(1/2/22)
Falcons @ Bills
Giants @ Bears
Chiefs @ Bengals
Dolphins @ Titans
Raiders @ Colts
Jaguars @ Patriots
Buccaneers @ Jets
Eagles @ That Team in DC
Rams @ Ravens
Broncos @ Chargers
Texans @ 49ers
Cardinals @ Cowboys
Panthers @ Saints
Lions @ Seahawks
Vikings @ Packers

(1/3/22)
Browns @ Steelers

Happy new year.



*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

https://sports.yahoo.com/falcons-broncos-cowboys-player-nfl-coach-dan-reeves-dies-at-77-152100419.html

Fired too soon. The Falcons had some more success following his time there but he really should have been kept along to help Vick really turn that franchise into Madden 04.

He got too much Lions taint he can never get off.

is a tough ask.

I’m sure he will put up some 4th quarter stats but lmao at people who thought Stafford made them a SB contender. Dude is erratic af with the football

https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1477733191033229314?s=20

https://twitter.com/mmmmillah/status/1477733392611524616?s=20

and I’m not talking football.

peace & blessings,

x.

www.twitter.com/poetx

=========================================
I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

Lost in all this…Todd "Toilet" Bowles defense is getting abused by the fucking Jets.

Not sure what's going on there. They missing a couple people but it's the Jets

Bears management so terrible that even this blowout loss ultimately is a self-own

Giants have our first pick.

Ryan Pace needs to be out the door right behind Nagy.

Allstah swore this team would be great and that Pace was a good GM. Wherefore art thou, allstah?

.

And Tua and the whole team crumbled.

.

Texans
Ravens
Jets (twice)
Carolina
Giants
Saints (with like their 4th string QB)

.

why the fuck did he throw that earlier one to OBJ that resulted in the Buttpunch?

Call a fucking timeout you clowns!!!

Probably would've sealed the game if we scored.

.

When the Jets lost to the Raiders.

the headline of the Jets-Bucs game.

LOL @ AB. Mike Tomlin, actual GOAT, looks like a million bucks. I hope AB never comes back to play on that team (or any team) ever again.

Meanwhile the Eagles actually KICKED the field goal on 4th down, and left it to the defense to handle the remainder of the clock. Game ends on a McCleod pick.

Falcons getting BUFFALO'D, which is good, because NE got essentially a bye week.

Rams take it by 1, which is also good.

I think Cincinnati might mess around and win this division now

up by 4, inside the 10 yard line. You can kick the FG and Tampa would need a score and a 2 point conversion to win. Nope. Get stuffed, going for it on 4th and 2…then your defense gets smooth worked, down the field with Brady throwing to a Door Dash driver.

>Falcons getting BUFFALO'D, which is good, because NE got
>essentially a bye week.

Allen missed Diggs on 3rd down and there was incidental contact so they get a fresh set of downs

-Matt gets leg swept by a defender, ruled a sack
-got hit in the head by a defender, no call
-slides in for a TD, which by rule he isn't down until he gets touched but ok they said he gave himself up so he's down where his knee hit on the 1 foot line, but he was blasted by the defender so there should have been a late hit called but no they hit Matt with a taunting call and back us up 15 yards all while ignoring maybe was jawing with dude cause he just BLASTED him.
-Allen gets a love tap by a defender, as he was throwing the ball, roughing called.
Buffalo gonna get the butts handed to them come playoffs


<=========================================
https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/PYzh4v9cSf4FDnq3yMQyqNqh79o=/800x0/filters:no_upscale%28%29/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4079674/jlio.0.gif

>they hit Matt with a taunting call and back us up 15 yards all
>while ignoring maybe was jawing with dude cause he just
>BLASTED him.

taunting rules gotta go. there's no clear rules on what "taunting" actually is, and the concept of a "taunt" makes no sense if Matt was on the losing end of a play.

If that's not pi, dunno what is

https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1477749809104801792?s=21

dude was a household name and role model at one point.

I mean, look at who their QB is

only time ben got caught was when he had the audacity to do that shit in a public bathroom.

https://twitter.com/spotrac/status/1477739671794892805

Simple answer is, his CTE/mental issues had not progressed to the where they are now, or have been the last few years.

but I think it just hadn’t come out yet.

everything else was petty shit like not wanting to sleep in the college dorms at camp

or facebook living a playoff game

practice and locker room squabbles/outbursts. shit like that.

He has extreme mental issues, and should never play football again.

He was clearly having a mental episode, and he is going to get demonized by
the media and everyone else. But he needs serious, serious medical attention.

Could it be CTE? That’s a huge possibility, and continue to play football will
just make the situation worse.

I do not want to see this guy found dead or shot somewhere on the side of the road.
I just hope someone in his camp comes in an gets him the treatment that he needs,
because he isn’t going to be able to do it himself.

I think there stands a chance of him getting this treatment publicly, just because it's Boody's Team affected.

