2015 Offseason/Regular Season Cuts, Trades, Free Agent Moves/Firings

Don't forget Cheapshotagain Suh would've had Aaron in his crosshairs had he played that game. I'm sure Jim Schwartz would've told him to clean up his act for that game.

cough Ironman streak cough

Could have been due to Suh and Schwartz, but I don't know if McCarthy would consciously back down from something like that. There was a chance they could have played the Lions again in the playoffs that year, after all. Since they were the #6 seed, they would have gone to Lambeau to play the #1 Packers with a win in their Wild Card game. It was probably something he was going to do, regardless of who the opponent was.

Boris:

Oooo really going out on a limb there.

Let me know the next time a 15-1 team has to go to a funeral of the OC's child 2 days before the game.

OOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Sure ain't how I typed it and I could not even correct it when editing.

The gear on your carriage return is stripped.

Did you write it in Word or something and then copy it over?

Really weird & not Phaedrus' fault. If I try to edit his post, it reads perfectly as soon as I open it.

Some weird glitch in the Web page code.

Thanks, Obama.

Should be good for a couple hundred posts about how TT sucks.

Fisher confirms @WesWelker is a member of the St. Louis Rams.

— St. Louis Rams (@STLouisRams) November 9, 2015

The Rams couldn't beat the vikings, so now Welker is the answer? **** me

@mflynn3: Looks like my hunting season is over!          #⚜

 

@Kat_Terrell: Former LSU quarterback Matt Flynn will sign with the Saints, according to a source.

 

@RapSheet: #Saints backup QB Luke McCown is having back surgery tomorrow, source said. His season is over. Explains the Matt Flynn signing.

And Matt Flynn continues to turn one great game into employment---signs with Saints.

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/...-mccowns-season-over

 

Does he get to take over McCowns TV commercials as well????

Matt up on the tower with one of the panels off the backup generator and two fistfuls of wires?

Which game?  The 6TD game vs. The Lions or the comeback win vs. The Cowboys?

Don't forget the loss to New England,  he played well in that game to.

With that much success why did we let him go

Pretty amazing that a guy with his arm is still finding employment. It's quite an indictment on the backup QB situation in the NFL.

It goes up the food chain.  There are dark days on the QB horizon in the NFL.  When Brady, Manning(meh), Roethlisberger, Rodgers, Brees, Rivers, Flacco are gone who replaces them?

 

Right now these are their successors:

Luck(oops)

Dalton

Carr

Wilson

Bortles

Newton

Tannehill

Mariota

Winston?

 

Looking further, what QBs are looking good in NCAA?  Not much.

The 6 TD game.  The Cowboys game was more an example of the genius coaching of Jason Garett.

Don't forget Luck and Rapis Jameis.

I agree though and I was thinking about it the other day. The old "pro style" players are fading away. Don't see many franchise LTs anymore either in the mold of Orlando Pace. Joe Thomas seems like one of the last great Tackles we will see based on what has been coming up in recent years.

What about Mariota? He looks good to me.

Pro football will look a lot more like college ball is what will happen. NFL coaches will have to adapt to the QB "skills" of what's given to them and that means the game on Sundays will change. And that's when a lot of TVs will turn off. I have little interest in watching the college game (except the Badgers, and I only watch if I happen to turn on the TV on Saturday). The pro game is already suffering with all the penalties and concussions. 

Luck is the only one that looks capable of carrying on at an elite level.  I can't tell if Dalton has turned a corner or if he's just riding a wave.  The rest on that list are still very unproven.  The QBs coming up can't read defenses anymore.  If they can't run they're screwed.  Offenses will change, Defenses will change.  The game seems to always be changing.

I like what Derek Carr is doing in OAK.

 

 

Shame on you!

 

It will be interesting to see what Brett Hundley does 3-4 years from now, after the Packers trade him.  Certainly not ready to be a starter now, but like Rodgers will get to sit on the bench for 3 years or so, play in the exhibition season, and then have the opportunity to be a starter.  

 

If he succeeds--as compared to Mariotta/Winston who were picked this year and are starting---it will reaffirm that there are very few QB's who can come right in and play at a high level their first year.  It is clearly hard on the 1st round picks who go to bad teams and get battered and beaten for 2-3 years as the team slowly develops around them.  In addition, the top passers from college right now are from spread, run & gun teams who usually only play from a shotgun and have zero training reading defenses.

 

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@WesHod: The #Eagles cut former #Packers ILB Brad Jones today. Signed a two-year, $2.85 million deal in March with $500,000 signing bonus.

Makes no sense. As a vested vet, they have to pay the whole season's salary. He must be really stinking it up...

 

We all know why Chip cut him.  

Here was Brad's thoughts on why the culture in Philly was better than GB. 

 

"Guys like each other. Everybody's focused on one goal. That's really the goal and key of every championship team. ... The closeness and cohesion of every team, if everyone can get together and say 'Let's win a championship,' that overtakes any skill. It overtakes anything."

 

And sometimes the complete absence of skill can't be overtaken and has to be asked to go away. 

That won't happen either. Professional players are way too fast for normal college-style play to succeed.

Sounds like brainwashing to me. 

 

Maybe he can get a job at Gerg's carwash in Miami.

"Brad, you missed a spot"

 

"Thats what your sister said"

@viccarucci: Rex Ryan says he would "never say never" about adding twin brother Rob to #Bills coaching staff. "Not going to lie, it would be fun."

 

@MikeTanier: Rex Ryan muses about adding Rob to his staff. Bill Belichick flies Rob to Buffalo, reserves a restaurant, chloroforms Dennis Thurman.