2023 NFL offseason thread

The outline of a future broadcast date compromise between these two operations which need each other but are also both very greedy looks to me like this. NFL expands to 18-game regular season, which it's dying to do and also puts Super Bowl Sunday on Presidents Day weekend. NFL then agrees to have its last two weeks of the regular season take place only on Sundays and Monday of next to last week. This leaves college playoff free to have New Year's Day and both the first and second Saturdays of January all to itself.

 

Dude on the right looks like he was playing QB for the Gauchos or Banana Slugs.




Benjamin played high school football at James Monroe High School in North Hills, California and matriculated at Stanford University in 1974. He split starting time with Mike Cordova at first, but took over as full-time starter in 1976. In 1977, under coach Bill Walsh, Benjamin led Stanford to a 24–14 victory over LSU in the 1977 Sun Bowl and won both the Sammy Baugh Trophy (top passer in college football) and the W.J. Voit Memorial Trophy, (outstanding college football player on the Pacific Coast).

Benjamin was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 1978 NFL Draft. He played two seasons behind Bob Griese and Don Strock, then spent one season as Archie Manning's backup with the New Orleans Saints. He was reunited with Bill Walsh when he joined the San Francisco 49ers in 1981, where he earned a Super Bowl ring as Joe Montana's backup in Super Bowl XVI. He retired in 1984 following surgery.[1]

Career NFL statistics
TD-INT: 3-3
Passing yards: 439
Passer rating: 73.1
Pass attempts: 68
Pass completions: 39
Games played: 19

 

Don Strock is 72 years old and I'll bet still a better backup QB than half the backup QBs in the league.

 

There should be an annual award for the NFL's best backup quarterback. They could call it the Earl Morrall Award.

 

Sponsored by Avis.

 

When billionaires have to team up, and even then take a loan from other billionaires to be able to afford an NFL franchise - will the NFL at some point allow foreign (non-North American) ownership in the NFL?

 

Not as long as there's a US Congress. Imagine the noise if UAE, the Qataris or the Saudis tried to buy one.

 

And here I thought re-signing Mason Rudolph and Trubisky sucking was going to prevent this:

Source: Steelers, Trubisky finalizing extension

 

Rudolph was never an option as No. 2 for this coming season. He thought he was going to be able to find a backup job somewhere else and nobody else wanted him, so he came crawling back to the Steelers on their terms. Trubisky isn't very good, but he's fine as a backup and better than Rudolph. Given that they see Pickett as their future, backing him up with a couple of veterans makes sense in the short term. The extension will likely reduce Trubisky's cap number for 2023. That will free up more money for either another free agent or two or to extend Alex Highsmith. The latter seems more likely, but they did have Kwon Alexander in for a visit and they were supposedly in on Kyle Van Noy.

 

60 to SF.

Guess we'll see a Vlad-like pre-Olympic sweep of the homeless prior.

 

Santa Clara is what, 50 miles from San Francisco. They'll just move all the Super Week activities to Silicon Valley.