I love the Chandler signing, btw, although it probably means the end of Hoo-man’s Pats career.
Gronk/Chandler/Wright 3 tight-end set… sweet. Who needs receivers?
Now they just need to sign Bush and maybe Harvin…
ETA: Never mind, I see the Bills signed Harvin to a one year deal.
I am waiting for my team to sign a punt and kick returner in free agency. That was actually our biggest loss with Tate. We had Walters for punts last year and he was safe and predictable but got no yards after the catch. He went to Jacksonville in free agency so we need some pop at that position. I am really hoping for some out of the blue blockbuster announcement.
Might try to convince Deion to make a comeback. 
No need to steal one in Dallas. He is already gone. On top of that, the way FA has worked so far in Dallas, we might have to suit up a few cheerleaders.
Kicker returners are pretty much dinosaurs in the new NFL. Just kick it out of the end zone. Between that and the automatic extra points, I just fast forward the DVR from the touchdown to the first play after the commercials with the ball spotted at the 20. Saves watching about a dozen commercials and boring plays.
Well our kick returner blew out his ACL so we gotta have someone. We have NO punt returner - went from bad to nothing this week and it was pretty important to our field position game (2 years ago).
About half of all kickoffs result in touchbacks, and there are typically 8 or 10 or so returned for touchdowns every year. It can still be an exciting play.
The range is pretty broad, from a high of 74% for Carolina to a low of 12% for San Diego.
The Dolphins have traded Mike Wallace and a 7th to Minnesota for a 5th. Good for Miami, I figured they were just going to cut him.
Harvin got 1 yr, 6 million. I guess Rexy likes him.
The big news is Roethlisberger has signed a 5 year extension which will most likely have him retire as a Steeler (he’ll be 38 at the end). No terms announced yet, but I’d think he’d get at least Flacco money.
He will likely finish his career (if he stays healthy of course) with 60,000+ yards, around 400 tds, and two Super Bowl wins. He’s right around top ten all time or better in win percentage, qb rating, completion percentage, and YPA. I think he’ll be a pretty strong HoF candidate.
Rapelisberger is dead to me
Although it was rather interesting when football pundits, without a touch if irony, were comparing Winston to “Big Ben” after the combine.
Well, the boys did not have to settle for no-talent a la Ingram or the uber-bust Richardson, they went back to the Arkansas well. They also thought it was a good idea to add a real FB. Despite all the publicity around Murray, if they can acquire a better than decent back in the rich draft this year, the Jones might come out smelling like roses. If he can be more than a ghost of himself, McFadden could again be a more solid back than his Sooner compadre. If Randall does not turn into jailbird, a running back by committee in Dallas might work rather well.
Philadelphia looks really good on paper in March, but that explosive backfield my also implode under its own weight. Chip might be a genius. Or an idiot for the same money. The gurus on TV launched the idea that Chip might have grabbed the two backs to play monopoly with the Raiders on draft day and end up with a high draft choice. I still think they simply could not resist taking a stab at the Jones emporium. No love lost in the NFC East.
Lots of ifs, as always in football.
Awesome interview: Julian Edelman on the Rich Eisen Show today:
He’s doing his Belichick impersonation and then stops and says, “I’m gonna get in trouble…”
Eisen: Come on, you aren’t gonna get in trouble. He’s got a sense of humor…
Edelman: Dry. Very dry…
Latavius Murray averaged almost 2 ypc more than McFadden, behind the same o-line. Unfortunately it’s sloppy seconds for Dallas.
You can almost always find solid running backs in the 2nd/3rd round or even lower, because no one drafts them high any more. The last running back taken above the bottom of the first round in the last 4 years was Trent Richardson, who has been a bust.
A high-priced rb just isn’t a good use of cap space for most teams in a pass-happy NFL, IMO. And Dallas rode DM hard last year. He cannot keep up that pace for long without breaking down.
Re Pats tight ends: Hooman is $1.58M for 2015 with very little dead money if he’s cut and Wright is under $600k with no dead money so yeah Hooman needs to worry.
I’ve heard a number of “analysts” say the Pats don’t do well at coaching DBs if you compare form of the guys brought in from elsewhere. Beats me. But I do know they’ve spent relatively high draft picks on guys who weren’t good enough and have done as well or better with pick-ups and guys from the street.
I’m somewhat surprised by the number of trades this year. Most of them seem to be shuffling for the sake of shuffling.
And Miami completed the trifecta today. They’ve now dumped every one of their big dollar big splash free agent signings from two years ago. You know, the ones that were going to put them over the top.
Free agency is the moment in the sun for the truly wretched chronic loser franchises of the NFL. Year after year. The good teams sit back watch the Miamis and Buffalos and Jets and Oaklands and Vikings and so on chase the marquee free agents with ridiculous contracts. Then, the good teams pick up targeted value veterans to fill specific needs. Often good players getting dumped from bad teams because the bad team were too inept to even know what they had. The classic was the Pats picking up Wes Welker from the Dolphins. Bad teams rely on Sports Center for their scouting…
^^ You never can tell how things develop. Look at the Blount saga.
Running backs come out of nowhere and some stars disappear. Even with the same OL, all plays are not the same. If “yards per carry” counted for everything, Randle would be the best back in Dallas. His 6.7 yps is the third in modern football, behind Sproles and Jackson.
Murray had one great season in Dallas. Most of the fans liked him a lot. Would the Eagles and the Cowboys prefer to reverse the clock to last week? Probably, but that is not the way it works. Dallas did not want to spend 21MM guaranteed money and Philadelphia did on top of what they paid for Mathews.
The media in Dallas predicted an 8-8 season (at best) last August. They could have easily been 10-6 or 14-2. It will be a long road to the next Super Bowl and plenty of predictions will again be wrong.
And we have to crawl to insipid weeks of college basketball and a slow summer of baseball until we get the chance to annoy one another again!
But @xiggi aghast you’re not feeling the fever yet?? March. Madness. March Madness. Pretty exciting if you ask me lol
YPC isn’t everything, but it’s something. And for the last three years, McFadden as been almost Trent Richardson-esque. He’s injured a lot - last year was the first time he’s played in 16 games in a season, and he’s only averaged 16 touches a game. DM had almost 30 touches per game last year. Do you really think McFadden could carry that kind of load?
He never lived up to the implied potential of being the number 4 overall draft pick, and he is washed up in my opinion.
Still can’t figure out why the Iggles would spend $12 mil/year on running backs, and they still have Sproles on the books with a $4 mil cap hit in 2015. Chip Kelly - mad genius or village idiot?
No fever in March for me anymore. The day those awful and corrupt refs showed their colors against Texas was the last day I watched that silly tournament of fake pros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgLE9YkwMe0
Never looked back for a second.
Lol now I’m intrigued as to what specifically you are referring to. But I leave with this @xiggi : Kenton Paulino. Now if that doesn’t make you shiver 
Thought this was pretty amusing from the Pats Pulpit article on the NFL investigation of the Jets’ tampering:
http://www.patspulpit.com/2015/3/13/8210369/source-nfl-investigating-jets-for-tampering-with-darrelle-revis
Dallas Cowboys . . . keeping it classy b-(