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leebigeztx said:
Keep shrinking that talent pool
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I'm fine with passing on this guy.

Drafting a WR is the way to go.

Higgins isn't good enough for me to have to deal with that agent (Trash) if I was in Cal's shoes and I bet he agrees with me. Higgins is going to want to be one of the highest paid players at his position, when he's currently only a WR2 on his own team. I'm not sure he will ever be a WR1, but he will get paid like one from some team. Hopefully it's not the Texans that do a deal like this.
 
Mollywhopper said:
What does that have to do with wanting to enjoy an honest competition?
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I think it's ridiculous to think the NFL is rigged. Too many people. Too many to pull it off, too many to keep it secret. Everybody knows the WWE is scripted. It's not a secret.

It's a waste of time to think this has been pulled off on the scale of the NFL. I'd rather not argue it. So it's easier, so I thought, to just say, "it doesn't matter." "I don't care if it is."

but here we are.
 
thunderkyss said:
I think it's ridiculous to think the NFL is rigged. Too many people. Too many to pull it off, too many to keep it secret. Everybody knows the WWE is scripted. It's not a secret.

It's a waste of time to think this has been pulled off on the scale of the NFL. I'd rather not argue it. So it's easier, so I thought, to just say, "it doesn't matter." "I don't care if it is."

but here we are.
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Boy you really showed me..
 
The worthless Pro Bowl games (in the "Gridiron Gauntlet" obstacle course challenge) has tolled another elite player................Myles Garrett has suffered a right dislocated toe. If it is treated conservatively, he could return to play in 8 weeks. But re-injury would be high risk, with further joint damage expected. If surgery is performed, it could take up to 6 months to return. A recent study of NFL players revealed that following operative intervention for high-grade turf toe injuries, only 80% (20/25) of NFL athletes achieved return to play. MRI tomorrow is likely determine which route is appropriate.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1622341187414949888
 
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CloakNNNdagger said:
The worthless Pro Bowl games (in the "Gridiron Gauntlet" obstacle course challenge) has tolled another elite player................Myles Garrett has suffered a right dislocated toe. If it is treated conservatively, he could return to play in 8 weeks. But re-injury would be high risk, with further joint damage expected. If surgery is performed, it could take up to 6 months to return. A recent study of NFL players revealed that following operative intervention for high-grade turf toe injuries, only 80% (20/25) of NFL athletes achieved return to play. MRI tomorrow is likely determine which route is appropriate.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1622341187414949888
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Who can forget Patriots RB Robert Edwards injuring his knee in the Pro Bowl beach football game? The injury was so gruesome there was thought his leg might have to be amputated.

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I'm trying to remember what horrible injury happened at the actual Pro Bowl? Where they play the game they know while wearing pads. Can't think of one.

Maybe just doing that is the safe way to go?
 
thunderkyss said:
Little while back I was watching this thing, it was set waaaaayyyy back. People rode horses, fought with swords, swore their fealty to each other.

Good stuff. Very "real" good story line, good characters. Then in season two they added dragons. Now i know ain't no such thing as dragons. But they did it really well. So I kept watching.

Every week, took me to another place, another time. Good guys didn't always win. Most of the time they didn't. But in the end the forces of good triumphed.

Good as it was they could only keep it together for eight seasons & only 7 of them were good.

So I'm thinking if the NFL can keep this thing going for going on 60 years, why am I going to waste time debating if it's "real."

Are you not entertained?

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Too much going on right now to givAsht. I want to get away. Guys are beating each other... I got my whiskey

FML
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I'm not watching an athletic competition that is scripted and I'm not watching a "live" band that is lip-syncing.

That's just me, though. To each his own.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Purdy is going for a 2nd opinion. Since he is expected per reports to be able to return in 6 months, it is evident to me that he will not be undergoing Tommy John surgery. To me, this means that instead of a "reconstruction," he will undergo a "repair" using bone anchors and permanent sutures............and this tells me that the tear was either distal or proximal (near the bone attachments). If the tear were in mid ligament [see 2nd pic below], he would definitely be going to the much more complicated Tommy John reconstructive surgery.

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Looks like the decision for a repair instead of Tommy John reconstruction is close to being made.
 
DeMaurice Smith would like to eliminate the Scouting Combine
Posted by Michael David Smith on February 8, 2023, 7:01 PM EST


The Scouting Combine has become one of the NFL’s major offseason events, but if it were up to the executive director of the NFL Players Association, it wouldn’t exist.

