2019 NFL off-season thread

Always figured the biggest thing the combine told teams was how seriously a player would take an off-season. If they fall apart without a strength coach breathing down their neck or don't even train in the lead-up - it says a lot about a player.

 

If you watched any of the combine, seek help....but the kid from Ole Miss...
WR
6'2
233
1.6% body fat
4.33 in the 40

Freakish.

 

Mike Mamula....Freakish doesn't mean he can play (of course I may be totally off on this guy). I wonder though, if there were those two studs at WR in Ole Miss, why'd Patterson transfer to Michigan? Does that mean the WRs were not that good or that Patterson wasn't that good? Or neither?

 

Mamula wasn't a terrible pro. He certainly didn't live up to his draft status and he broke down fairly young, but it wasn't like he couldn't play at all. I always thought he was the player everybody should have expected based on what he did at Boston College.

 

But he can’t change direction.

 

"Pssstt.....sir......you see those big yellow bars way the hell down there?.....you run as fast as you can down there, and I'm gonna throw the ball to you."

 

When the trade netted the Bucs Sapp and Brooks it made it look pretty bad.

 

Mamula also had a brutal knee injury early in his career on the awful Veterans Stadium turf that certainly didn’t help.

 

I suppose it'll work most of the time if you have a QB that can just wing it, but the better teams seem to be able to handle just straight speed wideouts. Probably kind of similar to how MLB pitchers with gas are nice, but if it's a straight fastball, a major league will eventually hit it if you don't also have a breaking ball.

 

NCAA sanctions that were going to have him playing for a mediocre team and no stakes, while potentially under a microscope for the rest of his college career? A pretty good backup who might have pushed Patterson for the starting job while he was coming off of a knee injury? A coaching change that was going to shift the direction of the program? If they did pay him to come to Ole Miss, perhaps a cancellation of whatever deal he had with the former regime?
Patterson wasn't the only Ole Miss player to transfer when the shit hit the fan. He had a lot of reasons to transfer besides the players around him.
Besides, the general consensus around Ole Miss last season was that the offense wasn't a problem. It was the defense that couldn't stop anybody.

As for Metcalf, it's worth noting that he hurt his neck and missed the second half of last season. He was also only a redshirt sophomore. His injury history is worrisome, but he definitely showed some ability in the season and a half he was at Ole Miss.

 

If Brady had been on the sideline instead, this rule change is a lock.

 

Yeah bc the NFL loves the Pats and does everything to facilitate its reign...

I’m a Steelers fan and even I realize such sentiments are bullshit