2016 NFL offseason news and sandwich recommendation thread

that's a spicy meatball sub

mark sanchez to the broncos!

guess there's another superbowl in their future!

SANCHIZE IV: THE HORSENING?

er, III, rather

philly it getting a 2017 conditional pick. honestly turning sanchez into anything, even a late round pick, is a miracle

i guess the broncos figure that they won a superbowl with a backup and a coatrack, why not get both for the price of one?

its not prima facie absurd no, esp. if they retool as an almost entirely run-based team

this though, idek:

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter
Major QB development: former Redskins QB Robert Griffin III is scheduled to visit the NY Jets later today, league source tells ESPN.

yes, the jets and the new york market is exactly the right environment for rg3 to turn his career back around

well if he's willing to sit for a year behind fitz (or more likely just wait for dude to break something) and keep a low profile it might work? Gino is toast out here.

reasonable plan if they pony up and pay fitz, but that's strangely up in the air rn. which is kinda baffling. like, dude, you worked really well in a system for the first time in a whiiiiiiiile, and...you wanna roll the dice on that happening again and keeping more than the bare-minimum-guaranteed part of the deal?

agreed; putting rg3 out there as a start-of-the-season starter under literally any circumstances is asking for trouble and any formulation that runs the risk of that happening is dumb

I'd think the Jets probably should sign Fitzpatric for good money for short years and draft a QB that could perhaps be ready to start in a year or two. It is the Jets, so whatever is the right decision, they will most likely do the opposite.

I'd think SF would be the place for RG3, considering they got one of the coaches that developed that style of offense he played at Baylor.

Classic free agent Mexican Standoff going on as it looks like everyone is waiting for the first team to make it so on the mediocre QB line. I like the idea that Kap would go to the Broncos, but he want them to beat Cleveland's offer. Fitz is 33 and holding out for the only big payday of his career, as he figures he is better than a couple of these guys that got paid (and he might have a point). I figure once those two go then where RGIII goes will happen. Same thing happens with baseball and NBA free agents more often.

There needs to be a 'replacement level' like term for the top of the bottom of the barrel like there is 'elite' in the QB mouthpiece ranking system.

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Cards-Pats blockbuster from @diannaESPN and me: Cards trade G Jonathan Cooper + 2nd-rd pick to NE for DE Chandler Jones, per sources.

daaaaamn

RIP Tray Walker

RGIII to the cleve

rip

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/15059418/arizona-cardinals-bruce-arians-people-let-kids-play-football-fools

URL should be "bruce-arians-people-who-dont-let-kids-play-football-are-fools"

dbrickeshaw ferguson retires cos he watched Concussion

"Since seeing Concussion, I can’t avoid wondering if I am in danger of experiencing some degree of brain injury when I am done playing. It couldn’t happen to me, right?

"... Though I cannot remember ever having a concussion, I now know as an offensive lineman that it is the frequency of collisions that can ultimately lead to brain injury. It’s a different conversation when you are involved in the story and not just watching a movie about it. I fear the unavoidable truth is that playing football has placed me in harm’s way, and I am not yet sure of the full extent of what it might cost me."

you forget that these guys are in their twenties and this shit simply hasn't occurred to them

which is to say "one forgets", not calling you out spottie

Yeah it's crazy and I don't blame them for retiring b4 it's too late. Get that money be smart with it and get out

the way the game is played is necessarily gonna change if/when 75% of the players opt to play three years and bounce.

Pay college players imo

cosine

it is kind of amazing that i knew more about concussion protocol last year than an o-lineman in the nfl did tho

Probably one of those "I really don't want to know" type of things. Ignore it til you can't ignore it anymore

http://deadspin.com/former-saints-defensive-end-will-smith-shot-to-death-in-1770120005

From the Deadspin comments: "This is really messed up. I'm on the corner where it happened. People are saying it was a fender bender that got heated. I was here when they took his wife away on a stretcher. She was yelling for Will. Really tragic."

Fuckin hell.

