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It comes out to $30M / year.

 

Thank god it’s over

 

Apparently he would have been a Steeler had the Broncos accepted a 3rd for Sutton.

 

I would rather give the Broncos a 3rd for Sutton than have to pay Ayuck 30 million a season.

 

Aiyuk is very lucky he got that 120 million dollar extension and the 49ers did not tell him go kick rocks

 

Los Angeles Chargers outside linebacker Joey Bosa told reporters Thursday that he suffered a broken hand during a joint practice with the Los Angeles Rams on Aug. 4 and required surgery.

Bosa returned Tuesday for his first practice since the injury, wearing a black club around his left hand. A club is a protective covering that gives players stability and protection to play while injured. It is often made with cast material tape and padding.

The injury won't force Bosa to miss any of the Chargers' games, he said, but he will wear the club during games for a portion of the season.

"It sucks. I mean, the first second you get injured, you have a million thoughts go through your head and most of them are negative," Bosa said. "I was feeling really good about the place I was heading to, and I still do. I went through the woes for a couple days and, you know, got good news and, you know, moved on."

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Mike McDaniel will be sticking around South Florida for a while.

Per Jeff Darlington of ESPN, McDaniel has signed a new deal to keep him under contract as Dolphins head coach through the 2028 season.

McDaniel, 41, has led the Dolphins to a 20-14 record over his first two seasons as head coach with a pair of postseason appearances. After finishing No. 6 in yards and No. 11 in points in 2022, Miami was No. 1 in yards and No. 2 in points last season.

Though Miami has not found success in the playoffs yet under McDaniel, 2022 and 2023 represented the first time the club had reached consecutive postseasons in 23 years.

McDaniel was previously with the 49ers under head coach Kyle Shanahan as the team’s run game coordinator from 2017-2020 and offensive coordinator in 2021.

The Dolphins will begin their 2024 season by hosting the Jaguars next Sunday afternoon.

 

Dicker the Kicker is set to be in Los Angeles for the long run.

Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the Chargers and Cameron Dicker have agreed to a four-year contract extension. The deal is worth up to $22.004 million and includes $12.5 million in guaranteed money.

Dicker went undrafted out of Texas in 2022 and spent time with the Rams and Ravens before making his regular season debut as an injury replacement for Eagles kicker Jake Elliott. Dicker made two field goals and two extra points without missing a kick in his lone appearance for Philly and then kicked in 10 games for the Chargers. He kicked in every game for the team last year as well.

Dicker is 50-of-53 on field goals for the Chargers with a long of 55 yards. He’s never missed a field goal try from inside of 50 yards and has made all 57 of his extra point attempts.

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Former Saints receiver Michael Thomas remains a free agent. Even if he signs a deal in the coming days, he won’t be playing in Week 1.

The NFL has announced that Thomas will be suspended for one game, via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media. It’s a punishment under the Personal Conduct Policy.

The discipline stems from a November 2023 arrest for simple battery and criminal mischief.

He allegedly hurled a brick at the windshield of a construction worker’s truck at a house in Thomas’s neighborhood. He also allegedly knocked the phone from a person’s phone and shoved him.
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lol, Im not the sharpest feller around, but thats not a disciplinary action. Seriously, the NFL does this just to kick-start my day with a good laugh. Sad part is, they aint joking.

Keep em coming NFL... "laughter is good like a medicine" a wise man once said... thats one medicine Id like to OD on.

Enjoy your day people of L4SN or I will for you.

 

Oh wait, there's more laughter via the NFL...

After losing the verdict, the NFL won the judgment in the Sunday Ticket case. And to the victor go the spoils.

Via A.J. Perez of FrontOfficeSports.com, the NFL has formally sought reimbursement of litigation costs from the plaintiffs in the antitrust action. The amount requested, per the league’s filing, is $389,715.61.

That amount represents out-of-pocket costs, not legal fees. The league seeks compensation for witness depositions, travel, copying, and other hard expenses incurred in defending the case.
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You cant make this stuff up. 2 good laughs and its still way early.

 

San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall, 23, was shot during an attempted robbery in the neighborhood of Union Square, San Francisco mayor London Breed announced Saturday. The suspect is in custody; both Pearsall and the shooter are in stable condition at San Francisco General Hospital, per NBC Bay Area.

Pearsall was shot through the chest as the suspect attempted to steal his Rolex watch, the San Francisco Police Department told Fox40. The 49ers wideout was en route to a signing event at the time. There was a struggle for the gun, and both Pearsall and the suspect were shot.

