Gotham Cronie
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Wow. I never expected a punishment of this magnitude for Brady and the Patriots.
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Hi Gotham,
Are you going to organise the Fantasy Football this year ?
I won't be, sorry. This is my 4th league and just to hard to keep up with.
Plans on a Fantasy league this season?All this race talk about Chip is so stupid and making the wait until the beginning of the season even longer.
Plans on a Fantasy league this season?
I'm sorry Romali, you have to suffer the pain of seeing Bradford as your QB now.
Yeah, with our D-line all Foles needs to be is solid and we will be alright. Aaron Donald in particular looks better each time I see him, he's an utter beast.
What do you think of Brockers ? Top 5 DTs in the league now ?
Dunno, I don't watch as much football as I used to so I'm not up to speed on all the teams round the league. Not sure I could call him top 5 when he's not even the best DT on his team.
It's a weird one with Brockers, because he's on a stacked D-line. He's definitely a good player even though he is overshadowed by the likes of Donald and Quinn. I mean, Nick Fairley would start for pretty much every team in the league and he's a backup DT in St. Louis.
lol Wish we had Nick Foles right now....
Sorry again for Bradford
Foles looked OK against the Steelers until the panicky game ending interception. Had a couple of dropped passes, one of which would have been an easy 40-50 yard TD to a wide open Kendricks but it was mostly the terrible gameplan and playcalling that cost us the win over the Steelers. At least he isn't afraid to throw the ball 10 yards downfield which is a huge change from the Bradford days.
I agree about the Rams getting the better end of the deal, we got a starting QB and a second rounder which is just insane. Chip Kelly has got to be in huge trouble if the Eagles don't turn things around quickly, the roster moves he made don't make a great deal of sense.
Let Maclin and Mathis go and traded McCoy to make room under the salary cap only to go and use that space to get Bradford, who is garbage and Murray who doesn't fit his system and looks like half the player Ryan Matthews is. Meanwhile the aforementioned crappy QB is throwing to receivers who keep dropping the ball because all the decent receivers have left and the line can hardly run block.
Don't worry though, I'm sure Chip's still a revolutionary genius.
Except Bradford has never shown he can rise to the level of average QB play, so you've downgraded at QB while paying millions more than before.
Genius.
It's not called taking a flyer/dart/chance when your replacement for Foles is someone who has proven that he's much worse.
Then Bradford isn't the answer. Neither is Foles.He was mediocre at best in his rookie year too and didn't really show much potential. He would have been benched a long time ago if it wasn't for the fact that he was part of the last draft class with the old rookie wage scale, as such he was being paid so much that the team couldn't bench him even though he sucked.
During his time in St Louis Sam Bradford proved that he is worse than Austin Davis (third string for the Browns) and journeyman backup Shaun Hill.
Keep telling yourself he showed enough potential that warranted paying millions more than the Eagles would have paid Foles to get better quality QB play.
Bradford is garbage, everybody that's watched him play knows he is garbage, if you think it makes sense to pay more for garbage than you did for an average QB then I'm not sure what it will take to make you see sense.
Cheers for the second round pick.
In most sports, the Most Valuable Player is inherently also the best player. In football, though, nearly all of the Most Valuable Players honorees are quarterbacks—such is the state of the modern game. The MVP award has become something that only quarterbacks—and the occasional running back, if that season’s QBs play poorly enough—can win. The best players, though, can play any position, and deserve a level playing field come award time.
Instead of handing an award to a quarterback or running back when other players at less glamorous positions enjoyed superior seasons, we at PFF also recognize the best overall performance of the NFL season each year, regardless of position, and bestow the Dwight Stephenson Award to that player.
The award is named after a player who pre-dates Pro Football Focus, but does not pre-date the site’s ethos. Dwight Stephenson played only eight NFL seasons for the Miami Dolphins, but was a five-time All-Pro and was selected to the All-Decade team of the 1980s. More importantly, you only need to throw on a couple of minutes of tape to see that he was something special.
This award comes with no positional bias whatsoever. A guard has every bit as much chance to win it as a cornerback, pass-rusher, quarterback, or any other player. All they need to do is dominate and perform during the regular season.
For the past three seasons of existence, the award has been won by J.J. Watt on each occasion.
Winner
Aaron Donald, DT, St. Louis Rams
As a rookie, Aaron Donald was PFF’s highest-graded defensive tackle. In his second season, he didn’t just take a step forward, he broad-jumped into the area previously reserved only for Watt, a player universally acknowledged now as generationally great and one of the best to ever put on pads. Donald out-graded Watt this season, and by the end of the year, it wasn’t even particularly close.
Donald maxed out the new PFF grading scale with a 99.9, while Watt earned a 95.6. In the old system, there was more than 20 grading points between the two players over 16 games.
