2020-21 NFL thread

Case in point: Titans won two great playoff games last year and 1. Decided Ryan Tannehill had made a switch to Pro Bowler for keeps and 2. Derrick Henry was gonna make forget Earl Campbell for the next five seasons. That is investing a lot of human and financial capital on pretty scant evidence.

 

I actually think the Titans today and the Jags from a couple years ago are comparable situations - They both probably overachieved, thanks to luck and better than expected performances from guys on the roster. If the Titans finished 12-4 or 4-12 this year, neither outcome would surprise me. And hell, looking at the Titans, they provide an example of why you shouldn't ever tank as an NFL team. There's so much variance from week to week that it only takes a bit of luck to make the playoffs. (To actually win a Super Bowl? Eh, that's trickier.)

 

Especially when some of that evidence said Derrick Henry sucked for the first eight weeks of the season.
The 2019 Titans had a really weird season on a lot of fronts. Their defense was phenomenal for the first six weeks, to the point that if they had any sort of QB during that stretch they could have easily come through it 4-2 instead of 2-4 and won the AFC South. They didn't give up more than 20 points in the first six games, but also had three losses where they scored 7, 7 and 0.
The defense regressed to the mean after that, but they went to Tannehill at QB, Henry turned into the unholy spawn of Earl Campbell, Jim Brown and Barry Sanders, and they figured out how to score points.
They also had a three- or four-game stretch where they were scoring points in bunches and getting special teams and defensive TDs. Like when they scored 28 points in six minutes against the Jags, or 21 in seven minutes against the Raiders and turned both games into blowouts in the blink of an eye.

It'll be curious to see them this season, and figure out if that was a breakthrough season for a rising young team or a quirky season where they spitballed solutions on the fly and had a lot of breaks go their way.

 

I just don’t see tanking a season for a 20% chance of getting a HOF level player at 1 to be worth the risk.

 

The jags aren't tanking. They're just a very,very poorly run organization.

 

In the NFL, especially, where there are normally five or six HOF-level players available in any given draft. You can pick at No. 5 or 6 and still get a really solid player. The hard part is figuring out who they are.

 

Hint: Not anyone taken by the Jets

 

True or False?

 

Fuck you Jesus boy

Vikings QB Kirk Cousins not worried about COVID-19: 'If I die, I die'

 

Prove it, Kirk.

 

I am not well versed in NFL salary cap issues, etc. But is anybody else surprised that nobody has signed Fournette after he cleared waivers? Are they low-balling him so badly that he's the one waiting and holding out?
Fournette actually had a good year in 2019, right? Do the Jaguars save money by cutting him? Or are they obligated to pay his salary?

 

I say true. It's Jason Sehorn.