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Tom Brady is arguably the biggest draw in the NFL. So when he retired then unretired this offseason, he wreaked havoc for the league — and its schedule-makers. A Tampa Bay Buccaneers team with, say, Blaine Gabbert at quarterback isn’t much of a TV draw. But a Bucs team again featuring Brady under center — now we’re talking primetime. The folks who spend an inordinate amount of time, effort and processing power making a football schedule spoke with the Los Angeles Times about the process… Source link

Pretty much no matter which draft grade you want to read, the New England Patriots finished at the bottom or near it. And that’s where the problem begins. Bill Belichick and the Patriots have been doing things their own way for 20 years, probably going back to cutting Lawyer Milloy when everyone thought they were crazy. It turned out pretty well for them. They’ve done it their own way, and their way resulted in the greatest dynasty in major American professional team sports. Therefore, every… Source link

Round 2 1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Logan Hall, EDGE, Houston — Hall is a long, positionally diverse defender who will never be a huge sack producer, but he can contribute in multiple ways. He’s known as humble and hard-working, having added about a quarter of his body weight since going to college, and will help fill a void on Tampa’s d-line. Grade: C+ 2. Green Bay Packers: Christian Watson, WR, North Dakota State — Big move up from Green Bay, who wasn’t slated to pick until No. 53 and… Source link

Even sports rookie cards now have their own NFTs as the digital-token craze continues to push further into sports. Panini America, which traditionally makes standard hard-copy playing cards, will be providing 16 NFL prospects with their own 1-of-1 NFT after the Thursday night’s 2022 NFL Draft. “We’ve been doing this the last 12 years where we’d showcase them with their physical trading car, and we’re still going be doing that from the physical trading card side of it, but as the world… Source link

The NFL draft went to Las Vegas and quickly got drunk. In the shadow of Caesars Palace, commissioner Roger Goodell morphed into part carnival barker, part pit boss, announcing 32 picks and a record nine first-round trades in a wild night befitting a wild offseason. (Remember when Tom Brady retired? Me neither.) There were just three trades in last year’s first round. Teams moved up. Teams moved down. They traded picks and players. They dished veterans on the side. And, yes, they made some… Source link

A familiar face is leaving NFL Network with her eyes set on one of the top openings in NFL broadcasting. “Good Morning Football” co-host Kay Adams has worked her last day with the show and is a candidate to host Amazon’s upcoming “Thursday Night Football” pregame show, Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports. Adams has co-hosted the three-hour morning show on weekdays since 2016. With Amazon taking over streaming rights to “Thursday Night Football” broadcasts in the fall, Adams could be… Source link

Trey McBride, a tight end from Colorado State University, is poised to make history on Thursday. If he’s drafted — and many think he will be — he’ll be the first NFL player with same-sex parents. McBride, along with his four siblings, were raised by parents Kate and Jen, who told “The Today Show” that they started their family in the 1990s — a time when same sex relationships and parenthood weren’t as readily accepted as they are today. “They actually considered me a single mom,” Source link

The legendary chart that still governs the NFL draft was an inexact estimate of a 1980s market. Its creator, the Dallas Cowboys, never intended to guide hundreds of draft-day trades for decades to come, but here we are. When the 2022 bonanza begins Thursday in Las Vegas, general managers will answer phones, haggle over picks and reference this outdated rubric. Its purpose, ever since 1991, has been to quantify the relative value of draft picks. It posits, for example, that No. 1 overall is… Source link

Brett Favre talks to the Atlanta Falcons from his bedroom in Fenton, Mississippi, on NFL draft day April 21, 1991. Favre was drafted in the second round by the Falcons, and later trade to the Packers. (Photo by Tim Isbell/Biloxi Sun Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) On the morning of the 1991 NFL draft, Tim Isbell followed an unpaved road deep into the piney woods of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Biloxi Sun Herald photographer kept driving until he reached a ranch-style house a… Source link

The NFL is about to give Christmas Day the Thanksgiving treatment. With the league due to release its schedule for the 2022-23 season next month, NFL vice president of broadcasting Mike North appeared on the “SalSports….and Stuff” podcast this week to discuss the upcoming slate of games. North revealed that with Christmas scheduled to fall on a Sunday in 2022, the league is going to play an unprecedented triple-header of games on the holiday typically earmarked for basketball on the sports… Source link