I think the NFL may open up a can of worms with this. They better be careful or it will become the shit show the MLB was.
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I think the NFL may open up a can of worms with this. They better be careful or it will become the shit show the MLB was.
What they are doing is giving the union ammunition for the next time the CBA needs to be negotiated.
The NFL has opened every can of worms the past 10 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilMog
I blame EliQuote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Nothing would surprise me from that garbage franchise or shit hole city, including the fact that their PK is missing tonight's game because he got hit in the head by a punt while not wearing his helmet during warmups and suffered a concussion.
The same city that had Eagles fans throwing battery laced snow balls at the Cowboys' players as they headed into the locker room. The city of battery love!
We're talking about a city where residents literally used dumpsters as pools.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/r...ool-craze.html
Dumpster pool fits in with the neighborhood.
It looks like the city is full of white trash. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
The disappearance of Tre Mason may have to do with him suffering from CTE.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/...cL&ocid=ASUDHP
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Originally Posted by MSN Sports
Joey Bosa done fucked up
Also the Chargers are assholes and the NFLPA is shit.
the Mannings were right
Joey Bosa is the asshole here. The guy is expecting all of his signing bonus money up front, like he deserves special treatment.
That's a wild mischaracterization of the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
The Chargers want 2 things: the right to a contract offset and a partial deferment of the signing bonus. These are things that, in the past, were usually not in rookie contracts, because rookie contracts are set in the CBA and there is no mystery to what money they get. The NFLPA has even recommended rookies don't sign contracts with those terms.
Bosa said he would agree to one of those two things, but not both.
I said Bosa fucked up because in spite of the fact that I think he is being reasonable here, the fact is the NFL teams as usual have the players over a barrel and the NFLPA won't do shit to help them.
The Browns made a trade with the Patriots. Do you need to see any details to have a good idea who got the better end of that one?
that shit is crazy, we need David Stern to come into the NFL
stop giving the Patriots free stuff
lol, enjoy that 32nd pick, dudes. Football reasons.
That's so Browns
That guy is gonna turn into the next Khalil Mack.
I will give them credit though, they dumped T-Rich and everyone thought that was epic dumb
But that was the Colts and their drunkard owner...don't trade anything to the Patriots because he would have turned into Jim Brown over there
Bosa is guaranteed the full $18.1 million by the end of March 2017; It has to do with the fiscal year numbers and having some of that expense rolled over to the following fiscal year. Wentz is getting some of his bonus money deferred until January of 2017. Bosa is also getting the biggest signing bonus of any rookie player in the past 2 drafts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
The other part is that Bosa wants a guarantee that he will recieve all of his money in the 4th season, should the Chargers find a need to cut his ass from the team during that final year of the contract. Bosa could get picked up by another team and pretty much double dip his salary for that 4th season. San Diego would take the hit on their salary cap, while Bosa could just wander on over to another team willing to open their wallet.
I hardly call receiving $18.1 million and a large rookie contract getting bent over a barrel by the NFL teams. The NFLPA is just as much blame for how this is turning out, since they are the ones that decided that rookies were making too much money when entering the league.
Like I said, he is fine with one of those conditions but not both. Just because Wentz (who might be retarded) agrees to it doesn't mean everyone has to.
NFLPA blows ass that's my point. Yes they agreed to the rookie scale but they are also failing to protect the rookies when teams start to impose conditions on how the players get the money they have no say in negotiating for. Like is there any point where you would not take management's side?
My point is that he is going to get an absurd amount of money for just being a great college football player. Even if he gets a career ending injury in his 3rd year, or turns out to be a bust, the guy is set for life with that kind of money.
Isn't he going to be stuck with a 5 year rookie salary anyways, if the Chargers have him stuck to a 5 year deal?
Oh shit, is Prescott's position as the starting QB beginning today?!
