NFL - NEWS & NOTES

CBD oil (and the lotion) is the bomb. Been using it for 2 weeks now and it's buying me some time until my knee surgery.

 

Seriously. It's a miracle drug.

Even for my dog....he's getting old and has bad hips....helps him a ton.

 

While I was in school I was covered by insurance my parents paid for. After school.....some of it got covered and some of it didn't when I joined the work force...rules were different at that time and insurance companies didn't have to cover a lot of pre-existing conditions.

A large portion of my medical bills got paid for out of the inheritance I received from settling my father's estate. A very large portion. I was extremely fortunate in that regard and there have been countless kids in the same boat that were never that fortunate.

Yes. And have spent hours upon hours upon hours of my time fighting with insurance companies over bills they refuse to pay because I wasn't covered by them when the original injury occurred. This included, years ago, going to court or in front of an arbitrator quite a few times.

 

Seahawks defensive tackle Jarran Reed had a big season in 2018, but he’ll miss the start of 2019.

Reed has been suspended six games for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, Ian Rapoport reports.

In April of 2017 a woman told police that Reed assaulted her. Reed was not arrested or charged, and given that it’s been more than two years, most league observers figured the incident would not lead to league discipline. But the NFL can suspend any player it wants, on its own timeline, and has apparently decided that there was merit to the woman’s allegation.

A 2016 second-round draft pick, Reed had his best season in 2018, starting all 16 games and recording 10.5 sacks. The Seahawks will miss him on the field, and off the field this incident is sure to affect contract negotiations, as Reed is heading into the final year of his rookie deal.

 

So having gone through the experience I find it a little odd that you fall on the side of NFL players getting health insurance for life. Because they were slightly more talented than you, played a few years at the pro level and made hundreds of thousands of dollars while doing it? That makes them more deserving than you? And that's a serious question, not a smart ass response. I'm intrigued.

p.s. Not going to get into a political discussion but for the life of me I don't understand how all these people support Trump as he tries to strip away the pre-existing condition provision of Obamacare. Why would anyone (but the insurance companies) want that to go away?

 

Sometime in the late 80's I had a co-worker that slipped and fell down some stairs and it led to some serious injuries. Broken bones and so on and a ton of rehab. She never walked the same way again. The union we worked for had a solid contract that obviously protected her from medical bills and our employer paid for damn near everything. She retired something like a decade later. A year or so after retirement a random piece of broken bone that somehow stayed in her body traveled and caused some new damage to arteries or something and caused internal bleeding which in turn led to some sort of a blood clot. She had half of a leg amputated. It took a legal fight on her end but a doctor testified that everything that happened to her led back to that one injury. And the employer was responsible for those bills.

So yeah....a guy who played a significant amount of time in the NFL and wrecked havoc on his body probably can claim years and years later that a lot of his medical problems are related to those years he spent as a much younger man running around on a grass field chasing a pigskin oblong ball. It's not all that far fetched.

I am 100% for medical coverage for ex-players.

 

Their lives are forever changed, not always for the better, for that time they spent on the field entertaining us and making huge profits for the guys that own the teams they played for.

I don't regret doing what I did......I would have loved to have played just one down at the NFL level and if I could go back and do it again....I totally would. Football was everything to me and despite the pain in my body there are memories that I wouldn't trade for anything.

So many of those guys beat themselves half to death....the very least the NFL can do is cover them medically.

I could rant all day about medical insurance and the entire scam that is the medicine industry. That's for another thread lol.

 

Report: Trent Williams won’t report to camp on time



Washington will have a new a couple of new quarterbacks under center when the team reports to training camp.

Neither of them will have his best chance at blind-side protection.

According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, Washington left tackle Trent Williams isn’t expected to report to camp on time, and there’s no indication of when he plans to return.

Williams seemed to have an issue with the team regarding the treatment of an offseason medical concern, though team president Bruce Allen denied it was a problem when Williams didn’t show up for minicamp in June.

