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Aaron Rodgers will be first QB with 300 TDs before 100?interceptions

Ten players in NFL history have thrown 300 or more touchdown passes. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is poised to become the 11th ? and the first to do so before throwing 100 interceptions.

Rodgers needs three touchdown passes to become the 11th player in NFL history with 300. The other 10 quarterbacks averaged 171 interceptions before throwing their 300th touchdown. Rodgers has thrown 72 interceptions.

 

I saw this previously. Rodgers is easily the most efficient QB in NFL history. For all we know, he may get to 400 TDs before he throws 100 INTs since every 100 TDs is coming with about 27 INTs or so.

 

He is on better pace than that. He has 24.25 INTs per 100 TDs. At this rate he'd have 97 INTs when he reaches 400 TDs.

 

Anyone else on Firefox keep getting redirected to "hostgator" when you try to move around the website? Doesn't seem to happen on Chrome, but I can't get anywhere on Firefox.

 

That usually comes up when they are doing site repair or update.

 

The update appears to be over, but Firefox browsers typically drag out catching up to any new changes we have here. I had about 48 hours of getting random 404s before it finally cleared up.

 

Charles Sims appears to be odd man out in Bucs??backfield

After struggling through an ugly season last year, Buccaneers running back Charles Sims may be out of work this year.

Sims, who managed just 2.9 yards a carry for the Bucs in 2016, looks like a long shot to make the 53-man roster, according to Buccaneers.com. The team?s website indicates that holdovers Doug Martin and Jacquizz Rodgers and rookie fifth-round pick Jeremy McNichols will make the roster, while Sims probably won?t.

The Bucs had high hopes for Sims when they chose him in the third round of the 2014 NFL draft, and in his second season he showed a lot of promise, finishing with 107 carries for 529 yards and 51 catches for 561 yards.

But Sims, a rare player who ended up on injured reserve twice last season (going on short-term IR and then returning to IR after another injury), may need to find another team if he wants to get an opportunity show that kind of promise again. (PFT)

 

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/viagra...-signaling-softening-ad-market-121745226.html

bleak news for the NFL here. that's 2 major sponsors bailing out. tons of lost cash!

 

Its not really bleak, Cat. You have to keep in mind the perspective. Sure the NFL lost a few sponsors, but its sounds like a ton of money (to you and I it is), but its just a drop of water in the bucket for them.

I think as they lose a customer or two there will be another product in line to take its place. Ciallis (Viagra) type stuff is old anyways... theve beaten that dead horse for ever now and the companies have to deal with generics now also. When the NFL talks about $31Million dollars, its just chump change to them... another product will come along.

I guess I just don't think it is as bad as the direction the article seems to want to lead you into thinking that the NFL is in some kind of trouble... I just don't see it... yet.

 

Yeah but, shouldn't the NFL keep up it's sex, drugs and rock and roll image?

 

They do! They still air Steelers games.

 

Will, I guess the $31-50 mil the NFL may lose is nothing to them. To me that's a lot of money, but the NFL is a cash cow, so they will find another sponsor.

I find it funny that the patent for Cialis is done and now can be a generic pill. The old timers will love that.

 

Haven't you seen the Viagra commercial where they are desperately trying to pump up the brand name. It's cringe. Guy is in line saying to someone else in line that he is changing an error because they gave him generic instead of actual Viagra and that just saying Viagra makes you happy.


The NFL can get most of that money back through new advertisers.

Oh and anyone not catch the innuendo in that title?

"Viagra won't advertise on NFL games, signaling softening ad market"

They should have just gone all the way with

"Viagra pulling out: won't advertise on NFL games, signaling softening ad market"

 

So they will have to get the generics to advertise so they can keep the add market firm.

 

Jason Witten will soon be No. 4 all time in pass?receptions

Any NFL fan knows that Cowboys tight end Jason Witten has caught a lot of passes, but many may not realize just how high on the all-time career catches list Witten is.

In fact, within the first couple games of the regular season, Witten is likely to be the No. 4 receiver in NFL history.

Witten currently ranks seventh, with 1,089 career catches. But he?s only 14 catches away from passing three Hall of Famers: No. 6 Tim Brown (who has 1,094 catches), No. 5 Cris Carter (1,101) and No. 4 Marvin Harrison (1,102). If Witten catches passes this season at the same rate he did last season, he?ll move ahead of Harrison and into fourth place all time in Week Four.

Moving into third place is likely out of reach for Witten this year, and possibly out of reach for him ever: Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald is currently No. 3 with 1,125 catches, so Witten needs 37 more catches than Fitzgerald to move into third place all time. Given that Fitzgerald is younger than Witten, and that Fitzgerald led the NFL with 107 catches last season, it?s unlikely that Witten will surpass Fitzgerald?s total.

Witten is probably three or four seasons away from surpassing Tony Gonzalez, the No. 2 all-time receiver and the all-time leader among tight ends, with 1,325. Whether Witten plays long enough to top Gonzalez?s total remains to be seen.

Jerry Rice?s all-time record of 1,549 catches appears safe for many more years.

