What an absolute hero.
Also, Boldin has gone to the Bills.
That's been coming for a good couple of weeks now. He'll be a great #1 reciever when Sammy gets injured in the preseason.
Vince
I've been watching some college football highlights for some of this year's rookies lately, and it amazes me how I can be shocked at how bad the defending is every single time I watch CFB, both highlights & when I've watched full games. It's no wonder every offensive player looks like a stud & every game had 85 points.
Watching anyone try to tackle Samajae Perine was particularly hilarious, and as soon as anyone gets into the secondary they've basically scored as only about 3% of them could tackle a dummy by the look of it.
Jets have lost Quincy Enunwa for the season which gives them a better hope of getting the number 1 pick.
Well that sucks. Guess they'll be adopting the same 'run every play' style Doug Marrone wants the Jags to use then.
In other news, Brock Osweiler is starting the Browns' first preseason game, while Trevor Siemian gets the nod for Denver. Oh, and Jarvis Landry is being investigated for domestic battery, although the mother of his kid released a statement saying he'd not done anything so maybe he'll avoid a suspension.
Denver have released the depth chart with Siemian and Lynch as "co-starters"....... but Siemian is.... first.... co-start based on seniority?
Presumably, per my previous post, that means they've both looked deeply uninspiring and Joseph isn't even prepared to give one a proper nod yet. Split starts in pre-season maybe, unless one properly shits the bed.
I just saw that
Must've been rejected for the Jay Cutler analyst job.
I'm told it's because he owed the Jags money if he retired, but who knows.
Edit- Literally just saw it's in the article.... guess my source wasn't giving me any insider knowledge.
I'm after signing up for gamepass too. How long before the 40 minute games normally appear?Originally Posted by Dan
We have actual preseason football tonight
I watched the full, 3hr broadcast replay of the hall of fame game I was so starved (think I swapped to condensed midway through, to be fair), so it's a glorious prospect to have regular football back.
We've got a history of keeping an undrafted rookie each year but we've got 3 who could make the team this year:
Quincy Adebayejo, who was carried off the field the other week but analysts at our practices have said he's the WR that's looked the best
Patrick Ricard, a DT/DE (to add to our production line of them) and could see us trading others with experience as he has apparently looked handy as fuck
Tim White, a WR who has been doing stuff like this all summer:
Quincy looks like a lock, with Ricard not far behind. White has been a little disappointing on special teams which hurts his potential.
From memory of last year I think they're normally up by the next evening.
Not too bad. I'd say there's only 2 or 3 a week I'd want to see anyway, and that seems punctual enough.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...ract-extension
Freeman now the most expensive paid RB (bar Le'Veon and his tag) which is pretty mental.
He's a good running back who can make explosive runs but he's not arguably not even in the top 10.
Helps Bell as it moves the RB contract value higher which increases his potential.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/4...1-15f6b7f4b897
lol Australia.
Edit: To make it relevant have some Big Quince:
But what do the NFL have to say about it?
lol at me
Just watched the first episode of Hard Knocks. Decent enough start, with the traditional rookie talent show being the obvious highlight, along with Jameis doing a brief turn as David Attenborough.
Yeah I liked it a lot.
Seems that Jameis is either a pretty good actor or he's grown up a lot since his mental college days as he seems a nice chap now.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...hs-after-trade
And people questioned Ozzie when he let Zuttah go for so little.
We'll probably make a play and get him back for cheaper than he was on too.
https://www.baltimorebeatdown.com/20...source=twitter
Jimmy Smith has restructured his contract to free up $5.15m in cap space.
He was super into the rookie talent show too.
Nice to have preseason football back for real so we can start getting properly ready for another Patriots SuperBowl win. A few solid performers in the opener too...
As long as he's got the playbook down DeShaun Watson looks like the better option at QB for the Texans - much more dynamic than Savage, who just looked like a boring backup. D'Onta Foreman was impressive too, and might take a decent number of carries away from Lamar Miller this season, while on the other side Run CMC looked every bit as elusive as he's been talked up to be despite only really playing a basic role.
Kelvin Benjamin looked better in two catches than he did at any point last season, and the Texans DEF looks like it might've taken a downgrade in the secondary, but I suppose they're in the same boat as McCaffrey in that they're hiding most of the good stuff away until the regular season.
Woodrum went 4/4 for 85 yards and 1 TD.
Mallet went 9/18 for 58 yards.
Make the change.
Oh and Tucker is still automatic.
59 yards and still had plenty left.
Eziekel Elliott. 6 game suspension.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...x-games-by-nfl
Woof.
Down to 4 on appeal?
Police don't charge him because she can't get her story straight (or that's what I'm assuming from how they've worded it) but the NFL still see fit to ban him for half a season.
Do they just hate having good players actually on the field?
