Chase Elliott said Saturday night that missing the playoffs for the first time in his Cup Series career is a “bummer,” but it provides a learning experience.

“I appreciate everybody’s support through this season that hasn’t been what I would want by any means,” Elliott said after finishing fourth in the Cup regular-season finale. “But certainly going to be some lessons taken from it, and I think we’ll be better for it on the other end.”

Elliott fails to make the playoffs for an eighth consecutive year after missing seven races this season — six for injury and one for suspension. This dropped him well below the playoff cutline as the end of the regular season approached.

Elliott had an opportunity to point his way into the playoffs, but a crash at Michigan and a fuel issue at Watkins Glen put him in a must-win situation at Daytona.

The 2020 Cup champion did what he could at the superspeedway. He avoided a 16-car incident at the end of stage 2, and he put himself on the second row for the start of overtime. He just couldn’t cap the night with a win due to the teamwork of the RFK Racing drivers.

“I feel like we had an OK chance there, but Brad (Keselowski) and (winner Chris Buescher) just worked so well together there and they were able to stay locked-on,” Elliott said after the race. “They were so locked-on there … they just had a strangle-hold on the top lane.

“Unfortunately, I just couldn’t get to Kevin (Harvick) and stay there like that, and just make the bottom lane work. I kind of bottled it up there and just couldn’t get enough momentum going forward.”

There are multiple areas where Elliott and crew chief Alan Gustafson can make improvements for next season. They can put a bigger emphasis on qualifying after the No. 9 car only reached the final round seven times in his 19 starts.

They can also continue to work on race strategy for road courses and other tracks where they do not have to worry about pitting in a group. Nailing those little details can make the difference between contending for a championship and ending the regular season below the cutline.

While Elliott missed out on the final playoff spot on the driver side, he still checked off a goal that was very important to Hendrick Motorsports. He put the No. 9 Chevrolet in the owner championship over the No. 23 of 23XI Racing.

Elliott now has an opportunity to pursue wins and points that will move the No. 9 through the opening rounds of the playoffs. NASCAR pays the season-end purses based on the owner standings, so Elliott can help deliver a bigger payday with a strong postseason run.

“Obviously we came up a little short, but nonetheless — I hate the way the season has gone, but proud to get the car into the owner’s championship,” Elliott said. “It’s a big deal to get in on the owner’s side, so hopefully we’ll try and go make some noise on that front, and just keep progressing and pushing to be better for next year. We’ll be better through all of this down the road.”

Elliott is not the only prominent driver to miss the playoffs. Teammate Alex Bowman also missed the cut after an injury sidelined him for three races. Reigning Rookie of the Year Austin Cindric missed the playoffs after winning his way in last season.

Austin Dillon and Daniel Suarez, who both won their way into the playoffs last season, missed the cut after falling into must-win situations during the regular season. They joined AJ Allmendinger, who entered the season as one of the favorites to make the playoffs due to the number of road courses on the schedule.

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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

FHLBank San Francisco is appointing four new members to the Affordable Housing Advisory Council

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco has appointed Cesar Covarrubias, Patricia Duarte, Elizabeth Elliott and Maurilio León to its Affordable Housing Advisory Board

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is pleased to announce the appointment of Cesar Covarrubias, Patricia Duarte, Elizabeth Elliott and Maurilio León to its Affordable Housing Advisory Board (Advisory Board). give ).

The Advisory Board provides the bank with expert advice on affordable housing and economic development issues, as well as advice on FHLBank San Francisco’s community grant and loan programs.

New members of the Advisory Board are:

Cesar Covarrubias
Executive Director, The Kennedy Commission, Irvine, California

Cesar Covarrubias manages and provides strategic leadership for the Kennedy Commission’s advocacy and programs to improve affordable housing and improve the resilience of low-income families in Orange County, California. Mr. Covarrubias’ expertise combines more than a decade of experience in nonprofit management, affordable housing policy, advocacy and community building. Previously, Mr. Covarrubias coordinated the Commission’s efforts to develop and implement public policies and strategies for affordable housing at local government and state levels. Mr. Covarrubias has also worked with Orange County’s Fair Housing Council as a housing discrimination case manager, assisting clients with landlord-tenant issues. He serves on several nonprofit boards and holds a law degree from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish literature from California State University, Fullerton.

