NFL 2017 Post-Draft Offseason

The Ravens lose another offensive starter to injury.

Does the offense practice on an old Indian burial ground?

iaintgotnopants wrote:

The Bears claimed Aguayo. Did they feel like they weren't being made fun of enough?

So... Chicago *might* be a decent place for him. Assuming his leg doesn't freeze over and shatter the moment October arrives, it's not the offense is going to give him many chances for make-able FGs anyway, so the fact that he's missing 60 yard attempts won't hurt that much.

And it's not like they're going to score touchdowns, so any issues with extra points is pretty nil, too.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

The Bears claimed Aguayo. Did they feel like they weren't being made fun of enough?

He and Mike Glennon can hangout and talk about how Gaines Adams is still the most talented ex-Buc on the Bears.

I had to do a double take as I didn't even realize Robbie Gould left the bears last year.

The bears just keep on delivering me joy.... and it's still August.

*Legion* wrote:

Just posting this for the headline, no other comment needed:

Brock Osweiler can explain why he kept overthrowing receivers in preseason opener

Osweiler starting the game was pretty significant, given that he is not the incumbent starter, and the incumbent starter is still there and not injured (Kessler played with the 2s). But Brock might already be blowing it.

From the article:

Osweiler was relieved by Cody Kessler, who went 5 of 10 for 47 yards and Kessler eventually gave way to Kizer.

I read Kizer as Kozar (Kosar) and did a triple take. I mean, I know they are bad, but...

-BEP

I look forward to the Browns firing their GM, coaching staff, and using our high draft pick to draft the QB of the future... just like every year.

jowner wrote:

I had to do a double take as I didn't even realize Robbie Gould left the bears last year.

The bears just keep on delivering me joy.... and it's still August.

Yeah... he was asking for a lot of money, which on one hand he deserved for the years of performance with the team, but the other, he was starting to fall off, so the actual value wasn't entirely there.

But this being the Bears, they decided not to renew the contract and didn't have a replacement in mind.

cube wrote:
jowner wrote:

I had to do a double take as I didn't even realize Robbie Gould left the bears last year.

The bears just keep on delivering me joy.... and it's still August.

Yeah... he was asking for a lot of money, which on one hand he deserved for the years of performance with the team, but the other, he was starting to fall off, so the actual value wasn't entirely there.

But this being the Bears, they decided not to renew the contract and didn't have a replacement in mind.

Move on and embrace your new kicker already. There was no Robbie Gould, there is only Aguayo.

Also:

I am looking forward to Zane Gonzalez getting hurt in Week 3 (after looking like the best kicker since peak Vinatieri) and the Browns panic-signing Robert Aquayo

So don't care. Aguayo is gone, and all is right in the world for at least a little while.

Do the Bears want Chris Conte back? I'd be willing to lend them a hand.

Maybe Aguayo is the Trump of football-related clickbait. He's replacing Tim Tebow as the clickbait du juor. In that way, the Bears are simply trying to stay relevant with Millennials and post-Millennials. It's all about the views.

I don't think anyone cares about Aguayo as much as we do, though.

They should.

...

They should.

*Legion* wrote:

I don't think anyone cares about Aguayo as much as we do, though.

And it's all Milkman's fault.

*Legion* wrote:

I don't think anyone cares about Aguayo as much as we do, though.

The Bucs sure did when they paid a second rounder for him.

It's like I can feel the sadness in every post as everyone frantically tries to get in their last Aguayo shots.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

It's like I can feel the sadness in every post as everyone frantically tries to get in their last Aguayo shots.

Only about 71% of them are funny, the rest are missing wide.

Last? It's just starting for me, buddy.

cube wrote:

Last? It's just starting for me, buddy.

I mean, it can't last very long, can it? There's no way Connor Barth doesn't stomp the kid in the open competition he was denied a year ago?

Granted, Barth didn't exactly have his best year last year either (78.3%), but 2 of his 5 misses were in his first two home games at Soldier, and he was 85% the rest of the season, so, he adjusted OK.

