NFL 2019 Off-Season thread

[WestPhillyPunisher]

The Eagles held franchise quarterback Carson Wentz out of their preseason opener against Tennessee, perhaps out of fear of injury, going with backup Nate Sudfeld, so, guess what happened? Yep, he got hurt late in the first half, suffering a broken left wrist (he passes with his right). OUCH! Reports after the game from head coach Doug Pederson said Sudfeld's injury wasn't season ending and could be out six to eight weeks after surgery which will probably be today. As for who backs up Wentz, that job now falls on journeyman Cody Kessler and rookie Clayton Thorson, it looks like the team won't look to add a passer.

[HowitzerJoe]

Pre-draft, I predicted Nick Bosa would be out of football because of injuries before his rookie deal is done. The process has started...

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ce-getting-mri

-M

So an ankle sprain means he'll be out of the NFL in four years?

[SUPERECWFAN1]

So an ankle sprain means he'll be out of the NFL in four years?

MRP is saying its a process and may just be a sign of things to come with Bosa. Who knows really. Frank Gore had ACL surgery in college. Yet today is so reliable he's entering his 15th/16th season as a RB. So we will have to wait and see.

[HowitzerJoe]

MRP is saying its a process and may just be a sign of things to come with Bosa. Who knows really. Frank Gore had ACL surgery in college. Yet today is so reliable he's entering his 15th/16th season as a RB. So we will have to wait and see.

Well, he specifically said the "process has started" as if it's going to happen, which really this early in his career is pretty nutty for just Bosa. You could say that about anyone in the NFL in their rookie season after an ankle sprain if you wanted, just because the careers are so short in general. Except maybe longsnappers, kickers and punters.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Well, he specifically said the "process has started" as if it's going to happen, which really this early in his career is pretty nutty for just Bosa. You could say that about anyone in the NFL in their rookie season after an ankle sprain if you wanted, just because the careers are so short in general. Except maybe longsnappers, kickers and punters.

I haven't really followed Bosa's college career. Maybe he had a college history of injuries and its why its doubtful he could survive in the NFL. Its what impacted Gore's draft status in 2005 draft. He fell to 2nd rd due to his ACL injuries. Yet he's managed a long grinding career.

[MRP]

I haven't really followed Bosa's college career. Maybe he had a college history of injuries and its why its doubtful he could survive in the NFL. Its what impacted Gore's draft status in 2005 draft. He fell to 2nd rd due to his ACL injuries. Yet he's managed a long grinding career.

I live a half hour from OSU and am inundated with Buckeye news whether I want to be or not. The knock on Bosa in the local press was always he missed as much time as he was available and he was never diligent in his work on rehabbing injuries so it would take him longer to come back than it should have, and he missed more time. The scuttlebutt was he didn't care about playing he was only waiting for his payday and he would milk injuries. Then he bailed on his teammates senior year because he was hurt and didn't want to risk his payday or draft position by coming back. Now he has hurt his ankle which was initially, a minor sprain, then has components of a high ankle sprain (Lisfranc) and he will miss the pre-season and could possibly be back by opening weekend but we don't want to put a timetable on it.

If his pattern holds true, he will milk this one, be back around week 3, get hurt again by week 6 possibly back by the end of the season, but will milk that too, and then maybe come back for 1 or 2 games, and then get hurt again in training camp so he can miss the pre-season again. He doesn't care about playing football, only about what football can bring him and he's never been in a hurry to get back on the field when he gets hurt.

-M

[worstblogever]

The Eagles held franchise quarterback Carson Wentz out of their preseason opener against Tennessee, perhaps out of fear of injury, going with backup Nate Sudfeld, so, guess what happened? Yep, he got hurt late in the first half, suffering a broken left wrist (he passes with his right). OUCH! Reports after the game from head coach Doug Pederson said Sudfeld's injury wasn't season ending and could be out six to eight weeks after surgery which will probably be today. As for who backs up Wentz, that job now falls on journeyman Cody Kessler and rookie Clayton Thorson, it looks like the team won't look to add a passer.

If only there were a former Pro Bowl QB well rested after a few years off, but still under 35... Hmm...

[BeastieRunner]

If only there were a former Pro Bowl QB well rested after a few years off, but still under 35... Hmm...

I think that man will sign with the Pats next year.

[worstblogever]

It's time for Chainsaw Dan and the most racist-named team in American sports... it's... Why Your Team Sucks: The Washington R******s



From Washington fans:

Drew Magary: "Lemme do that thing where I run down the Skins’ interminable list of offenses from the previous season:

