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The Official 2012 NFL Thread

mikev said:
Burflict signed with teh Bungles :rofl
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It's a great fa signing for the Bengals. Everything to gain and nothing to lose. I hope he plays (within the rules) like a beast and fulfills that 1st round projection.
 
Zerox said:
Isn't that the same team that drafted he who should not be named Takeo Spikes playoff antimatter? :teeth
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The reality is that Takeo played really well as a Bengal. Had he stayed with them, he'd have been to the playoffs thrice already. But he left and has become the playoff albatross that he is.
 
niners signed these dudes:

Brian Tymes, WR, FAMU
Nathan Palmer, WR, NIU
Al Netter, OG, Northwestern
Joe Holland, OLB, Purdue
Garrett Celek, TE, Michigan State
Michael Thomas, S, Stanford
Chris Owusu, WR, Stanford
Matt Masifilo, DT, Stanford
Jewel Hampton, RB, Southern Illinois
Patrick Butrym, DL, Wisconsin
Georgio Tavecchio, K, Cal
Michael Thomas, S, Stanford

aside from owusu and tavecchio, never heard of them.
 
postcholo said:
niners signed these dudes:

Brian Tymes, WR, FAMU
Nathan Palmer, WR, NIU
Al Netter, OG, Northwestern
Joe Holland, OLB, Purdue
Garrett Celek, TE, Michigan State
Michael Thomas, S, Stanford
Chris Owusu, WR, Stanford
Matt Masifilo, DT, Stanford
Jewel Hampton, RB, Southern Illinois
Patrick Butrym, DL, Wisconsin
Georgio Tavecchio, K, Cal
Michael Thomas, S, Stanford

aside from owusu and tavecchio, never heard of them.
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Garrett is Brent's younger brother.
 
elbacalao said:
I remember Pete Johnson, I just dont know why you're bringing him up!
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Takeo Spikes, played great for Bengals, didn't play great elsewhere.

Pete Johnson, played great for Bengals, didn't play great elsewhere.
 
Zerox said:
Takeo Spikes, played great for Bengals, didn't play great elsewhere.

Pete Johnson, played great for Bengals, didn't play great elsewhere.
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Ah! :laughing Well Takeo has continued to play well. The teams he's played with....not so much. That's the awesome thing about it. No matter how well he has played, he still can't get to the playoffs. Bitch should have stayed a Bengal.
 
Here's how the Hawks drafted:

Rd overall Player Pos College
1 15 Bruce Irvin DE West Virginia
2 47 Bobby Wagner LB Utah St.
3 75 Russell Wilson QB Wisconsin
4 106 Robert Turbin RB Utah State
4 114 Jaye Howard DT Florida
5 154 Korey Toomer OLB Idaho
6 172 Jeremy Lane CB Northwestern St.
6 181 Winston Guy SS Kentucky
7 225 J.R. Sweezy DT North Carolina State
7 232 Greg Scruggs DE Louisville

Turbin looks like a beast. Can't wait to see what Big Red and Irvin do together. I also like the commitment to stopping the run.
 
bluenoser said:
Here's how the Hawks drafted:
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Confused why they drafted a QB so high in the 3rd when they just paid a jillion dollars to Flynn and they already have Jackson.

Didn't the Seahawks see a punter was available in the 3rd round instead? :laughing
 
bluenoser said:
Turbin looks like a beast.
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lots of people were hoping the niners would pick him up, high character guy. here's a good story on him turbin

Zerox said:
Didn't the Seahawks see a punter was available in the 3rd round instead? :laughing
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didn't they pick after the jags? anger was the only punter worth taking in the 3rd. he punted a ball into mccovey cove. a splash punt ffs.
 
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Who is this Baalke guy?

Peter King likes him:

I love what the 49ers did late Friday night and Saturday.
To become a great general manager, you have to be willing to take some chances. You have to be willing, on draft day, to make decisions that can impact your team for the next few years, positively or negatively. You have to have the courage of your convictions that if you trade down and lose the player you wanted in the first place, you'll be OK with that; the risk was worth it.
That happened to San Francisco general manager Trent Baalke late Friday night, as the third round was winding down. The 49ers had the 29th pick in the round, the 92nd pick overall. They liked a guard from Wake Forest named Joe Looney. Baalke knew the Niners liked Looney better than a lot of teams. He knew he might be able to get Looney in the fourth round. Might. No guarantees. And if he lost him, Baalke felt fine going with the next man on the board. So when the Colts called looking for a late-third-round pick, Baalke traded 92 to the Colts for the 97th pick and Indy's fifth-round pick in 2013.
On Saturday, at the start of round four, Baalke still thought he could wait for Looney. He dealt 97 to Miami for the Dolphins' fourth-round pick, 103 overall, plus the 196th pick and a sixth-round pick in 2013. At 103, Looney was still there. San Francisco was picking 125th. Dare Baalke wait? Carolina came calling for the 103rd pick, and Baalke dealt that pick for the 180th in this draft and a third-round pick in 2013.
Tick. Tick. Tick. No guards went from 103 to 111, and Chicago was a candidate, but the Bears passed on the line, as did Arizona at 112, and now Baalke was pressing the outer limits, and he picked up the phone and made a deal with Detroit, trading up eight spots from 125 to 117 and throwing in the Miami pick acquired an hour earlier (196) in order to draft Looney ... 25 picks after the Niners were going to take him at 92.
So at the end of the dealing, the Niners got their man. And they got this:
• The 180th pick in 2012 -- Michigan State free safety Trenton Robinson.
• Carolina's third-round pick in 2013.
• Indianapolis' fifth-round pick in 2013.
• Miami's sixth-round pick in 2013.
Along with a seventh-round pick in 2013 from Cincinnati in the Taylor Mays trade, and likely compensatory picks for losing guard Adam Snyder and wide receiver Josh Morgan in free agency, San Francisco now sits with a projected 13 picks in the 2013 draft, the most of any team in the league.
"I'd be lying to suggest building up that many picks was our intention at the start of it,'' Baalke told me Saturday night. "But we were able to turn the pick over three times and get our guy, plus five picks [four, after the deal with Detroit]. So it worked out. We're not trying to win in the court of public opinion, or win in the media. We're trying to win games over the long haul and build a team for sustained success.''
That's precisely the kind of deal that helps a team win over the long haul.
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