NFL 2012 Draft Thread

Any sign of Rat Boy yet?

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Any sign of Rat Boy yet?

Nope.

Did anybody post the Bucs signed Dallas Clark?

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/79...

Basically.. the Union is trying to get PAID..

As obnoxious as some of the owners are.. as well as Goodell.. part of me wants the Union to win every penny.

TheGameguru wrote:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/79...

Basically.. the Union is trying to get PAID..

As obnoxious as some of the owners are.. as well as Goodell.. part of me wants the Union to win every penny.

Given that the league is screwing Dallas and Washington pretty hard, I'm also rooting for the Union to win.

AnimeJ wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/79...

Basically.. the Union is trying to get PAID..

As obnoxious as some of the owners are.. as well as Goodell.. part of me wants the Union to win every penny.

Given that the league is screwing Dallas and Washington pretty hard, I'm also rooting for the Union to win.

Oh...in that aspect I'm all for it...F Jones and the Dwarf

I'm pro-anything that's anti-Dallas. Bend over, union!

...but yeah, it was total bs.

boogle wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

Any sign of Rat Boy yet?

Nope.

It's time to kick it up a notch.

ESPN just did a random poll as to NFL team popularity, and, Jacksonville Jaguars, your fans are legion!

Wait, I mean *Legion*. As in, pretty much only him.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

ESPN just did a random poll as to NFL team popularity, and, Jacksonville Jaguars, your fans are legion!

Wait, I mean *Legion*. As in, pretty much only him.

F**kig Cowboys. Well, at least we beat the Titans.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

ESPN just did a random poll as to NFL team popularity, and, Jacksonville Jaguars, your fans are legion!

Wait, I mean *Legion*. As in, pretty much only him.

Wow. There doesn't seem to be a very strong correlation between winning records and popularity.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

ESPN just did a random poll as to NFL team popularity, and, Jacksonville Jaguars, your fans are legion!

Wait, I mean *Legion*. As in, pretty much only him.

No surprise there. My favorite teams usually rank near the bottom of lists like these. (Although funny how many LA Kings fans are popping up...)

*Legion* wrote:

(Although funny how many LA Kings fans are popping up...)

I think I had a Kings Gretzky jersey around 93-4. Of course that's when NHL hockey on Sega Genesis was so awesome that my friends and I actually started watching some hockey.

Jim Schwartz is angry and disappointed with off-field problems.

I'm sorry, but when you draft players that other teams knock down because of character & substance problems, and those exact players are the ones in trouble, you don't get to be mad at anyone but yourself.

Since I was just posting about this phrase in another thread...

"Hear, hear!"

EDIT: I'm revealing my ignorance, but I didn't even know that guy was from the Lions. What a joke. They are the thuggiest team in the league! One of their biggest stars stomped on a guy on Thanksgiving last year! What a bunch of BS spin to say that a few guys are tainting the reputation of the whole team. At some point, you crossed a bridge where you decided that this is just part of who you are. And if you crossed it with your eyes closed, that makes you an even bigger idiot.

/rant

Nick Fairley
In college: Exhibited lack of self control, poor work ethic, took dumb penalties, poor academics led to only playing two years of FBS ball
In NFL: two marijuana arrests, one DUI arrest (just days after one of the marijuana arrests)

Titus Young
In college: suspended for entire 2008 season, team vague on why
In NFL: held out of minicamp after sucker punching teammate

Mikel Leshoure
In college: Marijuana arrest, missed time in 2008 after broken jaw from fight with teammate, suspended one game by team in 2009
In NFL: Marijuana arrest #2!

Those are the top 3 picks of the 2011 Lions draft. One 1st rounder and two 2nd rounders. These aren't undrafted free agents that were cut loose right after.

It's impossible for the Lions to say they didn't see any of this coming. 31 other NFL teams did. Not going to say that these guys would have gone undrafted, but they were slid down boards because of their issues. And obviously, Detroit wasn't sliding them down enough (if at all), having targeted all 3 in the same draft.

To be fair about the whole "tainting the team" comment, you do have to give props to Calvin Johnson for being, well, magic and not a total diva. Also, Matthew Stafford didn't turn into Ryan Leaf either. Well, yet.

But, yeah ....

garion333 wrote:

To be fair about the whole "tainting the team" comment, you do have to give props to Calvin Johnson for being, well, magic and not a total diva. Also, Matthew Stafford didn't turn into Ryan Leaf either. Well, yet.

But, yeah ....

That's just it. They were building a quality team. Then they spend their top 2010 pick on Ndamukong Suh, a beast of a player but one prone to being dirty. Then they invested almost their entire 2011 draft value into the All-Thug Team.

Sucker-punching a teammate is pretty amazing to me.

The offense is going to need to put up 45 points a week to win. I agree with everything said here. I wasn't crazy about any of the picks the Lions made last year and it's now showing through.

Uh. Oh.

...a lawyer representing Jacksonville then sent the team a letter declaring the franchise to be in default, and “putting in motion a termination of our lease.”
Grumpicus wrote:

Uh. Oh.

...a lawyer representing Jacksonville then sent the team a letter declaring the franchise to be in default, and “putting in motion a termination of our lease.”

What the hell is going on there? Why would the city do this? Confused as hell.

garion333 wrote:

Also, Matthew Stafford didn't turn into Ryan Leaf either. Well, yet.

But, yeah ....

My cousin won the DirectTV displaced fan competition and spend an entire day with Matthew Stafford. He is apparently a cool, down to earth guy.

Hopefully this sort of attitude keeps him from being a disruptive time-bomb like Leaf.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
Grumpicus wrote:

Uh. Oh.

...a lawyer representing Jacksonville then sent the team a letter declaring the franchise to be in default, and “putting in motion a termination of our lease.”

What the hell is going on there? Why would the city do this? Confused as hell.

Clearly, the City of Jacksonville heard how much Facebook stock Khan bought and are trying to dump him before he goes under.

Grumpicus wrote:

Uh. Oh.

...a lawyer representing Jacksonville then sent the team a letter declaring the franchise to be in default, and “putting in motion a termination of our lease.”

article[/url]]Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan was "shocked and perplexed" that the City of Jacksonville sent a letter late last week claiming the team had defaulted on its stadium lease, Timothy Gibbons of the Florida Times-Union reported Wednesday.

Khan rebutted the allegation in a strongly worded letter of his own to Mayor Alvin Brown's office, according to the newspaper.

The city on Wednesday withdrew the default claims, chalking it up to a "misunderstanding."

That's one hell of a whopper of a "misunderstanding".

article[/url]]The city on Wednesday withdrew the default claims, chalking it up to a "misunderstanding."

Too bad. Sure would like to go see the Jaguars in LA when I'm in California.

*Legion* wrote:

article[/url]]The city on Wednesday withdrew the default claims, chalking it up to a "misunderstanding."

Too bad. Sure would like to go see the Jaguars in LA when I'm in California. :D

I was hoping for St. Louis, and letting the Rams head to LA. The Jags were always supposed to be in St. Louis anyway.

Jayhawker wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

article[/url]]The city on Wednesday withdrew the default claims, chalking it up to a "misunderstanding."

Too bad. Sure would like to go see the Jaguars in LA when I'm in California. :D

I was hoping for St. Louis, and letting the Rams head to LA. The Jags were always supposed to be in St. Louis anyway.

I hear Texas could use more football. Austin is such a nice city too.

garion333 wrote:

I hear Texas could use more football. Austin is such a nice city too.

Never happen. San Antonio, on the other hand...