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Vic Beasley's mysterious absence has ended.

The edge rusher reported to Titans camp Friday, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport and NFL Network's Mike Garafolo reported, per a source informed of the situation. Rapoport later added that Beasley was fined a total of $500,000 for the 10 days he missed as mandated by the Collective Bargaining Agreement.


This is good news as he had some good years with the Falcons........But NO explanation for the Titans.........Weird.

And can guys imagine been Fined 500 k........Jezz .......this is a drop in the bucket for him.

 

Washington didn’t waste any time, moving on from running back Derrius Guice soon after his arrest on domestic violence-related charges.

The team announced it has waived Guice.

“On Thursday we learned of a potential domestic violence-related incident involving RB Derrius Guice,” the team said in a statement. “We immediately alerted the National Football League and have continued to work with them during this process. We then met with Derrius to inform him that he was excused from all team activity pending a review of this matter. This afternoon we learned that there were multiple charges filed against Derrius. Upon review of the nature of these charges and following internal discussions, we have decided to release Derrius immediately.”

Washington selected Guice in the second round in 2018. Knee injuries limited the former LSU product to five games, one start, 49 touches, 324 yards and three touchdowns.

The team has depth at the position, with Adrian Peterson, Peyton Barber, J.D. McKissic, Antonio Gibson and Bryce Love.

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Jatavis Brown just retired. lol wtf.

 

Didn’t he have an injury that was considered career threatening at one point?

EDIT:
My recollection on this is incorrect.

Perryman was the LAC LB that had the injury I was thinking of.

 

By the way...

Running back Derrius Guice, officially released by Washington on Saturday, officially is out of the NFL. At least for now. Possibly for good.

Guice cleared waivers, making the 2018 second-round pick a free agent.

 

I don’t understand why domestic abuse gets guys permanently out of the league but other more serious crimes only merit a 4 game suspension.

 

It was domestic violence... thats pretty serious. Should have been permanently banned without waivers.

 

Things that determine the extent of a player’s punishment:

1) Does the player’s on-field production outweigh the headache of having him on the roster?
2) Is there video of the incident?

 

Examples -

Tyreek Hill: elite production + no video = no punishment

Kareem Hunt: elite production + video = cut but immediate second chance elsewhere

Derrius Guice: no production + no video = cut but will probably get another chance somewhere next year

Ray Rice: diminished production + video = see ya!

 

My point is that they have done a hell of a lot worse crimes and still been able to enjoy a good career. Domestic violence is a serious crime but no more serious than child abuse AP. Rape, robbery dealing large quantities of drugs. A lot of players hardly get a slap on the wrist for these infractions and then Ray Rice is banned for life because of one incident. If you are going to come down that hard on domestic violence shouldn’t they do the same for every other crime.

 

Ray Rice wasn’t banned for life, wasn’t it a 6-8 game ban? His career ended because his ability was eroding, not because of his actions. If he was still in his prime, he would’ve been signed again to a cheap contract.

And before the video, I think it was either a 1 or 2 game suspension. League had to backtrack once the video became public. Still believe he would have played even after the video if he was still as productive as he was a few years earlier.

I guess in short: I agree with Underdog lol

 

Because Goodell and the owners have no capability to act fairly or even uniformly and largely base punishments on which way the winds of public opinion are blowing at any given moment? A Steeler fan who lived through Ben getting a longer suspension for just being accused of sexual misconduct than Tank Johnson did for dealing drugs (not using, dealing!) around the same time should be acutely attuned to that.

Again...look at how people rationalized the AP situation away (“well that’s how he was raised and he didn’t know any better”). If he wasn’t a HOF talent, he wouldn’t’ve gotten so much latitude. If there’d been video of him beating his kid with a switch, he’d most likely be hitting the links with Ray Rice right now.

 

In my opinion, there are many crimes that I feel should have a zero tolerance policy in professional sports, I don't care the name or level of talent. Murder, Rape, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Drug Trafficking, Heinous Animal Abuse, just to name a few... These are basic human knowledge crimes that any sane person should understand are career threatening. If there was a zero tolerance, you would see the number of simpler issues go down as well, because if there are enough examples of athletes who lost their career, athletes would eventually start caring more about that career and making better choices. Knowing, if they are talented enough (we know there are plenty of examples for youth to see), making a bad choice now and then doesn't result in much of a punishment...It paves the way for more bad choices to happen.

 

Totally agree with that. Winning brings much more money to franchises so they’re willing to give people insane amounts of chances if they have a lot of talent. And that sentiment is not limited to sports. If you have enough money, rules don’t apply the same way to your average Joe.

On a side note, I’m more ok with how they handled Vick (who I assume the animal abuse was directed at) than almost every other example in the past few posts. What he did was despicable and horrendous, but he actually went to jail. He made amends, and I feel he earned a second chance, more so than most of the athletes who brake the law. They literally have been harder on players who smoke weed than people involved in domestic violence and manslaughter charges.

 

Running back Lamar Miller is back, nearly a year after tearing an ACL in the 2019 preseason.

According to agent Drew Rosenhaus, Miller has agreed to terms with the Patriots. The agreement hinges on Miller passing a physical.

Miller suffered the knee injury while playing for the Texans last year, in an exhibition game against the Cowboys.

The 29-year-old tailback has had a pair of 1,000-yard seasons, in 2014 and 2016. He also has a pair of 97-yard runs in his career, which puts him in two spots of a four-way tie for the fourth-longest run in league history.

Miller entered the league as a member of the Dolphins. He has 5,864 rushing yards, putting him in the top 100 for all-time career yards.

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This strikes me as another BB gem...

 

Hey guys, we are starting a new fantasy football league where the scoring is based off who can pick The most players to come down with covid19

It’s called the coved-19 challenge

 

Jason Garrett: Giants OC job too good an opportunity to pass up



Jason Garrett never addressed the media after his time as the Cowboys head coach came to an end after some twisting in the wind early this year, but he got his chance on a Tuesday conference call in his new role as the Giants offensive coordinator.

Garrett had no interest in discussing the particulars of his end of his time in Dallas, saying that he was proud of the program that they built over his nine-plus seasons as the team’s head coach. Garrett quickly said that this was a “new day” and that the chance to run the offense for head coach Joe Judge made it easy to dive back into a coordinator role.

“It was just too good an opportunity to pass up,” Garrett said.

One of the key parts of Garrett’s job will be developing quarterback Daniel Jones, who he called “a real joy to work with” during the call. He said Jones has a “big arm” and the Giants will be hoping that Garrett’s presence turns that arm into the focal point of a winning team in New Jersey.

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Big Ten and Pac-12 cancel fall football.

 

Will there be any Saturday football?