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

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