NFL 2015

[WayAbvPar]

Colt McCoy will be starting by Halloween, either because Cousins shits the bed or because his garbage OL gets him killed. And RGIII is done in the NFL. Once word gets out that you are shit (ESPECIALLY as a QB), then you go away pretty quickly. See Tebow, Tim.

Also- Colt McCoy should have been the Dawson's name in Varsity Blues.

[Phildo]

I was just reading an article via Yahoo that talked about how he might be a good fit for the Chiefs, mentioning that Andy Reid has rehabilitated several similarly-profiled QBs in his career.  I could not find it just now, but I'll post it if it turns up later.

[Paelos]

Colt McCoy will be starting by Halloween, either because Cousins shits the bed or because his garbage OL gets him killed. And RGIII is done in the NFL. Once word gets out that you are shit (ESPECIALLY as a QB), then you go away pretty quickly. See Tebow, Tim.

Also- Colt McCoy should have been the Dawson's name in Varsity Blues.

It's not even that he's shit. It's that he's so completely unmanageable and won't listen or lead. He's got the attitude of the worst spoiled entitled millenial you can ever imagine, with the helicopter parents to back it up.

I wouldn't want him near my franchise. He's the very definition of clubhouse cancer. Honestly, Vick was the exact same way until he went to prison, and he later admitted how much of a shithead he was. Except Mike was WAY more talented. Way more.

[HaemishM]

At least Vick could make a read once in a blue moon. RGIII seems to not even have that much capability.

[Tannhauser]

RGIII was good his first season.  But he relied on his athletic ability instead of studying the playbook and watching film so when he went down there went 90% of his ability.

[Cyrrex]

I can't even bring myself to feel bad for the guy.  He seems like a total douche with a serious lack of self-awareness. 

That said, I think he will get a chance somewhere else, if for no other reason than the fact that he has spent his short career in Washington.  Not exactly the place where careers are made to blossom.

[Chimpy]

Basically, has anyone who ever starred in a Subway ad not been an unmitigated ass?

[Nevermore]

Michael Strahan?

[sickrubik]

He does daytime TV now.

*micdrop*

He does have his issues. But who doesn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Strahan#Personal_life

[Ruvaldt]

I hear he gave his endorsement money to his grandmother to get her house out of foreclosure.  Can't be too bad.

[Shannow]

Brady's ban got nullified in federal court. Sure to drive Patriot haters crazy but if you've been following the story even a little bit not surprising.

The NFL under Roger Goodell is a CLUSTERFUCK (well outside of the whole making trillions of dollars). He makes Gary Bettman look smart.

[sickrubik]

Loved picking up Tommy late late late in one of the F13 drafts. 

[WayAbvPar]

The Lannisters win again.

[Sir T]

Yeah I read the deadspin report and it looks like the judge ruled 100% correctly that the NFL screwed this the hell up, and it makes no difference if muscles is 100% guilty (he is).

http://deadspin.com/judge-overturns-tom-bradys-suspension-1728456783

[sickrubik]

MUSCLES? REALLY?

[Sir T]

I'm in a snarky mood today. 

[Bunk]

I'm ok with them voiding the suspension, because it was voided due to the NFL using a fly by the seat of their pants disciplinary system. Basically, the ruling told them to get their heads out of their asses and make an actual list of rules and penalties - not just rely on anything they don't like being "detrimental to the game". From that article, one of the sticking points was that the actual rule book that covers the issue in deflatgate was actually available to the players? That basically they were relying on the fact that Brady should have known better as being good enough.

That said, Brady is totally guilty.

[sickrubik]

Time to guess the quote!

Congratulations to Tom Brady on yet another great victory- Tom is my friend and a total winner!

[HaemishM]

So Brady and the Pats skate once again because Goodell can't be assed to come with anything better than "because I said so" as a disciplinary policy. He is such a fuckup. We can look forward to more of the same, smug old shit from Brady, Belichek and Robert Fucking Craft.

[01101010]

So Brady and the Pats skate once again because Goodell can't be assed to come with anything better than "because I said so" as a disciplinary policy. He is such a fuckup. We can look forward to more of the same, smug old shit from Brady, Belichek and Robert Fucking Craft.

Well it has been working for them, so why the hell would they change the way things are done?

[WayAbvPar]

The facst that the courts keep overturning them and that basically everyone outside of Goodell's immediate family thinks he is a dolt would indicate that the current method is NOT working for them.

The NFL needs to sit down with the NFLPA and craft a better disciplinary policy with discrete steps/escalations/penalties. They can't wait until 2021 or whenever the current CBA ends. They need to amend it now.

They also need to drag the Ginger Hammer out back and put a couple in the back of his head, but I think that is probably in motion at this point.

[Shannow]

They also need to drag the Ginger Hammer out back and put a couple in the back of his head, but I think that is probably in motion at this point.

Its somewhat amazing that they haven't already. I think that the NFL suffers from a huge case of institutional arrogance though.

[HaemishM]

I think that the NFL suffers from a huge case of institutional arrogance though.

In other news, water is wet. 

