NFL - NEWS & NOTES

That's too bad I liked Chancellors style of play. That team is definitely not the same. Maybe the worst team in the division. Their only saving grace is Russel Wilson, without him they're a 4 win team.

 

I wonder how long Pete has. His college style of handling business grew old on the team once there was some controversy.

 

Good point. Ive heard rumblings of Pete losing the team as early as sometime last season. Cant be good when your players don't want to play for you.

 

rah rah coaches usually don't last long in the pro's.

 

Unless your name is Tom Landry.

 

I've been surprised at how long Pete's lasted.

 

Some players have said he lost the team the minute they ran a pass play on the goal line.

 

It occurred to me - The suspension handed down to Jameis Winston for sexual assault is 1 game less than Tom Brady got for lying about deflating footballs.

You do the math...

 

Leagues way of avoiding a long drawn out process. They threatened the 6 games, then negotiated with him to cut it in half if he apologized without admitting guilt and accepted the punishment. They didn't want any more headlines, this was their way of minimizing those headlines. We will discuss the injustice for a little while, but unfortunately it will die down quickly. If it had gone 6 games (like it should have), then there would have been a long appeal that could have actually led to a full years worth of headlines. What I don't get is, the baseline suspension for a domestic incident is 6 games, I don't know how it doesn't START there. They should have threatened him with 9 and given him 6 for sexual assault/imposition. In the court of Goodell, you don't have to be convicted, you merely have to have evidence, which there clearly was or he wouldn't have received anything.

 

The ACTUAL injustice is the league laying out the perception that deflating footballs is a more egregious act than sexually assaulting another human being. Fuck the NFL.

Somebody in the NFL (executive/coach/player... anyone) should speak up about that. That’s fucked up.

 

It isn't perception, it's individual accounting.

Tom Brady was two fold..

1) It was cheating in a professional sport
2) Probably could have been negotiated down to 1-2 games with apology, Brady decided to take the league to court.

Winston...Decided he wasn't going to win in court, whether by his own decision or that of his legal council. The NFL has broad rights in their punishment that holds up fairly well in court. If he had went and lost, it most certainly would have been a 6 game suspension.

The negotiation process seems to hold true, they do it so that they can have more control over avoiding litigation, thus bad publicity.

 

Oh, there's no doubt that this is the best ending for Winston and the NFL. But Winston deserves to have this attached to him publicly and permanently - not just a footnote that he got off with it. And the NFL should have a nice bright spotlight on them, that it has never been and never will be about integrity, or any of that bullshit they put forth - it's about publicity, and how they can keep it from going wrong whenever possible. The NFL is awful.

 

But Tom Brady was never found guilty of deflating footballs. Despite the best efforts of Ted Wells, Chris Mortenson and co. to lead you to believe otherwise, it’s simply not true. The New York Times, SI, Washington Post and others have run factually based stories exonerating the Pats and Brady yet the common misconception is that Brady cheated. What Brady is guilty of is destroying his phone and not cooperating with the witch hunt the NFL put him through.
Doesn’t surprise me in the least that the NFL would suspend a guy like Winston for a similar amount of games. Fucking circus run by a clown.

 

Tom Brady could play with a Nerf ball and still be great. as much as i hate him for his success, after seeing him throw for 500+ yrds in a SB and lose, just shows how great he really is. deflate gate, spy gate , down 28-3- phooey. he doesn't matter bc he's that much better than anyone else. he will find a way to win ! reporters and detractors be damn, he will win find a way to win !

 

Great points, Matty. Im glad you brought that up. There never was an admission of guilt by Brady... there never was any damning proof/evidence, just hearsay. I think the whole thing was basically a witch hunt. Jameis, on the other hand, basically plea bargained and admitted guilt. Its Apples and Oranges, but all lumped together and washed under a big rug.

 

I still have a problem with a REAL CRIME being put on the scale of letting air out of footballs (whether it REALLY happened or not). It’s fucking obscene and disgusting.

 

I couldn't agree more!!

 

Seahawks have six starters left from their Super Bowl win



When the Seahawks blew out the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII, they looked like they had a young nucleus of players who should be able to win more Super Bowls together. But the NFL moves fast, and now Seattle is down to just six starters remaining from the 22 players who started for them in the Super Bowl four years ago.

Kam Chancellor, who revealed yesterday that he’s no longer able to play because of a neck injury, is the latest starter from that championship team to go. He joins Cliff Avril, Michael Bennett, Clinton McDonald, Chris Clemons, Walter Thurmond and Richard Sherman as players who have left that great defense. Only K.J. Wright, Bobby Wagner, Earl Thomas and Byron Maxwell remain — and Maxwell just re-signed this year, having spent time with the Eagles and Dolphins since leaving Seattle after Super Bowl XLVIII.

On offense, there’s been even more turnover. Russell Wilson and Doug Baldwin are the only two of Seattle’s 11 offensive starters in Super Bowl XLVIII who are still on the Seahawks. Marshawn Lynch, Golden Tate, Zach Miller, Russell Okung, James Carpenter, Max Unger, J.R. Sweezy, Breno Giacomini and Alvin Bailey are all gone.

It goes beyond the starters. Wilson’s backup, Tarvaris Jackson, is gone. Lynch’s backups, Robert Turbin and Christine Michael, are gone. In fact, basically all the offensive skill position backups — Jermaine Kearse, Sidney Rice, Ricardo Lockette, Luke Wilson, Derrick Coleman, Michael Robinson — are gone. Important players on defense who didn’t start the Super Bowl — Brandon Mebane, Tony McDaniel, Malcolm Smith, Bruce Irvin — are all gone.

The Seahawks have managed to remain a good team as they’ve lost a lot of good players, returning to the Super Bowl and falling just short the year after they won it, getting to the playoffs the next two years, and going 9-7 last year. But this year’s purge of aging veterans shows just how hard it is to keep a great team together. The days of teams like the 1970s Steelers are over. A great group of players just doesn’t stay together very long anymore. (PFT)

 

I think that's what's going on here. His message wore out after he called the "Halo" play on the goal line. They had enough talent to be dysfunctional and still be relevant for a couple years. This is the reboot that was coming though. Wilson is now the clear team leader, we'll see. I think Petesy is the oldest coach in the league though it's hard to believe by his energy and just the way he acts, again we'll see how long of a leash he has or if he has the ability to reboot on the fly.

 

Wow, this was an eye opener... The NFL is becoming a young man's game and I think it will become even more prevalent unless they change even more rules to avoid concussions. I remember the days when the average age of a HC was near 60...now it seems all the old guys get left behind for new inventive minds. They just graduate to front office positions.