NFL - NEWS & NOTES

Seattle Seahawks dump the Arizona Cardinals, 22-16.

Did Walsh miss any more kicks, lol?

 

see post #6669

 

Man, another superstar down to injury. Can't recall a year when so many big names got hurt.

 

seattle's playoff chances took a big hit without sherman and that seattle-eagles game got a little bit easier too.

 

Don't we say this every year? I'm not saying it's not true, I'm saying that there are variables worth examining when we routinely say this, year after year.

 

Eagles are the beneficiaries of some bad bounces for NFC playoff competitors. No Aaron Rodgers, no Richard Sherman, no 'Zeke Elliott (for 6 games).

 

I know I've never said it before, and that I can't recall another year where so many stars went down. If I'm incorrect in that recollection, I can live with that.

 

well they did lose 2 players for the season with injuries. now neither were rodgers, zeke or sherman, but they didn't skate free of injuries either. it's a down year in the NFL, so if there was a year to win the Super Bowl, this is the year !

 

The Steelers believe it or not haven't lost one starter to a season ending injury. They have had some miss games but not IR for any.

 

Aaron Rodgers, Julian Edelman, Odell Beckham Jr, Deshawn Watson, JJ Watt, and Carson Palmer, Richard Sherman, Julio Jones, Stephon Diggs, damn, that's just off the top of my head.

Maybe injuries are not on the rise, per say, but the stars are falling.

 

Better knock on wood... you may have just jinxed them, lol.

 

Some good breaks maybe but losing Jason Peters hurts. The biggest beneficiary of a healthy and improved team may be the Saints. And the Rams may have gotten a break in their division. They really need to beat the Seahawks in their rematch though.

 

David Johnson, Joe Thomas, Eric Berry, Jason Peters, Allen Robinson, Whitney Mercilus...

 

1/3 of the Ravens roster.

Yanda probably the biggest name on the Ravens IR list...

 

Wanted to interrupt Gid's post as I was reading it, telling him to "SHHH!".

 

NFL does not fine Jalen Ramsey for fight with A.J. Green...

Bengals receiver A.J. Green got a whopping $42,000 in fines for his actions on Sunday, but the player Green fought wasn’t fined at all.

The NFL decided not to fine Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who was ejected along with Green after the two of them went at it on Sunday.

That’s a surprising decision, but it likely stems from the fact that Green was the one who was throwing the punches in their fight, while Ramsey did little more than give Green the kind of post-play shove that we see several times in every NFL game. The league felt that Green was to blame for the matter.

Ramsey did reportedly escalate the situation by trying to find Green in the locker room after they fought, but the league apparently didn’t think that should result in a fine, either. So Ramsey got off with nothing more than Sunday’s ejection.
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Talk about your double standards. If what Ramsey did is true, he should have been fined also.

 

Seahawks clearly violated concussion protocol; what will NFL do about it?

It’s obvious that the Seahawks violated the concussion protocol when allowing quarterback Russell Wilson to return to Thursday night’s game without a concussion evaluation. The question is whether the NFL will do anything about it.

Adam Schefter of ESPN report that the Seahawks “are expected to face consequences” for the failure. Even if they do, what will they be?

Previously, every situation involving a player who did not receive a concussion evaluation when he apparently should have did not result in discipline for anyone. Instead, the league would find a reason to excuse the irregularity by finding some obscure loophole in the rules and issuing a “don’t do that again” admonition.

The difference in this case is that, unlike prior cases, the concussion protocol was activated when the referee sent Wilson to the sideline. At that point, the Seahawks had no choice but to give Wilson an evaluation. And they didn’t.

So what will the “consequences” be? As noted on Friday, a revised policy unveiled in 2016 provides that, for a first offense, the team faces a maximum fine of $150,000. Which means it can be less than that.

Elsewhere in the policy appears an explanation that, if the league and the NFL Players Association agree that aggravating circumstances exist, the fine will be at least $50,000. Which implies that there’s a chance the outcome will be that Wilson innocently slipped through the fingers of team doctors and trainers, and that the fine could be what amounts to, for a franchise owned by one of the richest men in the world, the fine for taking a book back a day late to the library.

To summarize, while the Seahawks may indeed face “consequences” for what occurred on Thursday night, the “consequences” for their behavior may be sufficiently minimal to prompt owner Paul Allen to shrug and say, “Consequences, shmonsequences as long as I’m really, really, really rich.” (PFT)
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That's PFT's take on it. Rules are rules and when it comes to Concussions and CTE the NFL acts like they care, so lets see what they actually do about it. See how serious they really are.

 

Fractured fibula for Joe Haden and another ankle injury for Mitchell....the jinx worked...Tom Brady has been healthy for the past 9 seasons with no injuries...Just throwing that out there....