i'm very original character friendly, so long as there's a viable way for arle to interact with your muse.
V. please check out headcanon tags before interacting! arlecchino has little canon information so will be reliant on these. some are supported by canon lore, some of these will just be based on pure vibes alone.
my arlecchino uses she / he / they pronouns and i use them interchangeably.
VI. this blog will be low activity. i work full time in a demanding job, so please don't interact with me if you need fast replies to maintain a muse. i am quite responsive ooc, but when it comes to writing, you will just have to take my word for it that i am worth the wait ʚ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ɞ
VII. shipping is very cool and i am open to it! i ship with both genshin and non-genshin muses, and occasionally ocs. i prefer headcanoning more than actual writing due to my writing speed, but i am still interested! i prefer shipping with chemistry rather than what's considered canon, and i'm generally singleship but this is not a hard rule. i’m also poly friendly.
ship bias: tsaritsa, columbina, sandrone, signora, beidou, rosaria, childe, capitano
all others are welcome to explore, no hard feelings if it doesn't work out c:
VIII. i'd appreciate it if you didn't use heavy metaphors / poetry in our threads. absolutely no hate or anything, i just find it very difficult to understand what the characters are actually doing in this writing style. i also ask that you don't use real life face claims in our threads; i write characters who do not have irl images so it feels very space jam.
IX. i write muses without knowing most of their lore from in-game text because i am lazy. i play genshin daily, but most of it the lore supplied by youtube/wiki because i genuinely cba going through all of the texts in game to get pantalone crumbs. if i write something incorrect to canon, like hideously wrong, feel free to let me know. chances are i just didn't read the small print.
X. i go by dima or vodka! i'm 27 and use they/them. i'm a hobbyist artist and i love fantasy, liches in particular. i will draw our muses whether u like it or not. my dms are open, feel free to ask for my discord, or genshin uid if you play on EU!
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#𝖇𝖆𝖎𝖘𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖖𝖎𝖏𝖎𝖆 independent PANTALONE of the FATUI HARBINGERS ( genshin impact ). headcanon-based portrayal until canon confirms otherwise. themes of violence, adult content and spoilers. minors do not interact. by dima. ⓒ
AES. CARRD. CREDITS. HEADCANONS. MUSIC.
BLOGROLL: @capitaneus ✦ @knayv ✦ @kohlapsar
I. no homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, harassment etc. i do not reblog callouts unless the individual is genuinely harmful (i.e. behaviour related to those listed), rather than being called out for personal grievances. you are welcome to block the tag 'callout /' for this purpose.
II. i do not interact with minors. if you are a minor, i ask that you do not interact with me or this blog. i cannot guarantee that this blog will remain sfw, therefore this is a blanket rule.
III. pantalone is a villain, and i don't intend to shy away/soften him up, so dark topics may be present. i do not write incest, nsfw involving minors or sexual violence - i'm okay with these topics being included in a character's backstory but will not be writing these explicitly.
i do write nsfw headcanons/nsfw themes in my threads. this may include sexual content and explicit gore / violence, with my rp partner's consent.
as an aside, i appreciate that a lot of people enjoy the villain/victim dynamic but please don't reach out to write with me if you're only focused on tragedy/victim plot for your muse. it's very one-sided for development, and i get very little enjoyment from writing it. i want to explore pantalone as his own person, and not as a plot device.
IV. please specify muse before interacting with me if you are a multi-muse. i'm also original character friendly, so long as there's a viable way for pantalone to interact with your muse.
V. please check out headcanon tags before interacting! pantalone has little canon information so will be reliant on these. some are supported by canon lore, some of these will just be based on pure vibes alone.
my pantalone uses he/they pronouns and i use them interchangeably.
VI. this blog will be low activity. i work full time in a demanding job, so please don't interact with me if you need fast replies to maintain a muse. i am quite responsive ooc, but when it comes to writing, you will just have to take my word for it that i am worth the wait ʚ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ɞ
VII. shipping is very cool and i am open to it! i ship with both genshin and non-genshin muses, and occasionally ocs. i prefer headcanoning more than actual writing due to my writing speed, but i am still interested! i prefer shipping with chemistry rather than what's considered canon, and i'm generally singleship but this is not a hard rule. i’m also poly friendly.
ship bias: dottore, capitano, childe, yelan, tsaritsa, pierro
all others are welcome to explore, no hard feelings if it doesn't work out c:
VIII. i'd appreciate it if you didn't use heavy metaphors / poetry in our threads. absolutely no hate or anything, i just find it very difficult to understand what the characters are actually doing in this writing style. i also ask that you don't use real life face claims in our threads; i write characters who do not have irl images so it feels very space jam.
IX. i write muses without knowing most of their lore from in-game text because i am lazy. i play genshin daily, but most of it the lore supplied by youtube/wiki because i genuinely cba going through all of the texts in game to get pantalone crumbs. if i write something incorrect to canon, like hideously wrong, feel free to let me know. chances are i just didn't read the small print.
X. i go by dima or vodka! i'm 28 and use they/them. i'm a hobbyist artist and i love fantasy, liches in particular. i will draw our muses whether u like it or not. my dms are open, feel free to ask for my discord, or genshin uid if you play on EU!
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Would you ever write dead dove do not eat!?
Thanks for the ask! :D
I admit, I’m not entirely sure what that means.
Dead Dove: Do Not Eat is a warning or tag used to indicate that a fanwork contains tropes or elements that may be deemed morally reprehensible without explicitly condemning the sensitive aspects.
I’m not quite sure if you’d put that in whump. We are already listing and tagging things, and do expect them to actually appear. I sure do not need that extra warning if someone clearly tags something “gore; there is GORE” - like I sure hope there is!
(Actually, I still find myself a bit disappointed some of the time :’) but well.)