DeMaurice Smith said today that he doesn’t think it’s in the players’ best interests to travel to Indianapolis for a few days of being poked and prodded, weighed and measured, questioned and scrutinized.

“As soon as you show up, you have to waive all of your medical rights and you not only have to sit there and endure embarrassing questions,” Smith said, via ESPN. “And I think that’s horrible, and I don’t wanna pooh pooh any of that, but would you want your son to spend hours inside of an MRI [machine] and then be evaluated by 32 separate team doctors who are, by the way, are only doing it for one reason? What’s the reason? To decrease your draft value.”

Smith said the drills like the 40-yard dash and vertical jump are meaningless, and that the NFL’s primary purpose for the Combine is “intrusive employment actions that don’t exist anywhere else.”

Smith said that he could see the NFLPA organizing its own Pro Days where draft prospects could show what they can do in an environment that the players’ union approves. The union does not approve of the Combine as it currently exists.
 
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10 former NFL players sue league's disability program, alleging board 'engaged in repeated and substantial derelictions of their responsibilities' | CNN

A group of former NFL players is suing the league's disability benefit program, commissioner Roger Goodell and the disability board, accusing them of routinely denying disability claims.
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The lawsuit alleges the league’s disability benefit program, commissioner Goodell and the disability board found ways “to limit the payment of benefits to the very Players whom the Plan was designed to help” and that players were “forced to navigate a byzantine process in order to attempt to obtain those benefits, only to be met with denial.”

It accuses the disability board of not hiring neutral physicians to carry out assessments of players’ injuries, saying these were “biased.”

The lawsuit alleges a correlation between the amount of money paid to physicians and the likelihood a player’s claim would be denied.

In the period between March 31, 2019, and April 1, 2020, 4.5% of players were found to be totally and permanently disabled by physicians paid more than $210,000, said the lawsuit.

Conversely, in the same period, 30% were found to be disabled by physicians paid $54,000-$60,000.

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The lawsuit alleges that when the plan and the board reviewed a players disability claim, they chose to only use the case summaries prepared by the plan’s law firm, the Groom Law Group, rather than the full medical records, which goes against federal law.
 
Boris said:
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10 former NFL players sue league's disability program, alleging board 'engaged in repeated and substantial derelictions of their responsibilities' | CNN

A group of former NFL players is suing the league's disability benefit program, commissioner Roger Goodell and the disability board, accusing them of routinely denying disability claims.
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The lawsuit alleges the league’s disability benefit program, commissioner Goodell and the disability board found ways “to limit the payment of benefits to the very Players whom the Plan was designed to help” and that players were “forced to navigate a byzantine process in order to attempt to obtain those benefits, only to be met with denial.”

It accuses the disability board of not hiring neutral physicians to carry out assessments of players’ injuries, saying these were “biased.”

The lawsuit alleges a correlation between the amount of money paid to physicians and the likelihood a player’s claim would be denied.

In the period between March 31, 2019, and April 1, 2020, 4.5% of players were found to be totally and permanently disabled by physicians paid more than $210,000, said the lawsuit.

Conversely, in the same period, 30% were found to be disabled by physicians paid $54,000-$60,000.

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The lawsuit alleges that when the plan and the board reviewed a players disability claim, they chose to only use the case summaries prepared by the plan’s law firm, the Groom Law Group, rather than the full medical records, which goes against federal law.
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Does this surprise anyone? Everyone knows that physicians hired by the NFL or their teams are always strictly neutral arbiters giving unquestionably unbiased opinions..................
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
DeMaurice Smith would like to eliminate the Scouting Combine
Posted by Michael David Smith on February 8, 2023, 7:01 PM EST


The Scouting Combine has become one of the NFL’s major offseason events, but if it were up to the executive director of the NFL Players Association, it wouldn’t exist.

DeMaurice Smith said today that he doesn’t think it’s in the players’ best interests to travel to Indianapolis for a few days of being poked and prodded, weighed and measured, questioned and scrutinized.

“As soon as you show up, you have to waive all of your medical rights and you not only have to sit there and endure
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paycheck71 said:
LOL. It's obvious to any casual fan that the quality of the officiating in the NFL has been declining for almost a decade. Personally, I thought at one point that NFL refs were best among major American sports. I think right now NFL and MLB are competing for who's the worst.
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They are the best at rigging games.
 
paycheck71 said:
LOL. It's obvious to any casual fan that the quality of the officiating in the NFL has been declining for almost a decade. Personally, I thought at one point that NFL refs were best among major American sports. I think right now NFL and MLB are competing for who's the worst.
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As long as Angel Hernandez remains employed no one is ever surpassing the sucktitude of MLB umps.
 
