1 hr ago. I’ll give you 38 million reasons why the Falcons couldn’t get more. • When the trade request went in, the Falcons honored the ultra-private Jones’s desire to remain quiet about his bid to get out of town. That negotiation was long. “They know what to expect from me, they know what to expect from our staff, they’re giving us what we demand. “We pushed through all that. Regardless of how they finished, the Giants were still 6–10 last year, and as such the coaches in New York know the climb up from here remains a steep one. Well, then closing out that deal could have a pretty profound effect over how the next seven or eight months play out in the NFL. • Flacco injured his hip in a Week 9 loss to the Steelers in 2018, and couldn’t make it back after the Ravens’ Week 11 bye. In 2020, Judge was one of five first-year coaches navigating the pandemic. NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Titans were tied last season for the second-most-potent offense in the league, but Sunday's trade with the Atlanta Falcons for wide receiver Julio Jones has the potential to take them to a different plane. In addition, the book features rarely seen photos and artifacts of some of the Hall's greatest treasures. And apparently he’s been playing the long game for a while. • The Titans’ initial offer was a 3 that could become a 2, and the 2022 second-round pick (without conditions) had been on the table for a bit. There you have the arts and crafts that J-Rob was referencing. First time I realized that a 20-win season is now on the table, if (highly!) And the NFL is considering, in a narrow scope, cases where some have medical, family or religious reasons not to get the vaccine. I was told Sunday night that Atlanta owner Arthur Blank, who can be a demanding boss, did not press Fontenot for a better return than what he got. So where those go, and whether the average per year starts with a “3” or a “4” will be interesting, especially if Rodgers gets paid. Late Sunday morning, the inevitable happened with Julio Jones, the franchise receiver for the Atlanta for the past decade. MMQB: You gonna give A.J. You get the feeling they’ll be able to, if Jones stays active. Given how Arians listens to his players, don’t look for much excitement in the Buccaneers’ three preseason games. Atlanta wanting a sweetener was what needed to be sorted out, and the Titans securing a ’23 pick swap, rather than giving up, say, a 5 or a 6, means the Titans are down just one more pick in ’22 (they had already dealt their seventh), and come out even (with one pick devalued by two rounds) next year, and won’t lose a second player in the process. Getting Jones offered them the chance to juice their team with a potential game-changer after a tumultuous few months. However, Jones' presence gives the Titans a much more formidable option to keep opposing defenses from bracketing and double-covering Brown. We started our rough. Team defense (DST) rankings for Week 1 to help you dominate the competition! on the back nine, all after testing positive for COVID-19, which forced him to withdraw. (I’m sure everything will be on the up and up.). And so with players showing up en masse, he and his staff have doubled-down on an effort to watch the tempo of drills, and monitor each player’s individual fitness. • No first-round pick was ever offered. They come in, they understand the expectation—we tell them up front, we’re gonna make it hard intentionally. This year, it’s the opposite—Hey guys, just go hang out. The Falcons are sending Jones and a 2023 sixth-round pick to Tennessee in exchange for a 2022 second-rounder and a 2023 fourth-rounder. And the fact that they were willing to take on Jones’s contract was huge. I don’t think this is going to change much, as to whether Rodgers will show this week (no one expects him to). Now, the flipside—Judge knows having a good feeling in the building is easy when you’re undefeated, as everyone NFL is right now. The fact that Mayfield has gone out of his way to hold workouts in multiple locations is a good sign of his ability to bring guys together. I think we’ve had a productive spring so far. MMQB: So it was important to figure out his fit? The Tennessee Titans have made a blockbuster deal and agreed to a trade with the Atlanta Falcons for superstar wide receiver Julio Jones. … But there was a YouTube clip of Julio back at Alabama, with Coach Saban, talking about accountability. Jones clearly wanted out of a rebuild in Atlanta and wanted to play for a contender. The Falcons have agreed to trade star wide receiver Julio Jones and a 2023 sixth-round pick to the Titans for a 2022 second-round pick and 2023 fourth-round pick. With Jones traded, NFL business is likely to slow down for a while. Lots of questions here. They know they’re taken care of, with Brady’s body coach, Alex Guerrero, monitoring the workload of not just the quarterback, but everyone on the practice field. Bob Condotta. “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for everything.” —Alexander Hamilton. "It takes some of the tension off of me and with Derrick [Henry] and Ryan [Tannehill] with Anthony [Firkser]," Brown told ESPN on Sunday. We've bottled up Julio for years. “What a lot of younger guys struggle with is the knowledge of the game,” Jensen said. It felt like that was kind of the final straw. I think that was kind of the closer, that ‘Hey, this guy's about what we're about.’”