Now comes the boring part. The draft is over. OTAs and minicamps offer a small drip of football (mostly just injuries), and then we go into the "Dead Zone" (as Vic Ketchman coined) of zero activity between OTAs and the start of training camp.
DeflateGate discussion (if there's any left) still goes in the DeflateGate thread.
"Dead Zone"
Another one of those quirky basic cable serialized dramas that was ahead of the curve. Also, Nicole "Ezri Dax" de Boer.
EJ Manuel at risk of being cut this offseason.
EJ Manuel is both possibly the best QB the Bills have and worthy of being cut, which says it all.
In some weird way I'm hoping Brady's suspension is cut to 2 games so he can play against the Cowboys.. gah I feel dirty.
Justin Smith retires and Ryan Tannehill gets an extension.
Justin Smith retires and Ryan Tannehill gets an extension.
Real football news!
Extra points to the 15 yard line. Two points still from the 2 and the defense can return.
Extra points to the 15 yard line. Two points still from the 2 and the defense can return.
Oh, good, they chose the most ridiculous one of the options. I don't need extra points to be exciting. Either do everything at the 2, or everything at the 1. No more fakes? That sucks.
I didn't watch many (any?) Eagles games, but at Oregon Chip Kelly (and now Mark Helfrich) would frequently line up in a non-kicking formation on PAT's, read the D, and then make a decision whether or not to run a 2-point play or just switch the formation back to a kick. If that was even legal in NFL, its certainly not going to make any sense now.
Also, while this is the fringiest of the fringe cases... can the QB dropkick on a PAT from the 2-yard line and how many points would that be worth?
Rat Boy wrote:Extra points to the 15 yard line. Two points still from the 2 and the defense can return.
Oh, good, they chose the most ridiculous one of the options. I don't need extra points to be exciting. Either do everything at the 2, or everything at the 1. No more fakes? That sucks.
I'd rather they just do everything from the 15. Maybe make going for it instead of kicking the point worth 3 instead of 2. If it's equal to a field goal there's more reason to gamble.
Note: Completely random thought. The above may be bad for the game overall.
It was just the most amusing thing to pop in there.
Extra points to the 15 yard line. Two points still from the 2 and the defense can return.
I have absolutely no reason to be against it other than the fact that It Has Always Been From The 2.
Between that and Letterman retiring, I feel damned old all of a sudden.
It'll be interesting to see how this factors into fantasy scoring for kickers, if at all.
Basically this just rewinds the kick conversion rate to the early 1980s, and was anyone watching football in the 80s thinking of PATs as an exciting, meaningful football play?
It was the Golden Age of Football.
garion333 wrote:It was the Golden Age of Football.
You're goddamn right about that.
Apparently it was the golden age for Montana's nuts too.
DV charge dismissed for Ray Rice.
A nice writeup on why Lavonte David is so incredibly good.
Barry Allen!
Bortles
Cause that's all Legion cares about anymore.
Bortles
Cause that's all Legion cares about anymore.
/burn
Tony Romo?
Nope. Romo was actually 4th on his team, behind Murray, Joseph Randle, and Lance Dunbar.
One more hint: this player is on the wrong side of 30, but not as far as Romo is.
Bonus hint: this team's 2014 RB depth chart was so top heavy, that the #2 RB (who ranked 3rd on the team in carries) was the only other RB to even record a carry on the season. Following him on the team carries list were two wide receivers and the backup QB.
Alex Smith? Wild guess. Charles stayed healthy last year, right?
Nope. Romo was actually 4th on his team, behind Murray, Joseph Randle, and Lance Dunbar.
One more hint: this player is on the wrong side of 30, but not as far as Romo is.
Bonus hint: this team's 2014 RB depth chart was so top heavy, that the #2 RB (who ranked 3rd on the team in carries) was the only other RB to even record a carry on the season. Following him on the team carries list were two wide receivers and the backup QB.
Ben Rothelisburger?
Millard Filmore!
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