NFL NFL 2025 OFFSEASON Thread

[RIPPA]

Russell Wilson and the Giants are in agreement one a one year deal

Aaron Rodgers will now be Pittsburgh’s problem (potentially)

[lostinube]

Giants signing Jameis and Russ just so they can tell Aaron "See? Spots all gone. Sorry."

[Cobra Commander]

SEATS TAKEN

[Contentious C]

Everyone's playing musical chairs, but he smoked too much Ayahuasca to know how many of the chairs were real and how many were lizard-overlord holograms. 

(You smoke that stuff, right?)

[dogwelder]

In other news the Patriots signed Stefon Diggs for 3 years, $69 million

[hammerva]

So the Giants is either drafting Travis Hunter or trading down, get a punch of picks and tank for Arch

That cancer is definitely coming to Pittsburgh.  He is the perfect "The Standard is the Standard" QB to make us miserable 

Edited March 26 by hammerva

[Mister TV]

2 hours ago, hammerva said:

So the Giants is either drafting Travis Hunter or trading down, get a punch of picks and tank for Arch

That cancer is definitely coming to Pittsburgh.  He is the perfect "The Standard is the Standard" QB to make us miserable 

I don’t see him lasting 3 games with the current o-line. 

[Kevin Wilson]

4 hours ago, dogwelder said:

In other news the Patriots signed Stefon Diggs for 3 years, $69 million

That feels like an over-pay for a turning-32 WR coming off a major injury (although we won't know more until the contract details as I think its "up to" 69 million) but the Patriots have lots of cap space so maybe that's just what they had to pay to get a 1B WR. I think his side is claiming he'll be ready Week 1 but torn ACLs are no joke so for his sake I hope they don't rush him back.

[Dolfan in NYC]

John Harbaugh is signing an extension that will keep him as Ravens HC through the 2028 season 

[Kevin Wilson]

Bills extended Christian Benford for 4-year, $76M (probably agent numbers so a 'max' of $76M). Seems like a fair number for a mid-range CB1, glad they were able to get it done. Now James Cook is the only one left and I don't think he'll get an extension unless he is willing to take at/under 13M a year which I don't think is what he wants.

[Kuetsar]

3 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:

Bills extended Christian Benford for 4-year, $76M (probably agent numbers so a 'max' of $76M). Seems like a fair number for a mid-range CB1, glad they were able to get it done. Now James Cook is the only one left and I don't think he'll get an extension unless he is willing to take at/under 13M a year which I don't think is what he wants.

Considering his history of fumblitis, I'm not sure I'd invest but money in him.

[Kevin Wilson]

4 hours ago, Kuetsar said:

Considering his history of fumblitis, I'm not sure I'd invest but money in him.

The fumbling aspect isn't really something I'm concerned about (he only had one fumble last year and didn't lose it), I'm more concerned that the Bills don't use him on 3rd down and in the two minute drill due to his pass blocking/receiving issues or to be a change of pace. He's a very dynamic runner and I like him a lot, but if he is only on the field 50% of snaps and is more of a 1A then an "every down" back its hard for me to justify paying him every down back money. Cook was in for 48% of snaps last year, maybe for a variety of reasons but a 48% of snaps RB isn't worth Top 5 RB money no matter how good he is in those 48%.

The fact is, any young talented RB is going to get some team to get pay him, David Montgomery is a 40% to 45% snap count RB and just signed for a little over 9 mil a year, and I think Cook is better than he is. So he's going to get 10 to 12 mil minimum, I wouldn't care if the Bills extended him in that range but anything higher then that would be harder to justify unless he gets better at pass blocking/receiving and can handle at least 70% of snaps.

[RIPPA]

The Jets have officially announced that Justin Fields is their starter

Not really surprising considering the money they are giving him but would seem to scuttle the talk of them moving up to draft a QB (now one could still fall into their lap)

[Dolfan in NYC]

2 hours ago, RIPPA said:

The Jets have officially announced that Justin Fields is their starter

Not really surprising considering the money they are giving him but would seem to scuttle the talk of them moving up to draft a QB (now one could still fall into their lap)

Speaking of the Jetropolitans, in BOOKMARK THIS news... early this month, they decided ALMOST TWO THIRDS of their employees are expendable.  170 of the 250 people who work for the org were given buyout notices.  They have until today to accept. 

So clearly one of the Johnson failteens was like Elon's so cool, let's do what he's doing, but to the Jets!  WHAT COULD GO WRONG? 

[NoFistsJustFlips]

The discourse on social media around potentially banning the Tush Push is really annoying to me. No it's not up for getting banned to hurt The Eagles. It's up for being banned for two reasons.

