It might just be a 'hiatus'.Originally Posted by Giggles
"I am taking a hiatus from the NFL and will not play during the 2016 NFL season," Raji said. "This decision was made after hours of conversation with close family members and mentors and considerable self-introspection and is one in which I am absolutely certain. I cannot rule out a return to the NFL in the future, but I will definitely not be playing during the 2016 season."
Given the physical and mental state of some players when they retire it's hard to blame the guys who are now having a good long think about their futures.
Also, what's the alternative to self-introspection?
What are the odds for 3 teams from the AFC North making the play-offs next year? Because I like that signing.http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...al-with-ravens
We've signed Eric Weddle
I was hoping we'd pick him up after the Chargers decided they no longer wanted him.
Four years, $26m with $13m guaranteed.
In Kaepernick news, the Broncos are willing to go as high as a 4th round pick for him, but they don't actually have a pick in the 4th round this year. The Browns meanwhile value him at a 3rd round pick. All of this needs to come to a conclusion before the 1st of April. As soon as that day hits the 49ers owe him a guaranteed $12m.
They owe him that if he doesn't pass a medical, but yeah.
I was reading about franchise revenues earlier. What do teams like the Dallas Cowboys do with all their money if they can't use it on wages? Does it just pay for that lol stadium and line pockets?
Why does NFL.com seem to have a narrative that every team is doing fucking incredible work in Free Agency? I watched their grading teams the other day and despite probably only watching 12-16 of the teams the lowest score I saw was a B-. Now they've posted "Winners and Losers" from free agency and so many teams are named as "winners", in additional to more vague terms such as "Teams that concluded deals early" and "teams that remained quiet" while the losers are the Broncos and then a load of shit like "Old players" and "Moneyball references".
I cursed us with this
Two year deal worth $11.5m.
On paper it's a good signing because Flacco can really help Wallace as all he has is speed and Joe is one of the best at going deep but he's such a toxic wanker who gives up far too easily.
Chandler Jones traded to the Cards.
For Jonathan Cooper who has been pretty woeful and a second round pick.
Cardinals have gotten themselves a stud but they might lose him next year as his contract is up at the end of the season.
Oh and CJ Anderson is staying in Denver after they decided to match the Dolphins offer.
Was thinking they might after they freed up space.
With or without Hillman?
Jared Cook would be nice. Bet Thompson re-signs Quarless instead.
Anyone know much about J'Marcus Webb? His signing is bad news for Justin Britt.
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/03/15/j...eveland-browns
Good article. Oddly unsympathetic given the people talking him up don't seem, largely, to be doing so in a way that's unreasonable.
He's just Ryan Leaf, really.
We've released Will Hill.
I was hoping he wasn't the odd man out in the safety merry-go-round.
Weddle at FS and Webb converting from a CB at SS for us next season.
Being reported that Hill failed another drug test (he was cut by the Giants for failing three tests) so is facing 10 games out.
Was wondering why the hell they cut him instead of Lewis who was worse in coverage.
It amazes me just how stupid a lot of people in sports are. Just don't take drugs for a few years and then snort everything under the sun up your nose ffs.
Especially in the NFL where a career can be short enough to begin with.
I've just seen that there is a 410 pound TE hoping to be drafted this year...
I like how his teammate refuses to try and lift him.
Someone needs to draft him.
Mon Elway, get him and Lorenzen in.
DO IT.
Good luck trying to tackle him on the move!I've just seen that there is a 410 pound TE hoping to be drafted this year...
I like how his teammate refuses to try and lift him.
Someone needs to draft him.
In maybe an odd move, the Patriots have taken Martellus Bennett from Chicago. Maybe they'll just add a TE to cover their relative lack of receiver talent past Edelman.
On Hill being cut, aren't the Ravens notorious for cutting anyone who gets in the shit?
Well more so since Ray Rice and the year we had 5 players arrested.
It wasn't reported initially though (just cap saving) which is why I was surprised as he's been better than Kendrick Lewis.
Not really odd, the Patriots are a notorious two TE system. Gives them the best punch since Aaron Hernandez was lining up with Gronk. Catch a few TD passes and don't murder three people and he'll be deemed a success.
They've also signed Chris Long for a year on a $2m deal which is a very clever move. He's injury prone as fuck but a damn good player for a great price.
Speaking of Hernandez it seems he has decided to pick the Bloods as his gang of choice:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...der-trial.html
I was about to ask if there's any chance he'll ever get out, but I only knew about the guy he'd been convicted for. Has he been found guilty of the other 2?
He's serving life without parole for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
Trial is still going for the double homicide.
The Broncos have signed Okung to a big 5 year deal at something like $55m.
Fair play to him too seeing as he has no agent.
Think it's a little much considering his injury record but he's damn good when he's on the field. For some reason I thought he was at least 32 but he's only 28.
Seemingly it's a one year deal worth $5m (rising to $8m with incentives) and then they have an options after 1 year to extend it for a further 4 years for an additional $48m.
