The Biggest Winners and Losers of NFL Free Agency

Who came out on top and who fell behind in this year's NFL free agency? Find out in this video as we break down the biggest winners and losers of the off-season. From major signings to surprising releases, we'll cover it all and give our analysis on how these moves will impact teams in the upcoming season. Don't miss out on this inside look at the NFL's free agency frenzy!!!!
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Cousins is like Goff: both are willing to Blindly Throw to where the receiver is *supposed to be* on their routes. On the downside, both are terrible if asked to improvise. Both started on teams with coaches that couldn't or wouldn't adapt to these strengths but are on ones now that do.
It'll be interesting to see if the Falcons understand this. As for the Steelers, I *wish **_someone_* would have the courage to say anything true about them. "Tomlin sucks & we need to stop winning Just Enough to keep his streak alive. Also our OC sucks. & o-line. & QBs." Which _IS_ it?
If all those other things suck, then how does the HC also suck if he's making the playoffs with them? The Jets seem to be better everywhere but o-line but are nowhere near as good at winning. _HOW_ is Tomlin succeeding? & it's 100% wishful thinking to think that Russ has anything left but that another team wants to pay him 39 million dollars to take it elsewhere.
A perusal of his stats & footage shows the problems clearly. He refuses to even look at any receiver _in_ the middle of the field or heading there. He has led the league in throws behind the line of scrimmage for *five years straight **_because_* he refuses to do this.
So he's been trying to hide this inability _by_ throwing there immediately instead of going through his reads on plays involving routes that go through the middle. He has also been near or dead last in explosive plays because of this. When you have no 15-yard+ plays, what happens when your 1st & 2nd-down plays don't net you 7 or more yards? It sets up 3rd & long, repeatedly. He kept getting the Broncos into those, they always knew passes were coming & they didn't have to defend the middle of the field. So their drives Kept Failing.
The only reason his TD to INT ratio looked good last season was that during their 5-game win streak the defense caused many TOs deep on the far side of the field & he scored on these short fields. But he was unable to move the ball down the field for *Two Years Straight* & everyone's acting like he's still prime Russell Wilson, just plug & play & he'll be back in the form he was when they won the S-B.
He wasn't even like this in '21.
Fields on the other hand is the Exact Opposite. Sadly, we only have to go back one year to find another QB like this, Lamar because I _want_ to say there was never any QB more hampered by their HC than Fields. It still might be true, but it's close.
When he first stared at an *open receiver* around week 5 of '22 by not taking him into the blue tent & shutting down reporters who tried to ask about this with an angry wave of his clenched fist, Eberflus & the Bears made it clear they knew Fields *was being **_ordered to_* not throw the ball to certain receivers on certain plays & that him staring at them wasn't due to his "being unable to read defenses."
If anything, having to stop mid-scramble to read jersey numbers, then try & remember _if_ they are a receiver one is allowed to pass to require MORE reading.
Fans acknowledged this, if accidentally. At the time they said "The Bears _needed_ to do this to simplify the offense for him."
Even if true, that call resulted in him not passing the ball on plays where not passing the ball didn't stall their drives, those calls *killed* drives. So why did they stick _with_ those plays?
To intentionally undermine Fields so they'd have an excuse to move on from him, that's why. If you don't believe that, then your only other alternative is that this HC So Inept that he couldn't see how this one play killed off his own offense for Over A Year.
So how can someone that stupid who calls such plays win? Name One Thing CW does that Fields can't? *All* the negatives on the Bears were due to play-calling, Fields _IS_ Caleb Williams, maybe slightly weaker of an arm, maybe slightly worse of a scrambler, but in the same tier for sure.
His '21 INTs & highlights show him threading needles on throws you normally would have to look at Dan Marino or Lamar Jackson highlights to find, weird arm angles & throws on the run, 50+ yards in the air at the flick of a wrist, but with his receivers unable to catch them. Everything else was play-calling.