NFL 2018 Offseason Thread

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So, this is the offseason thread. There is much I could say about this offseason, and I've written this post a few times and then deleted it, because I'm trying to hold to the spirit of the forum and all my thoughts belong in P&C (I don't care what you call it now, Certis, it's still P&C). So it's the offseason and all.

This season's so off, we're posting predictions for the NBA Finals.

Hm. Not even sure I will watch football this season. I'm definitely retired from fantasy.

Article about Oakland are now my favorite thing. What other old school stuff is Gruden bringing back with him? This article is about ... fullbacks.

The NFL is really trying their hardest to make me not watch my beloved Eagles. They have really removed the excitement I would have this season hoping they could repeat as SB champs. I keep hoping sanity will return and they will walk back this Athem insanity and stand up to Trump and his supporters.

Yeah, I just can't find the energy to give a f*ck.

I guess it makes sense that in the darkest timeline (that we are all living in) the one sport that I care about is now tainted.

Adjusted interception numbers are up at FO. Kizer still sucked mightily, but Trevor Siemian and Kirk Cousins weren't far behind. In fact, I'd say Siemian's number are even more awful than I realized. My guess is he'll never start anywhere ever again. Poor guy went from a bad OL in Denver (8.6% sack rate last year, ouch, up from 6% the year before) to a not so great OL in Minny.

On the other side of the equation, Tyrod Taylor never through interceptions along with other mainstays like Tom Brady and Alex Smith. Matt Ryan was particularly unlucky in he had 5 INTs that bounced off his WRs hands.

The last para is especially enlightening:

For all his success last season, Garoppolo threw five interceptions in 188 passes, a higher rate than most quarterbacks. And he had three dropped interceptions for a total of eight adjusted interceptions, a rate of 4.3 percent that would have ranked right behind Siemian, Palmer, and Gabbert among the highest in that category.

Uh oh. Let's chalk this up to a small sample size. We can save the Gabbert comparisons for later.

Hey Jimmy was playing in an offense where he just sorta memorized gameplanned plays right before each game, mistakes were made at times. Let the man actually learn the playbook before bustin' balls over ill-advised throws!

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*Legion* wrote:

Hey Jimmy was playing in an offense where he just sorta memorized gameplanned plays right before each game, mistakes were made at times. Let the man actually learn the playbook before bustin' balls over ill-advised throws!

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ESPN: Debating win total projections for all 32 NFL teams

NFL Nation reporters predict the over/under on win totals for all 32 NFL teams, as projected by ESPN's Football Power Index, a predictive system that weighs offensive, defensive and special-teams efficiency.

Turns out asking all the beat reporters how their teams would do resulted in all but three teams being predicted to be better than the projections.

The only exception were the Dolphins (6.3 wins), Cardinals (6.1), and Browns (5.7). Very fierce debate there guys!

Jayhawker wrote:

Turns out asking all the beat reporters how their teams would do resulted in all but three teams being predicted to be better than the projections.

Well that's also because the projections have only two teams with double-digit win projections, when 10-11 teams reaching that win total is the overwhelmingly most common outcome of a season (the range is generally 9-13).

I still remember fiddling around with the satellite dish for the first time in the fall of 1999 when I got NFL Sunday Ticket; it was the Greatest Show on Turf year, so it was a good time to get in on it. Just canceled DirecTV. Maybe I'll figure out a way to watch the NFL this fall, but, right now, I think I might have a lot of free time on Sundays in the future.

I'm really glad I'm not the only one here ready to walk away for a year or two over the anthem thing.

I was watching HBO's new series Succession last night and was astounded by the physical resemblance between UK actor Matthew McFayden and Peyton Manning.

Yup, both have similar five heads.

Phishposer wrote:

I'm really glad I'm not the only one here ready to walk away for a year or two over the anthem thing.

Raises hand. Right there with you.

Browns did something potentially useful, signing Mychal Kendricks to a 1-year deal worth up to 3.5 million dollars.

Kendricks was the 9th highest graded linebacker by PFF last year. The Eagles' release of him was weird, though the cap relief they got was sorely needed.

Honestly, the only reason I'm probably not walking away from the NFL this year is that I've been waiting most of my NFL watching life to be this excited about a new QB. The last time I had these unreasonable expectations for a drafted QB was when the football Cardinals drafted Neil Lomax, which didn't work out so well.

