Wednesday, March 11, 2015

1st Post for Tank to Win! Minor NFL Free Agent Roundup Day 1

Clayton –

Well Jeff say hello. This will be our first post on our new blog. So much to say and this was not even how I planned this to start, but the NFL decided to take over once again.

Today has been completely nuts. I took the kids to lunch and thirty minutes later, like 4 trades happened.

Jimmy Graham got traded for pretty much nothing. Chip Kelly traded for the bust of Sam Bradford in exchange for Foles. Shady McCoy signed his extension with Buffalo after being shipped out by Kelly. Ngata got traded to the Lions to replace Suh, who still hasn’t signed his monster deal yet. Patrick Willis unexpectedly retired along with Justin Smith and Jake Locker. Hundreds of millions have already been spent in the first eight hours of free agency. Not to mention we both nearly texted each other at the same time in amazement that Jason Worilds is retiring too!

So many players signed for such crazy money today. Everyone needs to remember though when the deal come back to bite these teams in the ass, THE TEAMS OFFERED THE MONEY UP. Blame the front office, not the players. But I know I am forgetting one thing...

Oh yeah, and Revis signed his soul away to play for the Jets again. Boy got his ring and went after the money... again. I saw a tweet by Ryan Clark saying Sean Gilbert, Revis's uncle, hates the new CBA, but boy Revis sure is killing it. By the way, I am not saying that Revis shouldn't be paid what he deserves, just surprising he would choose the Jets. Collect those checks Revis.

Crazy day in football.

I guess I will have to hold off on my NBA draft talk, NFL draft shenanigans and spring training starting for just a bit.

Jeff –

What's up everybody, let me start off with a disclaimer: if at any point during any post you find yourself asking "wow is this guy really that bitter? Does he really hate that player/team that much?" The answer is yes… yes I do... now that we've got that out of the way let's talk some NFL free agency.

My free agency started this afternoon when I was in the parking lot about to get into my car, when a truck drove by with a man sticking his head out the window yelling the most annoying phrase imaginable "SEEEEAAAAAA....HAAAAAAWWWWKSSSSS" I found it quite odd until I realized free agency had just begun. So I look at my phone and the first thing I see is "Saints agree to trade Jimmy Graham and a 4th rounder to Seattle for Max Unger and a 1st rounder" Suddenly the rolling douche bag made perfect sense and I realized the day of destruction had begun.

Now as a Falcons fan I was downright giddy at the fact that I wouldn't have to watch Jimmy Graham destroy the Falcons porous secondary twice each year, but as an avid Seahawks hater living in Seattle I cringed at the thought of watching Jimmy Graham make Russell Wilson look much better than he really is.

The first few hours of free agency were rapid with Frank Gore spurning the "Poor decision making Rob Lowe" Eagles for the Colts. The Eagles made a BLOCKBUSTER power move by swapping Nick Foles for... Sam Bradford? Possible setup for Mariota? Meanwhile we saw Terrence Knighton who had been written off as a lock to go to Oakland make a last second choice to turn them down when they "lowballed him" Typical Raiders move, you finally get a top level talent interested in you and you scare him off. While Arizona and Indianapolis seemed to be signing every player that's ever followed them on twitter, the Packers did what the Packers do and resigned their own players (why mess with a winning formula, right?)

Day 1 of free agency was definitely filled with plenty of surprises, here is to hoping day 2 is just as exciting.

Clayton –

NFL Draft speculation! Washington is interested in Mariota! Don’t know when that came about, but is this the end for Robert Griffin III in Washington? Crazy. Could be that Washington is trying to recoup some of those assets they traded away for RG3 a few years ago. Then again, that would be saying that Washington is smart.

Well I was trying to start off nice, but sense Jeff threw it out there… we both love to go off on rants. If anyone doesn’t like what we have to say, we don’t care. These are our opinions. Most “fans” out there seem to be morons anyways. We will though some numbers, scouting and analysis at you guys and if you still don’t like it then that’s up to you. I’ll likely in the near future go off about how stupid most fans are (probably will happen in many posts), but I will save that for later.

Hey Jeff, maybe I should have named this Raging Rants instead. Nah, that would be too easy. Don’t want to be too ridiculous like EDP on YouTube.


Now let’s spread the word and try to get this thing going!

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