FOLES RUSH IN: 2018 nfl qb carousel and miscellaneous offseasoning thread

highest upside i think browns have to change a lot to make it the right choice

giants with 1st official lol of the night

yesss the yearly jets suck montage

hate darnold just looking at him, v pleased he's on the jets

Browns made the right choice

There's no position harder to draft correctly than QB and the Browns front office has a dismal record at sniffing out who can make the jump to the pros. I give Mayfield about 4 to 1 against his being a franchise QB, but no QB pick is ever much better than 50-50, so every dip in the QB draft pool is a gamble.

I would have picked Saquan Barkley as a sure thing and taken whatever top QB prospect was left on the board by the time their next pick came around, but I have no illusions that I'd do better than the Browns front office irl.

broncos and colts with 2 great picks in a row, p gross. hoped colts might do something dumb. miss ryan grigson on days like this.

cmon bills, all in for josh allen

Big mistake bills trading up for the inaccurate racist

biiiiiiills

Baker Mayfield havin' fun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/04/26/baker-mayfield-went-full-90s-with-jorts-and-a-giant-phone-to-re-create-brett-favres-draft-day-photo/?utm_term=.22efbdb5bb3a

ravens jump up and get that nice 5th year on lamar, p sweet

I like the Bears getting Roquan Smith from Georgia. That guy was pretty impressive in the games I saw.

My favorite part of that Baker Mayfield photo thing is the Wes Anderson level of background details. Especially his buddy with the blond wig.

jason witten retiring. HOF career no doubt but cowboys have added by subtracting two real albatrosses from last season now.

NFL is definitely moving closer and closer to pro wrestling, but this was pretty funny. Did not hear about the Drew Pearson appearance in Philly last draft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1NpsGssBdU

Vita Vea looks like he is havin' fun. That might be my favorite NFL player name now.

https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/usatsi_10805785.jpg?w=1000&h=667

projected strength of schedule for next year, using vegas lines

With a foundation as to the projected 2018 wins, we can now calculate a proper Strength of Schedule. You can filter by month (or by week). Here's the link: https://t.co/8bPjdEE1oz pic.twitter.com/mbHz9MJh8b

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) April 30, 2018

he is literally the dude from Moana

yea I know I'm probably the 1000000th person to make that observation but still

Browns V.P. of player personnel Alonzo Highsmith had plenty to say on Monday about how the team settled on quarterback Baker Mayfield. Highsmith also shared some insights on why the Browns didn’t settle on quarterback Josh Rosen.

“I was at an airport,” Highsmith said Monday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club, via the Canton Repository. “UCLA’s volleyball team was in front of me. You heard so much about Rosen. He’s this or that. We all know how people talk.

“So I asked one of the volleyball coaches, ‘What’s Rosen like?’ He said, ‘Aaaa, you should probably ask his girlfriend. She’s one of the players. She’s over there.’

“I’m like, ‘All right coach. That’s good enough.’ . . . I don’t know what all this means, but there was something about him that bothered me.”

why is it that every time someone in the browns front office has opened their mouth since the draft it has been to spout some dumbass reason for why they picked mayfield or didn't pick another guy. it almost seems too much, like it's an elaborate troll, but the simplest answer is browns

Josh Rosen rules and I'm glad he didn't go to that cursed franchise full of idiots who make personnel decisions for literally no reason

this is actually dumber than the time they drafted Johnny Football because some homeless guy told them to do it

It’s insane, they didn’t pass on him based on his gf’s opinion, they passed based on her volleyball coach not having an opinion. I can’t even believe I read that. If Rosen turns into Wentz or even Goff I hope everyone is fired.

And yeah at least the homeless guy had an opinion

Nah, Baker Mayfield’s legit. The Browns are fine.

he's a legit talent for sure not sure if he has the right personality tho to be a franchise qb esp for the browns

the Browns may be fine I'm just surprised that a franchise known for blowing draft picks would publicly admit that their due diligence with a top ten QB prospect partially included their VP of player personnel deciding to not walk a few yards to talk to someone who intimately knew the QB because he didn't like how someone else phrased their non-opinion.

It seems like a good sign that the Pats targeted Mayfield imo

"I don’t know what all this means"

not sure how real the pats' reported interest was, mayfield's ppl basically made them qualify their interest to even let them meet with him, so they had to say something.

most ppl i respect are saying 1) the real unknown with him is how much you can separate his great #s from lincoln riley and 2) the browns will need to develop an offense around him and not just try to cram him in whatever system. so i think the key to whether he has a successful career is who cle hire to replace hue when he gets fired midseason.

Im glad my job wasn't to have to pick out of those QBs, as all of them seem flawed in personality or game.

