John Fox told the players that the first play of the 2nd half would define the rest of the game.

and you all think that guy is an idiot

2013:

1. Eric Fisher - recently benched for a Canadian
2. Luke Joeckel - Complete flop
3. Dion Jordan - never found a position, currently suspended, may never play again
4. Lane Johnson - pretty good right tackle
5. Ezekiel Ansah - pretty good 4-3 DE
6. Barkevious Mingo - losing playing time to someone named Scott Solomon (ETA: I just found out Scott Solomon played at my alma mater. He is obviously an excellent player and there is no shame in losing snaps to him)
7. Jonathan Cooper - lost his rookie year to injury, disaster 2014, finally a starter at guard
8. Tavon Austin - Really tiny, really fast, really unproductive
9. Dee Milliner - technically still on the Jets' roster
10. Chance Warmack - pretty good guard

Did he punt on the first play just to make it clear?

Of these 4 people, I wonder which is the smartest.

the people not in Row 2, Seats 3 and 4 seem insightful

Also we should play the modified game marry f*** kill and go hunting with. I'd probably hunt with the guy, kill the old toothless woman in the MooMoo, f*** the birds lady, and marry the woman with the jugs who can't formulate a thought.

My favorite part of the Rodgers draft story was that Mike McCarthy was SF's OC at the time and had input into deciding between Alex Smith and Godgers. He thought Rodgers was too much of a dump-off passer in college. OH THE IRONY.

It's pretty interesting reading about Ted Thompson's thought process during that draft. He and his staff figured Rodgers would be taken earlier, so they didn't really even pay much attention to him. But a few days before the draft, he realized as he was going down the draft board, that if the Niners didn't take him, he very well might drop because the other team's wouldn't take a QB. So he watched tons of film, etc., and decided that he was going with Rodgers if he dropped.

In the war room:

Godgers was Ted Thompson's first-ever draft pick as GM.

He obviously is, he just doesn't look it imo. Maybe he's just more graceful and less herkyjerky then someone like Edelman with their short bursts, but he doesn't visually look THAT fast off the los.

If Rodgers had been drafted by the Texans he'll likely be out of the league and we'd be calling him a bust. He's lucky he got picked by a team that could develop him into a Pro QB instead of getting thrown onto some **** team where he could be sacked 10 times a game.

I know it's a silly thing to get worked up about but it would be really awesome if Ed Hochuli somehow got suspended for the rest of the year for his stupid comment to cam.

Then hochuli writes a book about how the NFL has actively rigged for the Patriots Steelers and Ravens for the last 15 years

ed says he didnt say it

Well we know ed doesn't like talking a lot so he's probably right

Obviously the Bird Lady. It's certainly not the woman wearing a Julio Jones jersey to a Dolphins/Bills game.

Jugs Lady is Jugs.

i dont get why cam would just completely make this up. ed said something to him and cam stopped dead in his tracks and made a jagsfanwat.gif face. then again why would hoculi deny saying anything at all if it was just an off-hand light remark which probably gets said all the time. he has to be 100% sure there was no mic in the area or else it looks ridiculously worse than it needed to be.

Jared Allen traded to the Panthers for conditional picks

Awesome, I hope he's got something left.

I really hope word leaks out he got traded because he tried to choke Fox to death and it was up to stadium security to save Fox after the entire Bears offensive line tried and failed to block his path to Fox.

prob like a 5th rd. bears are the ones paying him still.

hopefully he just needs to be back as a 4-3 end but obv a high chance of uselessness

6th and we owe < 1m apparently. Certainly worth it

I can't believe we just got a pick for jared allen even paying pretty much all of it.

Most of our other guys we could trade are hurt though atm. blast

good for allen though, he's just not a guy who can cover anyone so not being a 3-4 end is a better fit for him.

oh and contract wise obviously allen is cut after this year so he's just a rental for this season. Could cut + sign back later @ lower price though

That's a popular myth, but think about the Redskins trading up some 30 spots to pick Jason Campbell right after Godgers was picked.
Think about the Dolphins starting Frerotte that year or the Browns starting Dilfer after picking some trash (Braylon).

That's just off the top of my head, but there were definitely needy teams and it's a bit of a headscratcher to me (still).

It was mainly the Tedford association. Joey and Akili were just brutally awful and it tainted the perception of Rodgers. The PAC also still had a reputation for being completely awful on defense which wasn't quite so true anymore when Rodgers was playing but that also affected the perception. The PAC had a bunch of QB's get drafted highly from around 1997-2002 and they were almost all hopeless despite putting up amazing numbers in college vs those pathetic defenses.

SRM is right tho, lots of teams had just drafted one a year or two before, so they didn't think they needed to get a new one yet or were fine with the veteran josh mccown's of the time. That's more LOL NFL than anything else.

god some of them were so bad (pretty much everyone in the top 5) and passed on rodgers for a goddamn RB. No wonder they **** as franchises.

Ronnie Brown had Marshall Faulk equity but Cadillac and Benson never should have gone nearly so high.

Willie Young certainly also on the trade block if any team wants to inquire. Probably Houston too, take all the guys from the last regime.

edit--I don't know why Jacquizz Rodgers is getting snaps much less on the team atm either. come on NFL teams, just ship us a draft pick.

The QB who has been pressured the most at 42.1% of the time?

Tyrod Taylor.

The QB who has the highest completion rate at 75%?

Tyrod Taylor.

And before you say he probably checks down a lot, he's also 3rd in Yards Per Attempt and 1st in Air Yards Per Attempt.

I know it's only 3 games, and one of those games he got sacked 8 times, but this is a damn site better than the JP Losman, Trent Edwards, Fitzmagic days. The Bills might actually be good.