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Colts rule out QB Richardson against Ravens

Anthony Richardson will not play in Sunday's game against the Ravens as he remains in the concussion protocol, with a source telling ESPN that the quarterback is optimistic about returning in Week 4.
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Colts have a better chance now
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Panthers QB Young out 1-2 weeks; Dalton to start

Carolina Panthers rookie quarterback Bryce Young will miss one to two weeks with a sprained ankle and will be replaced by Andy Dalton against Seattle on Sunday.
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Carolina still doesn't stand much if a chance
 
JB said:
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Colts rule out QB Richardson against Ravens

Anthony Richardson will not play in Sunday's game against the Ravens as he remains in the concussion protocol, with a source telling ESPN that the quarterback is optimistic about returning in Week 4.
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Colts have a better chance now
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Panthers QB Young out 1-2 weeks; Dalton to start

Carolina Panthers rookie quarterback Bryce Young will miss one to two weeks with a sprained ankle and will be replaced by Andy Dalton against Seattle on Sunday.
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Carolina still doesn't stand much if a chance
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I watched the play that Young was injured in...........the Dman landed on the outside of his leg with his foot forced in eversion (a medial ankle sprain). While a player might be able to return to play 1-2 weeks after a very mild ankle sprain, it can take many athletes as many as six weeks to three months for ankle stability to significantly improve.

Ask anyone who has had an ankle sprain, significant residual limitation are present beyond 2 weeks.

Young needs to be able to avoid rushers from killing him. Without wheels it is bound to happen sooner than later.
 
The Bengals are seriously considering putting Burrow out there Sunday, after he re-injured his calf last week. He will probably be much less mobile than he even demonstrated in the last 2 weeks........and will be a very significant risk to extending his calf tear.
 
The Pencil Neck said:
Not sure what you're talking about. I just looked at several of them and they're all 162 games. I'm figuring that this is since the Texans came into the league.

EDIT: Past 10 years?
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Past 162 games trying to make it look like baseball standings for some reason
 
This has turned into a greater joke than it already was.

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Deshaun Watson fined for two facemasks, one “violent gesture,” not for shoving official

Published September 23, 2023 04:43 PM

Quarterbacks usually don’t get fines for on-field actions. The NFL hit Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson with three fines from Monday night’s game. But they let him get off scot-free for what seemed to be his most serious infraction.

Watson was fined $10,927 each for two different facemasking infractions. He and Browns tight end David Njoku were also fined $13,659 for what NFL Media called a “violent gesture” of acting like they were pointing guns on the field.

But Watson was not fined for shoving an official who was trying to move him away from the Steelers’ sideline. That infraction easily could have led to an ejection, but the league claims it didn’t rise to the level of a foul.

So the player with the most guaranteed money in NFL history will lose a total of $35,513 of that money, but given that he did something that easily could have led to an ejection, he got off pretty easily.
 
The NFL jokes keep coming............launching helmet-to-helmet..........no suspension

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Kareem Jackson fined only $19,669 for hit that led to concussion and ejection
By Michael David Smith
Published September 23, 2023 06:18 PM

Broncos safety Kareem Jackson got off easy from the NFL’s disciplinary department.

Jackson was fined just $19,669 for his illegal hit on Commanders tight end Logan Thomas, which knocked Thomas out of the game and got Jackson ejected.

Through two games this season, Jackson has two fines for two illegal hits that gave opponents concussions. Jackson was fined $14,819 for a hit that concussed Raiders wide receiver Jakobi Meyers in Week One.

Given the repeated nature of Jackson’s violations and the seriousness of the injuries he has caused, it’s surprising that he has so far racked up only $34,488 in fines. Three different players — Houston’s Denzel Perryman and Pittsburgh’s Kwon Alexander and Jaylen Warren — were fined more than that this week for one single hit, and none of those hits were flagged on the field.

If Jackson gives another player a concussion with another illegal hit this week, perhaps the NFL will deal with it more seriously.
 
Kyler Murray is 8 1/2 months post ACL............note the size/development difference between the left and right quads..........common for this period of time. This is why "things" happen when trying to bring elite athletes back too early.


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Lions' St. Brown (toe) to wear steel plate in shoe

Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown, who injured a toe in an overtime loss to the Seahawks, said he expects to play with a steel plate in his shoe to prevent the toe from bending.
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St. Brown, who is listed as questionable, hurt the toe in the Lions' overtime loss to the Seahawks on Sunday. He said he is used to playing with the steel plate, adding he wore one after an injury during his high school days.
 
