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stessier wrote:I loved Kevin Faulk's announcement of the Patriots' first pick.

Moliere wrote:Say goodbye to Gronk's career. He just get hit with the Madden curse.

RunningMn9 wrote:

Moliere wrote:Say goodbye to Gronk's career. He just get hit with the Madden curse.

That hasn't been a thing in a long time.

Moliere wrote:

RunningMn9 wrote:

Moliere wrote:Say goodbye to Gronk's career. He just get hit with the Madden curse.

That hasn't been a thing in a long time.

Being a Denver fan one can always hope.

Xmann wrote:

Moliere wrote:

RunningMn9 wrote:

Moliere wrote:Say goodbye to Gronk's career. He just get hit with the Madden curse.

That hasn't been a thing in a long time.

Being a Denver fan one can always hope.

Viva la Madden curse!!

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There was a time, as recent as a few years ago, when if you asked NFL owners or executives if the league would ever have a team move to Las Vegas, the answer you almost always got was: "No effing way."

As the months have passed since, and as the NFL's dance with Vegas continued, people began to tell me the odds were increasing, like a thermometer reading from the fall to the spring. The percentages of the chances rose from 0 to 10, then 10 to 20, then higher.

Then just recently, in a conversation with an NFL owner about the Raiders and Vegas, I heard something that clarified just how far this has come. This owner said the percentage of the Raiders moving to Vegas "is now 50 percent—and maybe as high as 75."
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I'm beginning to believe that—if this isn't a ploy by the Raiders to get more cash from Oakland—this Raiders-to-Vegas thing has a real chance of happening. I'm far from the only one who thinks that. The sentiment is clearly growing—and growing far faster than people know—throughout the upper hierarchy of the sport.

The owner said that as he's spoken to other owners, as well as key league officials, one thing continues to crystallize. Attitudes toward the NFL having a team in Las Vegas have dramatically softened. I've written that before, but what continues to surprise me is how dramatic that softening has been.

The owner said that just three or four years ago there was no chance an NFL team would relocate there. "Las Vegas," he said, "was considered poison."

"That's not the case any longer," he said. "One of the things owners see is there's a lot of money to be made there." He laughed. "A lot of money will ease those gambling concerns."

There was a story that you never cashed a game check—you saved all of your NFL salary money.
That’s false. I’m human. I’m very much human. If you pinch me, that hurts. I make mistakes, [but] I’ve also made some good decisions. But why would you wanna pocket-watch me?

What do you mean by that?
Your eyes is on my pockets—you wanna know about my money situation.

Everybody I’ve spoken to about you has referenced your financial savvy. What’s the source of that?
You ate cereal before?

I’ve eaten cereal.
Alright. Have you ever had a roach in your cereal before?

No.
You haven’t, right?

I have not.
If you came from eatin’ cereal with roaches in it before, Dawg . . . Feel what I’m sayin’? You wouldn’t want to do that again, right? Once you’ve seen the lowest of the low, you don’t want to go back. But, like I told you before, it’s not me—I have a good team and some smart family members around me.

Hypnotoad wrote:The Angels are the worst team in the AL? Check the Twins record and reconsider that. Sure, the Twins seem to be able to beat the Angels but they are a full seven wins behind them.

Tom Brady, the New England Patriots quarterback, is all but guaranteed to start the season on the sideline after a federal appeals court on Wednesday denied his request to review his four-game suspension for his role in a scheme to deflate footballs.

The decision, announced in a one-page notice by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, may also put an end to one of the most widely watched and embarrassing scandals in the history of the N.F.L.
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As a result, it is all but certain that the Patriots will be led by the little-tested backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo when they open their season on Sept. 11 against the Cardinals in Arizona. Brady will be able to attend training camp and play during the preseason, but he would have to remain away from the team and its training facility and stadium starting Sept. 3.

Enough wrote:Von has agreed to terms! Woot!

One of history’s most newsworthy sports legal controversies likely ended on Friday. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady announced on Facebook that he will not continue his federal appeal against the NFL over his four-game suspension. Put bluntly, Deflategate is likely dead.
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The decision is also surprising in that Brady had retained one of the best legal teams ever assembled, and his lawyers were surely ready to petition the Supreme Court. In particular, Brady’s hiring of former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson, who has argued numerous times before the Supreme Court, hinted at his desire to exhaust every option. There is no doubt Olson was ready to take the case to the Supreme Court. If he does so, it will only be on behalf of the NFLPA and not Brady.

RunningMn9 wrote:Having a team that's good at arguing in front of the Supreme Court is only useful if the USSC agrees to hear your case. That was *very* unlikely here. The terms of the negotiated CBA are clear, Goodell has the power to do what he did (whether or not he should have is a different question).

stessier wrote:The NFLPA is still going to appeal the case to the SCOTUS - as they should. Goodell's handling of the case failed to uphold the basic tenets of arbitration (just read the numerous, non-football related briefs filed in the 2nd circuit appeal). Brady only dropped out because if the appeal wasn't heard, he was more likely to miss playoff games because of the timing of the case.

RunningMn9 wrote:

stessier wrote:The NFLPA is still going to appeal the case to the SCOTUS - as they should. Goodell's handling of the case failed to uphold the basic tenets of arbitration (just read the numerous, non-football related briefs filed in the 2nd circuit appeal). Brady only dropped out because if the appeal wasn't heard, he was more likely to miss playoff games because of the timing of the case.

The NFLPA has no choice but to ask. The case won't be heard, for the same reasons that the full 2nd Circuit didn't re-hear it.

RunningMn9 wrote:Again, having a great Supreme Court litigators is great...if you get there to litigate. This isn't a complicated case.

Goodell exercised power that the NFLPA gave to Goodell during contract negotiations. They aren't implied powers. They were explicitly negotiated powers.

It would be shocking for the Supreme Court to waste their time with this.

ImLawBoy wrote:With Peanut Tillman retired, the question is does he deserve the HoF?

He was an unparalleled turnover machine, but he only had 2 Pro Bowls and 1 first team All-Pro season.

ImLawBoy wrote:With Peanut Tillman retired, the question is does he deserve the HoF?

He was an unparalleled turnover machine, but he only had 2 Pro Bowls and 1 first team All-Pro season.

Pyperkub wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:With Peanut Tillman retired, the question is does he deserve the HoF?

He was an unparalleled turnover machine, but he only had 2 Pro Bowls and 1 first team All-Pro season.

Not until Terrelle Davis gets in first.

ImLawBoy wrote:With Peanut Tillman retired, the question is does he deserve the HoF?

He was an unparalleled turnover machine, but he only had 2 Pro Bowls and 1 first team All-Pro season.

ImLawBoy wrote:

Pyperkub wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:With Peanut Tillman retired, the question is does he deserve the HoF?

He was an unparalleled turnover machine, but he only had 2 Pro Bowls and 1 first team All-Pro season.

Not until Terrelle Davis gets in first.

I'm not following. Why would a cornerback's induction need to be conditioned on a running back's?

stessier wrote:Dennis Green passed away at the age of 67. I didn't think he was that old. RIP.