Patricia Duarte
Executive Vice President, Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC), Phoenix, Arizona

Ms. Patricia Garcia Duarte joined CPLC in March 2022 to lead and manage homeownership initiatives and focus on building a homeownership ecosystem to narrow the wealth gap among Hispanic, Black, Asian, Indigenous and low-income people. Previously, she was President and CEO at Trellis, an Arizona nonprofit organization, for 16 years, where her responsibilities included creating a housing vision and leading the organization’s strategic goals to better serve customers, stakeholders and neighborhoods/communities. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, CPLC is a multistate not-for-profit organization dedicated to five impact areas: Health and Human Services, Housing, Education, Economic Development and Advocacy. Ms. Garcia Duarte holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Arizona State University’s College of Business.

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Elizabeth Eliot
Executive Secretary of the Northern Circle Indian Housing Authority (NCIHA), Ukiah, California

Led by Elizabeth Elliott, NCIHA has transitioned from a $4 million portfolio to a $38 million portfolio serving tribal members of a consortium across the United States. NCIHA was the first from the Tribally Designated Housing Authority to receive an AB1010 Exception Waiver for the Home and Home Key programs through the California Housing and Community Development Division. In this way, NCIHA has struggled to gain precedence in California’s exercise of the federally recognized tribal rights to sovereignty and self-determination in the successful application and award of the Home Investment Partnership and Home Key programs. Ms. Elliott started a movement to provide hope, healing and shelter. Ms. Elliott believes that in order to foster historical resilience in tribal communities, one must first provide safe housing for all.

Maurice Leon
Chief Executive Officer, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC)

As CEO of TNDC, Maurilio León leads the organization towards its vision of advancing community well-being through affordable housing, food and wellness opportunities, and community advocacy. Mr. León has a combination of public and private sector work experience, including over ten years of work in the not-for-profit affordable housing, community and economic development sector. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer of Community Housing Opportunities Corporation (CHOC), an affordable housing and community development organization. Prior to this role at CHOC, Mr. León was Executive Vice President of Unity Council, a nationally recognized non-profit organization known for its innovative and successful approaches to community development. Mr. León also worked extensively in the financial industry and local government with such entities as the City and County of San Francisco, Office of the Assessor-Recorder, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Goldman Sachs, Providian Financial Corporation and JP Morgan Chase ( formerly Washington Mutual). Mr. León received a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in political science and education from the University of California, Berkeley.

Advisory Board members also elected David Paull, President of CORE Advisory Partners, as Chair and Holly Benson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Adobe Communities, as Vice Chair of the Advisory Board.

About the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is a member-run cooperative that helps local lenders in Arizona, California and Nevada build strong communities, create opportunity and transform lives for the better. Our member financial institutions—commercial banks, credit unions, industrial lending firms, savings institutions, insurance companies, and community development financial institutions—depend on us to provide prompt access to low-cost financing, risk management tools, and affordable housing resources for community economic development. Together with our members and other partners, we make the communities we serve more resilient, just and vibrant.

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CONTACT: Media Contact: Mary Long Senior Director, Marketing Communications longm@fhlbsf.com 415.616.2556

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The NFL offseason is already in full swing. Cap cut season is upon us. The combine is this week. Teams can apply franchise tags.

It’s on.

No matter that the official start of the league year isn’t for two weeks. The business of football is already at the fore. Teams have long decided on their free agent priorities, and which players they are going to cut and which they will ask to take a pay cut. The jockeying for a potential franchise quarterback in the trade market is well underway. Budgets have been set. Many of the most critical meetings – ones that will dictate the tenor and outcome of months of transactions – are already in the past, with the groundwork for those acquisitions hitting another level with the entire league gathered in Indianapolis.

And even for the best teams in football, like the Super Bowl winning Rams, there is abundant work to be done. Getting sufficiently under the cap alone is enough work for some franchises, while others are waiting to try to outpace the market to throw mega-deals around at unrestricted free agents. With that in mind, here is a look at one critical move each organization should make as we head into one of the most fertile roster-aging periods of the year (in order of finish from worst to first):

Rebuild the offensive line. A purge of veteran lineman is underway, and this must be a priority. Get Trevor Lawrence incubated. And with this not being a great OL draft class, the time to start inroads with agents is this week. New coach Doug Pederson saw what a stout unit looked like in Philly … and also what happened to Carson Wentz when things starting falling apart up front.

