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ObsiWan said:
Just saw on the NFL Network crawl that Oilers' LB Robert Brazile
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was named a senior finalist for the 2018 Pro Football HoF.
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...oh and GB OG Jerry Kramer was also named a finalist too.

long overdue IMHO
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Don't tease me.......

Wow. I didn't know he never missed a game in his 10 years (147 games) in Houston. In the name of Jerome Bettis, he gets in now.
 
All Browns players stand for anthem
Posted by Mike Florio on August 26, 2017, 7:50 PM EDT PFT



The anthem protest launched by the Cleveland Browns was short lived.

Five days after 12 players took a knee and five more gathered around them for the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, all players were standing in Tampa for the playing of the song that precedes all NFL games.

Via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Hall of Famer Jim Brown recently addressed the team and said, “Do not disrespect your country, do not disrespect the flag.”

Reasonable minds differ on whether conscientiously kneeling or sitting during the anthem constitutes disrespect of the country or the flag. Reasonable minds agree that it’s better to kneel or sit for a reason than to haphazardly eat, drink, mill about the aisles, wear a hat, and/or yell profanities at players during the anthem. Which fans do all the time.
 
Paxton Lynch went down with a shoulder injury. I believe he's got a good possibility of having suffered a rotator cuff and/or labral tear.
 
Cowboys Hitchens did not sustain an ACL by MRI, he suffered a tibial plateau fracture of his right knee. Depending on where and how extensive the fracture was, will determine his rehab and prognosis. These type of fractures are commonly associated with significant meniscus damage.
 
So this is an alright little time killer..

ESPNNFLRank 2017
Predicting the NFL’s 100 best players in 2017.

We asked a panel of 53 NFL experts from ESPN to rate NFL players based on how good they will be in 2017. We asked them to not emphasize past performance or positional value, only greatness. A rating of 100 implies the player will have an all-time great 2017 season, while 90 denotes an All-Pro-level performance and 80 translates to a very good (if not elite) campaign.

1 Tom Brady
2 Aaron Rodgers
3 Aaron Donald
4 Von Miller
5 Antonio Brown
6 Julio Jones
7 Khalil Mack
8 Le’Veon Bell
9 Odell Beckham Jr.
10 J.J. Watt
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43 Jadeveon Clowney
80 DeAndre Hopkins
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When Brian Cushing comes off the field, who has the helmet radio?

He came off the other day in one of the pass rush situations.... they would have had to send in a DB with the helmet radio right?
 
PapaL said:
I feel JJ is rated low there. He'll be #3 on that list by the time it's all said and done. I also expect Clowney to jump up that list as well.
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From a medical standpoint, I have to believe that JJ's ESPN ranking has to be based more on preinjury reputation rather than projected reality.......but I guess we'll all find out at the end of the season.
 
Phil Taylor, who has had no luck avoiding major injuries since being picked in the 1st round of the 2011 Draft, has been reported as having sustained a quadriceps muscle tear in most writeups..............quad muscle tears are not treated with surgery..........the muscle won't hold sutures. Since he will be undergoing surgery, it is definitely a quadriceps TENDON rupture (a Duane Brown injury).

The Washington Redskins defense suffered a blow Monday, when the team learned that nose tackle Phil Taylor will miss the season after tearing his left quadriceps in Sunday’s third preseason game, two people with knowledge of the situation confirmed.

The injury will require surgery to repair.

A first-round pick out of Baylor in 2011, the 6-foot-3, 343-pound Taylor hadn’t played a game since 2014. He spent the first four seasons of his career with the Cleveland Browns. But he missed much of the 2014 season with a right knee injury that required surgery. After setbacks in 2015 and 2016, Taylor signed with Washington on a non-guaranteed deal this past winter.
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Dan Fouts: Chargers playing in tiny stadium is “embarrassing”
Posted by Michael David Smith on August 29, 2017, 5:41 AM EDT


The greatest player in Chargers history doesn’t think much of the team’s move from San Diego to Los Angeles, with a stop at the StubHub Center along the way.

Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts noted on KNX 1070 in Los Angeles that in their two preseason games, the Chargers have drawn just over 21,000 fans.

“It is embarrassing, I think, for both the Chargers and the National Football League, to be playing in a 27,000-seat stadium,” Fouts said. “In fact, the Chargers’ first game ever, when they beat the New York Titans in a preseason game, in the Coliseum, it drew 27,000.”

Fouts thinks a deal should have been done to keep the Chargers in San Diego.

“Both the city and the ownership are to blame for where the Chargers are right now,” he said. “They couldn’t get together on a deal for a new stadium for over 15 years, so both sides have to share in the responsibility.”

In the long run, the Chargers think they’re going to be better off sharing a beautiful new stadium with the Rams. In the short term, they’re going to play in front of crowds closer in size to a typical high school game than a typical NFL game.
 
The stem cell injections which players are obtaining (here, for the most part illegally.....or in Europe) remain unproven in both efficacy and safety. Anecdotal questionable cause and effect successes (which are grossly over publicized) are more than negated by loads of failures (which are not accompanied by fanfare, and not publicized).

