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I wasn't here to pick a fight, you weird fuck, but if you want one I'm happy to reciprocate. The first video shows his hands buried between his legs and behind her ass - either he was working really hard to grab his hamstrings while sitting, or he was feeling her up. You gave him the benefit of the doubt it was the former, for no good reason. That's definitely not a "me" issue, but if you don't think its yours, maybe it's one for your therapist or your significant other. You said it wasn't cheating, but maybe you should ask your wife how she feels about it? Until then, keep your assumptions about me and why I post to yourself, doc.

And regardless of his job, he literally said his entire purpose for being there was because people wanted to take pictures. He was out with his grandkids, then people wanted to take pictures, so he obliged. It was his entire excuse, straight from his mouth. So anyone defending him on the, "How dare they film him?" crap should take a listen to Urban.

 

Falcons announce Isaiah Oliver will miss the rest of the season



The Falcons placed cornerback Isaiah Oliver on injured reserve on Tuesday and he won’t be back with the team this year.

Oliver has a knee injury and the Falcons announced on Wednesday that it is a season-ender. Falcons head coach Arthur Smith addressed Oliver’s loss at his Wednesday press conference.

“I can’t say enough good things about him as a pro and a teammate. He’s really bought in, was having a good year. That’s the crappy part about this game,” Smith said, via Josh Kendall of TheAthletic.com.

Oliver started three of the team’s four games as a nickel corner. He had 11 tackles, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, and three passes defensed in his four appearances this season. The 2018 second-round pick is in the final year of his rookie contract.

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The Texans are making another move at wide receiver.

Per Aaron Wilson of Sports Talk 790, Houston is waiving receiver Anthony Miller.

The club acquired Miller at the start of training camp from Chicago in exchange for a 2022 fifth-round pick. Miller has appeared in just two games, catching four passes for 20 yards with a touchdown against Carolina. But he had just one 3-yard catch on five targets in Sunday’s 40-0 loss to Buffalo.

The Bears selected Miller in the second round of the 2018 draft. He appeared in 47 games for Chicago with 17 starts, recording 134 catches for 1,564 yards with 11 touchdowns.

He’s also averaged 11.0 yards on five punt returns and 22.9 yards on eight kick returns in his career.

The Texans signed receiver Davion Davis off of Cleveland’s practice squad on Tuesday.

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Home-field advantage no longer exists in the NFL.

Road teams have a winning record this season, going 33-31 through four weeks.

And that’s no mere blip. Last year, for the first time in NFL history, home teams had a losing record: Of the 256 games in the 2020 regular season, home teams won 127, lost 128, and one was tied. And in 2019, home teams went just 132-123-1, which was the worst cumulative record for home teams since the advent of the 16-game schedule — until home teams did even worse in 2020 and are now on pace to do worse still in 2021.

Gamblers and sports books were among the first to notice the decline in home-field advantage. For decades, the rule of thumb was that home-field advantage was worth about three points on the Vegas line. In the last couple years, that shifted to two points. It’s now around one point.

NFL teams seem to be getting better at silent counts to negate crowd noise, and better at finding ways to travel comfortably and achieve peak performance whether they’re at home or on the road. In today’s NFL, there’s no real difference to playing at home.

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I thought the part you didn’t like was that you weren’t there?

 

I’ve never been sad to not be in Ohio.

 

One thing's for sure - if there was ever a time for Urban to win his first NFL game, it's this weekend. He needs it.

 

Unless you are a peeping tom looking over my shoulder, you don't have a clue what the first video was. The first one I saw was about 5 seconds long and showed the girl near him, you couldn't even tell if she had come in any kind of contact with him. She was just dancing around and he obviously looked at her ass, but that was it. It was obviously a clean version for the NSFW crowd that they try to get click mongers to look at.

As for the rest of the post, you continue to make yourself out to be an ignorant angry person, so I'll let that lie where it is. This isn't about me in any way shape or form, I don't let myself get into that type of situation, so my wife is irrelevant to the conversation.

I don't know if you are still addressing me on the "How dare they film him" since this post was directed towards me, but you got the wrong "doc" there. I didn't defend against him being videoed at all, on the contrary I said he was fair game.

 

Plot twist, traded to Carolina for a 2023 6th instead.

 

Report: Packers are finalizing details on a deal for Jaylon Smith



The Cowboys released linebacker Jaylon Smith on Wednesday, and he soon could have a new home.

Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports the Packers are “the likely landing spot” for Smith. The sides are finalizing details on a contract for Smith, per Rapoport.

The Cowboys owe Smith the remainder of his $7.2 million base salary this year. They cut him because of his reduced role and the risk of a season-ending injury with his contract guaranteed for injury-only in 2022. He was scheduled to make $9.2 million in base salary and count $11.8 million against the salary cap next season.

He now will cost the Cowboys $6.8 million in dead money against their 2022 cap.

