📫📫 4.10 Mailbag! 📫📫

📨 The Minnesota Vikings' future with JJETS✈️.
📨 Could the Chicago Bears trade up for a WR?
📨 What's Michael Penix's draft floor?
📨 Could the New York Giants draft a tackle?
📨 The Derrick Brown contract.
📨 Draft tight ends.
📨 MORE!

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NEW Patriots Talk Podcast!

Albert Breer, Phil Perry & Tom E. Curran give their pros and cons for J.J. McCarthy, Drake Maye & Jayden Daniels

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📺 youtu.be/UT0dIOE_MHw

So weird to think about how we all saw OJ when I was 14—Nordberg and an NBC sideline reporter. Never forget the NBA Finals game with the Bronco chase, or my sophomore-year German teacher wheeling the TV into the classroom so we could watch the verdict.

Family announces the passing of OJ Simpson, at 76.

Rolling with Toucher & Hardy from NOW til 8:20!

'[J.J. McCarthy] is, to me, a more fundamentally sound, more accurate thrower than Drake Maye'

'I think Maye has a better shot to get you into the Allen, Mahomes, Burrow, into that category'

Tom E. Curran, Albert Breer & Phil Perry debate who the Pats should take 3rd overall 👀

Georgia TE Brock Bowers and OT Amarius Mims had their makeup Pro Day today. Bowers, at 241 pounds, looked explosive/moved well. Mims declined to weigh in. Both only did position drills—no testing for either.

Giants TEs coach Tim Kelly, Jets TEs coach Ron Middleton were on hand.

Agreed. Quebec City deserves a team back. I really wish the NHL would do a better job of embracing its popularity in Canada. Instead, you get these plans for growth in U.S. cities that might or might not support a team.

Top 10 of the 2019 NFL Draft, five years later ...

• Six (Murray, Bosa, Williams, Jones, Allen, Oliver) signed big second contracts with original teams.

• One (Hockenson) traded by his original team.

• Three (White, Ferrell, Bush) left their original teams as free agents.

Game 2 of the 2024 NFL season: Packers vs. Eagles in São Paolo, Brazil.

It'll be played on Friday, Sept. 6, and air exclusively on Peacock.

Hard not to appreciate this sort of time and effort spent.

Great work, Dane Brugler. Worth the price of the subscription alone.

I love college football so much.

🗒️🗒️ 4.9 Tuesday Notes 🗒️🗒️

➡️ @DallasCowboys 💰 issues go beyond @Dak.
➡️ The Las Vegas Raiders' delayed start.
➡️ Cooper DeJean affirms his rep.
➡️ All 👀 on Brock Bowers on Wednesday.
➡️ Teams sorting through medically-flagged guys.
➡️ MORE!!!

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What a huge get this kid was.

We told the story of Trey Smith being a hero for one kid in the immediate aftermath of the shootings at the Kansas City Chiefs' parade (x.com/AlbertBreer/st…). Here's the rest of that story, really well-told by Tom Rinaldi, on that day and the bond that Smith and Joey Borgonzi now share.

We are BACK and I'm ready roll with ALL your questions for the 4.10 Mailbag. Anything NFL, you ask, I answer ...

GO!!!!!

UCLA edge-rusher Laiatu Latu's neck issue is well-documented—and this is a good example of how 30 visits are used for different reasons in different cases. In this one, teams likely want to get their doctors another look at a potential first-rounder with a big medical concern.

Tell you what, Matt Rhule's got quite the soundtrack at practice.

As part of annual helmet testing with the NFLPA, the @NFL announced that five new models for the 2024 season tested better than any ever worn in the league. In total, 12 new helmets will be available to players, including eight position-specific models.
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