10-07-2018, 01:44 PM
The Dallas Cowboys want a do-over on hosting the Super Bowl after horrid weather and a seating fiasco ruined their first try seven years ago.
While the wait will easily be more than a decade and with no indication the big game is coming back soon Womens Greg Olsen Jersey , last weekend’s draft at least showed the NFL that what is becoming its spring Super Bowl went off without a hitch in North Texas.
”Obviously we’ve got a little chip on our shoulder about that one because we had a snowstorm and it didn’t go perfect,” executive vice president Stephen Jones said last week, referring to the 2011 title game.
”There’s a big school of thought in the league that these things should go to kind of vacational-type spots, South Florida and Southern California and Phoenix and New Orleans. I get that. We’d still like a redo there.”
The Cowboys hosted the first draft in an NFL stadium, and the league said about 100,000 people showed up in and around AT&T Stadium in Arlington, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, for the first round Thursday night.
Crowd size was limited by the league to about 20,000 indoors, using just one end of the 80,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof, which was closed. The largest screens of the giant video board that hangs over the center of the field were mostly out of view.
The theater setup is still preferred by the NFL for an event that spent many years at Radio City Music Hall in New York before back-to-back drafts in Chicago and last year’s popular stop in Philadelphia on the steps of the art museum in front of the Rocky statue.
This larger venue allowed officials to try something they’d been thinking about for a while. Groups of seats designated for fans of each team on the field in front of the stage were a hit. The idea derived from political conventions fed what officials thought was an energetic setting.
”It exceeded our expectations in terms of the energy down here,” said Peter O’Reilly, who oversees special events for the NFL. ”It’s been a terrific event for us as the draft continues to evolve.”
As always, the Cowboys were worried about the weather. It was just about perfect Jake Dotchin Jersey , unlike the unprecedented ice storm that paralyzed the Dallas area most of the week before the Super Bowl. Of course, that was in midwinter.
On top of that, about 400 fans ended up without a place to sit when roughly 1,250 seats in temporary bleachers were declared unsafe hours before kickoff in Green Bay’s 31-25 victory over Pittsburgh.
A lawsuit faulted Jerry Jones for trying to break the Super Bowl attendance record of 103,985 (it fell 766 short), and the outspoken Cowboys owner was forced to testify in federal court.
There was no such drama this time, and the draft accomplished what the Cowboys wanted: treating their fans while showcasing Texas as one of football’s cradles.
”It’s understated even, as big as it is, how much the fans love the draft and love the drama and uncertainty that goes with it,” Stephen Jones said. ”For our fans to be able to touch it and go out there and see what it’s all about and see this firsthand … this is football country.”
Stephen Jones doesn’t expect the draft to come back soon because the idea now is to move it annually. O’Reilly isn’t sure it will be in a stadium again because each city has ideas about how to make the draft unique.
Super Bowls have been awarded through the 2021 season , including two with new stadiums (Atlanta, Los Angeles) and another with a renovated one (Miami, which will get its record 11th title game).
But the Cowboys have this much going for them: The NFL now has a fresher memory that has nothing to do with ice falling off the roof and hitting Super Bowl workers, or fans getting crammed into standing-room areas when they were supposed to have a place to sit.
”We’re just thrilled with this week,” O’Reilly said. ”This draft certainly reflected really well on this market and its ability to put on major events.”
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Paxton Lynch inched closer to full-blown bust status Monday when he was demoted to third string after Chad Kelly's solid debut in the Denver Broncos' exhibition opener.
"Chad's played well. He played well in the scrimmage. He played well Saturday night. So he deserves the chance to be the 2 right now Tyrone Crawford Jersey ," coach Vance Joseph said.
Lynch was disappointed, Joseph said, "but he understands that it's a performance business."
"He has great potential, physical potential. But it's got to equal performance eventually," Joseph said. "He understands that. It's a performance league. And everything we do, it's graded and it's counted."
After a string of poor performances at training camp, Lynch was ineffective in seven series Saturday night against Minnesota, completing 6 of 11 passes for 24 yards and an interception to go with a sack.
Kelly, who missed his rookie season last year while recovering from wrist and knee injuries, completed 14 of 21 passes for 177 yards, two touchdowns and an interception in Denver's 42-28 loss to the Vikings.
Kelly celebrated his promotion by sticking around after practice Monday and throwing passes to tight end Jake Butt and receiver River Cracraft for more than 20 minutes.
Kelly thanked his teammates, saying they had just as much to do with his promotion.
