NFL 2021 - NFL Pre-Season Discussion

[Blacky]

It's not over Blacky

I’ll never quit him

Blacky was Yiadom any good when he was in Denver. he would be just a depth player in Green Bay

Not really mate

Im surprised he has had trade currency twice now.

As a depth player he may be ok, but will be a fringe roster player I would say.

 

[aussiedude]

I’ll never quit him


Not really mate

Im surprised he has had trade currency twice now.

As a depth player he may be ok, but will be a fringe roster player I would say.

He got traded for a player who would of been cut. so its looks like a swap of bubble players likely to be cut in 2 weeks. to give them a chance in a new system

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Champ Bailey was similar in the end. Old and slow, excelled in cover, not man, a ball hawk, got burned plenty as he gambled more. But its someone else i was thinking of. Josh Norman?

Probably Norman at washington, pretty sure his grade in zone and man was a massive difference. Now he sucks at both

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Griffen back to the Vikes??

Old and broken DE

 

[Sven]

Old and broken DE

It'd be a rotational role, at best, if Griffen was signed

 

[aussiedude]

Hard Knocks is up. And Zeke needed baby powder for his taint.

 

[Blacky]

J Shuttlesworth if Javonte follows the KWhite path then I will hang up my scouting hat

 

[aussiedude]

The rams/cowboys joined practice was cool. But the Aaron Donald fight was nothing. The reports made it seem like a fight. It was nothing. Like half the league would have camp fights with more in it

 

[Exe Gesis]

Lions cut Don Muhlbach on his 40th birthday

Posted by Charean Williams on August 17, 2021, 5:53 PM EDT

Lions long snapper Don Muhlbach received a rocking chair from teammates Tuesday on his 40th birthday. He also received a pink slip.

Lions coach Dan Campbell, who preceded Muhlbach by a couple of years at Texas A&M but was a teammate in Detroit from 2006-08, announced the bad news at his press conference.

“Dude’s a pro,” Campbell said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “He’s an even better person. . . . I hate it, man. This is the hardest time.”

Muhlbach was one of the NFL’s longest tenured players, having joined the Lions in 2004. Tom Brady is the only player in his 40s currently active in the NFL.

Muhlbach played 260 games in his career, missing only one game since the start of the 2006 season. It is the eighth-most games in NFL history for a player with a single team.

He snapped for 15 game-winning field goals and five-game winning extra points, though he played only three playoff games. Muhlbach twice made the Pro Bowl.

Campbell called it “time” for Muhlbach, who may have played his final NFL game.
“As he’s done his whole career, he handled it like a pro,” Campbell said, via Chris Burke of TheAthletic.com. “He appreciated that we talked to him, brought him out there, sat with him for a while. . . . We wanted to make it as good as you could under the circumstances.”

 

[Exe Gesis]

John Mara: Taunting is a point of emphasis because we’re “sick and tired of the talking”

Posted by Michael David Smith on August 17, 2021, 5:39 PM EDT

The NFL has reminded players, coaches and officials that taunting is a point of emphasis this season, which has led to some criticism that the NFL is the No Fun League. But Giants owner John Mara is standing by the taunting emphasis.

Mara, a member of the NFL’s Competition Committee, says there’s widespread agreement among the people who make the rules that a crackdown on taunting is appropriate.

“That’s something we discuss every year in the Competition Committee,” Mara said. “We get kind of sick and tired of the talking that does go on from time to time on the field. We tried to balance the sportsmanship with allowing the players to have fun and there’s always a fine line there, but none of us like to see that. It’s just a question of whether you can have rules that can be enforced and without taking the fun out of the game too, but nobody wants to see a player taunting another player. I know, I certainly don’t. I think the rest of the members of the Competition Committee feel the same way, too.”

When it comes to taunting, there seems to be an age divide, with people like the 66-year-old Mara far more concerned about it than NFL players in their 20s. But it’s the owners who make the rules, and Mara and his fellow owners are sick and tired of the talking.

