Bears made an interesting announcement about their jerseys for their 100th year in the NFL:
Check your calendar. 
Yep
Although if you think about it, NFL would totally be all in favor of this. Another chance to sell a whole new batch of jerseys? Yes please!
The Bears even updated the numbers on their roster page for this:
I’m sure the Cardinals are unimpressed, since they date back to 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club.
The Packers also started in 1919, so they’d be eligible for a centennial celebration as well if this were not a joke.
Cardinals missed out – they could have worn maroon and called themselves the Racine Normals for their 1998 season.
This article about the failings of Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay is quite a read: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2828649-what-happened-in-green-bay
Very in-depth and with a lot of sources.
I briefly glanced at that today without really reading it. From first blush it sounds like there are some serious sour grapes between McCarthy and the GM of the team based on the how, why and when McCarthy was fired.
everyone thinks gronks gonna go to the wwe…….
Wow, there’s a lot of smoke still about Rosen being traded to the Redskins, most recently by Peter King. I admire King, he doesn’t post crap just for clicks being a big name.
SB Nation says the Redskins, Giants, Dolphins, and Chargers are all interested:
Craziness going down in Seattle.
A few weeks ago, word was that a new extension for Wilson was eminent. Then rumors started spreading that Wilson wanted to go somewhere else. Now, word is that if a deal doesn’t get done today, this is Wilson’s last year with the Seahawks.
I think without Wilson, the Seahawks would struggle to make the playoffs. He is really good, good enough to make up for some problems they’ve had over the years (bad OL, RB troubles after Marshawn left, unproductive TEs, and so on). If he leaves, then I think there will be a whole new appreciation of just how great he is and how much the team needed him.
Which I’m sure he’s well aware of, and why he is comfortable pushing this hard.
It’s a tough call. He is clearly a top 10 QB, but I wouldn’t consider him top 5. His PFF grades the last 4 years were all between 6th and 10th, but his passer rating is pretty damn amazing (career 100.3, second all time). He can win games for your team, and he rarely loses them for you either. He is, to my mind, in that second or third tier of NFL QB’s, after Rodgers, Brady, and Brees (and maybe Mahommes?) and around the Rivers/Ryan/Luck area. He’s not easily replaceable, and much of his lack of huge passing numbers is the offense Seattle runs and not his fault.
But does that kind of guy deserve to be the highest paid player in the NFL (which is where he’ll want to be paid, and likely will get in the end)? Is he worth $28 million a year guaranteed or maybe even $30 million? Should he start the trend of paying a QB based on the percentage of the salary cap rather than a specific amount and suck up even more money? If you’re not going to use him as teams with elite QB’s use theirs, should you really pay him like those teams pay their guys?
That’s a much tougher call, I think. I’d likely pay him and skimp elsewhere on the roster, but I would also expect him, if I’m paying him that kind of money, to be not just highly efficient, but dominate too. Which would require a change in the way Seattle runs their offense. Personally, I’d love to see him away from Seattle, and see if he can become an elite QB on a team that will use him properly.
No it’s an easy call. The highest paid NFL player at any given time is the franchise QB (the QB a team wants for the foreseeable future) who’s contract is up for renewal. Look at the list of the top 3 highest-paid players from last year, in order from 1-3.
- Aaron Rodgers
- Matt Ryan
- Jimmy Garoppolo
If you’re not paying him top money then you’re saying he’s not a keeper. That’s how it works in the NFL, for better or worse.
The only exception is Tom Brady, he intentionally lowballs his contracts because he wants to have a better team around him so that he continues to win. I personally think he’s smart, because being the star QB of a team that wins every year should pay more in endorsements than sucking up all the cap money on a team that can’t afford to give you a decent OL or defense, but nobody else seems to take on that philosophy.
I’d put Wilson above Mahomes easily. I’m attracted to consistent performers, not just those who have done it for only a season or two. RG3 and Kaepernick both looked like franchise quarterbacks, and Kaep got the contract to prove it. Of the big read option quarterbacks, only Wilson managed to transition away from it and still be successful. Should he get Rodgers money? Nah. That’s reserved for quarterbacks who come back from broken collarbones or play with broken legs to crush the hopes and dreams of Bears fans. I don’t see Seattle topping $30m a year, let alone the $34m+ required to make Wilson the highest paid.
Brady can get away with not demanding so much money, because he’s the hobby earner in the household. Giselle is worth a little south of half a billion dollars. The winning is helped by Belichek. Had anyone told me in the run-up to the Super Bowl that the Patriots would only need 10 points to beat the Rams, I’d have laughed. That’s not intended to be a dig at Brady, but ol’ Billy is a master at turning other teams’ castoffs into very good players. Brady’s lower cap (not incredibly lower, given his $27m hit this year) is only one part of the equation. And as shown by the championship “drought” of 2005-2015, winning the Super Bowl is hard, even for New England.
Well, to start Russell is now the highest paid. $35 mill a year, topping Rodgers. And it’s good for the Hawks because while that’s huge money now, in a few years when the cap skyrockets with gambling revenue it’s going to seem like a bargain.
Russell suffered a high ankle sprain and a left knee sprain on the other leg, and never missed a game, playing with both injuries. And then a pectoral injury as well. All at the same time. Yet he still led the team that year to a division championship, and eventually to the divisional round of the playoffs. So yeah, he’s that kind of player.
He doesn’t crush the spirit of the Bears, no, but Cody Parkey took care of that last year…
The NFL truly loves their hype. The schedule comes out tomorrow night and I could really care less. I guess it’s useful for people making travel plans for a game, and hope it’s not flexed, but I’m not sure I need mobile notifications and emails about it.
Reason number 17 I’m not John Schneider. Number 1 being: “My name isn’t John Schneider.”
Fun fact: John Schneider attended my high school (though he was several years behind me, and he and I weren’t there at the same time). I was, and still am, friends with his older sister. 
That’s honestly pretty cool.