It's that time of year once again when football journalists watch grown-ass men lug suitcases into college dorms. It's a silly ritual, but it means that the NFL season is (check notes) about to start!
Some key dates between now and then:
Aug 3: Hall of Fame game (Jets vs Browns)
Aug 8: "Hard Knocks" starts (5 eps; last one is Sept 5)
Aug 10-13: Preseason week 1
Aug 17-21: Preseason week 2
Aug 24-27: Preseason week 3
Aug 29: BLACK TUESDAY (rosters must be cut to 53)
Sept 7-11: Week 1 of the regular season (Chiefs-Lions on Thurs, Cowboys-Giants on Sun nite and Bills-Jets on MNF)
This couldn't wait 2 weeks to start a preseason games thread?
You're almost as bad as ESPN with too many NFL updates. 
This couldn't wait 2 weeks to start a preseason games thread?
I asked myself that exact same question this morning. My crack research staff found that I had started the 2022 training camps thread ...
... exactly one year ago today. 
While we're on the subject, I take it you are voting NO for having a new thread for each preseason game week?
I'm also a NO. That's two NOs.
While we're on the subject, I take it you are voting NO for having a new thread for each preseason game week?
I'm also a NO. That's two NOs.
I am a emphatic YES - mo' threads == mo' fun
Kidding. Pre-season is useless these days.
I vote for whatever gets us to a new thread without a Chiefs banner the fastest.
Netflix's Quarterback has already made me tired of Mahomes.
I think we should have a new thread for each preseason game, starting with the Browns and JETS!
48 THREADS!!!
I vote for whatever gets us to a new thread without a Chiefs banner the fastest.
Netflix's Quarterback has already made me tired of Mahomes.
Your wish, my command, etc.
So I went with someone who's more mature and polished than Mahomes and definitely talked about less. You won't get tired of this guy!
PS: If you think Rodgers looks old in that picture, well, take a gander at this photo.
For better or worse, I think Rodgers is the face of the NFL this season, so good choice!
For better or worse, I think Rodgers is the face of the NFL this season, so good choice!
Truth. Either it goes well and it's a late career renaissance story, or it goes poorly and it's a crazy Qaaron story.
But at least it will be something different, not just him moping around in small media market Green Bay another year.
Brock Purdy cleared for practice, “without restriction”.
We’ve gone from expecting Lance to start the season, to Purdy maybe having an outside shot at week 1, to now Purdy not even missing the start of training camp.
Timing of the thread seems appropriate since Why Your Team Sucks also started today.
Ugh, I agreed with Legion about being tired of the Chiefs banners until you replaced it with the J*ts.
Looks like the Ravens' injury luck continues.
Where's my Kyle Trask banner.
Where's my Kyle Trask banner.
The banner space isn’t big enough.
and just like I said two months ago, Lamar's contract is in the rear view mirror.
MilkmanDanimal wrote:Where's my Kyle Trask banner.
The banner space isn’t big enough.
I would be offended if I actually knew what Kyle Trask looked like. That's probably not a good thing in year three.
Behold! It's Kyle Trask!
No, wait, my bad. THAT is Carson Wentz. THIS is Kyle Trask:
It's like the Mac Jones/Bailey Zappe thing from last year but with beards.
Certis?
*Legion* wrote:MilkmanDanimal wrote:Where's my Kyle Trask banner.
The banner space isn’t big enough.
I would be offended if I actually knew what Kyle Trask looked like. That's probably not a good thing in year three.
Trask's weight was an ongoing issue at Florida.
MilkmanDanimal wrote:*Legion* wrote:MilkmanDanimal wrote:Where's my Kyle Trask banner.
The banner space isn’t big enough.
I would be offended if I actually knew what Kyle Trask looked like. That's probably not a good thing in year three.
Trask's weight was an ongoing issue at Florida.
In the post-Brady era, it's time to go back to a lot of classic Buccaneers things; creamsicles, losing, fat QBs.
Glad to see the Panthers are now coached by grownups: Panthers officially name Bryce Young starting QB
A year ago, remember, the dipshi!t who was coaching the team at the time held a weeks-long QB competition between two guys who won't (or probably won't, or probably shouldn't) start in the NFL this season.
A year ago, remember, the dipshi!t who was coaching the team at the time held a weeks-long QB competition between two guys who won't (or probably won't, or probably shouldn't) start in the NFL this season.
One of those two guys almost definitely will start, unless Trask stops hanging out at Golden Corral and makes the Tampa battle interesting.
Enix wrote:A year ago, remember, the dipshi!t who was coaching the team at the time held a weeks-long QB competition between two guys who won't (or probably won't, or probably shouldn't) start in the NFL this season.
One of those two guys almost definitely will start, unless Trask stops hanging out at Golden Corral and makes the Tampa battle interesting.
I'm rooting for a team where Baker Mayfield is going to be the starter; you think fat QB jokes can hurt me?
Please. I've got a solid 3-4 years of post-Brady afterglow to keep me warm, and everybody has already accepted the team is a garbage fire. I hope Trask becomes the starter and goes full Jared Lorenzen just so we can suck entertainingly.
Edit: SI's first power rankings are out and the Bucs are #30, ahead of only Washington and Arizona. DON'T CARE WON'T CARE
I'm rooting for a team where Baker Mayfield is going to be the starter; you think fat QB jokes can hurt me?
I’m just keeping the meme warm until it’s needed again.
I'm rooting for a team where Baker Mayfield is going to be the starter ...
Been there. My condolences.
We should form a support group: Baker Mayfield used to be my starting QB.
Still would rather have him than the monster that qbs my former team.
We should form a support group: Baker Mayfield used to be my starting QB.
I got you bro:
I've been aware of the baseball version of Immaculate Grid of a couple of weeks now and I'm absolutely terrible at it because I basically can't name anybody that wasn't a Twin. Today I learned that there is now a football version. I feel like that's something some of you would be interested in. It's a daily 3x3 grid of categories and you need to name a player that fits in each square. You are graded on how rare the guess is for that square.
New Broncos coach Sean Payton on the sh!tshow that was the Broncos last season:
“Everything I heard about last season, we’re doing the opposite."
Payton goes on to say that the 2022 Broncos "might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. That’s how bad it was."
I'm not a big fan of Payton (Bountygate, only one SB appearance in ~15 years with a HoF QB, NFC South rival, general d!ckishness, etc). But I'll have to begrudge him some respect if he makes Denver not suck this year.
Joe Burrow went down in practice with a calf injury, and had to be carted off when he couldn't put weight on the leg.
Burrow hasn't finalized his big extension yet, but chose to participate in camp practices anyway.
Here's a perfect example why agents prefer their clients not do that.
It sounds like Burrow may have dodged a bullet and it may just be a strain, but that easily could have been an Achilles rupture.
Get your bag first, then join camp. Even if you wear the red no-contact jersey at practice.
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