I do tend to warn above the cut rather liberally; better safe than sorry. If I go over a certain arbitrary line, I might add an extra emphasis on “this time it’s really nastier than usually” but not that exact warning (because it means nothing to me, I learned about it a few months ago only).
If it’s about actual darker tropes, depends. Many are prevented by my need for a happy end. I can’t do major character death or something like that if I want the characters mostly intact to live happily ever after.
Whumper pov? Very unlikely. I do not enjoy that. So, due to the nature of it having Whumpee/Caretaker pov, it already has the “this is a Bad Thing that’s happening” vibe. Some of my characters might be morally gray/do morally gray things, though.
Major character death/an unlikely to come out alive amount of gore? In a dream/AU only, but I have lots of “canon” ideas & limited time to write, so chances I’ll ever get there are low. There might be some, especially in regards to my BTHB. I’m also not sure my writing style is “explicit” enough, and I won’t force it. If it happens, it happens.
Nsfw? Probably not. If I’d ever write it, I would not share it. I do not need that kind of drama in my life.
Under the cut for a small rant and gore mention I cba to tag:
Also, since I am having A Day, and this hellsite is annoying me since the moment I opened my eyes in my cozy 27 degree hot room: I am already frustrated as hell that my main stories’ themes appear on like 2/3 of the squick lists of new whump intro posts. That things I had no problems sharing with my coworkers (!) are suddenly a no-go in this of all places. It’s not exactly encouraging going down even darker paths, knowing that those people who are about a story with recovery also wouldn’t read it. My will to deal with this site’s post editor is held up by a handful of individuals who probably don’t even know how much I love them.
But damn. I’ve broken like every third bone in Caldyn’s body. I burned his eyes. I peeled off his skin bark. I blew up Damien’s hand, I chopped off Damien’s hand, then I cut off the rotting rest of his arm. I’m gonna crush Josephine in a cave in, letting her almost drown in her own blood.
What more do you want, man (gender neutral) 😅
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tagged by @conan-doyles-carnations, tysm ✨✨✨
1. First things first, what is your MBTI type?
infj
2. When did you learn to read?
no idea what age, but i (think) i actually remember the first time i recognised the words on the page, and wasn’t just reciting a book from memory!!! i was on my own and it was about a gingerbread man
update: asked my dad and he said i started reading at 3
3. What languages can you read in?
english, a bit of spanish
4. What book are you currently reading or most recently read?
i’ve recently finished euripides’ bacchae. currently reading the prince, wollstonecraft’s vindication, and the roots of romanticism (isaiah berlin). starting aristotle’s poetics and nicomachean ethics and wendy cope’s making cocoa for kingsley amis v soon
5. Name 3 books you never finished:
ah this is hard bc i’m not usually one to leave books. i tried joyce’s ulysses but it took me 4 hours to read 9 pages and i kind of admitted to myself that i haven’t read widely enough to truly appreciate it yet. i never finished kafka’s the trial which i deeply regret and hope i will return to
6. What are your favorite books from childhood?
my earliest fav i think was scary fairies. i loved the -ology books when i was v young, u kno the rly exciting big lift-the-flap ones??? a little later i was OBSESSED with darren shan, especially the saga of darren shan (tho the demonata too). i had never read anything like shan’s books before when i first came across them, the complexity of the characters was mind-blowing to me, and steve leonard’s betrayal (+ crepsley’s death) omfg……. i also adored shiver by maggie striefvater - shiver and my name is mina are the books that first got me into poetry (rilke in the former and blake in the latter), and poetry is still my fav part of lit today!!!
7. What are your current favorite books?
the great gatsby and the secret history! and hamlet if that counts as a book
Multiple Choice (bold as many as apply to you & add your own choice if you must)
am on mobile and cba to html so am gonna bracket instead of bold soz
8. Your favorite genres:
Mystery/Sci-fi/Fantasy/Chick Lit/Young Adult/Horror/[Nonfiction - assuming this means like criticism etc]/Memoir/Dystopia/[Poetry]/Self-Help/Historical Fiction/Fanfiction/[Realistic Fiction]/[Biography]/[Gothic]
9. Your opinion on rereading books:
I do it all the time/It has to be a really good book/I can’t stand it/I haven’t done it since I was a child/[I only reread my favorite sections].
i think the only book i've reread (since childhood, anyways) is frankenstein. it was pretty rewarding so am now more open to retreading than i was
10. How long does it take you to read one book on average?
[1 to 3 days]/[a week]/[a few weeks]/about a month/several months.
it’s rare for me to spend more than 2 weeks reading one book, but depends how busy i am
11. How do you typically read?
Every opportunity I get, in transit, while waiting, etc./[Before bed]/On the go by audiobook/[When I can truly relax]/When I remember to.
i also enjoy reading the most when i’m alone.
12. How many books do you typically read in a year?
None or 1/About 1 to 3/Maybe 4 to 10/[At least 10 - but i read more poetry than novels]/ At least 50/ Too much. I can’t keep track.
this year i have read almost 40, not including individual poems or critical essays. not quite 50 +tho, honestly goals for next year
13. For school assigned books, what type of student are/were you?
[I read all the books in detail]/I read all but sometimes skimmed/I nearly read all, I may have skipped a few because they were too boring/I only read the interesting ones/There’s a reason why Sparknotes was made!
i tag (only if you’d like to!!!): @alain-fournier @cassiopeaia @jawnham @d-winifred @englishlitstudentblr @the-metal-kettle @jehanfleur @jjohnkeats @jawnham @literaetures @queersandcommies @wholockedhousekeeper @lanternheart @asteriea @donnattartt @moncrieff @vivalcli @horaetio @therepublicofletters @edmunddcorcoran @gothicwhoreoine and anyone else who would like to!!! ik i’ve missed so many amazing ppl
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Hi my name is Steph and I suck at tag games
I got tagged in a few variations of this, so here is the closest one to combining all of them. I got tagged by: @rosebudjin, @itsjinmin and @cinnamonsuga. Thank u my darlings.
