Kyle_
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Young for Romo is a horrible trade, Only things Young gives you is slightly quicker feet and a couple years younger
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Apparently Vince Young texted Jeff Fisher to say he's sorry, good call
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Mason has a broken finger but is supposed to play through it
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"The pregame altercation got us going. It had us ready. We came back into the locker room pumped," Jackson said, via the AP.
"We were like pit bulls, ready to get out of the cage."
DeSean Jackson is a man who has a way with words.
Nothing was better than "We gonna sting em in they ass"
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Just read this at another message board:
Lukewarm to a proposed 18-game regular-season format by NFL owners, the NFL Players Association nevertheless has made what it says is a "good-faith" counterproposal that addresses the player safety risks incumbent with an expanded season.The union's counterproposal, according to sources, includes significantly reduced voluntary offseason workouts and a specific number of helmetless and padless practices during training camp.
The highlights of the union proposal:
• Voluntary offseason workouts would be reduced from the current 14 weeks to five weeks or 20 days (four days a week, four-hour maximum per day).
• Significantly reduced contact between players during training camp with four practices a week consisting of helmetless and padless periods.
• Two in-season bye weeks.
• Expanded rosters from the current 53 to 56 or 57, in addition to practice squads.
• Increased pro-rated salaries for players under contract.
• Reduction of the amount of games players need to become vested to qualify for post-career health care and pension benefits.
An NFL spokesman said the league would not have a comment on the union's counterproposal, which was delivered to the league's labor negotiation team near the end of October without a response from management.
Despite optimistic public assertions made by high-profile owners such as Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots, there have been no substantive recent negotiations, nor are there any scheduled, on a new collective bargaining agreement. The owners will have their monthly labor meeting in mid-December in the Dallas area. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has stated that while there have been discussions, little progress has been made as both sides have prepared for a potential work stoppage in 2011.
"We have responded to every one of the league's proposals and concerns in an effort to keep negotiations progressing in good faith," said George Atallah, the NFLPA's assistant executive director of external affairs. "There are obvious concerns about an 18-game season in the absence of real information that we await."
Asked to describe "real information" that the union awaits, Atallah said, "injury data, financial information and a logical explanation as to why they are canceling their obligation to post-career health care [next March when the current CBA expires]."
In response to Atallah's description on health care, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello recirculated the management position on funding of current player benefits if there is a work stoppage: "This is yet one more reason to get back to the bargaining table and get an agreement. But there is no question that a strike or lockout triggers rights under a federal law known as COBRA that allows employees to continue their existing health insurance coverage without interruption or change in terms -- either at their expense or their union's expense. This means that no player or family member would experience any change in coverage for so much as a single day because of a work stoppage. The union surely knows this and there is no excuse suggesting otherwise."
The NFL's proposal for an 18-game regular season remains unavailable but sources said the league has called for a reduction from 14 weeks on voluntary workouts to 12. The union's five-week proposal is a stark contrast, although the NFLPA will allow for rookie exceptions as first-year players are integrated into the league.
The NFL also has proposed one bye week after the second of two preseason games in addition to one bye in-season, the sources added. The union wants both byes to be in-season.
Furthermore, union sources say that owners have proposed just one expanded roster spot, from 53 to 54, for an 18-game regular season.
The NFL calendar would undergo significant changes under an 18-game format with two byes, including the possibility that the Super Bowl will be played on President's Day weekend -- three weeks into February. However, there is still discussion of beginning the season one week earlier, on Labor Day, a practice the NFL has forsaken the past several years.
It's possible training camps would begin in late June with at least one break before resuming for preseason preparations, a source said.
Unrelated to the 18-game schedule, also remaining on the table are proposals from each side to include a rookie hard wage scale that could be in effect as early as the 2011 draft. However, whereas the owners want the $200 million on projected rookie wage savings redistributed with $100 million to improved retired player pensions and health care and the remaining $100 million to simply be available in the system with an increased pay-for-performance pool, the union wants the owners to match the $100 million savings on retired players.
