FOLES RUSH IN: 2018 nfl qb carousel and miscellaneous offseasoning thread

the super bowl was a long time ago now

josh mcdaniels confirmed as new head coach of the indianapolis colts. instead of being behind belichick he can spend some time behind his old qbs coach instead.

lol rooney rule

yeah.

i mean, outside of the process itself, ok josh is one of the most qualified hc candidates out there, but things like mike vrabel hire at ten, and greg olson at oak too, have not been inspiring appointments in this regard. coordinator level is the real ugly scene that makes the hc level such a problem. i believe i am correct in saying there is 1 black oc in the whole nfl. i think flores at ne will make it around 10 black dcs but cmon, this shit is horrendous.

LOL

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVZY4WSUQAAi2aF.jpg

i'm sure this is already being speculated but first thing i think is that bill told him this is going to be his last year. i did see that luck supposedly needs more surgery on his shoulder tho, and that might've been enough to foul it.

i think you're supposed to wait a whole day to go full belichick

i'm hearing rumours he wrote his resignation letter on irsay's shirt

It's time to let The Monster get out of it's cage to feed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/MxEb3N7P

— Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) January 3, 2013

and *that's* for the city of baltimore!

#EXCLUSIVE: #49ers have reached agreement w/ Jimmy Garoppolo. Will be highest paid player in #NFL. Announcement soon to come. pic.twitter.com/mU0ON4qMm7

— Raj Mathai (@rajmathai) February 8, 2018

congrats to "jimmy g"

Jimmy G has started less than 10 games in the NFL and now has two Super Bowl rings and the biggest contract in NFL history. A true inspiration to those that let their partners do all of the work on group projects

— offseason hanx (@HankJoness) February 8, 2018

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/22503387/rae-carruth-apologizes-death-pregnant-girlfriend-seeks-custody-18-year-old-son

damn i forgot Rae Carruth was getting released from prison in October!

I forgot about that guy. Can someone who hired a hitman to murder his girlfriend because she wouldn't get an abortion not be a complete sociopath?

fins tagged landry - acc to my fins fan friend apparently making him the 3rd highest paid WR in nfl? if true that _is_ ridic

it would make sense if the NFL were a PPR league

lol yes

3rd highest cap hit for 2018 to be precise but yeah. not sure what to make of him tbh, depending on who you ask or what stats you use he's either one of the most effective wrs in the league or he holds the entire offense back. he always looks kind of medium to me.

very curious to see what miami does with him eventually. something dumb, probably

looks like ol' Jer is trying to sell eight units in Mountain View to Roger

https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rU01T1U4N1dMZ4XIP96P7g--~B/Zmk9c3RyaW07aD0zODg7cHlvZmY9MDtxPTk1O3c9NzIwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://media.zenfs.com/creatr-images/GLB/2018-02-27/b0800560-1c0e-11e8-96d7-8d5c16b271fc_image-9017

So anyone have any opinion on the idea that the Vikings are going to clear the decks of QBs to go after Kurt Cousins? I was thinking prevailing belief was that Denver was his destination.

i think it's weird there isn't one of those qbs that they like. what's wrong with keenum?

not sure there is a huge delta between the vikes qbs and cousins. i wonder what kind of money the vikes guys are angling for. a smart qb-needy team could hold out to see who is the last man standing there and get a few years of a serviceable qb for cut rate.

feel like keenum will have to put up several seasons of brees-like numbers before people stop thinking he's too $hort

matt forte has retired. pretty good player

love the dude, always respected his game and was happy when he joined the jets two years ago. he still had moments last year, but all those nagging injuries must've added up.

guys...Keenum is not that good and it's not just a size thing. trust me

ILX quoted out of context

lol

Penn State RB Saquon Barkley at 2018 Combine:

- Stronger than Joe Thomas
- Quicker than DeSean Jackson
- Faster than Devin Hester
- Jumps higher than Julio Jones

@PennStateFball

yeah, dude is just breaking the scales

List of all RBs at the NFL combine to weigh over 225, sub-4.5 40 & at least a 38-inch vertical (since 2000):

Saquon Barkley
/end list

Barkley DESTROYED those measures away, with an OFFICIAL 4.40 40, 41-inch vertical at 233 lbs.

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) March 2, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kF2-Cr6yX4

xxxpost lmao omar

According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the final four teams expected to be in the running for his services are the Broncos, Cardinals, Jets, and Vikings.

Let's see.

Jets -- ANY dude that willing walks into that club has to know in the end, it won't work out. Forget it Kirk, it's the Jets.

Cardinals - They lost for nearly 40 years and had a couple of decent teams. Probably the lowest pressure place to go.

Vikings -- They are the best team and last year was very close. Can they repeat that and take that next step, it's a hard thing to do. Will they be setting fire to the future by signing such an expensive player. I'd say this team would be the highest pressure to join as really anything less than getting to a Superbowl is a failure next year.

Broncos - They still have quite a bit of talent and the club has been good about finding players. While improvement would be expected, would not be expected to 'win it all' as much as be in the playoff discussions.

If you blink, you might miss Troy Apke’s 4.35-second 40-yard dash that made Deion Sanders the happiest person on earth. pic.twitter.com/d8VwjPxqAu

— Roar Lions Roar (@RLRblog) March 5, 2018

We live in such a strange time "you know why I'm surprised, I'm not going to say it on tv but he can run run."

Eagles traded a 7 and Matt Tobin to Seattle for a 5. Seattle than traded a 7 and Michael Bennett for a 5 and Marcus Johnson.

The Eagles basically traded Matt Tobin and Marcus Johnson for Michael Bennett, lol.

— Jimmy Kempski (@JimmyKempski) March 7, 2018

that is grotesque. howie strikes again. i wonder if the seahawks let bennett have a say in his destination, i am sure they could've done a little better if they were really trying to maximize return

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🎟🏅🏅🏅🏅 free meek mill pic.twitter.com/RgpOme044m

— Michael Bennett (@mosesbread72) March 7, 2018

lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/03/09/lets-eat-the-true-story-of-andy-reids-seven-cheese-mac-and-cheese-recipe/?utm_term=.c8689bda9b0c

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DX3vuD7W4AUvhX3.jpg

love andy reid

the other guy, charles, is one of the best ppl to follow on twitter for football right now, @fourverts

Jarvis Landry to Browns.

oh miami was able to find a more incompetently run organization than themselves well done

tyrod taylor to the browns

that's interesting. tt w/ all those weapons (landry, duke johnson, josh gordon) could be good.

oh plus saquon barkley. you've gotta think they must be good at least on offense next season.

