I can't say that I get excited about the draft and I've never watched it, but just today I was thinking about how far away we are until the next season starts. I've been trying to get pumped about the UFL for 2 years but its still just not happening. Maybe if they had a team from California or something, that would make it slightly more interesting.

As far as I know, drafting rookies never pays off well, only if its a mid-season discovery as a free agent. Anyway, only 143 days until Sept 4.

It's Draft Day!!!

Ashton Jeanty fomo is real. At the end of the season everyone had the Cowboys take Jeanty at 12, then it was the Bears, then Pete Carroll and the Raiders. And now almost every mock draft from the past two days has Jeanty go 5th to the Jags. Hell, i've even heard rumors about teams trading up to the third to take him. It's crazy.  

Overall deep running back class, the two top tight end prospects, Loveland and Warren, look more than decent...i think one of them could go as early as a top 10 pick.

From all the reports i'm reading Shedeur Sanders is tanking big time, likely out of the first round. QB-needy teams like the Giants, the Saints and the Steelers would rather have Jaxson Dart over Shedeur.

Super excited for today.  

Those "Don't Pick Me" quotes from Shedeur though...talk about speaking words into existence. 

It's a humbling experience, hopefully he can take note and turn this into a valuable lesson as the circumstances of him falling this deep into the draft has nothing to do with his skill set on the field.  A 5th round pick is still better than going undrafted, i guess....and besides the Browns QB room is bleak, i won't be surprised if he gets the starting QB job mid through the season.

Jags indicating to reporters that they are interested in taking Jeanty at #5 was an epic smokescreen, love me some first-round trades.  The Patriots are having a decent draft thus far, a left tackle, center and two offensive weapons...highly uncharacteristic but great for Maye. Texans taking two WRs probably means Tank Dell won't play at all this season.

Too bad there won't be Hard Knocks the offseason edition this year, at least not one featuring an NFL team. It's hard to imagine another team would volunteer to be on the show again, given the Giants' front office stinker from last year. 

Wow, amazing what makeup and wardrobe can get accomplished.  It took me a second to realize that wasn't Davis and Madden.  I haven't paid for movie theater ticket since my son grew out of his Marvel phase 13 years ago, but I would sit down to watch this once it's available on a streaming service.


Christian Bale is pretty versatile, and I can see Nicholas Cage doing good as Madden.  Cage was a long time Bay Area resident, and we had a lot of exposure to Madden in the region well into the 2000s via his radio show and frequently joining broadcasts after his retirement from radio.


Meh, that's just Hollywood bing Hollywood.  They always have to throw in some conflict to make movies about historic events more dramatic.  I mean, how many coaches were "forced to retire" from the Raiders?

He looks a lot more like Madden in this pic:



What a wardrobe, lol. Just look at the "belt" on those pants. What's really holding them up?


Not many I'm guessing. He won them a SB before going 9-7 in his last season. He was the best coach the Raiders ever had.


Wow, an entire 4 months still to go huh. Time is a cruel mistress. Bring on the summer doldrums...

Honestly hard to believe its been three and a half years already since he passed. It was during the haze of covid when time seemed to stand still. But I remember when they made this tribute for him and then had him watch it, filming his reaction. He died a couple of weeks later. Worth a watch if you never saw it before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc75Vrahc3M

There was no one like him before, and they'll be no one after.

I have not read about NFL for some months except trying to be thrilled on the draft, however, this did not give me an excitement that I have felt before heheheh. In any case, have there been important trades on players that we should know that might also add on the team's success rate to enter the playoffs?

I am beginning my research on the Chargers presently heheheh. Jim Harbaugh will bring this team to the conference final within 2 years hehehee!

Wow, that looks like it might be the toughest schedule of the season.  They've got a tough row to hoe just in their own division, then throw in the NFC East and AFC North, both of which are tough divisions.  It looks like they have a couple of winnable games before their bye, but no section of their season looks particularly easy.


In the past that didn't mean much for the Bills, especially later in the season, but last year they were undefeated at home.  I would love to see another Superbowl without the Chiefs before I die.


     
I hope you're right, last season was a huge disappointment.  Our season does look fairly easy with the NFC South and AFC South making up the bulk of our match-ups.


Lol, both NY teams are looking fucked this year.

Interesting to see three games in the UK this year (four if you count Ireland as part of the UK, but let's not get political.)  A total of seven games being played in foreign lands, including Spain for the first time.  It makes me question why they don't have at least one regular season game in Mexico every year.  Seems like a no-brainer.

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Despite hating the Raiders, I've always been a fan of Madden too.  His time with the Raiders was before I got into football, so I mostly knew him as a TV and Radio broadcaster.  I always appreciated his insight, wit, humor.  Not to mention he was about as classy a gentleman as one could imagine.

Nicholas Cage is a tool and a very limited actor, but I've enjoyed a few films he's been in.  Most notably, David Lynch's Wild at Heart, but that's due to David Lynch's weirdness and vision and nothing to do with Cage other than the role was perfect for him.  Then of course there's Lord of War, his best movie in my opinion.

Hey fuckers    just stopping by to say hello. Been mia for a bit for a number of reasons, not sure if that’ll continue or not. Anyways hope you guys are well.

(Hated the bears draft. I don’t understand the lack of love for Kmet. IMO he’s a star who’s proved it in horrible situations every single game of his entire career .,trubisky, Fields ..both who have no clue how to check down and lack accuracy. Then last year the offensive line was one of the worst of all time AND he had a dipshit OC who refused to throw to him for the first few games, opting for an old ass TE he knew from Seattle, who sucks. Finally they started throwing to him, and the offense improved sizably (not saying much, I know). He’s a legit Y TE who’d be a big name in a good situation IMO..I could see KC trying to snag him, if Kelce doesn’t retire b4 the season, no question this is his last. I’m not a big swift fan, but if she wore this every day around the house, I’d have already retired  https://youtu.be/0VEZ6rSvunQ?si=7jjezTm0bEhaeJFi ).

Edit : @DW & Mor - the Bears schedule is brutal for 2 reasons. One, in arguably footballs best division top to bottom, and because last year I believe they were considered to have the NFLs easiest division schedule . The NFL has some sorta something (algorithm I imagine) which in the name of “fairness” (Goodell and fair is an oxymoron, I know) will do things like this. It’s only fair if you were handed what they consider the leagues easiest schedule, you’d get the most difficult the following year.

@Nut- thanks for pointing out how much time b4 the season, depressing the shit out of me, I was doing well not thinking about it until now lol.

@Huer- Cage, a real odd choice for sure. I woulda chose this dude https://youtu.be/mXGVzNPruzU?si=okhQsHFfKRtP0Sx7

Speaking of Favre. Hes about to get lit the f up on an upcoming Netflix Doc (https://youtu.be/uKWfjyZDX8c ) . Deserves every bit of it. He paid some but not nearly enough. People need to be reminded what a pos he is https://youtu.be/POyFvDgV2cU?si=TFOOsizvW6gKq6Il

Several months out still but I just want to bring up the question now so decisions can be made.. Skip yahoo ff this season and move to Sleeper or nah? @ChiBitCTy will back me up on this, super smooth.