The league competition committee meets next week and will be discussing possible changes to the game for the next season. There's only a couple items on the agenda but one I think is needed:
- The 'horse collar rule' which is essentially just dragging people around by the collar is expected to be extended to the area around the nameplate on the jersey.
- All chop blocks to be made illegal(more like tweak the wording of the rule already)
- Touchbacks after a kick, to be moved forward 5 yards to the 25.
- The Chiefs have requested a rule to stop QBs falling down, getting back up and throwing a forward pass
- Players to be automatically ejected from the game for incurring their 2nd personal foul penalty.
Tray Walker, one of our backup CB's who played quite a bit last year due to injuries has been critically injured in a motorbike crash. He was damn good on special teams so it's a bit of a shitter.
MMQB say catching rules are coming up again too after the committee met with current and former players in January. I don't think there's a need to relax the rules (the offense has enough advantages), just make them clearer and try to find ways to improve consistency from the officials.
Colts have retired number 18 and will be building a statue of Peyton Manning.
They need to make it mid slide during this:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...did-at-combine
Is hand size the worst bullshit thing in judging players? I think it's a contender.Jared Goff's hand size was highly scrutinized last month at the NFL Scouting Combine when the Cal quarterback's mitt measured just nine inches, a full inch smaller than that of North Dakota State's Carson Wentz, and especially after Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson explained why the measurement matters to him.
As of Friday, however, it's less of an issue by one-eighth of an inch.
Goff's hand measured 9 1/8 inches at Cal's pro day on Friday, just a bit bigger than it did roughly three weeks ago at the combine. Did he simply do a better job of spreading his fingers for the measurement, which extends from thumb tip to the tip of the pinky finger?
Mine are 9.75 inches so if any NFL team wants to pay me a mountain of cash to throw balls around and make Peyton look like a speed demon just let me know.
It's just a complete farce isn't it. The guy managing to stretch his hand out 3/8 inch more is odd though.
Interesting to know what odells hands are though, they are massive.
10 inches.
Apparently Goff's 9 inchers could lose him millions of dollars because how you play doesn't mean shit. It seems that the Browns aren't so keen now.
Speaking of hands, Deforest Buckner's are 11.75 inches. The record is held by Robert Wadlow at 12 inches but he was 8 foot 11.
You're CB has passed away mahow
Damn, he was only 23 as well.
Was only drafted last year and played well when he was called on.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/b...508-story.html
Tommy Lee Walker's ashes were spread off of the waters of Miami last Sunday by his family.
It was one day after the Ravens drafted his son, Texas Southern cornerback Tray Walker, in the fourth round.
It would have been his father's 54th birthday. Tommy Lee Walker died in November from a heart attack.
"This upcoming season, the whole process of right now, I dedicate that to him," Tray Walker said Friday during the first day of a rookie minicamp at the Ravens' training complex. "That's all he wanted. He just wanted the best for me and prayed to God that I would get this chance, and now I'm here."
Fucking hell
Went to work this afternoon after just hearing news of his crash. Apparently he was on his bike, with no lights and wearing all dark clothes. Never stood a chance.
Counting down to Bruce saying Eli is more of a Colts legend than Peyton in 3...2...1...
You rang?
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...on-hard-knocks
LA Rams to be the focus of Hard Knocks this year, I think it's a great choice.
Also, the NFL wants to host a game in Germany in 2017 and one in China in 2018.
The Rams look set to be the home team for the China game.
I honestly can't see the NFL being big in Asia.
Bloody bold move with the Rams. They've git enough shit on their plate without the cameras following them.
I bloody love hard knocks though, so I'll give it a go.
Given NFL Europe was basically NFL Germany by the end it's criminal that they've not had a game sooner.
China, though? Huh.
They're on about one in Mexico too aren't they? International series indeed.
I always found it strange they pushed London so much ahead of anything in Germany, but it worked out pretty well.
I still don't ever wish to go to a game outside the US though.
It's happening this year. Raiders against the Texans in November.
First Monday night game outside of the US.
They held one in Mexico years ago too though.
Plus the Bills were having a game in Toronto every year for quite a while but that didn't go so well. The attendances were as follows:
52,134 in 2008
51,567 in 2009
50,746 in 2010
51,579 in 2011
40,770 in 2012
38,969 in 2013.
Clearly the Canadians weren't too keen on Bills football and the Bills fans hated it seeing as they lost every year bar 2011.
The international games are amazing. I can't wait for 3 more this year.
I also noted that THE BEST OFFENSIVE LINE IN FOOTBALL is going to be wasted once again with Alfred Morris failing to take advantage of it.
I think it will be interesting to see how Morris fares.
He was amazing for his first two years because Washington had a decent offensive line and the read option was working so damn well.
They paid a good price too. Two years, $3.5m which is nothing.
http://www.nfl.com/photoessays/0ap3000000646331
Easily the best mock draft ever.
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