1) It's borning and not in the spirit of the game. Just like extra points got moved back due to being a boring play, the Tush Push is just a boring forgone concussion thats not visually exciting. It's also not in the spirit of the game. Just handing the ball to a dude and everyone shoving him isn't professional football. It's rugby.

2) Injury concerns. This is the one pissing everyone off on Twitter. But I get it. Even if players aren't being taken out of games, it's a play where all 11 guys on both sides bash thier heads into each other every time. It's one of those war of attrition plays. How many head collisions is too many?

Ban that thing and let's move on.

[Tabe]

41 minutes ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:

The discourse on social media around potentially banning the Tush Push is really annoying to me. No it's not up for getting banned to hurt The Eagles. It's up for being banned for two reasons.

1) It's borning and not in the spirit of the game. Just like extra points got moved back due to being a boring play, the Tush Push is just a boring forgone concussion thats not visually exciting. It's also not in the spirit of the game. Just handing the ball to a dude and everyone shoving him isn't professional football. It's rugby.

2) Injury concerns. This is the one pissing everyone off on Twitter. But I get it. Even if players aren't being taken out of games, it's a play where all 11 guys on both sides bash thier heads into each other every time. It's one of those war of attrition plays. How many head collisions is too many?

Ban that thing and let's move on.

You can't pull guys forward. You can't jump off of guys' backs. And so on. You're not supposed to be able to directly assist the dude with the ball. That's how it worked for decades. 

TL;DR - the Tush Push should be illegal. 

[Tabe]

1 hour ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Speaking of the Jetropolitans, in BOOKMARK THIS news... early this month, they decided ALMOST TWO THIRDS of their employees are expendable.  170 of the 250 people who work for the org were given buyout notices.  They have until today to accept. 

So clearly one of the Johnson failteens was like Elon's so cool, let's do what he's doing, but to the Jets!  WHAT COULD GO WRONG? 

That sucks for all those people. And just reinforces that the Jets are a clown organization. 

[RIPPA]

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has admitted that the Deshaun Watson trade was a "big swing and a miss"

Take that for what its worth but it really really does sound like Watson has played his last game for the team

[Kuetsar]

2 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Speaking of the Jetropolitans, in BOOKMARK THIS news... early this month, they decided ALMOST TWO THIRDS of their employees are expendable.  170 of the 250 people who work for the org were given buyout notices.  They have until today to accept. 

So clearly one of the Johnson failteens was like Elon's so cool, let's do what he's doing, but to the Jets!  WHAT COULD GO WRONG? 

They were a joke with those people and they'll be a bigger joke without them.

[Dolfan in NYC]

Just remember this when Pittsburgh trades six 1's to Tennessee or Cleveland when Rodgers (or more accurately, the purple dragon that lives on Aaron's shoulder) tells them No.

 

[Kevin Wilson]

12 hours ago, Tabe said:

You can't pull guys forward. You can't jump off of guys' backs. And so on. You're not supposed to be able to directly assist the dude with the ball. That's how it worked for decades. 

TL;DR - the Tush Push should be illegal. 

The problem with that is, they aren't discussing getting rid of helping assist the dude with the ball, the way the committee has phrased the banning of the tush push is strictly for that. They aren't talking about banning offensive linemen pushing the RBs downfield like we saw quite a bit of last year. There are no rules you can't push the ball carrier which is all the tush push does. So that's why Eagles fans are mad, because of the fake reason of the risk of injury (since there hasn't really been any or any proof it causes more injuries than a typical QB Sneak), and the rule is being crafted in such a way to literally only ban the tush push, not assisting ball carriers in general by pushing them.

Personally I don't care either way, teams will adjust and find something else productive to do. But they should just be upfront about the reason - one team got really really good at something that isn't against the rules that any team could also do if they wanted to, and the other teams don't like it.

[Brian Fowler]

The proposed ban definitely feels like it's specifically targeted at Philly (and to a lesser extent Buffalo) out of jealousy more than actual concern of injuries, no matter how much they try to say it. It was an odd rule change when they legalized pushing the ball carrier forward, and now that they are dealing with unintended consequences they want to whine.

That said, I'm not an Eagles or Bills fan, so fuck it, I don't actually care if it does get banned.

[odessasteps]

Did the Fridge once try to carry Payton into the end zone? 

[dogwelder]

Now I'm wondering if NFL rules would allow a ball carrier to be carried himself by several other players a la calvary battle/kibasen, although it would be hard to do during an actual game.

[Kevin Wilson]

2 hours ago, dogwelder said:

Now I'm wondering if NFL rules would allow a ball carrier to be carried himself by several other players a la calvary battle/kibasen, although it would be hard to do during an actual game.

I think the way the rule is phrased right now a player can't be pulled or carried, only pushed. Course we've seen running backs get pulled and no flag was thrown, its not the most enforced rule but technically no you can't carry people like that as funny as it would look.