The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V3

You’d wonder at times.

Just seen it. Vermin.

I do wonder does CTE be at play with some of these lads, even at a young age.

What on earth does he see in him. Is there any other team in the NFL that would pay him half that? I know in the NFL their big thing with contracts is based around what's the cheaper option, and does the cheaper option get us less first downs, win less games etc. I can't believe they could have got something a lot cheaper that would have picked up those short runs

The guaranteed money isn’t huge and he is unlikely to see anywhere near the top end as it seems to be heavily incentives based. Saints are a shrewd team and will have it set up in a way that doesn’t hurt them I have no doubt.

I thoguht it was also linked to what position he plays (don't ask how they work that out other than retrospectively)?

Near as I can tell the Saints find ways to pay every player 50 million a year and still end up below the cap.

I hear the term Swiss army knife used for some players these days. Well Tayson Hill is the ultimate Swiss army knife.

Who else would pay him you say? I'd say Bill Belichick, Andy Reid, Sean McVay and Bruce Arians to start with.

I'm all in favour of firing Nagy as soon as possible but the clown show yesterday is a great reminder that whenever he gets fired the people responsible for replacing him are still the idiots they were before so no reason to get your hopes up.

• Cornerback Eric Allen
• Defensive end Jared Allen
• Offensive tackle Willie Anderson
• Cornerback/safety Ronde Barber
• Wide receiver Anquan Boldin
• Offensive tackle Tony Boselli
• Safety LeRoy Butler
• Running back Eddie George
• Wide receiver/kick returner Devin Hester
• Wide receiver Torry Holt
• Wide receiver Andre Johnson
• Defensive end Robert Mathis
• Linebacker Sam Mills
• Defensive tackle Richard Seymour
• Wide receiver Steve Smith
• Wide receiver/special teams Steve Tasker
• Running back Fred Taylor
• Linebacker Zach Thomas
• Wide receiver Hines Ward
• Linebacker DeMarcus Ware
• Running back Ricky Watters
• Wide receiver Reggie Wayne
• Defensive tackle Vince Wilfork
• Linebacker Patrick Willis
• Safety Darren Woodson
• Defensive tackle Bryant Young

The semi finalists for the 2022 pro football hall of fame have been announced. These 26 will be reduced to ten next year. Is there 16 names you could cut off that list.

If the season ended today, the first 10 picks of the draft next year would be...

1. Detroit Lions
2. Jacksonville Jaguars
3. Houston Texans
4. New York Jets
5. New York Jets
6. New York Giants
7. New York Giants
8. Carolina Panthers
9. Philadelphia Eagles
10. Philadelphia Eagles

Odd that 3 teams would pick twice in a row.

Demaryius Thomas has passed away at the age of just 33, haven't seen a cause of death. He was a monster for the Broncos for a few years.

In news that will shock nobody this season, urban Meyer is acting like a dickhead and has been having heated arguments with players and allegedly called his coaching staff losers.

Well it’s been reported by multiple insiders and they name players who’ve had arguments with him.

I'm well aware of Meyer's past but that just makes fake stories more likely.

Until a current employee or somebody who quits, not somebody who gets cut or fired, comes out with the story I'll reserve judgement.

Yeah I read the reports. Sounds legit. No active player is going to go on record eagle eye

I believe what I see really, Jacksonville team have awful body language, don't look happy. Comapre with Detroit where everyone is still in high spirits and celebrte TD's with the coach. This rumour adds more smoke to what I've seen.

He looks more like Aaron Rodgers than Aaron Rodgers does.

I'm not surprised at all to hear about Meyer's treatment of players.

This was raised by people as an issue coming out of college, where he was notorious for treating players terribly and it not mattering because the NCAA is a conveyor belt of talent where a DIV1 player only stays for 1.5 years on average...

He's around grown men now who are contracted employees, not a kid who relies on him to have a shot to make the league.

Well things certainly looked real bad yesterday like something serious is wrong.

See that picture is exactly what's wrong with social media.

It's disgraceful that things like that are allowed.

I'm not defending Meyer here by any stretch, I don't like the guy at all. I just despise those people who put stuff like that up.

I don't know why anybody would follow horrible people like that. If Meyer did in fact do everything that's in there, I don't think there's much proof of most of it, the person putting up that picture is every bit as despicable as him.

It's not satire. It's despicable, tasteless garbage.

I think its both funny and factually accurate, personally.

Its nothing different to other visual satire images that've been around not just for decades in Phoenix or Private Eye, but since the 1800s when the trend started in Punch magazine.

Is Jones out? That'd be a huge loss anytime but particularly bad timing when you are facing up against Herbert.