Around The NFL - 2014

[ice grillin you]

they actually have a decent chance in that division if ej manuel can play

[phattymatty]

so i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that a homeless person tried to kill strahan sometime this week?

thats pretty cool i guess.

[hbionic]

Makes me think...if IGY was stabbed and right before he dies, he gets a glimpse of the attacker,  and the attacker is a white hipster, holding a knife in one hand, and a latte in the other while wearing a USA soccer jersey, would IGY die from his stab wounds or a heart attack?

[General_Failure]

Lack of oxygen from forgetting to breathe while telling him how awful he is.

[ice grillin you]

dion jordan joining lane for the first month of the season

[PhillyPhreak54]

Colts Lavon Brazil got popped for a year

[Eagaholic]

NFL general managers will have a brief break from their vacations Thursday when they have a chance to participate in the supplemental draft, John Clayton of ESPN reports.

The four-player draft will be held at 1 p.m., but there is no guarantee any of the players will be drafted. If they aren't, they become undrafted free agents and can sign with any team.

New Mexico wide receiver-running back Chase Clayton, North Carolina linebacker Darius Lipford, Virginia Lynchburg defensive tackle Lakendrick Ross and SMU running back Traylon Shead are the four players available.

The 6-foot-5, 360-pound Ross has drawn a lot of interest. He's raw, but he's strong. He benched 47 reps at 225 pounds.

holy shtein. that size/strength is eye popping.

Edit:  Eagles were at his pro day. Usually sup draft players have baggage of some sort but his seems to be academic. How brilliant do you have to be to play NT in short yardage though. He's very athletic, strong and put up big numbers for the little he played against low level competition, comes from a tough background.



no way chip passes on that, right?

[Diomedes]

Lookit, he's already flashing gang signs.

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000364030/article/2014-nfl-supplemental-mock-draft

lololol

[Sgt PSN]

Supplemental mock draft, eh?  This is how far we've fallen as people.

[ice grillin you]

baggage of some sort but his seems to be academic.  Eagles were at his pro day.

no way chip passes on that, right?

chip never met a pro day he didnt love and hates cranial lumps

howie loves draft picks

i wouldnt be too optimistic

[Rome]

NFL Notes: Goodell says '15 draft down to L.A., Chicago

July 17, 2014, 11:30 pm

For the first time since 1965, New York will not host the NFL draft in 2015.

According to Sam Farmar of the Los Angeles Times, Roger Goodell told reporters on Thursday that New York was considered but ultimately was ruled out. The prospective location has been narrowed down to either Chicago or Los Angeles for next year's draft.

"We're focusing solely on Los Angeles and Chicago now," Goodell said.

The decision to drop New York from consideration was made when Radio City Music Hall, the event's usual venue, couldn't offer available dates in April or May. The draft is expected to take place either April 22-25 or April 29-May 2.

Goodell did not give a timeframe on when the league will choose between the two cities.

"We had 12 cities that were interested," Goodell said. "We felt the best thing to do was to focus on the three cities, because they had such a tremendous interest. There are very attractive aspects to each of those cities. Because we don't have the appropriate dates in May our focus is completely on Los Angeles and Chicago. They both have tremendous bids."

Though the draft has recently been a three-day event, the NFL has given thought to expanding it to four days starting next year.

It's not just that Goodell is an arrogant short-sighted shyster piece of shtein... it's that every decision he and his "team" makes these days are laughably and exactly 180 degrees opposite of correct.  I mean Los Angeles?  There's 32 teams that play in cities or regions that have NFL teams but L.A. is the place you've decided makes the most sense to hold a draft.  And for the kicker... let's add an extra day!  It's not like traditional fans are still pissed you've moved it from Sat/Sun to Thurs-Sat... nope, let's spread it out even further and broadcast it from a place that doesn't actually have, you know, NFL FANS!

Seriously... it's like they're actively trying their hardest to say farg you to the fans who made the NFL what it is today.

[QB Eagles]

The draft hype has gotten out of control. When it was confined to the weekend and you could organize a couple parties around watching the draft, I liked watching the whole thing. With this new setup, I'll watch the first round but I'm not going to spend days and days watching teams I don't care about draft players I most likely won't hear from again. I have better shtein to do than that.

"We felt the best thing to do was to focus on the three cities, because they had such a tremendous interest.

AKA they looked in an encyclopedia and saw those were the biggest cities that weren't New York.

[ice grillin you]

maybe its just me but the amount of whining having to do with the nfl draft changes amazes me....if you dont care about non eagle picks you weren't watching the draft when it was sat/sun...don't get me wrong I miss the draft parties but most people at them didn't even care about the first round until their team was up....I had to listen to the first round over music and knuckleheads playing poker every year....

for someone who watches every last pick this new format is actually better....you get the first round in peace on thurs nite then you get two nights/day of drinking or cooking out on fri/sat....sat is especially awesome going from like 11 to 7 and getting to see a hundred picks...not that fri with rounds 2/3 isn't great too

if people wanna have a cookout you can do that anytime....people shouldn't need the draft as an excuse...like I said people were always much more excited for the party than for the draft

the main thing I don't like about the new format is having to stay up late on a work night for the first round...that's a legit concern....not missing out on a draft party....really when it comes down to it the draft is all about the picks themselves and really who cares what day of the week they are made

[General_Failure]

The longer they stretch out the draft, the less I have to pretend to care. I don't watch college football, I have no idea who any of these guys are. All I want to know is if the Eagles attempted to address any weak positions, but I want to know it as soon as possible.