Russell Okung's contract contains zero guaranteed money. So he basically decided to take a long-term, big money contract over a lesser deal that at least included some guranteed money.

I mean, I guess I have to applaud him for being willing to bet on himself like that but for a guy with his injury history it probably would have been better for him to guarantee himself some sort of income. He could shred his knee in training camp and wind up never making another cent in the NFL. Very risky.

He was his own agent in the deal. Right now, he's in on a 1-year $5 mil. deal with a 4-5 year $48 mil. team option after that.

Pretty good deal for both sides, imo. If he proves his worth, he's here for the long term. If not, thanks for the year.

lol is this for real? Fucking hell

Tray Walker has died from his injuries.

R.I.P.

Fuck. 23 is way too young. RIP

Titans are open to trading the #1 pick the draft. But they want the ol' King's Ransom deal.

Supposedly last year the Eagles offered the Titans their 2015 1st and 2nd rounders, their 2016 1st rounder, and the choice of both any QB on the roster AND any defensive player on the roster in order to trade up for Mariota, and the Titans still said no.

Seems retarded on both sides, the Eagles for even offering it and the Titans for not taking it. They could have taken a stud on defense like Fletcher Cox and used Bradford or Sanchez as a stopgap while drafting a guy like Brett Hundley later and still having high draft picks to spare.

I hope Cowboys maybe trade their pick to a team like Tampa at 9. Only if that safety is gone though, I'm not in love with Bosa. Ezekiel Elliot at 9 would be fantastic

Leader of the team/most valuable asset.

Brady was at the top of the list of lawsuit that ended the holdout.

That cannot be true.

Johnny Rehab hires NFL superagent Drew Rosenhaus.

Figured even HE would be smart to stay away from him. But I guess if you're desperate for a job, he's the guy to go to.

Where is colin kap GOING what's taking so long

Maybe he asked for more percentage.

Why would Drew Rosenhaus steer clear? Manziel will sign somewhere,,,,,all about that commission baby,,

Alfred Morris to the Cowboys.

Justin Houston got ACL surgery in February and is out for 6-12 months.

stupid-ass Nate Burleson (actually love him just not rn) keeps saying Calvin should un-retire and join the Pats... ffs. if that happens I will totally be jaded to football and stop following it altogether

The Lions would have to release Calvin's contract rights in order for that to happen. If he unretires his contract is still Lions property.

Same thing happened with Barry Sanders. Took a year off, his agent asked the Lions to release him (presumably so he could unretire and sign elsewhere) and they rightly refused.

2 personal fouls lead to ejection, and touchbacks go out to the 25 now.

I hate that. No one should be getting ejected. The college game has got out of hand with all its ejections in my opinion.

It should be a judgement call by the officials as opposed to just a straight "two personal fouls and you're out" rule. If a guy is going out of his way to hit people after the play multiple times, he should be ejected. If he happens to get called for a facemask in the first quarter and then sacks the QB a bit low in the 4th quarter, an ejection seems silly.

I don't get moving the touchback 5 yards up. What purpose does that serve? Just a small way to encourage more scoring or something? Meh.

Touchbacks going to the 25 is fucking stupid, especially considering it's impossible NOT to have touchbacks in a place like Denver.

Oh, I guess it could be another way to encourage taking a touchback instead of running the ball out to lessen the chance of injury.

Still not a fan though.

I like it, would still like to see them draft one of the top RBs though.

If that's their goal then just fucking get rid of them altogether. It's like they're only keeping kickoffs in just to appease traditionalists at this point but these rules make it pointless to even do them.

They tweaked the rule in a way ejections are probably still going to be rare. Original plan was for all personal fouls to be counted towards while the new rule is just for unsportsmanlike fouls.

Think the stuff Talib pulled in the Superbowl under the new rules still wouldn't have lead to an ejection for him as an example.

Can't get rid of them cause of Onside kick attempts. Would pretty much end all comebacks.

Then keep onside kicks and eliminate regular kickoffs. Duh.

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/l...t-louis-032416

In the wake of the Rams being chosen for this season of Hard Knocks, there's a report going around that the Rams were scheduled to do the show in 2014 but made a deal with the NFL to draft Michael Sam so the league could avoid the negative publicity of the first openly gay draft prospect not being picked.

Moving the ball to the 25 will encourage kickers to try to pin it within the 5 so they have to run it.

Robert Griffin the has-been signs with Cleveland.

With Rueben Randle signing with the Eagles, here's a list of remaining Giants from the first 6 years that Jerry Reese was GM:

2007: long snapper Zak DeOssie
2008: none
2009: none
2010: defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul
2011: none
2012: none

Jerry Reese, man...

He needed to stay out of the AFC North. Not going to end well for him

On the touchback to the 25 rule..if I'm the kicking team idctry to kick the ball inside the 10 and make them return it. I do that in Madden all the time

From what I read he's signed on as the backup QB right now. That can all change if Cleveland drafts another QB in the draft or not.

Why? Baltimore has an okay defense. Steelers are meh. Cincinnati is above average. It's not like he went to go against the Rams, Cardinals, and Seahawks.

but but but, Ruien... DROSTATS!!!

ugh... that was a DAMN iNATOR-esque level of misguided tongue-in-cheek