rules: answer 30 questions then tag 20 blogs you would like to know better
honey darling no. The mutuals I have either tagged me or already got tagged by other mutuals ahaha
get to know me:
nicknames: Steph, Neffles, Na.
gender: female
star sign: Sagittarius (I just found out and I’m coming to terms with it)
height: 5′6
time: 13:08pm
birthday: 22nd November
favorite bands: BTS (what a fucking shock), Foals, Young the Giant. I cba to list all the kpop ones.
favorite solo artists: Khalid, FRANK OCEAN, Hayley Kiyoko, Troye Sivan, Childish Gambino.
song stuck in my head: To Myself - DPR Live (Megan mentioned it in her post so now it’s there)
last movie watched: I literally never watch movies. The last one was Wonder Woman almost 2 months ago.
last show watched: Brooklyn Nine Nine. I’m finally catching up.
when did i create my blog: This blog was 23rd March 2017. But my main was August 2010.
what do i post: Mainly BTS, some other kpop groups. My other blog is 90% shitposts now.
last thing i googled: “can rabbits eat celery” (Bertie has got so much food today. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a bunny eating watermelon.)
do you have any other blogs: My main is flareandfadeforever and it’s a state tbh. Kinda regret making this a sideblog now.
why did you choose your url: I love puns and I love Kim Seokjin.
following: 250
followers: 55 on this blog. It’s still v new and I don’t make my own shit. Yet.
favorite colors: Blue! Purple is a very close second.
average hours of sleep: 6/7 at the moment. But I sleep during the day too.
lucky number: 22! my birthday is 22/11 which just looks pretty, but also a lot of significant things happen on the 22nd for me.
instruments: Trumpet, saxophone, ukulele (badly), and I own a guitar.
what am i wearing: baggy sweatshirt and leggings.
how many blankets i sleep with: just my duvet. But in the Summer, I just wrap myself around it like a koala.
dream job: at the moment, writing comedy for TV/online. But if I’m being 100% honest, I always wanted to do music.
dream trip: I want to travel everywhere. But I am hoping to do a road trip across the states with my friends. I also really want to go to Asia at some point.
favorite food: pizza. Or mashed potatoes. (yeah, u better cry Megan)
nationality: British
favorite song rn: I’m listening to Khalid’s album on repeat to the point I can’t name the individual songs. I do really like Don’t Wanna Fall in Love by Kyle too.
bts would you rather:
build a snowman with taehyung OR have a snowball fight with hoseok
get coffee with yoongi OR get ice cream with yoongi (fuckin hate coffee)
go to the cinema with jimin OR the amusement park with jungkook
do a dance cover with hoseok OR sing a duet with jin (honestly is that not the dream)
kiss namjoon OR cuddle yoongi
babysit with jimin OR dogsit with taehyung (looking after puppies with an actual puppy)
meet hoseok’s family OR have taehyung meet your family (my family are fucking mental and I’m p. sure he’d fit right in)
film a commercial with hoseok OR film a sketch with taehyung (I do sketch anyway so that would be fab)
hug jimin OR hold hands with jungkook (squish the squish)
go to paris with jin OR to london with yoongi (I live an hour from London and I hate it. Paris seems more interesting.)
film a drama with jin OR do a photo shoot with namjoon
attend an award show with namjoon OR wear couple t-shirts at the airport with jungkook (the “couple shirt” with kookie would just be my number and “please return if lost”)
spend a lazy day with yoongi OR explore a city with hoseok (megan’s right u can’t choose. Instead, we all go round a city then we go back the hotel and laze about and watch shitty films.)
fall asleep next to jimin OR wake up next to jungkook
have a fun picnic with hoseok OR a fancy date with jin (mate i’m going for both. Idk about fancy dates but i do know about Kim Seokjin. I love picnics.)
have jungkook serenade you OR have taehyung sing you to sleep (oh NO)
have a dance party with hoseok OR sing karaoke with yoongi (All i want in life is to take Hobi to a gay bar. I’m not saying he’s gay, I’m saying that queer kids know how to fucking dance honestly)
go camping with jimin and tae OR go to the beach with namjoon and yoongi (it would be a fucking disaster and that’s the shit I’m here for)
have a sleepover with the hyung line OR a birthday party with the maknae line
celebrate halloween with jungkook, yoongi, tae, and hoseok OR christmas with namjoon, jimin and jin (yeah I’m just straight up not picking. Honestly I want all the boys there.)
Idk if I actually really have many people to tag as everyone has been tagged! As usual, don’t feel like u have to do this! And if you want to do it, say i tagged u
@nochucametru, @williamteaspears, @bemybackpack, @jinsasleep, @hobi4kook, @omfgbts.
#tag games#about me#here is a lot of drabble u r welcome#sorry this took me ages as normal#this week has been hectic
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The NFL's 25 very best large-cash contracts after altering for placement
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The NFL's 25 very best large-cash contracts after altering for placement
As significant as it is to find the correct players, signing them to the correct contracts can be just as essential. Common administrators Dave Gettleman and John Dorsey had been equally shockingly enable go in modern weeks from Carolina and Kansas City, respectively. The experiences bordering just about every firing advised contractual missteps had been concerned. Just about every staff wishes to develop its roster all-around cheap rookies and veterans who are generating much less than market value, but what is market value, anyway?
