NFL 2025 NFL Preseason

[Dolfan in NYC]

Gonna be thinking about this for a loooong time.

 

[Tabe]

6 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Gonna be thinking about this for a loooong time.

 

That tweet encapsulates why I quit playing fantasy football. I was watching a game and some dude got hurt and my first thought was to wonder how my FF team would be impacted. I was disgusted immediately with myself and quit. 

[supremebve]

ESPN has an article on how Jerry Jones' negotiation tactics are costing the Cowboys tens of millions of dollars.  I've tried to discuss this here multiple times, but this sums it up.  There is no advantage to dragging these things out.  The best way to save money on contracts is to sign your big money players as early as possible.  You're going to pay them any way, and the money you're going to pay increases every single day.  Remember how crazy everyone went for Patrick Mahomes' contract?  He still has the largest contract over time, but he's 14th year over year.  Kirk Cousins who doesn't even start is getting paid more than him.  Pay your top guys early and for a long time.  It is the only smart way to do this.

[NoFistsJustFlips]

Its a lot easier to understand what the hell Jerry Jones is doing (understand, not nesicarily agree with), when you realize he gives zero fucks about saving money on salary. He cares about driving up the Cowboys value through reality show tactics and keeping them a focal point of all the talking head shows.

Like who cares that he's gonna end up paying Parson $10mil more a year than he had to. The drama of his circus drove up the value of the team another $100mil by word of mouth. He's not a sports franchise owner, he's a brand owner. The real accomplishment is taking them from 300 million or whatever he paid for them to a valuation of 11 billion.

Now I think that's a bunch of horse shit. But thats def what his thought process is.

[NoFistsJustFlips]

Funny timing, they just released the new valuations for NFL teams today and surprise surprise The Cowboys top the list at 12.8 billion. The most valuable franchise in all of sports. Winning certainly doesn't factor into that formula because they havent won shit in 30 years.

[Dolfan in NYC]

Speaking of the Dallas NFL franchise... 

Jerry Jones said he's survived a battle with Stage IV cancer that's lasted over a decade and has spanned 4 surgeries.  

He says he is now melanoma-free.  

[Dolfan in NYC]

Dillon Gabriel is supposed to start this weekend for the Brownies.  But if his hamstring is still saying he's a no go, Sherdur Sanders will start. 

Cleveland will play at Philadelphia on Saturday. 

[Brian Fowler]

And Sanders apparently is also day to day with an oblique injury, so who knows? Maybe the Browns end up giving the job to the last guy healthy.

[Dolfan in NYC]

Oh right, James Cook got paid.   4/48  (30 guaranteed)

[RIPPA]

Broncos legend Lionel Taylor has passed away at the age of 89

[Contentious C]

10 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Speaking of the Dallas NFL franchise... 

Jerry Jones said he's survived a battle with Stage IV cancer that's lasted over a decade and has spanned 4 surgeries.  

He says he is now melanoma-free.  

He credits a drug called PD-1. I could look it up and explain what it does (apoptosis for anybody curious) but it seems a lot more fun to say that that name sounds like a legal designation for a different insufferable octogenarian billionaire. Both are indistinguishable from melanoma cells to me, so the drug must be smarter than I am.

[Dolfan in NYC]

On 8/11/2025 at 2:32 PM, Dolfan in NYC said:

Gonna be thinking about this for a loooong time.

 

TO WIT....

Rashee Rice's disciplinary hearing will be on September 30th.  

Which means he will be eligible to play weeks 1-4. 

[Gonzo]

https://x.com/awfulannouncing/status/1956799118912733680

Love my coach dropping f-bombs on live TV when he's mic'd up.

[RIPPA]

Joe Flacco has officially been named the Browns Week 1 starter

[RIPPA]

In the most damning sign of Anthony Richardson's ability to play QB (or lack there of)

The Colts just named Daniel Jones starting QB

[supremebve]

28 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

In the most damning sign of Anthony Richardson's ability to play QB (or lack there of)

The Colts just named Daniel Jones starting QB

I want everyone to remember a couple of years ago where multiple people on this board tried to tell me that they'd rather have Daniel Jones than Lamar Jackson.  Yes, I will repeat this every time Daniel Jones' name comes up.

[NoFistsJustFlips]

Its 2025 and Daniel Jones is still a starting quarterback. What a world. What's odd to me is that Jones is actually making more money than Russell Wilson this year. 14mil to 10.5 mil. He was a hard worker, hope it works out for him there. But not so sure it'll be any different.

I believe this is Jones 7th year as a starter in The NFl. He's already eclipsed the amount of years Colin Kaepernick was a starter by 2. That feels so weird to me. Time is a strange mistress.

