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The Jaguars’ problem was they played their Super Bowl in Week 2.

 

Ben Roethlisberger the player who angered Antonio Brown...



The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Monday that Antonio Brown‘s dispute with a teammate led him to walk out last week. We now know the name of that player: Ben Roethlisberger.

Mark Kaboly of The Athletic reports that it was the Steelers quarterback who had a football thrown at his feet by an angry Brown. The disagreement between Roethlisberger and Brown occurred at a Wednesday walk-through.

Brown did not practice last week, with the Steelers listing him as a “coach’s decision” Wednesday and with a knee injury on Thursday and Friday.

The Pro Bowl receiver did not play in the game for disciplinary reasons not an injury concern, according to the Post-Gazette. (PFT)

 

Cmon Steelers. Could he work out in Pittsburgh?

 

The early reports from Atlanta have three different beat writers listing three different people as the "leading candidate" for the OC job. My top choice would still be Bill Musgrave, but his name hasn't even come up so far.

Musgrave took the league's #31 offense and turned it into the #6 offense in just two years, and Oakland won more games with him in his final season as their OC than they have in the two years combined since Jack Del Rio inexplicably let him go. He was also Matt Ryan's quarterback coach through 2010, so they already know each other quite well.

I might as well go ahead and announce now that I'm interviewing him for the OC job in the mock GM exercise. Maybe then I won't need to trade to fill out my coaching staff this year...

 

Crap like this could explain why, offensively speaking, the whole is less than the sum of its parts in Pittsburgh.

 

With this story coming out, aren't the steelers opening themselves up to a fine for fraudulent injury reporting? I know most of the time you see it the opposite way where a team won't report an injury on the report, but making up an injury when a player is being disciplined seems to be an incorrect way to use the report as well.

 

I agree. Mike Tomlin said he was being tested for a knee injury. The whole thing is misleading at the least and should bring NFL discipline.

With the Bell stuff and now Brown, Ben being Ben and the Steelers missing the playoffs with all that talent, something has to give and change in Pittsburgh. I think the show is just about to get underway.

 

They might be fined but the reason for it is to not hide injuries so it really isn't detrimental the other way around for the reason it was intended.


Everyone became a douchebag in 2018. Or was at least exposed as one, although I'd argue I've seen it with Aaron Rodgers publicly for a long time.

 

Cant argue with that assessment either. Plenty of shady stuff around the NFL as everyone tries to circumvent the rules.

 

Once Belichick was allowed to do this sort of stuff, it became commonplace for everyone to follow suit.

 

wow - is this the end of brown in pitt too ? first bell and now brown ? jeez.

 

I think he is suffering from CTE. He has gone over the edge.?

 

No, just the effects of an extremely disappointing finish to a season. He isn't leaving the Steelers unless he retires, the dead money hit will prohibit the team from cutting or trading him. If he does not retire his ego won't let him miss a season like Bell did...He wants his stats. He'll be in a Steelers uniform and I think some time away will get his head on straight and he'll be ok.

 

Pure speculation on my part, but . . .

There is definitely something wrong in that locker room. And it's been there since well before the season ended.

• You have one of the best O-lines in the NFL.
• Your individual receivers are unmatched in the NFL as a group.
• Your running game is prototype "plug and play".
• You have obstensively a future HOF QB under center.

Yet somehow, you failed to make the playoffs. From an outside viewpoint, the common denominator in all the drama seems to be Ben. When he plays poorly, he throws darts at his teammates. They, in turn, throw footballs (literally) at him. Someone on that coaching staff needs to reel in the egos and get them functioning as a team!

 

The man with the funniest name in football is out...

Lions part ways with Jim Bob Cooter

The Lions didn’t make any changes to their coaching staff the day after their season ended with a victory over the Packers, but there will reportedly be a new offensive coordinator in Detroit next season.

Albert Breer of SI.com reports the Lions and Jim Bob Cooter have agreed to part ways.

Cooter took over as the offensive coordinator in Detroit in 2015 and helped the team to back-to-back 9-7 seasons in 2016 and 2017. Things did not go well for the offense or the team under new head coach Matt Patricia in 2018, however, and Cooter sounded resigned to the fact that he’d be headed elsewhere in 2019.

Those reports of his departure also indicate that there’s interest in Cooter around the league. With former Lions coach Jim Caldwell getting mentioned as a candidate for some of the league’s eight head coaching openings, a reunion could be a possibility if Caldwell lands a job.

Even if Caldwell doesn’t get hired, it’s hard to imagine that Cooter won’t be part of our football life in some capacity once next season gets underway.

UPDATE 5:37 p.m. ET: The Lions have officially announced that their staff will be Cooter-free in 2019. (PFT)

 

they're saying now brown has been a problem for years there....

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...ve-him-money-youre-going-to-create-a-monster/

 

Maybe he has, along with a million other NFL players on every team. Seems like every team has its clown, but they produce so the extra curriculars go un-abated.

 

Offensive rookie of the year: Baker Mayfield...

He wakes up feeling dangerous, something no Browns team has been in years.

But now they are, thanks to the presence of and immediate impact created by PFT 2018 offensive rookie of the year Baker Mayfield.

Yes, there are other worthy contenders. Colts guard Quenton Nelson became the league’s offensive rookie of the month for October. Giants running back Saquon Barkley generated more than 2,000 yards from scrimmage. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson took Baltimore’s offense back to the future and helped secure a playoff berth. Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay became the first undrafted offensive Pro Bowler, ever.

But only one rookie transformed a franchise. Only one rookie brought swagger to a team that had none of it, for decades. Only one rookie broke the rookie record for touchdown passes in a season, putting up 27 to the 26 from Peyton Manning and Russell Wilson. And that rookie didn’t even play until Week Three, when an injury to Tyrod Taylor opened the door for Mayfield to become the last name on that jersey of never-ending quarterbacks in Cleveland.

Mayfield, as MDS has pointed out, performed at an MVP level late in the year. He showed moxie, he flashed an edge. He had as much Drew Brees in his game as Jim McMahon.

Wherever Mayfield goes from here remains to be seen. MVP awards will be hard to win with Patrick Mahomes in the league. But Mayfield wants championships, and if the Browns hire the right coach, Mayfield could be pursuing one as soon as 2019. (PFT)