Browns getting DB Damarious Randall from the Packers.

going all-in to secure 3 to 4 wins

It's time. Two wins by the bye week you heard it here first.

iggles traded torrey smith to panthers for daryl worley

Kizer to Packers.

p weird day of trades. browns going all in for 8-8 respectability.

love 2 trade for afc east dregs

i still maintain that tyrod taylor is Good just because there's something about the way the ball comes out of his hand that i love

surely no match for clevelandness tho

lmao

Love watching golf. More fun when @TigerWoods is contending 🔥🔥#AlienCon #cryptocurrency #FedExCup #GoPackGo #MarchMadness2018 #TeamTaylorMade #SCtop10

— Aaron Rodgers (@AaronRodgers12) March 10, 2018

It would be pretty wild if somehow Hue Jackson survives this 1-31 start to win in Cleveland. I'd say the odds are terrible as they could go 6-10 or even maybe 7-9 and still fire him and give the improving talent to a hot coach.

schef says cousins to vikes

packers are signing jimmy graham and releasing jordy nelson

wow wtf

guess they're sticking with Cobb then? or is this gonna be a cut and re-sign

Jordy likely only has one year left and I can't picture him being good with any other QB. would hate to lose him

i didn't realize he was 32. he was making a ton of money, i guess they had to do something. someone will overpay enough for him to prevent gbp resigning for reasonable money.

no idea what money graham is getting yet but it'd have to be less than half the $10m/year he's been making for me not to hate it.

i missed sam bradford to arizona. kinda interesting with mccoy. keenum rumoured for denver and bridgewater for the jets possibly in the great minnesota qb clear out.

thought Keenum to Denver was confirmed. seems good for them.

Bradford to AZ for $20 million (!!!), $15 mil of which is guaranteed (!!!!!!) is insane, the dude plays a few mediocre games each season and then goes down with another knee injury. I thought he'd be a backup for sure.

idk what to think of the Cousins deal yet. seems like another in a long like of marquee Vikings signings but for once they actually have a decent team around them. the Vikes can regress a bit in the O-line and still put up big passing numbers. still, that's uh...quite a bit of guaranteed money.

have the bills really handed the keys to former pitt great nathan peterman

I think they're planning on trading up in the first round and getting a QB, or possibly taking one at 12 where they're at now.

i think it's time for the J.P. Losman era to finally begin

Jordy to the Raiders for 2 years/$15 million. sounds like he really wanted to stay in GB but they weren't offering much over the minimum

not sure I understand what GB is doing. Rodgers to Jordy has been the best QB-WR combo in the league since 2010. He's a fan favorite and Rodgers' favorite guy. Dude was still pretty good last year when 12 was on the field. Hundley couldn't do shit with him but that's because Hundley sucks. I get that 32 is right around when you wanna be cutting WRs but even still, GB's got like 2-3 more years of Aaron Rodgers in his prime, why take away his best weapon like that. damn it all.

Pleasure doing business with you, @nyjets! pic.twitter.com/oAgpEudDWj

— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) March 17, 2018

lol wow social media dept getting spicy

Just retweet us.

— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) March 17, 2018

indeed. getting giddy over there

excited that the jets' plans for another decade of mediocrity are well advanced

Jets win more games, but they are so dumb as a club, easily as bad as the Bears and Browns. The Chargers are a totally different kind of stupid.

http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/20/zay-jones-arrested-nude-smashed-window-vandalism-buffalo-bills-player/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DY0-EqFVQAAKBRY.jpg

this is hopeless imo. no improvement at all.

https://i.imgur.com/la0qy7i.png

i'm in favor of simplifying the rule however:

if someone is bobbling the ball while they go out of bounds and end up w/ full control (it never touches the ground) but they didn't secure it until out of bounds - a catch?

if someone obviously catches it (they seem to have complete control) but either while going to the ground or through a defensive player hitting the ball, it pops loose. is this a fumble?

per the nfl no to the first one. in my nfl it would be a catch.

on the second, if the player is down before the ball comes out it's not a fumble, otherwise it is

that would kind of encourage the sideline to get in the way to make it difficult for the receiver to secure the catch OOB, right?

there are already sideline violations that would apply if someone actively tried to interfere

common sense dictates that you should have control of the ball and two feet in for it to be a catch. the controversy happens, iirc, when a player does this but shifts or adjusts the ball within his arms as he's preparing to go down. imo it's usually pretty easy to decide whether the player did this in a conscious, controlled fashion or not and that should be the rule

District Attorney of Harris
County, Texas announced it has indicted Eagles’ DE Michael Bennett for felony charge for injuring a 66-year-old paraplegic working at NRG Stadium to control access to field at SuperBowl LI. A warrant has been issued for Bennett’s arrest.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 23, 2018

uh oh

huh

there are many odd things about this, not least

a 66-year-old paraplegic working at NRG Stadium to control access to field

and why now over a year later?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DY_oVVnVMAAujCL.jpg

"who was part of the security team"

hindsight is 20/20 and all but...

10 years in prison for shoving past someone this country is insane

obviously he will not serve prison time

pretty indefensible though imo

Houston PD said the Michael Bennett indictment took so long because they prioritized more significant cases before this. ...Said there is no video of the incident, but a police officer witnessed it.

— Zach Berman (@ZBerm) March 23, 2018

also like people treat mall cops/private security/the old dudes checking tickets in the lower bowl of yankee stadium w the same reverence as police xp

https://deadspin.com/johnny-manziel-offers-refreshingly-lucid-defense-of-col-1824048918

well now i like Johnny Manziel

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/giants-wr-odell-beckham-pursued-rams-trade-article-1.3897161

giants are so eager to get rid of their best player, and the rams are confident that their culture can absorb a guy who likes winning and hates ben mcadoo

Packers would probably be Super Bowl favorites if they could grab him

#Jets coach Todd Bowles, at the annual coaches breakfast, said they traded up to No. 3 not with one player in mind but with 6-7 they believe they’ll have a chance at. Will zero in in a few weeks.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 27, 2018

literally the stupidest organization in professional sports

wow, if only they had a top 6 pick then they wouldn't have had to trade...

oh

to be fair, this is Bowles saying this, not Maccagnan. I'm hoping that Maccagnan had 2 or 3 specific dudes in mind when he made the franchise-altering trade

i have no particular opinion of his coaching ability and certainly the league doesn't need *fewer* black head coaches, but it's surprising to me that he still has a job

Rams receive:
WR Brandin Cooks
4th-round pick

Patriots receive:
1st-round pick
6th-round pick

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 3, 2018

Wow terrible trade for rams

feel like this is the tipping point from the rams being laudably aggressive to setting fire to their resources.

meanwhile, the instant pats fan takes break down between trading for obj and trading up for one of the qbs

im not watching a 49ers game until they cut reuben foster

pic.twitter.com/hlrsTssEd8

— Riley McAtee (@Riley_McAtee) April 12, 2018

dragged her, beat her, hit her in the head 8-10 times, ruptured her eardrum.... hope he gets the full sentence and never sees another minute in the nfl.

whole thing is grotesque

Cowboys expected to release WR Dev Bryant today, barring an unexpected last-minute change of heart, per @toddarcher and me. But the plan going into meeting that is now underway was to part ways with Bryant.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 13, 2018

rip dev

i hope it doesn't affect team chemistry, i know he's tight with Evekiel Elliott.

p sure gruden west coast right now is looking up dez in the 2012 almanac he's been using for personnel decisions and his eyes are popping out of his head

GREEN BAY PACKERS ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION

Cowboys expected to release WR Dev Bryant today, barring an unexpected last-minute change of heart, per @toddarcher and me. But the plan going into meeting that is now underway was to part ways with Bryant.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 13, 2018

Bryant is pretty good but way over-rated in the same way many Cowboys end up being. Even when he was really fast earlier in his career, the guy seemed to me to drop a ton of balls. Don't think he was anywhere top level as like Julio Jones or Calvin Johnson.