I hope he actually has a support system around him.

all the talking head shows gave Arians a ton of shit for giving AB another chance after the vaxx card shit. Undisputed keeps bringing up that its technically a felony and they should press charges. they are about to fire him up

then they'll act all sad when something happens off the field to him, as it seems like that might be where its headed.

if true…

it won’t matter.. lol. They are still going to light him up in the press.

but I remember a story saying he had the last 3 games to reach another million in incentives.

https://twitter.com/JayGlazer/status/1477761601092538369

i mean i wouldnt put it past a team to pull that stunt if the have nothing at stake. but not a team trying to get the #1 seed and home field. and especially not Brady's Bucs. he aint going for that.

AB when trying to come back and fighting for that 1 seed just to maybe save $1 million dollars. This isn’t the last game of the season.

they benched him because if he got two more catches (feasible given the score of the game), he would be due a bonus from the team?

if true.... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THEM and LOL

So Arians told him to get lost

why they not gonna help him get it again?

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/how-tom-brady-helped-antonio-brown-earn-250k-bonus-late-bucs-falcons-game


<=========================================
https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/PYzh4v9cSf4FDnq3yMQyqNqh79o=/800x0/filters:no_upscale%28%29/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4079674/jlio.0.gif

>if true…
>
>it won’t matter.. lol. They are still going to light him up
>in the press.
>
>but I remember a story saying he had the last 3 games to reach
>another million in incentives.

I’m going to assume this didn’t really happen. It’s not unbelievable. And it HAS happened before. But I don’t want to believe it just yet. It sucks regardless. I wanted dude to stay his ass on the field and be useful again to help add to a decent end to his grand career.

but dude is wild af.

not sure this rumor is true

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

people still dont want to admit Trevor is a lot rougher around the edges than his rep would imply. i'd go get Doug Petersen and team them up

Kicker is washed, multiple penalties wiping out big plays, Oline got handled, McCarthy dumb, offense got going…late. Zona came in desperate, not wanting to lose 4 straight and just played better. Shout out to Vance Joseph, man…he had that defensive looking trill.

.

Otherwise we likely would have lost. Key mistakes by Dallas kept us afloat. Kingsbury still has issues. What else is new?

>

Kirk is a ho. I’m guessing he’s due to finish the job of getting Zimmer canned here soon.

per this report from Rapaport (i.e. the NFL's own media):

- AB did not practice prior to the Jets game, didn't think he was healthy enough
- AB was told if he didn't go in when he was told to go in, he would be cut
- AB refused to go into the game and was dismissed by the team from the sidelines
- AB did what he did and left the team right then and there.

If true, the Bucs look like some assholes. It was the damn Jets, AB could have sat one more week if needed. Boody won with his Luck anyway.

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1477980644584140800?s=20

and, like someone else pointed out, he made a Jets defender look silly before the blowup
https://twitter.com/ReceiverSchool/status/1477730076980617232?s=20
I mean, I have no rooting interest, either way.

And he even said something to Brady on the sidelines about it, Brady walked away in disgust per Skip Bayless. Then threw a tantrum and refused to go back in, then used an injury as an excuse.

on Get Up (obviously no sound), but it didn’t look like a pleasant convo.

1. TB was shutting AB down so he doesn’t hit contract incentives.

2. AB didn’t want to go in and play because of health concerns.

3. AB was mad because he wasn’t getting enough targets.

Of those three, I think number 3 is most likely.

I've seen games where Mike Evans barely gets a look. Yesterday Gronk was the best matchup, and got the most targets. Just like the game winning drive Evans and Gronk didnt get a single pass, because the defense switched and left Johnson and Cyril one on one.

Most believable is that AB was pissed he wasn't getting enough throws his way and threw a tantrum. Refused to go back in when asked, Arians told him to get the fuck out then.

Damage control. His agent and camp have to know that Sunday was more than likely the end of his career so they are trying to deflect some of it in the hopes that some team might take another chance on AB.

unless he got hurt after the last game…he was crazy healthy and got 15 targets, the day after Christmas.

..and considering his history of narcissistic/histrionic behavior, I don't think any explanation will make sense of this recent incident.




*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

Cincinnati was going to Bungle a win with that stupid ass 4th down play and the refs bailed them out.

As a Steeler fan I saw that shit a mile away and just knew they would find a way to fuck up an easy W and the refs bailed them out

Why are these young coaches afraid to kick FG’s? Is this analytics or young dudes raised on Madden?

He aint shit but that was still my Quarterback!!!

the Colts lose to the Jaguars to get in the playoffs.

and take care of each other's headaches.

Browns will immediately be back in playoff picture provided Q-Aaron doesn't take his talents to the Steelers. If so, say hello to Steeler ring No. 7.

Baker should have got the surgery and shut it down. Now he's pretty much played himself out of a contract re-up, and possibly might be off the Browns in a minute.

