NFL offseason thread

You guys know there's a Super Bowl thread, right?

 

They actually overachieved to go 7-9.

As for Bush, it would come down to contract. He's not an every down back. Never has been, never will be. Good in space where he can make a move, but pretty ordinary between the tackles. I wouldn't overpay for him, because you can find quite a few first and second-year backs who can give you the same productivity at a lower price.

 

This is correct.

 

It can be argued that Jerry Rice was the best football player ever. Randy Moss has never been in the conversation.

 

No. I think it is simplistic and lazy to judge players, even quarterbacks, solely based on their teams' wins and losses. That doesn't mean team success should be completely ignored. Just that it is only one part of the equation.

 

Bwahahaha at Moss being scarier than Rice. Rice was everything. He burned people deep without a safety over top and he burned you over the middle with ridiculous route running. He was indeed the force Moss was at his peak. Rice didn't plug along at 1,200 yards a season to get where he is. He was dominant to a degree Moss never reached.

Years TD leader: Rice 6, Moss 5
Years Yds leader: Rice 6, Moss 0
Years Rec leader: Rice 2, Moss 0

Rice was better and scarier because he was equally dangerous running a wide variety of routes. Moss was the best deep threat ever, I'll give him that, but he was also somewhat one dimensional because it was go deep, go deep, go deep. He was ridiculously good at that one dimension.

 

I've heard this too and never understood it. If the player reps hated him, and knew that a majority of the player reps hated him, why not get rid of him?

 

Printit, after the collapse of the 1987 strike, any demands from player reps or anybody else for more militancy were quite correctly met by Upshaw with the retort that "oh, wanna strike again? That worked so well before." So there was no point in getting rid of him, as there was no alternative strategy to propose. The NFLPA wasn't weak because of its leadership, but because of its membership.

 

Chip Kelly and Dennis Dixon.

http://www.csnphilly.com/football-philadelphia-eagles/dennis-dixon-likely-be-added-eagles-qb-mix

Masoli's next.

 

This is going to be a spectacular failure.

 

Hey, if Steve Spurrier can bring in Shane Matthews and Danny Wuerffel.....

 

RG3 wins Offensive Rookie of the Year by a large margin.
AP beats Peyton for MVP and Offensive Player of the Year.
Peyton gets Comeback POY.
Arians gets Coach of the Year.
Watt misses being unanimous Defensive POY by one vote (Von Miller).
Keuchly gets Defensive Rookie of the Year.

No real surprises.