2023 NFL offseason thread

Patriots lose two OTA sessions after violating NFL offseason rules, per report

If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying, amiright?

 

Ten days late on this, but the Saturday primetime game is usually decent. It's the 4:30 Saturday game that's usually the Bill Simmons Shakey's special.

 

Here's an idea: Each franchise should be ordered to sign a Scout Quarterback, a QB at least 28 years old and at least five years in pro football.

The Scout QB will be paid a flat rate scale salary (equal to league minimum for that service level.) This salary will not count against the cap.

The Scout QB will be used in practice for teams to simulate opposing QBs.

Each Monday morning each club's upcoming opponent will transmit play charts and video of SIX (6) emergency plays they intend to use in case of unexpected QB injury.

The Scout QB shall appear in no more than two preseason games for their own club to gain basic knowledge of the team's own offense.

Scout QBs will travel with the team, but they must stay in the press box unless called to play.

Scout QBs may be transferred onto the active roster, but there will be an activation delay of 15 calendar days.

The Home team Scout QB will be available to play for either team if QB injuries make it necessary during the course of the game. If the Home team Scout QB enters the game the Visiting Scout QB must be available in case of further QB injuries.

 

NFL head coaches are control freaks who would never go for the idea of having a guy around who could end up taking snaps for the opponent on Sunday. Never mind that Bill Belichick would find a way to use it to spy on the opposition because the man lives to bend the rules as far as they can go and break them when he thinks he can get away with it.

 

The very best part of this would be 32 NFL teams twisting themselves into pretzels explaining why they signed someone other than Colin Kaepernick.

 

NHL coaches have accepted the idea of standby goalies coming out of the stands to face shots when one goal csn decide a game.

The "emergency plays" teams sent to the opponent would be the team's half dozen basic plays, every team in the league already has that stuff on file.


As for Belichick, if you fucked around and used the Scout QB to cheat, the penalty would be something like you can only have ONE QB on the active roster for 4 weeks. That would put me hammer on thst shit.

 

This used to be true, as it was always the game for the AFC South champ, but it has changed since the league went to the 7-teams in, one-bye format. Last year's opener was 49ers-Seahawks, which wasn't a "skip this and do something else" matchup.

 

The league doesn't like to put teeth in rules for situations like that. Despite having been busted previously, all the Patriots lost was a couple of workouts when they got caught breaking the OTA rules this month.

Just because NHL coaches adapted doesn't mean the NFL would do so.

Honestly, why bother? The current emergency quarterback works better. The only downside is it costs teams a bit more money.

 

It's not really that much of a problem anyway.
Just expand the roster to 54 and specify three players must be QBs.

As far as costing "a bit more money," WGAF. All NFL teams clear multimillion profits. They could expand rosters to 105 and they'd still make plenty of money.

 

Report: Gruden helps Carr, Saints install offense

Yeah - Pete Carmichael and Dennis Allen have nothing to worry about. Actually surprised an NFL team - particularly one without a coach like Reid or Belichick would have the stones to do this.

 

That was my point, that the cost wasn't enough to be a concern. Then again, pro sports team owners can be a greedy lot.

 

The fruit here is so low-hanging it reaches the ground.