NFL (since 2016)

[crystal falace]

"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

[crystal falace]

"Reminder to everyone involved, the draft is at 5pm today"

[crystal falace]

"This is the least confidence ive been going j to a patriots season for quite some time. They've released matthews, britt and mitchell because of injury, leaves them very thin at receiver and with burkehead and michel injured they're pretty thin at running back If edelman or gronk go down which they have a history of then the offence could be very shorthanded. Although the defence looked decent in the last preseason game, might actually be able to et some pressure on the QB"

[zebthecat]

Patrick Mahomes has some arm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-VHqxbFNOU

[Takashi Miike]

49ers are another who'll go well

[Takashi Miike]

"Eagles & the Vikings will be tough to beat in the NFC, i would have said the Jaguars in the AFC if they'd replaced Bortles but the Patriots will be the team again to beat"

[Far Cough]

"Mike, that's great, certainly confused the defense Feed Me Chicken, as long as it's not fucking NE, I don't care, obviously, Id like Minnesota to have a good run at it"

[Feed Me Chicken]

"Just over 2 weeks to go, who do we reckon's gonna lift the Lombardi this year?"

[Takashi Miike]

"cough, im sure if AP makes the roster teams will bite on his presence and we'll add some of those plays. Have a look at this play though where Alex Smith faked a handoff to the opposite side of where the running back ran, and then run it in himself. whether it was deliberate is a good question :.) https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/10/20/4859680/alex-smith-fakes-to-nobody-chiefs-still-buy-it-on-td-run"

[Far Cough]

"Yeah, that Gibbs era was great With Peterson in the backfield, do you think they will call a few play action passes?"

[Takashi Miike]

"cough, did you watch it? players like that come along once in a lifetime, he deserved that and should have been honoured much sooner. we're playing the Broncos tonight so we'll get to see how fit AP is, not sure how many plays he'll be involved in, probably the first couple of drives"

[Far Cough]

"Mike, I see plenty of fans with Hog noses at Art Monk's induction to Canton"

[Takashi Miike]

"yes, it's shocking how bad he's run the club/franchise. i'm not a massive gruden fan to be honest, he's a poor play caller but he has had a lot of bad luck with injuries so maybe he's due some better fortune this year. I just hope they've already made plans about what to do when reed goes missing again with another injury"

[Oh dear]

"I'm always stupidly optimistic in August, it never lasts long. The ownership have a lot to answer for, where have we heard that before..... 20-years ago I rang the Redskins and asked if I came over could I get a ticket, you could hear the women restraining herself from laughing as it was such a stupid question. It was almost out of the question. Now you can get a season ticket in almost any area of the stadium."

[Takashi Miike]

"oh dear, we've just been fucked by bad ownership and even worse general managers ever since Snyder took over. maybe Gibbs could have eventually taken the role but he put his family first and we ended up with Bruce Allen :.( im positive about this year though, even after the guice injury. we have some really good young defensive linemen now and depth so we can rotate them, and that should help out the secondary. Alex Smith is a big positive too, yes he's in his last few years but he'll be fully committed unlike Kirk and we can build"

[Far Cough]

"Riggins and Monk, what a great offense along with the Hogs and Theismann"

[Oh dear]

"Mike ""ì FC Agreed re AM From 1969 to 1990 the Redskins only had 3 1st round picks and all were great players, Art Monk, Mark May and Darrell Green In the 23 seasons between 1991 to 2012 the Redskins had 19 1st round picks got decent value out of 5 of them, Sean Taylor (RIP), Champ Bailey, Trent Williams, Chris Samuals and Ryan Kerrigan 42 ""ì seasons and 8 players, fucking shocking"

[Takashi Miike]

Art got the greatest/longest standing ovation too (4 minutes) when he was inducted back in 2008 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ORshuy-MdTk

[Far Cough]

"Oh Dear, one of the greatest ever WRs, Art Monk was drafted in the first round by the Skins :-)"

[crystal falace]

"OMM - draft is set for 5pm on the 2nd September. Sunday before the season starts, I know its later than most people usually draft but I've done a draft before only to have my first round pick get injured in a preseason game, would rather have all of the preseason out the way first so any injuries in theory should have already happened"

[Oh dear]

"Being a 1st or 2nd round draft pick by the Redskins is really the kiss of death. 2011 - Jarvis Jenkins ""ì injured in preseason, missed the season 2012 - Robert Griffen III ""ì injured in the play-offs, rarely played again after 2013 - no pick 2014 ""ì no pick 2016 - Josh Doctson ""ì injured in a May mini training session, played occasionally since""¶""¶""¶. 2016 ""ì Su's Cravens ""ì injured and retired after one season 2017 ""ì Jonathon Allen ""ì injured in 4th game and out for the season. 2018 ""ì Derrius Gruice ""ì injured in the 1st quarter of the 1st preseason game Brandon Scherff (2015) is the only first rounder who plays regularly."

[Far Cough]

"Fair enough, hope he works out for you"

[Takashi Miike]

"cough, im pleased we've got him. the front office contacted him to see if he was interested and he offered to come in and do a work out/fitness test with some other much younger running backs (veterans like him don't normally need to do such a test, so that shows his mindset). apparently, he wasn't breathing heavy at the end of the test and was by far the fittest there. hopefully his knee will get through these next two pre-season games unscathed, im thinking the coach may go with four running backs, so peterson has a chance. he's come across really well in all the interviews so i hope he stays while guice gets healthy"

[Far Cough]

Wonder what Mike thinks of them getting Peterson?

[Far Cough]

"crystal falace 10:47 Tue Aug 21 Yes but the other hand, they can use that to their advantage and call a play action pass play"

[ooooh Morley Morley]

When is the fantasy draft please?