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2019 Mock Draft by Chris Scott

By Chris Scott It’s the most wonderful time of the year, NFL Christmas. On Thursday night (or Friday morning if you’re in the Europe) fans of every NFL team will eagerly watch to see what will be waiting under the tree this year…will you get what you want? Will it be a surprise? Will it be a disappointment? We find out when Commissioner Goodell steps to the podium. Poorly thought out analogies aside, draft day in the NFL is special. It’s a look into the future of the league. Some of the names read out in Nashville will be in the Hall of Fame one day, others will be forgotten in a few years. It will be long time before we can say for sure who won or lost the draft and it’s impossible to know what any of the 32 teams are thinking right now…but why should that stop us from trying to guess. Ladies and gentlemen, I present my one and only Mock Draft of 2019. That’s right Mel Kiper Jr…one. Not 365. One. I’m under no illusion that 75% plus of this will be completely wrong but it’s j

A look at the New Jets Uniforms by Chris Scott

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Thursday night I waited up and watched the New York Jets new uniform and logo unveiling. The show started at 0:30 our time and, after a full 30 minutes of bad stand up by J.B. Smoove, a musical performance by Max (no, me neither) and speeches in which a team who play in New Jersey tried to tell us the incapsulate everything it is to be from New York, the Jets new look was finally revealed…again…because we’d all already seen it after it was leaked on twitter the day before. So, let’s take a look at this new “identity”, as Nike like to call it, piece by piece. LOGO That took 5 years. Look, it’s not that I don’t like the logo, It’s just hard to get excited when the only real change is the word ‘New York’ replacing the letters ‘NY’. It’s ok I guess, it could have been much, much worse. HELMET This is my favourite part of the new look. I like the way they’ve managed to combine the two classic Jets look. The green shell with black face mask and wh