You chuck the ball around for well over 4000 yards or more every year, someone is going to catch 80 balls and have a 1000 yard season.

Someone might pay for the brand name, but at best Bryant is a #2 receiver now that's going to have to muscle for short passes and I don't know if he's got the hands to stick and get paid at that job.

I'd put bets on the Hatcats trying to sign him, that seems like a dopey move they would make.

One thing that cracks me up about every NFL off seasons is that no matter who the player is or plays, if they are available and worth talking about on sports radio, they automatically become a player of interest for the Jets.

sounds like a perfect fit for the cincy bengals tbh

friday 13th, the day i find out mordy has me killfiled

rip dez on the cowboys i'm glad i was able to break this important story on ilx

eh lucky guess

Bengals usually like to develop their own 'talent', Mike Brown is usually way too cheap to sign free agents.

Adam Jones is still available on the free agent market I believe. Wild man has now played 11 years in the NFL and that is something that seemed really unlikely in his first couple years in the pros.

I also saw that Richie Incognito has called it a career because of 'pain'. I'd say one of the more infamous players of his time.

Outside of NFL Scheduling mavens Howard Katz and Michael North, here’s the man that might have most influenced the NFL schedule: pic.twitter.com/yxXu9MFB80

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 20, 2018

it's for this kind of content we made him our patron

Here it is! My first run of 2018 NFL Predictions - Records, point totals, S of S, playoff seeds, 2019 Draft order + more #clayprojections pic.twitter.com/1ahunPG2Yw

— Mike Clay (@MikeClayNFL) April 20, 2018

will the afc east ever get its shit together y/n

no. when the current pats dynasty dies the division will be sending a 7 win team to the playoffs for the rest of our lives.

.@AtlantaFalcons https://t.co/IpM53eqTrq

— MiLB.com (@MiLB) April 20, 2018

https://www.sbnation.com/a/nfl-draft-glossary

enjoyed this

“Let’s make sure that we keep this confidential,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said to begin the session.

The New York Times has obtained an audio recording of the roughly three-hour meeting, and several people in the room corroborated details of the gathering.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/sports/nfl-owners-kaepernick.html

kind of a nothing story

the owner who wanted to model the league's PR after the fucking NRA tho...

hey guys, i wrote a draft guide:

mayfield - "system qb" likely to be wrecked by the browns or whoever else takes him
darnold - "high floor low ceiling"
allen - can make all the throws inaccurately
rosen - red flag on 3rd down comp%, projects as a gabbert
jackson - ?????

enjoy round 1, should be a spectacle.

i'm really excited to see how the browns screw up this year in spite of the huge influx of talent they're accumulating

feels primed for a couple of teams to do something crazy and/or stupid and the browns always have to factor into that conversation

yeesh https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/4/26/17284170/josh-allen-deleted-tweets-draft

NFL.com reporter Ian Rapoport suggested the offensive tweets wouldn’t cause Allen’s stock to drop in Thursday’s first round.

bullshit

now all the scouts who raved about allen can cite the tweets as an excuse for why he didn't go higher instead of the numerous red flags in his skillset and past performance

hopefully he's learned

he tweets like he passes

Josh Allen money coming in to be the 1st pick right now. Down to +500. Baker Mayfield the -250 favorite. Action insane.

— Dave Mason (@DaveMasonBOL) April 26, 2018

rip baker

Browns made the right choice

lol giants are going to ride with Eli

highest upside i think browns have to change a lot to make it the right choice

giants with 1st official lol of the night

yesss the yearly jets suck montage

hate darnold just looking at him, v pleased he's on the jets

Browns made the right choice

There's no position harder to draft correctly than QB and the Browns front office has a dismal record at sniffing out who can make the jump to the pros. I give Mayfield about 4 to 1 against his being a franchise QB, but no QB pick is ever much better than 50-50, so every dip in the QB draft pool is a gamble.

I would have picked Saquan Barkley as a sure thing and taken whatever top QB prospect was left on the board by the time their next pick came around, but I have no illusions that I'd do better than the Browns front office irl.

broncos and colts with 2 great picks in a row, p gross. hoped colts might do something dumb. miss ryan grigson on days like this.

cmon bills, all in for josh allen

Big mistake bills trading up for the inaccurate racist

biiiiiiills

Baker Mayfield havin' fun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/04/26/baker-mayfield-went-full-90s-with-jorts-and-a-giant-phone-to-re-create-brett-favres-draft-day-photo/?utm_term=.22efbdb5bb3a

ravens jump up and get that nice 5th year on lamar, p sweet

I like the Bears getting Roquan Smith from Georgia. That guy was pretty impressive in the games I saw.

My favorite part of that Baker Mayfield photo thing is the Wes Anderson level of background details. Especially his buddy with the blond wig.

jason witten retiring. HOF career no doubt but cowboys have added by subtracting two real albatrosses from last season now.

NFL is definitely moving closer and closer to pro wrestling, but this was pretty funny. Did not hear about the Drew Pearson appearance in Philly last draft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1NpsGssBdU

Vita Vea looks like he is havin' fun. That might be my favorite NFL player name now.

https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/usatsi_10805785.jpg?w=1000&h=667

projected strength of schedule for next year, using vegas lines

With a foundation as to the projected 2018 wins, we can now calculate a proper Strength of Schedule. You can filter by month (or by week). Here's the link: https://t.co/8bPjdEE1oz pic.twitter.com/mbHz9MJh8b

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) April 30, 2018

he is literally the dude from Moana

yea I know I'm probably the 1000000th person to make that observation but still

Browns V.P. of player personnel Alonzo Highsmith had plenty to say on Monday about how the team settled on quarterback Baker Mayfield. Highsmith also shared some insights on why the Browns didn’t settle on quarterback Josh Rosen.

“I was at an airport,” Highsmith said Monday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club, via the Canton Repository. “UCLA’s volleyball team was in front of me. You heard so much about Rosen. He’s this or that. We all know how people talk.

“So I asked one of the volleyball coaches, ‘What’s Rosen like?’ He said, ‘Aaaa, you should probably ask his girlfriend. She’s one of the players. She’s over there.’

