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If the rumors are true about what The Eagles offered the Bucs and Titans how did they not take them?

Bucs and or Titans would have won that trade probably.

Apparently for the past couple of years Bill Belichick 1st round draft picks have been based on players cartoon watching habits. Did it for Dominique Easley last year and Malcom Brown this year. Both prefer to watch a bunch of cartoons than football games on tv.

Oh shit, Giants jump up to #33

Way to long of a time clock

WOOOOOO Landon Collins!

Not basing it on this pick but I think Giants win the division

Top needs entering draft: OL and safety

First 2 picks: OL and safety

I approve :y:

15 minutes in and theirs only 1 pick. Its like they try to make this as unwatchable as possible.

I hope the Colts have Jeff George representing them.

LOL the Panthers badly need a OT, trade up 15 or so spots with 2 good OTs on the board only to draft Devin fuckin Funchess

Gregory still dropping. Hope Cowboys get him

Jim Kelly's daughter is ludicrously hot.

I like the Ravens pick of Maxx Williams, a steal I think that late in the 2nd

:lol: one person screaming "yeah" in a sea of boos for the Packers pick.

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Originally Posted by Crimson (Post 4624360)

Gregory still dropping. Hope Cowboys get him

Boom. Top 10 talent. Hope he's not mentally unstable

This is the first time I can recall where Tampa Bay has actually made an effort to have a quarterback instead of just hiring some half assed free agent. I guess they tried some with Josh Freeman but even that felt like an afterthought. I can't think of another franchise that has held the quarterback position with less regard over the years than they havel.

Miami before Ryan Tannehill?

Went through a lot of QBs after Marino retired.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">With the selection of UCLA DE Owamagbe Odighizuwa by the Giants, <a href="https://twitter.com/BobPapa_NFL">@BobPapa_NFL</a> becomes the biggest loser of Day 2 of the NFL Draft.— Ralph Vacchiano (@RVacchianoNYDN) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVacchianoNYDN/status/594322380727660544">May 2, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

:lol:

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Originally Posted by DrA (Post 4624393)

Feel like the Browns change quarterbacks all the time.

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Originally Posted by Droford (Post 4624383)

I like the Ravens pick of Maxx Williams, a steal I think that late in the 2nd

Double X. I approve.

lol @ that Patriots fan calling the pick. All I could think of was Patton Oswald's character in Big Fan.

No clue why Belichick didn't bother to get at least a CB with one of the 3 picks possible. Got a S, another D line guy, and traded away the other pick.

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Originally Posted by Frank Drebin (Post 4624421)

lol @ that Patriots fan calling the pick. All I could think of was Patton Oswald's character in Big Fan.

:lol:

Bryce Petty to the Jets in the 4th round. Wouldn't be a draft without a little Jets QB controversy.

What is going on with Jay Ajayi right now? Feel like if he's still around in the middle of the 5th round or so, Dallas has gotta go get him.

Oh man.

Jim Kelly and the FEELS

That season ticket holder that announced the 5th round pick for The Bills looked like she was trying to impress broadway producers.

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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan (Post 4624793)

What is going on with Jay Ajayi right now? Feel like if he's still around in the middle of the 5th round or so, Dallas has gotta go get him.

Dolphins wound up nabbing him in the 5th

Kinda like that the Giants are sticking with the "big school" guys this year for some reason. Miami, Alabama, UCLA, and now Texas.

Still 2 picks left for them to take the annual BC or Syracuse player though.

Zac Stacy traded to the Jets for a 7th rounder

That's actually not a bad trade for Gang Green...........for once.

Stacy wanted out of St. Louis the second Todd Gurley got drafted, and the Jets got a runningback they can work with.

Alright, quick thoughts on the Giants draft now that everything is in the books:

Round 1: Ereck Flowers, OT, Miami: Made most of my thoughts clear on Thursday but I love the pick. O-line was a far more pressing need than D-line. Should slot right in at RT, allowing Pugh to move to RG. Huge dude, 6'6" 330 lb and could be groomed as Beatty's eventual successor at LT. The footage I've seen suggests he's especially good in run blocking, which is huge as the Giants had a largely shit run game last year due to bad blocking.

Round 2: Landon Collins, S, Alabama: Safety was the biggest need going in but #9 would have been way too high for Collins. He wouldn't have been left at pick #40 so I'm glad they traded up. Reese is usually pretty gun-shy about making trades during the draft so I like them going the extra mile to get a guy they really wanted. Hard-hitting, physical play and Another guy who should slot right in to a starting role. I've seen some forecast him as someone with very real bust potential but I'm pretty sure people say that about every Bama defensive player no matter what.

Round 3, Owamagbe Odighizuwa, DE, UCLA: I don't need to see any more than his name to know I like him. Oh-diggy-zoo-wah. Badass. Anyway he was a force at stopping the run, which was another big Giants weakness last year. He's had some issues rushing the passer but he's going to a defensive scheme that will teach him up on that fairly quickly as they are known to throw 3 or 4 DEs on the field on passing downs. Thinking about it, Spags will now have JPP, Ayers, Selvie, Moore, and O-Squared to work with at the DE position. Can't wait to see what he comes up with.

Round 5, Mykkele Thompson, S, Texas: During these late rounds I try to flip the draft on when the Giants are about to pick because the networks are good at showing highlight tape for most guys. Neither network showed one second on this guy. Evidently he was universally ranked as someone who was going to go undrafted and the Giants were the only team to bring him in for a pre-draft visit. I know it's the 5th round but it sounds like they could have gotten better value at this spot and signed him right after the draft. From what I've read he sounds like he has good speed and is a versatile guy who can play any DB spot, so at least he fills a need.

