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Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 2:54 pm
by brian

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 2:55 pm
by Johnnie
Marshawn to come out of retirement and play for the Raiders. Trade pending, according to my push notifications.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:03 am
by Johnny Carwash
And there you go:


Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:25 am
by L-Jam3
There goes Brady, playing the "my mom is battling cancer" excuse again, just like the guy who won Survivor last season.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:04 am
by Johnnie
It would be even more cynical if Giselle told him to do that to protect his brand too.

In other Pats news, they extended White 3 years, offered Gillislee from Buffalo a contract on a 5th round tender that Buffalo doesn't look to be matching, Butler signed his tender which may enable a trade, they re-signed Lengel, and released Tre Jackson.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:52 am
by sancarlos
Johnnie wrote:It would be even more cynical if Giselle told him to do that to protect his brand too.

In other Pats news, they extended White 3 years, offered Gillislee from Buffalo a contract on a 5th round tender that Buffalo doesn't look to be matching, Butler signed his tender which may enable a trade, they re-signed Lengel, and released Tre Jackson.
And will release LeGarrette (Smokina) Blount, if Buffalo doesn't match on Gillislee.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:25 pm
by Johnnie
Haaaaaa.


Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:33 pm
by Pruitt
No Spicey, that was not cool.

Fuck Gronk for playing nice with moron Goebbels.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:43 pm
by brian
Pruitt wrote:No Spicey, that was not cool.

Fuck Gronk for playing nice with moron Goebbels.
Weirdly, that's still an insult to Goebbels., which is still kind of gross to think about.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 1:55 pm
by Pruitt
brian wrote:
Pruitt wrote:No Spicey, that was not cool.

Fuck Gronk for playing nice with moron Goebbels.
Weirdly, that's still an insult to Goebbels., which is still kind of gross to think about.
Yeah - to me, it's beyond fun and games and "look at me goofing at the White House." I HATED W and his administration, but I could certainly understand celebrities' excitement at being invited to the White House for a ceremony.

But these guys are just so far beyond the pale that in my mind, playing nice with them taints a person beyond all scrubbing.

(And by "these guys," I meant Trump and his lackeys. Don;t want to piss off any Pats fans here.)

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 1:58 pm
by Ryan
I mean, he did interrupt the guy and ask if he, a known bumbling idiot, needed any help doing his job. I don't know anything about Gronk's politics or that he can even think that far ahead but if someone like Letterman did the same exact thing, we'd go "Ha, good one!"

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:00 pm
by L-Jam3
brian wrote:
Pruitt wrote:No Spicey, that was not cool.

Fuck Gronk for playing nice with moron Goebbels.
Weirdly, that's still an insult to Goebbels., which is still kind of gross to think about.
Yeah, because Goebbels was actually good at his job.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:12 pm
by brian
Ryan wrote:I mean, he did interrupt the guy and ask if he, a known bumbling idiot, needed any help doing his job. I don't know anything about Gronk's politics or that he can even think that far ahead but if someone like Letterman did the same exact thing, we'd go "Ha, good one!"
I think it's easy to envision a scenario where Gronk was tooling on Spicer (and legitimately meant it.)

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:17 pm
by Pruitt
brian wrote:
Ryan wrote:I mean, he did interrupt the guy and ask if he, a known bumbling idiot, needed any help doing his job. I don't know anything about Gronk's politics or that he can even think that far ahead but if someone like Letterman did the same exact thing, we'd go "Ha, good one!"
I think it's easy to envision a scenario where Gronk was tooling on Spicer (and legitimately meant it.)
Oh...

I hate Spicer so much that in my knee jerk anger, I never thought of that.

If he puts bunny ears behind trump, than I'm back on board.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 3:12 pm
by Brontoburglar
Johnnie wrote:Haaaaaa.

Why is the White House talking in first-person singular?

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:24 pm
by Pruitt
Same reason the White House is using unnecessary commas.

Staffed by fucking morons.

Image

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:45 pm
by mister d
"It is White House, policy to only identify, the men in photographs."

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:18 am
by Gunpowder
To be fair, who knows which one this could have been for Belichick.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:58 am
by brian

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:21 am
by Pruitt
Pretty depressing read.

I was just thinking the other day during a discussion about the high rate of ALS among former NFL players, that the game is barbaric the league is an example of so much that is wrong with capitalism, and practically everything about the NFL smacks of high-grade hypocrisy.

Yet I still consume the product.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:32 am
by DaveInSeattle
Pruitt wrote:
Yet I still consume the product.
I am very actively considering giving up the NFL. I feel kind of "icky" reading all the stories about how beat up/concussed/ALS/CTE the players are afterwards. I also hate how its become a year-round thing.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:05 pm
by mister d
Join the club. You don't miss it and get to be a pretentious dick to your friends who still do follow.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:09 pm
by DaveInSeattle
mister d wrote:Join the club. You don't miss it and get to be a pretentious dick to your friends who still do follow.
Giving up College football will be much more difficult then dumping the NFL.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:52 am
by sancarlos
I read an interesting story on Deadspin. It seems that a player who is expected to go in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft has been accused of sexual assault. But, the police are dragging their feet on getting the report filed. It appears they are possibly doing so in an effort to shield the player's identity until after the draft. Hmm???