Sammy Watkins traded to Rams. Jordan Matthews to the Bills in a separate trade too.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...quire-matthews
I can understand the Watkins trade as they weren't happy with him but getting rid of Darby too?
Shareece Wright (who was crap for the Ravens last year), Charles James (who is a nice guy but not a brilliant player) and a rookie as their starters? They're going to be torn apart in the passing game.
Edit: Oh and Gaines.
Edit: By understand I mean they weren't likely to give him a contract in the summer or before but they didn't get much for him.
What a shit day for fantasy. Mostly for the Bills though - seems pretty horrible from them at first glance.
Not as horrible as losing to the Browns though
I think the trade should help Goff and Watkins but realistically Goff is trash and would look so even with prime Jerry Rice, plus Watkins is injury prone as hell.
I think it helps Jordan Matthews the most really as he should now be a number 1 with the team in terms of targets but he needs to finally do something.
Catching and holding onto the ball would be a start.
Wasn't he already number one?
Oh yeah, I forgot that the Eagles brought him into be their number 1.
He didn't last long in that role and had to be moved to the slot.
If you've been usurped by Alshon Jeffery, Torrey Smith and are looking at fighting Nelson fucking Agholor for a spot in the slot, you're better off just leaving to be fair.
I still laugh that he's related to Jerry Rice.
The way I see it, the only winners here are the Eagles.
Watkins is worse off since he now as Jared Goff throwing to him, while the Rams are worse off since they just gave up a CB & draft picks for a guy who will probably be injured half the season. The Bills have given up their only good WR & both of their good CBs in one offseason, and only have a couple of bargain bin replacements to make up for them. They do at least have a pile of extra draft picks in the first two days next year though, and Zay Jones might not be crippled as soon as someone blows on his foot.
The Eagles, meanwhile swap a guy who was hardly going to play for a much more talented guy who will start at a position of need, and only lose a third round pick for it. I guess Jordan Matthews wins too, but he'll probably be crap & the Bills will just join the Jets & Jags in the '100% Run' Club. Are we even sure he'll beat out the corpse of Anquan Boldin?
I'm with you.
I've heard a lot of people saying that the Rams have hit a home run with Watkins but it says a lot that the Bills didn't even pick up his fifth year option.
He's brittle as fuck and Goof is horrible.
And we've now lost Tim White (the undrafted gem I've been talking about) for the season as well as our starting LG Alex Lewis \0/.
Talks with Zuttah to bring him back after the Lewis injury.
White apparently injured his thumb in the warm ups for the pre-season game but still played and caught a TD.
Just spotted that Aguayo missed an extra point and a 47 yarder.
Second round pick, lol.
Two early contenders to be cut on Hard Knocks there.
They just cut Aguayo.
Our fantasy draft is going to be fucking mental at this rate
When you can find ABSOLUTE DONS like Justin Tucker after the draft why would you ever spend more than a 6th round pick on one.
From perfect college kicking career, to pretty much unsignable in just over a year. He's done well.
I can't wait for that episode of Hard Knocks
Just watching Saints/Browns. Good to see Osweiler still can't pass & Ginn still can't catch.
Slightly comforting to see we were playing our third string QB before the end of the first quarter, while the Browns had their starters out midway through the second quarter & still looked shit against our backup defence. Browns third team DEF could barely go a snap without being offside, so they're probably all getting cut.
Kizer looked no better than any of the other jobbers he's up against. Browns are still going to be in the market for a QB next year it seems. You can tell how starved Cleveland are of any success as they were going crazy at Kizer chucking a couple of bombs against the third string defence of once of the worse defences in the whole league.
I've just realised that the whole experiment was actually even worse.
They traded up from 11th in the third round to ensure they got him giving up a fourth to make sure they got him.Kansas City traded this selection to Tampa Bay in exchange for Tampa Bay's third- and fourth-round selections (74th and 106th)
So they basically wasted a second, third & fourth on Aguayo?!
Patriots look pretty safe for the future with Jimmy G. Even their backups look like they can play - Austin Carr & Jacob Hollister both looked good for undrafted rookies, and Brandon Bolden continues to look like the best fifth string RB in the league. Cyrus Jones had a nightmare, mind.
Corey Grant looks to be coming along well enough for TJ Yeldon to have to start worrying about his job, and Fournette did a nice job of smashing through the middle when he got the ball.
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Ryan Mallett cannot start for the Ravens. He's utter trash. As is Samaje Perine right now, sadly - looks like the camp reports of him being unable to block or hold the ball are accurate. I really can't decide whether Washington has an O-Line that can't run block or five different RBs who can't run the ball - there was pretty much no difference between Kelley, Perine, Thompson, Jones or Brown, although that may be in part down to getting dominated by the Ravens DEF.
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