The Official 2017 NFL Offseason/Draft Thread

[Shizlansky]

Shrugs

 

[themadlionsfan]

Peppers, Brantley, foster, mixon. Seems like this draft has alot of top talent with serious issues coming in...im curious to see who picks Mixon...thats gonna be a fun day at the office for the OR team...yikes!!

Hope we get him in the second round

 

[natural born sinners]

https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/856590954660233218

@Shizlansky Peterson and Ingram, don't the saints have like 3 other running backs too

 

[numbaz...80's baby]

It's a good pick up for the Saints.

 

[Shizlansky]

https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/856590954660233218

@Shizlansky Peterson and Ingram, don't the saints have like 3 other running backs too

Hightower gone and Cadet don't get carriers

So it's just Ingram and maybe Peterson now

 

[TheBoyRo]

https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/856597970296467457

 

[natural born sinners]

https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/856590954660233218

@Shizlansky Peterson and Ingram, don't the saints have like 3 other running backs too

Hightower gone and Cadet don't get carriers

So it's just Ingram and maybe Peterson now

3 mil a year ain't bad for saints...peterson better hope they fix that defense if he wants to play for a contender

 

[Stew]

Saints play the Vikings in week 1.

 

[numbaz...80's baby]

Back to football...after the draft is done next weekend. What position group would you like to see the most improved on your squad?

Falcons need a LEO pass-rusher to compliment Vic Beasley. Not some old ass situational rusher like Freeney. Much respect but we need all youth with more juice. That player wont be there at the 31st pick. Something tells me the GM will move up 10-15 spots, to get him, like they did with Trufant.

Atlanta is making a concerted effort to trade up in Round One, as they seem to have eyes on a pass rush demon Jordan Willis out of K-State. The team is in preliminary talks with several teams, but have already be rebuffed by Miami, who also covet the Wildcat, along with Forrest Lamp & Derek Barnett. A deal with the Giants would probably cost the Falcons a third rounder in the swap.
http://corner.bigblueinteractive.com/index.php?mode=2&thread=551941

 

[Stew]

https://twitter.com/ClaytonESPN/status/856604713864773632

 

[MallyG]

Yall takin Rueben Foster in the 1st Rd with the diluted piss test?

Yep!

That nikka can shed blocks, has great vision (sees what he believes and attacks), good closing speed and is violent!

He has red flags, but he ain't leaving the 1st round. "If" he does, somebody got a str8 up steal.

 

[Shizlansky]

Yall takin Rueben Foster in the 1st Rd with the diluted piss test?

Yep!

That nikka can shed blocks, has great vision (sees what he believes and attacks), good closing speed and is violent!

He has red flags, but he ain't leaving the 1st round. "If" he does, somebody got a str8 up steal.

Shed blocks?

I don't know about that.

Dude is a missile but has no patience.

It's best to take a High IQ MLB

Watch he end up in New Orleans. Smh

I rather us take The other Bama LB Anderson.

 

[silverfoxx]

Yall takin Rueben Foster in the 1st Rd with the diluted piss test?

Yep!

That nikka can shed blocks, has great vision (sees what he believes and attacks), good closing speed and is violent!

He has red flags, but he ain't leaving the 1st round. "If" he does, somebody got a str8 up steal.

Shed blocks?

I don't know about that.

Dude is a missile but has no patience.

It's best to take a High IQ MLB

Watch he end up in New Orleans. Smh

I rather us take The other Bama LB Anderson.

Boy you tripping Foster is a fucking beast.

 

[Shizlansky]

Yall takin Rueben Foster in the 1st Rd with the diluted piss test?

Yep!

That nikka can shed blocks, has great vision (sees what he believes and attacks), good closing speed and is violent!

He has red flags, but he ain't leaving the 1st round. "If" he does, somebody got a str8 up steal.

Shed blocks?

I don't know about that.

Dude is a missile but has no patience.

It's best to take a High IQ MLB

Watch he end up in New Orleans. Smh

I rather us take The other Bama LB Anderson.

Boy you tripping Foster is a fucking beast.

Dude is a missile but has no patience.

 

[stringer bell]

http://awfulannouncing.com/local-ne...ssault-report-unnamed-nfl-draft-prospect.html

WOIO’s Carl Monday produces bizarre sexual assault report on unnamed NFL Draft prospect

A Cleveland TV station came out with a bizarre report Monday about alleged sexual assault by an unnamed NFL draft prospect, and it was thanks to a Deadspin Hall of Fame reporter. That would be Carl Monday, who became internet infamous in May 2006 for chasing down an Ohio State fan who masturbated at a public library, a segment later mocked by The Daily Show. But this time around, Monday is dropping much more serious allegations, suggesting that police are stalling in producing a report in a case of alleged sexual assault by a potential first-round NFL draft prospect. Here’s his segment:

The segment involves Monday walking around and asking various people for this police report, which they do not provide. He then shows a report that was released from the same night two weeks ago in an unrelated case of sexual assault, and zooms in on it while highlighting key phrases. WOIO’s web piece then has more detail still, including a statement the prospect’s lawyer, Kevin Spellacy, provided:

Spellacy says his client was in Cleveland with a group of friends and had met a 23-year-old woman in Cleveland’s Warehouse District, at the Barley House on April 8. The next morning, April 9, around 3:50 a.m., an off-duty police officer called for police and EMS for an alleged sexual assault victim at the downtown Westin Hotel, according to EMS and police dispatch. Officers and EMS arrived on scene, took statements, and the woman was transported to a local hospital. The player was not there when police arrived.