 

Bills defensive tackle Adolphus Washington arrested on weapons?charges

Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Adolphus Washington was arrested on weapons charges Sunday in Cincinnati, according to 7 Eyewitness News in Buffalo.

Washington allegedly displayed a gun to police as officers were attempting to clear out a water park around 10 p.m.
According to the police report, Washington ?reached for and displayed a gun while sitting inside his vehicle, just feet away from officers.? He was arrested on the spot and later released.

?We are aware of the incident regarding Adolphus Washington and have been in contact with him,? the Bills said in a statement released to the station. ?Since it is a pending legal matter, we will have no further comment.? (PFT)

 

Saints' Adrian Peterson: 'The doubt motivates me'

One question hanging over the Big Easy as we barrel toward training camp is how the running back rotation will sort out.

Since the New Orleans Saints signed Adrian Peterson and drafted Alvin Kamara to a backfield that already included Pro Bowler Mark Ingram, everyone has said the right things about sharing the rock and playing their role.

Peterson has consistently insisted he didn't join the Saints expecting the sort of load he earned for years in Minnesota.

"I don't need all those carries to be my best," Peterson told Dan Pompei of the Bleacher Report. "I don't think I became a great player by having to have 20 or 30 carries to get 200 yards. If they feed it to me, hey, I'm going to eat. Whenever I get opportunities, I'll take advantage of them."

Given Peterson's history of overcoming obstacles, few should doubt All Day's ability to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2016.
Pompei spoke to Peterson's trainer, James Cooper, who believes the 32-year-old can still be one of the best in the NFL.

"There are the NFL players, there are the NFL starters, and then there is the upper-echelon one percent," Cooper said. "He is still going to be in that upper one percent."

Several other running backs also work out in the Houston gym owned by Peterson: Melvin Gordon, Ty Montgomery and Joe Mixon. Cooper noted to Pompei that Peterson is either better than or just as good as each younger back in speed, cutting ability and getting in out of breaks.

Despite a litany of injuries and Peterson creeping toward the age most running backs fall off a cliff, Saints coach Sean Payton is confident AD has several more prime seasons left.

"There are some things I've seen him do that are rare," Payton said. "Regardless of how talented anyone is, at some point it fades or diminishes. I don't think it's happened for him yet. I really don't. And that's exciting. I think he's physically capable of giving us a very, very high, elite-level performance. I feel that way. It's a little different with this player than the norm with age."
Questions linger over Peterson as he heads toward the first training camp of his career not wearing purple. It's natural to wonder what an over-30 running back with more than 2,400 carries coming off injuries has left. It's logical to ponder the merits of that tailback joining a new offense led by a Hall of Fame quarterback who makes throwing for 5,000 yards seem routine.
"Yes, the doubt motivates me," Peterson said. "I'd be lying to say it doesn't. You want to do things people say you can't do."

A motivated Peterson is the best Peterson New Orleans could hope for in 2017. (NFL.com)

 

Bruce Arians reveals he had kidney cancer during the 2016?season

Cardinals coach Bruce Arians has revealed that he was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer, during the 2016 season.

Arians writes in his new book that he got the diagnosis in December and decided to coach the rest of the season. He had surgery to remove the cancer in February and says he?s now doing well and will be healthy enough to coach the team in 2017.

?Now I feel great,? Arians writes, via the Cardinals? website. ?My energy has returned. I?m told I?m cancer-free again. I?m ready for at least one more season of NFL football?maybe more.?

This is the third cancer diagnosis for Arians, who has previously had prostate cancer in 2007 and had cancerous cells scraped off his nose in 2013.

?Moving forward, I want to be a beacon of hope for others struggling with cancer,? Arians writes. ?My fight is their fight. I?m not coaching for myself in 2017; I?m coaching for everyone who?s dealing with cancer. This is my charge.?

 

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/calvin-johnson-finally-admits-retired-part-lions-stunk-130416328.html

Wow Barry Sanders 2.0 for the Lions with Calvin Johnson retiring early due to team failures...

 

The 2017 NFL Supplemental Draft passed with no selections on Wednesday, per NFL spokesman Michael Signora.

Defensive lineman Tavares Bingham of Georgia Military College and Western New Mexico running back Marques Rodgers were the only players eligible in this year's supplemental draft, and now become eligible to be signed as free agents. Rodgers was academically ineligible for the 2016 season, while Bingham had exhausted his junior college eligibility and did not play in 2016. It marked the second consecutive year, and fourth in the last five years, that no players were selected in the supplemental draft.

The supplemental draft includes players whose draft eligibility status has changed since the regular draft. Under NFL rules, teams that select a player in the supplemental draft lose a draft choice in the corresponding round of the next year's NFL draft.

The last player to be chosen in the supplemental draft was offensive tackle Isaiah Battle of Clemson, who was selected by the Rams in 2015 in the fifth round. Battle is now with the Kansas City Chiefs. Prior to Battle, the last supplemental pick was receiver Josh Gordon, a 2012 second-rounder of the Cleveland Browns. Gordon is now under indefinite suspension by the NFL and in May his petition for reinstatement was denied. (NFL.com)