NFL Discussion Thread: Pats win SB XLIX. Offseason begins

[toast1985]

These cats know how to **** up their money, smh.

 

[100027]

 

*salute* to Jerry Richardson for helping out the Charleston victims families. From what I've heard, he's a stand-up dude w/ a good heart. Not like some of those other slimeball owners in that league.

Respect. 

Richardson does seem like a stand-up guy.

Junior 

More suffering for the Saints franchise 

 

[dmxfury]

*salute* to Jerry Richardson for helping out the Charleston victims families. From what I've heard, he's a stand-up dude w/ a good heart. Not like some of those other slimeball owners in that league.

Respect. 

Need some names...

 

[licensed to ball]

Craft. *
Rooney.

 

[keel252]

Absoultely amazes me how dumb this dudes are.

 

[nick.]

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[TipsyMcStagga]

Love the gesture by Richardson. Things have been crazy here in Charleston. I'll be officially rooting for the Panthers against anyone other than my Vikes...

 

[mister friendly]

He'll probably get in more trouble with the NFL than the legal system

It's been 2 years...statue of limitations

 

[nick.]

Celebrity Family Feud with Gronk airs tonight

 

[dmxfury]

He'll probably get in more trouble with the NFL than the legal system

It's been 2 years...statue of limitations

Does that exist with the NFL?

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Great article on ESPN's "Playmakers" on why it got canned and how it predicted the future

http://www.thesportsfanjournal.com/...an/the-lost-tapes-season-2-of-gamechangers/2/

 

[macbk]

Who else is starting up Ballers tonight?

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Playmakers was too real

 

[DeadsetAce]

Who else is starting up Ballers tonight?

Playmakers was too real

this. so real it got pulled

 

[nick.]

don't have HBO

hopefully Popcorn Time uploads it soon

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Who else is starting up Ballers tonight?

u already 

 

[stillin729]

I didn't realize Ballers was only 30 minutes

 

[DeadsetAce]

cam got jokes

 

[elpablo21]

Ballers was solid. 

 Jacksonville getting asterisk'd on 

As I mentioned in the General thread when I seen the Dolphins, Bills, and Packers in it I almost thought the NFL had a hand in the show then read they can use their likeness without NFL consent. 

I wonder how far HBO will go with the storylines knowing they can do that 

 

 

[DeadsetAce]

Ted Wells to attend Tom Brady hearing
By Chris Mortensen
ESPN

Attorney Ted Wells, whose investigative findings into the deflation of New England Patriots footballs led to severe penalties handed down by the NFL, will be present during Tom Brady's appeal hearing Tuesday in New York, according to league and union sources.

Brady is appealing a four-game suspension stemming from Wells' 243-page report, which found that the star quarterback was "at least generally aware" of a scheme to illegally deflate footballs for the AFC Championship Game.


Brady will be represented by the NFL Players Association and its outside counsel, Jeffrey Kessler, during the appeal process.

Wells will be available to answer questions from both Brady's side and commissioner Roger Goodell, who will hear the appeal and ultimately decide whether the suspension will stand, be reduced or vacated, sources said told ESPN.

Thursday has also been set aside for the hearing to continue, if necessary.

Wells' attendance at the hearing was reported earlier Monday by NFL Network.

Brady was suspended for the first four games of the 2015 season, and the Patriots were fined $1 million and stripped of two picks -- a first-rounder in the 2016 draft and a fourth-rounder in the 2017 draft. Patriots owner Robert Kraft said last month that he will not appeal those penalties.

In a four-page letter sent to the NFL on May 14 by NFL Players Association general counsel Tom DePaso, key points of Brady's appeal were detailed.

Brady's counsel will contend that Goodell violated the collective bargaining agreement by delegating authority to executive vice president Troy Vincent to hand down Brady's punishment.

Brady's counsel also plans to argue that the penalties for Brady are "grossly inconsistent" with the league's past discipline of similar alleged conduct.

In addition, Brady's counsel will detail how the Wells report "grasps at dubious, contradictory and mischaracterized circumstantial evidence." Because of this, it will be argued that the report is a "legally inadequate basis upon which to impose unprecedented discipline."

ESPN.com Patriots reporter Mike Reiss contributed to this report.

 

[Chester McFloppy]

Teddy Wells the real MVP.

 

[jpzx]

Pro Football Talk @ProFootballTalk 1m
Terrelle Pryor was claimed on waivers by the Browns per source

[MGK] I'm so Cleveland it's a god damn shame. [/MGK]

 

[stillin729]

[MGK] I'm so Cleveland it's a god damn shame. [/MGK]

L's all around

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[Hahahaha]

They should give Pryor a shot at QB....



Who has that article about Seattle not believing in Russell and supposedly willing to let him walk after next year?

 

[elpablo21]

They were students at Southwestern Oklahoma State. Rob wanted to take a lady on a date and needed Rex to be his wingman. Rex wasn’t down for the mission because he’d already met Micki, the woman he would marry.

Rob: “I was a solo rider and had a babe on the line. But she had a friend. I said, ‘You know, come on. Be a team player.’ ”

Rex: “I said, ‘Dude, I’m staying at home today.’ ”

Rob: “So after a few hundred beers I said, ‘You need to help out.’ He didn’t, so I was pissed and got in a wrestling match with him. I think he was a lot more sober than I was.”

Rex: “I was bigger and was just going to throw his *** down. But he reversed me and got on top. So we went at it. We ended up outside, and here he comes.”

Rob: “I ran after him, and he had a right hand waiting for me. I never saw it coming. Still haven’t seen it.”

Rex: “I got him good, and it was over. I felt terrible. I couldn’t believe I hit my brother like that.”

Rex was furious and, as keeper of the car key, drove off to clear his head. Tatters of a bloody shirt hung off him.

“I get pulled over by a cop. He sees me and doesn’t know what he’s got,” Rex said with a gleaming-white smile. “I said, ‘I just got in a fight with my brother. You can take me back there, and he’ll explain it.’

“They take me to jail and then called my brother. He said, ‘Nah, leave him in there.’ ”

Rob’s ankle was broken during the wrestling portion of the match, and his nose broken during the boxing portion. When they arrived in New Orleans for Super Bowl week, Rob’s ankle was in a cast. “We both had black eyes,” Rob said. Buddy wasn’t amused.