Williams had a benign tumor or growth removed from his scalp this offseason. He also has two years left on his current contract, though none of the $27 million remaining (well below what a player of his caliber at his position is making now) is guaranteed.

This situation is obviously a major concern for the team, which traded for Case Keenum and drafted Dwayne Haskins in the first round, after losing Alex Smith to a broken leg last year.

 

Great for your co-worker but lot's of things were different back then. Insurance was actually insurance back then too. In today's world she wouldn't stand a chance. Obviously we disagree on the subject.

 

Lots of things are different today....the way injuries happen and the lasting effect of devastating injuries has not changed.

What can't be argued is the cost of long term medical care. Be it personal injury or disease....any long term care amounts to a massive amount of money and even when your bank account is larger....it's not easy to cope with.

 

The NFL’s in-house justice system is deeply flawed, for a variety of reasons. One of the most important reasons is this: It often has no power to get the evidence needed to properly investigate incidents involving players.

While the league can compel players and league/team employees to cooperate, the league has no authority to issue subpoeanas for testimony or documents to people disconnected to the NFL.

As explained by A.J. Perez of USA Today, those inherent limits on the NFL’s investigative abilities prevented the league from conducting a complete investigation regarding child-abuse allegations made against Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill. Perez reports that prosecutors in Kansas relied on an exception to the state’s open-records law to deny the league’s request for information relating to the case that explored whether and to what extent Hill’s son was the victim of child abuse.

On April 24, Johnson County, Kansas prosecutor Steve Howe said at a press conference that he believes a crime was committed against Hill’s son, but that insufficient proof existed as to the identity of the perpetrator.

The league made the request for information that same day. The next day, Howe responded, citing the exception to decline to provide any information to the NFL.

This means that Hill hasn’t been exonerated by the league. Instead, the NFL was unable to find a violation of the Personal Conduct Policy because it can’t get the information from the agency that is entitled to keep it secret, given that it has decided that it lacks proof beyond a reasonble doubt to prove Hill’s guilt.

It’s still unclear why Howe didn’t simply choose to charge both parents — Hill and Crystal Espinal — presenting the evidence and letting a jury decide whether either or both were responsible for the crime that Howe believes was committed. Even if both were acquitted, the league would then have access to the evidence, if any, against Hill. Given that the NFL applies a much lower standard to matters of guilt or innocence, the evidence that would be introduced at a trial of Hill and/or Espinal could have been enough to justify discipline.

(PFT)

 

Of course they wouldn't release the info... they are Chiefs fans.

 

One thing that is being overlooked in the health care argument is this. The players have a union. They have collective bargaining agreements. They have a VAST HISTORY to work off of. There have been players speaking of injuries into their twilight years, dating back nearly a century...yet have never bargained for lifetime health care for CURRENT players...and agreed to those terms when signing the CBA AND their personal playing contract. Now that each of those contracts are fulfilled, they want to say, as FORMER employees, we want to renegotiate our former contract.

If you are discussing the next CBA, then I am all for it moving forward, but to say all former NFL players deserve insurance after the fact, I don't agree with at all. They signed their agreements, fully aware of the future ramifications. I don't think ANY player was naive to the fact playing a violent game would/could lead to future ailments...yet signed the contract anyway.

If you don't want to deal with injuries and their ramifications, don't play football. Just like millions of people don't want to sign a contract to climb light towers to change light bulbs because they run a risk of death by falling off the towers and choose a different, less dangerous, occupation.

These players CHOSE their job, you can't claim ignorance years later that you didn't understand the risks. The ONLY thing that applies to, IMHO, is CTE and concussions and the NFL has already paid a settlement on that issue. The current players that ratified the current CBA and continue to sign their personal playing contracts are FULLY AWARE of those ramifications as well...and continue to play this game.

They have choices, just like the rest of us do, on our occupation.

Edit: how many of you understand the costs of health coverage in today's society? A normal, healthy, employee costs hundreds of thousands over the life of their career in the workforce. I can't imagine what a lifetime coverage policy would look like for an employee that an insurance company knows ahead of time will have exhorbatent expenses based on their FORMER occupation. To say billionaires have the means to provide this for all players is ignorance. I'm ignorant to what a policy like that would cost, even though I am dealing with it for my employees and understand what a normal job coverage entails.