They are making BILLIONS being complete asshats. Of course they don't see the iceberg coming - hell, it may never come. Until it does.

[Stewie]

As a diehard Dolphins fans, I say great! They wont have any excuses when we beat them and take the division this year.

*please let this be the year that our suffering ends....

[Shannow]

I think that the NFL suffers from a huge case of institutional arrogance though.

In other news, water is wet. 

They are making BILLIONS being complete asshats. Of course they don't see the iceberg coming - hell, it may never come. Until it does.

Yeah fairly obvious, but their case was so bad and so absolutely poorly run it makes me wonder if they bought into the whole anti-Patriots thing. ('well everyone hates the Pats right?' so we'll just say and do whatever the fuck we want and everyone will go along with it, even federal judges!)

And at least the Pats haters get to know that they lost a 1st round draft pick (which is really the only indication of guilt left).

Roger Goodell has decided to skip opening night, I think the first time he ever has. O.M.G. you are a coward as well as being incompetent? So awesome.

[sickrubik]

RG3 now third string.

Oh and the Eagles cut Tebow. 

[HaemishM]

Two of the least surprising headlines in football. 

[WayAbvPar]

I don't understand- why didn't Jesus help them? They both had given me the impression that he was most interested in helping them along with their sporting endeavors.

[HaemishM]

Jesus hates the spread offense. 

[Trippy]

He played pretty well, though, in his last game. He might get a chance somewhere else.

[Sir T]

So. Spygate seems to be back.

I want to hug and kiss this beautiful story from ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr (http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13533995/split-nfl-new-england-patriots-apart). and Seth Wickersham and take it out to a fancy dinner. Splendidly reported and brutally damning of both the New England Patriots and Roger Goodell, it alleges that the Patriots’ Spygate scandal was worse than anyone imagined—and was actively swept under the rug by the commissioner and the NFL.

You should read the story immediately (http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13533995/split-nfl-new-england-patriots-apart), but the thrust is this—citing interviews with 90 sources in and around football as well as primary documents, ESPN reports that Bill Belichick and the Patriots videotaped opposing teams’ signals from 40 different games from 2000 through 2007. And when the scandal broke, Goodell did everything in his power to protect Robert Kraft, who was one of his strongest supporters and without whom he would not have been named commissioner. The thesis statement in this story is that the cover-up—and if this report is accurate, the league’s actions can’t be called anything else but a cover-up—so rankled other owners that Goodell came down extra-hard on New England and Tom Brady for Ballghazi as “a makeup call.”

The Patriots’ defense for Spygate—when they were caught taping Jets coaches’ signals—has always been that it was an honest mistake, that they had misinterpreted the rules. Their track record implies otherwise. Belichick reportedly placed his complex spying program in the hands of Ernie Adams, the Patriots’ mysterious “director of football research.” It began way back in 2000, Belichick’s first year as New England coach, and only became more efficient as time went on.

.....

Former Patriots coaches and employees say the videotaping was just the tip of the iceberg.

    Several of them acknowledge that during pregame warm-ups, a low-level Patriots employee would sneak into the visiting locker room and steal the play sheet, listing the first 20 or so scripted calls for the opposing team’s offense. (The practice became so notorious that some coaches put out fake play sheets for the Patriots to swipe.) Numerous former employees say the Patriots would have someone rummage through the visiting team hotel for playbooks or scouting reports. Walsh later told investigators that he was once instructed to remove the labels and erase tapes of a Patriots practice because the team had illegally used a player on injured reserve. At Gillette Stadium, the scrambling and jamming of the opponents’ coach-to-quarterback radio line — “small s—-” that many teams do, according to a former Pats assistant coach — occurred so often that one team asked a league official to sit in the coaches’ box during the game and wait for it to happen. Sure enough, on a key third down, the headset went out.

[Rasix]

Awesome.  More Patriots drama. 

Excuse me for a moment..

[sickrubik]

[Rasix]

From the gift that keeps on giving:

Russell Wilson should get down on his hands and knees and give thanks every day that Washington didn’t draft him. Because if Washington drafts him, he is RG3. He is injured and exposed and out of football within five years. It’s dumb luck that he landed with a team that could find a way to work around his transparent phoniness and pathetic need to be America’s Choirboy.

As it stands now, Russell Wilson is a great player, but also a soulless, inane, dumbshit goody-goody who has all the emotional accessibility of a replicant. He is Darren Rovell in pads. He is football A-Rod. He is a latter-day Will Smith: the one that makes shitty movies and is a poorly-closeted Scientologist. I can’t even imagine how many of his teammates make a wanking gesture any time this guy walks into the locker room and is like IT’S A GREAT DAY TO BE SPECIAL, YOU GUYS!

    Wilson is wearing a T-shirt and shorts with a Gatorade towel draped from his waist when he grabs a cup of purple liquid and downs it in a single gulp. He locks me in his gaze and smiles.

    “Isn’t Gatorade the best? Just the best.”

This one is killing me.  It's fantastic from start to finish.

[Trippy]

Russell Wilson dresses like a 60 year old man, has the sex life of a 60 year old man, and makes the Pope seem agnostic.