Romo running against Seattle in the preseason sounds about the dumbest possible thing in the NFL
I'm not sure it is an absurd amount of money. It's obviously below market rate, which is why the CPA doesn't allow rookies to negotiate. Yet even with the Chargers getting a deal for Bosa they still need to impose dumb conditions. And Bosa doesn't really have a choice if he wants to play football.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
According to the CBA, the 3rd pick should get @ $26.5 million with a 4 year contract. Bosa would get almost 2/3rds of that base salary just in bonus, with the remainder spread out over the 4 year contract. The Chargers could have gave him a signing bonus of $16 million with the additional $2 million being added to the 5th year option.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Bosa was getting offered what the CBA decided was the pay for the 3rd overall pick. I think that his agent is being petty about some of the bonus being deferred until March of 2017, because Bosa certainly doesn't need all of that cash on day one.
I think they were doing him a favor by offering him the 4 year deal, because come year 5 he can slam them for a huge contract earlier than the 5 year deal would have offered. They could screw him around with the franchise tag when that time comes though.
Again, Bosa was fine with the deferment. Just not the deferment and the offset.
Bosa was not complaining about the pay which he can't control (my point about it being below market value is about the fact the rookie pay scale is an obvious cut from before; hence below market value).
There is way too much discussion about an irrelevant franchise feuding with an over-drafted player in this thread.
Let's talk about how Zeke dropped 7 YPC on Seattle's first-team defense while Romo and Bryant weren't on the field to stretch it.
Elliot was shredding the Seahawks defense. He even made sure he sent Chancellor an extra hard blast of his shoulder as he plowed over him. The Beast Mode is now in Dallas!
Chancellor tried to play it off. :lol:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbssp...ing-style/amp/
any talk about preseason is too much talk about preseasonQuote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I thought Yoshi didn't even care about the NFL anymore ;p
It's waning for sure. This will be the first year in ~20 that I haven't played fantasy even.
Romo's out for at least the first half of the season with a broken back. Prescott has looked pretty good. Maybe this has a silver lining for Dallas.
So Kap refused to stand for the National Anthem, causing much outrage. I think he's trying to get cut so he can issue an apology and get signed by another team.
Edit:
"Kaepernick didn’t stand for the two previous preseason games, either, but nobody noticed."
Which I think says it all.
Romo should just call it a career after this. He's going to be a mess aready when he's older.
If Dak Prescott continues to tear it up on the field, Romo may end up like Montana when Young took over for him, sitting on the bench.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilMog
No one who understands football would say this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
The only silver lining for Dallas is the stuff doctors are going to use to weld Romo's vertebra back together.
Exactly. Sending out a rookie QB to outscore the other team in spite of zero pass rush sounds like a winning combination to no one with a clue.
Come on though. Who in their right mind didn't expect Romo to get injured and miss most of the season?
Is it possible that Denver's QB play will be worse than last year?
I was trying to be supportive, but I should expect Yoshi's Sports Center answers by now. I could have posted any of the 100 awesome memes going around, but I tried to be nice. Serves me right!
Seriously though, Romo isn't even bothering to wait until the season starts to get injured anymore, so maybe Dallas should start to think about the future. But hey, at least Romo will be standing for the national anthem!
I can't watch these worthless preseason games.
Romo with a broken back is also a better QB than Kaepernick ever will be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
Apparently the Titans are failures on and off the field.
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Originally Posted by Yoshi
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...52&oe=58530EC7
That's funny. That must be the only time a Packer ever touched him.
Seriously. Of all teams.
There was some kind of packing going on.
He thinks it moved.
Are you guys seriously doing a sack-by-team analysis of a fucking meme? Srs bsns indeed!
All I'm saying is you could have picked any other team and the meme would have been untouchable, instead you picked the one team that Kap ripped to shreds in his one moment of glory.
Yup. That god awful D probably cost Green Bay a Super Bowl shot or two.
NFL has been posting classic games on Youtube
I miss this team. I miss that broadcast team.
Also Romo might wear a back brace and isn't being ruled out for week 1 according to wonder coach.
Really? That is some stupid shit. Never fuck with back issues. Something I'm learning the older I get. Lifting shit for years by myself that requires two people is starting to catch up to me.
Romo is not going to be able to stand upright at 50.
Romo is not going to be able to stand upright at [insert current Romo age here].
He is ok now, but it will deteriorate very quickly. Probably on wheelchair by 42.