“I’m like, ‘All right coach. That’s good enough.’ . . . I don’t know what all this means, but there was something about him that bothered me.”

why is it that every time someone in the browns front office has opened their mouth since the draft it has been to spout some dumbass reason for why they picked mayfield or didn't pick another guy. it almost seems too much, like it's an elaborate troll, but the simplest answer is browns

Josh Rosen rules and I'm glad he didn't go to that cursed franchise full of idiots who make personnel decisions for literally no reason

this is actually dumber than the time they drafted Johnny Football because some homeless guy told them to do it

It’s insane, they didn’t pass on him based on his gf’s opinion, they passed based on her volleyball coach not having an opinion. I can’t even believe I read that. If Rosen turns into Wentz or even Goff I hope everyone is fired.

And yeah at least the homeless guy had an opinion

Nah, Baker Mayfield’s legit. The Browns are fine.

he's a legit talent for sure not sure if he has the right personality tho to be a franchise qb esp for the browns

the Browns may be fine I'm just surprised that a franchise known for blowing draft picks would publicly admit that their due diligence with a top ten QB prospect partially included their VP of player personnel deciding to not walk a few yards to talk to someone who intimately knew the QB because he didn't like how someone else phrased their non-opinion.

It seems like a good sign that the Pats targeted Mayfield imo

"I don’t know what all this means"

not sure how real the pats' reported interest was, mayfield's ppl basically made them qualify their interest to even let them meet with him, so they had to say something.

most ppl i respect are saying 1) the real unknown with him is how much you can separate his great #s from lincoln riley and 2) the browns will need to develop an offense around him and not just try to cram him in whatever system. so i think the key to whether he has a successful career is who cle hire to replace hue when he gets fired midseason.

Im glad my job wasn't to have to pick out of those QBs, as all of them seem flawed in personality or game.

As of now, I kinda think the Ravens with Lamar Jackson might have had the best qb pick from where it was on the draft.

yeah thru the whole thing i am sure the niners/lynch were feeling extremely pleased with themselves

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html

cannot believe this kind of shit would go down under the direction of such a well run and ethical sports organization

in lieu of knowing anyone who likely knows or cares who mike renner at PFF is, i'm just going to post this here.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdajYI2V0AEz1PO.jpg

hmmmm

In nearly two hours of dramatic and tearful testimony at a preliminary hearing on Thursday morning, Reuben Foster’s ex-girlfriend Elissa Ennis testified that the 49ers linebacker never hit her, never broke her cell phone, and that she lied repeatedly to investigators about the Feb. 11 incident that sent Foster to jail.

“I was pissed,” Ennis testified under oath, saying that Foster had broken up with her in the morning before she called 911, so she fabricated domestic violence allegations. “I wanted to end him.”

Joshua Bentley, Foster’s attorney, then cross-examined Ennis: “Is it true that you told Foster in texts after the arrest that, ‘your career is over, you’re going after him, you’re going after the Niners, and you’re going after his coaches?'”

“Yes sir,” Ennis replied, breaking down in tears.

Ennis then admitted to having no problem lying to investigators, and she acknowledged that she had falsely accused another ex-boyfriend of domestic violence in 2011 after he tried to break up with her.

“I’m sorry, I really am,” Ennis said crying. “I’d like to apologize to everyone.”

Jets chairman Christopher Johnson says that his players are free to take a knee or protest during the anthem without fear of repercussion.

Johnson tells Newsday he'll pay any fines out of his own pocket and not sanction any players.https://t.co/zkjadPhT76

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 23, 2018

the jets are good now

So many lies smh
Here are some facts
1. Not many people were going to go
2. No one refused to go simply because Trump “insists” folks stand for the anthem
3. The President continues to spread the false narrative that players are anti military pic.twitter.com/89GUNhJ4eE

— Torrey Smith (@TorreySmithWR) June 4, 2018

The President continues to spread the false narrative that players are anti military

On average, the players probably know more people in the military than Trump knew before he became commander in chief.

I'm watching this doc on last season's Dallas Cowboys.

Usually these shows make me a fan of any team, but literally no one comes across well. Especially their coaching staff, Dez Bryant, and Ezekiel Elliott. Shockingly unlikable. And the NFL produced it! https://t.co/kgePHSpPgN

— Aaron Gleeman (@AaronGleeman) June 12, 2018

You know when a player will say "I'd run through a wall for them" about a great coach? Jason Garrett has whatever the opposite of that is.

— Aaron Gleeman (@AaronGleeman) June 12, 2018

lol

that's amazing

chucky: we wanted to rebuild hackenberg from the ground up but the dirty players union wouldn't give us enough time

uh this Kellen Winslow Jr. thing is *extremely* fucked up

https://nypost.com/2018/06/17/how-a-string-of-violent-sex-crimes-were-traced-to-former-nfl-star/

Receiving yards after age 40:

2509 - Jerry Rice
0 - Literally everyone else except Brett Favre
-2 - Brett Favre

— Adam Harstad (@AdamHarstad) June 25, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhT5nCmU8AAD0rG.jpg

So I received this letter last week. It’s written by Hunter S Thompson to @Colts Owner Jim Irsay in 1998 a month before the NFL Draft. This is unbelievable, hysterical, & ludicrous!! Have a read. @richeisen and I will discuss today on @RichEisenShow at 11:00 AM PT. #mindblown pic.twitter.com/AWStCEiSTM

— Ryan D Leaf (@RyanDLeaf) July 5, 2018

counting the weeks til football guys

in the meantime did anyone else read this? actual lols all the way through

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/06/11/belmont-stakes-with-rob-gronkowski-new-england-patriots-horse

“At first I was like dang, we’re in last place by like fifteen yards!” Gronkowski said breathlessly, translating the race to football-speak moments after the finish.

Rob’s dad, brothers and pals who came with him to cheer on Team Gronkowski placed numerous $69 bets on his horse to place. Each of those wagers paid out to the tune of $1200.

“I went to London and I dominated that game, we dominated that game as a team. This horse is coming from London now and playing its first game in the States, so hopefully that happens.”

The group settles in at a reserved table overlooking the track and gets to work on a tub of Coors Light.

Gronk smiles down on his subjects and practices his royal wave, greeting fans with a “Happy 6/9!” and posing on his balcony for pictures like a prince lording over his kingdom.

Standing tall in stall No. 6, Gronkowski (the human) shakes his head back and forth and sighs, flapping his lips the way a horse does. “Is this the noise a horse makes?”

“Wow—did you see Justify’s ass?” Big G says, in genuine appreciation of the magnificent Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner. “It’s huge!”

A group of what must be Jets fans catches sight of Gronk heading down the tunnel and yell, “SECOND SUCKS!”

this shady news is horrific + disappointing

yeah fucked up

jesus

wtf is up with this, that home invasion story is crazy.

http://www.tmz.com/2018/07/11/pacman-jones-airport-fight-video/

demarco murray retiring

it's not always 100% of the time but it seems like so many of those guys who get a huge workload and have a career season above 1800 yds rushing, it winds up never being the beginning of a new plateau, it's mostly the last gasp of dominance before they decline markedly or sometimes completely.

darelle revis retires

aliquippa's best football product since tony dorsett

BREAKING: Miami Dolphins to discipline players who protest during national anthem with suspensions, fines or both.

