NFL: 2020 NFL off-season news & notes discussion thread (Cowboys & Texans players have COVID-19)

[EpochLink]

Was 04 one of if not the best QB class when it comes to potential HoF players?

Its up there with 1983.

 

[Voight]

Was 04 one of if not the best QB class when it comes to potential HoF players?

Ben & Manning are guaranteed HOF'ers, Rivers a possibility.

From 83 you have 3 hall of famers so they could match.

 

[EpochLink]

Ben & Manning are guaranteed HOF'ers, Rivers a possibility.

From 83 you have 3 hall of famers so they could match.

83 had 2 of the top 10 best QB of all time in Elway and Marino.

 

[Voight]

 

[EpochLink]

this gonna be good!

 

[GKJ]

They almost blew it the week before against Seattle at home too. I think it was 27-7, and Seattle scored to make it 28-27 late, and, as happens these days, the Falcons were able to get into field goal range in like 20 seconds.

 

[Voight]

They almost blew it the week before against Seattle at home too. I think it was 27-7, and Seattle scored to make it 28-27 late, and, as happens these days, the Falcons were able to get into field goal range in like 20 seconds.

28-3 was so bad I forgot about the OP and this game too

 

[pockets]

 

[Troy McClure]

If Saints ownership helped cover up child rape, they should have their ownership forfeited without compensation.

 

[Tuggy]

Well that's something...

f***ing disgusting.

 

[Kyle McMahon]

Hopefully the NFL can come up with a stiffer punishment than the NCAA gave Ped State. But it's not like they deflated a football, afterall...

 

[David Dennison]

Don't email what you can say over text, don't text what you can say on the phone, dont say over the phone what you can say in person, dont say in person what you can whisper.

The stupid part is it sounds like the owner was just trying to save a buck by using the Saints staff rather than simply footing the bill at a PR firm. She didn't insulate her team from her personal beliefs and now she has dragged the NFL and the Saints into a PR headache and potential litigation.

 

[Voight]

If Saints ownership helped cover up child rape, they should have their ownership forfeited without compensation.

Would be kind of ironic if they had to sell the team or lose their ownership after Bensons widow fought his kids in a nasty court battle for the team.

I wonder if Mickey Loomis is involved. He’s super tight with ownership. He got off pretty easy with Bountygate so it be interesting if the NFL went all out this time

 

[Didalee Hed]

Due processes are obviously always necessary, but if there is any smoke to the possible fire of the saints aiding and abetting children abusers, the saints need to be administered like a hundred times the power of the smu death penalty.

 

[Tuggy]

 

[EpochLink]

Since Rivers has moved to Florida...any of the teams there looking for a veteran QB?

Miami, Jacksonville or Tampa?

 

[bleedblue1223]

Since Rivers has moved to Florida...any of the teams there looking for a veteran QB?

Miami, Jacksonville or Tampa?

Tampa seems the obvious choice.

 

[Avs_19]

It's tough to see a fit for Rivers at this point unless he's fine with being a vet back-up. He was bad season and I doubt it's going to get any better. I would rather take my chances with Winston if I was forced to choose one of them.

He was great in his prime but at this stage of his career I don't think his next move is the most interesting part of this conversation. What the Chargers do at QB now will be very interesting to watch. Brady? Teddy? Tua/Herbert? There's a lot of talent on that team.

 

[Halladay]

Rivers is past it. Watching him this year was painful.

 

[EpochLink]

Rivers is past it. Watching him this year was painful.

Him and Big Ben will be washed when they come back. This leaves the Chargers in a spot to draft a new QB, Pittsburgh should do the same.

I think Ben has at least 2 more years in him but it won’t be the same.

 

[Voight]

Since Rivers has moved to Florida...any of the teams there looking for a veteran QB?

Miami, Jacksonville or Tampa?

Miami is good if he does not care to win and just wants to simply live in Florida. He'd be a placeholder if they picked Tua/someone else or if they planned on tanking for Lawrence.

Jax is still tied to Foles, the dead cap hit after cutting him would be significant IIRC .

Tampa could be an option but I think Jameis should get one more chance with Arians. Both Palmer + Luck put up career high's in INT's in their first years under his system, they were fine after they adjusted to it.

Besides, are they really that much better off with Rivers? He'd end up throwing a bunch of picks like the 3 before him and is clearly on a downward trajectory.

 

[Voight]

Patriots O-line coach Scarnecchia retiring

Scarnecchia retiring (again)

Texans' O'Brien adds GM title after doing job

He's been the "GM" for a while now, so just a formality.

 

[SupremeNachos]

Former DE Chris Doleman died Tuesday night after a battle with cancer.

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Patriots O-line coach Scarnecchia retiring

Scarnecchia retiring (again)

Texans' O'Brien adds GM title after doing job

He's been the "GM" for a while now, so just a formality.

Ridiculous. Does Texans ownership think barely winning garbage division year after year warrants a promotion? No ambitions at all.

As for Scarnecchia, think he came out of retirement as a favor for Bill and he’s 70, so not surprised.

 

[GKJ]

O'Brien created his own job security. The deck is stacked against anyone who is not O'Brien, and if the Texans regress, a new GM would be fired before he even had a chance to draft someone in the 1st round. You'd be hard pressed to find an aspiring front office executive to come to a team without their next 2 1st round picks (additionally they didn't have one that was 4OV 2 years ago), with a number of issues to clean up on both sides of the ball.

In a perfect world, yes, they should have a GM (and new coaching staff), but this is also a situation that O'Brien should have to deal with on his own. In that sense, this is the right thing to do. This is presuming they don't have some unqualified yes-man sit on that perch in the near future.