Aiello's league response: "We proposed to the union prior to the 2010 season adopting a rookie wage scale for this year [2010] and redistributing the first $100 million to improve retired player pensions and health care. We were prepared to take this step immediately without a fully negotiated CBA in order to get help to retired players now. The union rejected the proposal."
Aiello added that the league already has committed that retired player benefits would continue even if the CBA expires without a new agreement.
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Completely forgot you were a Broncos fan :shifty;
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Because they're the Browns, Kyle. Because they're the Browns.
Well they've been on the best end of the most lopsided trade this year with getting Hillis and dumping off Brady Quinn who is riding the bench pretty hard
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To be fair, Harrison could easily be the starter, still not sure why the Browns traded him for Mike fucking Bell
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Pennington is already hurt, wow
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What a game, good to actually see a Falcons game for once.
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Peko was in as a FB and LAYED OUT Polamalu to give Benson the TD
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He's averaging 22 carries a game right now but the Vikings would be a lot better suited with him getting 30 carries, it isn't like he plays a big role as a receiver.
He has 26 catches(2nd on team) with 267 yards(3rd on team). I really don't see how they aren't using him enough.
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Yeah, they'll flag you all day for so much as grazing the helmet of a QB in the pocket. That's one of the easiest calls for an official to make.
Just as we were done celebrating the Ravens' victory today it came time to get ready for the Thursday night game in Atlanta. Now, I'm not a big fan of Thursday night games because 1) I have work, 2) They're on NFL Network, 3) Teams have 3 days off and then practically a bye week after it, and 4) They're on NFL Network. My big worry is that we're going into one of the hardest places for a road team to win in the NFL though, the Falcons are nasty there. But it is an elite NFC team versus an elite AFC team, and with the exception of the Eagles' win today all of those games this season (that I can recall) have tilted in the favor of the Awesome Football Conference.
Oh, and also a great thanks to Cam Cameron for finally realizing Ray Rice and Willis McGahee are two very good running backs and should be used as a regular part of the offense. If the Vikes ever start using AP regularly they might turn the corner.
You do know AP is leading the league in carries right?
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But the RULE says you can't hit a QB in the head. You can't really argue that it was a bad call because of the rule
If Vick was the one that was touched, that call would've never been made.
Or not. I would have agreed with you but someone got called for the same penalty a week or two ago for barely touching the helmet with his finger, can't remember who the QB was but it wasn't Brady or Manning
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Sorry friend of mine made a franchise and I was full at 5 already and this was least active. Shame I was looking forward to killing Dez Bryant
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The Bengals messed up by not keeping Antonio Bryant. He was the only WR worth having at this point, no TO, no Ochocinco and no Moss. Bryant was more than enough, great player and a medium/low profile.
Considering TO is in the top 10 in catches, yards, and TDs, I think not
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Ad on that note Favre says he expects to play next week
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Probably all the picks he's thrown this year would be my guess
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Favre appears to be dead
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Anyone else think the complete lack of ammo at the start is a bit much? I mean, I'm all for a bit of a challenge, but I couldn't do shit for Blackwater with the tiny amounts I had.
I fucking love the fact that when you first walk through a town, it's usually just empty. But then when you turn around, shitloads of zombies. Beautiful. Cleared out a few towns and now doing the mission for the Snake Oil guy. There's one settlement that I apparently can't find though? Up in the mountains? Caught WAR yesterday, anyone find Death yet? I also have Zombie Bait, but still not got Holy Water or Blunderbuss.
I've killed the Big Foot's too, but no luck as of yet finding the apparent Unicorn.
It's the Fort
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Shrimp Guy may be the best character ever
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War Horse FTW
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Got the game, keytar, and new drums, which are awesome. Tried out the keytar a bit, have some trouble getting the black keys to work for whatever reason
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Still 3 games left...
The 2010 NFL Thread
in Myke's Sports Bar
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I think C belongs to Philadelphia