2015 NFL Off Season Thread

[LL!]

Dwayne Bowe will be a Cleveland Brown by this weekend's end.

[GhostMachine]

Call me crazy, but I actually like that move on the part of the Browns. Not sure he'll be a great fit, but he certainly won't be horrible.

[TCO]

Just looking at their roster again, Buffalo are ridiculously stacked on offence this year.

If they had a QB, they could be a legitmate Super Bowl contender, Rex Ryan just must not be allowed to have one. I know who I want on Hard Knocks this year at least!

[DFF]

Just looking at their roster again, Buffalo are ridiculously stacked on offence this year.

If they had a QB, they could be a legitmate Super Bowl contender, Rex Ryan just must not be allowed to have one. I know who I want on Hard Knocks this year at least!

Cassel is a decent game manager. With Shady in the backfield, opponents must respect the run. With some decent line play, you've got to think he's capable of putting some drives together.

[munky]

Just looking at their roster again, Buffalo are ridiculously stacked on offence this year.

If they had a QB, they could be a legitmate Super Bowl contender, Rex Ryan just must not be allowed to have one. I know who I want on Hard Knocks this year at least!

I'd love for this to happen.

[gunnar hendershow]

As part of being allowed to coach in the NFL Rex should be required to have a yearlong reality show. Screw Hard Knocks make it 24/7/365

[Thrilla]

So who are the big players in the veteran combine?

[munky]

So who are the big players in the veteran combine?

List.

Michael Sam, Michael Bush, Adam Carriker, Chris White and Felix Jones are the only ones I recognize.

[LL!]

Mike Kafka is just a pseudonym Brett Favre is using to get back in the NFL all incognito like.

[DFF]

The NFL website has an article up previewing it. They picked Sam, Anderson and Jones as their top 3 to watch.

[Thrilla]

Assuming he is still as good as last year, Sam getting a try at the 49ers wouldn't be awful, in my view.

[gunnar hendershow]

The greatest Eagle died this morning. RIP Chuck Bednarik

[DMN in the House]

Just looking at their roster again, Buffalo are ridiculously stacked on offence this year.

If they had a QB, they could be a legitmate Super Bowl contender, Rex Ryan just must not be allowed to have one. I know who I want on Hard Knocks this year at least!

I'm not buying them as a legit contender, QB or not, this year. 'Super Teams' built out of free agency rarely work in the NFL, if ever. If they can hold it together for a year, then I could see them making a legitimate run next year, though. They still need to work on their offensive line, as well.

Mike Kafka is just a pseudonym Brett Favre is using to get back in the NFL all incognito like.

Brett picked the name after playing too much Final Fantasy.

The greatest Eagle died this morning. RIP Chuck Bednarik

RIP Concrete Charlie. I'm, obviously, not an Eagles fan, but any man who played both ways in the days of the NFL where it was as violent as it was then deserves respect.

Is there anyone left from the Eagles last championship? I know Bednarik was the most well-known from the 1960 team, right?

[PatDaMan]

Just off the top of my head, Tommy McDonald and Timmy Brown are still kicking.

[Lineker]

The Browns are supposedly the front-runners for Hard Knocks.

*grabs popcorn*

[DFF]

A question about LA based teams -if the market is so good there, how did they:

1 - Lose their teams in the first place?

2 - Remained teamless for two decades?

[gunnar hendershow]

A couple factors for why the Raiders and Rams both left. Especially the Rams. At least with the Raiders we can say "Al Davis" and it makes sense (sorry DMN). But the big reason they've been teamless for so long is the difficulty in building a stadium without a guaranteed team and plan in place. Taxpayers have to fork over so much to build these things with very little if any return so there's always a fight and it's a lot harder unless a team already has a plan in place to come to town.

Plus it's been a great tool by the league owners to hang over cities' heads like Minneapolis-St. Paul to coax city officials into approving huge amounts of money spent on a new stadium that they'll see very little return on.

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

Assuming he is still as good as last year, Sam getting a try at the 49ers wouldn't be awful, in my view.

If he's only as "good" as he was last year that's a problem for him. Plus, apparently he ran the 40-yard dash in concrete block shoes at the veterans combine.

But a few news notes...

Darren Sharper has copped a "global" plea for his gaggle of rape cases across the country and will spend 9 years in federal prison.

Also, the NFL has voted to suspend the blackout rule for the 2015 season.

[Cactus Drags]

I might have missed the discussion a bit, but is McPhee a good signing for the Bears? Not really sure with all this new fangled 3-4 set up coming in.

[Adam]

Glad the blackout rule has been suspended, hope it goes permanently in the near future.