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With attempted murder warrant still pending, Antonio Brown has apparently left the country
Published June 22, 2025 08:35 AM

Antonio Brown has left the building.

And the country.

If anything on his Twitter feed can be taken seriously and/or believed, Brown is no longer in the United States. Which, if true, becomes highly relevant to the pending warrant for his arrest on a charge of attempted murder with a firearm.

Word of the warrant first emerged 10 days ago. There has been no indication of any effort to execute the warrant.

Posted Brown on Saturday night: “I’m out the country ain’t no more Child Support tell your mama get a job.”

Again, good luck putting any stock in anything Brown ever says. But if he has left the country and if he’s serious about cutting off any/all child-support obligations he might have, it sounds like he doesn’t plan to come back any time soon.

Which could mean that the warrant for attempted murder with a firearm might go unexecuted, for a while.

The warrant arises from an incident last month in Miami. Brown claimed he was the victim of an assault. The core question is whether he became the aggressor, after the threat against him subsided.

None of that matters if he never actually faces the charge.
 
Buccaneers rookie Shilo Sanders, couldn't resist commenting of people's safety on the streets of Cleveland............ "Especially if Shedeur is out here,"
 
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Jets owner Woody Johnson buying Crystal Palace with $254 million investment

Jets owner Woody Johnson is making a leap into Premier League soccer.
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Jets owner Woody Johnson is making a leap into Premier League soccer.

John Textor has agreed to sell Eagle Football’s 43 percent stake in Crystal Palace to Johnson, The Athletic reported Monday morning.

The sale is believed to be worth close to 190 million pounds, or $254 million, according to BBC.

Johnson purchased the Jets for $635 million in 2000, and he’ll now add a second sports franchise to his portfolio, becoming one of an increasing number of sports owners to diversify their investments across multiple leagues and sports.
 
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NFL collusion ruling casts light on ineffective, rudderless NFLPA just as much as concerns over contracts

Tuesday's bombshell reporting from Pablo Torre and Mike Florio painted a picture not just of potential collusion, but a players union a long way from being a solid opposition party — if that’s something it's even interested in.
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Tuesday brought some rather surprising news to the NFL landscape when longtime journalists Pablo Torre, host of the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out, and Mike Florio, who runs ProFootballTalk, teamed up to drop a new episode of Torre’s show. The episode featured the release of a 61-page document detailing a 2022 arbitration ruling for a grievance the NFLPA filed in regards to potential collusion and suppression of player salaries and reported a ton of new information.

The meeting that the NFLPA targeted in their lawsuit came just days after the Cleveland Browns traded three first-round picks for Deshaun Watson before giving him a fully guaranteed $230 million contract. The idea here is something that many fans have thrown into the wind since that contract was given out: The NFL owners would never, ever give out a contract like Deshaun Watson’s again — and this was well before everyone knew he was the worst starting quarterback in football.
 
Did collusion case bring down Jeff Pash?
Published June 25, 2025 02:25 PM

In the aftermath of the release of the previously-hidden collusion ruling, many are wondering whether there will be consequences for key players like NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell, and/or NFLPA chief strategy officer J.C. Tretter.

It’s possible that the collusion case claimed a victim before it came to light.

Some are wondering whether the situation contributed to the departure of NFL general counsel Jeff Pash, after more than 25 years with the league office.

Consider the timeline. Pash announced he’d be leaving in May 2024. Although the hearing in the collusion case didn’t happen until July and August 2024, the evidentiary hay was in the barn. Documents had been obtained. Testimony had been taken.

And it was a document generated by Pash that became one of the key pieces of evidence to prove that the NFL and the Management Council encouraged/urged/told teams to limit guarantees in player contracts in the aftermath of the Deshaun Watson fully-guaranteed contract.

Pash sent on March 20, 2022 — two days after Watson signed in Cleveland — the following email to Goodell: “What we don’t know yet is whether we are seeing what we saw the last two years, where the very top players (for example, [Von] Miller, [Aaron] Rodgers, [Matthew] Stafford, [Deshaun] Watson) got large guarantees but many other players (2d tier free agents and below) signed much more club-friendly deals. As the top of the market clears and the next tier starts to sign, we wil have a better sense of whether the large guarantees are extending further into the free agent pool and also how they are affecting club deals with their own players. It is certainly something that we will want to discuss at both the football ops sessions and with the owners as well.”

The Pash email elicited this smoking-gun response from Goodell: “Agreed but the [top] of the market is most of the dollars and if we wait to see how it falls, it will be too late to counter. Agree with raising with a big concern that this will erode a key aspect of our CBA that resisted guaranteed money except as clubs determined on their own.”