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Lions' St. Brown (toe) to wear steel plate in shoe

Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown, who injured a toe in an overtime loss to the Seahawks, said he expects to play with a steel plate in his shoe to prevent the toe from bending.
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St. Brown, who is listed as questionable, hurt the toe in the Lions' overtime loss to the Seahawks on Sunday. He said he is used to playing with the steel plate, adding he wore one after an injury during his high school days.
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Also wore a steel plate in HS? HS is not the NFL. Turf toe sounds like it should be a minor problem. It isn't. It has essentially curbed or ended quite a few NFL players' careers. It can be compared to the constant, crippling pain of a toothache on the bottom of the foot. But the mental anguish and fatigue are far worse than the pain. Every time you step, it sends that shock of pain through the entire body. Mentally, this injury really affects players because it limits who they are. The pain they can deal with, but the player quickly learns that he isn't the same athlete anymore and likely will never be the same athlete anymore. It will make the player a lot less quick and explosive and it will commonly change the player's life as an athlete.

Putting in a steel sole plate and anesthetizing the toe further limits the player's ability to push off, accelerate, stop, jump, change direction, etc. It should be evident that a WR especially can be significantly crippled with the combination of both the injury itself and the steel plate.

Another thing..........once you suffer a significant turf toe, it tends to be a chronic problem and re-injury is all too common.
 
When sending for final on-field decisions to the central NFL office was first introduced, I thought that more correct calls would occur. But the more into this process we go, the more I strongly feel that the system was put in place in order to fully control decisions.............not to attain the most correct calls, but to bring about the best outcome for the NFL's pocketbook. 😡

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Teams have little confidence in in-game decisions that come from 345 Park Avenue
Published September 24, 2023 10:09 AM

Over the past 10 years or so, the NFL has systematically secured more and more control over key decisions made, or not made, during games. And that has put even more responsibility on the league office to make the right decisions, all the time.

The problem is that, in the opinion of plenty of people working for the teams, the league isn’t making the right decisions. Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson should have been ejected on Monday night for shoving an official. 49ers tackle Trent Williams should have been ejected on Thursday night for punching an opponent.

The situation is diminishing the confidence that the teams have in the process. And it’s not just an issue of making good real-time decisions about ejections. As explained earlier this week on the Wednesday edition of #PFTPM, there have been early-season instances of, once again, the clear-and-obvious/"50 drunks in a bar” standard not being used when activating replay review.

The league centralized replay review to ensure that the correct standard would be applied consistently, and that the temptation of the game-site referees to officiate the play from scratch would be resisted. From time to time, the standard takes a back seat to what the person making the decision at the league’s command center thinks happened.

That’s another factor that continues to rankle coaches and executives throughout the league. Who’s making these decisions? Who’s in the room when these decisions are being made? Who’s influencing those who are making these decisions?

There are reasons to believe that firewall between the NFL’s business interests and the integrity of the game has crumbled. As one team executive pointed out this week, how is it an affront to the integrity of the game for a player betting on some other sport from his phone in the locker room but not an issue when the decisions being made by the league office during games are all over the place?

There’s an easy solution for all of this. Get the calls right. Apply the “clear and obvious” standard in replay review. Eject players who should be ejected. And don’t try to justify it after the fact with obvious word salads and gaslightings.

Just get it right. The process is fine if they get it right. If they don’t get it right, the natural result will be a high amount of suspicion regarding the process.
 
Sauce Gardner: Mac Jones hit me in my private parts
By Michael David Smith
Published September 24, 2023 07:06 PM

Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner is accusing Patriots quarterback Mac Jones of a dirty play today.
Gardner said after the Patriots beat the Jets today that Jones hit him in the private parts after a quarterback sneak late in the game.

“He reached out to me to get me to help him up,” Gardner said of Jones, via MassLive.com. “I just moved his hand out of the way. He got up and then came up to me like ‘Good job.’ While he was saying that, he hit me in my private parts. I didn’t react like I really wanted to. I definitely wasn’t expecting that. First time for everything I guess.”

Gardner said he was in pain and thinks Jones did it intentionally.

“He’s trying to prevent me from having kids in the future,” Gardner said.

