NFL 2018 Season Thread

[rah]

Yes, a surprise. But a lot of money for misses.

[-Jrabbit]

Well, Gould did cost the Bears two wins last year with late-game misses. They were also last in the league in opponent field position after kickoffs.

But there was no hint that this solution was on the table.

[SlowwHand]

Cut Robbie Gould? Yeah, he was the problem.
Hallelujah, brother! Super Bowl bound!

[-Jrabbit]

In less important but equally unexpected news, the Bears have cut placekicker Robbie Gould.

It's a sad day when your favorite team's longest-tenured player is suddenly...Jay Cutler.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-bears-to-release-robbie-gould-20160904-story.html

Bears didn't even bring in a camp leg this year, but decided to drop Gould's $3 million salary (and half-million opening day roster bonus) after he missed a couple PATs in the last preseason game.

I learned long ago that loyalty is an illusion in the business world, but still, this was a bit of a shock.

Bears will apparently be signing Connor Barth.

[Flatlander Fox]

Wow

[ColdWizard]

Have to try to win while the Peterson train is still on track, I guess.

[Zopperoni]

Seriously mad props to the Eagles front office for pulling off this deal: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...b-sam-bradford

Sam Bradford traded to the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for a 2017 first round pick AND a 2018 fourth round pick

[-Jrabbit]

I understand there were costume changes...

[ColdWizard]

He signed a deal with Adidas before his workout.

[Ben Kenobi]

It would be a great campaign, they'd make a ****load of money but they'd never do that.

[DirtyMartini]

Nike could restart the "(Te)Bo(w) Knows" ad campaign.

[Ben Kenobi]

So was Bo Jackson.

[DirtyMartini]

He's a baseball player now.

[Ben Kenobi]

Why not Tebow? He's better than all of those punks.

[Flatlander Fox]

Agreed. He looked pretty good against SD last weekend, too.

Brutal injury.

Agreed. He looked very calm and controlled in the pocket last week, and the Vikes are a team that I can root for. But unless a Kurt Warner shows up out of the blue, they are sunk for this year.