2020 NFL Draft/Offseason thread

[MrNubbz]

Stefanski real loves the 2 TE formation. Figures you can't have enough. Also puts some pressure on Njoku to step up his games.

Hell just have an incentive laden contract

[MrNubbz]

I have a t-shirt that say just give me one Cleveland, Been waiting since 1964. And I was only 4 then, so I really don't remember it.


I still remember my Uncle, the most die hard Browns fan I have ever known, He just kept having hope that it would happen again. He died after Modell betrayed us and before the Team came back. I am just hoping that isn't me.

My earliest memories are in the Late 60's with BIL,Brother and their friends down at the old Stadium - it was mammoth.Remember seeing Deacon Jones and Merlin Olsen when the Rams were in town.Man they were bigger than life.Watching Leroy Kelly and Paul Warfield,Ron Johnson,Milt Morin,Hickerson,Schafrath.Defense had Erich Barnes - use to play with Spider Lockhart in NY,Walter (Zoom)Johnson,Marvin Upshaw(Gene's Brother).Cockroft was a Punter/Place Kicker seemingly one of the last straight away kickers.When Barnes played with the Giants he was the dirtiest player in football.When the Browns traded for him it was somehow turned into just aggressive play

[Riffraft]

My earliest memories are in the Late 60's with BIL,Brother and their friends down at the old Stadium - it was mammoth.Remember seeing Deacon Jones and Merlin Olsen when the Rams were in town.Man they were bigger than life.Watching Leroy Kelly and Paul Warfield,Ron Johnson,Milt Morin,Hickerson,Schafrath.Defense had Erich Barnes - use to play with Spider Lockhart in NY,Walter (Zoom)Johnson,Marvin Upshaw(Gene's Brother).Cockroft was a Punter/Place Kicker seemingly one of the last straight away kickers.When Barnes played with the Giants he was the dirtiest player in football.When the Browns traded for him it was somehow turned into just aggressive play

I actually have a short super 8 film from when the Rams played in Cleveland in the 60s. My dad took his camera to the game and filmed part of it. 

I need to get those old super 8 films digitized before they are ruined (if they aren't already). Haven't looked at them in decades.

And you are speaking my time. Leroy Kelly is still my favorite Browns' player. 

[FearlessF]

my father transferred all his super 8s to VHS years ago

now my brother is converting to digital

[OrangeAfroMan]

my father transferred all his super 8s to VHS years ago

now my brother is converting to digital

Sounds like an unintended heirloom.  I bet it could continue onto future generations, as technology progresses and changes.  Hmmph.

[ELA]

I had missed Patterson didn't even sign as a UDFA.  Even broken Brian Lewerke did.

[bayareabadger]

I had missed Patterson didn't even sign as a UDFA.  Even broken Brian Lewerke did.

I wonder if there's something burbling on the personal side. Though his game was always kind of undisciplined. 

[Mdot21]

I had missed Patterson didn't even sign as a UDFA.  Even broken Brian Lewerke did.

Poor kid got Harbaugh'd. Regressed in year 2 under Harbaugh just like.....Wilton Speight, John O'Korn, and Brandon Peters.

The "QB guru" took 4 QB's- 3 of them actually quite talented and highly recruited- and we saw all of them go backwards their 2nd year under Harbaugh. Speight went from solid starter in 2016 year 1 to absolutely terrible in 2017. O'Korn went from promising back-up completing 60% of his passes for 2 TD's and 0 INT's in 8 games in 2016 to maybe the worst QB I've ever seen in 2017. Peters went from promising RS Frosh in 2017 to falling off the face of the earth.

Patterson went from 65% completion and 22 TD vs 7 INT plus almost 300 yards rushing and 2 rush TD in 2018 to 56.4% completion and 23 TD vs 8 INT with only 50 rush yards and 0 rush TD in 2019. Kid went backwards.

Patterson is the only player invited to the NFL combine that has not been drafted or signed an UDFA contract.

[Mdot21]

9 teams have had 25 or more players drafted over the last 5 drafts (2016-2020) combined. They are...

1) Alabama - 48
2) Ohio State - 45
3) LSU - 37 
4) Florida - 32 
T5) Michigan - 31
T5) Clemson - 31 
T6) Miami - 26 
T6) Georgia - 26
9) Notre Dame - 25 

[Mdot21]

4 schools have had at least 1 player selected in every draft of the common era (1967-present). They are...

Florida, USC, Michigan, and Michigan State. First 3 make sense. Never would’ve guessed Michigan State as one of the 4.

[Kris60]

my father transferred all his super 8s to VHS years ago

now my brother is converting to digital

A few years ago my wife found a guy who had converted a bunch of VHS tapes from my era of playing HS football to DVD.  She bought several copies and gave them to me for Christmas.

That’s a pretty cool gift, right?  At least that’s what I thought at the time.  The day after Christmas I settled in on the couch ready to relive what I remembered were the days of me being a pretty good HS football player.

If you ever get a chance to watch yourself play sports from long ago let me give you a piece of advice.  Don’t do it.  Because your natural instinct will be to focus in on what you do every play and not watch the ball like most people do.  When you focus in on yourself you see a lot of bad habits that your memory sort of scrubs over time.

I watched myself not stay with blocks, miss tackles, and not pursue the ball. I would switch discs hoping it was just a one game thing and the next game would tell the same story. After an hour I was ready to burn all of them. I put them in a bag in the back of the closet and haven’t looked at them since.

[FearlessF]

well, now you know why you didn't get a shot at the NFL  

[ELA]

well, now you know why you didn't get a shot at the NFL 

I don't know, did you forward that tape to the Lions?

[Mdot21]

Shea Patterson signs with the Chiefs.

Andy Dalton released by the Bengals and signs a 1-year deal with the Cowboys to presumably back-up Dak. Thought New England would make a run at big red, but I guess they are totally cool with Jarrett Stidham and Brian Hoyer.