Ryan Mallett ended up surviving the roster cuts for the Pats while Stevan Ridley kept his spot and Jonas Gray cut for the RB corps. Bulk of the cuts ended up being from the secondary for the final round.

Texans still want Mallett and had the waiver claim ready had he been cut today.

That was before he had a awesome preseason.

Guarantee we'll have the Sam Rule where every NFL team has to at least try out a Gay player or coach.

<font color=goldenrod>Droford you are a fucking moron</font>

Just remember the NFL is the league that forces teams to interview at least one black coach when hiring new coaches for no other reason than because they're black..

Because of years of racism where they weren't given any interviews at all even if they were the right man for the job. Just be glad they don't have the same rule for women or you'd be flipping your shit even more.

Droford. You are a really ignorant person.

Somebody will pick Sam up. Rams are stacked right now.

<font color=goldenrod>Not too many unexpected moves with the Giants cuts. Probably the biggest surprise is that Kerry Wynn made the team as an undrafted DE, and they kept 10 DL when most figured they'd keep 10. Can't say I really understand what they see in Markus Kuhn though, if they wanted to keep a 5th DT I would have preferred Kelcy Quarles who may not make it through to the practice squad.

I guess it makes sense though. The assumption was that the Giants would take some combination of 11 DBs, they wound up going with 10. They do have 5 genuinely good cornerbacks and will probably be able to stash Bennett Jackson, Thomas Gordon, and/or Chandler Fenner onto the practice squad so they should at least have some backup for when the inevitable injuries happen.

They also kept 10 OL which seems a bit excessive but then again a lot of them are banged and Geoff Schwartz is probably going on the short-term IR on Tuesday.

Wouldn't be too surprised if 2-3 players on the Giants' official opening night roster are guys who were just cut from elsewhere. Especially at TE. When Daniel Fells wins your starting TE job after being out of football last year, you know there's a problem.</font>

James Harrison has announced his retirement.

I'm sure some Women's group has pestered Roger Goodell enough about how the NFL makes bazillions of dollars, that they should be able to afford to subsidize a women's football league like the NBA does with the WNBA.

I think you missed the point there, Droford.

<font color=goldenrod>Ryan Mallett finally traded to the Texans.</font>

Damn it. I thought Mallet could have been the answer after Brady. A 6th round pick? Jesus Christ. They wanted him why not ask for more?

Yeah that was the plan but Mallett kept struggling during every preseason.

The fact Mallett was only worth a very low draft pick is pretty bad but Jimmy Garoppolo was really good this preseason. Then again the only reason he wasn't cut earlier was because the Texans didn't want to wait until after the cuts to say he was their big waiver target.

49ers Ray McDonald expected to be the first player punished by the NFL under the new domestic violence rules. Already some rumors the NFL might go higher than 6 games and 49ers preparing to release him.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-...estic-violence

He was obviously a camp body but I assumed we'd keep him for a year as a player/coach a la Vilma. He played alright Thursday but was def a step behind the younger WRs.

I do not trust P-Rob or Corey White, for the record.

His preseason was so awesome that no other team claimed him AND now the Rams have decided they don't want him on their practice squad either.

I hope he enjoys playing in Canada.

I got tickets to STL-MIN. SO HYPE FOR SHAUN HILL

What is up with that hating on him Droford? Why will he be in Canada? Why is that bad? Does not mean he will never play in the NFL either, in a regular season game. Sooooo confused on your post.

And he had a damn good preseason. You know it.

C'mon Ruien. We know the reason.

I hope at the end of the season some website like Deadspin or something tallies up the number of articles on ESPN headlined by either Michael Sam or Johnny Manziel and compares them.

Anyway I spent this entire weekend doing D&D football drafts and am officially ready for football season. Let's go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's a republican homophobe.

my only issue is that no one would care about him if he wasn't gay. Odds are good he wouldn't have even been drafted. Nobody cares about him for his ability to play the game because he isn't good. If he was, there'd be 31 other teams knocking down his door trying to sign him. There are hundreds of players that got cut over the weekend who are probably more deserving of a shot in the NFL than him.

He's the first openly gay player of course it's a big deal. He was a defensive player of the year. He was going to be drafted straight or no.

Most professional analyst completely disagree with your post. The extra media attention, a huge distraction, is what keeps teams from wanting Sam. He would have went a lot earlier in the draft if not for coming out.

Or we can just imagine all the ESPN analyst, who get paid millions of dollars, jave no idea what they are talking about.

Honestly, how can you be so daft?

NFL Logic. Don't need athleticism, skill or endurance.

Just look at Tom Brady irrelevant every season yet still considered a contender.
Andrew Luck overrated.
Adrian Peterson overrated off one mediocre season.
NFL is all hype and no show it's comical.

Cant help but feel bad for Sam. Business is business I guess.

Feel bad? For what.

FEEL BAD FOR WHAT

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Lol^ and that nobodies gonna sign him after he did good.

Yeah, nobody is going to care about the SEC defensive player of the year. Damn him for being gay and creating a media buzz over a worthless player!!!

Can't stand most sports writers. TMQ on ESPN (I used to read his stuff a lot) is terrible, saying Seattle won't even make playoffs. Get out of here. Hate how internet writers just say stupid shit for clickbait. The internet is the worst.

I heard Seattle is projected to go 0-16 #internet

oh man what a ballsy prediction! better click on screech.blogspot.fuckingterrible

:lol: <font color=goldenrod>@ Seattle not making the playoffs

Yeah the Giants and Ravens both missed out a year after winning the Super Bowl and it's a tough division...but christ. They would need to lose half of their team to injury for them to not make it. they're crazy deep.</font>

Looking at over/under lines 'cause I'm gonna place some bets tonight. The ones I'm feeling and will probably drop money on:

San Diego: over 8 wins (-150)

Chicago: over 8.5 (-145)

Tampa Bay: over 7 (-140)

terrible odds on all 3 but I feel very strongly about them, especially SD

Will ponder more later on

It's conceivable that Seattle won't make the playoffs. I personally think they will but stranger things have happened. Quite frankly I'll take the guys who make ballsy predictions over the 99.99999% of these Jon Kanos who all say the exact same thing and base most of their predictions on what happened last year.

The difference between Seattle this year and Baltimore/NYG of years past is that the 'Hawks last year were convincingly one of the best teams all season long. At no point did it ever feel flukey that they were going to make/win the Super Bowl. If you're telling me that in week 11 or 12 of 2012 that Baltimore would be the SB champion I'm calling bullshit. Those two teams (BAL/NYG) over-achieved and got hot at the right time while Seattle was a legit contender the entire time. Good teams like that don't just fade away.