Omg

Unfuckingbelievable. tragic beyond words.

this rams trade for #1 pick is frankly bizarre and imo the most weird but also cynically brazen attempt to sell tickets based on a high profile trade

I hope it blows up in their faces. So stupid. Why not wait for a qb in the next two years in the draft whos actually worth trading for?

guy from north Dakota moves to la and hilarity ensues

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cgb5BlAUMAAZEYk.jpg

better choice than christie imo but not by much

the eagles are a garbage team that do garbage things

Browns trade down to 8, get 3rd, 4th, 1st and 2nd round picks.

perfect timing there

2016 4th swapped for 2017 4th, so on balance a 1st, 2nd and 3rd across 3 drafts to move up 6 spots.

great move for cleveland

Browns picks for 2016:

1st Round (No. 8 overall)
2nd Round (No. 32 overall)
3rd Round (No. 65 overall)
3rd Round (No. 77 overall)
4th Round (No. 99 overall)
4th Round (No. 100 overall)
4th Round (No. 138 overall)
5th Round (No. 141 overall)
5th Round (No. 172 overall)
5th Round (No. 173 overall)
6th Round (No. 176 overall)
7th Round (No. 223 overall)

all quarterbacks imo

can't believe two teams have paid bounties to trade up in this draft

Brian Billick ‏@CoachBillick 32m32 minutes ago
The real winners today? Goff and Wentz. Both avoid Cleveland which has become the QB graveyard.

i read that piece on ESPN today about the browns passing up Roethlisberger in the draft and it made some good points but if Ben went to Cleveland i imagine he'd have been a physically and spiritually broken man by the end of his rookie year.

is this dude from north dakota actually good

apparently josh norman is a free agent now??

Eagles move seems odd. They usually are pretty tight on money, so they probably have room in their cap to carry 3 qbs. Bradford being signed might be a good trade bait either around draft, end of training camp if rookie looks good or next year if they switch during season.

One thing I heard on the radio this morning driving was that part of the deal why Bradford was chosen was that he had already played in the style offense that Norv Turner runs both in St. Louis and with the Eagles this year.
The Vikings didn't throw the ball that much last year as, they were 32nd in passing attempts. Turner is going to run the same offense he did with the Cowboys over 20 years ago, give the ball to AP 25 times a game and run play action passing. I'd figure Bradford would be way better suited to running that offense than that Star Trek crap that Chip Kelly was trying to run last year.

They gave up a 1st and a 4th. I don't think it was quite the Herschel Walker deal. 1st round picks are a crap shoot even for good clubs. I give them some credit for making it happen "now" and not waiting. I think to some extent they over play how 'complex' all this stuff is to some extent. Sure working with people over time improves things, but their D is built to win now, so I give them some credit for trying to go for it.

Sounds like it would at best be early next season until Bridgewater would be ready anyway and some reports state he might be out two seasons as since his knee gave way, it's going to be a bit more dicey to heal.

Think about the Browns a couple years ago that had a good D, solid O-line and the worst QBs in football...only thing they got was fired. Same deal with Rex with the Jets and the Bills a few years ago. Free Agency means clubs turn over every 2-3 years.

10/23 with the Vikings in Philly is going to be interesting now.

Being a Bears fan and watching Urlacher and Briggs play with so much scrub QB play, it would have been nice if the McCaskey's would have made the deal to get a QB when those guys were in their prime. Criminy they rode sexy Rexy and Weirdbeird into a NFC title game and a Superbowl... By the time they finally made the deal for Cutler, everyone was either gone or old.

smh
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/49ers-fb-bruce-miller-arrested-after-allegedly-punching-70-year-old-man-183250581.html

Niners PR team workin' OT the past couple weeks.

/years

STRAW POLL:
weekly threads
monthly threads
reg season thread

?

Weekly imo

weekly

I like the idea of one reg season rolling thread like hoops does tbh

can we all just watch baseball and basketball instead

yeah xp i like on reg season thread so i don't have to open and bookmark a new thread every week

my prob with season threads is they take forever to load if you find yourself find in the unfortunate position of wanting to look back through the thread

feel like we don't have enough volume to justify weekly threads anymore

weekly threads part of the beautiful tapestry of our shared tradition tho. it's tough.

weekly thread titles!

yeah i'm a big proponent of the lols offered by thread titles

*weekly thread titles

re: all iggles talk upthread didn't they announce wentz would start week 1?

yes