That last sentence is critical to proving an instruction to collude. After twice fending off efforts by the NFLPA to secure fully-guaranteed contracts for all players (in 2011 and 2020), the league didn’t want the teams to surrender, one player at a time, the thing the league had managed to collectively resist. With the Browns giving Watson a five-year, fully-guaranteed contract, the rest of the teams needed to hold the rope through enough quarterback negotiations to make Watson’s deal an aberration. (And it did.)

The problem for Pash is that he put his thoughts in writing. Which prompted Goodell to put his own thoughts in writing.

Which, once it became clear that those two emails proved the league wanted teams to collude, may have prompted Goodell to blow a gasket over Pash sending an email that invited an incriminating response, in lieu of having the conversation in person.

Anyone who litigates knows that it’s so much easier to get to the truth when it’s in black and white. Witnesses will wallow in as much nothing-but-the-truth gray as they can, forcing lawyers to chase them around and pin them down. Some witnesses (without naming any specific accomplished sports executives) are very good at slipping from the grasp of an effective questioner. With the witness’s words in writing, it becomes much harder.

So it’s not unreasonable to think that, once Goodell realized the impact of the email he sent in response to Pash’s email, Goodell blamed Pash for accidentally setting a bear trap for Goodell by putting something in writing that never should have been in writing. If they’d had the conversation in person, both could have tried to dance around the inescapable conclusion in Goodell’s emails.

That said, Goodell arguably should have known not to put in writing what he put in writing, even if he was simply responding to an email from Pash.

This obviously is all speculative. But it’s more than plausible. Especially if Pash’s retirement wasn’t as voluntary as it seemed to be at the time.
 
Obviously, they gave him an invalid "mental test."

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Diontae Johnson: I “checked out mentally” before refusing to enter game for Ravens
Published June 25, 2025 10:55 AM

Browns wide receiver Diontae Johnson is coming off a rough season that saw him spend time with three teams and get suspended for detrimental conduct in one stop.


That was in Baltimore and the Ravens suspended him for refusing to enter a Week 13 game against the Eagles. Johnson explained on the Sport and Suits podcast that he was “checked out mentally” because he had not played before the team asked him to enter the game for the first time in the fourth quarter.

“I wasn’t getting into like no run plays, no like passing plays,” Johnson said. “No nothing. It was cold, I’m on the sideline just standing there like just going to the heater back and forth just waiting to hear my name called. End of third, going into the fourth they’re like ‘Tay, we need you.’ I’m like ‘Nah, I don’t think it’s a good idea for me.’ Like I was already thinking about my legs, I don’t want to go out there and put bad stuff on film. It’s not like I didn’t want to go into the game, but leading up to this point I’d already been through so much.”

Johnson was not productive in Baltimore, Carolina or Houston, which left him short on options before agreeing to sign a one-year deal with the Browns. If he can’t turn things back around in 2025, his market will be even colder than that day in Baltimore.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Did collusion case bring down Jeff Pash?
Published June 25, 2025 02:25 PM

In the aftermath of the release of the previously-hidden collusion ruling, many are wondering whether there will be consequences for key players like NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell, and/or NFLPA chief strategy officer J.C. Tretter.

It’s possible that the collusion case claimed a victim before it came to light.

Some are wondering whether the situation contributed to the departure of NFL general counsel Jeff Pash, after more than 25 years with the league office.

Consider the timeline. Pash announced he’d be leaving in May 2024. Although the hearing in the collusion case didn’t happen until July and August 2024, the evidentiary hay was in the barn. Documents had been obtained. Testimony had been taken.

And it was a document generated by Pash that became one of the key pieces of evidence to prove that the NFL and the Management Council encouraged/urged/told teams to limit guarantees in player contracts in the aftermath of the Deshaun Watson fully-guaranteed contract.

Pash sent on March 20, 2022 — two days after Watson signed in Cleveland — the following email to Goodell: “What we don’t know yet is whether we are seeing what we saw the last two years, where the very top players (for example, [Von] Miller, [Aaron] Rodgers, [Matthew] Stafford, [Deshaun] Watson) got large guarantees but many other players (2d tier free agents and below) signed much more club-friendly deals. As the top of the market clears and the next tier starts to sign, we wil have a better sense of whether the large guarantees are extending further into the free agent pool and also how they are affecting club deals with their own players. It is certainly something that we will want to discuss at both the football ops sessions and with the owners as well.”

