too soon for an NFL thread?

[Slimpikins]

Ha ha, Conan. (Paraphrasing)

Fans were upset with the RHCP when they found out that they only pretended to play at the Super bowl. In all fairness to the band, so did the Broncos.

 

[mattola]

All 32 NFL Teams Crossed With Star Wars | Pic | Gear

 

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As somebody commented, Atlanta should have been the Millenium Falcons...

 

[mattola]

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As somebody commented, Atlanta should have been the Millenium Falcons...

mattola'd?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

So the Seattle Population is just over 600,000 people... The police estimated over 700,000 showed up for the parade.

/just sayin
Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of 3,500,026

my bro in law took his ragtag software engineer crew of Indians from Amazon (the company ... not the river in Brazil) down to the parade at lunchtime. They all bought jerseys lol

 

[mattola]

/just sayin
Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of 3,500,026

my bro in law took his ragtag software engineer crew of Indians from Amazon (the company ... not the river in Brazil) down to the parade at lunchtime. They all bought jerseys lol

that is a fairly spread out area wow I didnt realize they had that many

 

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mattola'd?

In the comments section of the link you provided (haha)

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Sound fx on nfl network right now

Down 8-0 wes welker screams at his teammates "hey we're the best damn offense that ever played this game"

 

[puckhead]

Sound fx on nfl network right now

Down 8-0 wes welker screams at his teammates "hey we're the best damn offense that ever played this game"

this guy believed him

 

[jstewismybastardson]

After the lynch td champ bailey tries to rally the defense

#36 sitting next to bailey says "ya'll was out there for 13 minutes"

Champ bailey goes quiet

Game over! Lol

 

[jstewismybastardson]

John fox begging rwil to throw a pick

"Come on throw us 1 russell"

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

John fox begging rwil to throw a pick

"Come on throw us 1 russell"

That pretty much sums up John Fox' coaching abilities.

If you flip the coaches of those two teams, Seattle misses the POs and Denver goes 19-0.

Denver made it to the SB despite having Fox as a coach, not because of it.

 

[mattola]

Who wore it better?

 

[pixburgher66]

Michael Sam, a DE from Mizzou who SHOULD be drafted (All-American, SEC co-defensive player of the year) came out to the world as gay today. Lots of guts buddy. Props. Also impressed that his teammates knew all year, and not a word leaked out. They let him tell everyone when he felt it was right.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Ok.

 

[Dacks]

Michael Sam, a DE from Mizzou who SHOULD be drafted (All-American, SEC co-defensive player of the year) came out to the world as gay today. Lots of guts buddy. Props. Also impressed that his teammates knew all year, and not a word leaked out. They let him tell everyone when he felt it was right.

Should make for an interesting draft. Anyone know where he was projected to be picked?

 

[puckhead]

Michael Sam, a DE from Mizzou who SHOULD be drafted (All-American, SEC co-defensive player of the year) came out to the world as gay today. Lots of guts buddy. Props. Also impressed that his teammates knew all year, and not a word leaked out. They let him tell everyone when he felt it was right.

wow. good for him for doing this with his career ahead of him.
breaks down a pretty big wall.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Should make for an interesting draft. Anyone know where he was projected to be picked?

General consensus seemed to be mid-3rd to 4th round.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

General consensus seemed to be mid-3rd to 4th round.

Did u hear that before or after he made the announcement

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[sabresfaninthesouth]

Did u hear that before or after he made the announcement

True as that may be up until this year, that wasn't expected of him, even prior to the announcement.

I think a large part of it stems from his size. He's a DE at Missouri, but his size is (most likely) going to require him to convert to LB in the NFL. He's kind of in a defensive purgatory. At 6'2" 255 he's too light to be a DE but too heavy to be an LB. I'd expect that the hope is he can get down to the 245 range, which would still make him heavier than guys like Luke Kuechly and Sean Lee but still in an acceptable range like NaVorro Bowman or Ray Lewis. Plenty of precedent that a slightly large guy can be a top-tier linebacker if the skills and brain are right (Brian Urlacher comes to mind).

Anyhow, long story short, unless someone is just a freakishly unreal athlete, their draft stock will almost always drop if there's a belief that they need to change positions for the NFL. Part of that is that you don't know how they'll react - they could be a total bust - and the fact that they generally are not regarded as NFL ready right out of the gates like a college LB would be.