Originally Posted by RP (Post 4675740)

COLTS WOULD HAVE WON 45-7 IF THEY WEREN'T PLAYING WITH A FLAT FOOTBALL!

Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan (Post 4676083)

Wanting him to hand over his cell phone is a definite invasion of privacy.

The man is clearly guilty as shit though. He broke the rules and he's getting punished. It's pretty cut and dry.

Originally Posted by Rotoworld

PFT's Mike Florio reports the NFL offered suspended QB Tom Brady a two-game reduction on his four-game suspension in exchange for a guilty admission.

Per Florio's source, Brady had to admit to having knowledge of whatever ball men John Jastremski and Jim McNally were doing to the footballs, admit to failing to cooperate with the Ted Wells investigation and then apologize. Brady's ban would have then dropped to at least two games and possibly one. It appears Brady is dead-set on taking the NFL to court to get his suspension wiped out completely or he's going to take the heat and sit the four games.

Originally Posted by SBNation

'I talked to Bill (Belichick) at the combine, and I asked him how Jimmy was doing,' recalled [Garoppolo's QB tutor Jeff] Christensen in a recent phone call. 'He said "(Jimmy) looks like a linebacker. He works out like a linebacker. He acts like a linebacker. I really like him a lot, coach. You did a great job with him. Thank you."'

Originally Posted by NFL.com

Too high? Not in my book. I'd much rather have an athletic young backup with upside than some 39-year-old game manager. Garoppolo was intriguing last preseason and played well in relief of Brady in a Monday night collapse against the Chiefs. I'm convinced he'll perform well again if Brady's four-game suspension sticks. New England does an outstanding job of preparing young players and Garoppolo showed good decision-making last season. He isn't afraid to throw the ball downfield and we're talking about a coach, in Bill Belichick, who milked an 11-win season out of Matt Cassel.

Originally Posted by Vito Cruz (Post 4676137)

<font color=goldenrod>In a weird move, the NFL is now giving road teams the option of wearing their home jerseys during Thursday Night Football this year rather than the road team having to wear a white road jersey. This would result in what they call in college football "color on color" games.

If well-received it might become mandatory in 2016. We could eventually wind up with nobody wearing white jerseys at all except for Dallas.</font>

Originally Posted by ESPN

Jets DL charged with resisting arrest

Sheldon Richardson, who is already suspended 4 games for marijuana use, was charged with resisting arrest in connection with a high-speed street race in which he was clocked going as fast as 143 mph. A fully loaded semi-automatic weapon was found in the car, a 2014 Bentley, police said.

Originally Posted by Vito Cruz (Post 4682792)

Originally Posted by ESPN

Former Dolphins offensive line coach Jim Turner, who was fired by the Dolphins after his actions were questioned in the first Wells report in February 2014, is filing a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Wells and his law firm, Paul Weiss of New York, seeking damages for defamation, according to an official familiar with the case.

Turner, who thinks his reputation and career have been unfairly affected, believes that Wells' report on the Dolphins negatively and perhaps permanently altered his ability to land another NFL coaching job ...

In the lawsuit, Turner alleges that the NFL commissioned Wells and Paul Weiss to write a report that would placate the public and assign blame to certain individuals such as Turner, while the law firm was well-paid and well-positioned for future work on NFL cases such as the one that turned out to be Deflategate.

Turner's attorney, Peter Ginsberg, believes that Wells and Weiss failed to include significant testimony from former and current Dolphins coaches and players in the report, opting instead to blame the events on, among others, Turner.

Ginsberg also believes that Turner was falsely accused of helping create an atmosphere that allowed bullying and harassment to happen and, even though Wells knew the accusations were not true, he included them in the report anyway, damaging Turner's reputation and inflicting emotional distress, pain and suffering.

Incognito told Newsday that Wells left out information that could have helped his case in the published report. Asked for specifics on what was left out of Wells' report in his case, Incognito said: "Teammate testimony, stuff like that."

Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball (Post 4685444)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Eagles fans have started a <a href="http://t.co/nFpSBDmqET">http://t.co/nFpSBDmqET</a> petition asking for Pope Francis to bless the knees of Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford.</p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/631135663786721280">August 11, 2015</a></blockquote>
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:lol:

Originally Posted by ESPN

Judge Richard M. Berman in Manhattan repeatedly asked NFL lawyer Daniel L. Nash for "direct evidence that implicates Mr. Brady" as he gave both sides a chance to state their case in the first hearing before him.

Nash responded there was "considerable evidence Mr. Brady clearly knew about this,'' including records of text messages and phone calls between the quarterback and one of two Patriots employees implicated in the scandal known as "Deflategate.'' But he also said there was no "smoking gun'' showing Brady had direct knowledge that the balls were deflated for the first half of the Patriots' 45-7 defeat of the Indianapolis Colts in the Jan. 18 AFC championship.

Originally Posted by ESPN

"Turns out, Mr. Brady did better with higher inflated balls than underinflated balls. You might say he got no competitive advantage."

Originally Posted by road doggy dogg (Post 4691216)

I'd argue that Kelvin's was pretty major as well

Originally Posted by Vito Cruz (Post 4691435)

<font color=goldenrod>In the latest installment of "NFL does something stupid"...Cris Carter told rookies at last year's Rookie Syposium that players should always have a friend to act as their fall guy if they got into legal trouble.

.....and the league posted the video on their own website</font> :|

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...ve-a-fall-guy/

Originally Posted by Droford (Post 4692261)

Apparently Peyton Manning hasn't been able to feel anything on his finger tips since 2011.

Originally Posted by road doggy dogg (Post 4693612)

If by the Texans you mean "JJ Watt + 52 other warm bodies", then yes, the Texans are better than the Browns still

Originally Posted by Frank Drebin (Post 4692270)

Now the Bears best D-lineman, Jay Ratliff, has been suspended for 3 games.

Usually everyone in Chicago is really excited and geared up for football. This year, especially with the Cubs looking great, no one cares. Really strange even if everyone knows 8-8 would be stretch. They were supposed to be "meh" before and the excitement was always sky high.

Originally Posted by Clerk (Post 4693958)

The CVZS would have got 4-0 through out the playoffs and finals if all healthy the Warriors could barely beat them 1v5