2022 NFL Off-Season thread

[The Buscher]

Owners and GMs around the league let out a groan that they’ll have to do yet another token interview before hiring the white male candidate they were always planning on hiring from the start.

[GhostMachine]

They'll start interviewing minority women so they can take care of two requirements at once...

 

 

 

[Lineker]

 

 

[LL!]

The Saints QB problems are over!

[The Buscher]

Amazing how stubborn the league is.  Yeah let's pass this OT rule but make it playoffs only.

AKA:  we don't want a 1 PM game bleeding any longer than it has to into the marquee 4:30 PM slot.  At least if a playoff game runs long they can just hold off the start of the next one, which they've done before.

[gunnar hendershow]

They'd just pull everyone except fans in the two home markets over to the 4:30pm kickoff anyway. I guess they don't like doing that since without fail every time it happens people are outraged.

[Lineker]

The New England Patriots and free-agent safety Jabrill Peppers have reached agreement on a one-year deal that is worth up to $5 million, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.

[Lineker]

 

[GhostMachine]

I am normally loathe to quite articles from Yahoo, but....

Regarding Deshaun Watson:

https://sports.yahoo.com/deshaun-watson-accuser-browns-fans-pretending-qb-innocent-evil-185509868.html 

https://sports.yahoo.com/roger-goodell-no-longer-has-final-say-on-whether-deshaun-watson-violated-nf-ls-personal-conduct-policy-014712381.html - Pay attention to the last section of the article. Fuck Goodell. 

 

 

 

[Szumi]

Tom Brady retires. Then unretires. Bruce Arians has now retired and is going to a front office position.

 

I'm assuming he will be the head coach again by the NFL Draft

[gunnar hendershow]

I think Brady didn't like Arians. Wonder if he had a bit of pull, hence the retirement and then unretirement.

[Maxx]

Figured they would go with Leftwich and not Bowles.

[Mick]

Well, it could be worse. At least it nets Todd Bowles for the Bucs, and he was going to continue to be a favored potential head coach. 

[gunnar hendershow]

As I was saying.

 

[livid]

40 minutes ago, damhausen said:

As I was saying.

 

Okay so I don't know if he was the first one to say it publicly but Bill Simmons has been pretty accurate on speculating what Brady wants to do the past couple of years. Wild. 

[Adam]

Arians already retired and then unretired once, maybe Brady was just taking a page out of Arians' book all along.

Bowles is a good choice to succeed him at any rate.

[Lineker]

Bowles is a good HC who just got saddled with the Jets. He should do absolutely fine.

[The Buscher]

Ravens sign John Harbaugh to a three-year extension through the 2025 season.

[Krabby]

Speaking of Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh is making Kaepernick an honorary captain at Michigan - wonder if that means any tread will catch for him to get back to the NFL.

He's always been tied to Seattle and they do need a QB (Drew Lock ain't it bud!) but last I heard there hasn't been a ton of progress on a deal

[Lineker]

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PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Philadelphia Eagles are throwing it all the way back to the days of Reggie White and Randall Cunningham, and their fans are over the moon.

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie announced at the league's annual meeting Tuesday that they are bringing back the Kelly green uniforms as an alternate combination in 2023.

"It's what we've wanted and we're going to be able to introduce that for that season," Lurie said. "It's going to be, if you all remember the '90s and '80s with Randall and Reggie and Jerome [Brown] and Seth [Joyner] and Clyde [Simmons] and everybody, it's going to be that uniform and it's going to be as identical to what that existed as possible."

Eagles fans on social media immediately reacted to the announcement. Fans have been clamoring for the team to reintroduce the iconic Kelly green unis, and the Eagles' brass has been working on it behind the scenes for years. The holdup was getting helmets approved that would match up with the uniforms.

The Eagles will use an all-black alternate uniform for the 2022 season.

"... We're going to match the black jersey with a black helmet, and that will be this coming season," Lurie said. "Yeah, it's true we may not be able to continue with that in '23 once we introduce the classic Eagles green, Kelly green, but we're going to try."