Outpost31 9,308 Posted February 6, 2018 For anybody else as hungry for NFL news as I am: February 20th - First day teams can start applying franchise tags. February 27th - Scouting Combine begins. March 6 - Franchise tag deadline. March 12th - Legal tampering period begins. March 14th - Free agency officially begins at 4:00 PM. April 26th - NFL Draft April 29th to September - Absolute hell. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pugger 1,044 Posted February 6, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, HorizontoZenith said: For anybody else as hungry for NFL news as I am: February 20th - First day teams can start applying franchise tags. February 27th - Scouting Combine begins. March 6 - Franchise tag deadline. March 12th - Legal tampering period begins. March 14th - Free agency officially begins at 4:00 PM. April 26th - NFL Draft April 29th to September - Absolute hell. Do you think OTAs, mini and training camps can't help fill in the void between April 29th and September? Edited February 6, 2018 by Pugger Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Outpost31 9,308 Posted February 6, 2018 36 minutes ago, Pugger said: Do you think OTAs, mini and training camps can't help fill in the void between April 29th and September? No. That stuff bores me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Packer_ESP 751 Posted February 6, 2018 Personally, from the SB to the draft is probably the most boring period for me. There's hardly any news and I'm not into college football - I've tried watching a couple of times and it feels kinda amateurish to me, no offense to anyone - so it drags forever. It gets more exciting with the draft and soon after we have OTAs and other activities which kinda help kill time until August at least. A lot of it is the generic "year 2 player has taken a giant step" and "veteran player is in better shape than ever" but it's something. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
packfanfb 2,547 Posted February 7, 2018 McDaniels just cucked the Colts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MNPackfan32 193 Posted February 7, 2018 Patriots set all this up to screw the Colts as revenge for Deflate Gate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leader 2,604 Posted February 7, 2018 For me, its not so much that its "late" and alot of the HC talent's already been taken off the board.....I mean, its not as if coaches from SB teams havent moved on afterwards - but McDaniels was apparently integrally involved in hiring a support staff - and who knows how many other discussions/topics he'd talked about with Indy while under contract with NE. Ultimately, Indy couldnt get him on the dotted line and it was all verbal but its a character thing for me and if McDaniels felt queasy or uncommitted about moving on he should have had that sit down conversation with Kraft much earlier than he did. Unless - and this is a possibility - he and Kraft did have that conversation and Kraft decided to screw Indy as payback for Tom's deflated balls. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leader 2,604 Posted February 7, 2018 Tony Dungy tweeting about the SI article about McDaniels: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arthur Penske 1,792 Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) 22 hours ago, HorizontoZenith said: No. That stuff bores me. How would training camp/ preseason bore someone who is so into the draft? You get to read/see the development of all the rookies, free agents, and young players. I love it. Edited February 7, 2018 by ArthurPensky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Outpost31 9,308 Posted February 7, 2018 Just now, ArthurPensky said: How would training camp/ preseason bore someone who is so into the draft? You get to read/see the development of all the rookies, free agents, and young players. I love it. I don't trust it. James Jones was Jerry Rice. Josh Jones was Nick Collins. Praise is always blown out of proportion and doesn't really mean anything. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leader 2,604 Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) Can you say "hung to to dry" and "bad faith?" Makes sense though. This agent might have to deal with Ballard about hiring players and/or other executives. Better to cut one guy lose (a chump IMO) than kill off possible deals with an entire organization. Edited February 7, 2018 by Leader Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leader 2,604 Posted February 7, 2018 These numbers are fairly astounding. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cannondale 1,398 Posted February 8, 2018 Now expecting everyone to dig up former QB's or backup QB's everywhere to be a head coaching candidate, which actually makes some sense. LIS somewhere before, it is comparable to hiring former catchers in the MLB. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squire12 4,176 Posted February 10, 2018 (edited) Props to @Shanedorf for posting this article on the Garoppolo contract in the News forum. Good summary of the contract structure based on Adam Schefter reports. Well worth the read. https://overthecap.com/thoughts-jimmy-garoppolos-137-5-million-contract-49ers Edited February 10, 2018 by squire12 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