"Those guys made the plays. They got me in the right protections and the guys with the ball in their hands made plays," Kelly said.
When Case Keenum signed this spring and Trevor Siemian was subsequently traded to the Vikings, Broncos general manager John Elway said the No. 2 QB job was up for grabs.
Lynch, however Justin Faulk Jersey , worked exclusively with the second-string offense until Monday, when they flip-flopped roles, leaving Lynch a sideline spectator during the two-minute drills, reflective of his new status as the team's third quarterback.
The switch at QB is as much a reward for Kelly's solid offseason as it is an indictment of Lynch, who hasn't made the strides Joseph and Elway expected of him in Year 3 鈥?especially without the pressure of having to vie for the starting job again.
"It's really more about what Chad's done, honestly 鈥?and Chad has played well, he's played with poise, he's played with confidence," Joseph said. "He moved the ball for us on Saturday night. And it's been that way since the spring. He had a great spring. He's had a great camp. So, it's his turn to be the 2. He's earned that right."
Lynch was beaten out by Siemian, a seventh-round draft pick, in each of the last two summers and now has fallen behind another seventh-rounder in Kelly, who was the final pick of the 2017 NFL draft.
Joseph noted that the competition isn't over, the depth chart remains fluid.
"And it rewards guys who are playing well," Joseph said. "It's only right. That's what we live by with our players: if you're playing well and you earn it Youth Justin Tucker Jersey , you push up and you get it. It's a fair league."
Kelly could stay ahead of Lynch on the depth chart and still not win the backup job, though, if the Broncos decide to go out and get an experienced free agent instead.
Asked if he'd have any reservations about going into the regular season with the inexperienced Kelly as his No. 2 QB, Joseph said, "Things change in this league all the time. But right now, he's our backup."
Joseph cautioned that "we've got to be patient with Chad."
"You want a guy who can go into a game and operate the offense and not beat his own football team, but also have the confidence to make some plays and lead our unit," Joseph said when pressed for what he needs to see from Kelly or Lynch to stick with one of them as Keenum's No. 2.
Kelly knows he'll have his doubters.
"You've just got to work hard. That's what it is," he said. "Even the best ones are still working hard. They don't know everything. And obviously me being in my second year, I don't know anything. So, I've got to work hard, I've got to watch more film than I ever have before. And when your time's called, you'd better be able to step up and go."
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While the wait will easily be more than a decade and with no indication the big game is coming back soon Womens Greg Olsen Jersey , last weekend’s draft at least showed the NFL that what is becoming its spring Super Bowl went off without a hitch in North Texas.
”Obviously we’ve got a little chip on our shoulder about that one because we had a snowstorm and it didn’t go perfect,” executive vice president Stephen Jones said last week, referring to the 2011 title game.
”There’s a big school of thought in the league that these things should go to kind of vacational-type spots, South Florida and Southern California and Phoenix and New Orleans. I get that. We’d still like a redo there.”
The Cowboys hosted the first draft in an NFL stadium, and the league said about 100,000 people showed up in and around AT&T Stadium in Arlington, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, for the first round Thursday night.
Crowd size was limited by the league to about 20,000 indoors, using just one end of the 80,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof, which was closed. The largest screens of the giant video board that hangs over the center of the field were mostly out of view.
The theater setup is still preferred by the NFL for an event that spent many years at Radio City Music Hall in New York before back-to-back drafts in Chicago and last year’s popular stop in Philadelphia on the steps of the art museum in front of the Rocky statue.
This larger venue allowed officials to try something they’d been thinking about for a while. Groups of seats designated for fans of each team on the field in front of the stage were a hit. The idea derived from political conventions fed what officials thought was an energetic setting.
”It exceeded our expectations in terms of the energy down here,” said Peter O’Reilly, who oversees special events for the NFL. ”It’s been a terrific event for us as the draft continues to evolve.”
As always, the Cowboys were worried about the weather. It was just about perfect Jake Dotchin Jersey , unlike the unprecedented ice storm that paralyzed the Dallas area most of the week before the Super Bowl. Of course, that was in midwinter.
On top of that, about 400 fans ended up without a place to sit when roughly 1,250 seats in temporary bleachers were declared unsafe hours before kickoff in Green Bay’s 31-25 victory over Pittsburgh.
A lawsuit faulted Jerry Jones for trying to break the Super Bowl attendance record of 103,985 (it fell 766 short), and the outspoken Cowboys owner was forced to testify in federal court.
