NFL 2023: The draft / post-draft / preseason thread

Top_Shelf wrote:

Not one word on ESPN (that I could find) about his attitudes (and actions!) toward women. Stick to sports because we got to sell these color TVs...

The ESPN article Rat Boy posted above has this buried in the last paragraph

He was arrested a half-dozen times, mostly on charges of hitting women. He was once fined and spent a day in jail after beating up a golfing partner. He was charged with rape, sexual battery and assault in 1985 (the charges were later dropped). The next year he was arrested for allegedly beating his fiancée. In 1999, Brown was acquitted of domestic threats against his wife but convicted of smashing the window of her car and spent time in jail when he refused to attend domestic violence counseling.
Top_Shelf wrote:

for the men talking to men thread though

That's pretty much what happens in this thread.

Flex scheduling is coming to Thursday Night Football. With a big "but" in there:

Amazon Prime, which streams the Thursday games, gets only two flexes during the Weeks of 13-17. The flexes must be done with 28 days advance notice, and teams cannot play two away TNF games in a season.

Brady is buying a minority stake of the Raiders, pending approval from the league.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Can Moody mortar kick?

It's a good thing Moody wasn't drafted for mortar kickoffs, because the NFL just murdered them.

Fair catches on kickoffs will bring the ball out to the 25-yard-line. Kicking high and short to try and pin teams inside the 20 is dead. At least for 2023, as the rule is getting a one-year trial.

Fair catches on kickoffs will bring the ball out to the 25-yard-line. Kicking high and short to try and pin teams inside the 20 is dead. At least for 2023, as the rule is getting a one-year trial.

I'm guessing we're going to see 95 boring out-of-the-endzone or fair catch plays for every 5 where the returner sees everything develop perfectly and decides to run it out. Why don't they just give the team the ball on the 25 at this point? It's pretty clear that's where they want to go.

*Legion* wrote:

Fair catches on kickoffs will bring the ball out to the 25-yard-line. Kicking high and short to try and pin teams inside the 20 is dead. At least for 2023, as the rule is getting a one-year trial.

I honestly thought that was already the rule but, I guess, that must have just been college football.

Yeah college doing a lot of stuff smarter than NFL lately

*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Can Moody mortar kick?

It's a good thing Moody wasn't drafted for mortar kickoffs, because the NFL just murdered them.

Fair catches on kickoffs will bring the ball out to the 25-yard-line. Kicking high and short to try and pin teams inside the 20 is dead. At least for 2023, as the rule is getting a one-year trial.

Dammit I guess Aguayo's career is officially dead had such hopes for a comeback

iaintgotnopants wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

Fair catches on kickoffs will bring the ball out to the 25-yard-line. Kicking high and short to try and pin teams inside the 20 is dead. At least for 2023, as the rule is getting a one-year trial.

I honestly thought that was already the rule but, I guess, that must have just been college football.

Yeah, this is a direct pull from college.

I don't think the impact will be all that severe. College has had this rule since 2018 and it didn't eradicate kick returns. The average NFL kick return is beyond the 25 yard line, so teams are still going to try and run back the kickoffs that they were already inclined to return. It will definitely take SOME kickoff returns off the board (college saw a drop from 3.11 to 2.60 returns per game in the first couple of years), but teams are still gonna chase the yardage if they think there's some to be had.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Dammit I guess Aguayo's career is officially dead had such hopes for a comeback

But what will this mean for the Robert Aguayo Kicking Academy?

*Legion* wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

Dammit I guess Aguayo's career is officially dead had such hopes for a comeback

But what will this mean for the Robert Aguayo Kicking Academy?

$200 for private sessions on how to miss FGs? Where do I sign up?

The USPTO has denied Washington's trademark application for the name "Commanders".

Not a death knell for the name, unfortunately, though new ownership could use it as an excuse to move on and pick something better.

The Once and Future Washington Football Team!

I still think it should be the Snyders of Landover.

Washington Football Team was a fabulous name, and legitimately one of the only positive things to come out of that garbage fire of an organization for a really, really long time.

Ah patent squatter. How American and dumb.

RB Adrian Peterson, 38, says he's not officially retired

You might not be AP, but the NFL definitely thinks you are.

Probably every team in the NFL has a UDFA running back that they think can deliver at least as much as Peterson could at this stage in his career. And the UDFA has a chance to provide some upside. And probably the most important part, the UDFA's gonna play on special teams.

*Legion* wrote:

Probably every team in the NFL has a UDFA running back that they think can deliver at least as much as Peterson could at this stage in his career. And the UDFA has a chance to provide some upside. And probably the most important part, the UDFA's gonna play on special teams.

And is way, way, the hell cheaper.

Stele wrote:

Ah patent squatter. How American and dumb.

Well it doesn't mean the team can't use the name. Just that they won't be able to force others to stop using it to make money.

Trademark, not patent. And they'll probably be able to work it out.

Jimmy G had foot surgery in March shortly after signing with the Raiders. Bets on Tom Brady activating himself as the Raiders' Week One QB are going to spike dramatically.

Jaguars sign kicker Brandon McManus, who the Broncos just cut, and trade kicker Riley Patterson to the Lions for an undisclosed pick.

Does trading a draft pick for a kicker count the same as using a draft pick on a kicker? No reason.

Guess who's crawling back out of his hole?

Jon Gruden was at Saints OTAs this week, working with the coaches to "help with the transition" of incorporating Derek Carr and some of what he liked in the Raiders' scheme into the Saints offense.

Deandre Hopkins released by the Cardinals.

Well, that's not what they were hoping for.