NFL offseason thread

Rumours now that the Niners may go after Revis. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/27/49ers-reportedly-poised-to-make-a-run-at-darrelle-revis/related/

If Revis were Deion Sanders? Well okay. But last thing I'd want is the Asoumgha situation where you think you're getting a "shutdown" corner and final piece of dream team, but instead end up with a non-contact corner playing zone.

 

And a guy who wants a new contract every year. The Jets would be wise to dump him. Not worth the trouble.

 

Can I just say I think Revis is overrated as a player, and that's prior to this ACL injury? He's a great player, but people talk about him like he's Cover Jesus.

 

2009 wasn't yesterday.

 

Look, overrated is a relative -- and somewhat meaningless -- term. He incredible in 2009 and has been slowly slipping ever since, but this latest Twitter war with Sherman is presented as some kind of affront to his reputation because How Dare someone suggest they're better. At no point in his career was Revis the corner Deion or Rod Woodson was in their primes. That's what makes him overrated, not that is is secretly shitty. That he's often viewed as an all-time great.

Revis' last full season was 2011. He was an above-average player the second half of the year, and that's it. This is not conjecture. This is something you can actually look up if you care to.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2012/best-cornerback-charting-stats-2011

 

I would rather see the 49ers bring in Charles Woodson than pay all that money for Revis. In addition to the contract, the whole Revis Island thing doesn't fit well in a 49ers defense that mixes coverage and plays everything as a unit.

 

It was, according to Mike Tannenbaum. He appeared on the (excruciating) Dan Patrick show today and when Patrick asked him to put himself in the shoes of a drafting team that needs a lot - "the Jets" - he said, 'You mean the team that went to back-to-back AFC championship games!?!?!?!?!?!"

No, jerk. The one that has missed the playoffs the last two years with a lame duck coach and a shambles of a lockerroom.

 

Any GM that gave Mark Sanchez a contract extention to sooth his butthurt after they briefly entered the Manning sweepstakes deserves public ridicule, if not outright flogging.

 

I interpreted that move as Tannenbaum giving a "How does this taste?!" to the Jets because he knew he was closer to getting forced out than getting his own extension.

Like the Palladinos having Lorelai sleep with Christopher at the end of the sixth season of Gilmore Girls.

 

Trying to think of the teams that might be (still) seeking a solution at QB in the 2014 draft I came up with Buffalo, Jets, Jacksonville, Oakland, Arizona, Philly, Chicago?, and Minnesota. Figure at least three will draft or acquire a "QB of the future" this off-season, throw in one or two who will get good enough play from the incumbent to defer making a decision...KC will be able to draft a qb in '14 if they want to, I doubt that qb would be that much worse than who they could draft at no. 1 this year.

 

Chicago?

 

Tannenbaum has wrecked the Jets with his idiocy. The extensions to Sanchez and Holmes set The Jets back years. The problem with Tannenbaum from the beginning was that he was not a football guy. He was an accountant who just happened to be the last guy in the building after The Parcells / Belichick mess.

He has been making the rounds since The Super Bowl and his explanation for signing Sanchez makes it clear that the guy was in over his head.