There was no such drama this time, and the draft accomplished what the Cowboys wanted: treating their fans while showcasing Texas as one of football’s cradles.
”It’s understated even, as big as it is, how much the fans love the draft and love the drama and uncertainty that goes with it,” Stephen Jones said. ”For our fans to be able to touch it and go out there and see what it’s all about and see this firsthand … this is football country.”
Stephen Jones doesn’t expect the draft to come back soon because the idea now is to move it annually. O’Reilly isn’t sure it will be in a stadium again because each city has ideas about how to make the draft unique.
Super Bowls have been awarded through the 2021 season , including two with new stadiums (Atlanta, Los Angeles) and another with a renovated one (Miami, which will get its record 11th title game).
But the Cowboys have this much going for them: The NFL now has a fresher memory that has nothing to do with ice falling off the roof and hitting Super Bowl workers, or fans getting crammed into standing-room areas when they were supposed to have a place to sit.
”We’re just thrilled with this week,” O’Reilly said. ”This draft certainly reflected really well on this market and its ability to put on major events.”
—
Paxton Lynch inched closer to full-blown bust status Monday when he was demoted to third string after Chad Kelly's solid debut in the Denver Broncos' exhibition opener.
"Chad's played well. He played well in the scrimmage. He played well Saturday night. So he deserves the chance to be the 2 right now Tyrone Crawford Jersey ," coach Vance Joseph said.
Lynch was disappointed, Joseph said, "but he understands that it's a performance business."
"He has great potential, physical potential. But it's got to equal performance eventually," Joseph said. "He understands that. It's a performance league. And everything we do, it's graded and it's counted."
After a string of poor performances at training camp, Lynch was ineffective in seven series Saturday night against Minnesota, completing 6 of 11 passes for 24 yards and an interception to go with a sack.
Kelly, who missed his rookie season last year while recovering from wrist and knee injuries, completed 14 of 21 passes for 177 yards, two touchdowns and an interception in Denver's 42-28 loss to the Vikings.
Kelly celebrated his promotion by sticking around after practice Monday and throwing passes to tight end Jake Butt and receiver River Cracraft for more than 20 minutes.
Kelly thanked his teammates, saying they had just as much to do with his promotion.
"Those guys made the plays. They got me in the right protections and the guys with the ball in their hands made plays," Kelly said.
When Case Keenum signed this spring and Trevor Siemian was subsequently traded to the Vikings, Broncos general manager John Elway said the No. 2 QB job was up for grabs.
Lynch, however Justin Faulk Jersey , worked exclusively with the second-string offense until Monday, when they flip-flopped roles, leaving Lynch a sideline spectator during the two-minute drills, reflective of his new status as the team's third quarterback.
The switch at QB is as much a reward for Kelly's solid offseason as it is an indictment of Lynch, who hasn't made the strides Joseph and Elway expected of him in Year 3 鈥?especially without the pressure of having to vie for the starting job again.
"It's really more about what Chad's done, honestly 鈥?and Chad has played well, he's played with poise, he's played with confidence," Joseph said. "He moved the ball for us on Saturday night. And it's been that way since the spring. He had a great spring. He's had a great camp. So, it's his turn to be the 2. He's earned that right."
Lynch was beaten out by Siemian, a seventh-round draft pick, in each of the last two summers and now has fallen behind another seventh-rounder in Kelly, who was the final pick of the 2017 NFL draft.
Joseph noted that the competition isn't over, the depth chart remains fluid.
"And it rewards guys who are playing well," Joseph said. "It's only right. That's what we live by with our players: if you're playing well and you earn it Youth Justin Tucker Jersey , you push up and you get it. It's a fair league."
Kelly could stay ahead of Lynch on the depth chart and still not win the backup job, though, if the Broncos decide to go out and get an experienced free agent instead.
Asked if he'd have any reservations about going into the regular season with the inexperienced Kelly as his No. 2 QB, Joseph said, "Things change in this league all the time. But right now, he's our backup."
Joseph cautioned that "we've got to be patient with Chad."
"You want a guy who can go into a game and operate the offense and not beat his own football team, but also have the confidence to make some plays and lead our unit," Joseph said when pressed for what he needs to see from Kelly or Lynch to stick with one of them as Keenum's No. 2.
Kelly knows he'll have his doubters.
"You've just got to work hard. That's what it is," he said. "Even the best ones are still working hard. They don't know everything. And obviously me being in my second year, I don't know anything. So, I've got to work hard, I've got to watch more film than I ever have before. And when your time's called, you'd better be able to step up and go."
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