I mean, look at the out going Steeler QB.
Watson is light work in comparison.

At this point he is a better actor than football player.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Journalism has no integrity
There are a few different contexts that could be explored...outside of AB cray cray
I find it strange that CTE is never discussed when NFL players have off the field/behavioral/criminal issues
for example, a fake vaxx card is a felony...but the NFL protected AB in that instance by not releasing details
There's also the AHern context, where Brady benefits from what appears to be a HOF talent in a spiral to the bottom off the field
It's f'n weird IMO...to post a timeline of AB's transgressions...and not start with the Burfect hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8iFSP_S5h8
2016...things started going off the rails in 2018...?

>Journalism has no integrity
>There are a few different contexts that could be
>explored...outside of AB cray cray
>I find it strange that CTE is never discussed when NFL players
>have off the field/behavioral/criminal issues
>for example, a fake vaxx card is a felony...but the NFL
>protected AB in that instance by not releasing details
>There's also the AHern context, where Brady benefits from what
>appears to be a HOF talent in a spiral to the bottom off the
>field
>It's f'n weird IMO...to post a timeline of AB's
>transgressions...and not start with the Burfect hit
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8iFSP_S5h8
>2016...things started going off the rails in 2018...?

I’ll start zoomed out. Casually flinging hate on wrs, rbs, and corners is just typical nfl ‘fan’ behavior. The truth is immaterial. The goal is just to hate those guys, blame a whole franchise’s issues on them, and ignore it as much as possible when the teams are hilariously putrid after the alleged ‘problem child’ is gone. Look at the Giants post-OBJ for instance. They’re terrible and I don’t hear much about them in the south. Before? I kept hearing the local meatheads around me and a bit of my corner of the Twitta constantly going on and on about how brutal OBJ was for the Giants. How could they win with him!? Oh no. Aka let’s go Rams.

Zooming in to AB, not nearly enough people ‘care about’ that dude. He’s just stats for fantasy football until he’s not and a vessel to absorb hate from the meatheads who semi-secretly wish they could trade places with any of these players who have had decent careers and/or earnings. I was concerned about Brown when he was basically the best wr in the league and Pittsburgh wasn’t even trying to fix his contract. Mike Wallace was in Miami and then Sanders was in Denver. And Brown still caught hell getting his money up. That was when my disdain for Large Ben ramped up and I never really got over it. Now that he’s fat, old, and obviously reduced/terrible, he’s low hanging fruit. But I was down on him even when all people could talk about was ‘2 super bowls’.

And of course, these big media groups don’t want to reopen any discussions about how dangerous the NFL is and how many dudes leave the game with all sorts of mental issues. They’re leaning on anything intervening with the sound of their money machines.

>Zooming in to AB, not nearly enough people ‘care about’
>that dude. He’s just stats for fantasy football until he’s
>not and a vessel to absorb hate from the meatheads who
>semi-secretly wish they could trade places with any of these
>players who have had decent careers and/or earnings. I was
>concerned about Brown when he was basically the best wr in the
>league and Pittsburgh wasn’t even trying to fix his
>contract. Mike Wallace was in Miami and then Sanders was in
>Denver. And Brown still caught hell getting his money up. That
>was when my disdain for Large Ben ramped up and I never really
>got over it. Now that he’s fat, old, and obviously
>reduced/terrible, he’s low hanging fruit. But I was down on
>him even when all people could talk about was ‘2 super
>bowls’.
>
>And of course, these big media groups don’t want to reopen
>any discussions about how dangerous the NFL is and how many
>dudes leave the game with all sorts of mental issues.
>They’re leaning on anything intervening with the sound of
>their money machines.

and to add on: another reason why AB was protected on the vax matter was because of where he was playing. As long as AB was there to assist Boody, the golden goose, nothing was happening. now that AB has acted in a way that the NFL deems unacceptable, you see how things shift.

Both are entirely possible and both are possible at the same time. AB has ALWAYS been a narcissist. This is the same conversation that people have about Kanye when they defend that asshole. He's a narcissist. These are all CLASSIC narcissistic behaviors. AB's issues go back way further than the Burfict hit. He was peacocking in that Steelers locker room long before that and disrespecting people left and right. Bottom line is he's gotta be held accountable for his actions either way. Make all the excuses you want but he's a grown ass man and CTE or not hopefully he gets help and isn't coddled or enabled to continue to act like a child.

I'm not excusing his behavior
I'm trying to have a conversation about it
Pretty easy to observe a dramatic change in his behavior after 2016
Did you try to equate sexual assault with peacocking?
I think you're doing too much
The Nino Brown haircut is peacocking
He's escalated to criminal behavior
Those aren't the same
I think it's ignorant to not mention CTE when discussing these incidents
Do you disagree?
IRT Kanye, same thing
His behavior escalated after his mom died
Not an excuse. A reason
People seem too comfortable dismissing it as...that boy crazy
We could have a discussion on the how and why as well...