Let’s attempt to determine that these days, and in undertaking so, we can determine out which groups frequently hand out bargains that exceed market value and no matter if they’re correct to do so. I’ve absent by means of just about every multiyear agreement I could find considering that the new collective bargaining arrangement was signed in July 2011 and measured just about every deal’s three-year value, which is the real cash a participant would get home if he stayed on the roster for three seasons with out departing or renegotiating his agreement. Many NFL corporations use this metric as a very simple evaluate of a contract’s value.
The team’s offer to its quarterback is barely credible specified Cousins’ leverage, and now Washington is operating out of choices. It could drop him for a compensatory decide on upcoming spring, or it could be proactive and look for assets now.
Belichick and Bowman. Pink and Riley. Jackson and Torre. The earlier sixty decades of the four U.S. major professional sports activities are littered with all-time excellent coaches. Bill Barnwell picks out the very best in just about every season.
Derek Carr bought a massive deal Thursday, but he also taught us a lesson in NFL contracts.
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The NFL’s greatest three-year agreement belongs to Andrew Luck, who will get home $75 million about that span in his extension. That is helpful details, but it is really not quite beneficial in placing the market for a correct tackle or a punter. So I created a baseline three-year value for just about every placement by having the common of the leading 20 contracts all through this time body at just about every spot. This features equally active and inactive contracts signed considering that 2011, since the latter however play a part in defining the market. In some scenarios, the greatest contracts at a placement are ones that are no more time on the books. The leading 5 operating back again contracts (led by Adrian Peterson) and leading two wideout bargains (Calvin Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald) usually are not at the moment active, but they’re made use of in this article to assist established the baseline value.
These baseline values selection from $57,757,933 for quarterbacks to $2,904,166 for long snappers. (I lumped facilities and guards as interior linemen, mixed defensive finishes with pass-hurrying exterior linebackers as edge rushers and blended protection linebackers with within linebackers.) Luck’s deal may be the greatest in the match, but the moment you account for the quantity quarterbacks get paid out, his three-year compensation falls in line as 29.9 p.c above common.
As it turns out, Luck’s deal will come in as the twenty sixth-major active agreement after altering for positional value. Let’s run by means of the 25 other bargains and see what it tells us about the groups that signed them.
Three-year compensation: $12.five million (30.8 p.c about baseline)
Ted Thompson does an great position of holding his contracts at or down below market value this is the only active Packers extension that even sniffs this list. Aaron Rodgers‘ agreement, which paid out out $sixty.8 million about its first three seasons, ranks 10th amongst quarterbacks. The Packers will most likely prolong Rodgers no later on than upcoming offseason, a spring that could also include things like new bargains for Clay Matthews, Jordy Nelson and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix.
Three-year compensation: $38 million (30.8 p.c about baseline)
The Raiders gave Osemele a $fifty eight.five million, 5-year deal all through the 2016 offseason, then adopted it up by shelling out Gabe Jackson $fifty six million on a 5-year extension this summer season. Oakland’s starting off guards will have a mixed cap strike of $24 million this season, which seems unbelievable right up until you realize that the Browns have committed more than $29 million to their guards. No person else in the NFL tops $20 million.
Three-year compensation: $forty eight.ninety one million (30.9 p.c about baseline)
Brown’s deal is the only extensive receiver agreement on this list. The market is skewed by virtue of the truth that the two major put up-CBA bargains are from 2011 (Larry Fitzgerald, $fifty one million) and 2012 (Calvin Johnson, $fifty one.755 million). Every single of individuals contracts maxed out in surplus of $113 million, but the greatest active wideout deal is the 5-year, $seventy one million agreement specified to Julio Jones. It’s not clear individuals bargains labored out. The Cardinals have needed to restructure the Fitz deal twice and will owe $four.9 million in lifeless cash on their cap after Fitzgerald hits cost-free agency this offseason. Brown’s deal appears far more most likely to operate out.
Three-year compensation: $41.25 million (31.2 p.c about baseline)
The Costs are the only staff in the league with three players in the leading 25, and a fourth (Patrick DiMarco) just narrowly misses the list at 29. All four of individuals contracts had been handed out underneath the tenure of typical manager Doug Whaley, who did not lack for largesse just before remaining fired in April. Think about that the Costs gave Glenn $five.3 million more than the Vikings gave 2012 classmate Riley Reiff, who signed a single year later on and as a correct unrestricted cost-free agent. Glenn is a superior participant, but this is a huge deal for somebody who has nonetheless to make a Pro Bowl.
Cordy Glenn was drafted by the Costs in 2012 and grew to become the first Costs rookie to begin at still left tackle in a season opener considering that 1990. Timothy T. Ludwig/United states Nowadays Sports
Three-year compensation: $44.seven million (34.four p.c about baseline)
There are six defensive tackles in the NFL who make far more than the rest of the league’s interior linemen and crash this list. McCoy bought paid out first, signing his deal in October 2014, when the previous 3rd total decide on was approximately two seasons away from demanding a franchise tag, enable alone hitting unrestricted cost-free agency. The Bucs structured McCoy’s old CBA rookie deal with a small sixth year, which often designed it most likely McCoy would negotiate a new agreement just before that closing season, but McCoy has the smallest agreement of the large six since he took his cash first.
Three-year compensation: $33 million (34.6 p.c about baseline)
You can fully grasp why the Dolphins required to re-indicator Jones, a superior protection who was coming into the closing season of the four-year, $28 million extension he signed in August 2013. At this value, even though, Jones is almost certainly overpaid. He’s designed a single Pro Bowl in seven seasons and has not sniffed a first-staff All-Pro nod. Eric Weddle is older, but he’s been more productive and bought much less cash in correct unrestricted cost-free agency. Devin McCourty is younger than Jones, has performed cornerback and cost-free protection, and the exact same is correct for him. The Dolphins had a year of contractual command and however gave Jones more than the Ravens handed to Tony Jefferson, who could negotiate with 32 groups and is more than four decades younger. Jones’ deal is also structured in this kind of a way that the Dolphins are fundamentally guaranteed to pay out him by means of 2019. He’s not going to suddenly be bad, but this is a leading-three agreement for a participant who just has not been a leading-three protection.
