NFL 2020: Draft

Soooooooo, the Bears have declined Trubisky's 5th year option. Doesn't mean he won't be around for the Bears but means he won't be around for the 5th year price tag.

How does Ryan Pace have a job?

Is the Number 12 available in Chicago?

garion333 wrote:

Soooooooo, the Bears have declined Trubisky's 5th year option. Doesn't mean he won't be around for the Bears but means he won't be around for the 5th year price tag.

How does Ryan Pace have a job?

They traded a 4th to get Foles, it's all good.

Don Shula passed away today

90. Pretty great life.

Thanks to the cancellation of overseas games in 2020, the Jaguars will actually play 8 home games.

Insert playing-to-empty-seats-even-without-COVID joke here.

Wow. Looks like Earl Thomas was held at gunpoint.

Paleocon wrote:

Wow. Looks like Earl Thomas was held at gunpoint.

By his wife. At an orgy.

Rat Boy wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

Wow. Looks like Earl Thomas was held at gunpoint.

By his wife. At an orgy.

With his brother.

Earl Thomas, member of the Legion of Boom-Boom.

In less, uh, scandalous news, the NFL schedule is to release soon.

Reportedly, the first 4 weeks of the season will be entirely AFC vs NFC, allowing for the possibility of canceling those first 4 weeks without creating scheduling imbalances for playoff contention.

For those unaware how NFL scheduling works, in addition to a division playing against each of its members twice (6 games total), each division is scheduled against each of the teams in another division within their conference (4 games) and against a division in the opposite conference (4 games) on an annual rotating basis, with the remainder of a team's schedule being picked by the league at-large (2 games).

So for 2020, they'll just be scheduling that cross-conferece divisional schedule entirely up front for all 32 teams.

EDIT: However, there have now been supposed leaks of early weeks that suggest the NFL is not, in fact, front-loading the schedule with all of the non-conference games, despite John Clayton reporting that it would based on what he heard from "multiple league sources".

For me, I’ve had a hard time caring about real life sports. The uncertainty is too much for me. And really, I’m still on a Last American Sports Champion high (last NHL Champions, to!). So I didn’t even follow the Chiefs draft, let alone the NFL, other than the basics.

All my sports is pretty much just virtual now. So it was pretty cool seeing Mahomes intro Madden 21. Honestly, more than an NFL fan, I’m just a Mahomes fan. I might have tuned out of the NFL had it not been for him. He is the face of the NFL for me, for sure.

I think Lamar Jackson gets the cover this year. What an absolute sh*t time to lose football. For all it’s issues, I think offense in the NFL is more fun to watch right now than in a long time. And that makes great defenses like SF that can match-up even more fun to watch.

So, now I’m bummed and will go back to video games...

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Earl Thomas, member of the Legion of Boom-Boom.

It is a crime against humanity that we don't have Deadspin right now.

Pass Interference replay is dead.

Like we all didn't know that based on how they turned every damn thing down.

garion333 wrote:

Pass Interference replay is dead.

Like we all didn't know that based on how they turned every damn thing down.

Intentionally did it badly, then pointed at it and said, "see, it doesn't work!"

I know I've seen something like this outside of sports contexts before...

Jim Harbaugh wrote an open letter to the NFL and NCAA, and by "wrote a letter", I'm pretty sure it's more likely he scream-dictated it for someone else to write down.

His ideas:

* Allow players to enter the NFL at any point in college, rather than the NFL's "3 years after high school class's graduation" rule

* Allow undrafted players the option to return to college football

* Allow players to consult with agents and lawyers before signing a pro contract

* Allow players to return to school to resume their degree following their pro career, and providing them a scholarship with which to do so

* Allow players a full 5 years of eligibility, rather than 4 + 1 redshirt

* Eliminating the hard cap of 25 scholarships for incoming freshmen

* Agreement with a proposal under consideration allowing for college players to transfer one time without having to sit out

I don't have much opinion on the college-only parts.

I absolutely think underclassmen who aren't drafted (and who choose not to sign a UDFA contract) should be permitted to return to college football.

I'm unsure about players entering the league at earlier ages. I think in the majority of cases, it would turn out to be a mistake on the player's part.

If players can come out at any time, I think the league would need to beef up their draft advisory board. In recent years, their grade tiers have been reduced to just "1st round", "2nd round", or "neither", that last one including a recommendation to stay in school. I think they need to be able to provide more information than that. Previously, they were giving some 3rd round grades to players that ended up undrafted, which is why the lower tiers of grades have been eliminated completely. They need to do better than that.

How will this help him get his program out of the gutter?

#ohio4lyfe

garion333 wrote:

How will this help him get his program out of the gutter?

#ohio4lyfe

I mean, seems pretty obvious. Get all the Justin Fieldses and Dwayne Haskinses to enter the NFL early so that everyone is left with Shea Pattersons.

So the NFL released a normal schedule? Wild.

The Giants host two Monday night games.

Nobody wants to watch the Giants.

Nobody.

If I remember correctly I believe Sunday Night > Monday Night.

Yup, MNF is usually one of the least watched games, comparatively.

DSGamer wrote:

So the NFL released a normal schedule? Wild.

Yeah, I don't know why this is a surprise. Even if the stadium is empty the season was always going to happen. Always.

The fact they didn't build any buffer in means they're going to kill the preseason but not a moment of the real money making regular season. Typical NFL.

Jags sign Mike Glennon.

The Jags have Mike Glennon and the Bucs have Gabbert. The Bears used to have Glennon too and now they have Foles. It's like a flushed toilet and th QBs are swirling around the same toilet teams.

*Legion* wrote:

Jags sign Mike Glennon.

The Jags have Mike Glennon and the Bucs have Gabbert. The Bears used to have Glennon too and now they have Foles. It's like a flushed toilet and th QBs are swirling around the same toilet teams.

Mike Glennon? This guy!?

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Meanwhile, this guy (on the right, durr) is unsigned:

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Meanwhile, part 2: There's a UFC fight on Saturday night. In Florida, natch. We're living in the dumbest timeline.

For the Jags, it's either Minshew proves he's the guy, or they tank for Trevor. Cam doesn't help either of those paths.

For everyone else, nobody trusts Cam's health. I don't exactly blame them, though he does seem to be rapidly approaching the price where it's worth the risk.

The Jags and Bucs announce that they will hold joint practices during training camp, assuming such a thing happens.

Glennon and Gabbert:

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I saw this on Twitter a bit ago regarding Foles/Glennon, and, well, we appear to be sharing some headspace:

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This is not the kind of three-way I wanted.

Boy it's going to be fun passing Trubisky back and forth across the least popular parts of Florida in a couple years.

Nah, Gabbert and Bortles will still be the main guy. Failed Jags picks stick around for some reason. Probably because everyone thinks the team killed them, not that they truly failed.