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 19, 2018

fuck my team

*owner

cool I bet this wont backfire and become a PR nightmare for them

fuck the dolphins, and if everyone doesn't kneel game one then fuck the players too

curious as to what counts as 'not a protest'

do you have to put your hand on your heart? can you stand on a bucket? can you do the Y M C A dance during it?

it's not always 100% of the time but it seems like so many of those guys who get a huge workload and have a career season above 1800 yds rushing, it winds up never being the beginning of a new plateau, it's mostly the last gasp of dominance before they decline markedly or sometimes completely.

ah who gives a shit anyway, this league blows

the eagles did the right thing by beating the patriots and now there is nothing more to play for, everyone watch basketball instead thanks

Foles #1 selling merch player this off season

so that Dolphins thing, terrible as it is, was apparently in response to a league requirement that each team submit their punishments for people who protest the anthem.

This whole thing is beyond redemption and Goodell should be eaten by wolves

With deep regret the Minnesota Vikings announce that Offensive Line Coach Tony Sparano unexpectedly passed away early this morning.https://t.co/AEjLksRoUp pic.twitter.com/sCJtnEvCVA

— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) July 22, 2018

so sad : (

Training camp starts! Baker the TD Maker! Myles Garrett!! A 100% healthy Corey Coleman! Hard knocks! Let’s fucking do this!!!!!!! SU PER BOWL!! SU PER BOWL!!

Give the NFL credit where it’s due: They are so much better than the NBA at giving fanbases of terrible teams optimism before the season starts. You think I’m gonna give a shit about any Cavs games next season?

this is gonna be the year the browns win a game snrub, I can feel it

New year, new slogan for #Browns pic.twitter.com/AqhtnVLfcy

— Scott Petrak ct (@ScottPetrak) July 26, 2018

it's coming home

i think i've said this before but i'm really excited to see how the browns are able to squander the massive amount of talent that they've accumulated

Johnny Football is getting his first start north of the border this weekend.

Training camp starts! Baker the TD Maker! Myles Garrett!! A 100% healthy Corey Coleman! Hard knocks! Let’s fucking do this!!!!!!! SU PER BOWL!! SU PER BOWL!!

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, July 27, 2018 11:32 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kill me.

first ep of browns hard knocks teaches me two things
1. this team is catastrophically managed & coached
2. if they win any games it will be bc tyrod puts the team on his back

deets pls

the Ritchie Incognito/Vikings drama has been highly entertaining

deets pls

hue trying to explain to mayfield about the importance of waking up 5 in the morning to get a jump on the day and start preparing and mayfield just wandering off

lots of awkward conversations

taylor seems like a real professional

coaching staff doesn't really seem like they have any control over the josh gordon situation - they're just hoping he comes back and have no idea when

hue lecturing todd haley

coaches berating players for performing badly doing practice, "how could you miss that fucking helen keller could see that," hue complaining that practice "fucking sucks"

landry giving a bitter profanity laden lecture to the WR corps about how they need to be practicing and how ducking work is contagious like 15-20 f-bombs

mayfield trying to lead the team in singing "take me home country road" and no one sings along

there's a special qb only RV

i really want to disengage from nfl media but you're not making it easy

myles garrett looks like he has his shit together too

they gotta replace that coaching tho

jarvis landry is the worst player that ppl seem to care about

episode opens w/ ppl taking down the big lebron poster

Diehard #Jaguars fan Tim Richert says he ordered a custom Jags jersey from the NFL Shop. He claims he got this - with the #Patriots logo on the front. “I was devastated to see this atrocity even exists, and for it to happen to me was perceived as a slight to all Jags fans.” pic.twitter.com/mpoYIckTSr

— Vic Micolucci WJXT (@WJXTvic) August 9, 2018

perfect qbr from tyrod taylor and mayfield looked hot too apparently. i feel like it's going to be pretty exciting to see cleveland's offense finally start to click and then have their season totally derailed by gregg williams

Guice ACL tear

The Chicago Bears have agreed to terms with first-round pick Roquan Smith, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The deal is for the slotted amount of $18 million guaranteed over four years. A source told Schefter the contract should include about $11 million in bonuses.

Selected with the eighth overall pick in the draft, Smith had been the last unsigned rookie in the NFL. Part of the reason for his holdout has been language in his contract that would allow the team to reclaim guaranteed money if the linebacker is suspended under the NFL's new helmet-contact rules, a source previously confirmed to ESPN.

this league is always pioneering new ways to be horseshit

lol

JUST IN: Starting today, @budlight is installing “Victory Fridges” that will be full of beer in 10 Cleveland bars. When the Browns win first regular season game, fridges unlock and beer inside is free to fans. pic.twitter.com/DkRWkVkLkx

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) August 14, 2018

10c_beer_nghtFINALUSETHIS.xls

bunch of Browns fans drinking flat bear in 2020 feels like appropriate ending for this

lmao

Video: #Browns WR Jarvis Landry and CB Terrance Mitchell got into a scuffle during practice today. Landry threw the ball at Mitchell's helmet, Mitchell took a swing at Landry and they ensued to wrestle each other to the ground.pic.twitter.com/LqRR7aILre

— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) August 14, 2018

this year will be different!

Coopwhatyearisthis.gif

Full rundown of Jalen Ramsey's QB evaluations in GQ. https://t.co/EVeEdY4Km4 pic.twitter.com/25azBEfVLw

— Zack Cox (@ZackCoxNESN) August 15, 2018

I was gonna say, if I wasn't talking shit but there's not really a case where I'm not talking shit.

2nd ep hue just berating his players for not practicing to his satisfaction real healthy organization they've got there i wonder if this is what it was like playing for chip kelly soul crushing

MYLES GARRETT IS A POET

"i was a boy who liked to write long before i was a man who liked to hit people"

entertaining season, but browns seem deeply dysfunctional

Is that quote real bc that’s amazing

In Cleveland: A receiver is struggling to catch the ball in practice. Hue "punishes" him by requiring him to catch *30* balls from the JUGS machine after practice. His coaches & the GM watch from folding chairs as he literally counts to 30.
Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh: pic.twitter.com/2ieeHYDHsm

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) August 15, 2018

with the appropriate preseason caveats, philly 1st team offense looks abominable and pats defense looks p nice

for a min i'm like.. no one cares about the preseason and then i'm like BRADY JULES I MISSED YOU GUYS SO MUCH

patterson is fast alright

foxboro and its terrible, terrible music

with the appropriate preseason caveats

oh, you

preseason game announcing is a delight tbh

scott zolak on the pats game now talking about sharks, different kinds of things that sharks do.. a shark vs a bear, zolak vs a bear, ninko, you see any bears in foxboro?

ninko: i saw a coyote once in foxboro

zolak: that's a wolf with mange

fuck this atavistic bullshit sport and fuck you for watching it

― El Tomboto, Sunday, August 19, 2018 11:28 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my favorite variation of above is people on twitter who are morally superior to NFL fans yet love the WWE, where all its veterans live til 60 before ODing or killing themselves or someone else and who's power structure is actually directly tied to the Trump org and Linda McMahon serves in the administration

these people usually care about anime

the NFL without question is bad for humanity, but the eagles are good

I’d root for the Eagles either way but it’s nice that they’ve made it so easy by being so likable.

lol'd at these, @dril tweet season previews

NFC
AFC

washington one is great

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dl3v3iaU4AAaO84.jpg

sports agents have to be some of the worst ppl alive right? look at these goddamn pantomime villains. looks like they're kidnapping him or holding him hostage. gronk's constant slight bewilderment is not helping obv.

