NFL offseason thread

I'll stick this here:

Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner are making a dramedy about the NFL draft. Sounds intriguing.

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/jennifer-garner-looks-ready-for-draft-day-exclusive-1200331596/

 

Palmer to the Cardinals for a conditional seventh-round pick. If he doesn't start 13 games next season for the Cardinals, the Raiders get nothing...

I guess it doesn't matter since they were just going to cut him.

 

He has now played for Cincinnati, Oakland and Arizona. Throw in a year or two in Detroit and he has had the most bad-ownership-tastic career in NFL history!

 

Will Costner play Tebow?

 

Asomugha to the Niners for 1 yr; non-guaranteed; max. $3M. Looks like a bargain. Hopefully he can recapture that Deion-like presence (in the slot.)

 

Only that which existed previously can be recaptured. If Asomugha exhibits a Deion-like presence, it will be for the first time.

But a nice pickup.

 

He certainly was not exactly like Deion, but he appeared to be such a shutdown corner that no one threw his way when he was on the left (?) side exclusively playing man to man. Then he went to Philly and they found out he was a horrible zone corner and did not like to leave the left side.

 

You're forgetting just how easy it was for teams to throw anywhere else on the field against those Raiders. Throwing his way was a bit more risky, but I don't think we ever got a full view of how good he was, because the rest of the defense was so terrible.

 

If Asomugha can become half the player he was in Oakland, this is one hell of a bargain.

I would think that with him being from California, playing at Cal and for the Raiders, if he has any chance of becoming anything close to what he was, this is the perfect place for him. The 49ers have also done pretty well with a couple players who were considered disappointments at previous stops, at least recently.

I'm obviously not saying Asomugha would be a better pickup that Darrelle Revis, but when you consider what a team would have to give up to get Revis and then pay him, with questions about his knee, this is definitely a safer move.

 

Feel good story.
Brian Banks, hyped college recruit later exonerated of rape, signs with Falcons.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57577708/brian-banks-football-player-exonerated-in-rape-case-signs-with-atlanta-falcons/?tag=socsh

 

Didn't Palmer cost the Raiders a No. 1 pick when they got him from Cincinnati in 2011?

If so, that's a damn steep drop-off, if all you can get for him is a seventh-round pick. He's not a Hall of Famer, but he's still a starting NFL quarterback and that should be worth more than a seventh-round pick. Oakland's personnel moves often puzzle me.

 

Is Tebow still on the Jets roster? (Sorry, been away with some other life matters to deal with recently and haven't kept up on the ongoing saga.)