Donald ended the season with 79 total pressures, a batted pass, 51 defensive stops, and 30 plays in which he beat his blocker, but the ball was out before the play could result in pressure. Donald was the single-most disruptive force in the NFL during the 2015 season.
Watt may have edged Donald in several statistical categories (89 total pressures, 59 defensive stops), but the Texan has become far more of an edge defender than an interior player this season. Watt played outside the tackle on 63.9 percent of his passes, and was only really an interior player on base downs. Why is that important? Statistically speaking, edge defenders generate more pressure than interior players. Not because they are inherently better, but because they have more space to work with and a lower chance of multiple bodies to negotiate. Of the top five players in total pressures this season, only one is an interior rusher, and 16 of the top 20 in that category are edge players. Donald also saw 92 fewer pass-rushing snaps than Watt over the course of the season, meaning he simply saw fewer opportunities to post these ridiculous numbers. Donald’s season with 92 additional pass-rushing snaps projects to 14.6 additional hurries, or enough to put him 3.6 clear of Watt.
None of this is meant to diminish Watt, who remains a dominant player, but the fact is that between performance and injury, he didn’t have the same type of year he has had in the past, despite the sack total suggesting otherwise. Donald, however, didn’t just take advantage of Watt playing at 80 percent of his previous best, but posted a grade over the season that rivals any year we have ever seen from Watt.
It seems incredible to suggest that any defensive player had a better year than Watt so soon after trying to convince everybody that he was one of the greatest defensive players to ever play the game, but Donald’s season was just that good.
GC,
I hope we can get Desean back this offseason and pair him up with Bradford...
Eh, not the biggest fan of DJack. Would prefer a bigger wide receiver so we can finally have a redzone option. Anybody over Cooper, however.
The NFL Draft began Thursday and continues Friday (7 p.m.) and Saturday (noon). Here’s a look at the picks made in the first round.
First round
1. Los Angeles (from Tennessee): Jared Goff, QB, Cal
2. Philadelphia (from Cleveland): Carson Wentz, QB, North Dakota State
3. San Diego: Joey Bosa, DE, Ohio State
4. Dallas: Ezekiel Elliott, RB, Ohio State
5. Jacksonville: Jalen Ramsey, CB, Florida State
6. Baltimore: Ronnie Stanley, OT, Notre Dame
7. San Francisco: DeForest Buckner, DE, Oregon
8. Tennessee (from Cleveland): Jack Conklin, OT, Michigan State
9. Chicago (from Tampa Bay): Leonard Floyd, OLB, Georgia
10. N.Y. Giants: Eli Apple, CB, Ohio State
11. Tampa Bay (from Chicago): Vernon Hargreaves, CB, Florida
12. New Orleans: Sheldon Rankins, DT, Louisville
13. Miami (from Philadelphia): Laremy Tunsil, OT, Mississippi
14. Oakland: Karl Joseph, S, West Virginia
15. Cleveland (fromTennessee): Corey Coleman, WR, Baylor
16. Detroit: Taylor Decker, OT, Ohio State
17. Atlanta: Keanu Neal, S, Florida
18. Indianapolis: Ryan Kelly, C, Alabama
19. Buffalo: Shaq Lawson, DE, Clemson
20. N.Y. Jets: Darron Lee, OLB, Ohio State
21. Houston (from Washington): Will Fuller, WR, Notre Dame
22. Washington (from Houston): Josh Doctson, WR, TCU
23. Minnesota: Laquon Treadwell, WR, Mississippi
24. Cincinnati: William Jackson III, CB, Houston
25. Pittsburgh: Artie Burns, CB, Miami
26. Denver (from Seattle): Paxton Lynch, QB, Memphis
27. Green Bay: Kenny Clark, DT, UCLA
28. San Francisco (from Kansas City): Joshua Garnett, G, Stanford
29. Arizona: Robert Nkemdiche, DE, Mississippi
31. Carolina: Vernon Butler, DT, Louisiana Tech
32. Seattle (from Denver): Germain Ifedi, OG, Texas A&M
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/...draft-picks/HISAlUHeRtNNC9z7YxiLTI/story.html
Wow wow wow..
Tom Brady is showing why he is the best ever
He supports a fascist white supremacist and hasn't won anything that wasn't tainted by cheating but sure, praise him if you want.
All the people who value equality, freedom, honesty and respect for our fellow man (and woman) know the truth though.
What a win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations to all the Trump fans and white supremacists on another great victory. 2017 truly is turning out to be a banner year for you guys.
To all those cricket fans who understand American Footabl ... How does this Win (or the loss) compare with anything in Cricket ? Just curious.
It is like a team scoring 500 runs in the fourth innings to win a test match.
It's like you are chasing 400 and you are 50/6 and still manage to win.