NFL Off-Season Thread: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?"

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This is our year!
Just like ten years ago, the Bucs will rise up with a new coach and win a Super Bowl!
Now if only we still had one of the greatest defenses ever...
 
Why did I finish ME3 :(

Now I feel like shit, no wonder my brother let me play this game. But it was soooo good why did they had to ruin the ending!
 
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Backup QB Tees....
 
DeaconKnowledge said:
It'll pick up once we get through the one reps and no shows ( I have little faith that the Browns won't get skipped, for example).

First ten picks of the 1st round went slow too.
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PatsGAF is ready for this round, some hardcore FO stuff going on here.

Grover Cleveland said:
Chile please.

The Brady-Belisomeone'selsechick dynasty is through.

Done.

DEAD.

Bill looks a heck of a lot worse when he doesn't already have tape of the other teams' practices.

And Tom Brady is a system QB.
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Carolina Panthers, gg.
 
They should have just skipped steps and made Tebow's the pink "breast cancer awareness" jersey.

No self-respecting actual fan is going to buy that shit.
 
Sorry I missed our pick. Only glanced over the last couple of pages and didnt notice it was our turn to pick. Now I have to hope that LaMichael James lasts into the 3rd round : (
 
snesfreak said:
This is our year!
Just like ten years ago, the Bucs will rise up with a new coach and win a Super Bowl!
Now if only we still had one of the greatest defenses ever...
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Bu...but I thought this was supposed to be the PS3's year! The Bucs are just now hitting their stride, right?

Not sure if it was mentioned earlier, but Tulloch's deal finally came out, $25 mil for 5 years. While I'm still not totally thrilled with having him here still, I can manage it for that price. It's pretty impressive that the Lions have managed to hold on to everybody that they had the possibility of losing aside from Eric Wright, who...I don't imagine will be terribly missed anyway, not for the money he wound up with.
 
Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe and New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma might both belong to the NFL Players Association, but to say there is any type of common bond between the two these days would be completely inaccurate.

Kluwe, in fact, doesn't only want Vilma out of the Players Association, he would like him out of the NFL all together.

Kluwe, in an interview on the "Judd & Phunn" show Thursday morning on 1500 ESPN, said that he would like to see Vilma and former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams banned for the NFL for life for their role in the team's bounty program.

The comments came a day after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Saints coach Sean Payton without pay for the entire 2012 season for allowing a culture in which payments were offered to defensive players who injured opponents.

Goodell also suspended Saints general manager Mickey Loomis without pay for the first eight games of the upcoming season, fined the team $500,000 and ruled that they will forfeit second-round picks in the 2012 and 2013 draft.

Assistant coach Joe Vitt was suspended for the first six games of the 2012 season, and Williams, who is now the defensive coordinator for the St. Louis Rams, was given an indefinite suspension that could end his coaching career.

"I was pleased," Kluwe said when asked about Goodell's actions. "My position has always been that I think Vilma and Gregg Williams should be banned for life and then Payton should get a year, their GM should get a year and anyone who knowingly took money after a hit that injured someone should get a year as well."

In a league that encourages its players to stay away from controversy, Kluwe has had no problem going after Goodell and the NFL if he thinks the league has been wrong about something. So it carries some meaning that, in this case, Kluwe is applauding the NFL's actions.

Kluwe's words also carry weight because he stood on the sideline on Jan. 24, 2010 and watched the Vikings' 31-28 overtime loss to the Saints in the NFC title game at the Superdome. Kluwe saw the Saints take what appeared to be some unnecessary shots early in that game, and then saw the high-low hit on quarterback Brett Favre in the third quarter that left the veteran hobbled with a painful ankle injury.

"Me and Ryan were kind of looking at each other on the bench going, 'Are they really going after Brett?'" Kluwe said, recalling his exchange with kicker Ryan Longwell that day. "Like, 'Is this really what they're doing?' But you don't want to believe that something like that is happening because you think better of the other players.

"You don't want to think that they're doing something like that. I think that was part of the thing that the league was looking at (in its investigation) was like, 'OK, we've really got to make sure that this is true because otherwise it's going to make the sport look really bad.'"

That's why it took the NFL so long to finally announce that it had irrefutable evidence that the Saints had run a bounty program for three seasons. A "knockout" could earn a player $1,500 and a "cart-off" was worth $1,000. For the most part, the funding came from the Saints players.

Kluwe's disgust with Vilma runs especially high because he reportedly put up $10,000 of his own cash to anyone who knocked Favre out of the NFC title game. Kluwe said Thursday that he first suspected something was odd when Favre was drilled after handing off early in the game.

