TakeTheBallDeep Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 13 hours ago, 49ersfan said: Is Cowherd reliable for insider news? I know a lot of people don't like him, but he has a lot of connections. He's not always right of course, but I've noticed a lot of his reports to come true over the years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew39k Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Jets reportedly signing Jack Conklin https://thejetpress.com/2020/03/01/ny-jets-jack-conklin-planning-sign/ Curious to see if they suffering from tampering charges if this turns out to be true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuskieTitan Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Good for Conklin to get paid. You could do worse at RT, felt we should have picked up his 5th year option but he's going to get overpaid for what he brings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL Guapo Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Giants rumors starting to come out. A fed up John Mara with a lot of cap space could lead to big spending @JordanRaanan: The Giants are going big fish shopping, only it's unlikely to be for a pass rusher unless they can get really creative. They'll be in the mix for some top veteran CBs and middle LBs. Getting word that the NY Giants #giants are among a ‘handful of teams’ who will have #Bears ILB Nick Kwiatkoski as a top-target once #NFL Free Agency kicks off. @AdamSchefter, there are four teams in the running for Cowboys CB Byron Jones: Giants, Jets, Eagles, and the Raiders. #GiantsPride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDTimes Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/03/04/tom-brady-bill-belichick-phone-call-tuesday-didnt-go-well/ It's quite possible Belichick has moved on, and Brady will have to -- not by his own choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippyX Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 How does tampering work now? Is it a free for all for all of March? It used to be you got 24 hours before free agency to contact players. I have no idea what's going on now between teams and players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippyX Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 (edited) 19 hours ago, SmittyBacall said: Where did you get these numbers? https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/ClowJa00.htm Go down to were it says Jadeveon Clowney Overview and choose the More section. It will expand to include a Penalties option. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/ClowJa00/penalties Edited March 4, 2020 by SkippyX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippyX Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 (edited) Its amazing how Clowney 'wins' at the same rate as Barrett but Barrett had 37 hits and 19 1/2 sacks to Clowney's 13 and 3. Clowney sure has a bunch of useless wins. (that's before factoring a truckload of penalties) Anyone paying for Clowney's win rate will absolutely regret it. A player who struggles to top 10 sacks across from JJ Watt is just not that good. Note: Barrett did have 10 jump at the line penalties last season but that's compared to 19 1/2 sacks. Its also not a run stuff thing because TFLs are Barrett 19 vs Ngakoue 13 vs Clowney 7 Almost every available high end pass rusher >> Clowney. Edited March 4, 2020 by SkippyX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTTRDynasty Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-buyer-beware-2020-nfl-free-agent-edge-rushers THE GOOD, NOT GREAT JADEVEON CLOWNEY Seen by many as the crown jewel of this free-agent class, Jadeveon Clowney nevertheless represents a risk if the contract required to land him is one that will make him the highest-paid edge rusher in the league. Complicating the evaluation of Clowney is that he has always been seen as one of the most spectacular athletes on the field since he was a high school recruit, and that hype continued all the way through to the NFL. Even now, it probably bolsters his reputation beyond where his NFL play would have taken it otherwise. Clowney is a good NFL player, but he is not a great pass-rusher — at least not consistently. He has yet to top 65 total pressures over a season, and when you consider that Za’Darius Smith led the NFL this year with 93, that’s leaving quite a lot of meat on the bone in terms of the best pass-rushers in the league. In truth, he has consistently been a better run defender than a pass-rusher, but that has never mattered less in today’s NFL. Whoever secures Clowney’s services will be getting a very good football player, but they are unlikely to get one who will justify a contract that pays him like the best player at his position. Jadeveon Clowney: pass-rush grade and rank by year (2014-19) Season Pass-rush grade Rank 2019 76.7 21/120 2018 78.8 13/112 2017 74.7 29/121 2016 71.3 30/121 2015 64.6 55/115 2014 50.5 N/A Shaquil Barrett Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians says the Bucs are likely to keep Shaquil Barrett around through the franchise tag because you don’t just find NFL sack leaders every day. While that’s true, it’s a worrying way of looking at a player who didn’t play dramatically different in 2019 than any other season of his career, even if a glance at sack totals would tell you otherwise. Barrett has been a consistently very good player for his entire career — each of his seasons has an overall PFF grade of 74.0 or better — and PFF is now in the strange position of having been championing him when he was a rotational body and telling people to pump the brakes once he notched 20 sacks. Barrett had by far the best sack season of his career, and almost double his previous career-high in total pressures (82 to 43). But on the other hand, that is almost a direct result of just being given more opportunities to rush the passer. He rushed the passer 236 times more than his previous career-high and also saw 25 of his pressures come either unblocked or on clean-up plays. Barrett is an excellent player, but 2019 shouldn’t change how you view him beyond validating the idea that he can do it with a full-time workload. He didn’t become one of the very best pass-rushers in the NFL despite the sack total. Yannick Ngakoue You don’t find too many established players hitting the open market before they turn 25, but that’s the case for Yannick Ngakoue, who will be 24 for the first couple of weeks of free agency after playing his first four seasons in Jacksonville and notching multiple double-digit sack years. Ngakoue’s problem is twofold: Firstly, the season that showed his elite potential as a pass-rusher was 2017, and he hasn’t really come close to those heights since. That year, he had an 88.2 PFF pass-rushing grade and notched 82 total pressures including the playoffs. Since then, he hasn’t been within 10 grading points of that high mark and has registered pressure at a much lower rate. Secondly, Ngakoue wants no part of defending the run. Admittedly, that has never been less relevant, but at some point it’s bad enough that it is an issue, and Ngakoue has never had a PFF grade north of 60.0 against the run, with his first season in the league earning one of just 29.5. In theory, there is an elite pass-rusher in Ngakoue, but a team will need to gamble that they can coax the player we saw in 2017 back out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SalvadorsDeli Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 16 minutes ago, DoleINGout said: Nah he's going back to the Pats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Buzz Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Think people are going to be surprised. As i said in the Bouye thread, the Jags are locked in at the 18M cap hit this year. Any team trading for him only has to account for a 4M cap hit. After this year the team trading for him can get our fairly easily I believe. That's more valuable than a lot of the FA options and what they'll command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candyman93 Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 3 hours ago, drew39k said: Jets reportedly signing Jack Conklin https://thejetpress.com/2020/03/01/ny-jets-jack-conklin-planning-sign/ Curious to see if they suffering from tampering charges if this turns out to be true Kinda curious if the Jets spend the most on big names out of any team in the NFL. Eagles might be close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL Guapo Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Right after that Conklin report came out Schefter tweeted that he had a bunch of options or whatever. It probably came from the agent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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