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2021-2022 NFL Season: Deshaun Watson will die a Texan!
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Should be 2021 NFL Season. Or technically the 2021-2022 season.
When we talk about the 85 Bears, it was the 1985 season. Starting in 85 and ending in Jan/Feb 1986.
Will be interesting to see how Najee Harris does as the first RB taken. I got a feeling he will be another workhorse for the Steelers, like Conner or Mendenhall. They are going to give him a boatload of carries. I bet he has 350+ touches this year. Big Ben is getting old and they arent a good team when they cant run. Yea, Ben will throw for 450 yards and 3 tds, but they usually lose in those type of games. Harris has to be a feature type back for them to do anything this year, and I think he can.
Hopefully he does show out, as it will continue to bolster the running back market. 2014 was rock bottom for the reputation and usage rate of RB's, as well as the beginning of the rise of passing. Bishop Sankey was the first RB drafted in 2014, at NUMBER 54 OVERALL. That is the latest a RB has ever been drafted in NFL history. That year also saw a limited number of backs being drafted overall, where just 20 backs were taken, compared to 55 in 1987.
30 backs were selected in the 2017 draft, and guys like Zeke and Barkley were getting drafted very high and getting paid. It has started to go back the other way though, as only 16 backs were taken in 2020, and 20 this year. It is most likely due to guys like Zeke eating shit, and Barkley being hurt, as well as McCaffery and other guys like Mostert who cant stay healthy. Josh Jacobs was really the only RB in the 2019 class that has done ANYTHING. So the value of these guys is starting to wane again. If Harris can run wild it will help, but fucking Etienne is already hurt and gone for the year so who knows.
(2017 was in insane year for RBs! Fournette went 1st, McCaffery 2nd, Dalvin Cook 3rd, Joe Mixon 4th, Alvin Kamara 5th, Kareem Hunt 6th, James Conner 8th, with Marlon Mack and Aaron Jones being taken late.)
When we talk about the 85 Bears, it was the 1985 season. Starting in 85 and ending in Jan/Feb 1986.
Will be interesting to see how Najee Harris does as the first RB taken. I got a feeling he will be another workhorse for the Steelers, like Conner or Mendenhall. They are going to give him a boatload of carries. I bet he has 350+ touches this year. Big Ben is getting old and they arent a good team when they cant run. Yea, Ben will throw for 450 yards and 3 tds, but they usually lose in those type of games. Harris has to be a feature type back for them to do anything this year, and I think he can.
Hopefully he does show out, as it will continue to bolster the running back market. 2014 was rock bottom for the reputation and usage rate of RB's, as well as the beginning of the rise of passing. Bishop Sankey was the first RB drafted in 2014, at NUMBER 54 OVERALL. That is the latest a RB has ever been drafted in NFL history. That year also saw a limited number of backs being drafted overall, where just 20 backs were taken, compared to 55 in 1987.
30 backs were selected in the 2017 draft, and guys like Zeke and Barkley were getting drafted very high and getting paid. It has started to go back the other way though, as only 16 backs were taken in 2020, and 20 this year. It is most likely due to guys like Zeke eating shit, and Barkley being hurt, as well as McCaffery and other guys like Mostert who cant stay healthy. Josh Jacobs was really the only RB in the 2019 class that has done ANYTHING. So the value of these guys is starting to wane again. If Harris can run wild it will help, but fucking Etienne is already hurt and gone for the year so who knows.
(2017 was in insane year for RBs! Fournette went 1st, McCaffery 2nd, Dalvin Cook 3rd, Joe Mixon 4th, Alvin Kamara 5th, Kareem Hunt 6th, James Conner 8th, with Marlon Mack and Aaron Jones being taken late.)
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Wow. 2011 - 2022 seasons. This thread is going to get HUGE as we get in our DeLoreans
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Hahhahahaahah!!!
Copy/Paste of my report:
Please change thread title to 2021-2022 NFL Season: Deshaun Watson will die a Texan!
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Before thay added the 17th game, you'd be right. The regular season hardly ever went into Jan. This year the final week is Jan 9, so 21-22 is appropriate
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Season does go into the following year now. Remember the season is 17 games now. Heads into January.
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Regular season went into January in 3 of the last 6 years, and 6 out of the last 12.
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A couple days into the next year is way different than playing 2 weeks into the next year.
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Texans' Watson to begin season as healthy inactive
The Houston Texans ruled out quarterback Deshaun Watson for Week 1, citing non-injury reasons on the injury report.The Texans previously named Tyrod Taylor their opening-day starter and are reportedly prepared to make Watson a healthy scratch throughout the season.Watson is facing lawsuits from...
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As I said, this is a move to try curry favor with Watson (by allowing to still be paid) and put the onus on the league to put him on the exempt list.