NFL Thread (2016-17)

[BrandonK]

LOL Cleveland. I love it. I'm sure Mit does too.

[JMW IV]

Cleveland, with Hue Jackson and little in the way of "come be our savior in 1 season or else we hate you" expectations is actually a really good situation for RG3.

Get all your jokes and "haha cleveland lolz"  laughter out now.

Cause RG3 is gonna ball out in Cleveland. Mark my words.

The question is, is he fully healthy now after sitting out for a year, and can he stay that way.

[BrandonK]

Cleveland, with Hue Jackson and little in the way of "come be our savior in 1 season or else we hate you" expectations is actually a really good situation for RG3.

Get all your jokes and "haha cleveland lolz"  laughter out now.

Cause RG3 is gonna ball out in Cleveland. Mark my words.

The question is, is he fully healthy now after sitting out for a year, and can he stay that way.

I'll take ya up on that bet. Cleveland may still take Wentz at 2 + McCown is still there. RG3 may not even start haha. Add in the fact that their offensive line is now in shambles (lost Mack & Schwartz -- Thomas may be traded too) + no receivers outside of Barnidge, and RG3's bum knees won't be a factor this year. Hue Jackson is great, but that doesn't change anything about the FO being a joke, nor the lack of talent on offense.

[HalfSmokes]

They're not paying rg3 like a starter (or even a high end back up) - I wouldn't be surprised if his job is to challenge wentz in the pre season, then ride the bench

[KnorrForYourMoney]

Cleveland, with Hue Jackson and little in the way of "come be our savior in 1 season or else we hate you" expectations is actually a really good situation for RG3.

Get all your jokes and "haha cleveland lolz"  laughter out now.

Cause RG3 is gonna ball out in Cleveland. Mark my words.

The question is, is he fully healthy now after sitting out for a year, and can he stay that way.

No way.

[BrandonK]

They're not paying rg3 like a starter (or even a high end back up) - I wouldn't be surprised if his job is to challenge wentz in the pre season, then ride the bench

Chase freaking Daniel got more.

[wj73]

Former Raven Terrence Cody gets 9 months in jail for the torture/starvation death of his dog.  Scumbag.  Hope he rots there.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/03/24/former-raven-terrence-cody-gets-nine-months-for-killing-his-dog/

[skippy1999]

Former Raven Terrence Cody gets 9 months in jail for the torture/starvation death of his dog.  Scumbag.  Hope he rots there.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/03/24/former-raven-terrence-cody-gets-nine-months-for-killing-his-dog/

Agreed, absolutely sickening

[nats2playoffs]

...and we'll find out soon - RGIII signs two-year deal at Cleveland: http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2016/03/robert_griffin_iii_agrees_to_terms_with_cleveland_browns.html

"They signed Griffin to a two-year deal worth $15 million, including a $3.5 million signing bonus and $6.75 million in guarantees. The maximum value, including incentives, is $22 million. "
 
Was RGIII brought in to be a public relations spokesman, or to play football?

Kirk Cousins had the second fastest release in the NFL, after Tom Brady. Did RGIII learn anything from that. He had plenty of time to study film, but did he actually do that?

[mitlen]

"They signed Griffin to a two-year deal worth $15 million, including a $3.5 million signing bonus and $6.75 million in guarantees. The maximum value, including incentives, is $22 million. "
 
Was RGIII brought in to be a public relations spokesman, or to play football?

Kirk Cousins had the second fastest release in the NFL, after Tom Brady. Did RGIII learned anything from that. He had plenty of time to study film, but did he actually do that?

RGIII and the Republican Convention   ...   Cleveland will again be the heart of rock and roll.

[HalfSmokes]

http://deadspin.com/nfl-demands-retraction-from-new-york-times-1767739264

you'd think the NFL would want these stories to go away and not keep drawing attention to them (I'll believe they'll sue and open themselves to discovery right after Zimmerman and Howard get around to filing suit)

[Slateman]

Hardy did an interview with Schefter and said he never put his hands on a woman.

“So I guess she tripped on the carpet or something.” - Steve Smith

[BrandonK]

I love SSS. freak Greg Hardy.