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F.D.A. Cracks Down on ‘Unscrupulous’ Stem Cell Clinics
By SHEILA KAPLAN and DENISE GRADY
AUG. 28, 2017


WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration announced a crackdown on dangerous stem cell clinics on Monday, while at the same time pledging to ease the path to approval for companies and doctors with legitimate treatments in the growing field.

The agency reported actions against two large stem cell clinics and a biotech company, saying that it was critical to shut down “unscrupulous actors” in regenerative medicine, a broad umbrella that includes stem cell and gene therapies and immunotherapies.

“The F.D.A. will not allow deceitful actors to take advantage of vulnerable patients by purporting to have treatments or cures for serious diseases without any proof that they actually work,” said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the F.D.A. commissioner.

Stem cells, which can be extracted from bone marrow, blood or fat, can develop into many different types of cells, and are thought to have the potential to repair or replace tissue damaged by disease, injury or aging. But so far, the F.D.A. has approved only a few stem-cell products.

The companies that the F.D.A. cited have been performing liposuction to remove belly fat from patients, extracting stem cells and then injecting those cells back into the patients to treat various ailments.

On Friday, the agency said, federal marshals seized 500 doses of live Vaccinia virus vaccine for smallpox belonging to StemImmune Inc., a San Diego firm that develops stem cell-based immunotherapies for cancer. The raid came after the F.D.A. learned that the vaccine was being used to create an unapproved stem cell product, a combination of excess amounts of vaccine and stem cells derived from body fat, which was then administered to cancer patients with potentially compromised immune systems.

The F.D.A. said patients at the California Stem Cell Treatment Centers in Rancho Mirage and Beverly Hills, Calif., received the treatment made with the smallpox vaccine. It also said it had serious concerns about how StemImmune obtained the vaccine for use in an unapproved and potentially dangerous treatment. THE REST OF THE STORY
 
The Colts players are going down................Vontae Davis has a groin tear...........it is reported that he will be out "multiple weeks" telling me that this is at least a Grade II tear...........Davis has already had a history of significant groin tears, in 2013 and throughout the last part of last season.....I would expect him to be at least 4-6 weeks..........this could very well be an ongoing problem for him the remainder of the season.
 
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Chiefs rookie CB Ashton Lampkin sustained an ACL in practice today.......................#25 (since the beginning of TC / #27 since the beginning of the League year).
 
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Raven vet LB Albert McCLellan suffered a torn ACL in practice last week.....................#26 (since beginning of TC / #28 since the beginning of the League year).
 
There have been 231 torn ACL's in the NFL since 2013. On average half occur during OTA's/preseason. Here's the current breakdown from the Acl Recovery Club.:

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ObsiWan said:
what the heck happened to those long snappers??
Must have gotten rolled up on...
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In 2014, Morgan Cox LS for the Ravens suffered his ACL when running down on punt coverage. He was running down the field trying to turn the returner back in, planted, got blocked and went down with a torn ACL It was actually the 2nd time he ruptured his ACL under similar circumstances. The first was suffered in 2010 of the right knee), the 2nd in 2014 was of the left knee.

In 2015, Packers LS Brett Goode tore his ACL covering a punt. He just won back his job with the Packers last week.

The Jaguars LS Carson Tinker sustained a right torn ACL in a non-contact drill on August 2 this year.

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Obsiwan, by bringing up the subject, you heartless soul................you jinxed the poor son of a gun: :crutch:

The Bears LS Patrick Scales was believed to have suffered a right ACL rupture last Sunday while covering a punt. An MRI has now confirmed the diagnosis...................#27 (since beginning of TC / #29 since the beginning of the League year).
 
FOX will use six-second commercials on NFL broadcasts
August 30, 2017, 9:19 PM EDT


As the human attention span shortens, so do the efforts to capture it.

For NFL games on FOX this season, the network will debut six-second commercials. They’ll be used along with the more traditional 15-second and 30-second spots.

“When the six-second ads are placed in unique positions, it has the potential to gain even more attention than a traditional unit,” FOX Sports president Eric Shanks told Sapna Mahewshwari of the New York Times.

The spots also will be used by FOX during the World Series and other big events. In some cases, the commercials will be shown on a split-screen basis. The goal will be to find natural lulls for insertion of the six-second unit.

“[F]or example, if a pitching coach comes to the mound just to have a conversation and you know that conversation is going to last 30 seconds, is a six-second unit in there going to add to the experience and then be able to decrease the amount of ad inventory somewhere else?” Shanks said.

As applied to NFL games, this could happen when officials are huddling to determine a ruling on the field, and during the replay review process. It also could happen during short time outs taken by a team not to regroup but to simply stop the clock.

This effort by FOX is separate and apart from the league’s desire to trim fat from broadcasts and to shorten commercial breaks. If the shorter commercials work for FOX, other networks undoubtedly will try them.

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No mention of shortening the total number of minutes designated for commercials during a game..............only that they will try to pack 5 commercials in spots where normally there would only be 1 thrity second commercial. Some may be so short as to act as subliminal suck ins. This would be getting embarrassing............if the involved parties had any capacity for shame.
 
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