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MilkmanDanimal wrote:

It's like I can feel the sadness in every post as everyone frantically tries to get in their last Aguayo shots.

Y'know, we here at GWJ will keep taking our shots at Aguayo and all the rest of the Bucs kickers.

Betcha we hit way more than 71 percent!

Taken together, the Jets’ top five remaining wideouts — Robby Anderson, Jalin Marshall, Charone Peake, Chris Harper and Frankie Hammond — average 1.4 years of NFL experience, 18.6 career receptions and 223.8 receiving yards.

Cripes

garion333 wrote:
Taken together, the Jets’ top five remaining wideouts — Robby Anderson, Jalin Marshall, Charone Peake, Chris Harper and Frankie Hammond — average 1.4 years of NFL experience, 18.6 career receptions and 223.8 receiving yards.

Cripes

Probably starting two rookie safeties so they're likely to give up lots of points on the deep passing game, and I have no idea how the Jets score any points with that offense. Not saying they go 0-16, but I'd have to imagine they're underdogs in every game this year.

*Legion* wrote:
cube wrote:

Last? It's just starting for me, buddy.

I mean, it can't last very long, can it? There's no way Connor Barth doesn't stomp the kid in the open competition he was denied a year ago?

Granted, Barth didn't exactly have his best year last year either (78.3%), but 2 of his 5 misses were in his first two home games at Soldier, and he was 85% the rest of the season, so, he adjusted OK.

On one hand, it's the Bears, who the hell knows what they're going to do.

On the other hand, it's the kicker position, which was responsible for approximately 100% of the offensive points before Cutler, so there's the possibility of standards there for the team.

On the third hand, like I said before, I don't think they're going to be getting into field goal range that often anyway.

You guys are slacking on Bortles trash talk. Why am I doing all the work?

ARob: "F**kin' keep that sh*t in bounds, bro"

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Let me know when he does something noteworthy. More missed throws, more missed passes, same old, same old.

garion333 wrote:

Let me know when he does something noteworthy. More missed throws, more missed passes, same old, same old.

Yeah, the problem is Bortles has set the bar so high for entertainment value that just being incompetent is no longer enough. Maybe he needs to start throwing pick-sixes by pinballing the ball off multiple helmets at once; he's really got to step up his Unintentional Comedy game if he wants to stay in the spotlight.

The gift that keeps on giving:

Younger fans of the NFL might not realize the extent to which kicking has improved through the years. Field goals that seem relatively easy today were a long shot in the 1970s.

To illustrate that, I tweeted yesterday comparing the success rate on field goals last season to the success rate in 1974, the first year that the NFL moved the goal posts back from the goal line to the end line. It’s a stunning difference.

In 2016, NFL kickers went a combined 85-for-150 (57 percent) on field goals from 50 yards and beyond. In 1974, NFL kickers went a combined 4-for-30 (13 percent) from 50 yards and beyond.

After tweeting that, I heard from a couple readers who joked that all Roberto Aguayo would have to do to be a good kicker is build a time machine and go back to 1974. But there’s one problem with that: Even by 1974 standards, Aguayo wouldn’t have been a good kicker. Aguayo, the 2016 second-round draft bust cut by the Buccaneers over the weekend, didn’t make any 50-yard field goals during his disastrous year with the Bucs. And even on field goals of 40 to 49 yards, he was worse than the average kicker of 1974: Aguayo went 4-for-10 (40 percent) from 40 to 49 yards, while NFL kickers as a whole went 75-for-169 (44 percent) from 40 to 49 yards.

If you go back half a century, to the 1966 NFL season, you can finally find a time when Aguayo might have been a decent kicker: That year, NFL kickers as a whole went 35-for-102 (34 percent) from 40 to 49 yards, and 1-for-17 (6 percent) on field goals from 50 yards and beyond.

When the Buccaneers traded up in the second round of the draft to select Aguayo, they thought they were getting a future star. They were actually getting a kicker who wouldn’t even have been a star in the distant past.