2011-12 NFL Season
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Andrew Luck,Matt Barkley,& Landry Jones in my opinion are the top three college QBs right now. The problem is that technically,they are also juniors. Of the three,I think that Matt Barkley is the most likely of the three to come out early,& that is contingent on whether USC will still be on probation his senior year. If Stanford goes to the BCS national championship & wins,I think Andrew Luck will come out early. If they go to the national championship & lose,I believe he'll return to Stanford for his senior season. Landry Jones is the least likely of the three to come out early under any circumstance(unless somebody can successfully convince him that an NFL paycheck can help him feed a lot of poor starving orphan kids overseas). can anybody who keeps up with college football better than me name any more college QB's,who are seniors,who haven't been suspended for infractions,& whose name is not Kellen Moore,who would be eligible for the 2012 draft & would be potential 1st round picks? I'm stumped.
Brandon Weeden, Oklahoma State. 6'4" senior. OSU is currently #3 in BCS standings.
Possible downside: older than the others because he played professional baseball for a few years before going to college.
Possible upside: older than the others, more mature.
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As compared to last week...NOPE.
For the year...I will wait where the Raiders are at seasons end before I get a little pissed or alot pissed.
One thing for sure,2013 potentially will be remembered as the year of the quarterback equalling the year that John Elway,Dan Marino,Jim Kelly,& Tony Eason came out.
Who?
Tony Eason was drafted by the New England Patriots & was their starting QB when they loss to the Chicago Bears in the 1986 Super Bowl.
Todd Blackledge who was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs was the only QB draft bust of that year. The New York Jets' QB Ken O'Brien also came out that year.
Considering only one of those actually won the Superbowl, I'd say 2004 might be a better year:
Eli Manning - won
Philip Rivers - may yet win (not holding my breath)
Ben Roethlisberger - won x 2
Yeah,only Elway won the Super Bowl,twice,but the other three also made Super Bowl appearances with their teams,Jim Kelly 4 times. Kelly & Elway were the only QB's that year who made multiple Super Bowl appearances though.
He was, but Steve Grogan should have started that game (not that it would have affected the outcome obviously).
Eason's an interesting case.
If you look at the numbers and the Pats record from 1983-1988, he wasn't half-Bad (had some very good games)
That Super Bowl really overshadows what was a career that was in the middle- not legendary, but not horrible.
If you look at the numbers and the Pats record from 1983-1988, he wasn't half-Bad (had some very good games)
That Super Bowl really overshadows what was a career that was in the middle- not legendary, but not horrible.
But Steve Grogan was the better leader. Grogan was as tough a QB that's ever played in this league. Eason was the antithesis of that.
This is looking like the most stacked week of NFL games this season.
7 games with big implications:
Jets/Bills, Bucs/Saints, Bengals/Titans, Packers/Chargers, Patriots/Giants, Ravens/Steelers, Bears/Eagles.
7 games with big implications:
Jets/Bills, Bucs/Saints, Bengals/Titans, Packers/Chargers, Patriots/Giants, Ravens/Steelers, Bears/Eagles.
...this is spot on in a good and a scary way...
I read this and I was excited of the possibilities and quite frankly, scared sh**less...
I read this and I was excited of the possibilities and quite frankly, scared sh**less...
The only reason I remember Tony Eason is the Super Bowl against the Bears. I remember Todd Blackledge because he was the only QB who didn't really pan out. Ken O'Brien was apparently successful for the New York Jets,but I don't remember him at all,especially in comparison to John Elway,Jim Kelly,& Dan Marino. Tony Eason's "15 minutes of fame" was the Superbowl game against da Bears. Tony Eason was the second of that class who made it to the Superbowl,the first being Dan Marino.
Hmmm...interesting..Belichick was once a "fight promoter" ...LOL!
Former player says Belichick paid him to start fights in practice
Posted by Mike Florio on November 4, 2011, 10:37 AM EDT
The last time the Patriots prepared to face the Giants, a bombshell was dropped by the Boston Herald. Former Pats beat writer John Tomase reported — and later retracted — that the Patriots had secretly filmed the Rams' walk-through practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.
As the Patriots prepare to face the Giants for the first time since the day that 18-0 became 18-1 in February 2008, another controversy has surfaced, albeit far less inflammatory.
Former NFL defensive lineman Chad Eaton, in a profile published Thursday by the Dayton Daily News, blurts out that, when he was a member of the Browns' practice squad, coach Bill Belichick paid Eaton to start fights in practice.
"If practice was going slow, he'd look at me and just say, 'It's time,'" Eaton said. "He wanted me to get on somebody's [case] and start a little fight. I was known for that and it paid off on Fridays. There'd always be some extra money in my locker. Practice players don't make much, so I really appreciated it."
Eaton spent five seasons with the Patriots after his time in Cleveland ended. His time in New England overlapped with Belichick by only one year, in 2000.
Belichick has a reputation for greasing the palms of the various P-H-D (poor, hungry, driven) employees who work for the front office and coaching staff. Giving extra cash to players raises the specter of potential salary-cap violations.
It's highly unlikely that anything will come of this, given that Eaton is talking about things that happened more than 15 years ago. But any hint of a potential rules violation by the Patriots and/or Belichick is sure to get PFT Planet's juices flowing on a fairly slow Friday morning, regardless of whether any, some, or all of the other 31 coaches were doing the same thing.
Former player says Belichick paid him to start fights in practice | ProFootballTalk
Former player says Belichick paid him to start fights in practice
Posted by Mike Florio on November 4, 2011, 10:37 AM EDT
The last time the Patriots prepared to face the Giants, a bombshell was dropped by the Boston Herald. Former Pats beat writer John Tomase reported — and later retracted — that the Patriots had secretly filmed the Rams' walk-through practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.
As the Patriots prepare to face the Giants for the first time since the day that 18-0 became 18-1 in February 2008, another controversy has surfaced, albeit far less inflammatory.
Former NFL defensive lineman Chad Eaton, in a profile published Thursday by the Dayton Daily News, blurts out that, when he was a member of the Browns' practice squad, coach Bill Belichick paid Eaton to start fights in practice.
"If practice was going slow, he'd look at me and just say, 'It's time,'" Eaton said. "He wanted me to get on somebody's [case] and start a little fight. I was known for that and it paid off on Fridays. There'd always be some extra money in my locker. Practice players don't make much, so I really appreciated it."
Eaton spent five seasons with the Patriots after his time in Cleveland ended. His time in New England overlapped with Belichick by only one year, in 2000.
Belichick has a reputation for greasing the palms of the various P-H-D (poor, hungry, driven) employees who work for the front office and coaching staff. Giving extra cash to players raises the specter of potential salary-cap violations.
It's highly unlikely that anything will come of this, given that Eaton is talking about things that happened more than 15 years ago. But any hint of a potential rules violation by the Patriots and/or Belichick is sure to get PFT Planet's juices flowing on a fairly slow Friday morning, regardless of whether any, some, or all of the other 31 coaches were doing the same thing.
Former player says Belichick paid him to start fights in practice | ProFootballTalk
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