The Official 2017 NFL Season Thread
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It is, he does a show in Vegas now advocating for legal gambling for the most part.
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infamous114 wrote: »
Yup. He played a big part in getting Jimmy the Greek his job on NFL Today to talk about point spreads back in the day. The goat pre game show. -
Musberger stopped giving a ? right around “2nd down and 9!!!!!”
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stringer bell wrote: »
If AB84 stayed on the ground for 5 mins, they would’ve denied the appeal.
All this ? is wack.
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http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21691975/nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-signs-contract-extensionSource: Goodell signs deal worth up to $200M
Roger Goodell has signed a five-year contract extension to remain the commissioner of the NFL, according to a letter obtained by ESPN.
A source told ESPN's Adam Schefter that the new contract would be worth $200 million over the life of the contract -- about $40 million annually -- if owners approve all the bonuses and all the incentives are met.
The base salary of the new contract is in the single-digit millions, a source had told Schefter. Roughly 85 percent of the total potential compensation package is from bonuses, which would be subject to ownership approval and validation.Goodell's new deal, which runs through 2024, had been a contentious issue throughout the 2017 season. Sources had told ESPN in October that the debate over NFL player protests during the national anthem was one reason for the delay in completing the extension.
Goodell has earned $212.5 million since he was elected NFL commissioner in 2006 as Paul Tagliabue's replacement. The NFL paid Goodell nearly $32 million in fiscal year 2015, the last year for which public records exist.
Prior to signing the extension, his contract would have expired after the 2018 season.
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How is the commissioner making nine figures? Smh.
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212.5 since 2006...thats wild...32 in 2015 alone..? ridiculous(RZA voice)
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? football...these football players need to put they kids in the best schools n use they money to get them the best education. Then they kids can grow up n make more money than them n not have CTE
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More money, less broken bones
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http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2017/12/06/Mike-Mitchell-Roger-Goodell-nfl-matt-hasselbeck-suspensions-George-Iloka-JuJu-Smith-Schuster/stories/201712060172Mike Mitchell blasts Roger Goodell and the NFL: 'This isn't football'
Mike Mitchell was livid Wednesday afternoon, and that was before NFL commissioner Roger Goodell agreed to a new contract. Wonder how entertaining his interview after practice might have been if he had known that.
Still, the outspoken safety had plenty to say on the state of football in America after a violent weekend that jolted the sport. Mitchell started by channeling Pro Football Hall of Famer Jack Lambert, who famously said “they’ll be putting skirts on quarterbacks next” when the NFL made rules changes to protect quarterbacks in 1980.
Plenty more rules have been instituted in the past 37 years, and Mitchell is disgusted by it. He has a suggestion for the league.
“Just hand us all some flags and let us go out there and grab the flags off because we’re not playing football,” Mitchell said. “This is not [? ] football. When I was 6 years old watching Charles Woodson, Rod Woodson, Sean Taylor, the hitters, Jack Tatum. … That’s football. This isn’t football.
“You have to know what the risks are when you sign up. No one wants to be paralyzed and no one wants to have head injuries. These are all things that are negative. But let’s not try to [label] football a dangerous or barbaric game. This is how I’ve changed my family legacy. Before I got drafted I had $368 in my bank account. That’s far from the case today. I changed my family legacy by this beautiful game of football forever. Let’s not try to turn it into some evil, ? game. It’s football. It’s no different from UFC fighting.
“This is a combat, contact sport. There are going to be injuries. That’s just what it is. If you don’t want to get injured then don’t come out here. This is for real men. This is a man’s game. Ray Lewis said that a couple of years ago. This is a man’s game. I stand by that. If you’re a little kid and don’t want to get your [butt] hit then don’t come out here because this is for grown men. Straight like that.”
Steelers fans are upset with the NFL suspending receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster for a game for a hit he delivered on Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict. Mitchell was just as upset, if not more, about the league’s treatment of Bengals safety George Iloka, who was suspended for his helmet-to-helmet hit on Steelers receiver Antonio Brown. Iloka had his suspension rescinded Wednesday, but he still has to pay a $36,000 fine.
“I was talking to George after the game because he is one of my dear friends,” Mitchell said. “I felt like I had to defend him. We are physical safeties. Think of what you ask us to do. We’re always the last line of defense. We’re always making bang-bang plays. You never see us getting to line someone up in the hole like a linebacker.
“We’re playing full-speed. We’re 4.4, 4.3 speed. Aim that. You go do that. You can’t. It’s just the risk of playing football. If the ball is in the air and a man jumps or a man ducks his head, how do you want me to readjust my body? You cannot do it. At the end of the day, this is football. If you want to see flag football, then let’s take our pads off. That would make it easier for me because now I don’t have to wear heavy [stuff]. But give us flags for me to pull off because that way I know what we’re playing. I signed up to play full-speed, contact football, and we’re not doing that.