Complete the purge of bloated contracts (Trey Flowers, etc.), and continue the teardown. Extend TJ Hockenson and resist the urge to do anything splashy in free agency because the timeline doesn’t make sense with how far away you are. Likewise, don’t force a QB selection since you are stuck with Jared Goff for another year, anyway, and next year’s class looks better already.

Prepare as if Mekhi Becton is not the answer at left tackle, and that he just might become a sunk cost. I’d love to see him pick up at the heights of his rookie season, but there’s obvious reason for concern about that at this point.

Move on from Saquon Barkley and shed as many of the excessive recent contracts of the old regime (Blake Martinez, Kenny Golladay) as you can on the trade market. And if there is a market for Daniel Jones, I’d explore that thoroughly as well.

Start having weekly zooms with Josh McCown to keep him apprised of roster moves, philosophies and offseason priorities. He’s gonna be the long-term head coach of this team (unless someone beats them to the punch). Just a matter of when.

Identify a coach in waiting or at least get some back-channeling going early, because this Matt Rhule experiment has an expiration date around Thanksgiving. Resist the urge to trade for Deshaun Watson without full and complete closure on his legal status.

Extend Roquan Smith and try like hell to keep Akeim Hicks from hitting the market. They need that front seven to be an impactful unit to have any chance even in a watered down NFC North.

Washington Commanders

Put together a massive recruitment package together for Ciara. On the down low, of course. No tamping. But if you have any celebrity connections who might know the entertainer, have them pull out all the stops. Maybe create a splashy video she could watch extolling all of the virtues of the greater DC area. Amazing mansions at Mount Vernon. Ridiculous row homes in Georgetown. Just a short train/flight from NYC. World class shopping. A cosmopolitan, international destination beckoning to her and her husband. Oh, and extend Scary Terry immediately.

Trade Russell Wilson. The odds of winning another Super Bowl with him on his current contract are bleak at best. He’s not gonna do an extension. Franchising him in his late 30s is silly. You have no picks and very little talent. It’s time for a reboot.

Check out the suggestion for the Commanders and do the same thing, only for Aaron Rodgers. Let him know how many yoga studios per capita you have, offer to have the new owner do a 12-day cleanse with him if he comes there. Do all of your own research on how amazing the Rocky Mountain region is, and get it into your right hands.

Try like heck to get Matt Ryan to do a realistic short-term extension as a precursor to a trade. Promise to only send him to a winning team. Of course, he’s been accustomed to being among the very highest paid at his position, so he might not be inclined. And the best time to do this was years ago, anyway.

Don’t triple down on Kirk Cousins. Even if you move on from guys like Danielle Hunter and Adam Thielen and Michael Pierce, there is still enough talent to win the NFC North (especially if Rodgers is gone). Ride it out for one more year, seeking to keep upgrading that offensive line. You’re going to have to outscore people to win, anyway. Take the comp pick for Cousins ​​down the road.

Bring in legit competition for Baker Mayfield. I don’t mean Case Keenum, who at this age could hold it down for a month or so. I’m talking someone who could get you through three months if need be. Not sure if Gardner Minshew or Mitch Trubisky or Marcus Mariota is an upgrade, but I might be inclined to find out.

It’d be easy to say extend Lamar Jackson, but that might be unfeasible this offseason with the QB inclined to gamble on himself on a fifth-year option. So I’ll go with rethinking their contract structures, aversion to voidable years and predilection for doubling-down with extensions for injury-prone players they have already heavily compensated. When new team president Sashi Brown – former Browns GM steeped in cap/negotiation – takes over April 1, much of that might take care of itself, anyway.

Sign Pat Ricard, the best fullback/H-back/tight end/emergency tackle in the NFL. Think about all the great stuff Kyle Shanahan and new Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel did with former Ravens fullback Kyle Juszczyk in San Francisco? Now go get the latest hybrid weapon the Ravens created. The run game needs all the help it can get, and that’s McDaniel’s bread and butter.