The Pash email elicited this smoking-gun response from Goodell: “Agreed but the [top] of the market is most of the dollars and if we wait to see how it falls, it will be too late to counter. Agree with raising with a big concern that this will erode a key aspect of our CBA that resisted guaranteed money except as clubs determined on their own.”

That last sentence is critical to proving an instruction to collude. After twice fending off efforts by the NFLPA to secure fully-guaranteed contracts for all players (in 2011 and 2020), the league didn’t want the teams to surrender, one player at a time, the thing the league had managed to collectively resist. With the Browns giving Watson a five-year, fully-guaranteed contract, the rest of the teams needed to hold the rope through enough quarterback negotiations to make Watson’s deal an aberration. (And it did.)

The problem for Pash is that he put his thoughts in writing. Which prompted Goodell to put his own thoughts in writing.

Which, once it became clear that those two emails proved the league wanted teams to collude, may have prompted Goodell to blow a gasket over Pash sending an email that invited an incriminating response, in lieu of having the conversation in person.

Anyone who litigates knows that it’s so much easier to get to the truth when it’s in black and white. Witnesses will wallow in as much nothing-but-the-truth gray as they can, forcing lawyers to chase them around and pin them down. Some witnesses (without naming any specific accomplished sports executives) are very good at slipping from the grasp of an effective questioner. With the witness’s words in writing, it becomes much harder.

So it’s not unreasonable to think that, once Goodell realized the impact of the email he sent in response to Pash’s email, Goodell blamed Pash for accidentally setting a bear trap for Goodell by putting something in writing that never should have been in writing. If they’d had the conversation in person, both could have tried to dance around the inescapable conclusion in Goodell’s emails.

That said, Goodell arguably should have known not to put in writing what he put in writing, even if he was simply responding to an email from Pash.

This obviously is all speculative. But it’s more than plausible. Especially if Pash’s retirement wasn’t as voluntary as it seemed to be at the time.
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God'ell not taking responsibility for his screwup.
 
Ohio legislature clears path for Browns to leave Cleveland, despite Art Modell Law
Published June 25, 2025 07:04 PM

The Browns have found a way to beat Cleveland.

With litigation pending over whether the Art Modell Law keeps the Browns from moving out of downtown Cleveland to suburban Brook Park, the Ohio legislature has revised the Modell law in a way that makes the legal issue moot.

Via Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan, the change to the Modell Law was among nearly 600 amendments to the state budget. It allows Ohio pro sports teams who play in tax-supported facilities to move within Ohio when their leases expire.

Basically, the change clarifies that the goal of the Modell Law was to keep pro sports teams from leaving the state. Which also opens the door, in theory, for Columbus to try to pilfer the Bengals or the Browns, in theory.

The bill will be effective if/when Governor Mike DeWine signs it into law.

Ruiter also reports that the Browns plan to close on the purchase of 176 acres in Brook Park this week. It will be the location of the new dome stadium that is scheduled to open in 2029.

The state will be contributing $600 million to the project. With Cuyahoga County insisting it won’t cooperate, the Browns will have to come up with the rest of the money through other sources.
 
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The problem for Pash is that he put his thoughts in writing. Which prompted Goodell to put his own thoughts in writing.
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Morons. We always assume people in powerful positions are smarter than the rest of us and know what they are doing. Nope. They're just as dumb as the rest of us.
 
Justin Tucker suspended for first 10 weeks of the 2025 season
By Charean Williams
Published June 26, 2025 03:47 PM

The NFL has suspended free agent kicker Justin Tucker for the first 10 weeks of the 2025 regular season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Thursday.

The Ravens cut Tucker on May 5, designating him as a post-June 1 release for cap reasons.

Sixteen massage therapists from eight high-end Baltimore-area spas have accused Tucker of sexual misconduct. All of the alleged misconduct reportedly occurred between 2012-16.

Tucker has denied all allegations, and he has described the Baltimore Banner‘s reporting as “desperate tabloid fodder.”

With the length of Tucker’s suspension now known, Tucker could seek to find work late this season when he’s reinstated.

Tucker, though, is coming off the worst season of his 13-year career. He missed 10 total kicks in 2024, with his 73.3 conversion rate on field goals ranking 31st in the NFL.

Tucker, 35, was on a Hall of Fame trajectory with seven Pro Bowls and a 90.2 conversion rate on his field goal attempts in his first 12 seasons. He holds the NFL record for the longest field goal, kicking a 66-yard game-winner in 2021.