Jones said it was “definitely a physical play” but denied he did anything improper.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Also wore a steel plate in HS? HS is not the NFL. Turf toe sounds like it should be a minor problem. It isn't. It has essentially curbed or ended quite a few NFL players' careers. It can be compared to the constant, crippling pain of a toothache on the bottom of the foot. But the mental anguish and fatigue are far worse than the pain. Every time you step, it sends that shock of pain through the entire body. Mentally, this injury really affects players because it limits who they are. The pain they can deal with, but the player quickly learns that he isn't the same athlete anymore and likely will never be the same athlete anymore. It will make the player a lot less quick and explosive and it will commonly change the player's life as an athlete.

Putting in a steel sole plate and anesthetizing the toe further limits the player's ability to push off, accelerate, stop, jump, change direction, etc. It should be evident that a WR especially can be significantly crippled with the combination of both the injury itself and the steel plate.

Another thing..........once you suffer a significant turf toe, it tends to be a chronic problem and re-injury is all too common.
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ended deion career. It sounds simple, but as you explained, its not
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
When sending for final on-field decisions to the central NFL office was first introduced, I thought that more correct calls would occur. But the more into this process we go, the more I strongly feel that the system was put in place in order to fully control decisions.............not to attain the most correct calls, but to bring about the best outcome for the NFL's pocketbook. 😡

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Teams have little confidence in in-game decisions that come from 345 Park Avenue
Published September 24, 2023 10:09 AM

Over the past 10 years or so, the NFL has systematically secured more and more control over key decisions made, or not made, during games. And that has put even more responsibility on the league office to make the right decisions, all the time.

The problem is that, in the opinion of plenty of people working for the teams, the league isn’t making the right decisions. Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson should have been ejected on Monday night for shoving an official. 49ers tackle Trent Williams should have been ejected on Thursday night for punching an opponent.

The situation is diminishing the confidence that the teams have in the process. And it’s not just an issue of making good real-time decisions about ejections. As explained earlier this week on the Wednesday edition of #PFTPM, there have been early-season instances of, once again, the clear-and-obvious/"50 drunks in a bar” standard not being used when activating replay review.

The league centralized replay review to ensure that the correct standard would be applied consistently, and that the temptation of the game-site referees to officiate the play from scratch would be resisted. From time to time, the standard takes a back seat to what the person making the decision at the league’s command center thinks happened.

That’s another factor that continues to rankle coaches and executives throughout the league. Who’s making these decisions? Who’s in the room when these decisions are being made? Who’s influencing those who are making these decisions?

There are reasons to believe that firewall between the NFL’s business interests and the integrity of the game has crumbled. As one team executive pointed out this week, how is it an affront to the integrity of the game for a player betting on some other sport from his phone in the locker room but not an issue when the decisions being made by the league office during games are all over the place?

There’s an easy solution for all of this. Get the calls right. Apply the “clear and obvious” standard in replay review. Eject players who should be ejected. And don’t try to justify it after the fact with obvious word salads and gaslightings.

Just get it right. The process is fine if they get it right. If they don’t get it right, the natural result will be a high amount of suspicion regarding the process.
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Finally bringing to light God'ells BS.
 
This is a story whose theme reminds me of the blind squirrel who finds the .......................

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NFL is looking into Sauce Gardner’s claim that Mac Jones hit him in the “private parts”
Published September 25, 2023 09:10 AM

Sunday’s game between New England and New York included an allegation by Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner that Patriots quarterback Mac Jones hit Sauce in the meat.

The NFL will be taking a closer look at the situation on Monday.

Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the league is looking into the claim by Gardner that Jones flicked him in the family jewels.

“He reached out to me to get me to help him up,” Gardner said of Jones. “I just moved his hand out of the way. He got up and then came up to me like ‘Good job.’ While he was saying that, he hit me in my private parts. I didn’t react like I really wanted to. I definitely wasn’t expecting that. First time for everything I guess. . . . He’s trying to prevent me from having kids in the future.”

The video isn’t conclusive, but something clearly happened as Jones passed by Gardner. Given the various other cameras in the building, there could be a clear angle of whatever transpired.

It’s not the first time Jones has been accused of dirty play. He always has an excuse or an explanation. At some point, there are too many incidents. At some point, the excuses and explanations don’t matter. At some point, it’s fair to declare that Mac Jones is a dirty player
 
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