“I feel like I have to ask a guy ‘Hey are you ready for me to hit you now?’ That’s crazy. I’m going to mess around and get hurt because I’m trying to protect an offensive player because he’s running an over route? [? it], your quarterback shouldn’t have thrown that ball messed up.
“That happened two years ago. Andy Dalton threw a ball two years ago to Tyler Eifert. [He] had to dive for it. I was aiming for his gut. But if he doesn’t dive he doesn’t get hit in the head. That’s $50,000 out of my pocket because Andy throws a bad ball. Make that make sense.”
Mitchell also had a few choice words for ESPN analyst and former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who apparently questioned Mitchell’s style of play.
“Now I got ***holes like Matt Hasselbeck calling me a ? player and trying my character, and we’ve never met before,” Mitchell said. “I donate more money to Cincinnati and underprivileged kids than probably people on the Bengals, so don’t give me that name. My nephew goes to school there. I take all that personally. If you don’t know me don’t judge me from football because football is my competitive side.”
And finally, Mitchell saved his best shot for Goodell, whom Mitchell took to task for his handling of the recent suspensions. Mitchell, like many other Steelers players, is miffed at Smith-Schuster receiving the same suspension as Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, who elbowed Bills cornerback Tre’Davious White in the head while he was prone on the ground five seconds after the play ended.
“There is so much going on in the game right now,” Mitchell said. “Obviously, I’m flustered. We just have to do better as players when we sign the next [collective bargaining agreement]. We have to get better leadership as far as who is running the league. Obviously, everyone from fans, owners and players … we’re all disappointed in Roger Goodell. We have to do better. We can’t have a guy where you just hand out discipline on how you see fit.
“There has to be a set guideline on how we do what we do. There is no way I see how post-play infractions that don’t have to do with football and you give them the same suspension as a guy who made a football pay in a football game. It’s absolutely absurd. But like I said it’s Steelers versus the world.” -
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Nothing but real ? was said in that video.
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natural born sinners wrote: »? football...these football players need to put they kids in the best schools n use they money to get them the best education. Then they kids can grow up n make more money than them n not have CTE
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dat ? got to be trollin wit that zesty ?
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infamous114 wrote: »
I showed this video to my fiance and she said 'Let em know, sis!' I'm crying actual tears over here. lol -
Slander.
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northside7 wrote: »Slander.
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/12/07/seahawks-linebacker-bobby-wagner-has-no-desire-to-see-a-targeting-rule-added-in-nfl/Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner has no desire to see a targeting rule added in NFL
Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner had a visceral reaction regarding the idea of college football style “targeting” rules being implemented in the NFL.
“It’s terrible,” Wagner said on Wednesday. “You can just see it now, you watch the college games and they kicking players out for clean hits because they can’t tell what is a clean hit from certain angles. I would rather that rule stay in the colleges then come up here and start messing up our game.
NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent said earlier on Wednesday that the NFL would consider adopting similar rules following a weekend that saw a brutal contest between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals, and a head shot delivered by New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski on Buffalo Bills cornerback Tre'Davious White. Any such rule changes would need to be approved by the league’s competition committee over the season.
Regardless, Wagner isn’t fond of the rules seen in college football, which require ejections of players should an illegal hit be deemed to have occurred. While not an exact comparison, head shots against defenseless players, blows with the crown of the helmet and launching into an opponent are some of the plays that result in targeting penalties and automatic ejections. If a player is ejected in the second half of a game, they are also forced to sit out the first half of the team’s next game.
“I just think there is a better way than bringing that rule into (the league),” Wagner said. “I would just hate to see rule come into the pros because it makes me not want to watch the college game because I know at any second, a guy could be kicked out for a hit and I don’t know how it is, but they possibly be suspended for half of the game or something like that. Nobody wants to see that.”
In his six seasons with the Seahawks, Wagner hasn’t been penalized for a single play that would have come close to being a targeting penalty under college rules. He’s committed just eight penalties in six years with two roughing the passer penalties being the closest thing he’s committed over that span. Only one of those penalties was even close to an opponent’s head. That came on a late hit of Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor last season when he leaped into Taylor and rode him to the ground after a pass.
“I mean you can be conscious all you want of how you hit a player and what shoulder you are going to hit with the player or anything like that,” Wagner said. “But as soon as the offensive player lowers his shoulder or lowers his head or puts his head into it, I can come with my shoulder and he can lower his head and his head hit my shoulder, but they still say it’s my fault. It’s hard to be conscious of that. You can (be) conscious of it but I don’t think it’s all on the defense even though I feel like we are trying to do a better job of making sure we’re not using our head.” -
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Those fans deserve better. This team has been rebuilding since they came back in the league