Your “Stupid Is As Stupid Does” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: Combine idiocy: The Bengals met with, and somehow didn't turn off, Joe Burrow on Wednesday. Partaking in the interview on the team's side were owner Mike Brown, head coach Zac Taylor, offensive coordinator Brian Callahan and others involved with the Bengals combine scouting. Nowhere does it ask his opinion

Your “Not A Lot Going On” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes: Reminder: the Franchise Tag window opens tomorrow. Teams have two weeks to designate an eligible player, which should be lots of fun. The PI Challenge Rule might be gone before the next season starts. In the annual postseason survey taken by the nine-member NFL Competition Committee, teams came

Your “Sure, Okay” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Noise: It looks like Cam Newton is staying in Carolina.   Rapoport reports that new head coach Matt Rhule would prefer to start the season with Newton under center. There may be a strategy to draft Newton's eventual replacement, but for right now it's better for the organization to keep

Your “‘Who Went Where?’ Ice Football Division” Monday Evening Open Thread

NFL Nuggets: Drew Brees' 20th season will make him the 20th player in NFL history to have hit that mark.   Of the other 19, five have been quarterbacks: Tom Brady Brett Favre Earl Morrall Vinny Testaverde George Blanda The Bucs announced today they will be debuting new uniforms in April.

Your “What’s One More?” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes: Everson Griffen voided the remaining years on his Vikings contract, thereby immediately entering free agency.   He was able to do so because he hit some contract benchmarks for sack and percentage of snaps played. It frees up $13 million in cap space for the Vikings, but also allows

Your Wednesday Evening Catwalk Post

NFL News: Greg Olsen has signed a one-year deal with the Seahawks. Continuing the heritage of greats like Franco Harris, Jerry Rice & Sebastian Janikowski, who all signed one-year deals with Seattle before retiring & going to the Hall of Fame. ESPN throws some delightful shade, pointing out that Russell

Your “How Do I Do This Again?” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Okay, let's see if I can go a week without something bad happening. Can it be 2021 already? NFL Nuggets: Trade rumours in advance of the Combine: Le'Veon Bell   Darius Slay Cam Newton Today's non-Bears landing spots: Chargers, Colt, Bucs. Andy Dalton. Impending free agents: Tom Brady is going to make teams

Your “How Did I Get Here?” Thursday Evening Open Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8 NFL Nuggets: Today's trade / release rumours: Matt Stafford. Unlikely, given that he's a $21 million cap hit if he plays, but a $32 million hit if he's released or traded. Josh Norman. He's just too expensive, and Washington can draft cheaper options. Jameis Winston. Sure, he just had LASIK,

The Bleergh Report – Conference weekend

ALL HAIL BLEERGH. In tribute to Bleergh (the God of Penalties), here are the Conference weekend's best and worst penalties. I was unable to find the data in anything other than PDF (NFL gamesheets) this week, so these numbers are what I found from said game sheets. Here's a random breakdown of

Your “Hotheads Hotheading” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL Noise: The AB thing is over a $4000 moving dispute. A company he hired to store & ship his stuff back from California refused to unload it at his house because he refused to pay. When the van drove away, AB threw rocks at it, causing minor damage. When

Your “Take It Where You Can” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes: Raise your juice boxes in appreciation - Eli Manning has retired.   It will be formally announced at a special press conference on Friday, after Eli & Daniel finish their final sleepover in The Meadowlands. After 16 seasons & one "fuck you" to the Spanos family, Eli hangs up

The Bleergh Report – Divisional weekend

ALL HAIL BLEERGH. In tribute to Bleergh (the God of Penalties), here are the Divisional weekend's best and worst penalties. I was unable to find the data in anything other than PDF (NFL gamesheets) this week, so these numbers are what I found from said game sheets. Here's a random breakdown of