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:55 am
by A_B
sancarlos wrote:I read an interesting story on Deadspin. It seems that a player who is expected to go in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft has been accused of sexual assault. But, the police are dragging their feet on getting the report filed. It appears they are possibly doing so in an effort to shield the player's identity until after the draft. Hmm???

I don't believe anything Carl Monday reports. He's one of the local ambush TV reporters.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:59 am
by sancarlos
A_B wrote:
sancarlos wrote:I read an interesting story on Deadspin. It seems that a player who is expected to go in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft has been accused of sexual assault. But, the police are dragging their feet on getting the report filed. It appears they are possibly doing so in an effort to shield the player's identity until after the draft. Hmm???
I don't believe anything Carl Monday reports. He's one of the local ambush TV reporters.
I didn't notice it was him! He did clean up that nasty library masturbation problem though, didn't he?

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:03 pm
by rass
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Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:03 pm
by blundercrush
DaveInSeattle wrote:
mister d wrote:Join the club. You don't miss it and get to be a pretentious dick to your friends who still do follow.
Giving up College football will be much more difficult then dumping the NFL.
I watch the Seahawks with friends occasionally and technically play fantasy football with them (filthy casual league is a minor understatement), but otherwise am pretty checked out of the whole thing. giving up college football is basically impossible for me. Go Huskies.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:05 pm
by govmentchedda
mister d wrote:Join the club. You don't miss it and get to be a pretentious dick to your friends who still do follow.
Seconded.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:07 pm
by Johnnie
There's also the Jabrill Peppers "failed piss test" nonsense going on. He's basically ultra hydrated to the point that be pissed a sample that cannot be properly tested. It's diluted. But because it isn't a passing test, it's talked as though it's a failure. So now his draft stock is tumbling.

Also, this went down today:


Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:03 pm
by Pruitt
A_B wrote:
sancarlos wrote:I read an interesting story on Deadspin. It seems that a player who is expected to go in the first round of Thursday’s NFL draft has been accused of sexual assault. But, the police are dragging their feet on getting the report filed. It appears they are possibly doing so in an effort to shield the player's identity until after the draft. Hmm???

I don't believe anything Carl Monday reports. He's one of the local ambush TV reporters.
Okay, I just read the updated story with the police report quoted.

I am never one to downplay a woman's claims of sexual assault, and yes, this fits that criteria.

But...
According to the report, the accuser says she met Conley in an elevator and he asked her to have a foursome with another friend of his. The woman says she declined and offered to watch the other people have sex instead.

A short time later, the woman says Conley unbuttoned her pants and began to have sex with her. She claims she said, “No, stop, it hurts!” but he kept going until he finished. She says he then kicked her out of the hotel room.

The woman called 911 and described her assailant as a “black male who wouldn’t take his sunglasses off and had an Ohio State tattoo on his left forearm.”

The woman says she went to a local hospital where a rape kit was administered. But she refused to speak to cops afterward.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:53 pm
by phxgators
Johnnie wrote:There's also the Jabrill Peppers "failed piss test" nonsense going on. He's basically ultra hydrated to the point that be pissed a sample that cannot be properly tested. It's diluted. But because it isn't a passing test, it's talked as though it's a failure. So now his draft stock is tumbling./
I also recently did not pass a piss test for new job, due to a diluted sample. I did pass the second test, however I too am expecting my NFL draft stock to plummet as a result.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:08 pm
by Rush2112
A piss test in Colorado? Wow.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:23 pm
by A_B
Rush2112 wrote:A piss test in Colorado? Wow.

He didn't say it was to determine if he had or hadn't been torching up. And I assume I'm dating myself with "torching up".

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:30 pm
by Rush2112
It's all wax, vapes, and ball bearings these days.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:59 am
by phxgators
Rush2112 wrote:A piss test in Colorado? Wow.
Defense companies... not exactly your most progressive of businesses

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:57 am
by Pruitt
House Cleaning in Orchard Park

GM Doug Whaley, entire scouting staff canned.

I;'d say that I heartily endorse this move, but why on earth was it done AFTER the draft and not before?

So Buffalo...

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 12:55 pm
by DSafetyGuy
Pruitt wrote:House Cleaning in Orchard Park

GM Doug Whaley, entire scouting staff canned.

I;'d say that I heartily endorse this move, but why on earth was it done AFTER the draft and not before?

So Buffalo...
To not reveal their draft board to the other teams who hire those guys. Scouts are usually let go right after the draft for this reason, the GM is the odd part.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:07 pm
by Pruitt
That makes sense.

The rebuilding continues in Buffalo - 18 years and counting.

Re: 2017 NFL Offseason

Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 10:12 am
by sancarlos
I'm pleased that the Broncos signed Jamaal Charles. I know he is very injury prone, but it's a one-year deal at an affordable price. The guy is a beast if he is healthy, and he'll be a good influence on the younger Denver backs.