The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V3

He did, then they were adamant they wanted their QB and made a higher bid. Not sure how to take it really, the optimist in me thinks Watson sees it as a sign of how much they liked him and what a great gesture. The pessimist in me sees him as a money-grabbing c*.

to be fair, they’re a team setup to win. So it makes sense for footballing reasons anyway. It’s not like he’s taking millions to go play in Qatar

As is the case with a lot of these things, unless something happens in the immediate aftermath of the incident - when the outrage is at its most intense - it's unlikely the Browns will face any major repercussions. I don't really know what the repercussions would be, but I'd imagine a significant portion of their season-ticket holders would want to be doing something - and I haven't heard anything on that front.

It's as egregious a signing as the Tyreek Hill one (if not for different reasons), but sure like most things in the NFL, if it didn't happen on camera, it may as well not have happened.

interesting that the HOF speeches will be moved back to during the day from this year.

That was an extremely strong market for Watson, you have a player with that many pending legal issues and likely suspension to get to do a FA tour with 4 teams and demand the biggest contract in history in terms of guarantees on top of that many picks when he said he'd never play again for his current team.

Agree it would be brilliant for them to have half empty stadiums but the Browns couldn't sprint fast enough to sign Hunt after the video was released of him attacking a woman and their fanbase had no problem showing up and supporting the team after that. To be fair there has been a bit more complaints this time but unfortunately they'll quickly disappear as the majority of mainstream media can't move on quick enough.

No team is whiter than white but there are certain teams who have no morals at all (which isn't really surprising as very few billionaire owners get there by always doing the right thing) and their fanbases will always find a way to excuse it.

So who goes to Atlanta then ? Indy seemed to be the place baker mayfield wanted to go to but obviously not now. Baker to the falcons then ?

With Winston also signing with the Saints I think it has to be Mariota with the Falcons because of their cap issues, as they are paying crazy money still for Ryan, and it isn't as if they are contending and need a decent QB. They could also draft a QB if they like any of them and have them learn/compete.

Looks like we're down to Jimmy and Baker with the Panthers and Seahawks looking to upgrade their QBs (both are an improvement on Darnold and Lock, respectively). Both teams aren't in position to really compete so I wonder if their just sit on their hands and see if either get released or wait until they see how the draft goes.

Even better value when you compare it to the 1st and the 3rd that some GM spent on that much worse QB last season 😋

It is a decent deal but a few years in the tank is probably a stretch with Ryan being 37 when the season starts and his performances have been on the downhill. At least he went to a team in a dome and a very weak division which might keep him viable a bit longer - good on the Falcons for sending him to a good place, obviously their fault for causing the rift having courted a creep. Colts are however still stuck in that cycle of aging or very flawed QBs who will struggle to compete with the level of other teams in the AFC outside of their division with no obvious way out of it.

Another view could be that his numbers over the last few years are hard to trust due to being on a team with great receivers in a dome that is regularly trailing leading to perfect stat padding garbage time opportunities.

Even with all of the management of QBs, nearly every one has shown deteriorating performance as they move towards their late 40s. Brady is an outlier that has distorted how we view the position, like when we discuss SB wins.

You might be right with your wager but I'd say it is just as likely that Ryan has a decent season and decides to retire after an early playoff loss against one of the young elite QBs.

Hill-Waddle could be next season's Chase-Higgins tandem.

Seem to be going with a running back by committee approach too right out the Shanahan play-book with Edmonds and Mostert added to Gaskin and whoever else.

I had thought bringing in JuJu to go with Hill and Kelce was a good move for Chiefs, but now suddenly, unless a Jarvis Landry or one of them arrives, they don't look quite as fearful in a stacked division.

Cannot remember an off-season like it. I am glued.

Assaulting a woman = 'very minor'...

If it was any other poster here I'd be surprised but fits your pattern

Shocked by the Hill trade but it makes sense given how much he wanted to be paid and the Chiefs’ cap position. We never quite got that dynasty with the three headed monster of Mahomes, Hill and Kelce but it’s been a lot of fun to watch.

We’ll always have Wasp.

"Following the trade of Tyreek Hill, the Chiefs now have 12 picks in the 2022 NFL Draft. No team has more.

They own two picks in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th round.

A major opportunity to replenish the roster in a hurry, especially by addressing their need at WR."

And on the cheap with the major contract for Mahomes. Not a bad bit of business.

You regularly attempt to downplay racism and are now downplaying assaulting women and dabbling in victim blaming. Hunt was being restrained by ~4 people and yet fought them off repeatedly so he could attack a woman a fraction of his size. It isn't a 'very minor' incident and it is clear Hunt's intention was to hurt her a lot more than he did.

I also never tried to equate this incident to Watson's - I said Browns had a track record of not having morals when it came to signing players and their fans going along with it and used this as an example. The Chiefs who are the other organization I'd put in the same bucket as them, as they've brought on a list of guys with dodgy pasts and getting rid of Hunt was because he lied to the team more than his actions.

As for QBs last year, I am not sure what you're talking about - I get a lot of things wrong but this topic has worked out pretty closely to how I said it would. Despite everyone in the media screaming differently, I said 49ers wouldn't pick Jones at 3 and they didn't. I didn't 'berate' Jones - I said that he would be good, deserved to be picked in the teens, but doesn't have the upside that some of the other QBs did. How did the season go - he was picked in the teens, he was good, and hasn't shown elite explosive flashes. I'd hoped Lance would get more time but the 49ers made it to the Conference Championship, far further than any other team that drafted a rookie QB, and at the age Lance was last season Jones was holding a clipboard sitting behind Tua so I am far from worried.