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NFL 2023-24. Now without Dan Snyder!

Kepler said:
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You don't know where they've been! We compost billionaires.
 
MissThundercat said:
Justin Fields to the Steelers for a 6th rd pick.
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Pittsburg did well in the trade sequence. They ended up with roughly the same person (but who could run), giving up a 5th round but getting a 4th rounder and a few extra picks.

The Chicago GM should be fired for getting so little for a trade like that. Fields may not be great, but he's much better than Pickett was. Whereas the Pittsburg GM should be taken to dinner by the players who Pittsburg gets to take from the bears.
 
MichVandal said:
Pittsburg did well in the trade sequence. They ended up with roughly the same person (but who could run), giving up a 5th round but getting a 4th rounder and a few extra picks.

The Chicago GM should be fired for getting so little for a trade like that. Fields may not be great, but he's much better than Pickett was. Whereas the Pittsburg GM should be taken to dinner by the players who Pittsburg gets to take from the bears.
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Pittsburgh loves to fleece the Bears. Chase Claypool waves at Poles.
 
MichVandal said:
Pittsburg did well in the trade sequence. They ended up with roughly the same person (but who could run), giving up a 5th round but getting a 4th rounder and a few extra picks.

The Chicago GM should be fired for getting so little for a trade like that. Fields may not be great, but he's much better than Pickett was. Whereas the Pittsburg GM should be taken to dinner by the players who Pittsburg gets to take from the bears.
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Strong adherence to the 1891-1911 federal spelling of Pittsburgh here. I like it.

Pittsburgh now got Wilson and Fields for a cap hit of 5 million. Fields does have a club option next year for 25 million but highly doubt that gets picked up.
 
The NFL also removed the hip-drop tackle. It’s going to make open field tackles very difficult because defenders can’t grab high on a jersey, and now they can’t use their body weight if pursuing from behind and somehow do manage to get ahold of the ball carrier.
 
RaceBoarder said:
This is a legit question, as they passed on a "4th and 20" option being made available in a Free Kick situation. I don't think there is an answer formulated as of yet.
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The kicking team has to declare an on sides kick. Then they line up as prior. They let the kicking team have an unbalanced line up- as if that helps. But no more surprise on sides kicks.
 
St. Clown said:
The NFL also removed the hip-drop tackle. It’s going to make open field tackles very difficult because defenders can’t grab high on a jersey, and now they can’t use their body weight if pursuing from behind and somehow do manage to get ahold of the ball carrier.
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They could try, oh I don't know, tackling technique?

Hardly anyone really tackles anymore. If they aren't just plowing a shoulder into them, they're just grabbing onto and throwing them down. Hit someone, and wrap your arms.
 
rufus said:
They could try, oh I don't know, tackling technique?

Hardly anyone really tackles anymore. If they aren't just plowing a shoulder into them, they're just grabbing onto and throwing them down. Hit someone, and wrap your arms.
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When the ball carrier is a WR, matching your speed and an arm’s length ahead, what is the proper tackling technique? I grew up playing on the D line, so my tackling situations were much different.
 
St. Clown said:
When the ball carrier is a WR, matching your speed and an arm’s length ahead, what is the proper tackling technique? I grew up playing on the D line, so my tackling situations were much different.
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You either dive to try to get a hand on him, or you don't, and either someone else gets him on an angle, or he scores.

Hip drop tackle doesn't help in this situation either.
 
rufus said:
You either dive to try to get a hand on him, or you don't, and either someone else gets him on an angle, or he scores.

Hip drop tackle doesn't help in this situation either.
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That dive and grab is going to be defined as a hip-drop... You will not be able to grab a ball carrier from behind and use you weight to pull him to the ground. That's what the NFL is trying to eliminate: Someone grabbing on and becoming dead weight.
 
I know not all that many people will watch the UFL games, but one thing I like about them is that they end up being extended auditions to get to the NFL. Which is important considering how bad many teams are at evaluating players before the draft in a few weeks.
 
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