Can't decide if this was a big fall for a really talented player or we just heard a lot about him cause he's Australian. I'm thinking the latter.

Nah, NFL.com rated him as a potential starter. He fell down the boards because of a hamstring injury (much like what happened with Lacy). Most people ranked him a late first/early second round talent and the Seahawks have picked themselves up a gem IMO.

I hope Ted Thompson knows what he's doing, trading back like that when we could have had some quality in the third round.

Edited by afromanGT: 29/4/2013 04:27:23 AM

Tim Tebow has been released after one rocky season on the New York Jets bench.

Bring on the CFL!

It's a pity they disbanded NFL Europe. Otherwise they really could send him to Siberia.

Im playing this season for the West Coast Wolverines over here in Perth. Thinking im gonna be a lineman, but would love to be a MLB.

I played O-Line for 3 years before I went OS and the team disbanded. Much prefer playing on offense.

I was at that game in '99, my first sporting event at the Olympic Stadium. At the time Denver were reigning champs and both teams had Aussie punters.

They came out here only a couple of weeks after John Elway retired wasn't it?

DE John Abraham visiting the Titans this week.

It'd make sense if you'd taken a DE or two in the first few rounds of the draft...but when you've got a 5th rounder and seven DE's in a 4-3 set-up I think you're wasting time and money.

If you're going to invest in the D, bring in a linebacker to compliment Ayers and some corners who actually know how to cover. Getting into a shoot-out with Detroit last season didn't bode well for your secondary.

I've always had a soft spot for the Bengals...and now they've drafted a player with the same surname as me. I'm tempted to buy one of their jerseys.

So you can look like a candy cane? :lol:

After a sensational 13 year career one of the greats, Brian Urlacher, has called it a day.

Thanks goodness for that!
Kinda player you love to hate as a Packer fan, would have loved on my team though.

LA Rams legend Deacon Jones, the man who coined the term "sack" for tackling the QB behind the line of scrimmage, has died at the age of 74.

Brett Favre on breakup with Packers: 'I was at fault'
A formal reunion between the Green Bay Packers and No. 4 is creeping closer and closer.

Brett Favre, speaking to Joe Buscaglia of WGR-AM in Buffalo on Thursday to promote Jim Kelly's "Hunter's Hope" charity auction, took part of the blame for how his end with the Packers transpired.

"It's over and done with. I was at fault," Favre said, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I feel that both sides had a part in it. If you could go back, would I or them have done things differently? I'm sure both sides would. But you can't."

Favre has discussed burying the hatchet in the past, but he hasn't been as forthright in taking ownership of how he put the Packers in a tough spot after his initial retirement.

When asked about having his number retired by the Packers, Favre was optimistic it would happen soon and credited team president Mark Murphy for patching the discord.

"I'm honored just by the thought," Favre said. "Obviously there was, if you want to call it, 'bad blood' or whatever, I just think that people started picking sides. And really I'm over that and have been over it. Mark Murphy and I have talked on numerous occasions. I never expected them to do anything. I'm not one to sit here and say I think they need to do this and do that."

Current Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers put emphasis on a Favre-Packers reunion late last month, saying it was about time for the "healing process" to begin. The frigid relationship between Favre and Rodgers has been questioned in the past, but Favre reiterated that their appearance together at the 2013 NFL Honors wasn't an act.

"Aaron has said some very nice things," Favre said. "He and I have a good relationship. I had a chance to present an award with him at the Super Bowl, and that was for real. It wasn't for show. And so I think everything will be fine."

Favre said he had no idea when a reunion would happen.

"As time goes, it heals a lot of things," he said. "So the things that transpired that led to us 'breaking up' if you will, to me, are over and done with. When will (the jersey retirement) happen? I don't think either side is trying to push the issue. ... I think both sides are genuine. I know they are. And that's the way it has to come across because that's the way it should be. We don't want to go out there waving to the crowd with our backs to each other. And I don't think that's going to happen."

Of course, in true Favrian fashion, he did take some credit for setting an example for how not to handle the exit of a future Hall of Fame quarterback.

"I don't know for certain, but I think the situation with Peyton (Manning) and the (Indianapolis) Colts almost looked like our situation, but then maybe they thought twice about it and maybe they learned from our situation and they handled it correctly," Favre said.

I don't think it will ever be fixed entirely. Not for me anyway.