. For Adam and Sharri Maio Schefter and their family it’s not just a day of grief, but also hope. This is a story of 9/11, but it’s also the story of 9/12 and all the days after. Life moved on. Pieces were picked up. “Last year, we had to tell everybody in the league, you can’t be together. The Falcons did wind up talking to all four NFC West teams about a Jones trade, but never got a real offer from any of them. if it does, and Tennessee, which has $3.9 million cap space, has work to do to fit their new star receiver under the cap. • The Falcons felt comfortable with Calvin Ridley as their top receiver. Davis has moved on to the New York Jets via free agency, which left a void opposite Brown. Arians and Brady have worked out a unique arrangement for OTAs. In fact, what’s been a two-week story for fans on the outside has been a two-year story inside the Falcons’ building. 4) While we’re there, it was good to hear that Cam Newton’s hand injury is relatively minor. But there was also the precarious cap situation that Fontenot and Smith inherited, with five enormous contracts (Jones, Matt Ryan, Deion Jones, Jake Matthews, Grady Jarrett) at the top of the books, and a need to clean up those finances. Makes sense. In free agency, we talk about it all the time, you look back at your college reports on players when they were coming out of college, and try to glean some information, but that's sometimes four, five, six years—whatever it may be— and people change over time. College Football, author Christopher Walsh not only explains what separates Saban from his peers and compares his accomplishments to some of the all-time legends, but tells why, if there were a Mount Rushmore of college football coaches, ... Found inside – Page 37... CB Cardinals LSU 6 Julio Jones, WR Falcons Alabama 7 Aldon Smith, DE 49ers Missouri 8 Jake Locker, QB Titans Washington 9 Tyron Smith, T Cowboys USC 10 ... It's not just Brown who will benefit from Jones' arrival. That gives Downing an opportunity to move guys across the formation to generate matchups that favor the Titans. And that’s what I want it to look like. Julio Jones being traded to the Titans. Flex rankings for Week 1 to help you dominate the competition! was like, You guys can choose to work out here. By the time the new brass arrived, any chance to rebuild the relationship between team and player had evaporated. ESPN reported over the weekend that the Atlanta Falcons have traded WR Julio Jones and a 2023 6th Round Pick to the Tennessee Titans. The Falcons got Jones out of the NFC. Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones has been traded away — to the Tennessee Titans — after 10 seasons in Atlanta. But the Titans separated themselves in being the only one that was willing to pull the trigger without caveats. • As June 1 approached, a significant number of teams wanted in on the conversation with Atlanta, and some even said they’d be willing to move a second-round pick for Jones. He showed the willingness to do that last year. What are his favorite ways to attack on 1st and 10? Situational play calling is analyzed in this book.LaFleur most recently coached with both Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, and they design of his offense shows that. So how has this new idea work out? I know they’re having fun when they start talking smack to me. And it’s obvious what the idea here is—for Dalton to play great, the Bears to contend, and Fields to keep stacking good days in the background. Tennessee’s second-round pick was 61st overall in 2020, and 53rd in 2021. But if you listen to him, it’s pretty clear the Giants are in a good place right now. But being from where he is from, Judge is big on how much “football character” in a team can mean over the course of an NFL season, and Judge can see now, at the very least, his guys have that as he defines it. 1) What a mess the PGA Tour has on its hands with the Jon Rahm situation at the Memorial. Now, you don't know who's going to hold who. • One other thing last year showed Jensen: He needed a lot less summer action than he thought to be ready for the season. In the 2020 CBA, there was new language put in to tighten up what used to be the very common practice with holdouts of simply forgiving fines after the player reported (or was traded). “It [wasn’t] like, Let’s get this out of the way and we’re on to the weekend. We’ll see what happens. Aug 28th, 4:00PM. Otherwise, it’ll be tough to keep Fields on the bench. FiveThirtyEight NFL analyst Josh Hermsmeyer helps us break down the trade that sent Jones to the Tennessee Titans in exchange for a 2022 second-round draft … The trade will make the Falcons begin rebuilding their struggling team, which was 5-11 in 2017 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2012. That, at least to a degree, has carried over to this spring. The Falcons sent Jones to the Titans, the team that always made the most sense, in exchange for a second-round pick … With that background in mind, he’s the first to admit that what he needs now is a whole lot different than what he needed in 2013, when he was just trying to find his place in pro football as a Ravens rookie. 