While do those dudes look bigger than gronk who is a literal giant

it's a trick of the eye. gronk is sitting 20-feet behind those men.

At what point is it safe to say that Baker Mayfield is the greatest Browns QB since ‘99? Can we say it now or do we have to wait for the regular season to start?

i believe you are talking about tyrod taylor?

Safe to say Drew Stanton as well.

NOPE. YOU WILL NOT STOP DANNY ETLING! 😱😱😱 #NEvsNYG pic.twitter.com/Y3HgpyNBxt

— NFL (@NFL) August 31, 2018

Breaking: Baltimore has agreement in principle to trade former Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco to the Broncos, league sources told ESPN.

Trade cannot be processed until new NFL league year begins Wednesday, March 13. Teams prohibited from commenting on deal or terms surrounding it.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) February 13, 2019

hey, that's cool

After debating it during the regular season, Jason Witten has ended his NFL retirement to return to the Dallas Cowboys.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) February 28, 2019

Witten's commentary got a little better over the course of the season, but I guess he realized he was never going to be Tony Romo

"sports agents have to be some of the worst ppl alive right? look at these goddamn pantomime villains. looks like they're kidnapping him or holding him hostage. gronk's constant slight bewilderment is not helping obv."

I believe I saw a comic in 2000AD that a sports agent had to eat a complete Gronk before it was allowed to manage a Gronk. It might have been in Strontium Dog.

https://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/brown.jpg?w=443?w=1&crop=0&zoom=2o,g

Kellen Winslow is still doing creep crimes

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26141998/former-te-winslow-jail-accused-lewd-acts

Foles to the Jags, 4/88

that's where I was hoping he'd go, who knows if it'll work out but it will be neat to see this Jags team with an actual QB

(would've been neater last year, but still)

rumors are desean jackson back to philly

hoo boy

!

Browns getting OBJ from the Giants

Odell Beckham Jr. traded to Cleveland, as @MikeGarafolo reported.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 12, 2019

Here are the trade terms: Giants recieve a first-round pick in 2019 (No. 17 overall), the Browns' second third-round pick this year and S Jabril Peppers, source tells ESPN. Browns get Odell Beckham Jr.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 13, 2019

This might be the best Browns team of my lifetime

wow

lol steelers front office

going to assume brownie isn't here cos they're popping champagne cork atm

meanwhile my boys just had the expected fire sale.

SU-PER BOWL!! SU-PER BOWL!!

https://nbclatino.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/200344289-001.jpg?w=640&h=480&crop=1

Tannehill to the Titans

Cool I'm taking off three years from watching the Tankfins

Now this is a bad uni:

https://a1.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2019%2F0405%2Fr524688_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&w=1140&cquality=40&format=jpg

oof

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2828649-what-happened-in-green-bay

summary: McCarthy was an unimaginative coach who never adapted and checked out when the team started losing, Rodgers is a diva who randomly puts people in the doghouse, the front office was obsessed with youth and let talented players walk, rookie receivers were caught between listening to Rodgers and listening to the coaching staff, everyone thinks they should have won 5 Super Bowls...sound about right?

the old jets unis were classic--the problem was the team, coaching, and organization.

This dude is strong.

Time of year when small school guys get to show they can compete on the big stage. This is 320-pound, Western Illinois DT Khalen Saunders (@khalenNOTkaylen), who is heading to the Senior Bowl next week. Backflips at his size.... pic.twitter.com/s6QjAkA3zO

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 16, 2019

whoa!

Johnny Manziel wants to be called "John Manziel" now. https://t.co/Zo04TGj887 pic.twitter.com/Jl4beFhCyV

— L.A. Times Sports (@latimessports) April 8, 2019

It's not Johnny Football anymore, it's John Foot

no longer a boy, not yet a manz

Just talked to a Redskins source who told me Dan Snyder has "taken over the first round of the draft."

The last time that happened the Redskins traded two future No. 1's and a No. 2 to move up for Robert Griffin.

— Grant Paulsen (@granthpaulsen) April 24, 2019

lol

Patrick Peterson PED suspension 6 games....

Celebrating 20 years of HATCAT football!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/ABrQnOvreCN7d3RWGiIAs0U_XKg=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/622ECRDTSMI6TEZRGC6FQNXURY.jpg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/05/22/its-been-years-since-daniel-snyder-bought-redskins-heres-season-by-season-look/?utm_term=.1ef7caed22ac

"Snyder, 54, hasn’t lived up to that promise. Under his leadership, the Redskins have had four times as many head coaches (8) as playoff wins (2). Splashy free agent signings haven’t produced victories — Washington is 139-180 since Snyder bought the team — and one of the more loyal fan bases in professional sports has been gradually driven away."

wow i guess the wapo will now have its press passes revoked/have to refer to the hatcats as a 'dc-area nfl franchise'

More deal details: Carson Wentz’s four-year contract extension includes an NFL-record $107.9 million guaranteed, including $66 million fully guaranteed at signing, per source.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 7, 2019

https://deadspin.com/report-kellen-winslow-ii-couldnt-stop-masturbating-in-1835493794

He could count on having an empty seat next to him on any team flight, due to his ritual of watching hardcore pornography on his portable DVD player, according to those sources. On one occasion, an equipment manager tasked with delivering gear to lockers after hours walked in on Winslow masturbating at his locker, two seats away from the entrance, according to two team officials familiar with the incident.

When pornography became widely available on mobile phones, he often watched it on his smartphone during meetings, the two former teammates said (nowadays, such sites would typically be blocked by the building WiFi). Teammates begged out of shared hotel room assignments with Winslow because he watched pornography and masturbated openly, with no regard for who was in the room, a teammate and an official said.

Later on in his career, after being sent to Tampa Bay via trade, Winslow acquired a life-sized silicone mold of a woman’s torso—complete with vagina and anus—to bring with him on road trips, according to one former assistant coach.

i mean what the

probably one of the best pieces of press he's received honestly

not saying Kellen’s “hold my beer” effort after watching Aaron Hernandez ascend to the throne of history’s creepiest tight end will ultimately crown him but he has given it an impressive try.

ffs is it week 1 yet

rip jared lorenzen

can anyone unpack this drew magary sentence for me?

When the team finally traded Beckham to Cleveland, it served as an ejaculatory triumph for anyone who instinctively hates it when people who are not fans of Jimmy Buffett enjoy a boat ride.