"I had never seen that before in my life," he said.

And so, although the guilty defenders might be in the same union as Kluwe, he has no interest in supporting them. Punishment for players has not been announced yet because Goodell is thought to be in talks with the NFLPA about the course of action.

The Vikings, meanwhile, jettisoned defensive tackle Remi Ayodele on Wednesday hours after Goodell announced the punishment against the Saints. Ayodele was with New Orleans during the 2009 season, and he was the guy who went high on Favre as then-teammate Bobby McCray came in low.

The Vikings contend that the move to let Ayodele go was based on his disappointing performance during the team's 3-13 season in 2011 -- plus the fact fellow defensive tackle Fred Evans did not officially sign until Wednesday -- but the timing certaintly was interesting. There is a chance the Vikings knew that Ayodele is going to face a suspension from the NFL and decided it was no longer worth having him around.

As for the suspensions that are to be handed out, Kluwe said he will be upset if the guilty parties don't have to pay a big price.

"I'll be very disappointed," if they only get three games, he said. "I think this is a spot where the (NFLPA) definitely has to take a stand and say, 'Look, you put other guys' livelihoods in danger. You're jeopardizing other guys' chances to play.' Football is violent enough as it is. It's hard enough to stay healthy in the league and so by maliciously trying to hurt people they need to show, we need to show, that there's no place in the game for that kind of behavior."

Kluwe also sees this as an opportunity for the union to take a stand and make it clear to its members that there is a difference between right and wrong.

"That's one of things where I think that's why we need to make a strong point," he said. "The NFLPA can't be just about appealing fines for late hits or protecting players when they do something wrong.

"It has to stand for doing the right thing as well, and that means protecting union members who were the ones that were the victims of getting injured. You can't look at the (NFLPA) as a shield for the guys who are doing the wrong thing. It has to be a shield for the guys who need that protection."
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Stanton is :snes @Tebow trade cause he'll be 3rd string, not back up. Well suck less then bro and dont run out the back of the endzone when a tobacoo chewing redneck is chasing you down(or was that orlosvsky?)
 
I see the Lions signed Everette Brown.

If Schwartz can do with Brown what he did with Lawrence Jackson, this will be a steal.

Also, Tulloch's deal is worth $25 million and only $11 million guaranteed, not a bad deal at all. That's an amazing deal for the captain of the defense. Not sure what Doorman's issue is.
 
Doorman said:
Bu...but I thought this was supposed to be the PS3's year! The Bucs are just now hitting their stride, right?

Not sure if it was mentioned earlier, but Tulloch's deal finally came out, $25 mil for 5 years. While I'm still not totally thrilled with having him here still, I can manage it for that price. It's pretty impressive that the Lions have managed to hold on to everybody that they had the possibility of losing aside from Eric Wright, who...I don't imagine will be terribly missed anyway, not for the money he wound up with.
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Man, I still find it hard to believe any Detroit fan is down on Tulloch. He is truly a fantastic MLB and we're lucky to have him. We could still be starting Paris Lennon! And thank goodness Wright is gone. I can't believe he got paid that much money to let passes by for TB. Maybe Schiano is into losing?

Plinko said:
I see the Lions signed Everette Brown.

If Schwartz can do with Brown what he did with Lawrence Jackson, this will be a steal.
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If anything, he is depth insurance for Vandenbosch's old ass and Willie Young's personal foul habits
 
jakncoke said:
Stanton is :snes @Tebow trade cause he'll be 3rd string, not back up. Well suck less then bro and dont run out the back of the endzone when a tobacoo chewing redneck is chasing you down(or was that orlosvsky?)
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Don't you besmirch the good name of Stanton. He is the god damned Land Dragon and would have never shamed the team like Orvlosky did (whome you mistaked him for).
 
jakncoke said:
Stanton is :snes @Tebow trade cause he'll be 3rd string, not back up. Well suck less then bro and dont run out the back of the endzone when a tobacoo chewing redneck is chasing you down(or was that orlosvsky?)
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That was orlovsky. Stanton is the one who defeated (the super bowl winning) Packers in one of the lowest scoring games ever.

And no Atogwe signing yet...hype fading...
 
RIP Jim Driver

James H. "Jim" Driver, 78, of Eagle, Colo., formerly of Columbia, passed away Monday, March 19, 2012, at South Hampton Place in Columbia after a brief illness. An avid Broncos fan, he abhorred Manning and evidently wanted out before a deal was done.
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