dave mcbride

They were good in 2017, besting the Rams in LA in the postseason and just falling one play short in Philly from making it to the NFC championship game.

Good analysis — https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/10/antonio-brown-trade-oakland-raiders-offense-derek-carr

Could be. Also, my understanding is that Clark hasn't been a problem in Seattle.

He was really good last year. And 30 QB hits, which tied his career high. I feel like some people in this thread don't pay enough attention to players on other teams. Bennett was very good last season.

He is a helluva player. In other news, NE just traded for Michael Bennett, who had a very good season for Philly last year ...

I'll refrain from responding to prevent this thread from being booted over to PPP, which I don't ever go to.

Good for Ross Tucker:

Um, that's a charitable reading, and your interpretation is skewed (perhaps for ideological reasons?). Her family members still own some of them, and her own strategy evolved into flipping them. Regardless, she built her fortune on them. Also, how is it "fake news" (god, what a dumb meme)? She was indeed the founder, which is exactly what the tweet says.

Um, it is. Discussion closed!

@GunnerBill - check it out: https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/07/josh-rosen-cardinals-trade-rumors-kyler-murray-nfl-draft

No, his cap hit ain’t big - washington isn’t responsible for the prorated cap hit. The refs won that game for the bills. The OPI called on the colts on their 2-pt conversion was about as phantom as it gets and is hardly ever called.

Yeah, I spent nearly a week there last May. Great time, and nicer than in the past. My wife and I have a ton of friends there, and now some of our nieces and nephews are moving there.

I lived in LA for 8 years. It is one of the world’s great cities. I loved it, but not enough to live the rest of my life there.

Ha, and wow! https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/africa/kinshasa-cowboys-bills/

I know you jest, but Buffalo Bill really did participate in a staggering slaughter on the plains in the late 1860s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill. That said, he is one of the more interesting people in American history, and probably the biggest US star of the late 19th century. Most interesting to me, though, is the last entry on the Congo. Do you remember that news video clip from a few years back of a scene in the Congo in which a young guy with a Bills jersey was running alongside a tank? It was some sort of melee, and there was a discussion of it on the board (for the life of me, I can't find it. Damn.). I just figured the guy was wearing a Bills Super Bowl victory jersey given that that gear usually ends up in the poorer countries of the world, but there may be more to it than I thought!

Great piece. Thanks for posting.

... but in decline: https://www.baltimorebeatdown.com/2019/3/5/18252353/ravens-cut-s-eric-weddle-nfl-free-agency-news-safety-released-baltimore

It may simply be the case that the Cardinals told Murray that they're taking him no matter what and that he ended up basically blowing off all of the other interviews because they don't matter.

Gruden might be changing. He is a smart coach despite the fact that I dislike him. This is the new NFL, and he gets to see Mahomes slice and dice him twice a year now up close and personal.

It is all bs. I would not be shocked at all if Gruden, who is very unscrupulous, saw his former media buddy Casserly as an easy mark and fed him the bs because he wants Murray himself. Who is Matt Millar? Google tells me he is an Australian rules football player who does not live in the US. I am not seeing any NFL-related quotes by anyone of that name when I google it.

I haven’t seen any, and I’ve looked. All cite Casserly. Here’s Belichick on Casserly: “Who’s been wrong more than Charley Casserly since he left the Redskins? His percentage is like a meteorologist,” Belichick said. “He has no relationship to this team. I’d say less than zero. Based on what? He’s never at a practice, never at a game,” Belichick said before getting into a discussion of sports media practices in general. “At least he put his name on it which is more than a lot of guys. But, like he usually is, he was 100 percent wrong.” https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/04/belichick-whos-been-been-wrong-more-than-charlie-casserly/ Also, before the combine Scott McCloughan said he didn’t come across well in SB interviews, but added that he ‘wouldn't be satisfied with any explanation that comes in a 15-minute interview in Indianapolis. "I'd sit him down one-on-one, bring him in the building and throw stuff at him he's not ready for, to see how he responds," McCloughan says.’ McCloughan still thinks he’s the best qb in the draft. https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/28/kyler-murray-height-best-quarterback-scot-mccloughan

I think the issue is that for all intents purposes, Rivers/Brees played (and play) the same basic style, and Aikman/Walsh did the same. Rosen and Murray play wildly different styles and each would fare best in an offense entirely unlike the one the other would fare best in.

Also worth noting: Russell Wilson, Mahomes, and Murray were all excellent baseball players and played premier defensive positions: respectively, 2nd base, SS, and center field.

I'm not for drafting him, but c'mon -- Johnson was a great player who made the Lions better. He came to a terrible franchise, and they went to the playoffs twice in his time there. They also should have advanced in 2014 if not for absolutely atrocious refereeing in their playoff game vs. Dallas.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/05/kyler-murray-no-1-pick-arizona-cardinals-josh-rosen-trade-value-dk-metcalf-body-fat-women-coaches Murray represents where the NFL is going, and what is trickling up from the college ranks. As Daniel Jeremiah, the NFL Network’s draft analyst, put it, “Who are the great young immobile quarterbacks? There really aren’t any of them.” You can point to Tom Brady or Drew Brees or Philip Rivers, but those players are able to excel in today’s NFL because of their minds and their deep knowledge of what is going to happen on each play after years of experience, allowing them to get out of trouble by getting rid of the ball. “With Kyler Murray, you’ve got two chances to be right: The play that they call has a chance to work and the play that he makes has a chance to work,” Jeremiah says.