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Also players from the 60’s 70’s and 80’s weren’t guaranteed to get paid a million dollars over a career let alone a season. OJ Simpson was the first NFL player to crack a million dollars a year for playing football. Teams didn’t have to deal with FA back then so players didn’t have any power to get a better contract except holding out, and most players really didn’t want to hold out. They loved the game so much that they really didn’t fight as hard for better contract. Hard to compare to today’s game.

 

Anybody want to come up and smoke a dube? I can't get in trouble for saying or doing that anymore.

 

Wow... Is it all of Canada, or just Ontario?

 

Well, some of you have mentioned previous decades in regard to, did the players actually know? That's not quite what im saying. Forget the past and look at today. Don't you think in today's day and age players know full well the risk and are still playing the game regardless of the risk involved? That's what im talking about. The NFL should litigate liability at the contract table.

 

Report: Devonta Freeman headed to injured reserve...

Falcons head coach Dan Quinn said on Monday that running back Devonta Freeman is likely to miss the team’s Week Seven game against the Giants and it appears that will be the first of many more games that the Falcons will be playing without him.

Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reports that the Falcons will place Freeman on injured reserve. He’s dealing with foot and groin injuries and also missed three games earlier this year with a knee injury. He ran 14 times for 68 yards and caught five passes for 23 yards in his brief time on the field.

Tevin Coleman and Ito Smith will handle the running back duties for the Falcons with Freeman out of the picture. The running back joins safety Ricardo Allen, linebacker Deion Jones, guard Andy Levitre and safety Keanu Neal as starters who have gone on injured reserve since the start of the year.

Freeman signed a six-year, $43 million deal in 2017. There’s no cap relief for the Falcons if they move on before the end of the 2019 season. (NBC's PFT)

 

Nick Bosa leaving Ohio State to prepare for NFL draft...

Ohio State pass rusher Nick Bosa will prematurely end his college career and focus on his NFL future.

The university announced Tuesday that Bosa intends to withdraw from school to focus on rehab and preparation for his professional career.

The junior defensive end suffered a core muscle injury earlier this season in a victory over TCU. He underwent surgery on Sept. 20.

"I was hopeful that Nick would be able to return to play again for us," Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said in a statement. "I know this was an extremely difficult and emotional decision for Nick and his family, and I wish him well as he moves on to get himself 100 percent healthy and ready for his next chapter. I want to thank Nick for the remarkable efforts he gave for this program. He is a first-class young man who we have been honored to coach."

The news is a blow for the No. 2 ranked Ohio State squad, but not altogether unexpected following Bosa's injury.

The younger brother of Los Angeles Chargers' Joey Bosa, Nick will enter the draft as one the top-tier pass rushers in 2019 class. At 6-foot-4, 263 pounds, the younger Bosa owns the speed, power and quickness combination, along with stellar hand technique, that should make him a QB menace in the NFL.

NFL.com draft analyst Lance Zierlein wrote over the summer that Bosa was one of the top defensive linemen to watch this college season. (NFL.com)

 

You mean like Roquan Smith's agent tried to do?

 

Have Freeman in one of my leagues, Marshawn Lynch in the other. The Groin Boyz.

 

Glad I held onto Tevin Coleman.

 

my fellow Archbishop Ryan alumni and former TE for the Tennessee Titans, Frank Wycheck, who does the radio for Titans games, had to take a year off after he felt early signs of CTE. He said in the article about CTE that he probably had 50-100 concussions from the time he started playing peewee Pop Warner football to college at Maryland. He was a running back until college. As a kid, it was a headache, so take 2 aspirin and get back out there. You never wanted to be "hurt" or come out in fear of being replaced. Wycheck said if he knew the damage all those hits would've caused, he might of stopped playing sooner. i don't know if he was paid millions, but you grow up as a kid wanting to play so much that no one in the 70's or 80's thought about the damages. look at the movie the Longest Yard. it's from 1972. it's a good old fashion football game, right? have that game between the cons and guards today and you would have flags all over the place besides the flags that were thrown in the game. the game has changed. maybe for the better, maybe not? it's still better than nothing. i'd rather have the heavily flag thrown football of today than nothing at all.

 

All of Canada.

 

But who would take a chance of getting weed in Canada when they could go to a legal state and not have to deal with a border crossing.

 

gid-how many legal states sell it ?

 

Out west it's all the coastal states, including Alaska, plus Colorado and Nevada. Out east Maine (the place where you can carry the most in NA) and Massachusetts. Vermont it's legal but you can't actually buy it unless it's medical. In all of those places you can technically be in trouble federally still but we know they won't do anything, especially since the US in it's root is States over Federal outside the most centralized and important things. You can't cross the border with stuff but if you live near the border and are paranoid you can cross and get some, make it a trip or whatever.

 

Just grabbed Ito Smith...just in case.

 

he was gone in most of my leagues