Tucker signed a four-year, $22 million contract extension in August 2022, making him the league’s highest-paid kicker at the time.
 
Justin Tucker’s 10-game suspension was the result of negotiations, not a legal ruling
Published June 26, 2025 04:11 PM

The 10-game suspension imposed on Ravens kicker Justin Tucker was not the result of a quasi-formal hearing followed by a quasi-legal ruling. Instead, the punishment flowed from negotiations between and among the NFL, the NFL Players Association, and Tucker’s representatives.

That’s the word from Mark Maske of the Washington Post, which also means that there will be no appeal from Tucker. The case is over, the suspension is final, and Tucker will miss 10 games without pay to begin the 2025 season.

On the surface, the willingness of Tucker to take a 10-game suspension contradicts his steadfast denial of wrongdoing, based on accusations from multiple individuals regarding misconduct during massage-therapy sessions. Tucker essentially pleaded guilty (or at a minimum no contest) and accepted a 10-game banishment.

Tucker may have done it in order to expedite the outcome of the case. No one has shown interest in him since he was cut by the Ravens. No one would have shown interest in him while the situation was unresolved.

Then there’s the possibility that the league planned to seek a longer punishment if/when the case went before Judge Sue L.

Robinson, the hearing officer for alleged violations of the Personal Conduct Policy. If the league planned to push for, say, a full-season suspension, 10 games would be a potential compromise.

Regardless, Tucker has accepted a 10-game suspension. And it’s hard to reconcile that with his claim that he did nothing to justify scrutiny.
 
Report: Steelers trade Minkah to Dolphins for Ramsey, Jonnu Smith
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Report: Steelers trade Minkah to Dolphins for Ramsey, Jonnu Smith

The Miami Dolphins are trading cornerback Jalen Ramsey, tight end Jonnu Smith, and a 2027 seventh-round pick to the Pittsburgh Steelers for safety Minkah Fitzpatrick and a 2027 fifth-round pick, sources told NFL Network's Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport.Ramsey will receive a $1.5-million raise as...
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For those who have not heard this tragic story..............he will never be forgotten.

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42 years later, Joe Delaney’s sacrifice still resonates
Published June 29, 2025 07:14 AM

Every June 29, we remember the sacrifice Joe Delaney made. Every June 29, we hear from people who hadn’t heard about Joe Delaney’s sacrifice.

That’s all the more reason to honor him every year, on this day.

June 29, 1983. Delaney, only 24 years old and two years into his NFL career, gave his life while trying to save three children from drowning.

The children were struggling in a man-made pond in Monroe, Louisiana. Delaney didn’t hesitate to help.
“I can’t swim good, but I’ve got to save those kids,” he said. “If I don’t come up, get somebody.”

I still remember seeing the AP article in the newspaper the next day, 42 years ago. I can picture where I was standing when I flipped to the page and read the story for the first time.

He was one of the bright young stars of the league. The second-round pick from Northwestern State rushed for 1,121 yards as a rookie in 1981, giving Kansas City its first winning record since 1973.

An eye injury and a 57-day in-season strike limited his output in 1982, but the future remained bright for Delaney. He nevertheless didn’t think twice when he saw three young strangers who badly needed his help.

Delaney left behind three young daughters of his own. While tragic for all involved, it was an act of rare and extreme heroism. It should never be forgotten.

Joe Delaney’s name resides in the Ring of Honor at Arrowhead Stadium. We can’t control what the NFL or others may or may not do to properly preserve his memory. For as long as our lights are on and our doors are open, every June 29 will be devoted to remembering Joe Delaney.

And, every June 29, a new set of football fans will learn for the first time about his sacrifice.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Matt Leinart was “so embarrassed” as his career ended after five days with the Bills
By Michael David Smith
Published June 21, 2025 05:57 AM
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CloakNNNdagger said:
For those who have not heard this tragic story..............he will never be forgotten.

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42 years later, Joe Delaney’s sacrifice still resonates
Published June 29, 2025 07:14 AM

Every June 29, we remember the sacrifice Joe Delaney made. Every June 29, we hear from people who hadn’t heard about Joe Delaney’s sacrifice.

That’s all the more reason to honor him every year, on this day.

June 29, 1983. Delaney, only 24 years old and two years into his NFL career, gave his life while trying to save three children from drowning.

The children were struggling in a man-made pond in Monroe, Louisiana. Delaney didn’t hesitate to help.
“I can’t swim good, but I’ve got to save those kids,” he said. “If I don’t come up, get somebody.”

