I've flipped the channel past those shows a few times and been meaning to stop and check one out. Have you caught the 30 for 30 Elway to Marino episode yet, and if so, are they anything like that?
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I've flipped the channel past those shows a few times and been meaning to stop and check one out. Have you caught the 30 for 30 Elway to Marino episode yet, and if so, are they anything like that?
Yeah, they show a lot of that sort of stuff. The episode that's on now is the 95 draft. It was funny watching the Jets fans go ballistic when Kyle Brady was picked instead of Warren Sapp. Someone put the word out on Sapp about failing drug tests at Miami.
Another funny thing is that Coughlin called up the Floyd Reese trying to get the Oilers to swap places - Jax was at 2 and Houston was at 3. Coughlin basically lied and told the Oilers they had two teams wanting to trade up into that position to get McNair. The Oilers didn't fall for it. Jax picked Boselli and we got McNair.
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He failed the test based on diluting the sample in order to gain a normal range result.
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Looks like the feds are closing the NFL's evidently lucrative loop hole. The NFL per se has always been taxed through all the individual teams. The NFL LEAGUE OFFICE is the part which is tax-exempt. However, all monies travel through the NFL LEAGUE OFFICE to be later distributed to the teams...........you can only imagine what happens to the money BEFORE it's distributed.
TexansFTW
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Hah, good for him. He's not losing his job. He knows dang well if he shoots those questions off the top of his head without thinking hard on "are these questions going to get me in trouble with public perception" he will likely get the public pretty mad at him for the questions he asks.
He's not losing his job based on saying something on the fly and being controversial.
hahahaha they're making fun of Casserly on nfl network right now
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Jason Gregory said that the Cowboys are the right team for Gregory to go to as far as support. That could be said of an organization like the Pats......not the Girls. Pretty soon, Jerruh will have to contract with a full-time baby sitting agency to try to keep all of his collection of wayward players in line.
This just goes to show how cheap Bob McNair is. If he was willing to spend some money on "player nannies" we could draft some bad actors too
ouch...
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He has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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Is that Clowney holding the crutch?
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Marshall
Not pretty, but ALIVE!
We need to start a list of NRG - Remote control injuries. You know those injuries NRG must cause, but happen at remote locations...
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I wonder if those three would have retired had Harbaugh stayed another season. I know Justin had been talking about it for a couple of seasons now, but the other two?
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Justin Smith: Upper body began to break down
SANTA CLARA -- During training camp in 2013, Justin Smith was going against guard Mike Iupati when something happened to his left shoulder. Smith wasn't sure what it was.
"I just knew it hurt like hell," the veteran defensive linemen said on Monday.
Seven months later, surgery revealed that a piece of bone had detached from the shoulder, and in Smith's words, became "lodged in the back of it."
The event showed both why Smith decided to step away from the game after 14 seasons and why the 49ers would have loved to have him back for one more. Despite playing in pain that season, Smith still was one of the better defensive linemen in the league, still made the Pro Bowl and started all 18 of the 49ers' games.
But he said Monday that wear and tear on his upper body -- especially the left side of his upper body -- had become too much and that it was time to walk away.
"Where I play on the right side, all my contact comes on my left shoulder and left side," he said. "And it doesn't respond like I want it to respond anymore. You know, if you don't have the tools, you can't do the job. So it's time to go."
Smith also tore his left triceps tendon -- it became partially detached at the elbow -- late in the 2012 season. He played in the postseason and Super Bowl that season but was not nearly the same player he was a year earlier in the playoffs.
"You've got to go in with the right mindset and this and that," Smith said. "It's a young man's game. And you've got to be full of p--- and vinegar when you step on the field. And as you get older, it's harder to get that same intensity going week in and week out."
Despite those injuries, however, Smith mainatined his intensity and remained perhaps the most respected player in the 49ers locker room. He also continued to lead offseason workouts among the defensive players.
For those reasons, a number of team officials -- from former coaches like Jim Harbaugh and Vic Fangio to current head coach Jim Tomsula -- wanted him to return.
"I wanted to keep playing as well," Smith said. "But when you get on the bald tires, you're on the bald tires."
SANTA CLARA -- During training camp in 2013, Justin Smith was going against guard Mike Iupati when something happened to his left shoulder. Smith wasn't sure what it was.
"I just knew it hurt like hell," the veteran defensive linemen said on Monday.
Seven months later, surgery revealed that a piece of bone had detached from the shoulder, and in Smith's words, became "lodged in the back of it."
The event showed both why Smith decided to step away from the game after 14 seasons and why the 49ers would have loved to have him back for one more. Despite playing in pain that season, Smith still was one of the better defensive linemen in the league, still made the Pro Bowl and started all 18 of the 49ers' games.
But he said Monday that wear and tear on his upper body -- especially the left side of his upper body -- had become too much and that it was time to walk away.
"Where I play on the right side, all my contact comes on my left shoulder and left side," he said. "And it doesn't respond like I want it to respond anymore. You know, if you don't have the tools, you can't do the job. So it's time to go."
Smith also tore his left triceps tendon -- it became partially detached at the elbow -- late in the 2012 season. He played in the postseason and Super Bowl that season but was not nearly the same player he was a year earlier in the playoffs.
