I started an NFL Draft Thread. Feel free to pop in an give us your team needs or wish lists or whatever.
My wish list is that Sonny Jurgensen and John Riggins would come out of retirement.
I don’t think even the Redskins are so desperate to start an 84 year old QB and 69 year old RB. Although if it somehow made them money, Daniel Snyder might do it.
Since releasing Cody Parkey, the Bears have worked out 8 kickers who* combined* for a total of 2 of 8 at their magic 43-yard mark. Now they have traded a conditional pick to the Raiders for a kicker who has never kicked in the NFL and was on IR for all of 2018. I give them a week until they try to sign a kicking mule.
They’re gonna need a huge jersey with “FRANCIS” written on it.
Looking at their roster (and given the kicker woes you’ve outlined), maybe they shouldn’t go with a kicker whose last name sounds like “blew it.”
Three weeks after the draft and following an offseason in which he made a bunch of signings, the Jets have fired their GM and appointed Adam Gase as the interim GM. Apparently because he and Gase were at odds. How much sense does this not make? You let him run your draft and spend a bunch of your money and then you can him immediately afterward? Huh?
If your GM has been doing prep work for the draft all year, it makes sense to let him do what he’s been working on all that time before making the switch.
Shhhh.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” - The Art of War
Patrick Peterson suspended the first 6 games of the season for PEDs. Just wonderful.
Jamie Collins is back in New England. A tremendous talent from the neck down.
The Jets had a pretty decent draft this year. I guess they were worried people might stop thinking they were totally dysfunctional.
You hear often about teams staying true to their identity. Kudos to the Jets for sticking with it.
I wasn’t a fan of the Patriots and T.B. at the beginning of this run of theirs. Not. At. All. But I’m a convert, now. I have no idea how much longer Tom Brady intends to play professional football but I’m honestly pulling for him to win at least one more S.B. before he retires (for good).
It makes about as much sense as just about anything else the Jets have done over the last, oh, 48 seasons, or so, does. Unfortunately for them.
A lot of interesting contract talks going to become issues for a lot of teams soon. Is Dak Prescott worth $30 million a year? (The answer is no). Can the Eagles count on Wentz enough to break the bank for him? (Shouldnt, but will). How long until Goff becomes the highest paid player in the NFL? Which teams will overpay average NFL Qb’s like Mariota or Winston?
I’m really interested to see if there are teams willing to let "not shitty, but not great) QB’s go without breaking the bank for them. Washington wouldn’t pay up to keep Cousins last year, and the Eagles let Foles go (Oh, Jacksonville. When will you learn?), maybe this year the Cowboys/Bucs/Titans wont join the “that’s just what you have to pay a starting QB” groupthink that can set your team back. And maybe, just maybe, more guys do a Brady and settle for less money to be more competitive with salary caps.
Eh, Cousins wasn’t staying in Washington after the franchise tag fuckery, even if he got Rodgers’ new contract. There was no way for the Eagles to keep Foles AND Wentz, even if they wanted to.
Jared Goff is locked up until 2021, so I’d guess he’ll have a new contract by this time next year, assuming he shows progress in reading the defense and proves he’s not a system quarterback. I can see him topping $30m a year, but not Prescott, Winston, or Mariota.
When more quarterbacks marry women that are single-digit fractions of billionaires and pull down tens of millions per year in endorsements like Tom Brady, more guys will take less money. This isn’t a chase for a legacy for most of these guys, this is setting up themselves and their families for good.
ETA: Given my massive underestimation of Wilson’s new contract, all my predictions should be taken with a massive lump of salt.
Reuben Foster already injured on the first day of OTAs.
Aaron Rodgers is very possibly THE best passer of a football that I have ever seen. If things were “right” in the world NOBODY would get paid more to throw a football than Aaron Rodgers does. N-O-B-O-D-Y. (P.S. - though I have no “beef” with the Green Bay Packers, I wouldn’t call myself a “Cheesehead,” either)
Oftentimes, “for worse,” unfortunately.
An acquaintance of mine (he’s no Patriots fan!) feels like he’s “at leisure” to do that because his wife makes so much money. In fact, word is that she make more than he does!
I agree with you 100%. I think that’s a HUGE reason why Tom Brady has 9 Super Bowl appearances in 18 seasons and nobody else is within shouting distance of him on that count.
Being reported that Reuben Foster will miss the entire 2019 season with a torn ACL. The Skins are cursed.