Giants fans who hate fun were glad when the Giants traded Odell Beckham

also he thinks guys from new jersey like to jerk off to the idea of pissing off parrotheads

what does the jimmy buffett part mean then? that there are people who get angry when non-buffett fans enjoy boat rides (and why? bc they think buffett is the patron saint of boats?), where boat rides are the fun time that giants fans hate? but surely the buffett fans love the boat rides they just (if i understand the sentence correctly) just hate non-buffett fans enjoying them??

it's probably a reference to the giants' pre-playoffs 2017 boat trip which became a big tabloid/sports radio thing before they got their asses beat in the first round

https://www.sbnation.com/2017/1/2/14147518/giants-boat-photo-odell-beckham-jr-trey-songz

Also white people love Jimmy Buffett; hate people of color who play football the wrong way

Antonio Brown’s helmet is the stupidest non-story since Tebowmania. GOOD GOD will this season start already?

1. LeBron and the Lakers
2. Dallas Cowboys paying Dak (Is he 'elite'?)
3. Dallas Cowboys vs. Zeke holdout
4. Antonio Brown's helmet & mind

This is pretty much 85% of ESPNs coverage these days.

OBJ is pretty weird too

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2850368-odell-beckham-jr-giants-thought-theyd-send-me-here-to-die-with-browns-trade

Jaylon Smith is one player I am glad got a big payday, considering he nearly lost his career with that injury with Notre Dame in the bowl game. Smith is probably the best defensive player from the state of Indiana since Rod Woodson too.

Andrew Luck retired wtf

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27456682/emotional-luck-announces-retirement-nfl

After the game, Luck announced the retirement decision during an impromptu news conference; he said an official announcement wasn't planned until Sunday afternoon but changed course once news broke during the preseason game.

"I've been stuck in this process," he said, stopping several times to overcome his emotions. "I haven't been able to live the life I want to live. It's taken the joy out of this game ... the only way forward for me is to remove myself from football."

Good for him tbqf, and good for anyone who quits early. get the hell outta that league.

yes

I tend to believe that almost anyone who plays in the NFL is 100% committed to the sport so I'm guessing this really was the only option for him. Poor guy, hope he got paid and gets to pursue his other dreams now. Funny to think the NFL's 'talent drain' problem first seemed to come to light around the time when Luck & RG3 got drafted, when the word was "finally we are going to have some great young QBs again"...this is pretty much the worst possible scenario for the NFL

there's a couple more generational prospects coming up the pipeline in the next couple years, but yeah, i guess the nfl can't really count on them to define their league for 15 years anymore.

there are a lot of talented young QBs right now tho - watson, mahomes, wentz, goff, newton, cousins, jackson, mayfield, maybe winston? ok some question marks around some of those guys but a few of those could be good to all time greats depending on how their careers go.

Not Winston, my god

jon gruden honestly seems like the boss from hell

lol jim zorn is the coach of one of these xfl teams

Antonio Brown's apology tour continued Wednesday morning with an Instagram post directed at quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

The former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver posted a photo of Roethlisberger smiling and slapping the back of Brown's helmet when the two played together, along with a caption that praised Roethlisberger.

"Mostly you a little bit of me !" Brown wrote. "Yee yee !! I never realized how good I had it, got caught up in my emotion with everyone coming after me I really apologize for my actions sincerely man ! It's never been another connection like what we done in the past decade. I appreciate you. Sincerely AB."

One game with Brady and zero with Derek Carr really changed his perspective.

Lol the o/u for this XFL is 45.5 and score is 9-6 in the 4th

espn dot com has been pushing the xfl pretty hard but lol there are no stats, no box scores, no standings, nothing. the only links they offer are highlights and the league schedule

Watching the gameplay, this is boooring

clearly needs its own thread

Lol there was a three point conversion

things just keep getting worse for this guy

Looks like Antonio Brown has entered concussion protocol #AB #NFL pic.twitter.com/qLhatJhzjc

— The Spike King 👑 (@SpikeKing76) February 20, 2020

I'm guessing Alex Smith is pretty much done, not coming back? I have not heard any discussion of him coming back from the broken leg or if he had hung them up.

Got looking at some passing career passing stats of Fitzmagic and went onto Smiths' football reference page. Smiths' career record is 94-66-1, which is pretty good considering every coach was near replacing him each season he played.

He was the quintessential high floor low ceiling qb

Trey Adams with the best answer ever to a combine question pic.twitter.com/AvGI9uOPFg

— Sordi 🐬 (@FinsOrDie) February 29, 2020

hearing a lot of "worst trade of all time" chatter about the hopkins deal

Barnwell gives the Cards a slight edge

Texans trade DeAndre Hopkins to Cardinals for David Johnson

Houston Texans get: RB David Johnson, 2020 second-round pick, 2021 fourth-round pick
Arizona Cardinals get: WR DeAndre Hopkins, 2020 fourth-round pick

Cardinals grade: B+
Texans grade: F

The NFL should use this down time to dissolve 14 teams

Sounds like Brady to the Bucs is a thing that might happen. Weird

Lol that is gonna cause some major cognitive dissonance in Bucs fans. Most Floridians, even those not in the AFC East, hate the fuck

lol wow he's actually leaving

what's the funniest possible destination for him right now? I'd say Green Bay

oakland

er, las vegas

the NBA

dolphins

lol that would be such cognitive dissonance for me.

we are killing it with free agency atm but of course I bet this season won't happen

oh jets for sure

or giants
giants would be hilarious

I can't wait for Brady to go somewhere else and immediately show he is cooked.

actually SF would probably be the funniest now that I think about it

Philip Rivers to the Colts

lmao

now send brady to the chargers

to the Bucs?

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the expected landing spot for quarterback Tom Brady barring any unforeseen circumstances, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter and Jeff Darlington.

what the buc

lol motherfucker is going to Dale Mabry ave. he gonna hate it there.

i'm getting season tickets just to pelt him with shit.

foles to the bears for a fourth-round pick

life really comes at you fast

Sean Payton's got the roni

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28943350/rams-rebranded-la-unveils-new-logos-colors

To me the logo looks like it says L A C, as in Chargers. Very confusing!

pic.twitter.com/uQf189c03m

— FBSchedules.com (@FBSchedules) March 23, 2020

haha it does

maybe they're merging and are going to be the LA Clams now

I can imagine the branding meetings for this and I want to die.

Kaepernick to the Jets on a 1 year, $9 million deal

hoax?

yah that one really lame twitter guy is at it again

well, shit. I checked Twitter and a lot of people fell for it. oh well

happens to the best of us

and me too

happens to the smelliest of us

Kinda curious to see how long Cam Newton stays out there. Got to figure if healthy, he's got to be better than some of the guys already signed. Then again, he might be one of those players that everyone knows that is as much a headache as talented.