Don’t trade Carson Wentz just to trade him. He has significant flaws around the goal line (on both ends of the field), and those brain cramps can be brutal… But you gave up two high picks for him, you aren’t convincing a Rodgers or Wilson to go there, and the other options ain’t great. He also produced 27 TDs to 7 INTs, FWIW.

Franchise tag Mike Williams and be willing to be one of the highest spending teams in this offseason. You are already chasing the Rams and suffering in that market and you only have one more year before Justin Herbert can start making the kind of crazy money he is worth. No time to be frugal. Let’s go!

Re-signed Jameis Winston. ASAP. The familiarity and comfort and understanding if there. He was playing his best ball pre-injury. Other options do not abound.

Commit to Jalen Hurts for one more season. Build around him with that bounty of picks. Maybe take a flier on Carson Strong somewhere on Day Two in the draft. But don’t force a QB selection with this murky class of passers.

Make a run at Winston. Mason Rudolph and Dwayne Haskins are not the answer and this team can still contend with sufficient QB play. Winston would unlock the downfield passing game and create some space for Najee Harris in the box. Regardless, you need a veteran QB who has won some games in the league. I’d also promote from within for GM.

Get something close to a no. 1 wide receiver. Whatever it takes. Embrace it. Mac Jones ain’t Tom Brady and he isn’t going to turn journeymen into superstars.

Would Derek Carr interest the Seahawks at all as part of a Wilson package? I’d certainly want to find out. Pete Carroll is nearing the end and wants a winning veteran QB.

Throw around all the platitudes you want to try to make the Kyler Murray/social media thing look like nothing, but hand out top-of-market deals to him and Kliff Kingsbury at your own peril. Still very much that needs to be earned there. The team has the leverage.

Move on from Zeke Elliott and tell Mike McCarthy to prepare as if he might need to assume play-calling duties at some point to save his job. Because things continue to bog down with Kellen Moore in charge. And I suspect that will become a talking point again in 2022.

Offensive line, offensive line, offensive line.

If there is a Day Two developmental QB you like in this draft, grab him. At some point all the impact will catch up with King Henry. Ryan Tannehill has his limitations, and this could be a team that will be transitioning into offensive identity in the next few years.

Stop it with the Blake Bortle’s hype train. Please! We love Bruce Arians, but this team needs a real starting QB with Tom Brady retired.

A year ago you entered into a pact with a future Hall of Fame player that included a bunch of provisions that were basically poison pills in order to allow him to get out in 2022, and for you to move on with a different team-building exercise , opening up a new window with Jordan Love playing for peanuts. Whether or not he’s a starting quarterback remains to be seen, but it’s time to start finding out. Because putting together a Frankenstein team this year when you know it’s all or nothing, after failing to win with a better roster the last two years, is a risk that will only thrust you deeper to the abyss. Putting this genie back in the bottle won’t work

Hold on to Jimmy G. Unless you are getting two second-round picks from a rebuilding team (and thus those picks are high), be careful here. Trey Lance is still a project at this point. That team can win with uneven QB play, but is Lance ready to give them what Garoppolo gave them a year ago?

Franchise Orlando Brown, get rid of Frank Clark and focus on defensive line and pass catchers beyond that.

Franchise Jessie Bates, sign Brandon Scherff and draft nothing but offensive and defensive linemen. I’m not kidding. For reals.

Los Angeles Rams

Add a “no-media til 2025” clause in Sean McVay’s contract? OK, that won’t fly. But landing a starting caliber left tackle is a must, and I’m not against doubling down on Von Miller and OBJ. Stan Kroenke has the cash.

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The NFL offseason is already in full swing. Cap cut season is upon us. The combine is this week. Teams can apply franchise tags.

It’s on.

No matter that the official start of the league year isn’t for two weeks. The business of football is already at the fore. Teams have long decided on their free agent priorities, and which players they are going to cut and which they will ask to take a pay cut. The jockeying for a potential franchise quarterback in the trade market is well underway. Budgets have been set. Many of the most critical meetings – ones that will dictate the tenor and outcome of months of transactions – are already in the past, with the groundwork for those acquisitions hitting another level with the entire league gathered in Indianapolis.

