u/BenchPtsChamp

I recently purchased a Nikon z50ii. I’m very happy with it so far, especially for the price paid, but so far I have been taking photos at family gatherings, not wildlife. Attached the first photo my wife took with it, our bengal cat Leo.

The camera came in a kit with two lenses, one being the z dx 50-250mm. I suppose that is equivalent to 375mm on a full frame setup. The zoom is nice, but it leaves a bit to be desired, and I’m afraid I’ll be disappointed with the focal length when I take it out to the marsh to snap some bird photos, for example.

I’m curious about the NIKKOR z 28-400mm lens. I assume this would be the equivalent of 600mm on my APSC camera body compared to a full frame. It’s relatively simple and compact which would make it easy/comfortable to bring on hikes, would assumably give me up to 60% better focal length, and the range all the way from 28mm makes me think it’ll be easier to “find” my subject in the frame before zooming in for the perfect shot. On top of that I have struggled to find another lens with similar value at the $1,150 price point.

Are my instincts right here, or is there anything else I should be considering before landing on this lens? Do you think I’ll be happy with it considering my intended use for it?

I’m trying to continue with a claim I started yesterday but I get stuck at this spinning arrow screen. I tried on my phone, then on my laptop with both Edge and Chrome browsers. Same issue. Tried emailing Asurion by replying to one of the emails I received from them regarding the claim, and of course I got a Mail Delivery Notification Failure right back. I’m at a dead end and don’t know what to do next.

Tight end saw a 40% market premium on a class that was basically average — and the free agency market confirms it's a league-wide repricing.

The 2026 TE talent pool was only 2.8% below the two-year norm — essentially flat. But teams spent 40% more draft capital than the pundits thought those players were worth. That's the largest premium-to-scarcity gap of any position in the draft.

And it's not just the draft. The top 10 TE free agent contracts this year averaged $76.3M in AAV — a 61% jump over the '24–'25 average of $47.3M. That's a $29M increase in a single year. The draft premium (40%) was actually the cheaper side of the TE repricing.

The Rams showed last year what 12 and 13 personnel can do when you have TEs who can win in the pass game against LB/SS types. Multiple TEs on the field forces a choice: match with bigger defenders and get burned in the passing game, or go small and get mauled in the run and screen game. It's a schematic advantage that doesn't depend on having one elite TE — it depends on having two or three who can create matchup problems.

So this isn't teams being dumb. It's a full-market demand shift. Free agency repriced the position by 61%, and the draft followed at 40%. The league decided multi-TE packages are the next schematic edge, and both markets moved at once — free agency first, the draft close behind.

The rest of the position market:

IDL was the real disaster. Scarcity was massive (-51% below the historical norm) AND teams paid a 49% premium on top of it. Unlike TE, there's no tactical revolution driving this — the class was just thin and teams needed interior players anyway.

Safety was the best value in the draft. 32% talent surplus — the deepest position relative to history — and teams were patient enough to get a slight discount (-3%). If you drafted a safety in 2026, you probably got a steal.

EDGE is structurally overpriced. There was an 18% scarcity in the class, but teams paid a 25% premium anyway. This one is just baked into the market — every team needs pass rushers, every year, regardless of class quality.

QB and RB had the thinnest classes (-47% and -41% below norm) but teams showed moderate discipline. The premiums (25% and 9%) were real but restrained compared to TE and IDL.

The 2x2 framework:

	Discount (teams patient)	Premium (teams aggressive)
Surplus (deep class)	S — dream scenario	EDGE — structural demand
Scarcity (thin class)	CB — disciplined	IDL, TE — paid up

The TE quadrant is the most interesting because the scarcity was marginal. Teams weren't forced into a premium by a weak class — they chose it because the game is changing.

Methodology in the link. OFV (On-Field Value) maps each source's board to a standardized value curve from Open Source Football's draft value chart. Pundit consensus is the harmonic mean across all four sources, with unranked players assigned an OFV of 2.5.

Blue is offseason additions via trades & free agency. Green is rookies.

What did I get wrong?

Who did I snub? Noah Whittington? Lewis Bond? Collin Wright? Alijah Huzzie? Jamal Hill? Jamarcus Ingram? Jake Hansen? Naquan Jones? Jack Stonehouse?

How many wins will this team get? 17? 17? 17?