• They led the division past midseason only to finish 1-6.
• They failed to sell out their home opener, despite reducing the seating capacity there to roughly 400. The rest of the stadium is bandaged up in FedEx tarps. Anyone who actually attends these games is only there to unfurl a SELL THE TEAM DAN sign so they can get kicked out in the first quarter and beat traffic home.
• They sold team-branded 9/11 gear. And Sean Taylor plushies. Every public sales pitch and/or statement from this team was evidently composed by Kellyanne Conway after she’s got two bottles of Barefoot chardonnay in her.
• They got protested by their own beer vendors for low pay.
• They signed Paul Richardson as a deep threat and SURPRISE he got hurt. On this franchise, Richardson somehow represented a well-managed injury case.
• Stud back Derrius Guice got hurt and so the team took a flyer on proven child beater Adrian Peterson, who ran for over 1,000 yards. Heartwarming.
• They stopped offering their cheerleaders as grope fuel for VIPs. For now, at least.
• They paid Alex Smith $71 million guaranteed only to watch him have his worst season in AGES and have it end prematurely when J.J. Watt snapped his leg like a chopstick. Smith required a second surgery on that same leg when the first surgery got botched.
• Backup QB Colt McCoy, maybe the most talented person on Earth at getting injured at pivotal times, got hurt immediately after Smith got hurt, and ALSO had to have a corrective second surgery after the first one went awry.
• They started Mark Sanchez without bothering to teach him the playbook. They would go on to lose to an imploding-via-controlled-demolition Giants team 40-16.
• They started Josh Johnson.
• Josh Norman, who is beyond washed up, shat on the fans for not giving a crap about them.
• Michael Thomas shat on Josh Norman.
• Taylor Lewan ALSO shat on them, which is remarkable because Taylor Lewan would otherwise blend in PERFECTLY with this jackass fanbase.
• One of their safeties got charged with assault. In a nice change of pace, he was charged of beating someone WITH his girlfriend, and not beating the girlfriend. Meanwhile…
• They grabbed Reuben Foster after a second DV charge got him dropped by San Francisco. GM and glorified casino floor greeter Doug Williams defended the pickup thusly:

" You know, we got people who are in high, high, high places that have done far worse if you look at it realistically, and you know they’re still up there."

I know! He’s right there in the owner’s box! Foster has since blown out his knee and been placed in career hospice.

• They traded D.J. Swearinger to Arizona after Swearinger publicly criticized the team’s laissez-faire approach to preparation.
• The D.C. councilman who promised them a stadium turned out to be brazenly corrupt. And not even in a fun way. Maryland also told them to take their stadium proposal and wipe a dead cow’s ass with it.
• They watched their former OC win the NFC.
• The current head coach’s kid got tagged for public drunkenness. And NOT at the stadium! Big upset.
• They fired Brian Lafemina, who was brought in to improve the team’s stadium experience and its relationship with fans, almost certainly because Lafemina had the gall to admit that the season ticket waiting list was a sham and that the team’s public image hovered somewhere just below that of Rob Porter. According to Chris Russell, a local beat guy who made his bones here by licking the team’s boots before turning against them, dozens of other front office employees followed Lafemina out the door. I don’t trust Russell for ****, but for this post, I’ll eat up all the negative press I can heap onto my plate.

Though I am programmed to mentally catalog all of this team’s ongoing atrocities, I’m sure I’ve managed to forget a few on that list. The Skins are just that prolific. There’s a reason this was the favorite team of the American Nazi Party in the early 1960s."

Zach: "Two of the top three YouTube result autofills for 'Redskins quarterback' are 'injury' and 'breaks leg.'"

Christopher: "Every player on this team who has surgery either has an infection or complications that require additional surgeries. In the last 12 months alone: Derrius Guice, Alex Smith, Colt McCoy, and Trent Williams. ONLY this team would take what are now considered pretty routine surgeries (at least in the case of Guice & McCoy) for professional athletes and turn them into career-threatening situations. I could sterilize a wound using only my unwashed hands and a rusty ax better than this team’s medical staff."

Bob: "Noted supporter of Native American culture, Dan Snyder, invited tribal groups to 'bless' the dodgy field at FedEx before the game against the Texans. Having been invoked, the Spirits assessed Dan and his character and meted out the appropriate reward: Alex Smith’s fibula shattered like a plate at a Greek folk dance."

Dave: "Daniel Snyder is the worst owner on the planet. You could tell me that he rapes baby seals before murdering them and I would say that’s not even in the top ten worst things he’s ever done.

I truly hope my kids decide to cheer for the Ravens."

[WestPhillyPunisher]

If only there were a former Pro Bowl QB well rested after a few years off, but still under 35... Hmm...

Ironically, it would be fitting if the Birds brought Kaepernick in, considering they gave Michael Vick a second chance after his release from prison. However, I don’t see that happening, Kaep is still too radioactive, and word has it Sudfeld will be out six weeks after surgery today, that’s late September/early October, I’m guessing Philly will roll with Kessler while praying Wentz stays healthy until then.

[Jackmando7]

Antonio Brown has told Raiders officials that he will not play again if he doesn't get to wear his old helmet, per @AdamSchefter

He also apparently showed up to practice with his old helmet painted in raiders colors. Like the kind of paint you can find at Lowes.

There is a lot of laughing going on in Pittsburgh right now.

[Scott Taylor]

Antonio Brown's "Mr. Big Chest" speech plus all these recent shenanigans make me wonder if he doesn't need a psychological appraisal.

[Jackmando7]

Antonio Brown's "Mr. Big Chest" speech plus all these recent shenanigans make me wonder if he doesn't need a psychological appraisal.

Antonio Brown, AB, Mr big chest, Ronald Ocean, Tony. I think that he thinks these are all different people.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Antonio Brown has told Raiders officials that he will not play again if he doesn't get to wear his old helmet, per @AdamSchefter

He also apparently showed up to practice with his old helmet painted in raiders colors. Like the kind of paint you can find at Lowes.

There is a lot of laughing going on in Pittsburgh right now.

Meanwhile he can't remember to wear proper footwear inside a cryogentic lab though. I mean at this stage the Raiders have to be thinking this trade and signing money is starting to blow up in their faces.

[BeastieRunner]

Hard Knocks is going to be awesome.