2017 NFL Offseason

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Apr 14, 2017 2:55 pm

Marshawn to come out of retirement and play for the Raiders. Trade pending, according to my push notifications.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:03 am

And there you go:

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:25 am

There goes Brady, playing the "my mom is battling cancer" excuse again, just like the guy who won Survivor last season.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:04 am

It would be even more cynical if Giselle told him to do that to protect his brand too.

In other Pats news, they extended White 3 years, offered Gillislee from Buffalo a contract on a 5th round tender that Buffalo doesn't look to be matching, Butler signed his tender which may enable a trade, they re-signed Lengel, and released Tre Jackson.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:52 am

Johnnie wrote:It would be even more cynical if Giselle told him to do that to protect his brand too.

In other Pats news, they extended White 3 years, offered Gillislee from Buffalo a contract on a 5th round tender that Buffalo doesn't look to be matching, Butler signed his tender which may enable a trade, they re-signed Lengel, and released Tre Jackson.

And will release LeGarrette (Smokina) Blount, if Buffalo doesn't match on Gillislee.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:25 pm

Haaaaaa.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:33 pm

No Spicey, that was not cool.

Fuck Gronk for playing nice with moron Goebbels.

Post by **brian** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:43 pm

Pruitt wrote:No Spicey, that was not cool.

Fuck Gronk for playing nice with moron Goebbels.

Weirdly, that's still an insult to Goebbels., which is still kind of gross to think about.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 1:55 pm

brian wrote:
Pruitt wrote:No Spicey, that was not cool.

Fuck Gronk for playing nice with moron Goebbels.
Weirdly, that's still an insult to Goebbels., which is still kind of gross to think about.

Yeah - to me, it's beyond fun and games and "look at me goofing at the White House." I HATED W and his administration, but I could certainly understand celebrities' excitement at being invited to the White House for a ceremony.

But these guys are just so far beyond the pale that in my mind, playing nice with them taints a person beyond all scrubbing.

(And by "these guys," I meant Trump and his lackeys. Don;t want to piss off any Pats fans here.)

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 1:58 pm

I mean, he did interrupt the guy and ask if he, a known bumbling idiot, needed any help doing his job. I don't know anything about Gronk's politics or that he can even think that far ahead but if someone like Letterman did the same exact thing, we'd go "Ha, good one!"

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:00 pm

brian wrote:
Pruitt wrote:No Spicey, that was not cool.

Fuck Gronk for playing nice with moron Goebbels.
Weirdly, that's still an insult to Goebbels., which is still kind of gross to think about.

Yeah, because Goebbels was actually good at his job.

Post by **brian** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:12 pm

Ryan wrote:I mean, he did interrupt the guy and ask if he, a known bumbling idiot, needed any help doing his job. I don't know anything about Gronk's politics or that he can even think that far ahead but if someone like Letterman did the same exact thing, we'd go "Ha, good one!"

I think it's easy to envision a scenario where Gronk was tooling on Spicer (and legitimately meant it.)

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:17 pm

brian wrote:
Ryan wrote:I mean, he did interrupt the guy and ask if he, a known bumbling idiot, needed any help doing his job. I don't know anything about Gronk's politics or that he can even think that far ahead but if someone like Letterman did the same exact thing, we'd go "Ha, good one!"
I think it's easy to envision a scenario where Gronk was tooling on Spicer (and legitimately meant it.)

Oh...

I hate Spicer so much that in my knee jerk anger, I never thought of that.

If he puts bunny ears behind trump, than I'm back on board.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 3:12 pm

Johnnie wrote:Haaaaaa.

Why is the White House talking in first-person singular?

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:24 pm

Same reason the White House is using unnecessary commas.

Staffed by fucking morons.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:45 pm

"It is White House, policy to only identify, the men in photographs."

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:18 am

To be fair, who knows which one this could have been for Belichick.

Post by **brian** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:58 am

Catching up with maybe the biggest draft bust in NFL history.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:21 am

brian wrote:Catching up with maybe the biggest draft bust in NFL history.

Pretty depressing read.

I was just thinking the other day during a discussion about the high rate of ALS among former NFL players, that the game is barbaric the league is an example of so much that is wrong with capitalism, and practically everything about the NFL smacks of high-grade hypocrisy.

Yet I still consume the product.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:32 am

Pruitt wrote:
Yet I still consume the product.

I am very actively considering giving up the NFL. I feel kind of "icky" reading all the stories about how beat up/concussed/ALS/CTE the players are afterwards. I also hate how its become a year-round thing.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:05 pm

Join the club. You don't miss it and get to be a pretentious dick to your friends who still do follow.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:09 pm

mister d wrote:Join the club. You don't miss it and get to be a pretentious dick to your friends who still do follow.