But Mahomes has been groomed perfectly, and has a hell of an offense to run. And the kid seems to do every single little thing right.

http://www.espn.com/blog/kansas-city...

Steinberg is a longtime agent who has represented many of the NFL's top quarterbacks. He said that keeping a low profile as a rookie was part of the plan for Mahomes.

"I talked through with him the process of maturation and process of integration that many of our quarterbacks have went through, whether it was Troy Aikman or Steve Young or Warren Moon," Steinberg said. "We talked about how the first year the goal was to integrate into the team, and the only way to do that is to pay deference to the incumbent veterans and try not to go into the situation with a high profile.

"We intentionally didn't do endorsements that would run in the Kansas City area even though they were offered. We didn't want him to be on billboards and everything when he wasn't even playing."

Mahomes tried last season to blend in with the surroundings. He walked precisely the delicate balance between being the first signal-caller picked in the first round by the Chiefs in 34 years and being the supportive No. 2 quarterback. Much has been made of how Smith was the perfect mentor for Mahomes, but it's just as true that having Mahomes capably deflect attention away from himself benefited Smith in his final season in Kansas City.

Now the starter, Mahomes is still liberal with the compliments for his teammates and his new hometown. But he's no longer deferential. The trade of Smith to Washington was hardly completed when Mahomes began bugging his teammates for throwing sessions, long before offseason practice started.

I posted earlier how the created groups to work with so that he could have separate sessions with players and get everybody enough work, all at local high school fields in KC.

So while there is a ton of crap that the NFL represents that I really hate right now, this upcoming Chiefs season is kind of also exactly what I love most about sports. The team is mostly without drama.

Marcus Peters leaving was mostly a good thing for this reason. And it wasn't his protests, even though the press, including locally, seem hung the up on it. For one, Justin Houston also protested and there has been zero mention of him. Second, Peters has a long history of temper issues, which the Chiefs accepted when they drafted him. The more established he became, the less they were able to control him. I'd say throwing the flag into the stands after a penalty, and then leaving the field before the game, and then, forced to return, players the rest father game sans socks. He's a head case, and not what they needed in the locker room when rebuilding the secondary.

So I'm all in for this season, but it's not without some awareness that I'm hypocritical. Big picture, I'm not rooting for the NFL. Locally, I still can't wait to watch this team play.

I'm still watching football, I'll just feel less guilty about the means in which I stream Jaguars games (and sometimes Niners games, as Santa Barbara County for some reason got non-regional games a few times instead of the Niners).

Also, again, I hope every player stays in the tunnel during anthem time. I hope the players push back, and I hope the union grows some balls and backs them up.

I with you. I’d love to see every sideline empty for the season.

Rat Boy wrote:

RIP Dwight Clark.

Aw man

Rat Boy wrote:

RIP Dwight Clark.

In case anyone missed this from a month ago: The Last Huddle

And Trump cancelled the eagles super bowl visit. Ugh.

Stele wrote:

And Trump cancelled the eagles super bowl visit. Ugh.

Philly's rebuttal:

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Stele wrote:

And Trump cancelled the eagles super bowl visit. Ugh.

The Eagles should have cancelled that visit like the Warriors did.

Phishposer wrote:

I'm really glad I'm not the only one here ready to walk away for a year or two over the anthem thing.

You're not. I came here to say, "f*ck the NFL for giving into this piece of sh*t". Sundays are free. I wish the NCAA would pay players. I could just give in totally to college football.

*Legion* wrote:
Stele wrote:

And Trump cancelled the eagles super bowl visit. Ugh.

The Eagles should have cancelled that visit like the Warriors did.

This strikes me as a "you can't quit, I'm firing you" situation.

Lurie was going to bring a small delegation, but that would have looked too much like the inauguration crowd I guess.

Hrdina wrote:
*Legion* wrote:
Stele wrote:

And Trump cancelled the eagles super bowl visit. Ugh.

The Eagles should have cancelled that visit like the Warriors did.

This strikes me as a "you can't quit, I'm firing you" situation.

Lurie was going to bring a small delegation, but that would have looked too much like the inauguration crowd I guess.

It looks like that's what it was

A large group of Eagles players had decided not to attend, including most -- if not all -- of the black players, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

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