As of now, I kinda think the Ravens with Lamar Jackson might have had the best qb pick from where it was on the draft.

yeah thru the whole thing i am sure the niners/lynch were feeling extremely pleased with themselves

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html

cannot believe this kind of shit would go down under the direction of such a well run and ethical sports organization

in lieu of knowing anyone who likely knows or cares who mike renner at PFF is, i'm just going to post this here.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdajYI2V0AEz1PO.jpg

hmmmm

In nearly two hours of dramatic and tearful testimony at a preliminary hearing on Thursday morning, Reuben Foster’s ex-girlfriend Elissa Ennis testified that the 49ers linebacker never hit her, never broke her cell phone, and that she lied repeatedly to investigators about the Feb. 11 incident that sent Foster to jail.

“I was pissed,” Ennis testified under oath, saying that Foster had broken up with her in the morning before she called 911, so she fabricated domestic violence allegations. “I wanted to end him.”

Joshua Bentley, Foster’s attorney, then cross-examined Ennis: “Is it true that you told Foster in texts after the arrest that, ‘your career is over, you’re going after him, you’re going after the Niners, and you’re going after his coaches?'”

“Yes sir,” Ennis replied, breaking down in tears.

Ennis then admitted to having no problem lying to investigators, and she acknowledged that she had falsely accused another ex-boyfriend of domestic violence in 2011 after he tried to break up with her.

“I’m sorry, I really am,” Ennis said crying. “I’d like to apologize to everyone.”

Jets chairman Christopher Johnson says that his players are free to take a knee or protest during the anthem without fear of repercussion.

Johnson tells Newsday he'll pay any fines out of his own pocket and not sanction any players.https://t.co/zkjadPhT76

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 23, 2018

the jets are good now

So many lies smh
Here are some facts
1. Not many people were going to go
2. No one refused to go simply because Trump “insists” folks stand for the anthem
3. The President continues to spread the false narrative that players are anti military pic.twitter.com/89GUNhJ4eE

— Torrey Smith (@TorreySmithWR) June 4, 2018

The President continues to spread the false narrative that players are anti military

On average, the players probably know more people in the military than Trump knew before he became commander in chief.

I'm watching this doc on last season's Dallas Cowboys.

Usually these shows make me a fan of any team, but literally no one comes across well. Especially their coaching staff, Dez Bryant, and Ezekiel Elliott. Shockingly unlikable. And the NFL produced it! https://t.co/kgePHSpPgN

— Aaron Gleeman (@AaronGleeman) June 12, 2018

You know when a player will say "I'd run through a wall for them" about a great coach? Jason Garrett has whatever the opposite of that is.

— Aaron Gleeman (@AaronGleeman) June 12, 2018

lol

that's amazing

chucky: we wanted to rebuild hackenberg from the ground up but the dirty players union wouldn't give us enough time

uh this Kellen Winslow Jr. thing is *extremely* fucked up

https://nypost.com/2018/06/17/how-a-string-of-violent-sex-crimes-were-traced-to-former-nfl-star/

Receiving yards after age 40:

2509 - Jerry Rice
0 - Literally everyone else except Brett Favre
-2 - Brett Favre

— Adam Harstad (@AdamHarstad) June 25, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhT5nCmU8AAD0rG.jpg

So I received this letter last week. It’s written by Hunter S Thompson to @Colts Owner Jim Irsay in 1998 a month before the NFL Draft. This is unbelievable, hysterical, & ludicrous!! Have a read. @richeisen and I will discuss today on @RichEisenShow at 11:00 AM PT. #mindblown pic.twitter.com/AWStCEiSTM

— Ryan D Leaf (@RyanDLeaf) July 5, 2018

counting the weeks til football guys

in the meantime did anyone else read this? actual lols all the way through

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/06/11/belmont-stakes-with-rob-gronkowski-new-england-patriots-horse

“At first I was like dang, we’re in last place by like fifteen yards!” Gronkowski said breathlessly, translating the race to football-speak moments after the finish.

Rob’s dad, brothers and pals who came with him to cheer on Team Gronkowski placed numerous $69 bets on his horse to place. Each of those wagers paid out to the tune of $1200.

“I went to London and I dominated that game, we dominated that game as a team. This horse is coming from London now and playing its first game in the States, so hopefully that happens.”

The group settles in at a reserved table overlooking the track and gets to work on a tub of Coors Light.

Gronk smiles down on his subjects and practices his royal wave, greeting fans with a “Happy 6/9!” and posing on his balcony for pictures like a prince lording over his kingdom.

Standing tall in stall No. 6, Gronkowski (the human) shakes his head back and forth and sighs, flapping his lips the way a horse does. “Is this the noise a horse makes?”

“Wow—did you see Justify’s ass?” Big G says, in genuine appreciation of the magnificent Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner. “It’s huge!”

A group of what must be Jets fans catches sight of Gronk heading down the tunnel and yell, “SECOND SUCKS!”

this shady news is horrific + disappointing

yeah fucked up

jesus