2017 NFL Off-season Thread (Draft, Injuries, Firings & Police Blotter Edition)

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lmao

elway just saw kraft/belichick put a guy in the white house and he wants a piece of that action

http://deadspin.com/nfl-developing-new-way-to-drain-all-joy-from-sport-for-1793517847

Troy Vincent ✔@TroyVincent23
We're developing an educational training video for players to show clear examples of appropriate and inappropriate celebrations.

uh, Key & Peele already made that video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGJb2iLvOKE

I've seen articles tagging on Cleveland for stating they are looking elsewhere than QB for their first pick. Seems that with Watson and Trubisky as the two big QBs, that seems a smart move to me. They 'might' be pretty good - but those two also look like high candidates for bust city too.

Vegas, baby

welp hope the Texans had a Plan B:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000797371/article/cowboys-tony-romo-set-to-retire

A source informed of the situation told Rapoport that Romo will land with CBS this season to replace Phil Simms as an analyst with Jim Nantz on game broadcasts.

our long national nightmare is over

not until Joe Buck is gone too

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Tony Romo is now #1 analyst at CBS taking over for Phil Simms!

Shit no wonder he retired, that is a way better gig than qb of the Texans.

Good riddance to Phil Simms! Now if they can just get his smug ass off of Inside the NFL...

idgi for cbs. with no experience, romo's unlikely to be better than trent green or even dan fouts. and no one watches a game because of the announcer -- if they want to capitalize on romo's star power, such as it is, they should put him on the studio show

then he too could call bill cowher 'coach' until the end of time

Dan Fouts is pretty good, especially on radio.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/business/media/amazon-stream-nfl-thursday-night-football.html

i feel like the plan was just to put simms out to pasture

i think the converse is true too where no one *doesnt* watch cuz of the announcer so room there will just be much more trending/relevant than someone w actual experience

*romo not room jfc

agree with that for sure but interestingly also have seen a couple folks mention how romo was seen as a charismatic hot property for transition to tv and networks already had the red carpet prepared.

Urgh, is it April 27th yet? So sick of seeing useless "sources say" misinformation and mock draft shit on my Twitter feed.

Phil Simms had a nice long run, I think at some point you just have to change it up to change it up unless you got Madden/Summerall. People are talking like he is done in broadcasting... Phil Simms can call ball games for another 20 years, it's just not the #1 nfl game on a network.

Thing is, you got to be able to work the mike in those games. Joe Montana couldn't do it. Lots of huge Star name players couldn't do it. I think it is much more subtle thing to do than maybe given credit.

You know all the networks were waiting on Peyton Manning, he probably could have any gig he wanted in TV and you KNOW he would be good in it. Still might be, but he might be wisely taking a bit of time off before giving it a try.

Oh jeezus, Todd Heap ran over his 3 year old with his car.

yeah, horrific story :(

Aaron Hernandez killed himself

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/04/19/us/aaron-hernandez-suicide/index.html

Ok wow

wow.....the timing of this is so weird

I know right.

I was just reading a lengthy piece about how his lawyer speculated he might be able to get him a new trial for the previous conviction, too.

his lawyer is Baez, the Keystone Koppy defense lawyer from the Casey Anthony trial.

idk what's wrong with baez, he annihilated the prosecution's case on the double murder charge.

sad end to a truly strange life.

just from the casey Anthony case, baez does seem incred sleezy/unscrupulous, even for a defense lawyer

baez is skillful slime

aaron hernandez definitely murdered those two dudes though.

o def

btw per deadspin:

Through an obscure and rarely invoked Massachusetts legal principle called abatement ab initio, because Hernandez had not exhausted all his appeals on his murder conviction, that conviction is essentially now voided. The practical effect of this is that evidence from Hernandez’s criminal trial cannot be used in any potential civil trials against his estate.

damn, baez found the loophole

The Onion already has a caption of "Man who should have stuck in school, now stuck in Cleveland" with a picture of Myles Garrett.

bears still committed to being terrible

Yeah...I'm sure fans will say Trubisky doesn't have a good game face after the Bears sxxt offensive line (w/nearly a decade of incompetence) gets him ground into hamburger.

lol @ eagles fans booing goodell every time he walks out on stage

actually most interesting thing about the draft - lets see if eagles fans boo the next person on stage! a 14 year old cancer survivor? how about a baby? will eagles fans boo a baby?

oh eagles fans would totally boo a baby

they already booed Bradford iirc

For all I know, Gareon Conley could be clean as a whistle, but this seems like an Al Davis pick from beyond the grave.

Also, lol Bears

Browns had a GREAT first round. Finally we have a front office that knows what they're doing and doesn't panic. Myles Garrett, Jabril Peppers, David Njoku, and Houston first next year!

that does seem good

honestly not to be a jerk, but I just found it striking - the date of the last browns road win - 10/11/2015

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/last-nights-winner-was-this-packers-fan-at-a-bears-draf-1794738481

that's a delight

Kevin Clark‏ @bykevinclark 3m3 minutes ago

Wow, can't believe the Bears paid the full $12,000 for Fyre Fest.

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/highlight/mitchell-trubiskys-twitter-account-is-insanely-good

sample: 'tunnels are legit'

Kevin Seifert‏
@SeifertESPN

Wow. Per @mortreport, even @ChicagoBears coach John Fox didn’t know about plan to draft QB Mitchell Trubisky until a couple hours before.

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no joke - Matt Stafford is now the highest paid player in NFL history
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20491086

not all that surprising - he ain't great, but he's above-average, and a lot of teams would pay out the nose for someone above average at the QB position

his career earnings must be thru the roof too.

Jets starting QB week 1- wait for it - Josh McCown.

fortunately they'll be able to supplement their stable of garbage qb prospects with a top 5 pick in the next draft

shut up guys they're going 5-11

lol

i don't really know where their defense is supposed to be at this year but it feels like they've drafted approx 1m defense players in the last few drafts so maybe that will all come together for them

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2017/08/20/nfls-bennett-brothers-show-two-sides-of-activism-for-martellus-bennett-thats-political-cartooning
https://www.instagram.com/p/BX9HeDhguqS
super trenchant

tbf, he appears to be a better cartoonist than a lotta guys currently publishing in newspapers

would be much better if the can said "Bepis"

this is p interesting, on the evolution of qb evaluation

https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2017/8/31/16231484/quarterback-problem-evaluation-spread-dak-prescott-derek-carr

Random Aaron Rodgers fan kisses him on the head and he looks at the camera like he's in an episode of The Office 😂 pic.twitter.com/4XNhqmM2uK

— Eric Fawcett (@Efawcett7) September 1, 2017

nfl twitter is extremely excited about patrick mahomes

mostly because of this

http://i.imgur.com/pvZHfzn.gif

personally i want to know why he looks backwards at one point

jets trade sheldon richardson to seattle for jermaine kearse and some loose change. seattle gets even stronger in a position of strength and looks to be left with a shallow and fragile wr corps. meanwhile, frogbs's 5 wins for the jets is starting to look like everest.

The Cleveland Browns are releasing quarterback Brock Osweiler, sources confirmed to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The Browns owe Osweiler $16 million, but Cleveland does get Houston's 2018 second-round pick as part of the offseason trade between the two.

going back to the broncos apparently.

Lol