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NFL 2016 Offseason Thread |OT2| No Country for Old Members

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MechDX

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Muh QB's in gif form:

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BlackGhost

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Scott Petrak ct ‏ @ ScottPetrak 24s 25 seconds ago
# Browns preseason sked: at Green Bay, home for Atlanta, at Tampa Bay, home from Chicago.
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Disrespect RBH!

PatMcManamon ‏ @ PatMcManamon 5m 5 minutes ago
And yes, sadly, perhaps tragically, there will no preseason game with this at stake. # thebarge # GLC
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No GLC :/
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
There's a blueprint for Johnny Football to make a comeback and turn things around!!!

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1...spect-matt-bush-rediscovery-unlikely-comeback

The last time Bush went missing from spring training was four years ago. He was playing for the Rays, throwing well out of the bullpen and finally on the brink of making his major league debut. He'd been clean and sober for several months when one day his roommate, Brandon Guyer, let him borrow his Dodge Durango to drive home from practice, just half a mile away. How much could go wrong?

But an hour later, Bush was 40 miles away in Sarasota, Florida, buying beer at a gas station. "Just a few," he had told himself then. Next he was at a liquor store, stocking up on airplane bottles. "One final bender," he had decided. Then he was at a strip club, getting kicked out for trying to climb onstage. Then he was back behind the wheel and blacked out, speeding toward the wreck that so many in his life had long believed was coming. He careened into a 72-year-old motorcyclist, knocking the man off his bike, driving over his head and leaving him in critical condition as Bush sped away. The police caught up to Bush a few miles later and charged him with three felonies, including DUI with serious bodily injury and leaving the scene of an accident with an injury.

He was sentenced to 51 months in a Florida prison. He played right field on the prison softball team and then was released to a halfway house in Jacksonville, where he took a job for $8.05 an hour at Golden Corral. It was there that a Rangers employee had rediscovered him in the parking lot, still throwing 95 mph in sweatpants and sneakers, with a department of corrections GPS tracking device locked to his ankle.
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And so began Bush's new routine: Ride 3 miles from the halfway house to Golden Corral on a donated bicycle, work the morning shift in the bakery, eat at the buffet, play catch with Silver. He threw consistent strikes. He rediscovered his curveball. Eventually Silver felt confident enough to call his bosses at the Rangers, who sent over a local scout with a radar gun. Bush's first two pitches hit 93 and 95. "Everything kind of changed after that," Silver says.

The Rangers dispatched a succession of scouts to the Golden Corral, and a few weeks before Bush's release from the halfway house, the team flew in two of its top executives -- Mike Daly, senior director of player development, and Josh Boyd, senior director of pro scouting. They designated a yellow parking stopper to act as a pitcher's rubber and then measured 60 feet, 6 inches to an imaginary home plate. Bush wore sweatpants and sneakers. The tracking device bulged on his ankle, and his Golden Corral beeper flew out of his pants pocket when he kicked his leg to throw.

"There's still that rare, unmistakable gift," Daly concluded.
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Sending scouts to a Golden Corral, what a time to be alive!
 
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MechDX

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Himynameischris said:
So Bleak,

So Dolphins play Giants, Falcons, Cowboys (<3), and Titans for preseason.
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Your pessimism comes from the fact that Jimmy will be the sexy ruler of the AFCE for the 15 years following Toms retirement and aint nothing that small handed freak in Miami can do about it.
 
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Himynameischris

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MechDX said:
Your pessimism comes from the fact that Jimmy will be the sexy ruler of the AFCE for the 15 years following Toms retirement and aint nothing that small handed freak in Miami can do about it.
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AFCE will be the new NFCW from a few years ago when our division champion goes into the playoffs at 7-9
 
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cdyhybrid

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Report: Jets ask D'Brickashaw Ferguson to take paycut

The News reported the Jets approached Ferguson last week at the team facility. According to sources, "there is a sense" Ferguson would be open to playing at reduced salary -- within reason, of course.

The Jets and Fitzpatrick are currently in a contract stalemate with reports indicating the two sides are as much as $8 million apart in negotiations on an annual salary. Ferguson, who has been a rock on the team's offensive line for 10 seasons, is set to count $14.1 million against the cap in 2016.

The Jets may view that cost as untenable, and it's possible Ferguson could be released if a compromise cannot be worked out. This wouldn't be an optimal solution for several reasons, including the fact the Jets have no realistic alternative to plug in at left tackle. Cutting Ferguson would save $9 million in cap space.
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Futurevoid

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Himynameischris

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Tom Nook

Tom Nook

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Picks for the TV preseason games:

Hall of Fame Game (Canton, Ohio)

Green Bay vs. Indianapolis (ESPN, 8 p.m. ET), Sunday, Aug. 7

Preseason Week 1 (Aug. 11-15)

Dallas at Los Angeles (ESPN, 8 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 13; RAMS don't want to lose on their homecoming game.

Preseason Week 3 (Aug. 25-28)

Atlanta at Miami (NBC, 8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 25
Cleveland at Tampa Bay(CBS, 8 p.m.), Friday, Aug. 26;
Tennessee at Oakland (CBS, 8 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 27; OAK is the team to look out for.
San Diego at Minnesota (FOX, 1 p.m.), Sunday, Aug. 28
Arizona at Houston (FOX, 4 p.m.), Sunday, Aug. 28
Cincinnati at Jacksonville (NBC, 8 p.m.), Sunday, Aug. 28
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Milchjon

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CrocMother said:
Germany gave us Dirk
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Ran into a Texan couple at the top of the Eiffel Tower once.

Pretty sure that "that's where Dirk's from, right?!" was literally the only thing they knew about Germany.

Was there with a Serbian guy. Think that was the first time they had ever heard of Serbia.
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
From the parking garage next door:

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Clearly everyone should have been saving up to acquire parking lots this whole time.
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
wienke said:
In San Francisco, even the parking lots are too damn expensive.

Alternatively, it's cheaper than rent!
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They only jack the prices up on game days, and even then certain matchups will be more expensive than others. You can see they just taped that $120 on top of what the sign normally says, lol.

The hustle is real.
 
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8 X 11 Printer Paper

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Ugh hating writing reviews for game's I enjoyed, but had enough flaws I shouldn't had enjoyed it as much as I did. Good games and bad games are easy to write about, okay games are the issue...
 
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