NFL - NEWS & NOTES

I help teenagers get sober and I make a fraction of that.
Looks like I'm doing the wrong thing.......probably not

 

Good deal, Dirk. That's a great thing your doing... and you cant put a price on saving lives and that's what your doing.

 

The Amazing thing is how young some of these kids are. I Had to go to a group thing for a DWI and whenever I went in the daytime there were these middle school and elemtary school kids there for counseling because they were on hard core drugs, mostly opioids because Florida was a pill mill state. The Kids I'm talking about shouldn't even know what these pills are. Let alone be hooked on that crap. I Thought I accidentally walked into a after school daycare

 

The opioid crisis is out of control. We see kids as young as 12 using heroin. I know it's even younger but we just can't take any younger at our place. Of course, meth is right up there too.
I'm a father of a 15yr old girl and a 10yr old and every time I go to work and see kids in treatment it's a very cold reality. As much as we have moved past so called traditional values, studies in Trauma Informed Care show that a stable home environment and open communication are some of the best weapons against teen addiction. Most of those kids don't have that.

 

Browns OL JC Tretter signs 3-year, $32.5M extension...

The Browns are keeping an integral part of their offense who handles the football on every down.

Cleveland and center JC Tretter have agreed to a three-year, $32.5 million extension worth more than $23 million guaranteed, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, per sources informed of the negotiations.

Tretter joined the Browns via free agency in the offseason leading up to the 2017 season and he's predictably flourishing in his first season under offensive line coach James Campen, who coached Tretter in his first four NFL seasons spent in Green Bay. Tretter plays a position that is difficult to quantify, of course, but by Pro Football Focus' metrics, he's elite.

 

Ravens sign LB L.J. Fort to two-year, $5.5M extension...

NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reports Fort's extension will pay him $5.5 million, with $3.25 million fully guaranteed at signing.

Fort joined the Ravens in the middle of the season and has started at linebacker in three of his four appearances in purple and black. In that small sample size, he's recorded 14 tackles, 1.0 sack and one pass defended.

Fort's tale is intriguing because of how much he's had to travel to earn this payday. Fort entered the league with the Cleveland Browns in 2012 as an undrafted free agent out of Northern Iowa, then appeared in one game for the Seattle Seahawks in 2013 before spending the next four seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He crossed the state of Pennsylvania during the most recent offseason, leaving Pittsburgh for the Philadelphia Eagles, who only kept him for four regular-season games before cutting him.

Fort signed with the Ravens at the end of September, meaning he'd only need to join the Cincinnati Bengals to complete the AFC North circuit before his career ended. That won't happen anytime soon, if ever, because Fort's achievement in short time has earned him sizeable compensation that he can stack on top of another lump sum of guarantees coming his way this season.

That's perhaps the most interesting part of Fort's journey: The linebacker is still owed $1.9 million in guarantees this season after getting cut by the Eagles, Rapoport reported. He's earned the combined compensation ahead in his month with Baltimore as part of a Ravens defense that was in need of linebacking talent after watching C.J. Mosley leave in free agency and sending Kenny Young to Los Angeles in a midseason trade for cornerback Marcus Peters.

Fort has helped fill Baltimore's depth need at the position and is being rewarded accordingly.

 

Four Cowboys fined a total of $73,693 for their actions Monday night



The Cowboys had 10 penalties for 104 yards on Monday night against the Giants. They have 639 yards in penalties this season, second only to Oakland. The Raiders went into Thursday night with 640 yards in penalties and had another 12 penalties for 97 yards against the Chargers.

Coach Jason Garrett was not happy with the team’s lack of discipline Monday night, and he addressed “it head on.”

“You can’t let your emotions get the best of you,” Garrett said. “You have to channel your emotions properly. You can’t let somebody else on another team take it down the road that you don’t want to go down and it hurts your team. So you just have to stay focused. You have to stay away from all the stuff that they’re trying to entice you into and focus and play football.”

The NFL was as unhappy with the Cowboys’ penalties as Garrett was.

Four Cowboys were fined a total $73,693 for actions against the Giants, Todd Archer of ESPN reports.

Receiver Randall Cobb was docked $28,075 for a blindside block, and defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence will lose $21,054 for unsportsmanlike conduct and unnecessary roughness fouls.

Safety Xavier Woods, the NFC’s defensive player of week, found his wallet $10,527 lighter for taunting, and linebacker Justin March was fined $14,037 for unnecessary roughness.

“We’ve had too many of those,” Garrett said of the 15-yard penalties. “. . .You have to distinguish between penalties that happen during the play that sometimes are understandable. Maybe you get out of position. Sometimes those things happen. It’s pro football. There are too many other kinds of penalties that we have. We just have to do a better job handling those situations.”

source; PFT

 

Buffalo came up big at the goal line.

 

Oh no... Mayfield dumped in the endzone for a safety... 9-9

 

Falcons looking to pull off the upset of the day...

 

Wow, TD Falcons... 20-9, now.

 

Rudolph marches the Steelers into the endzone… 7-7 vs Rams

 

Dolphins up 10-0 on the Colts, wtf?

 

Nice finish in GB...

 

Saints loss knocked me out of my survivor pool. Fuckin' New Orleans.

 

lots of upsets yesterday! bookies took a hit.