And even for the best teams in football, like the Super Bowl winning Rams, there is abundant work to be done. Getting sufficiently under the cap alone is enough work for some franchises, while others are waiting to try to outpace the market to throw mega-deals around at unrestricted free agents. With that in mind, here is a look at one critical move each organization should make as we head into one of the most fertile roster-aging periods of the year (in order of finish from worst to first):

Rebuild the offensive line. A purge of veteran lineman is underway, and this must be a priority. Get Trevor Lawrence incubated. And with this not being a great OL draft class, the time to start inroads with agents is this week. New coach Doug Pederson saw what a stout unit looked like in Philly … and also what happened to Carson Wentz when things starting falling apart up front.

Complete the purge of bloated contracts (Trey Flowers, etc.), and continue the teardown. Extend TJ Hockenson and resist the urge to do anything splashy in free agency because the timeline doesn’t make sense with how far away you are. Likewise, don’t force a QB selection since you are stuck with Jared Goff for another year, anyway, and next year’s class looks better already.

Prepare as if Mekhi Becton is not the answer at left tackle, and that he just might become a sunk cost. I’d love to see him pick up at the heights of his rookie season, but there’s obvious reason for concern about that at this point.

Move on from Saquon Barkley and shed as many of the excessive recent contracts of the old regime (Blake Martinez, Kenny Golladay) as you can on the trade market. And if there is a market for Daniel Jones, I’d explore that thoroughly as well.

Start having weekly zooms with Josh McCown to keep him apprised of roster moves, philosophies and offseason priorities. He’s gonna be the long-term head coach of this team (unless someone beats them to the punch). Just a matter of when.

Identify a coach in waiting or at least get some back-channeling going early, because this Matt Rhule experiment has an expiration date around Thanksgiving. Resist the urge to trade for Deshaun Watson without full and complete closure on his legal status.

Extend Roquan Smith and try like hell to keep Akeim Hicks from hitting the market. They need that front seven to be an impactful unit to have any chance even in a watered down NFC North.

Washington Commanders

Put together a massive recruitment package together for Ciara. On the down low, of course. No tamping. But if you have any celebrity connections who might know the entertainer, have them pull out all the stops. Maybe create a splashy video she could watch extolling all of the virtues of the greater DC area. Amazing mansions at Mount Vernon. Ridiculous row homes in Georgetown. Just a short train/flight from NYC. World class shopping. A cosmopolitan, international destination beckoning to her and her husband. Oh, and extend Scary Terry immediately.

Trade Russell Wilson. The odds of winning another Super Bowl with him on his current contract are bleak at best. He’s not gonna do an extension. Franchising him in his late 30s is silly. You have no picks and very little talent. It’s time for a reboot.

Check out the suggestion for the Commanders and do the same thing, only for Aaron Rodgers. Let him know how many yoga studios per capita you have, offer to have the new owner do a 12-day cleanse with him if he comes there. Do all of your own research on how amazing the Rocky Mountain region is, and get it into your right hands.

Try like heck to get Matt Ryan to do a realistic short-term extension as a precursor to a trade. Promise to only send him to a winning team. Of course, he’s been accustomed to being among the very highest paid at his position, so he might not be inclined. And the best time to do this was years ago, anyway.

Don’t triple down on Kirk Cousins. Even if you move on from guys like Danielle Hunter and Adam Thielen and Michael Pierce, there is still enough talent to win the NFC North (especially if Rodgers is gone). Ride it out for one more year, seeking to keep upgrading that offensive line. You’re going to have to outscore people to win, anyway. Take the comp pick for Cousins ​​down the road.

Bring in legit competition for Baker Mayfield. I don’t mean Case Keenum, who at this age could hold it down for a month or so. I’m talking someone who could get you through three months if need be. Not sure if Gardner Minshew or Mitch Trubisky or Marcus Mariota is an upgrade, but I might be inclined to find out.