"You've got to go in with the right mindset and this and that," Smith said. "It's a young man's game. And you've got to be full of p--- and vinegar when you step on the field. And as you get older, it's harder to get that same intensity going week in and week out."
Despite those injuries, however, Smith mainatined his intensity and remained perhaps the most respected player in the 49ers locker room. He also continued to lead offseason workouts among the defensive players.
For those reasons, a number of team officials -- from former coaches like Jim Harbaugh and Vic Fangio to current head coach Jim Tomsula -- wanted him to return.
"I wanted to keep playing as well," Smith said. "But when you get on the bald tires, you're on the bald tires."
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Derrick Carr sitting out OTAs due to an "undisclosed" injury..................not expected to be problematic into the season..........you know, one of those "minor" thingies.
The Pencil Neck
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He hurt his va-jay-jay??!??!
I guess he's more like his brother than we thought...
... JOKING...
Like Betty White said, vaginas can take a pounding.
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Jim Thomas @jthom1
Miami, New Orleans, Tampa Bay and Atlanta finalists for 2019 and 2020 Super Bowls.
Smart hire.
Miami, New Orleans, Tampa Bay and Atlanta finalists for 2019 and 2020 Super Bowls.
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Marshall
Not pretty, but ALIVE!
Thank you. I was wondering if there was an unknown, unseen extra digit that was numbered one and we had six.
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AJ McCarron healthy, hoping to push Andy Dalton
TK will be so
Last we heard from A.J. McCarron, the former Alabama star was battling shoulder soreness that kept him sidelined through the majority of his rookie season.
Finally healthy again, McCarron is eyeing the Cincinnati Bengals' backup job, buoyed by a revamped throwing motion that has made his arm stronger than ever.
After underthrowing receivers last offseason, McCarron is now overthrowing vertical field-stretchers such as Denarius Moore.
"I feel great," McCarron recently said, per the Cincinnati Enquirer. "Body feels great and I feel like I'm slinging it better than I ever have, really."
Finally healthy again, McCarron is eyeing the Cincinnati Bengals' backup job, buoyed by a revamped throwing motion that has made his arm stronger than ever.
After underthrowing receivers last offseason, McCarron is now overthrowing vertical field-stretchers such as Denarius Moore.
"I feel great," McCarron recently said, per the Cincinnati Enquirer. "Body feels great and I feel like I'm slinging it better than I ever have, really."
TK will be so
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Cam Newton,
"I say this with the most humility, but I don't think nobody has ever been who I'm trying to be. You see what I'm saying? Nobody's had the size, nobody's had the speed, nobody's had the arm strength, nobody's had the intangibles that I've had. I'm not saying I'm the one-on-one type of person that this league will never see again. No, I'm not saying that, hear me out. I'm just saying that so much of my talents have not been seen in one person."
infantrycak
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Somewhere Michael Vick's sides are splitting.
Cam is one of the guys I love to watch & it is mostly because of his unique combination of size, athleticism, and competitive nature that makes him so exciting.
However, objectively speaking he only had four games where he had a passer rating over 90, completed more than 60% of his passes & threw for more than 7 ypa.
He doesn't play above average consistently enough for the Panthers to win consistently.
Vick doesn't have the size.
I would have like to have seen Randall Cunningham develop under someone who could have taught him the finer points of QB play instead of being under Buddy Ryan's crazy ass.
infantrycak
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Remind me of the last time size scored points. Across the board Vick is athletically superior to Cam. And he was a mediocre QB...just like Cam, except better.
Most of us laymen associate size with durability. Right or wrong (we've seen plenty "big" QBs struggle with injuries) Cam has been relatively healthier than Vick in his first four years.
I agree Vick was the superior athlete. If he had Cam's size (durability), the Falcons may have won a lot more... maybe even a Super Bowl.
Ben Roethlisberger comes to mind. Being harder to bring down allows him to extend plays where others just get sacked.
Like TK said, Vick was fragile relative to Cam. Vick was more elusive in the open field than Cam will ever be but Cam has the stronger arm.
They both have their strengths and weaknesses.
And back to what Newton said, every guy on the field should feel they're special or they shouldn't be out there.
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Plus, I think most folks would tell that 6'5" is preferable to 6'0" when you're talking about QB's.
Vick had a wicked strong arm. They may be neck and neck, but I don't know that Cam's is definitively stronger.
infantrycak
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Vick's size had nothing to do with his success (or lack there of) in the NFL. He's dumb and lazy. Like Cam who thinks I can outrun JJ Watt in a 40 he's stupid. Learn the playbook, be the smartest player on the field...not in Vick or Cam's deck of cards. If anyone was going to overcome stupidity with athleticism it was Vick. Cam has no chance. He's Roger Staubach 40 years later and 100 IQ points shy.
If you're looking for a pocket passer, yes. Vick was a play maker. 6'5" guys, generally speaking, can't make the plays Vick did back in the day.
But he was fragile & his style of play left the team & their backup installing a brand new offense mid season.
But, Cam is still young, still developing. He may turn out to be a decent QB when it's all said & done.