THE ATHLETIC

Colts’ head coach search: Here’s what we know after 132 hours of interviews

After four and a half weeks of waiting, what’s a few more days?

The expectation, at this point, is that the Colts won’t make their head-coaching hire until early next week, after the Super Bowl, capping an exhaustive search that began back on Jan. 10, the day after a miserable season ended with a last-second loss to the Texans.

If the Colts have made their decision, they’re not letting it slip — not yet, at least. The team has kept things incredibly quiet throughout the search, and the finishing stretch has been no different. “Nobody knows,” an individual familiar with the process said this week.

Here are the presumptive finalists, the candidates the Colts interviewed twice: interim coach Jeff Saturday, Eagles offensive coordinator Shane Steichen, Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan, Rams defensive coordinator

Those coaches, as of earlier this week, were waiting to hear from the team regarding their decision.

Former Broncos defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero also met with the Colts twice but has since taken the same job with the Panthers; he won’t be coming to Indianapolis.
Here’s what we know:

The Colts’ incredibly meticulous search — one of the most thorough the NFL has seen in recent memory — is not accidental, but deliberate. This was always the plan, frustrating as it’s been for the fan base. Those leading the search, starting with general manager Chris Ballard, have enjoyed the process over the past several weeks, starting with their interactions with some of the brightest coordinators in the league.
There’s been a lot to learn, not only about what the Colts need to do differently, but what’s working elsewhere.

As for the drawn-out process, from the team’s perspective, it’d be one thing if the Colts were chasing a hot name, like Sean Payton, a potential hire that would require urgency and aggressiveness. From the beginning, they weren’t. The Colts never felt the need to rush anything. So they haven’t.

Ballard pointed to this before sitting down with the first candidate, via Zoom, on Jan. 11. He promised a very detailed process the team had put together leading up to the search, with the aim being to identify “the traits and attributes we’re looking for in a head coach.”

He vowed the team would be patient, take its time and conduct a thorough interview with each candidate, resisting the urge to lean on previously held assumptions. Ballard didn’t want to start with an end in mind.
This stems from the mistakes the Colts made last time, not vetting Josh McDaniels thoroughly enough to get the sense he could change his mind at the last minute, which he did.
“Consistent, thorough,” Ballard stressed. “I don’t care if it takes until mid-February … it’s about getting it right.”
 
As I've posted previously regarding this subject, what he's experienced will leave his cardiac and pulmonary functions permanently compromised. There should not be any need to seek so many consultations in order to conclude that on-the-field football should not be a consideration

I have all the confidence in the world in the Bills, the NFL, and the NFLPA making the best recommendations in the best interest of Hamlin's long-term health...................1676148565162.png
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Bills will help Damar Hamlin obtain the proper medical advice on whether to play again
Posted by Mike Florio on February 11, 2023, 2:46 PM EST

NFL Players Association medical director Thom Mayer has guaranteed that Bills safety Damar Hamlin will play football again. NFL medical director Allen Sills was far more equivocal.

“This is about a player and a patient and about getting the very best care,” Sills told the Washington Post on Friday. “And, again, I do want to protect the privacy of those involved. But what I would say is I know that the Buffalo Bills have already engaged a number of outside consultants and will continue to do so. And they’ll gather opinions and then, [with] all of those opinions, they’ll sit down with Mr. Hamlin, his family, his agents, all the people that love him and lay that out. And that’s what we do in medicine every day is say, ‘Here’s our understanding of risks. Here’s our understanding of the situation. Let us make sure that you have all the information and make a good decision.’ And ultimately that is the decision.”

Sill said the league isn’t leading the effort. The decision ultimately is one for Hamlin to make, with appropriate advice and counsel.

“It’s his decision,” Sills said, “and he is the person that will need to drive that decision, and then we’ll all line up and support that. So I think that’s something to happen down the road. I think right now the focus is on his recovery and his continued improvement. And then there will be another day and time to discuss all that. But it will be strictly led by him and those that are close to him. And the Buffalo medical staff, I know, has, as I said, already engaged and will engage a lot of experts to help provide input and opinions into that process.”

For now, Hamlin and his representatives aren’t thinking about Hamlin playing again.

“At this time we are only focusing on Damar’s health and ensuring that he makes a full recovery,” agent Ira Turner told the Post via email. “Any decisions as it pertains to football will be made by Damar when he is ready to do so.”

That’s the way it should be. First, he needs to get back to full health and strength. Then, he can decide whether to play again.
 
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