2020 NFL Off-Season Thread

[The Buscher]

Former Vikings, Seahawks, and Bills QB Tarvaris Jackson has died in a car accident at 36.

[Lineker]

 

[The Buscher]

Welp, that means Barkley will be getting $18 million a year probably as soon as next year.  Fuck.

[livid]

It's all about guarantees and how those are structured anyways but I'll be curious to see what other RBs get coming up. McCaffrey is an outlier since he's basically another WR on the field so I wonder if even Barkley will be able to negotiate a similar deal. 

[The Buscher]

Pat Shurmur, for reasons I can't comprehend, pretty much refused to utilize Barkley in the passing game despite him being suited for it.  Certainly a better use of him than trying to have him run up the gut behind a crappy O-line.

[Meacon Keaton]

Yeah, Barkley was friggin' deadly catching passes out of the backfield at Penn State. Not using him in the passing game is a sin. 

[Lineker]

Mel Kiper (who the hell is Mel Kiper etc) is predicting that the Dolphins will take Justin Herbert.

[Lineker]

 

[The Buscher]

Browns and Vikings reportedly discussing a deal for OBJ.

[Lineker]

Willie Davis has died.

 

[GhostMachine]

Not a big fan of the Browns' uniforms to begin with, but the jersey with orange letters is just plain ugly. At least there's not an orange jersey alternate.

[Lineker]

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As star defensive end Myles Garrett put it, the Cleveland Browns are getting back to their roots with their new uniforms.

On Wednesday, Cleveland unveiled its uniforms for the 2020 season and beyond, which were inspired by the championship Browns teams of the past.

Harkening back to its 1964 NFL title team led by legendary running back Jim Brown, Cleveland's updated look will feature brown jerseys with white pants and white jerseys with brown pants. While those will be the primary combinations, the Browns' new wardrobe will also include white jerseys and white pants.

Both ensembles will include Cleveland's traditional striping: three white stripes and two orange stripes on the brown jerseys and three brown stripes and two orange stripes on the white jerseys, with matching socks on both, a core fixture throughout the franchise's history. Both the white and brown pants will have a brown stripe sandwiched by two orange stripes running down the side.

The orange helmets will largely remain the same, with brown stripes sandwiching a large white one down the middle, to go along with the brown face mask the team introduced five years ago.

Both jersey fronts will not feature any words above the numbers, another nod to Cleveland's past.

"As you look at iconic franchises like the Browns, the Bears, the Packers, the Cowboys -- they're true to who they are. They're not doing a lot of changes and trying to make a lot of flashy moves with their uniforms," executive vice president and co-owner JW Johnson said in a statement. "I think when we went through the process, it just felt right that we got back to who we are and who we'll always be."

Stitched inside the collar of every jersey is "1946," in honor of the year the franchise was founded. That will replace "DAWG POUND," which had filled that spot since 2015.

Browns players received deliveries of the new jerseys Tuesday, when Garrett hinted at the return to Cleveland's glory days in a tweet, writing "New unis are [fire emoji] #backtotheroots"

The Browns last underwent an expansive uniform change in 2015, which included nine jersey and pant combinations with the white, brown and orange colors. Those jerseys included "CLEVELAND" over the numbers and "BROWNS" running down the side of the pants.

The Browns debuted their color rush jerseys in Week 3 in 2018. That Thursday night against the New York Jets, rookie quarterback and former No. 1 overall pick Baker Mayfield made his Browns debut on national television and rallied Cleveland to its first victory in 635 days. Off that memorable performance, the Browns made the color rush uniforms their primary look last season.

Cleveland is keeping its color rush jerseys for 2020 with slight modifications, notably the removal of the stripes on the jerseys and pants.

The team will be donating net proceeds off jersey sales to the "Hats Off To Our Heroes" fund, which will focus on aiding health care professionals, first responders and educational professionals who are fighting to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

[Lineker]

Sounds like Joe Mixon might be holding out.

[Lineker]

 

[The Buscher]

Jay Glazer hyped that he’d have a “massive”, bombshell national NFL story to drop this evening.  Right away I was skeptical because reporters don’t sit on news if it’s actually big.

Turns out the news was that the Rams backup center became the first NFL player to test positive for COVID-19, and he’s now recovered.

Glad the guy is feeling better but Glazer had to know he was trolling everyone.

[The Buscher]

The NFL is having teams do a mock draft today to test and make sure the system they’ll be running for the real draft is working correctly.

Wish I could be a fly on the wall for that.  Nobody’s going to want to tip off their plans so they’re probably all drafting kickers.

[gunnar hendershow]

The latest hot draft rumor is that the Eagles covet CeeDee Lamb and will trade up to get him.

[Meacon Keaton]

There's like 112 wide receivers in this draft, so they must really really like him more than the other seven that'll likely go in the first round to consider moving up. 

[gunnar hendershow]

They either think he's the best thing since sliced bread or are just spreading false rumors. Draft time hot rumors are always all over the place.

[TCO]

I'm really excited for this draft. I think having some sort of sporting normality will do everyone some good and it can be gone in a 100% safe manner where nobody is put at risk.

Should be fun!