[dogwelder]

I would rather have had Daniel Jones than Dwayne Haskins (RIP).

And I'm sure it's been mentioned on here that that 2019 QB draft class was absolutely horrible with the only decent-to-good picks being Kyler Murray and Gardner Minshew.  I can't remember if there's been another recent draft with such a lack of QB talent.

[Brian Fowler]

The scariest part is Jones probably does have a higher floor than Richardson. 

(I do wonder a lot about what if Richardson had come along a year or two later when more teams were giving big money to guys to come back for one more in college. There's been other issues, of course, but I still feel like his single biggest issue is he just hasn't played enough football. See also Lance, Trey.)

[supremebve]

8 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:

The scariest part is Jones probably does have a higher floor than Richardson. 

(I do wonder a lot about what if Richardson had come along a year or two later when more teams were giving big money to guys to come back for one more in college. There's been other issues, of course, but I still feel like his single biggest issue is he just hasn't played enough football. See also Lance, Trey.)

I honestly don't think people understand how unbelievably difficult it is to play quarterback at this level.  It's one of those things where it is incredibly difficult physically, incredibly difficult mentally, but even if you have both you have to have super human processing speed to process the mental part quick enough to do the physical part.  Richardson has so many physical tools that you have to give him a shot, but he probably hasn't played enough to master the mental part, and even if he does he seems to have an issue with getting the mental and physical parts to work together.  There were plenty of times when I saw him recognize an open receiver and then throwing the exact wrong type of ball to him.  It's like he diagnosed exactly where the ball was supposed to go but his body just didn't get the right signal.  There are literally only about 5-10 people who can do this at a high level on earth at any given time.  

Speaking of quarterbacking.  Kenny Pickett has been named the Browns back up and I have to ask, "For who?  For what?"  I'm unfortunately a Browns fan and I can't think of a single reason for them to keep Pickett around.  At the very least, he's just in the way of seeing if either rookie is good enough to invest in long term.  He's never been good as a pro.  He doesn't have the cache that Flacco does from being on the last playoff team.  He's just an extra quarterback that hasn't even really practiced.  

[Tabe]

On 8/20/2025 at 12:16 AM, Brian Fowler said:

The scariest part is Jones probably does have a higher floor than Richardson. 

(I do wonder a lot about what if Richardson had come along a year or two later when more teams were giving big money to guys to come back for one more in college. There's been other issues, of course, but I still feel like his single biggest issue is he just hasn't played enough football. See also Lance, Trey.)

Saw a post on Reddit where they showed his stats and said that he's basically never been good, even going back to high school. But he's got a huge arm... 

[Brian Fowler]

1 hour ago, Tabe said:

Saw a post on Reddit where they showed his stats and said that he's basically never been good, even going back to high school. But he's got a huge arm... 

And great size and absurd speed and quickness.

[NoFistsJustFlips]

Its just pre season. Its just pre season its just pre season. Don't put much stock in it. Don't get your hopes up. Keep it cool. The Giants are making the playoffs this year!!!

Lol all kidding aside The Giants looked great this pre season. All 4 QBs coocked against the third stringers. I hope they can carry it over to the regular season. They scored over 30 points in every game.

And Dart passes the eye test. He looks legit. His pre season numbers are great. Again, pre season. But all his reads were decisive in a way that Daniel Jones never was and it was a pleasure to watch.

I get that Russel Wilson is gonna start. And Im good with that. But the future is hopefully Dart as the starter and Jameis as the backup with Tommy D as the emergency 3.

[supremebve]

23 minutes ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:

Its just pre season. Its just pre season its just pre season. Don't put much stock in it. Don't get your hopes up. Keep it cool. The Giants are making the playoffs this year!!!

Lol all kidding aside The Giants looked great this pre season. All 4 QBs coocked against the third stringers. I hope they can carry it over to the regular season. They scored over 30 points in every game.

And Dart passes the eye test. He looks legit. His pre season numbers are great. Again, pre season. But all his reads were decisive in a way that Daniel Jones never was and it was a pleasure to watch.

I get that Russel Wilson is gonna start. And Im good with that. But the future is hopefully Dart as the starter and Jameis as the backup with Tommy D as the emergency 3.

My fantasy football league's draft order is based on the preseason records of two randomly assigned teams.  I got the Giants and the Vikings.  I for the first time in my entire life rooted for the Giants.  If the Vikings don't fuck it up, I might get the #1 pick.

[RIPPA]

Washington is trading Brian Robinson to the Niners for a 6th rounder