Three-year compensation: $38 million (34.seven p.c about baseline)
Immediately after Osemele reset the guard market all through 2016 cost-free agency, Zeitler’s new deal elevated the bar by an supplemental $one.one million accurately a single year later on. The first $forty million guard is on his way. It could be Carolina’s Trai Turner, who has designed back again-to-back again Pro Bowls and just turned 24 in June. If Turner doesn’t get there, star Cowboys guard Zack Martin will certainly do so when he negotiates an extension to remain in Dallas, which could appear as early as this summer season.
Kevin Zeitler has not missed a begin considering that the 2014 season. Joe Sargent/Getty Visuals
Three-year compensation: $45 million (35.3 p.c about baseline)
Whilst unquestionably proficient, Jackson is a far much less accomplished participant than McCoy. Jackson is approximately two decades younger, but he had been a starter for only a single year in Denver just before piecing alongside one another a warm playoff run. He has in no way designed a Pro Bowl. McCoy has designed 5 consecutive Pro Bowls, was a first-staff All-Pro nod in 2013, and is a improved pass-rusher, which groups pay out a top quality for from interior linemen. But since Jackson strike unrestricted cost-free agency 15 months after McCoy signed his deal, Jackson’s three-year agreement is even bigger.
Three-year compensation: $ten.75 million (36.seven p.c about baseline)
The next of two Raiders on the list, King is arguably the very best-acknowledged punter in football. The extension King signed to remain with Oakland in 2016 soars earlier the baseline three-year mark of $seven.9 million. The final results considering that? Immediately after King and the punting unit ranked fourth in area placement gained per Soccer Outsiders’ studies in 2015, the Raiders tied for twenty second in the exact same category final season, even as King averaged four.one supplemental yards per punt.
Three-year compensation: $29 million (37.five p.c about baseline)
There may not be a even worse agreement in football than the 5-year, $38 million deal Whaley made use of to extricate Clay from the Dolphins as a restricted cost-free agent. The Costs gave Clay a $ten million signing reward in Calendar year one and a $ten million roster reward that the staff transformed to a signing reward in Calendar year 2 for cap causes. As a outcome, the Costs ensured they would be holding Clay on the roster for four decades, specified that they is not going to realize any cap savings by cutting or trading Clay right up until 2019, when they will owe $four.five million in lifeless cash.
At his very best, Clay was a helpful tight finish, but he has performed by means of knee injuries considering that arriving in Buffalo that usually are not going away. This is the actual type of draw back possibility groups attempt to stay clear of by holding assures in the first two decades of contracts. The Costs signed themselves up for that possibility and ended up with a agreement that was practically promptly underwater. It’s a reminder of how bad corporations trick themselves into generating foolish selections.
Three-year compensation: $34.seventy six million (38.four p.c about baseline)
Kuechly, on the other hand, was the AP Defensive Player of the Calendar year in 2013 and designed it onto the All-Pro first staff three consecutive times just before missing the closing six video games of 2016 with a concussion. His deal would be even even bigger if it weren’t for the truth that he signed just about two full decades away from cost-free agency. The Panthers however paid out a top quality to lock him up they could have absent year-to-year with Kuechly and paid out just $27.seven million from 2015 to 2017 to preserve him in tow. They even could have franchised Kuechly twice and paid out him $45.2 million for four decades, not a great deal more than the $42.seven million he’ll essentially make from the first four decades of his extension.
Luke Kuechly, still left, has been named a first-staff All-Pro three times in his 5-year vocation. AP Picture/Bob Leverone
Three-year compensation: $forty three.ninety one million (39.3 p.c about baseline)
This compensation determine displays the $6.five million base income Williams was anticipated to get in 2016 the Oklahoma merchandise noticed his pay out slashed by $one.6 million and his 2017 assures voided after remaining suspended for four video games. Williams will finish up obtaining his 2017 pay out in full anyway, ensuing in a massive deal, with more than $20 million in bonuses about the first two decades alone. Williams is an great participant — he has designed 5 straight Pro Bowls — but the still left tackle has just two full, 16-match seasons to his title in seven decades as a pro.
Three-year compensation: $eleven million (39.9 p.c about baseline)
Below Andy Reid, the Chiefs have positioned a top quality on exclusive groups, a unit led by coach Dave Toub, practically universally regarded as the very best exclusive-groups coordinator in the match. Just one of the first issues they did after Toub arrived was lock up Colquitt on a 5-year, $eighteen.8 million extension. Colquitt’s $four.9 million cap strike in 2017, the closing year of the deal, is the major for any punter in the league. Colquitt has delivered, even though, major a Chiefs punting unit that has ranked in the leading 5 just about every of the earlier three seasons.
Three-year compensation: $fifty one million (forty.seven p.c about baseline)
Norman strike unrestricted cost-free agency perfectly after the signing time period had started, which commonly implies a more compact agreement, simply just since there usually are not several corporations — or a great deal cash — still left to bid. The previous Panthers star is an exception to that rule. His 5-year, $75 million deal guaranteed him $36.five million at signing, and the $fifty one million determine blows away any active cornerback deal. The next-greatest active cornerback agreement is Stephon Gilmore‘s pact with the Patriots, which pays him $41,968,750 about its first three seasons. Washington can bail on the Norman deal after two seasons and $37 million if it goes genuinely inadequately, but it would however owe $9 million in lifeless cash on its 2018 cap.
