NFL 2024: The draft thread!

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New deal means 20 years of Mike Tomlin, assuming they don't fire him. Amazing.

Prederick wrote:

New deal means 20 years of Mike Tomlin, assuming they don't fire him. Amazing.

With Belichick gone from NE, Tomlin is the NFL's longest-tenured coach. The current list:

Mike Tomlin: hired in 2007

John Harbaugh: 2008

Andy Reid: 2013 (but with the Eagles before that from 1999 to 2012)

Sean McDermott / Sean McDermott / Kyle Shanahan: 2017

Zach Taylor / Matt LeFleur: 2019

Kevin Stefanski / Mike McCarthy: 2020

Dan Campbell / Robert Salah / Nick Siriani: 2021

7 dudes: 2022
5 dudes: 2023
7 dudes: 2024

... so nearly 60% of NFL HCs have been hired in the past three years. Wowsa.

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Welp, guess who's f*cked this season.

The curse doesn't apply this year because Adrian Peterson already has the curse of "Madden 25":

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I am really enjoying the implosion of Qaaron's public persona as he ages.

In less critical roster news, Randy Gregory is an unexcused absence from Bucs minicamp. Obviously not a particularly important player and was signed for a pretty minimum salary, but this is a guy who has a total of 22 career sacks, has had multiple suspensions for marijuana usage, and just filed a lawsuit against the NFL related to those suspensions. With all that, don't you think maybe showing up for work might be a good first step at continuing to try to have something resembling a career?

PFT Article wrote:

Rodgers opted instead to attend an event that is “very important to him.”

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With Aaron Rodgers not at minicamp, the Jets have started practicing having someone other than Nathaniel Hackett call plays.

Aaron misses actual practice but everyone is still butthurt about Lamar taking five days off voluntarily walk throughs

Paleocon wrote:

Aaron misses actual practice but everyone is still butthurt about Lamar taking five days off voluntarily walk throughs

And despite some typically New Yorker headlines in the local press, no one's holding Robert Saleh's feet to the fire over where exactly Rogers is.

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Rat Boy wrote:
Paleocon wrote:

Aaron misses actual practice but everyone is still butthurt about Lamar taking five days off voluntarily walk throughs

And despite some typically New Yorker headlines in the local press, no one's holding Robert Saleh's feet to the fire over where exactly Rogers is.

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I tried to get it to do it in the old Apple II box art style, but it wasn’t happening.

That doesn't look like McAfee!

And that doesn't look like Olivia Munn!

And why's half of it in Turkish?

Rat Boy wrote:

And why's half of it in Turkish?

You don't know?

Looks like somebody needs to do their own research.

It's summer, it must be Taysom Hill restructure season!

His career earnings per Over the Cap are $42,670,000, and that's for 2,348 yards passing, 2,159 yards rushing, and 756 yards receiving. All that, in 7 years, for $43 million, for a team with serious cap issues.

Taysom Hill is probably not the worst yards-per-dollar investment in NFL history, because some high draft pick who did literally nothing no doubt has him beat. But boy does he got to be up there on the list. That's a lot of money to spend to get the career scrimmage yardage of Trent Richardson plus one year's worth of Kenny Pickett passing yards.

QB Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars have agreed to a five-year, $275M contract that includes $200M in guarantees ($142M fully guaranteed), per source.
@TheAthleticNFL

Way too much money to be Mac Jones' backup.

Honestly a bit surprised they went that high, but with so few top-of-market contracts on their books, there was definitely nothing cap-wise stopping them.

NFL rest differential for each team in 2024.

In short, the 49ers are being historically screwed (-21 rest days) and the Ravens are being historically boosted (+16 days).

*Legion* wrote:

NFL rest differential for each team in 2024.

In short, the 49ers are being historically screwed (-21 rest days) and the Ravens are being historically boosted (+16 days).

This chart is silly.

The Ravens have three games in ten days and yet they are on the top of the chart. That alone should make this meaningless.

Paleocon wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

NFL rest differential for each team in 2024.

In short, the 49ers are being historically screwed (-21 rest days) and the Ravens are being historically boosted (+16 days).

This chart is silly.

The Ravens have three games in ten days and yet they are on the top of the chart. That alone should make this meaningless.

That’s not how math works.

Baltimore’s “3 games in 10 days”:

Dec 15: vs Giants: Ravens previous game 14 days earlier, Giants previous game 7 days earlier
Dec 21: vs Steelers: Ravens previous game 6 days earlier, Steelers previous game 6 days earlier
Dec 25: vs. Texans: Ravens previous game 4 days earlier, Texans previous game 4 days earlier

Ravens don’t have a single game of rest disadvantage in that span. They have only two games on their entire schedule where they have a single day of less rest. They don’t play a single team that’s coming fresh off of their bye week. San Francisco plays three.

If we're going to get specific about the math, that's three games in 11 days, not 10.

Pink Stripes wrote:

If we're going to get specific about the math, that's three games in 11 days, not 10.

Math is just a construct of your imagination -something Aaron Rodgers would say

Have they found him yet? I like feeling great about Packers for no reason in June.

Clearly the NFL has set this up so someone else from the NFC has a chance to lose the Super Bowl.

I was going to post the latest Draw Play, but this is better:

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This girl's going to become the second most knowledgeable person about Rutgers lacrosse outside of the team whether she wants to or not.

*Legion* wrote:

This girl's going to become the second most knowledgeable person about Rutgers lacrosse outside of the team whether she wants to or not.

Plus she'll know more about playing long snapper than pretty much anyone.

Still deciding on whether or not that's a euphemism.

Not happy about my Ravens being part of the in season Hard Knocks crap. Enough drama as is.