Round 6, Geremy Davis, WR, UConn: As a UConn fan I'm happy to see him get picked. He was a team captain, has great hands, and had a really nice collegiate career for himself considering the jobbers he had throwing to him. He's pretty slow though, and WR is a pretty busy spot for the Giants as is. I wonder if maybe they want Davis to bulk up in preseason and potentially be converted to TE. That could work, especially with Donnell having the drops at times last year.

Round 7, Bobby Hart, OT, Florida State: Don't know a whole lot about this guy but you could have a worse dice-roll than a guy who was a starting lineman on a National Title-winning team. Giants usually keep 9 or 10 OL on the roster so whatever, never hurts to have an extra body competing for a job in preseason.

Pretty tough to judge a draft until at least 3 years have passed but as far as first impressions I like this class. 2 starters out of the gate and an intriguing DE prospect in the first 3 rounds. Anything they get out of the last 3 guys is probably gravy.

Zac Stacy is better than most 7th round picks ever... So... Good for the Jets.

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Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball (Post 4624320)

Wait....what? More, please.

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Texas -- Malcom Brown doesn't watch football in his spare time. Not that he has spare time.

He was asked this season which pro players he idolizes. He had no idea. He doesn't follow the NFL.

Brown wants to be the best defensive tackle in the nation. He might be. But that's just his job.

"I don't want to be all about football, you know what I mean?" Brown said after a Texas practice last week. "I come up here, I study film, I do what I have to for the game. But once I leave, I feel like if I study it too much, it'll get boring. I love football and I'm happy to be playing. God gave me good talent. But I have to find some kind of balance in between."

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Brown prefers watching cartoons. He grew up on "Dragon Ball Z" anime. Still enjoyed it in high school. Now his children do, too. Three-month-old Mayah lays on her belly and stares. Four-year-old Rayna, too energetic to sit still, stands and playfully tries to mimic the action. Just like Malcom did when he was a kid.

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_...s-malcom-brown

This is what Easley said last year going into the 2014 NFL Draft

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“I like to play. I don’t like to watch on TV,” he said.

Easley was asked if he ever has made it through an entire NFL game.

“Not start to finish," Easley said. "I might change it to a cartoon or something.”

(For the record, he's a big fan of the Rocket Power cartoon for those keeping score at home.)

So wait, you don't watch, like, the Super Bowl? What's the most of an NFL game you've watch, Dominique?

“About two quarters,” he said.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...6704--nfl.html

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Originally Posted by screech (Post 4624416)

Feel like the Browns change quarterbacks all the time.

They have "gone for it" twice with expansion Tim Couch and Manziel now. Josh Freeman was a first round pick...but he was a much much smaller name than Stafford and Sanchez who were picked ahead of him that year. He definitely seemed more like a 3rd or 4th round quarterback than a first rounder and never proved anyone wrong

And the Bucs not having a quarterback goes all the way back to...forever

Hey the Bucs had Trent Dilfer that one time

I'm not one to hate on the Dilf-man. He "invented" QBR didn't he

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Originally Posted by ESPN

The NFL has found that it is probable that New England Patriots personnel deliberately deflated balls during the AFC Championship Game in January and that quarterback Tom Brady was "generally aware" of what was happening.

According to the report, there was no smoking gun evidence against the Pats although both the Colts and Pats had under-deflated balls for the game. Colts balls were 1.06PSI under-inflated and Pats balls were 1.01PSI under-inflated.

NFL to announce punishments within the next few days with Brady likely getting the harshest. Like the Pats, no smoking gun evidence against him but he did provide the least stuff for the investigation. NFL wanted a lot of personal stuff from him which he refused or gave very little.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Screenshots of Wells' report outlining text exchanges between McNally & Jastremski about Brady: <a href="http://t.co/MCR4YoDbmD">pic.twitter.com/MCR4YoDbmD</a>— Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffDarlington/status/596000916328849408">May 6, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Originally Posted by Wells Report

Based on the evidence developed in connection with the investigation and summarized in this Report, we have concluded that it is more probable than not that New England Patriots personnel participated in violations of the NFL Playing Rules and were involved in a deliberate attempt to circumvent those rules. In particular, we conclude that it is more probable than not that Jim McNally and John Jastremski participated in a deliberate plan to circumvent the rules by releasing air from Patriots game balls after the examination of the footballs by NFL game officials at the AFC Championship Game. We believe that McNally and Jastremski were aware that the inflation level of the Patriots game balls following pre-game inspection by the game officials would be approximately 12.5 psi and planned for McNally to deflate the balls below that level following the pre-game inspection using a needle provided by Jastremski. Based on the evidence, we also have concluded that it is more probable than not that Tom Brady was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities of McNally and Jastremski involving the release of air from Patriots game balls.73

We do not believe that the evidence establishes that any other Patriots personnel participated in or had knowledge of the violation of the Playing Rules or the deliberate effort to circumvent the rules described above. In particular, we do not believe there was any wrongdoing or knowledge of wrongdoing by Patriots ownership, Head Coach Belichick or any other Patriots coach in the matters investigated. We also do not believe there was any wrongdoing or knowledge of wrongdoing by Patriots Head Equipment Manager Dave Schoenfeld.