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Man is bat sh*t crazy. Hopefully he gets the help he needs, but his playing days are likely done.

 

Sounds like Raider material.

 

He’s taking a supplement called shroom tech. Must be some good shit. How can I get some shroom tech?

 

for 499.99 send cash to halo.

 

Someone rang?

 

You got some shroom tech?

 

Incognito's bus

 

Magic mushrooms should only be eaten in the woods around a bon fire. Not before you go to the gym. Didn't I see him on TV doing commentary recently. Pretty sure I did not sure where or why though.

 

^^^^West coaster's don't go the gym after a peanut butter and mushroom sandwich.

 

Two Steelers are happy with the new helmet rule



Over the past several years, Steelers players have developed a habit of complaining about the league’s efforts to make the game safer. When it comes to the new rule that prohibits lowering the helmet to initiate contact, a pair of Steelers players welcome the change.

Offensive lineman Ramon Foster (pictured) likes the new rule, in part because each of his four concussions occurred when a defender used his helmet to hit Foster in the helmet.

“Every time has been a D-lineman or a linebacker head first,” Foster said, via Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Last year when we played the Patriots, 52 [linebacker Elandon Roberts], the same thing, head first. He’s a heady guy. I hate heady guys.”

So Foster welcomes the new rule with open arms, and non-lowered helmet.

“I’m not opposed, not even a little bit,” Foster said. “It’s because I know what the safety of the game is, and if I can pull my head out of the situation — meaning my helmet — then I will do that. If they’re trying to protect it, I’m not going to fight that.”

Safety Morgan Burnett also likes the rule change, even though past Steelers safeties like Ryan Clark and Mike Mitchell were at the forefront of complaining about safety rules.

“You can tell that the league is taking control of player safety, and that’s really big for players,” Burnett said. “You don’t want to see any guy get hurt or have any effects from this game once they leave the game. So I think that’s real big and very important, to make player safety first.”

While it’s possible other Steelers don’t feel quite that way, the fact that any Steelers are willing to speak out so clearly and strongly in support of safety is both encouraging and surprising. And as long as the new helmet rule doesn’t fundamentally change the game, that’s a good thing for everyone. (PFT)

 

Screw the Steelers

 

Free agent running back Adrian Peterson is in shape, and he wants NFL teams to know it.

Peterson has been posting videos of himself doing grueling cardio workouts on the treadmill, jumping onto boxes with a barbell on his back, and so on. Peterson said this week on ESPN that he’s hoping teams will notice those workouts and give him a call.

There’s no question that Peterson is in the kind of shape most people could never fathom, and he says the neck injury that ended his 2017 season is totally healed. But whether any team thinks he can still contribute remains to be seen.

Peterson had a strange 2017 season. He signed with the Saints but was largely unused, and with good reason: He wasn’t nearly as effective as the Saints’ other running backs, Mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara. But when Peterson was traded to the Cardinals, he had a couple of huge games, gaining 134 yards on 26 carries in one win and 159 yards on 37 carries in another win. Of course, Peterson also had some terrible games, being held under 2.0 yards a carry on three separate occasions.

Now 33 years old, Peterson doesn’t have much time left in him. But he wants teams to know that he’s ready to go. (PFT)

 

Did one play call derail a potential Seahawks dynasty?

It may have, according to former Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril, who says that the team began to doubt coach Pete Carroll and his staff after losing Super Bowl XLIX.

Avril said on Dave Dameshek’s podcast that “a lot of guys got turned off” to Carroll when the Super Bowl ended with Russell Wilson throwing a game-losing interception to New England’s Malcolm Butler, rather than the Seahawks calling a handoff to Marshawn Lynch, which Seattle players thought would have given them a game-winning touchdown. Avril said that if the Seahawks had won that Super Bowl, which would have been their second in a row, they probably would have won another one after that, too, because the team would have been more united.

“If we win that Super Bowl I think we would have won another one,” Avril said. “I do think the team would have bought in more to what Coach Carroll was saying, instead of going the opposite way.”

As it turned out, the Seahawks began to decline amid reports that key players were increasingly not on the same page. After losing that Super Bowl after the 2014 season, the Seahawks lost in the divisional round of the playoffs in 2015 and 2016, then failed to make the playoffs in 2017. Avril attributes that decline directly to seeing players start to wonder whether Carroll’s coaching was still effective.

“Guys started kind of questioning him more instead of following his lead if we had won the Super Bowl,” Avril said.

This offseason the Seahawks have parted ways with several older veterans, perhaps in the hopes that they can move on from the players who were no longer buying in to Carroll’s way of doing things. (PFT)

 

This article has a different tone to the deja vu version awhile back:

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Dirty Patriot... of course. <joking > But it is funny that Foster called Elandon Roberts straight the fuck out.

 

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...-caused-him-to-think-about-quitting-football/

Another former player saying New England is not a fun place to play. Guess winning isn't fun for everyone. This report says Cassius Marks leaves out most of the details, but the one that he did provide was he didn't get to rush the passer and was used in coverage too much. Boo-hoo, you do what's best to the team. But it still is a game and needs to be fun.

 

Cassius Marks? Ok. Because he's so good he should dictate how he plays. Maybe the game is passing BB by as an old school type coach. I don't think that's a good thing. Does anyone else?

 

Gee making a boat load of money and possibly winning a championship at the highest level just isn't fun because I can't chase the QB around, which I'm not even that great so it isn't fun. Wow world wow.

 

Pretty much what I thought when I read it. Only reason I even posted it is because its becoming a new trend for former Patriots starting to speak out. I feel the Brady power struggle is very overblown, but that combined with Gronk, Amendola's comments and now Cassius Marks (who I honestly never heard of before this) its a trend. If I remember right Welker even had some of those types of comments when he left for Denver.

 

Maybe winning under BB is hard work too. Some of these guys that leave probably felt some relief for not being under such stringent leadership.

I believe winning is hard work, dedication and team work and other stuff like chemistry, but those factors are necessary for continued success in my opinion.

I wonder if it was 'fun' to play for Vince Lombardi? lol.

One thing these former players from under BB need to recognize is they owe everything they got to BB, not a lot of vets can say they won so much as a player from New England.