NFL: Offseason Thread
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/sports/nfl-panthers-sale.html
Sounds like the Panthers are going to sell for something like $2.5 billion. I remember back when they first went up for sale, and Forbes came out and said that $2.3 billion was roughly what they were worth. A bunch of the talking heads went bonkers saying there was no way they'd get that much. This was, of course, during the midst of this season's lower ratings and protests.
Just goes to show that even with baggage, owning an NFL team is still basically a license to print money.
Sounds like the Panthers are going to sell for something like $2.5 billion. I remember back when they first went up for sale, and Forbes came out and said that $2.3 billion was roughly what they were worth. A bunch of the talking heads went bonkers saying there was no way they'd get that much. This was, of course, during the midst of this season's lower ratings and protests.
Just goes to show that even with baggage, owning an NFL team is still basically a license to print money.
Yeah, I don't know how that's gonna go. Unless it's just a PR move by the league so they can claim that they give a **** about player safety and they don't plan on actually calling it, I don't see how this gets enforced consistently.
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Yeah, who knows to what degree they'll enforce it. I think it's going to be a mess.
I agree. It'll be a slippery slope if they do try to enforce it. With the game moving as fast as it does, how can a ref possibly judge intent?
I was actually thinking this new helmet rule is going to have more of an impact at the youth levels of football. The NFL is publicly perceived as the worst example of player safety, so now youth leagues, and possibly even college will have to evaluate their safety policies so they are even more strict than the NFL. When talking with parents, coaches and league officials will want to be able to say "we do x, y, z to ensure player safety, whereas the NFL only has this helmet-leading rule." This was a calculated move by the NFL - they put the enforcement on officials that don't have to explain their reasoning for possibly ejecting a player, and will be seen as leading a trickle-down effect of player safety at the lower levels of football.
If I read the rule correctly, intent has nothing to do with it. Players simply can't lower their heads and initiate contact with the helmet anymore, period.
Long way to go before next season, but as of today the NFC would go something like:
East - Eagles
West - Rams
North - Vikes
South - Falcons
Wild Cards - Saints, Cowboys
We'll see what happens with the draft, and with Odell Beckham Jr. If the Giants really are going to move him then a trade to the right NFC team would change the landscape quite a bit.
Depends on where you rate him. I don't think he's the best receiver in the league - I'd take Antonio Brown and Julio Jones as 1 and 1A. But he's for sure a top 3-5 guy. That said, I think New York's supposed asking price of two first round picks is insane.
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/new...sh-allen-rosen-2018/ybb46fv3x1ex1r4hj3l4j9gtb
Wonderlic scores for QBs have been leaked. If I was a high profile draft prospect I would refuse to take the damn thing if the league can't guarantee that the results will stay confidential.
Wonderlic scores for QBs have been leaked. If I was a high profile draft prospect I would refuse to take the damn thing if the league can't guarantee that the results will stay confidential.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/04/03/report-gronk-trade-is-coming/
Pats moving on from Gronk? I guess I'd want to hear it from a more reliable source but there's been a fair amount of smoke around this the last few days.
It would fit Belichick's MO for moving on from players a year early. If he could finagle a first rounder or something comparable that would be a win in his book. The Pats have shown time and again the ability to roll up big offensive numbers with or without Gronk, and he might be done in a year or two anyway.
Pats moving on from Gronk? I guess I'd want to hear it from a more reliable source but there's been a fair amount of smoke around this the last few days.
It would fit Belichick's MO for moving on from players a year early. If he could finagle a first rounder or something comparable that would be a win in his book. The Pats have shown time and again the ability to roll up big offensive numbers with or without Gronk, and he might be done in a year or two anyway.
You have to give Belichick credit. When he feels your trade value outweighs your team value you are gone. That's one reason that team can compete. He just keeps stockpiling picks to use to fill the holes in his roster. Whether by draft or trade. He's made some nice free agent acquisitions as well. Players will go there for less because they know they have a great opportunity to get that Super Bowl ring.
But would it work without Tom Brady propping the team up every year on a team friendly deal? I think it's interesting to look at who the more valuable guy has been during their run. Brady's gottena lot of the credit as the high profile QB, but nobody in the modern era of the NFL outside of Walsh and Montana has been able to leverage having an all-time great QB into a sustained run of success quite like Belichick has. It might just be a perfect storm where the best coach of his era and the best QB of his era just happened to end up on the same team.