Three-year compensation: $30 million (42.2 p.c about baseline)
This is a agreement handed out by notable Saints typical manager Mickey Loomis, who may have dominated this list as a short while ago as 2015. The Graham deal was a merchandise of necessity. Even after the tight end’s grievance to be categorized as a extensive receiver for purposes of the franchise tag was denied, New Orleans however required to find a way to cut down Graham’s 2014 cap strike although locking him up to a long-expression agreement. As often, the Saints just elected to push their cap problems down the line, as they would do with the contracts handed out to the likes of Junior Galette and Jairus Byrd. Graham’s deal was a report common for tight finishes at $ten million per season, and by settling for a four-year agreement, Graham will be a cost-free agent once more after this year, his age-30 season.
Restricted finish Jimmy Graham averaged 14.2 yards per catch final season. Joe Nicholson/United states Nowadays Sports
Three-year compensation: $61.one million (42.five p.c about baseline)
Move-rushers get paid out more than any individual else in football other than quarterbacks these times, so it is really genuinely telling that Miller will make it this far up the list. The next-major three-year determine for a pass-rusher is $fifty four million, which equally Muhammad Wilkerson and Olivier Vernon strike when they signed contracts final offseason. At bare minimum, specified its composition, this is a four-year, $78.6 million agreement. It established the bar for edge rushers, and unless of course somebody else of Miller’s caliber is eager to wait right up until the sixth year of his vocation (or the fifth year for a non-first-round decide on) to indicator a long-expression deal, $61.one million is going to be a complicated number to leading.
Three-year compensation: $13.seven million (forty three.3 p.c about baseline)
I’ll get to Gostkowski in a moment.
Three-year compensation: $forty seven.8 million (forty three.seven p.c about baseline)
The upcoming member of the large six, Cox designed his thousands and thousands by producing as an interior pass-rusher. The Mississippi Condition merchandise was underperforming as a short while ago as 2014, racking up just seven quarterback hits inspite of taking part in 921 defensive snaps. Cox turned issues all-around in 2015, major the Eagles with 9.five sacks and 20 knockdowns, and he adopted that up with a good 6.five-sack, 14-strike season all through Jim Schwartz’s first year in town. Schwartz depends closely on receiving strain with his entrance four with out blitzing, generating his hay with interior disruptors this kind of as Albert Haynesworth and Marcell Dareus in decades earlier. It’s not hyperbole to suggest the Eagles develop their overall defense all-around Cox.
Three-year compensation: $13.75 million (forty three.8 p.c about baseline)
I never imagine any individual would argue that Gostkowski and Tucker are amongst the very best kickers in football, even though their divergent 2016 seasons display how complicated it can be to guarantee responsible kicking, even by paying out significant cash. Tucker had an unbelievable year, going 38-of-39 with out missing an more position. He was worthy of more than twice as a great deal as any other kicker in football. Gostkowski had a disheartening — and uncharacteristic — league-common season, even though he bought improved as the year went along and designed all eight of his area goals all through the playoffs. He was also great on kickoffs, but groups usually are not shelling out a top quality for kickoff experts specified the league’s latest rules.
Justin Tucker was the league’s very best kicker in 2016, generating 38 of his 39 attempts. Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire
Three-year compensation: $37.five million (forty nine.3 p.c about baseline)
Collins’ representation most likely realized Cleveland was determined to re-indicator him after attaining him from New England for a 3rd-rounder. He was capable to extract a quite generous deal from the expertise-needy Browns as a outcome. Both of those Collins and previous teammate Dont’a Hightower picked up four-year bargains this offseason, but Collins bought $fifty million with $37.five million unfold about the first three seasons. Hightower will remain in New England for $35.five million, with $27.four million coming because of about A long time one by means of 3. Even accounting for the chance that the Patriots bought some type of price cut with Hightower and the lowly Browns have to pay out a top quality to draw in expertise, you can find an massive economic gap among individuals two bargains.
Three-year compensation: $fifty two million (fifty six.3 p.c about baseline)
Three-year compensation: $53.15 million (fifty nine.8 p.c about baseline)
The bronze and silver medalists of the large six, Dareus finishes ahead of Brief only on paper many thanks to the four-match suspension he incurred all through the 2016 season. Dareus lost more than $3.3 million as part of his suspension, but once more, the Costs couldn’t have acknowledged that Dareus would skip a drug examination and offer them a partial refund.
These two bargains ended up very similar, but they should not have. Dareus signed his agreement approximately two decades just before Brief, which suggests the Costs star need to have a more compact deal for causes of cap inflation alone. Dareus was also coming into the fifth year of his rookie deal, although Brief was about to enter his first season underneath the franchise tag, which means Brief was a single year closer to cost-free agency. If these two groups went year-to-year with their respective stars, Buffalo would have owed Dareus just $37,618,082 all through the first three decades of what grew to become his extension, although Carolina would be on the hook for shelling out Brief $fifty two,902,304. Doug Whaley was not a bad participant evaluator at all, specifically specified the bevy of road cost-free brokers who arrived into their individual in Buffalo. But he regularly failed to properly value players.
Defensive tackle Kawann Brief had fifty five tackles and six sacks in 16 starts off for the Panthers final season. Bob Donnan/United states Nowadays Sports
Three-year compensation: $42.five million (73.four p.c about baseline)
The rest of these bargains are just about every huge leaps upon the prior contracts in the rankings. If Zeitler reset the guard market, Berry created a model new market entirely. Exterior of the aforementioned Reshad Jones, no other protection in football has a three-year value in surplus of $30 million, enable alone the $42.five million mark Berry strike in his new deal with the Chiefs. Berry designed a Joe Flacco-esque wager on himself and won, turning down more compact contracts just before providing the very best season of his vocation. He’s definitely the very best protection in the AFC when healthful and could push Earl Thomas for the nod as very best protection alive.