It wouldn't be the same coverage you and I receive. It would have to be a special plan taking into consideration all possible future involvement of coverage. I would imagine coverage for all former players, or even bargaining for just a current CBA to cover current players ratifying that new contract could cost tens of billions, possibly a lot more. They wouldn't be negotiating with insurance companies over current health care costs like the real world companies do, they would be bargaining based on what COULD be the cost of health care costs 40, 50, 60 years into the future.

 

Cowboys remain world’s most valuable sports franchise, valued at $5 billion...



The Cowboys haven’t reached the NFC Championship Game since winning their last Super Bowl in 1995. Yet, they remain America’s Team and the World’s Team for that matter.

Nine of the 50 highest-rated sports TV broadcasts in 2018 were regular-season games featuring the Cowboys, according to Forbes. The Patriots were the only other team with more than four games among the top 50.

No team knows how to make money better than the Cowboys.

The magazine estimates that AT&T Stadium generates $340 million in sponsorship and premium seating revenue, twice as much as any other team.

All of that to say, for the fourth consecutive year, Forbes has named the Cowboys the world’s most valuable sports franchise. It marks the 13th consecutive year the Cowboys have led the NFL in value.

The Cowboys have an estimated value of $5 billion, up 4 percent over last year. The Yankees ($4.6 billion), Real Madrid ($4.2 billion) and Barcelona ($4 billion) follow.

More than half of Forbes‘ top-50, though, are NFL teams, each of which received more than $260 million in media-rights deals last year.

Here are the other 25 NFL teams ranked in the top 50 by Forbes and their estimated value: 7. Patriots ($3.8 billion); 10. (tie) Giants ($3.3 billion); 12. (tie) Rams ($3.2 billion); 14. (tie) Redskins ($3.1 billion); 16. 49ers ($3.05 billion); 19. (tie) Bears ($2.9 billion); 21. Jets ($2.85 billion); 22. (tie) Texans ($2.8 billion); 24. Eagles ($2.75 billion); 26. Broncos ($2.65 billion); 27. Packers ($2.63 billion); 28. Falcons ($2.6 billion); 29. Ravens ($2.59 billion); 30. Steelers ($2.59 billion); 31. Seahawks ($2.58 billion); 33. Dolphins ($2.58 billion); 34. Raiders ($2.42 billion); 35. Vikings ($2.4 billion); 36. Colts ($2.38 billion); 38. (tie) Panthers ($2.3 billion); 41. Chargers ($2.28 billion); 46. Cardinals ($2.15 billion); 47. (tie) Chiefs ($2.1 billion); 49. Jaguars ($2.08 billion); 50. Saints ($2.08 billion).

 

If Zeke reads this, he will sit out. He wants a slice of that pie! ( a big ol' slice )

 

Regardless of how valuable the team is, there are STILL the constraints of the salary cap.

Last I read he's more interested in seeing positive progress in good faith negotiations - not necessarily a new deal. The offense may still run (literally) through Zeke, but he (and his agent) have to realize that there's more than just Zeke involved. A #1 WR (like Amari Cooper) helps Dak...a more productive Dak means a little less focus on Zeke.

 

Last look Dallas was a projected $60 million UNDER the 2020 cap, so they have room...but it's still going to be an interesting juggle with Dak, Coop, Zeke, Byron Jones, Jaylon Smith...

 

the chiefs cut Kareem Hunt for kicking a woman in a hotel floor and yet Hill remains on the team ? I know Hunt lied about the incident, but he loses his job and Hill still has one? Doesn't seem right ?

 

Especially considering Seattle's Jarran Reed just got a 6-game suspension even though he wasn't charged or arrested.

 

Interesting note...

Mason Foster LB of the Redskins just got cut. I doubt he's jobless long. He had a decent 2018.