I didn't create the meme. Just substitute Nelson for any other white guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Error
Oh snap! SB XX is on YouTube! Pats got hammered, but it's awesome to see Tippet and Hannah in action. And Walter Payton was great. I haven't seen this game in 30 years.
And Craig James.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
I need to check it out.
One thing about this Kaepernick thing, it's shining a spotlight on all the idiots in the league.
http://deadspin.com/rodney-harrison-...ack-1785948642
Also Teddy Bridgewater, after a very limited preseason, just did something to his knee in practice. Without being touched.
Nothing says season ending like non contact injury.
Sucks about the Bridgewater injury. Supposedly it was rather gross. Good luck with those backups. Shaun Hill is way past anything tolerable and Joel Stave is a yo yo.
I know the human body does weird things sometimes, but a torn ACL and dislocated knee not from contact? Like from taking a step?
really makes you think
Humans weren't intended to run on astro turf in cleats.
I'm seeing Minnesota fans talking about how their new stadium was built on an Indian Burial ground and are blaming it on that.
Those people voted for Jesse Ventura and Al Franken. What do you expect?
Maybe it will implode at the end of the season, like in Poltergeist.
"I received very encouraging news last week from my oncologist team of doctors at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center that now enables me to completely focus on recovery rather than treatment," Mortensen said in a statement released by ESPN. "The Stage IV throat [oropharyngel] cancer that was diagnosed in early January and treated with intensive chemotherapy and radiation has been virtually reduced to zero detection of the disease through the latest scans and exams.
Come on, Mort, Kick its ass
:link:
Sounds plausibleQuote:
Originally Posted by Error
Weeden finally threw a touchdown pass to a Cowboys player. I guess he forgot that he's playing for the Houston Texans now.
The NFL needs to start fining these idiots. There is no freedom of speech guarantee from your employer. If the Cowboys couldn't wear stickers to honor the Dallas police, these bozos shouldn't be allowed to publicly demonstrate their lack of class, understanding, etc. Kaeperkick reads civics about as well as he reads defenses.
Maybe they don't care though? I mean, I don't really even believe standing is a show of respect, when you really think about it. 99% of these guys are thinking about the game during this time anyway.
I think it's a show of respect, I also get that these guys should do this if they want, but does the NFL want half the league sitting during the anthem? Not a good look for them especially considering how the NFL has thrived on faux-patriotism for decades. They need to nip it in the bud for business reasons.
I agree with that.
A quality of beer to match the quality of on-field product for the Rams. I hope they go 0-16 and somehow manage to forfeit their draft pick.
edit: I checked their schedule to make sure they didn't play the Eagles or Redskins. They don't, so 0-16 it officially is.
They play the Seahawks though.
I don't have anything against them. They build around a running game and defense like God intended and don't cheat like NE.
You're right they cheat like Seattle.
My point is that they won't go 0-16 because they play the Seahawks twice and will win at least one of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Oh, yeah that does seem to be the trend.
Do they water down their field to slow down younger, more athletic teams like the 49ers?Quote:
Originally Posted by Error
If they watered down the field then both teams had to contend with it.
Rams will beat Seattle and Arizona and lose to Texas A&M.
St. Louis was kryptonite for whatever the fuck reason. Moving it to Pete's old stomping ground should produce a more favorable result.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Oh the irony, since Anheuser Bush is from St. Louis. It's like a slap in the face for fans of the team from St. Louis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Sam Bradford is a Viking.
Wow. If he can't be successful with AP and a Mike Zimmer defense, he should be put out to pasture.
edit: WTF? They gave the Eagles a #1 and let them out of his salary?
I'll just leave this here for Yoshi.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...k-mark-sanchez
I have no issue with that whatsoever. There are about 20 quality QBs in the world. When you lose one, you can't replace him, so you might as well go bargain basement.
Dirty Sanches though?
So a long snapper got cut and he did an AMA about life in the NFL and such. It's pretty entertaining.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comment..._nfl_team_ama/
I see the Odell Beckham rule is already in effect in this game.
Broncos have been headhunting this whole game. Shitty.
go afc team
I'll admit, I did not know intentional grounding and a PF offset.