This is odd on so many levels. As WOIO’s web piece indicates, the station is quite aware of who the prospect involved here is, as they received a statement from his attorney, Kevin Spellacy. Their choice to run a piece like this but not name the player feels very unusual, especially as they don’t have anything firm; charges have not been filed, and they don’t have that police report. And they don’t seem to have conclusive proof that the police are delaying, either; the argument that because one report from that night is available the other should be as well doesn’t seem to be too convincing, and this delay could exist for any number of reasons. The three-minute video report by Monday, which is mostly shots of him walking around in a trenchcoat and asking various police department officials for these records that they won’t provide, doesn’t seem to have a lot to back it up. WOIO’s approach here took a lot of criticism on Twitter Monday night

A big problem with releasing incomplete information like this is it will get the internet hunting for the rest, and that could lead to wrong conclusions being drawn. People might start implicating any prospect from Ohio, or anyone who’s had any connections with Spellacy’s known clients, and that could be someone who wasn’t involved at all. And there are particular concerns here ahead of the draft, as any potential criminal link has often been a huge blow to prospects’ hopes; consider La’el Collins, who was considered a first-round talent by many in 2015, but went undrafted that year thanks to his name being mentioned in connection to a double homicide (he was eventually cleared of all charges, and signed as an undrafted free agent with the Dallas Cowboys). An incomplete report like this could mean a difference of millions of dollars.

Are there potential issues if the Cleveland police are actually making an effort to keep this name quiet until after the draft? Absolutely. And if there’s proof of them acting in an unusual manner here and actually giving this accused prospect special treatment, that could be a real problem. Sexual assault’s an incredibly serious charge, and covering that up in service of a prospect’s NFL ambitions would be horrible.

But WOIO’s report here doesn’t seem to have proof the police have done anything wrong. And the station has definitely made themselves a big part of the story by running a report, but only sharing this little evidence. We’ll see how this all plays out, and maybe they’ll eventually be praised; if their action leads to the police releasing this report, and if this case winds up leading to a conviction, maybe they’ll be seen as doing the right thing.

For now, though, WOIO’s decision to run with this seems quite problematic, given how little hard evidence they seem to have had. And Monday’s reputation (consider how his Wikipedia entry talks about how he “started investigative reporting by leaking the roster list of the Garfield Heights High School Bulldogs baseball team”) doesn’t exactly help their cause, either. We’ll see how this pans out in the end, but the actions here by Monday and WOIO may wind up getting a lot of criticism.

http://m.cleveland19.com/19actionnews/db_348172/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=Zrru143T

WOIO : Top NFL Draft prospect accused of sexual assault at downtown Cleveland hotel

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - There have been numerous conversations at Cleveland 19 News about the report you are about to read. There's a lot at stake. It involves a young woman who said she was sexually assaulted, a young man who is about to start his NFL career, and a team who may be taking a huge risk drafting a player who's under investigation right here in Cleveland.

Police radio traffic coming from downtown Cleveland's Westin Hotel after 3 a.m. Sunday, April 9 sheds light on the moment officers arrived on scene: "Officers on scene, no call back -- 23-year-old female conscious and breathing, victim of a sexual assault."

The accused is a college football player who is expected to be taken in the first round of Thursday's NFL Draft.

We are not naming the player because we're waiting for the police report. And we want to be very clear he has not been officially charged with a crime at this point.

By phone, investigative producer Cassie Nist spoke to the player's attorney, Kevin Spellacy, who said he is representing the player in this matter, but said the accusations are "ludicrous and ridiculous."

"In my opinion this young lady is an opportunist and it's actually despicable," said Spellacy.

The player's attorney says it all started at the Barley House on West 6th Street, when a group left there to go to the Westin for a hotel room party. He said his client was never alone with the alleged victim, and he has three witnesses who said he did nothing wrong. When police arrived at the Westin, the player had already left. The attorney said he is willing to bring his client in to be interviewed by police, but not right away. He has made arrangements for the interview to be held right after the NFL Draft.

There is a lot at stake. It's just days before the draft and one of the top picks has his name on paperwork somewhere on a Cleveland detective's desk. We'd like to see that paperwork. Normally we can. But for some reason we -- the media -- are being held up.

 

[O.G.]

Blah blah blah

 

[stringer bell]

https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/856590954660233218

https://twitter.com/josinaanderson/status/856806281771982848
https://twitter.com/josinaanderson/status/856807109027082240
https://twitter.com/josinaanderson/status/856807467224903680
https://twitter.com/josinaanderson/status/856807788932202496

 

[its....JOHN B]

Saints is like the company I work for right now they will never get right because their priorities are all wrong

 

[toheeb27]

Saints is like the company I work for right now they will never get right because their priorities are all wrong

Staples?

 

[caddo man]

Them signing Peterson is not bad but it aint a game changer. Cant even call him a change of pace. I just hope he makes it through the season.

I am just happy they havent pulled the trigger on trade for Butler with a 1st rounder. I wouldnt do it unless it was for the second rounder or third.

This draft has in abundance all of the things they need. CB and DE. Why trade for Butler?