NFL offseason thread: FOOTBALL STARTS SUNDAY

[Cleverness]

And then he falls off it somehow and breaks his Achilles a 3rd time

[LiquidFriend]

Sue the wheelchair too!

[Cail]

my mom used one of those when she broke her foot. she liked it a lot better than crutches

[Moss]

Wait... that wasnt a joke? He was actually using what archi posted?

[Penthesilea]

Shame, but we've got our next Buffalo Bills castoff in Demetrees Bell, who Howard Mudd will turn into an All Pro Osi Mauling Machine

EDIT: nvm, he'll get traded for a 7th rounder and could very well not face him.

[archibaldcrane]

Wait... that wasnt a joke? He was actually using what archi posted?

I don't joke about the crippled.

[Moss]

He clearly has a mental handicap too if he thought that thing was gonna work for him.

[LiquidFriend]

He clearly has a mental handicap too if he thought that thing was gonna work for him.

Well he did accept a trade to Philly awhile back, so we should of known this before now.

[Man0warr]

Even KC Joyner agrees with me.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/story...fl-quarterback

[Chun Liroy]

Copy and paste the insider faggot

[Rhinox]

Shut up.


You can't be top 5 while having a worst playoff record than tebow

[Dimmauk]

I hear McNabb is on his way to backup Alex Smith! McNabb will be tossing chunky soup cans to Moss by week 5!

[Man0warr]

Copy and paste the insider faggot

Short hand:

K.C. tells us that Romo's ranking is based on the following, mainly statistics-based reasons:

-Superior route-depth metrics (tied for fifth last year in yards per pass attempt)

-Low bad-decision rate, or "BDR" (fifth-lowest last year among quarterbacks with at least 175 pass attempts)

-High Total QBR (finished fourth in the NFL in 2011)

-A long history of top-level statistical performance (tied for fifth in NFL history in career yards per pass attempt)

-Ability to raise the level of play of those around him (Romo averaged double-digit yards per attempt to his third and fourth wide receivers in 2011)

-Changing of the elite guard at the quarterback position (i.e. disappointing 2011 seasons from Philip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger, and injury concerns about Michael Vick and Peyton Manning)

-No signs of letting up (still in his prime and surrounded by big-time offensive weapons)

Shut up.


You can't be top 5 while having a worst playoff record than tebow

Yeah because football games are just QBs and 21 other orange cones out there.

He's playing handicapped because he plays for a chronically bad team. Penalties, poor drafting, patchwork offensive lines, terrible depth, radical coaching changes, no organizational plan. Romo (and maybe by dumb luck, DeMarco Murray and Sean Lee) is their only saving grace.

[Chun Liroy]

UHHH WARE YOU DUMB SHIT.

Guy was only like the 3rd fastest to 100 sacks in league history, and has the most sacks in the last like 6 seasons.

I wouldn't put big ben in top 8 prolly.

[Dimmauk]

Short hand:





Yeah because football games are just QBs and 21 other orange cones out there.

He's playing handicapped because he plays for a chronically bad team. Penalties, poor drafting, patchwork offensive lines, terrible depth, radical coaching changes, no organizational plan. Romo (and maybe by dumb luck, DeMarco Murray and Sean Lee) is their only saving grace.

Cutty > Romo

[Man0warr]

Cutty > Romo

k

Last year, Philip Rivers had his worst season since 2007 and Ben Roethlisberger had his worst season since 2008. Matt Ryan still has big-time downfield passing woes, despite having two great wideouts (he ranked tied for 21st in vertical YPA and tied for 28th in stretch vertical YPA last season). The Baltimore Ravens win a lot of games with Joe Flacco under center, but it's often in spite of, rather than because of, the team's passing performance level. Michael Vick can't stay healthy, Jay Cutler still has horrible decision-making skills (he ranked next-to-last in BDR in 2011) and Peyton Manning has a brilliant track record that could put him at or near the top of any ranking at the position, but he has yet to prove conclusively that he is back to his pre-injury physical state.

[Dimmauk]

k

Did cowherd write that? LOL

[Man0warr]

Did cowherd write that? LOL

Nah bro it's stats straight from the games. That's Football Outsiders schtick, the stats tell the tale.

BDR = Bad Decision Rate = a metric that gauges how often a quarterback makes a mental error that leads either to a turnover or a near turnover, like a dropped interception or fumble that is recovered by the offense.

Also, Cutler is a bitch.

[Demosthenes11]

sure is cowboys in here

[Dimmauk]

Romo is carried by his TEs and WRs. Put him on another team, and his stats would plummet. Cutty makes his teammates better, he even makes his OC look better.

Romo sucks.