 

I don't get it.....Like People Have Lost There Damn Mind!

 

I hope it’s not season or career threatening

 

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There’s very good news from San Francisco regarding rookie receiver Ricky Pearsall.

Via Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area, Pearsall has been upgraded from “serious” to “fair” condition.

He spent the night at San Francisco General Hospital after being shot through the chest during a robbery attempt in Union Square.

A 17-year-old tried to rob Pearsall of his Rolex watch. Pearsall grabbed the gun, and both Pearsall and his assailant were shot.

Pearsall was struck with a bullet that went through his chest and out his back.

It’s far too early to know the impact of the incident on Pearsall’s ability to play. The best possible news is that he’s well on his way to recovering.

 

Pearsall's mother said the bullet entered his chest and exited his back. Sounds very fortunate that he is alive... quite the scarry situation.

 

Bengals have 'intensified' efforts to extend Ja’Marr Chase

After participating in some light practices earlier in the week, Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase observed practice from the sideline over the past few days. This tactic appeared to be a resumption of his training camp hold-in, with the wideout continuing to seek a lucrative contract extension. With Week 1 rapidly approaching, it sounds like Chase’s efforts may be working.

According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, the Bengals have “intensified” their efforts to extend Chase in recent days. The organization’s goal is to get the wideout back on the practice field for the start of next week, and there’s some optimism within the building that the two sides can find common ground.

As noted throughout this saga, Chase’s two remaining years are a negotiation hurdle. Fowler adds more context, noting that the Bengals are wary of guaranteeing too much money when they still have the former first-round pick locked in through the 2025 campaign.

From a total-value perspective, the Bengals are more than willing to meet Chase’s demands. Per Fowler, the organization is willing to pay Chase more than $30M per season. However, it was assumed the front office would have to promise this AAV, considering six wideouts are now at or above that threshold. We heard recently that multiple teams expect Chase to top Justin Jefferson‘s $35M AAV, but it sounds like Chase’s guarantees would trail Jefferson’s $88M-plus in guaranteed money.

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Rickey Pearsall just got released from the hospital. Wonder if he'll play next week. One tough SOB!!

 

An NFL athlete vs a 17 year-old thug. He thought he could handle the kid but a weapon is a big equalizer. He's lucky he didn't die. The kid apparently got off lucky and is being charged in juvenile court because it missed all Pearsall's vitals. Rickey should have handed over the watch.

 

Chiefs' Clyde Edwards-Helaire on NFI list, out at least 4 games... he dealing with PTSD

"Sometimes I'm admitted into the hospital, something like I can't stop throwing up and it's just, I [don't] know [anything] pretty much to stop it,'' said Edwards-Helaire, the Chiefs' first-round draft pick in 2020.

"Real bad dehydration ... but it's really just mentally just not being there. It is one of those things where early on guys who kind of pay attention like Travis [Kelce] and Kadarius [Toney], at times they can even, they'll know ahead of time like, 'OK, Clyde's not laughing, he's not giggling, he's not himself.'"

Edwards-Helaire provided an exact date, Dec. 22, 2018, as the start of his PTSD. He didn't go into details other than to say he and a friend found themselves in what he called "a self-defense situation.'' Edwards-Helaire at the time was in college at LSU.

Two LSU football players were trying to sell an electronic item on that date when one of them fatally shot an 18-year-old man trying to rob them, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police said. The police didn't identify the players, but The Associated Press reported that Edwards-Helaire was one of them.

"I would say that's probably where a majority of things stem from,'' said Edwards-Helaire, 25. "I wouldn't necessarily say everything stemmed from that. I have best friends that passed away at young ages from gun violence and just not being in the right places at the right time and just knowing that I have people that are close to me or around me who ... could be in the same spots that I am.''

"My first couple of years, you just try to block everything out and it's like, 'Oh, at some point I'm going to get over it,'" he said. "And you start to realize that that just doesn't happen. You get older and you realize, 'Hey, no matter the age, no matter the person, no matter the situation, everyone needs help at some point.' It takes courage to talk about it and having PTSD and dealing with it once people kind of bring it up, it is not something that I'd always want to talk about. I never really know how my body will react or my mind, it is just something that I can't really pinpoint or know exactly what's going to happen.

"I feel like talking is a big thing, but it is just getting over that hump personally, being able to know that honestly, just everybody goes through things good [and] bad ... It's a steppingstone. I'm just 25 years old and trying to live the rest of my life healthy.''

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