It’d be easy to say extend Lamar Jackson, but that might be unfeasible this offseason with the QB inclined to gamble on himself on a fifth-year option. So I’ll go with rethinking their contract structures, aversion to voidable years and predilection for doubling-down with extensions for injury-prone players they have already heavily compensated. When new team president Sashi Brown – former Browns GM steeped in cap/negotiation – takes over April 1, much of that might take care of itself, anyway.

Sign Pat Ricard, the best fullback/H-back/tight end/emergency tackle in the NFL. Think about all the great stuff Kyle Shanahan and new Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel did with former Ravens fullback Kyle Juszczyk in San Francisco? Now go get the latest hybrid weapon the Ravens created. The run game needs all the help it can get, and that’s McDaniel’s bread and butter.

Don’t trade Carson Wentz just to trade him. He has significant flaws around the goal line (on both ends of the field), and those brain cramps can be brutal… But you gave up two high picks for him, you aren’t convincing a Rodgers or Wilson to go there, and the other options ain’t great. He also produced 27 TDs to 7 INTs, FWIW.

Franchise tag Mike Williams and be willing to be one of the highest spending teams in this offseason. You are already chasing the Rams and suffering in that market and you only have one more year before Justin Herbert can start making the kind of crazy money he is worth. No time to be frugal. Let’s go!

Re-signed Jameis Winston. ASAP. The familiarity and comfort and understanding if there. He was playing his best ball pre-injury. Other options do not abound.

Commit to Jalen Hurts for one more season. Build around him with that bounty of picks. Maybe take a flier on Carson Strong somewhere on Day Two in the draft. But don’t force a QB selection with this murky class of passers.

Make a run at Winston. Mason Rudolph and Dwayne Haskins are not the answer and this team can still contend with sufficient QB play. Winston would unlock the downfield passing game and create some space for Najee Harris in the box. Regardless, you need a veteran QB who has won some games in the league. I’d also promote from within for GM.

Get something close to a no. 1 wide receiver. Whatever it takes. Embrace it. Mac Jones ain’t Tom Brady and he isn’t going to turn journeymen into superstars.

Would Derek Carr interest the Seahawks at all as part of a Wilson package? I’d certainly want to find out. Pete Carroll is nearing the end and wants a winning veteran QB.

Throw around all the platitudes you want to try to make the Kyler Murray/social media thing look like nothing, but hand out top-of-market deals to him and Kliff Kingsbury at your own peril. Still very much that needs to be earned there. The team has the leverage.

Move on from Zeke Elliott and tell Mike McCarthy to prepare as if he might need to assume play-calling duties at some point to save his job. Because things continue to bog down with Kellen Moore in charge. And I suspect that will become a talking point again in 2022.

Offensive line, offensive line, offensive line.

If there is a Day Two developmental QB you like in this draft, grab him. At some point all the impact will catch up with King Henry. Ryan Tannehill has his limitations, and this could be a team that will be transitioning into offensive identity in the next few years.

Stop it with the Blake Bortle’s hype train. Please! We love Bruce Arians, but this team needs a real starting QB with Tom Brady retired.

A year ago you entered into a pact with a future Hall of Fame player that included a bunch of provisions that were basically poison pills in order to allow him to get out in 2022, and for you to move on with a different team-building exercise , opening up a new window with Jordan Love playing for peanuts. Whether or not he’s a starting quarterback remains to be seen, but it’s time to start finding out. Because putting together a Frankenstein team this year when you know it’s all or nothing, after failing to win with a better roster the last two years, is a risk that will only thrust you deeper to the abyss. Putting this genie back in the bottle won’t work

Hold on to Jimmy G. Unless you are getting two second-round picks from a rebuilding team (and thus those picks are high), be careful here. Trey Lance is still a project at this point. That team can win with uneven QB play, but is Lance ready to give them what Garoppolo gave them a year ago?

Franchise Orlando Brown, get rid of Frank Clark and focus on defensive line and pass catchers beyond that.

Franchise Jessie Bates, sign Brandon Scherff and draft nothing but offensive and defensive linemen. I’m not kidding. For reals.

Los Angeles Rams

Add a “no-media til 2025” clause in Sean McVay’s contract? OK, that won’t fly. But landing a starting caliber left tackle is a must, and I’m not against doubling down on Von Miller and OBJ. Stan Kroenke has the cash.

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