I still remember seeing the AP article in the newspaper the next day, 42 years ago. I can picture where I was standing when I flipped to the page and read the story for the first time.

He was one of the bright young stars of the league. The second-round pick from Northwestern State rushed for 1,121 yards as a rookie in 1981, giving Kansas City its first winning record since 1973.

An eye injury and a 57-day in-season strike limited his output in 1982, but the future remained bright for Delaney. He nevertheless didn’t think twice when he saw three young strangers who badly needed his help.

Delaney left behind three young daughters of his own. While tragic for all involved, it was an act of rare and extreme heroism. It should never be forgotten.

Joe Delaney’s name resides in the Ring of Honor at Arrowhead Stadium. We can’t control what the NFL or others may or may not do to properly preserve his memory. For as long as our lights are on and our doors are open, every June 29 will be devoted to remembering Joe Delaney.

And, every June 29, a new set of football fans will learn for the first time about his sacrifice.
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Myself a long-time Chiefs fan I'll never forget this incredible act of heroism by this brave and
selfless young man.
Your memory stays with us: you were and are a great American Joe Delany !
 
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Where will it stop?

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Second round is current battleground for fully-guaranteed contracts
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Not sure. As a fan, not sure that I care. So Higgens contract is fully guaranteed. The 2024 pick at 2.34, Ladd McConkey, had 92% of his deal guaranteed. Now, 8% is about 800K, so that's not chicken feed to regular folk. But 800K is chump change to an NFL team. Why argue over that? I think the Texans were smart to guarantee the deal. Shows good faith to the player and the agent. Worth the 8% that the player was 99.9% going to get anyway.
 
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Justin Tucker suspended for first 10 weeks of the 2025 season
By Charean Williams
Published June 26, 2025 03:47 PM

The NFL has suspended free agent kicker Justin Tucker for the first 10 weeks of the 2025 regular season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Thursday.

The Ravens cut Tucker on May 5, designating him as a post-June 1 release for cap reasons.

Sixteen massage therapists from eight high-end Baltimore-area spas have accused Tucker of sexual misconduct. All of the alleged misconduct reportedly occurred between 2012-16.

Tucker has denied all allegations, and he has described the Baltimore Banner‘s reporting as “desperate tabloid fodder.”

With the length of Tucker’s suspension now known, Tucker could seek to find work late this season when he’s reinstated.

Tucker, though, is coming off the worst season of his 13-year career. He missed 10 total kicks in 2024, with his 73.3 conversion rate on field goals ranking 31st in the NFL.

Tucker, 35, was on a Hall of Fame trajectory with seven Pro Bowls and a 90.2 conversion rate on his field goal attempts in his first 12 seasons. He holds the NFL record for the longest field goal, kicking a 66-yard game-winner in 2021.

Tucker signed a four-year, $22 million contract extension in August 2022, making him the league’s highest-paid kicker at the time.
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Ohio governor signs Browns stadium provisions into law
By Mike Florio
Published July 1, 2025 08:34 AM

The Browns may not get their way very often on the field. They’ve gotten their way off the field. As it relates to getting a new field.

Via Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a new budget into law late Monday night. The big, beautiful, Buckeye bill gives the Browns $600 million in state money for a new stadium — and it clears the path to move from Cleveland to Brook Park without violating the Art Modell Law.

The $600 million comes from the state’s unclaimed property fund. Ruiter notes that a class-action lawsuit was filed last week, arguing that unclaimed funds can’t be used for public projects.

The Modell Law, which as written limits the ability of the Browns to move “elsewhere,” was changed to prohibit moves outside the state.

Which will make things hilarious in about 10 years, when the Bengals try to move to Columbus. (I’m kidding, Cincinnati. But it definitely would be hilarious.)

The Browns still need to come up with more money to get this done, since Cuyahoga County has no interest in participating. With the stadium expected to cost $2.4 billion (it’s always more than the estimate), the Browns have managed to get 25 percent of the money from taxpayer funds. Most NFL stadium projects aimed for a 50-50 split.

Regardless, it’s full Cleveland steam ahead. The team bought 176 acres last week, for $76 million.

Hopefully they’ll get a better return on that than they have on the $230 million that will go to Deshaun Watson.
 
JB said:
And he's not even from Clemson... I guess all Texas players are trash now...:kitten:
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Nope, this wasn't just about Derrick.

I dont like people who take advantage of others.

Fact is I knew this team was never going to win anything with the South Carolina trash on it. Derrick/Nuk/Clowney/Swearinger/Bennett. The only guy that had character and most importantly football was most important to them was Reader.
 
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