He certainly dropped the ball with this one.
More and more rumors the Browns are going to draft Allen with the #1, which seems like a pretty bad idea. Normally I’d say anything said before the draft is bullshit, but there’s not a whole lot of reason to lie about who’s going to be the #1 pick in the draft, unless you think someone else is totally in love with that guy and might trade for the pick if they’re convinced you’re going to take him. And that seems unlikely in this case.
Edit: Or I guess other unlikely reasons, like if you decide to trade the #1 pick to move down a few slots, and then you trick someone into trading up above your new slot to take Allen, thinking they need to, thereby leaving your guy available. It’s a long shot, but then I guess it’s not costly to lie about your interest in someone pre-draft.
Maybe if they want to trade #4 and want to make people think that their guy will still be there? But I doubt anyone would make the jump without being certain. I’m guessing we won’t see another 1st round pick trade until the draft starts.
Incident? Really? You’re doing the same thing they are.
Un-fucking-believable what these scumbag owners are doing.
Would love the Bears land him for cheap, but our starting Safety spots are already locked in with 1st and 2nd year players.
Well, in a slightly promising move, the NFL has quietly reduced the London games from
4 to 3 for next season.
I read BBC sport daily and the NFL gets almost no coverage on the main web page even after a decade of London games. Trump/Pence vs the anthem protests got more coverage than the Super Bowl. The NFL standings are listed just like they would for soccer, including points for and against.
How? Perhaps I should have said “multiple incidents” or “several occurrences thereof” or what? Should I have used more pejoratives? I was describing what happened as an incident solely as a means of saying something happened, not to demean the reasons behind it. In fact, I did and do fully support it, it’s their right to do so.
Now, there are also those that fall on the “Well, that isn’t really their right during that time, because now they’re on their employer’s dime, and that’s his time, not theirs” and are not being overt alleged patriots nor full supporters of what they were trying to say by kneeling. Me, I’m not so sure about all that…this is BEFORE the game starts, they’re only paid in 16 installments of game checks, so…who knows. The NFLPA and player’s union probably have some pretty strong provisions for preventing them from being “fired” outright by their owners.
And of course, the popularity, position and importance of the player in question is likely in inverse proportion to their likelihood of being released or fired so…who knows.
But please don’t ever accuse me of that again. It’s untrue and insulting.
I’m becoming more and more convinced that the Colts should start looking into a quarterback. I like Andrew Luck. I just didn’t know that his middle name was “Bad.”
While Luck has not completely lived up to the hype, the Colts share in quite a bit of the culpability for their situation. Luck looks the part, tries really hard, too hard maybe, and he seems to know what he’s doing, but he’s all alone out there. The OL was shit when he was drafted and the team has done shit-all to improve it since. The defense was terrible and they’ve bafflingly failed to address that as well. All they’ve done is try to fix everything by bringing in offensive skill players, like that was the missing piece; it wasn’t, and somehow everyone knows it except for Colts management.
No argument on that, though you summed it up a lot more eloquently than I could.
Rough schedule for the Bears. Opening Sunday night at Green Bay, an early bye, and finishing at San Francisco and Minnesota.
My mostly uninformed random gut feeling is that if the Browns have a surprise pick at #1, it’s going to be Mayfield.
Some of the criticism of Mayfield I’m hearing is really rather bizarre. Some is standard (not ideal size), but from more than one place I’ve read that Mayfield is not an attractive prospect because he was too good in college. You see, he may have hit his ceiling, and you can’t draft a guy #1 overall who already hit his ceiling. Now, if he was a worse player than he actually is, and he had the potential to being able to grow into being as good as he is now - then you could draft him. But you can’t draft him how he is now! He’s too good!
That’s all true, yet somehow he managed to lead the Colts to the AFC championship game. They were slaughtered by the Patriots, but hey! They were there, man!
Anyway your point is taken. Even the skill position thing is lacking…T.Y. Hilton is the only decent receiver they have now, and they have no good running backs. Their offensive cupboard is completely bare. After everything they’ve been through with Luck’s injury last season, drafting a QB with their 1st pick would make for some drama for sure.
If they’re keeping Luck, they need to draft very wisely. They need OL and DL, RB and WR as premium picks for starters.
I honestly don’t think Andrew Luck is playing another down in the NFL. I doubt he has blown through all the money and with the injury, plus no immediate promise of a good team going forward, I’d just sit on IR.
I could be completely wrong and I’ll eat those words with salt and pepper should he start the first game of the season.
He also had a rather huge advantage of playing in a historically weak division the first four or so seasons of his NFL career. The Jaguars and Titans are very much unfucked now, but that was a total cupcake division for a very long time, going back to the Peyton Manning years. Luck and the Colts were almost guaranteed 6 wins a year simply for not being 100% inept.
That’s also true. The Jags are now a powerhouse (imagine if they had Luck at QB!), the Titans are making strides and even the Texans have been a consistent playoff team at times. The Colts have regressed and it would be unsurprising if they ended next season at the bottom of the division again, although if Luck plays, he’s probably good for a couple more wins than 3.
Incidents in this context are inherently bad. You compared it to a violent or drug related crime. You’re viewing it through the same lens as these owners.
You’re saying “this guy is doing a bad thing, but maybe not on the same scale as some other bad things”.
I expect this from the old racists that own these teams, but by coopting their terminology you’re validating it. This is how the event has been covered by the media which totally undermined it. The conversation is about “the disruption” or “the troops”, it’s “these guys are bad guys” while they totally ignore the actual message.
These are displays of character and leadership. Not incidents.
My concern with him is size. And that he just seems like a collosal asshole. I know NFLers are a different breed, but I just can imagine the locker room rallying around the guy.
The ceiling thing actually makes sense too. A good but not trancendant college QB isn’t going to be successful in the NFL. He needs to get better, he needs to get stronger, smarter and more precise. We’ve seen lots of great college QBs who just didn’t have another gear. I can see that with Mayfield, tough to know without being in the room with him, but it’s not an illogical rationale.
You misunderstood me then. I am talking about some teams having more of a problem with a player kneeling for the anthem than him being a wife beater, DUI machine, etc. It’s ridiculous that Kapernick still doesn’t have a job in the NFL as a backup at least.
It is quite simple: The only reason a backup QB should be giving a press conference is if he’s just pulled some kids out of a burning building.