Is it a superior deal? It relies upon on what your definition of a superior agreement is. The very best NFL contracts provide surplus value, which is why it is really so unbelievable to have an above-common quarterback this kind of as Dak Prescott on the cap for $635,848 when he would conveniently get $25 million a year in cost-free agency. There is certainly no way the Berry deal can return surplus value. Even at his very best, as was the case in 2016, Berry was not so a great deal improved than any other protection in the league as would be needed to justify this type of agreement. In terms of locking up excellent expertise, the Chiefs have retained a person with a legitimate Hall of Fame case in the prime of his vocation. The injuries are a issue, but players like Berry practically in no way strike cost-free agency …
Three-year compensation: $sixty million (eighty.four p.c about baseline)
… I say practically in no way since of Ndamukong Suh, a foreseeable future Hall of Famer who strike the cost-free-agent market at 28 by virtue of the Lions’ remaining bad and amassing helpful leading-5 picks at a time when individuals picks charge an exorbitant sum of cash. Suh had developed to be this kind of a load that the Lions ended up shelling out $9.seven million in lifeless cash on their 2015 cap, which was Suh’s first season in Miami. Even now, Suh will make as a great deal as two star pass-rushers on other groups. You can in shape the first three decades of the extensions handed to J.J. Watt and Whitney Mercilus mixed underneath $sixty million with room to spare.
If you want to get a sense of what leading-tier expertise is certainly worthy of in the NFL, even though, Suh is the very best case in point we have of how dominant players are underpaid. His deal is way above even the other members of the large six — and the Dolphins created the agreement knowing they would restructure it in a dangerous way — but Suh is as superior of a wager as anyone in football. Even if Suh has lost some explosiveness, he’s however superior for 20 quarterback knockdowns and a run at the league direct in run tackles for decline on a in close proximity to-yearly foundation. Suh also has not missed a match via harm as a pro, owning sat out only two video games in 2011 for stomping on Evan Smith. This is market value for a celebrity.
Three-year compensation: $15.45 million (202.four p.c about baseline)
Just a little rise in the percentage for our most high priced agreement. For context, Andrew Luck has the greatest three-year quarterback agreement at $75 million to have a deal 202.four p.c bigger than the quarterback baseline, he would want to grow to be football’s first $38 million quarterback and rack up approximately $117 million about the first three decades of a agreement. Juszczyk’s agreement is on a world by by itself.
I wrote about why Juszczyk has not been a notably effective fullback as a pro in March, but even if he had been the very best fullback in the league, this deal would be nuts. Only a single other fullback, Marcel Reece, had beforehand obtained a deal worthy of $ten million about its first three seasons. Juszczyk is approximately $five.five million earlier Reece’s prior superior-drinking water mark. Kyle Shanahan’s previous fullback in Atlanta, Patrick DiMarco, signed a four-year deal with $6.6 million unfold about the first three seasons. Juszczyk doubles that with room to spare. Could he genuinely be that a great deal improved?
To be good, you can find a realistic chance Juszczyk doesn’t see $15.five million. The 49ers can get out of this deal after two decades and $ten.8 million, which would be much less impactful, if however nuts. Shanahan has advised that he’ll use Juszczyk as some type of transcendent offensive weapon, but even if he had been, the 49ers had been negotiating towards a league that would have valued Juszczyk as the fullback he’s been. The possibility in this article just isn’t massive — the 49ers usually are not contending in 2017, with or with out Juszczyk — but it is really some thing to appear out for as the combination of Shanahan and John Lynch make more meaningful selections in the decades to appear.
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Andre Iguodala’s Free Agency May End Golden State’s Run
With the dominant way the Golden State Warriors have played during this postseason, it seems silly to wonder how long their stranglehold on the league, or at least the Western Conference, could last. The Warriors are undefeated and have the best defense in the postseason by nearly four points per 100 possessions. Whenever Draymond Green, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and Klay Thompson are healthy enough to play at the same time, their record is a scintillating 51-9 this year, including the playoffs.
But beyond this season looms a larger question about the future of the franchise, and the future of its least likely lynchpin: Andre Iguodala.
Even at 33 years old, Iguodala remains a critical contributor off Golden State's bench. He's the influential veteran presence who does just about everything pretty well. Few players meet his combination of athleticism, versatility, and unselfishness. Throw intelligence into the pot, and the Warriors clearly have a special player.
"He knows how to run the floor, run through if two guys are filling the lane. If he's the ball handler, he's pushing the pace," Warriors assistant coach Jarron Collins told VICE Sports. "He's almost like a point forward...someone who's a playmaker when he has the ball in his hands, to find shooters or to find someone on the rim run. His intelligence on the basketball court, and his basketball IQ, is tremendous."
Iguodala is an unrestricted free agent this summer, and whether the Warriors lose him almost entirely depends on how Durant uses the flexibility afforded to him by the new CBA. It seems very unlikely that Durant will opt into his $27.7 million player option for next season since that would cost him millions of dollars.
If Durant opts out, the two most probable scenarios are: A) a 1+1 deal using his Non-Bird Rights that starts at approximately $31.8 million (120 percent of his 2016-17 salary) or B) a brand new max contract that'd start around $35.3 million per year. The former keeps Golden State above the cap and allows them to retain all their own free agents, if they so choose. But if Durant wants as much money as he's eligible to earn then that potentially squeezes out a player like Iguodala.
Curry, Durant, Green, and Thompson would nearly fill the salary cap by themselves, leaving just over $10 million in space, the $4.3 million room exception, and a troop of veteran's minimum deals to fill out the roster. That may still be enough to win it all, but the margin for error is so thin. You may ask: who cares if the Warriors lose Iguodala?
