[BIRD33]

Players GET PAID to put people out of the game.They get rewarded for it with new contracts.This is nothing that hasnt gone on since the game was invented.The moral outrage is laughable.Oh people are getting hurt playing football you say?Someone got $50 from every player on the defense for the "hit of the week"!My god this must be stopped but make sure that linebackers 12 million dollar contract gets paid on time.Lying to the commish is bad but these hits happen every game by every team.A year suspension is a joke when you consider the Pat's did something no other team was doing to win football games.


If I was shockey I'd sue the fuck out of Sapp.I'm pretty sure no team is going to want him now and I'm also pretty sure Warren Sapp is no investigative reporter and probably can't get people to back him up on the record.Loss wages, yo.Also Amani Toomer peed on his ex wifes clothes.

[Anhil8tor]

I argued this point at work yesterday. I don't feel like all defensive players try to hurt the offense players. There is not always intent.. but sometimes its inevitable. The main issue is they were told to stop and they didn't... thats why they got the hammer.

[BIRD33]

Watch an eagles game and see how Vick gets hit and tell me they arent trying to put him out of the game every play.And he's a popular guy in the NFL for other players.If you go for a guys knees and get paid for it you should be suspended but this was hard hits bonuses that have been going on forever.This was all Goodell trying to play fair on both sides.He looked like he had a hard on for players(Harrison) especially after he didnt do shit to the Pats for cheating so now he's trying to balance the ledger.

[snarg]

nice work, goat, hard to believe tweety swallowed the whole hook

[Anhil8tor]

Those who think the NFL was excessive in its punishments in the Saints’ bounty scandal often say that the Saints are being made scapegoats for practices that are commonplace in football. But the league office doesn’t see it that way.

In fact, league counsel Jeff Pash told Peter King of SI.com that the NFL has no evidence of other teams violating the rules against bounties.

“If we found evidence of the same clarity that we found in the New Orleans case, we would take action,” Pash said. “We have looked into some allegations. But as you know, allegations and accusations are not proof.”

Technically, the Saints aren’t the first team to violate the bounty rules: The 2007 Packers were found to be violating the rules when some players gave $500 to defensive linemen after holding Adrian Peterson under 100 yards in a win over the Vikings. But what makes the Saints’ case exceptional isn’t the mere existence of a technical violation of the pay-for-performance rules. What makes the Saints’ case exceptional is that the team flagrantly violated the rules for years, that there were specific opponents targeted for “knockouts” and “cart-offs,” and that when the league office approached the Saints, not only did team officials not put a stop to it, but they lied to league investigators and kept the bounties going.

It’s possible that some of those other allegations the NFL has looked into had some merit. But it’s hard to believe that any team had a bounty program that went as far as what Gregg Williams had with the Saints. And after seeing how hard the NFL came down on Williams and Sean Payton for lying, it’s even harder to believe that any other coach will lie to league investigators if the NFL continues looking at evidence of other bounty violations.

[BIRD33]

I hope Parcells takes over just for the comedy factor.I think I read he hasnt won 10 games in a season in 15 years.

[Anhil8tor]

Parcells may be living on the past more than anyone.... He hasn't won a playoff game since 1998 and a championship since 1990..... he is 3 games above .500 in the playoffs and thats with his 6-0 runs during his super bowl years.

[BIRD33]

McNabb is the most unlikable thin skinned athlete of our(not snarg, his was Ty Cobb) generation.


http://deadspin.com/5897541/impartial-ob...riffin-iii


"A lot of the time ego gets too involved with when you're playing in Washington. Here's a guy who's coming out who's very talented, mobile, strong arm, we've already heard he's a very intelligent football mind. Are you going to cater the offense around his talent and what he's able to do or are you going to bring the Houston offense with Matt Schaub over to him and have him be embedded in that whole thing."


Yea thats why you failed in Washington.Totally.

[BIRD33]

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/...ctd-2.html


My cultural capital here: Chicago Bears season-ticket holder, and someone who writes about sports for various publications (and teaches sports lit). My prediction: football as we know it will be done within 15 years.

As evidence emerges, and it is constantly emerging, that CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) does not just occur at the game’s highest (and most brutal) levels, the NFL and NCAA, lawsuits will continue. The science is there, and it will come out in court; not just whether the NFL or NCAA lied to their players or hid the risks, but the pure fact of the risks.

This will lead insurance companies to refuse to provide liability coverage for football leagues and players, since they know they will have to pay out too much. And as soon as school districts are unable to get liability insurance, they will be forced to drop scholastic football, even if parents would allow their sons to continue to play. Without the flow of grade school players to high schools to college, the NFL withers and dies.

I predict that it will be transformed into something like flag football, with an emphasis on the passing game, speed, and hands-skills. But the day and age of gigantic defensive players obliterating receivers, quarterbacks and running backs is soon to be over. And I’m OK with that.

[WoolyGoat]

nice work, goat, hard to believe tweety swallowed the whole hook

is he gay if he swallows?

[BIRD33]

Looks like Sapp was wrong.If he didnt declare bankruptcy last week I'd say Shockey is looking at a nice pay day for liable from Sapp.




Based on my sources, and I believe they're very good, it's former defensive quality control coach Mike Cerullo," Donnes finally announced.

Donnes covers the team and wrote a book about them titled, ‘Patron Saints.' He claimed Cerullo became disgruntled, was let go after the Saints 2009 Super Bowl run and has had trouble getting work every since.

"He believed that it was Gregg Williams and Sean Payton and others in that organization, blocking him from getting other work," Donnes explained to a national audience. "To the best of my sources I have and everybody has, we all have that name. The Saints, we believe, have not been told to confirm anything and they probably wouldn't. But it's Mike Cerullo and he is an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut."



http://www.fox8live.com/story/17379581/local-filmmaker

[WoolyGoat]

Wow so they're jerks too! I totally put an asterisk next to their title.

[BIRD33]

How to sabotage a players draft stock in one easy step.




Brian Billick: Ryan Tannehill reminds of highly rated QB JaMarcus Russell



"This has a classic miss on it," Billick said on "Mike & Mike" this morning. "And it has nothing to do with Ryan Tannehill. He is an intriguing prospect. He has great potential. He reminds me -- and I don't mean to put this in a negative connotation -- a little of JaMarcus Russell, in terms of obviously [he has] tremendous physical skills and could blossom into something. But in terms of the amount of time he's played and the numbers are very similar. The way he's rushed up the charts concerns me a great deal. Need is a terrible evaluator."


http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on...us-russell

[BIRD33]

You stay classy, New England.

Rob Gronkowksi: 'I'd eff Tim Tebow to take his virginity' in murder/marry


http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on...urdermarry

[WoolyGoat]

I refuse to believe you didn't laugh when you heard that.

[Anhil8tor]

I'd much rather kate upton take his virginity.

[BIRD33]

I refuse to believe you didn't laugh when you heard that.

Maybe thats a hilarious witty joke up in Boston but I'm a little more high brow than "eff him to take his virginity".

[WoolyGoat]

you're not high brow anything

[BIRD33]

I'd much rather kate upton take his virginity.

This guy!He likes sex!

[BIRD33]

you're not high brow anything

Please.I'm wearing a collared shirt today.I told this one while putting out on 17 the other day.

My genitals are so mammoth in size, that if inches were words, my member could fill every page of one of Ayn Rand's epic Objectivist tomes!