[BrandonK]

Twitter will be streaming Thur. night games this season. Interested in seeing what they do. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/15138355/twitter-wins-digital-streaming-rights-nfl-thursday-night-games

[HalfSmokes]

unless twitter sets up an app for roku/apple tv/fire tv, this sucks

[mitlen]

unless twitter sets up an app for roku/apple tv/fire tv, this sucks

I don't know what any of this is but I do know I don't have it.

[BrandonK]

It seems like it'll be more for highlights + "extras" rather than full games. It's still on NFL Network, Twitter just gets the "streaming" rights. Apparently it only cost them $10M too. NBC paid something like $450M.

[HalfSmokes]

it's full games

The National Football League announced today that Twitter will stream 10 Thursday Night Football games, free for all users, during the 2016 regular season.

"The NFL and Twitter will provide free, live streaming video of Thursday Night Football without authentication to the over 800 million registered and non-registered users worldwide on the Twitter platform on mobile phones, tablets, PCs, and connected TVs," the league said.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/04/twitter-buys-nfl-streaming-rights-for-10-thursday-night-football-games/

if they only paid $10 million, that's a terrible sign for the NFL moving forward considering that Amazon was supposedly a bidder

[BrandonK]

That's nuts. Here's the $10M number from reddit -- http://recode.net/2016/04/05/twitter-beats-amazon-verizon-for-global-nfl-streaming-deal/

Guess this makes sense: "While the NFL and Twitter haven’t disclosed the price for the package, people familiar with the bidding said Twitter paid less than $10 million for entire 10 game package, while rival bids topped $15 million. Those numbers are a fraction of the $450 million CBS and NBC collectively paid the rights to broadcast the Thursday games. (A note from Twitter’s Investor Relations Twitter account notes that the company had already baked the cost of the deal into their 2016 guidance.)

One big reason for the disparity is that CBS and NBC have their own digital rights, and they will own most of the digital ad inventory in their games, people familiar with the deal say. So Twitter will be rebroadcasting the CBS and NBC feeds of the games, and will have the rights to sell a small portion of the ads associated with each game."

[HalfSmokes]

If that number holds, I think the RSN/sports bubble might have just burst. Yahoo paid something like $17 million for a terrible single Thrusday night game, and now you have a 10 game package with bids from 10-15 million. I would think that if they expected the numbers to be there, the big digital players like Amazon/netflix/youtube would have been fine airing a game with someone else's adds since they're selling a subscription and if the viewers don't mind the adds, I doubt they'd care. Instead, the rights were won by a company in terrible financial shape with no experience pushing high def video to potentially millions of people. The next time the bigger contracts come up, I wonder if that $10 million will effect the valuation (If I'm disney/comcast I may prefer to blow twitter out of the water with a $20 million bid and use it to anchor espn3 or an nbc sports app than letting espn or NBC bid a half billion to air it on cable/broadcast)

[imref]

Marcus Vick arrested again.

[Slateman]

Marcus Vick arrested again.

Such a winning family

[BrandonK]

D'Brickashaw retired. One of the best names to ever play!

[Lintyfresh85]

Former Saints DE Will Smith murdered last night... what looked liked a road rage incident seems to be a lot more involved now.

Update (12:54 p.m.): The New Orleans Advocate reports Will Smith ate dinner with former New Orleans police captain Billy Ceravolo shortly before being murdered. Ceravolo was a defendant in a high-profile lawsuit filed by Cardell Hayes over the shooting death of Hayes’s father in 2005. The Advocate reports Ceravolo, who was personal friends of both Smith and Pierre Thomas, was not at the scene of the shooting.

http://deadspin.com/will-smiths-alleged-murderer-is-a-former-high-school-fo-1770144098

[Slateman]

Rams now have the number 1 pick


The Titans have agreed to trade the No.1 pick of the draft to the Los Angeles Rams for the 15th overall pick in this year’s draft, two second-round picks (43 and 45), and a third-rounder (76) in 2016. The Titans will also receive the Rams’ first-round pick in 2017, along with their third-round pick in next year’s draft.

In addition to Tennessee’s No.1 pick this year, the Rams will also receive a fourth-round pick (113) and sixth-round pick (177) in 2016.

As a result of the trade, the Titans now have six picks in the top 76 in this year’s draft – 15, 33, 43, 45, 64 and 76. The Titans already held picks 33 and 64.