Official 2015 NFL News and Notes for Offseason Non FA Non Draft

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Well the Vimeo of 1920's football didn't work out, but you can find that link and other old time tales in this story of how the Nation's moral character was in jeopardy when a pro football team from New England was playing fast and loose with NFL rules.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2468402-deflategate-roaring-20s-style-new-englands-1st-controversial-nfl-champions

Bonus appearance of the legendary Pottsville Maroons and $100,000 pro prospect Red Grange.

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Well the Vimeo of 1920's football id work out, but you can find that link and other old time tales in this story of how the Nation's moral character was in jeopardy when a pro football team from New England was playing fast and loose with NFL rules.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2468402-deflategate-roaring-20s-style-new-englands-1st-controversial-nfl-champions

Bonus appearance of the legendary Pottsville Maroons and $100,000 pro prospect Red Grange.

I can't read all that. Can you condense it into a tweet?

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I can't read all that. Can you condense it into a tweet?

PackerRats.com @PackerRats 20s20 seconds ago
NE football. Always a bunch of cheaters. http://packerrats.com/showthread.php...l=1#post836671 …

Actually, reminds me of a couple of the more pithy posters on the board.

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Aaron Schatz @FO_ASchatz 1h1 hour ago Framingham, MA
The Jets have gone 8 straight years with below-average passing DVOA rating. Think that's bad? Bears went SIXTEEN years from 1997-2012.

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Reading an article about the Skins picking up the 5th year, $16M option on RG3, and saw something that surprised me

So they rolled the dice with $16 million for 2016 in order to avoid having to pay roughly $20 million or more, if Griffin becomes the guy in 2015 that he was in 2012. And if he stinks, the smart move will be to yank him from the field, ensconce him in bubble wrap, and then cut him in the offseason before that $16 million becomes fully guaranteed next March.

I thought the 5th year option was fully guaranteed (injury and skill) when it was exercised.

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Bears have a mean Twitter game. Not much else, but at least its something.

Ian Rapoport @RapSheet 3h3 hours ago
Well done RT @ChicagoBears: It may be #SaySomethingNiceDay, but we'll wait until #OppositeDay to say something nice about the @packers.

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Forget the discussion of elite QB play, here is the new standard.

Scott Kacsmar @FO_ScottKacsmar 49s50 seconds ago
If you're paying out the ass for league-average QB play, your team is in trouble. Teams like CHI/CAR/CIN/SF/DET beware @stpete2you @Cianaf

The only problem here is that Kacsmar is probably on good ground differentiating between great QB play and above average talent, I think the $100 million threshold is causing him to assume each of these deals is astronomically out of whack. Not sure that is the case with all of them.

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Aaron Schatz @FO_ASchatz 3h3 hours ago Framingham, MA
Transformation of the NFL stat of the day: every single NFL defense faced shotgun on at least 64.6 percent of plays last year.

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The intro's of Mike Daniels on the video's for the NFL top100 players on NFL.com are hilarious. I don't recall the exact quotes, but it was something like (for Lacy) "The guy is like 2 cheese burgers away of putting his hand in the dirt next to me on the D line." (& Pep) "It's like you're playing in the backyard with your friends and suddenly your older brother joins the game. It's just not fair.".

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Whoa. I copied the wrong Tweet there, sorry.

ProFootballTalk @ProFootballTalk 2h2 hours ago
Russell Wilson's agent sends 16-page position statement to Seahawks http://wp.me/p14QSB-9MSg

Favre would just hold a sixteen part interview with Greta. And half of all statements would start with "I don't know...".

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The intro's of Mike Daniels on the video's for the NFL top100 players on NFL.com are hilarious. I don't recall the exact quotes, but it was something like (for Lacy) "The guy is like 2 cheese burgers away of putting his hand in the dirt next to me on the D line." (& Pep) "It's like you're playing in the backyard with your friends and suddenly your older brother joins the game. It's just not fair.".

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Things are not bright with the Giants:

B. How can they replace the injured veteran: When Beatty got injured, the Giants slid rookie Ereck Flowers to left tackle and promoted Marshall Newhouse to right tackle, while keeping former right tackle Justin Pugh at guard.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2489793-everything-is-awesome-a-readers-guide-to-every-minicamp-story-ever

Plus the best line of the summer so far:

Often the recovery news is accompanied by meaningless percentages. After the draft, Giants general manager Jerry Reese told WFAN's Mike Francesa (via NJ.com) that Victor Cruz was "probably 85, close to 90 percent" after last season's patellar tendon injury. Three weeks later during OTAs, Cruz himself told the New York Post's Paul Schwartz he was at 80 percent. Using regression analysis on those data points, Cruz will be paralyzed by Labor Day.

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Remember when?

Scott Kacsmar @FO_ScottKacsmar 20h20 hours ago
May 1977: Bears traded a 1st-round pick for Browns QB Mike Phipps, who had thrown 40 TD & 81 INT.

Browns used pick to draft Ozzie Newsome


But the NFC Central was so bad then (looking at it from Ohio) that this cowpie of a move didn't hinder the Bears' chances in the Division much, did it? Sure it took him one year to unseat the immortal Bob Avellini. But he led them to a 10-6 record and second place in the NFCC in '79. Browns were stuck with Brian Sipe.

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Wasn't Sipe a significantly better QB than Phipps? Or is that the joke?

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Wasn't Sipe a significantly better QB than Phipps? Or is that the joke?

Yes, he was and it was.