NFL offseason thread

6-4, 315, baby.

 

At the risk of another Steelers-jack, they signed former Saint Garrett Hartley, who might be the most maddeningly inconsistent kicker I've ever had the misfortune to watch on a regular basis. He'll nail a 52-yarder right down the middle, then shank a 29-yarder on his next attempt.

Enjoy him, yinzers.

 

Looks like Geno got knocked out because he refused to pay back $600 for a plane ticket purchased by Enemkpali. Geno was supposed to attend Enemkpali's high school camp, but had a family issue and missed it. Enemkpali wanted the money back and Geno refused.

The Jets have leaked video of the fight:

 

Geno Smith is an A**. Welching on $600 to a rookie. Shouldn't punch a dude but....

 

Remember Nolan Nawrocki's rip-job scouting report of Geno heading into the draft?

Looks like he got at least one part right.

 

IK Enemkpali is taking his severe punishment by the Jets ... all the way to Buffalo.

Wasn't even unemployed a full day.

Enemkpali “excited” to join Buffalo Bills | Varsity News

 

The Bills have a couple of QBs who need their asses kicked.

 

Yeah, that loss looks even worse given who they chose as a replacement.

 

Coverage of Brady v. NFL hearing on local TV and Web news outlets here about as pathetic a display of homerism as I have ever seen, right up there with Pittsburgh TV the night before the 2001 AFC title game. Makes it sound as if the judge will sentence Goodell to Leavenworth at his earliest opportunity.

 

Apparently, zombie Tom Brady showed up at the hearing -- at least according to the court sketch artist:

 

I was a 60's fanboi and I think that is fair. What baffled me was when Dave Robinson went into the Hall of Fame before Kramer. Robinson only made three pro bowls and was not as good as long as Kramer.

Tingelhoff was consider the best center in the pre-merger NFL in the second half of the sixties. Tackles at that time were 250-260, guards slightly smaller and centers could be as small as 230. Tinglehoff was about 235. Centers could be that small because defenses almost always lined up in straight 4-3's. The middle linebacker lined up over the center. The center had to be quick enough to get out to block the middle linebacker but did not have to be that big because he never had a down lineman in his face.

Culp was an All-American nose guard in a what we would now call a 3-4 at Arizona State. He was considered too short to be effective as an NFL defensive tackle coming out of college and was drafted in 1968 as an offensive guard by the Broncos. Culp resisted the position switch and was traded to the Chiefs in training camp.

Stram realized what he had and made Culp a defensive tackle but would shift him over to play over center, so effectively he was the first modern nose guard (there had been nose guards in the 50's but they had become obsolete when the NFL changed to the 4-3). Culp could line up against the smaller center while the larger, slower guard would have to try to get to the second level to block the middle linebacker, Willie Lanier.

When the Vikings played the Chiefs in the Super Bowl shifting the defensive tackle over the center was considered heretical by the old-line NFL but given how Culp, who was 265, overpowered the smaller Tinglehoff it rapidly became common practice. 235 pound centers quickly became obsolete.

 

I'd prefer they send him to a Soviet gulag, but I'll take what we can get.