The NFL Thread

[Dire Wolf]

Apparently not the biggest name that's going to come out of it.

Yeah, I read that. Kraft is very buddy buddy with Donald Trump: fingers crossed, eh...

 

[Tony Towner]

AB to the Raiders is one that makes commercial and financial sense but not football sense. He makes a ton of money, they get a franchise face for the move to LV, but he's not going to win anything there and they are paying top dollar for a 30 year old WR when they aren't one player away from a Superbowl team even with 3 first round picks. You've still got to get the ball to him and that relies on Derek Carr

 

[Johnny75]

He's a great player but the Steelers must be chortling to themselves over that. They are shortly to be in rebuild mode with Big Ben close to the end and this gives them some more draft picks to speed that process up.

 

[Alan]

They're not particularly good draft picks though. 3rd and 5th rounders are a total crapshoot, really.

I get that AB had all the leverage and they needed him gone, but man, I'd have thought they could get more for him than what they did.

 

[Tony Towner]

John DeFilippo to the Jags as OC. Can see Foles following him there

This has now happened

 

[Dire Wolf]

Imagine passing on Khalil Mack in his prime at $23.5M/yr to pay a 31-year old Antonio Brown $19M/yr.

And with a QB who is patchy to say the least...

 

[The Bear]

Foles to the Jags then. Backup or is Bortles off?

 

[Johnny75]

Foles to the Jags then. Backup or is Bortles off?

Have you joiined the cast of 'Allo 'Allo this morning Bear?

Edit: Too fast

 

[The Bear]

Bloody phone auto-corrective text.

 

[Tony Towner]

Foles to the Jags then. Backup or is Bortles off?

They are paying him $22m a year, he's there to start. Bortles has been released.

 

[Alan]

It won't make a bit of difference if the Jags don't improve their offensive line play. That unit was awful last year, and Bortles can genuinely feel aggrieved as a lot of his issues are traceable to shit protection.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Odell Beckham traded to the Browns. Wow, they could have some team.

 

[The Bear]

Blimey.

L. Bell gone to the Jets too.

 

[Johnny75]

OBJ I can understand but the Jets are garbage.

 

[Tony Towner]

The Giants off season strategy is bizarre. Cutting or trading their best players whilst sticking with a QB who was finished 3 years ago. Barklay must be fuming.

The Jets had loads of cap room and are now all spent up. Bell has worn a lot of tread on the tyres for someone his age. No guarantees there

 

[Lord Knows]

Will Kyler Murray go first in the draft?

 

[Deano]

Yeah when it was first mooted I thought the Cardinals were maybe leaking stuff about taking him to try and increase the value of the pick but there's too much smoke imo and they will take him. The Dolphins could do with grabbing Rosen if it happens as Fitzpatrick is never going to be the answer and he doesn't look like he is in very good shape either.

 

[Tony Towner]

Rosen will end up being traded to the 'skins I'd have thought. Can't see Smith coming back and at the moment they are starting with Keenum or McCoy.

 

[Johnny75]

I don't think Rosen is any better than Keenum or McCoy. Very average.

I've not seen anything of Murray to know if he's any good or not, has anybody seen him play?

 

[Deano]

I'd say it's hard to say with Rosen as he spent his rookie season on a terrible Cardinals team.

Plenty of QB's have taken some time as well - Goff looked a lot worse than Rosen in his first season with the Rams.