Your “Defence Wins Championships, But Offence Gets Paid” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

• Russell Wilson got PAID. A four-year extension worth $140 million, including a no-trade clause, keeping him a Seahawk until 2023.  
  • Or, more than Aaron Rodgers, which is apparently what his measuring stick was.
  • He is/was scheduled to make $17 million this year, and if the extension wasn’t realized he was likely to be franchise tagged at $32 & $38 million respectively for 2020 & 2021.
  • By signing him now, it foreshadows Seattle’s draft strategy a little bit:
    • No high-round rookie QB will be drafted until 2022 at the earliest.
    • They need to get high-value linemen to protect him, because he’s not as fast as he used to be, and with $105 million guaranteed, they need to keep him from getting chased & killed by the new wave of defensive linemen being drafted.
    • They will lose either Bobby Wagner or Frank Clark, because thanks to the Wilson deal, they can’t afford to keep both.
      • So they will need to draft a replacement for one of them.

• Jerry Jones is trying to use the Rodgers & Wilson contracts as negatives in his discussions with Dak Prescott on an extension.
  • To quote JERRAH,  
    • “The bigger [deal] for them in terms of their career and what they’re all about is how much did they win, how many Super Bowl rings do they have on their fingers, those are all huge deals. And they know if at some point they take up too much cap space at the end of the day, then it can hurt their chances in terms of winning.”
  • He said he is trying to engineer “team-friendly” deals with both Prescott and Amari Cooper, to keep the team competitive going forward.

• As is league tradition, with the Draft being a week away, the league is releasing the regular-season schedule Wednesday evening at 8:00PM ET.
  • Naturally, it’ll be LIVE on the NFL Network.
  • The league already announced the season would begin with Bears-Packers on Thursday, September 5th.

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL: all game 4s
  • Lightning at Blue Jackets – 7:00PM | CNBC / Sportsnet360 (Jackets up 3-0)
  • Islanders at Penguins – 7:30PM | NBCSN / CBC (Isles up 3-0)
  • Jets at Blues – 9:30PM | CNBC (Blues up 2-1)
  • Sharks at Golden Knights – 10:30PM | NBCSN (Vegas up 2-1)

• NBA: all game 2s
  • Magic at Raptors – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
  • Thunder at Trail Blazers – 10:30PM | TNT / TSN5

• MLB:
  • Red Sox at Yankees – 6:35PM | MLBN
  • Blue Jays at Twins – 7:30PM | Sportsnet1

• NCAA:
  • College Baseball:
    • Butler at Purdue – 7:00PM | FS1
  • College Golf:
    • Western Intercollegiate – 7:00PM | GOLF

• WWE:
  • Smackdown LIve! – 8:00PM | USA / OLN Canada
    • Day 2 of the “Superstar Shakeup” from Montreal

I had a good commenting day yesterday. Got my first banner in over a year, and made what I thought was a good Philip Rivers joke in yeah right’s RAMMIT post.