9) The Jets’ situation with Jamison Crowder bears watching. He hurt it at Friday’s practice, which happened to be open to the media, and it looks like he’ll be O.K. The Falcons faced eight in the box on 12.5% of their snaps last year. But the bottom line is, in order to maintain the privileged status they gained last year through constant testing and rigorous protocols, they’ll have to be vaccinated, and almost every coach is complying. And making sure it would has been one point of emphasis Judge has driven home. Found inside – Page 515Tennessee Titans traded the #1 pick in the draft (and 2 other picks) to the LA Rams for 4 ... Atlanta WR Julio Jones caught 12 passes for 300 yards & 1 TD. Or a 17–0 team could lose its tiebreaker with another 17–0 team and get to 21 wins. Found insideAlabama receiver Julio Jones went to the Falcons at No. ... His career got off to a promising start, and he was named to the Pro Bowl and was an All-Pro in ... Found inside – Page 247Tennessee Titans traded the #1 pick in the draft (and 2 other picks) to the LA Rams for 4 ... Atlanta WR Julio Jones caught 12 passes for 300 yards & 1 TD. And part of the equation here that can’t be lost—Ridley is eligible for a second contract now, and Atlanta’s new brass knows they’re going to have to pay up to keep him. The relationship was strained, and it remained that way through the final two years that then GM Thomas Dimitroff and then coach Dan Quinn were at the helm. 3) The Barclays Center is a morgue compared to Madison Square Garden, which is probably a pretty good indication of how hard it’s going to be for the Nets ever to build a real fan base in New York City. Dating back to his collegiate days at Ole Miss, Brown has studied Jones' game intently. 3) I think, for the time being, the Bears’ quarterback situation is very status quo. Credit to Fontenot here. Julio Jones would disappear in games or against certain teams, like the Saints. That’s huge having Tom there, who has all that experience, running the practice, running the routes. And part of the problem, as he sees it, isn’t so much the overall intensity as the variance of intensity from player to player—“some guys are going 110%. “It’s a good group. Missing time last year, what were the circumstances surrounding that? The Falcons can move on now, finally. At once a tribute to boyhood enthusiasm and the heroes of classical quests, Like Rum-Drunk Angels is an offbeat, slightly magical, entirely original retelling of Aladdin as an American western. NFL rule changes and their impact: How teams might use them for competitive advantages, Projected 2022 NFL draft order: Texans, Lions, Jets vie for top pick, 2021 NFL Rank: Predicting the NFL's best 100 players. Last week, a memo went out to players and agents spelling out that the NFL/NFLPA Joint Pain Management Committee had concluded that “Toradol should not be used prior to, during, or after NFL games or practices as a means of reducing anticipated pain.” The memo went on to explain when Toradol use is appropriate (basically in reaction to an acute injury, rather than in a preventative manner), and how it should be administered. Tickets for Buccaneers-Cowboys season opener will cost a pretty penny, 'So, you're Patrick Mahomes? Photographer Manny Millan covered his first U.S. Open in 1974. That said, the Bears are going to get Fields a lot of work in preseason games, so he’ll have opportunity to show who he is as a player. Will New England Patriots see results after spending $163 million in free agency? That made the idea of adding to the 2 more palatable for Tennessee. Plus, Titans GM Jon Robinson on the deal, Joe Judge’s Giants head into Year 2, the Packers’ next decision in the Aaron Rodgers situation, and much more. And if Jones can be what he’s been for the great majority of his 10 NFL seasons? By . That’s why the end of Giants practice last Friday was significant. That’s when I’m like, You’re fighting through all this stuff, good.”. As … “When I was there, I was just snapping him the ball. Year 2 is here for Judge and the Giants and, for obvious reasons, this one looks a lot different than the last one. MMQB: Your players are obviously aware of how this is being received—do you think there’s a benefit here in sending them the message that the team is in win-now mode? • There is some low-hanging fruit here. Which, at least on paper, could give them another advantage going into 2021, as if they need any more. The Falcons also sent their 2023 sixth-round pick to the Titans for Tennessee’s 2023 fourth-round pick. Atlanta didn’t want to have to buy a better draft pick by taking on salary. Guardian Caps: Are the soft-shelled football helmet covers effective at limiting head injuries? He's our new arts-and-crafts coordinator.". And after going through a lighter camp, as he sees it, having two or three weeks of full-on practice, a game week, and maybe a quarter or a quarter-and-a-half in a single preseason game would get him where he needs to be. NASHVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 25: Julio Jones #11 of the Atlanta Falcons reaches the ball out to try and get a first down after being tackled by Zach Brown #55 of the Tennessee Titans … It’s also apparent in how the receiver and cornerback rooms have received them. Judge didn’t have predictions for me, or even goals on how far the group might go—with pressure ratcheted up as Jones hits Year 3, and a free-spending offseason comes to a close. The Crimson Tide is one of the most storied and decorated football programs in NCAA history-since its inception in 1892, the program has claimed 14 National Championship titles, all of which are explored in this essential guide, along with ... He’s also shown himself to be very self-aware and coachable—in the words of one staffer, “playing the rookie role very well.” That sets Fields up nicely heading into the summer. This boils down to three guys: Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. 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