One front office executive told VICE Sports that he thinks the Warriors would still be the favorites to win it all next season—sans Iguodala—but building a competent bench would be extremely difficult given their financial situation.
Several parts of Iguodala's game would be missed, not to mention the fact Golden State would be losing a Finals MVP who helped them win a championship two years ago.
Iguodala enables Golden State's groundbreaking adaptability with an individual flair that's emblematic of how they want to play. His performance in the 2015 Finals was a watershed moment for NBA basketball. Trailing 2-1 against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr went small by inserting Iguodala into Game 4's starting lineup. From then on, the Warriors outscored the Cavs by 46 points with him on the court, and the rest is history.
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Collins, who's been with the Warriors since Iguodala's first season with the team and has played with countless all stars, needs a second to think when asked if Iguodala is the smartest player he's ever been around.
"I've been around a lot of good ones. I've had the pleasure to play with some Hall of Famers: John Stockton, Karl Malone, Steve Nash. I've played with a lot of great players. I will say that he's right up there. Especially with someone like Karl Malone, in just that he understands player tendencies," Collins said. "It's not just necessarily the guy that they're going against, it's everyone. Everybody on that other roster, Andre has a mental rolodex, a mental book on them, and what they want to do to be successful. He understands positioning, playing for strips, and the anticipation, knowing what the player wants to do."
The numbers make the case for Iguodala's importance. He had the same True Shooting percentage as Curry this season (an impressive 62.4), and ranked 24th out of 468 players in Real Plus-Minus after having been third overall during his first year in Golden State. He also finished dead last on the Warriors in usage. Dead last!
But watch this team play and Iguodala feels so vital. Over the last three postseasons, he averaged more touches than everyone on the team except Curry and Green. That includes this current run, where he handles the ball more frequently than Thompson and Durant despite spending fewer minutes on the court.
Only Durant, Jon Leuer, DeAndre Jordan, and LeBron James finished with a higher field goal percentage in the restricted area this year (on at least 150 attempts), while only Nikola Jokic and JaMychal Green were more accurate from the mid-range (on at least 60 attempts).
"Andre is a proven player in this league, so he'd have success no matter which team he's on. Hopefully it's us for many years to come, but obviously you just look at his history. His numbers don't lie," Collins said. "He had success when he was in Philadelphia. He had success when he was with Denver. He's having success now. A lot of that is just a credit to his ability to acclimate himself to whatever environment he's in, with whatever team. It just so happens that our team plays best to his strengths because we have so many different playmakers."
Iguodala's situation feels like a convenient perfect storm—from roster makeup to playing style to role—but it's also clear he can still help a different team next season. If Durant re-signs with a max contract, Iguodala is as good as gone.
One league source joked that no matter what, Iguodala better get more money than Jamal Crawford, the Los Angeles Clippers sixth man who signed a three-year, $42 million contract last summer. This is accurate. Iguodala laps Crawford in just about every area that matters and is nearly four years younger. Anything between $15-18 million in that first year sounds right, but he still needs a buyer.
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The Los Angeles Lakers will probably call. Luke Walton is Iguodala's former coach and Rob Pelinka, now L.A.'s general manager, was his former agent. Assuming Nick Young opts out of his player option, the Lakers can open up nearly $29 million in cap space this summer. Pelinka can bid for his ex-client's service and potentially still have enough room to afford Paul George the following summer.
Across the country, if the Boston Celtics swing and miss on Gordon Hayward and Blake Griffin, Iguodala would be an ideal fit off their bench. Boston deploys a similar read-and-react playing style to the one Iguodala enjoys in Golden State, and Iguodala's defense in the playoffs could be what nudges the Celtics past LeBron James.
"He's probably one of the best on-ball wing defenders," Collins said.
The Miami Heat, Philadelphia 76ers, Dallas Mavericks, and Minnesota Timberwolves will all have enough cap space to make a competitive offer. Each would be through the moon to add Iguodala to their roster.
If he does in fact leave the Bay Area, replacing all the on-court intangibles will be virtually impossible. Finding someone who can provide a positive locker room influence may be even harder.
"You can tell that Andre had solid vets teach him and instruct him the ways about being professional," Collins said. "This is his 13th year in the league, and you can see that Andre is doing that for our young guys. So he's giving back. I think that that is one of the coolest things about team sports. You learn the professional game, you continue to grow and to learn, and then you give it back. He is that solid veteran that you need."
A quick look at this summer's free agent class doesn't inspire much hope that Golden State could replace Iguodala, especially considering they'd barely have any cap space and only a $4.3 million exception to utilize. That means suitable plug-and-play cogs like C.J. Miles and Kyle Korver are out of their price range. Maybe Golden State brings back Brandon Rush, or positions itself as the first team to maximize Jeff Green's raw ability. Maybe Jodie Meeks' injuries deflate his price tag. Or the league, for whatever reason, still decides they don't like Omri Casspi. Can P.J. Tucker be had? What about Thabo Sefolosha, Jonas Jerebko, or Luke Babbitt?
None of these names come close to replicating Iguodala's impact, let alone Shaun Livingston's. There's a chance the Warriors will finally feel the aftermath of a stringent collective bargaining agreement that was designed to prevent four All-NBA talents from teaming up with arguably the league's best sixth man.
If Durant waves goodbye to that extra $4 million and the Warriors are able to bring back whoever they want, they'll roll on until poor health and/or age-related decline ends their run. Curry will be 30 in next year's postseason. Durant will be 29. Green and Thompson will be 28. They will enter the next two seasons, at least, as heavy title favorites.
But if not, the rest of the league can exhale a slight sigh of relief. The mighty Warriors may not be as dominant for as long as everyone else initially feared.
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local Cryptid
suburgatoryfans
SUBURGATORY FANS