I'd kinda think if NE could switch over to a run first control the clock offense, Newton at least in skills could be a good guy to run that offense. Honestly he probably would have made more sense style wise to push or beat out Trubisky in Chicago compared to Foles, who I think is a bit more fools gold.

I keep thinking about Randall Cunninghams year and half 'comeback' in Minnesota and could see Newton potentially having that type of bump on the right setup.

I feel like he's 50/50 to go to New England and they'll probably wind up in the AFCCG again next year fuck

Not QB related but I’m thoroughly enjoying the Texans offseason

XFL just filed for bankruptcy

lmao

I really enjoyed this piece

https://www.theringer.com/2020/4/17/21224389/nfl-draft-quantifying-quarterback-evaluation

Probably belongs in the Eli HOF thread though lol

First-round pocket presence. pic.twitter.com/1FWJWkLduO

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) April 22, 2020

lmao

the mask helps the smoothness

https://twitter.com/OldTakesExposed/status/1253296990340907008

Johnny Manziel (2014) (Tweet 2/3)

Compilation of Browns draft parties reacting to Manziel pick. pic.twitter.com/IJPm5FKs9E

— Freezing Cold Takes (@OldTakesExposed) April 23, 2020

I liked the Manziel pick at the time.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWaX3UcWoAEZCqj?format=jpg&name=small

bill belichick is a heckin good boi

The Patriots just drafted a nazi kicker...? pic.twitter.com/Ay2IGISJsr

— Brian (@BrianMC630) April 25, 2020

utterly confounded by GB's draft strategy, how do you not take a single WR

"No one would ever expect the Single Wing in today's NFL."

http://www.americanfootballinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/AFI-2018-Single-Wing3.png

elite quarterback joe flacco to the j-e-t-s

Robert Kraft sees a happy ending for the NFL https://t.co/Ol982i9YZA

— Baltimore Sun Sports (@BaltSunSports) May 28, 2020

lol, that was (appropriately!) pulled

lol

New Denver Broncos running back Melvin Gordon said he's not concerned if fans can't be in the stands when the NFL season begins because he has already dealt with that.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, playing games without fans in attendance is one possibility for the 2020 NFL season. During an interview ... Gordon said the past three years with the Chargers in Los Angeles prepared him for this.

open goal lol

This is my favorite one so far

Ed Reed thoughts on Drew Brees pic.twitter.com/zIwZTkpFvL

— Grantlong (@Grantlonggg) June 4, 2020

he reads the room just like he read the Minnesota defense

can't really argue with that

reed coming through hard

should have gone harder tbh

Probably. I wonder if brees is capable of the self reflection necessary to hear what he’s being told but mostly fuck football anyway.

Drew Brees Admits He Doesn’t Trust Black People Ever Since Falcons Linebacker Stole Football Straight Out Of His Hands https://t.co/TvDYli3GZi pic.twitter.com/CjFdAmY3Vr

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 4, 2020

Nice work: "It was just clear they have no respect for me, the grandson of World War II veterans."

drew brees paid $33 to end racism pic.twitter.com/peMg2Um5m4

— Sean Gentille (@seangentille) June 4, 2020

RIP Reche Cadwell

*Caldwell

"Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing," traditionally known as the Black national anthem, is expected to be performed live or played before every Week 1 NFL game, and the league is considering a variety of other measures during the upcoming season to recognize victims of police brutality.

truly amazing

in other news, desean jackson is a fucking idiot.

in other other news, Mahomes just signed an insane contract, congrats Chefs fans

4 of those years will be in quarantine

also known as "the durant clause"

.@Eric_Branch asks Shanahan if Jimmy G will be on the roster on Sunday. Kyle defers by saying any of us could die before then so ....

Dark, man.

— Lindsay Jones (@bylindsayhjones) April 26, 2021

*waggles eyebrows*

Reigning MVP Aaron Rodgers is so disgruntled with the Green Bay Packers that he has told some within the organization that he does not want to return to the team, league and team sources told ESPN on Thursday.

More on NFL Live now....

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 29, 2021

um, why? did something happen?

Here is my understanding of the Aaron Rodgers situation: Rodgers and the #Packers have been negotiating a long-term contract offer. They’ve been working on it for weeks. Rodgers has been unhappy at times during those moments. No deal is done, and he’s not happy now. https://t.co/JkwoIriwIF

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 29, 2021

honestly do not understand in the slightest what the Packers are doing

Trade him, then make sure your resumes are updated

That Alex Smith article on SI is NUTs! The pictures of the leg....oh my lawd.

farewell adam vinatieri

go raiders

https://sports.yahoo.com/las-vegas-raiders-defensive-end-carl-nassib-comes-out-as-gay-first-active-nfl-player-220156359.html

lovely statement

about fucking time. seems like a decent kid.

this is a good day for the nfl and i think his statement is perfect. he also had a great bit on hard knocks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTAgth6KY8

brilliant how all these players will risk brain damage or amputate ring fingers to help their team win football games in the national football league but a vaccine? that’s a deeply personal choice, man

the only thing they're willing to put in their body is deer antler spray, and lots of it

Cam Newton on if he is vaccinated: "It's too personal to discuss it. I'll just keep it at that." pic.twitter.com/0ExgpxaqhQ

— Ben Volin (@BenVolin) August 5, 2021

Just imagine if the health status of an NFL player was made public

football coaches are the most ridiculous people on earth, part infinity

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8HHUPXX0AA4mzd.jpg

amazing the practice facilities are still standing after all that

Have a hearty good retirement Fitzmagic, I got a feeling you will be good as a commentator as you got to have stories to tell as you played with half the NFL over nearly the last two decades at one point or another.

Hilarious thing about Fitzpatricks' retirement is if you look on the google news feed, there are like local storied from half the NFL referencing him as an EX-local player.

https://gotitans.com/attachments/fitzmagic-jpeg.14327/

wonder if Jon Bois has a video about this guy's career ready to go

Dude started with the Rams on Mike Martz last season has their head coach.

Marshall Faulk, Issac Bruce and Tory Holt were still playing. Mark Bulger was the starting QB.

That seems like an ice age ago.

“And everyone here is hungry and everybody here wants to be a great NFL tight end,” Kittle said. "And so when you put all that hunger together, it’s just big ol' nasty beast, and that’s what a tight end is.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/tight-ends-gather-in-nashville-to-learn-from-nfls-best/ar-AAYO8X8?ocid=msedgntp

not really sure where this goes, but this Jon Bois/Secret Base short film about a 1976 Colts/Steelers playoff game is incredible, utterly compelling from start to finish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcVZZuj_WE

abolish the preseason

Awesome win! Our scumbag piece-of-shit starting quarterback went 1 for 5 and we lost our starting center for the year.

:(

If scumbags reception is like that in a preseason game in Jacksonville and it shook him up, good luck in Baltimore if that is his first game (and I kinda hope it is). I got a feeling more than a few refs are going to let a bit more contact than usual happen.

200+ million guaranteed cash...what a f'n world.

So glad we didn't get him, wish he was expelled from the league