2019 NFL offseason: Nine headlines from ... the future! Published: Feb 04, 2019 at 06:33 AM Digital Content Editor 1) Kyler Murray to skip spring training, focus Peja Stojakovic Jersey on football With le s than 24 hours to go before the Oklahoma two-sport titan is required to report to MLB spring training with the Oakland Athletics, Kyler Murray -- or his representation, or his Twitter intern -- will release a statement via social media confirming his desire to enter the NFL draft instead. This storyline will persist through the NFL (which he won't attend), the Sooners' Pro Day (where he'll draw hundreds of credentialed media) and into late April's draft (when a team in the first round will take the biggest of swings on sports' ). In the meantime, marketing deals will roll in and Murray's promotion blitz will roll on, all to the detriment of the A's and prospective NFL suitors who have to decide whether the apparently fickle athlete is worth their capital commitment. 2) Declaration of independence: buys his freedom from the Tag, you're it ... for now: Philly franchises Foles, will look to trade QB : send MVP to DeFilippo's During what will go down as the most stre sful week of arms transportation since the Cuban Mi sile Crisis, Foles and Philly will play a procedural game of chicken, . Step 1: exercise Foles' $20 million option for 2019. Step 2: Foles says and buys his way out for a tidy $2 million. Step 3: Philly puts a stop to that and hands Foles a franchise tag worth roughly $29.2 million. Step 4: Foles and the work together (#teamwork) to find a worthy trade partner outside of the NFC East or even outside the NFC. Eventually, Philly will land on -- if it was not already fixated on -- Jacksonville, which is set to move on from and just hired John DeFilippo, who was Foles' QB coach in Philadelphia in 2017, to be offensive coordinator. The cap situation for both clubs will be tight going into the offseason, but this match is too good not to work out, at least for one season. 3) Staying in the DMV: acquire from After losing out on the Foles-stakes, Washington will pursue another former MVP on the Acela corridor. With , the are desperate for a signal-caller to lead an otherwise-solid roster. Pre sured to act by reported pursuit of Flacco from Miami and Denver, Bruce Allen and Doug Williams will overpay for Marvin Bagley III Jersey the 34-year-old QB before Baltimore releases him, taking on Flacco's $18.5 million salary. The 'Skins have eyes on the QB prospects working out at the combine, and Washington's front office will spend its remaining draft capital to try to find the QB of the future. But in the meantime, while Smith's leg heals and a competitive outfit waits for a leader, Washington will employ a humdrum son of the mid-Atlantic. 4) franchise-tag *March 5, 11:30 p.m. CT * Attempts at working out a long-term deal between the and will ... tank, at least in the short-term, as the Dallas front office opts to take care of franchise faces and before its top edge rusher. Panic won't set in on either side for some time, though. Lawrence will have until mid-July to sign the multi-year deal . 5) calls it quits after nine seasons This one could come at any time, even in the next few days, while the tight end is cleaning out his locker following in New England's latest triumph. Hell, Gronk could announce his exit from the game from atop the Gronk Party Ship, flanked by Roman Reigns and three scantily-clad mermaids, and it would be as apropos as anything. Whenever it comes, it won't be a surprise. I foresee Gronkowski doing something very Gronk-like, and waiting for exactly the right time, literally, to announce his departure from the league and his entrance into the world of entertainment and its many continents. New England will move on. In fact, Bill Belichick is already plotting a trade for one of Baltimore Mike Bibby Jersey 's 19 tight ends. 6) replace with It's over for Tannehill in Miami; that much we've known since in December. The are entering a true rebuild with Brian Flores, and they are not expected to pay top dollar (around $20 million) for another quarterback as a one- or two-year rental. With few teams needing starting QBs next season, Miami can snag a cheap option worthy of a starting role right away. Teddy is that guy. Hassan Whiteside Jersey Bridgewater will likely be pursued by the on another backup contract, but he is worth more than the $6 million attributed to him in 2018. The Fins will offer him a two-year deal worth around $14 million per year, with a team option for 2020, bringing the product of Miami Northwestern back to his home county. will broadcast its season finale in the third week of free agency and on the first day of the Annual League Meeting. After nixing offers from gentleman callers unwilling to part with a second-round pick for the mercurial Brown, Pittsburgh will finally find a trade partner in San Francisco. GM John Lynch will aggre sively offer the the 67th overall pick in 2019, which is basically a second-rounder, PLUS the services of San Francisco's current No. 1 receiver in Goodwin, while Brown travels to the along with a 2020 conditional sixth-round pick. The wideout said just last week that he saw himself as . With A.B. in San Francisco (well, Santa Clara), Goodwin's services will no longer be nece sary -- in fact, they'll be desired by Pittsburgh, suddenly down a wideout. 8) No rule changes regarding replay; Competition Committee rejects "God provision" On a contentious first day at the Phoenix Biltmore, the NFL Competition Committee -- led by president and CEO Rich McKay and including (and coach) Sean Payton -- will come to a conclusion as to what to change regarding replay and judgement calls: . No alterations to which fouls can and cannot be reviewed. No changes to the bylaws. The committee will even reject a proposal that allows 345 Park Richaun Holmes Jersey Avenue to review any penalty under two minutes, as is allowed in the NBA, by buzzing down to the refs on the field, preemptively labeled by this writer as the "God provision." Instead, the Commi sioner will put forward a proposal to the NFL Referees A sociation that eliminates the "all-star crew" from Championship Games and Super Bowls, ensuring better in-game communication and deliberation between refs and their regular judges. 9) take Nick Bosa with the first overall pick I mean, it's way too far out to tell which defensive lineman Arizona will take with the first overall pick -- Daniel Jeremiah has only written , that slacker. But we can pretty well gue s that the will grab , barring a trade down by Arizona with the desperate GM of a QB-needy team enamored with, say, Murray following a gangbusters pro-day performance. At this point, however, we're expecting a boring beginning to the 2019 , full of trench stuff, just as we all would have gue sed from the beginning of hot-shot Kliff Kingsbury's regime. This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be mi sing content or contain faulty links. 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