Smith signed a five-year, $64 million extension in August 2019.

Smith played 56 percent of the defensive snaps this season, including 40 percent or fewer in two of four games.

“Really this wasn’t an easy decision,” Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said Wednesday, via Todd Archer of ESPN. “He’s a good football player. He’s played excellent football here for a long time, but we have a [defensive] system, I think it’s clear now after four games how we’re playing.”

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Nice of the head coach (and the defensive coordinator too) to say such nice things about Oliver, as this injury is jeopardizing his career, never mind the season. He's in the final year of his rookie contract, and he was universally regarded as an underachiever in 2019 and 2020. And now he's out for the year after just four games.

Probably will get signed somewhere next year - quite likely remaining in Atlanta - but I don't think he'll get anywhere near the kicker salary he's getting this year under the league's "proven performance" escalator. More likely he'll be signed as a backup and make close to league minimum until he can get in a full season or two and show both his worth and his health.

 

A muff for Mike Periera.... that double punt play was legal after all. The first punt never crossed the line of scrimmage, so Dickson was allowed to punt it again.

Now... whether Dickson himself punted the ball from beyond the line of scrimmage when he kicked it the second time is an entirely different question. That one was really, really close.

 

Matthew Stafford throws for 365 yards as Rams top Seahawks 26-17



It was a bad night for fingers, a bad night for kickers, and it proved to be a bad night for the Seahawks.

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford injured his right index finger at the end of the first half. He never left the game. Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson dislocated his right middle finger in the third quarter when his hand connected with the right hand of Aaron Donald on his follow through of a long incompletion to Tyler Lockett. Wilson had to leave the game, and Geno Smith replaced him.

Despite changing the wrap on his finger more than once, Stafford wasn’t bothered by his injury. He went 12-of-18 for 234 yards with a touchdown in the second half, leading the Rams to a 26-17 victory over the Seahawks.

The Cardinals (4-0) are the NFL’s last undefeated team and reside atop the NFC West standings. The Rams moved to 4-1 while the Seahawks fell to 2-3.

It turned into an entertaining game that had a little of everything, including a two punts on the same play by Seattle’s Michael Dickson after his first attempt was blocked.

Seahawks kicker Jason Myers missed a 35-yard field goal before halftime, two plays after the Seahawks had a touchdown nullified by a holding penalty on Duane Brown. Rams kicker Matt Gay missed an extra point and kicked two kickoffs out of bounds but his 47-yarder with 24 seconds left iced the game.

The Seahawks trailed 16-7 when Smith replaced Wilson, and he kept Seattle in it with 10 points in his first two drives. He threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to DK Metcalf, Smith’s first touchdown throw since 2017 when he was with the Giants, to complete a 98-yard drive.

The Rams, though, matched the touchdown with one of their own on a Sony Michel 2-yard run with 6:08 left.

After a 32-yard field goal by Myers, the Rams picked up only one first down. That gave Smith one last opportunity to pull out a miracle. The Seahawks got the ball back with 2:09 remaining at their own 16. But Lockett fell down on the first snap after Seattle got the ball back, and Nick Scott made an easy interception of Smith with 2:02 remaining.

Smith finished 10-of-17 for 131 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Wilson was 11-of-16 for 152 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

Stafford completed 25 of 37 passes for 365 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Robert Woods caught 12 passes for 150 yards, and Cooper Kupp made seven receptions for 92 yards. DeSean Jackson had a 68-yard reception.

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Antonio Gibson, Curtis Samuel Questionable For Washington
Myles Garrett Listed As Questionable For Sunday
Patriots Still Without Four Of Their Starting Offensive Linemen At Friday’s Practice
Rob Gronkowski Out, Jason Pierre-Paul And Jamel Dean Will Play Against Dolphins
Bengals To Decide On Joe Mixon’s Status After Saturday Workout

 

Man Pats OL played like hot garbage the first four games as it was. Hope Mac’s life insurance premiums are paid up.

 

Strange but true... Falcons vs Jets this weekend and Dolphins vs Jaguars next weekend with be the 29th and 30th regular season games played in London.

NONE of those 30 games will have been played between two teams that were both above .500 at the time of the game.

 

I know that the schedule is made months in advance. But is the NFL going to piss off the fan bases of the more popular/successful teams. Do you see Packers/Steelers fans putting up with that kinda shit? I don't.

 

The NFL purposely puts games that won’t be missed much in the US because the people in London are just glad to see any NFL game live while us over here prefer the better matchups. Why would you improve something that is selling out and making a crap load of money for the league and all it cost in terms of games is teams that have no chance of selling out here. Which would mean less money.

 

Agreed. And your also describing the first 2-3 years of Thursday night football.

 

Gate revenues made up only about 15% of total revenues for the NFL in 2019. The overwhelming majority of money coming in is from TV revenues. And all teams share that money equally.