I was having a shitty night. Anyway, my current opinion is that Brady didn’t want to retire after last season. Not only that, I don’t think there was a point where he was actually going to retire. So why announce it? I don’t know, I’m not Tom Brady. Maybe he wanted to see a bounce in sales of Brady Brand gear. Maybe he wanted to see if any offers came from other teams anyway, and then go to the Bucs and muscle his way out fully. Hell, maybe he just wanted to touch his dick while he reposted all the tributes to him on instagram. It’s just an opinion, on something unimportant in the long run. And this is where I post that shit. But that’s why when he announced his faux retirement, I noticed that he made sure to not say anything that would imply that he couldn’t keep doing it. It didn’t seem like he was closing the door at all.
I don't know about politics and have no idea if he's interested. But, he's already putting energy into his main business venture. (https://tb12sports.com) He'll write another book, he'll expand the "coach" locations, expand the foundation, continue his podcast, etc. He can put as much or as little competitive energy as he wants into that, and like all top athletes, will want to not only succeed, but also crush the competition.
Brady just wanted to see how much some sucker would pay for his "last" TD ball. You know, for grins. In other news, the Steelers have signed Trubisky.
I don't know what the fuck the Jaguars are doing. I know they suck and need to throw a little money around to get free agents interested (hello, I'm a Bills fan, that was basically the last 15 years of my life up, post-Kelly and pre-Allen), but they seriously just paid Christian Kirk $20m/year, and Zay Jones $10m/year. That's $30m/year to a pair of receivers whose combined average is 1k/season since they joined the league. I just don't understand.
How else do you get people to play for the Jaguars? Their winning tradition? The incredible life offered in Jacksonville? The stellar coaches and supportive owners? The qb who thought Pantene Pro V is a formation?
Well, like I said, I know mild overpays are required for bottom-dwelling teams. But the Jags have a new coach, a QB who was the highest rated prospect since Luck, warm weather and no income tax. Christian Kirk just had the best year of his career with 982 yards, a 40% jump over his next-best year, and they're paying him like a top-3 WR. Who were they bidding against? Zay Jones can't catch a fucking cold. His best year was being the #1 WR on Buffalo competing for targets with Robert Foster (unemployed) and Kelvin Benjamin (unemployed), and he had like 600 yards and a nervous breakdown from smoking some designer weed substitute. Makes no sense, even accounting for the Shit Team Tax. Good for Jones and Kirk for straight-up ripping off the Jags. They must have good agents.
Clearly. I just usually expect terrible GMs to make bad decisions on incredibly subjective topics, like drafting. Or deciding to hire a total shitbag as your head coach. This is as if he walked into the cereal aisle, looked at the boxes all priced from $2-$6, then pointed at one unlabeled box, and said, "that one, right there. I bet that's a $14 box of cereal."
According to one thing I saw, he knew about it before it happened and was okay with it. Guy that covers the Packers: https://twitter.com/RobDemovsky/status/1504606438425088003?t=A8IKscPWR4vu6cwjKNvv8Q&s=19
Pack also traded Equinameous St. Brown to the Bears, and restructured Randall Cobb's contract, lowering his salary from $7m to $2m, which means....yeah, he might get cut. . I think this gives Rodgers his wish of having a #1 draft pick to throw to and gets them under the cap. I think part of Rodger's return was some say over personnel, with the understanding that the Adams trade was kind of in the works already.
Looks like the Browns just traded for Watson and gave him a fully-fucking-guaranteed 5 year, $230 million contract. Fucking ludicrous. Fully guaranteed $46 million/year for a guy who hasn't played football for 2 seasons, will probably miss at 4-6 games this year on suspension, and has 20+ rape/sexual misconduct allegations against him. I don't really wish ill on the Browns as a franchise, but I hope this blows up in their faces.
I don't think he is going to be suspended at all. The grand jury failed to indict so I think he is good to go. and this is the NFL, as long as you aren't in jail, you will be paid. Just ask Ray Lewis
Goodell has made it clear that he doesn't give a shit what the legal system says, so it's just going to depend on how he's feeling that day.
The Browns traded 3 1st round picks (2022-2024), a 3rd round pick (2023), and a 4th round pick (2024) for Watson and a 5th round pick (2024).
The Browns deserve what happen to them as a franchise at this point. Mayfield wasn't a great QB, but he got them to the playoffs and deserved better treatment from the organization than that. Watson is a pretty damned good QB, but he um...well, see, he kind of has some baggage. And after not suiting up for 2 years...this has "tank the franchise again" written all over it. They could have gotten Matt Ryan for probably much less, left much of the roster intact for a run and basically did a remix of what the Rams/Bengals did to get to the SB.