Giving up College football will be much more difficult then dumping the NFL.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:52 am

I read an interesting story on Deadspin. It seems that a player who is expected to go in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft has been accused of sexual assault. But, the police are dragging their feet on getting the report filed. It appears they are possibly doing so in an effort to shield the player's identity until after the draft. Hmm???

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:55 am

sancarlos wrote:I read an interesting story on Deadspin. It seems that a player who is expected to go in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft has been accused of sexual assault. But, the police are dragging their feet on getting the report filed. It appears they are possibly doing so in an effort to shield the player's identity until after the draft. Hmm???

I don't believe anything Carl Monday reports. He's one of the local ambush TV reporters.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:59 am

A_B wrote:
sancarlos wrote:I read an interesting story on Deadspin. It seems that a player who is expected to go in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft has been accused of sexual assault. But, the police are dragging their feet on getting the report filed. It appears they are possibly doing so in an effort to shield the player's identity until after the draft. Hmm???
I don't believe anything Carl Monday reports. He's one of the local ambush TV reporters.

I didn't notice it was him! He did clean up that nasty library masturbation problem though, didn't he?

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:03 pm

blundercrush · Post by **blundercrush** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:03 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote:
mister d wrote:Join the club. You don't miss it and get to be a pretentious dick to your friends who still do follow.
Giving up College football will be much more difficult then dumping the NFL.

I watch the Seahawks with friends occasionally and technically play fantasy football with them (filthy casual league is a minor understatement), but otherwise am pretty checked out of the whole thing. giving up college football is basically impossible for me. Go Huskies.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:05 pm

mister d wrote:Join the club. You don't miss it and get to be a pretentious dick to your friends who still do follow.

Seconded.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:07 pm

There's also the Jabrill Peppers "failed piss test" nonsense going on. He's basically ultra hydrated to the point that be pissed a sample that cannot be properly tested. It's diluted. But because it isn't a passing test, it's talked as though it's a failure. So now his draft stock is tumbling.

Also, this went down today:

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:03 pm

A_B wrote:
sancarlos wrote:I read an interesting story on Deadspin. It seems that a player who is expected to go in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft has been accused of sexual assault. But, the police are dragging their feet on getting the report filed. It appears they are possibly doing so in an effort to shield the player's identity until after the draft. Hmm???

I don't believe anything Carl Monday reports. He's one of the local ambush TV reporters.

Okay, I just read the updated story with the police report quoted.

I am never one to downplay a woman's claims of sexual assault, and yes, this fits that criteria.

But...

According to the report, the accuser says she met Conley in an elevator and he asked her to have a foursome with another friend of his. The woman says she declined and offered to watch the other people have sex instead.

A short time later, the woman says Conley unbuttoned her pants and began to have sex with her. She claims she said, “No, stop, it hurts!” but he kept going until he finished. She says he then kicked her out of the hotel room.

The woman called 911 and described her assailant as a “black male who wouldn’t take his sunglasses off and had an Ohio State tattoo on his left forearm.”

The woman says she went to a local hospital where a rape kit was administered. But she refused to speak to cops afterward.

phxgators · Post by **phxgators** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:53 pm

Johnnie wrote:There's also the Jabrill Peppers "failed piss test" nonsense going on. He's basically ultra hydrated to the point that be pissed a sample that cannot be properly tested. It's diluted. But because it isn't a passing test, it's talked as though it's a failure. So now his draft stock is tumbling./

I also recently did not pass a piss test for new job, due to a diluted sample. I did pass the second test, however I too am expecting my NFL draft stock to plummet as a result.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:08 pm

A piss test in Colorado? Wow.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:23 pm

Rush2112 wrote:A piss test in Colorado? Wow.

He didn't say it was to determine if he had or hadn't been torching up. And I assume I'm dating myself with "torching up".

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:30 pm

It's all wax, vapes, and ball bearings these days.

phxgators · Post by **phxgators** » Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:59 am

Rush2112 wrote:A piss test in Colorado? Wow.

Defense companies... not exactly your most progressive of businesses

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:57 am

House Cleaning in Orchard Park

GM Doug Whaley, entire scouting staff canned.

I;'d say that I heartily endorse this move, but why on earth was it done AFTER the draft and not before?

So Buffalo...

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Apr 30, 2017 12:55 pm

Pruitt wrote:House Cleaning in Orchard Park

GM Doug Whaley, entire scouting staff canned.

I;'d say that I heartily endorse this move, but why on earth was it done AFTER the draft and not before?

So Buffalo...

To not reveal their draft board to the other teams who hire those guys. Scouts are usually let go right after the draft for this reason, the GM is the odd part.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:07 pm

That makes sense.

The rebuilding continues in Buffalo - 18 years and counting.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed May 03, 2017 10:12 am

I'm pleased that the Broncos signed Jamaal Charles. I know he is very injury prone, but it's a one-year deal at an affordable price. The guy is a beast if he is healthy, and he'll be a good influence on the younger Denver backs.