UPDATE 9:35 p.m. ET: Although the transcript of Mara’s comments published by the Giants quoted Mara as saying “sick and tired of the talking,” the Giants later said that Mara actually said, “sick and tired of the taunting.”

 

[Exe Gesis]

Will NFL’s latest emphasis on taunting stick?

Posted by Mike Florio on August 17, 2021, 12:01 PM EDT

From time to time, the NFL makes the taunting rule a point of emphasis for officials. That’s a fancy way of saying that someone in the league office doesn’t think the game officials are properly calling the foul, so calling it a point of emphasis becomes a wake-up call to the folks with the yellow flags.

In 2014, then Rams coach made it clear that taunting would be a point of emphasis, explaining that it was an issue of respect, and that the NFL hoped the standard would trickle down to lower levels of the sport.

That same year, the NFL actually pondered the possibility of making taunting a foul that could wipe out, for example, a touchdown capped by taunting on the way to the end zone. (The change has never been made.)

In April, Falcons CEO Rich McKay said that taunting will indeed be a point of emphasis again. “The face to face, the pointing of fingers, the standing over players on the ground,” will be penalized, McKay said.

That apparently went unnoticed, because it wasn’t until last week that social media had a conniption fit over the “No Fun League” taking taunting out of the game, after the video regarding the point of emphasis emerged. (Twitter had an aftershock on Sunday, when a player directed a post-play flex in the direction of a tackler.)

The line seems to be whether and to what extent actions are directed at an opponent. In 2013, as the NFL dealt with the serious issue (sarcasm) of players spinning the football, it’s prohibited only when the player spins the ball at the feet of a standing opponent or toward the body of an opponent who is on the ground. Spinning the ball generally isn’t a foul.

Although the league didn’t specify the reason for making taunting a point of emphasis again, it’s possible that Buccaneers defensive back Antoine Winfield sticking two fingers in the face of Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill during the Super Bowl (which was penalized) sparked a closer look at the fact that Hill routinely has gotten away with flashing the peace sign at opponents as he scampers away from them. If the officials consistently had been flagging Hill for taunting, it never would have gotten to the point that Winfield, on the sport’s biggest stage, sought out Hill when the game as a practical matter was over and gave him a taste of his own deuces.

And so what will happen? The officials will watch it closely this year, and players will comply. Eventually (and inevitably) some mild taunting will creep back into the game without flags being thrown, until it becomes a point of emphasis again

 

[Exe Gesis]

John Mara wanted mandatory vaccinations for players

If Giants owner John Mara had his way, the NFL would have a simple rule: Get vaccinated or you can't play.

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

 

[Exe Gesis]

Former Saints, Jaguars assistant coach John Pease dies at 77

John Pease, a defensive assistant coach that spent 19 years in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints and Jacksonville Jaguars, passed away on Monday at age 77.

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

 

[Shade]

Ok im done honestly that was such a boring episode of hard knocks.

cant watch any more

 

[Exe Gesis]

Ok im done honestly that was such a boring episode of hard knocks.

cant watch any more

Hard Knocks is light entertainment rather than a good look into the workings of an nfl franchise day to day. If they made that doco itd be interesting. I think there is one coming soon, a "hard knocks" for a group of recent former GMs

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Carson triggered

 

[Blacky]

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Well im convinced, to the Empire waiver wire!

 

[drd23]

Well im convinced, to the Empire waiver wire!

I'll take Callaway off your hands then

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

I'll take Callaway off your hands then

Straight swap for Zach.

 

[Exe Gesis]

I feel like a blockbuster three way trade including me is starting to blossom

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

I feel like a blockbuster three way trade including me is starting to blossom

I've tried getting Zach off Drd myself but too hard basket. Don't have enough to give on my roster and my first is likely going to be too early to justify giving it up for a QB at this stage of roster building.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Ill put up Thomas Brady to drd23
He gives you Zach Wilson
You give him Callaway another QB
Etc etc

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Ill put up Thomas Brady to drd23
He gives you Zach Wilson
You give him Callaway another QB
Etc etc

Done. Doubt Drd goes for it tho